J.S.バッハ: ヴァイオリン協奏曲集

世界最高峰のヴァイオリニスト、待望のバッハの協奏曲をリリース

超絶的技巧が光るコンチェルト・ソリストとしての活躍はもちろん、室内楽奏者、指揮者としても活動するなど、一ヴァイオリニストの枠に収まりきらないアーティスト性が持ち味のアーティスト、レオニダス・カヴァコス待望のバッハのヴァイオリン協奏曲集。気脈通じるアポロン・アンサンブルを率いて、第1番、第2番の協奏曲の他に、チェンバロ協奏曲としても知られるBWV1052RとBWV1056Rも収録した、選曲の審美眼も光る内容になっています。
ソニー・ミュージック

Plenty of modern violinists have profitably adopted techniques from the historical performance movement, but this outing by Leonidas Kavakos, also leading the Apollon Ensemble, was sufficiently novel to place the album on classical charts in the spring of 2024. Kavakos borrows the quick tempi (in the outer movements) and agile bowing of historically oriented players to good effect, and his slow movements are genuinely intense; he is willing to take intonational risks and pulls them off. He also used one instrument per part from the Apollon Ensemble, which is less good; images of performances from Bachs time show a larger group, and the Italian concertos that served as Bachs models might have had 40 to 60 players. It must be said, however, that Kavakos uses the one-per-part force effectively as part of his overall chamber conception of the music, which is lively and varied; there are plenty of interesting interactions with the continuo as well. Despite the historical influences, Kavakos readings might be called Romantic; it is as if Jascha Heifetz had somehow lived long enough to become aware of the historical performance movement. These are expressive performances that will appeal to listeners of various kinds. ~ James Manheim