Violin Concerto/Lyric Sui

Rebecca Hirsch (violin) & Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas

De drie belangrijkste orkestwerken van Alban Berg - zijn hier gebundeld in zeer spectaculaire vertolkingen. De Engelse violiste Rebecca Hirsch speelt Bergs Vioolconcert niet alleen technisch soeverein en zeer mooi van toon, ze ontketent ook de sterke expressieve elementen van de muziek. Dat het Nederlands Radio Symfonie Orkest indrukwekkende kwaliteiten demonstreert, kunnen kenners van dit vaak onderschatte orkest hier goed beluisteren. De zeer geconcentreerde vertolking van de drie delen uit de Lyrische Suite, die later voor strijkorkest werden geschreven onderstreept deze indruk.

Berg:
 Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)
 Lyric Suite - three movements for string orchestra (1928)
 Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6

"It is good to see Naxos filling the gaps in its early modernist catalog with effective performances of classic works from the Schoenberg circle. Certainly there are other readings that are more probing, or project the orchestra in a warmer light, but there is little of a purely technical nature to quibble with in these straightforward renderings of Berg's most important works for full orchestra. People who are drawn by the price tag to purchase Naxos recordings on impulse will not be led astray. And Rebecca Hirsch, soloist in the Violin Concerto, is emerging as an important violinist of her generation, as her performances of the Rawsthorne violin concertos have already shown. Her achievement here is technically impressive."
Fanfare - May/June 2003