Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Nicola Benedetti album)

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 is the first studio album

Studio album

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by Scottish

Scottish people

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violinist Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti

- Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...

Album information

Benedetti's debut album released on the Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon

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label in April 2005 includes Szymanowski

Karol Szymanowski

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...

's Concerto No. 1, the Chausson

Ernest Chausson

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Poème, the Havanaise by Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns

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, and a trio of contemplative miniatures by Massenet

Jules Massenet

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, Brahms

Johannes Brahms

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(arranged by Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

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) and John Tavener

John Tavener

Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...

, the last of which, Fragment for the Virgin, was written for and performed by Nicola.

Track listing

"Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35"
1. I. Vivace assai - 12:37
2. II. "Subito vivace assai scherzando" - 8:53
3. III. "Cadenza" - 5:21
"Havanaise for Violin And Orchestra, Op. 83" – 10:13
"Poeme for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25" – 16:41
"Meditation From Thais" – 5:31
"Wie melodien zieht es mir" – 3:15
"Fragment for the Virgin' - 4:18
"Vocalise" – 6:11
"Meditation From Thais (Backing Track)" – 5:50

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