Miklos Rozsa: Violin Concerto; Theme, Variations & Finale (CD)

This Album was a Critics' Choice in Gramophone in 1993 when it was released on the Koch Label. The review was rapturous; "This Concerto is probably Rozsa's most celebrated concert work: it's impassioned romanticism remains wonderfully enthralling... Theme, Variations & Finale was inspired by a wistful melody and helped to make Rozsa's international reputation... Rozsa's rhapsodic intensity and dramatic shading would soon lead to a remarkable career in Hollywood... Vintner's Daughter, a picturesque set of variations, again shows the composer's melodic appeal and he uses the orchestral palette as seductively as in his film music"

Track List

1. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 24I Allegro Non Troppo Ma Passionato
2. II Lento Cantabile
3. III Allegro Vivace
4. Theme Variations ; Finale Op. 13A I Theme Variations 1-3
5. Variation 4
6. Variations 5-6
7. Variations 7-8
8. Finale
9. Humgarian Nocturne Op. 28
10. The Vintner's Daughter Op. 23A (12 Variations on a French Folksong) Theme Variations 1-4
11. Variations 5-6
12. Variations 7-8
13. Variations 9-10
14. Variations 11-12