Beethoven: Violin Concerto

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For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer Jörg Widmann.


Not only is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto a particular favourite of Veronika, it has been central to her career to date—most notably alongside Sir Simon Rattle, who has been Veronika’s long-time supporter and collaborator. When she was just 16, Sir Simon introduced her at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she performed this very concerto to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus.


On this album, the pair reunite to bring this sublime masterpiece to life, and to celebrate the work that first brought Veronika to international attention.


Composer Beethoven
Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
Performers London Symphony Orchestra
Soloist Veronika Eberle

Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Op. 61, with cadenzas by Jörg Widmann
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo
2. II. Larghetto
3. III. Rondo. Allegro
4. Beethoven – Fragment from Violin Concerto in C major, WoO 5 (1790–92)

Release date 524 February 2023
LSO0594 | 0822231509424

Digital booklet in English / Notes de programme en français / Einführungstexte auf Deutsch.

Producer Andrew Cornall
Engineers Classic Sound Ltd
Recorded March 2022 in the Jerwood Hall, LSO St. Luke’s, London

FLAC - 24bit 96kHz - Compatible with Windows and Android devices
MP3 - 320kbps - Universal compatibility

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Reviews

Eberle fills every tone with life and meaning, and the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle are her wonderful partners.

- NDR

Eberle plays these new [cadenzas] with dazzling virtuosity, and her live performance of the Concerto itself with Simon Rattle and the LSO has just the right amount of warmth and expressive freedom.

- BBC Music Magazine

Add the defiant dialogue in the final movement cadenza, and you have a must-listen recording for lovers of classical and contemporary music.

- Stereophile