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Title: The best Sibelius Violin concerto from decades
Review: At last a Sibelius concerto performance parting from the virtuoso or fastly fluent Heifetz's style, or the sforzandos of the various Russian school violinists!Kraggerud performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto, beautifully accompanied by the orchestra, with the poetical phrasing that is needed.Also the last movement is swiftly,exactly focused, and not the accustomed "Polonaise for polar bears".The great violinist Riccardo Brengola, recently disappeared, still remembered to me in 2001 the Ferenc de Vecsey (dedicatee of the score) Sibelius Violin concerto performance in Rome, at Augusteo, in the year 1933, with these words:"very great violinist, very beautiful sound, phantastic technique". I think that Kraggerud polished and fluent style, not "showing" the virtuosity of the score, is one of the best ever heard in recent decades and by far more interesting that the Kavakos, Stern and the like.
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