Vieuxtemps - more works for violin & orchestra from Naxos

[Mark Thomas]

Just released by Naxos is a CD with several previously unrecorded (I think) works for violin and orchestra by Vieuxtemps, including his unfinished Violin Concerto No.8 - he had only completed the first movement with piano accompaniment when he died. It was published posthumously and has now been convincingly orchestrated by Christoph Baumgarten. I've yet to listen to the other works, but the concerto movement is a substantial 13+ minutes, and well worth a hearing.

[terry martyn]

My copy arrived two weeks ago.  The five works for violin and orchestra are played in a very sympathetic  way by both violinist and orchestra and are well worth hearing. Hints of Paganini and Beriot, but Vieuxtemps is always his own man. Not sure that the (arranged?) ballet music for orchestra (the last piece on the disc) is anything more than a filler, but the rest of the CD merits repeated listening