Antje Weithaas & Camerata Bern - Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor; Serenade for Strings 2025

Исполнитель: Antje Weithaas & Camerata Bern
Альбом: Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor; Serenade for Strings
Жанр: Classical
Год: 2025
Страна: Germany
Лейбл: Cavi-Music
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Official DR value: DR14
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Antje Weithaas and the Camerata Bern are releasing their new album, on which they perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A Minor and his Serenade for Strings.

On the one hand, Dvořák’s violin concerto is a large-scale symphonic tapestry for soloist and orchestra; in contrast, his Serenade has a strong chamber music feel to it. Written in 1875 and premiered in 1876, the Serenade is among Dvořák’s most popular works. On the perhaps less well-known violin concerto from 1879 Antje Weithaas comments: “It’s a gorgeous piece, but difficult to play. Tricky passages await the soloist right at the beginning. No violinist feels at ease when going onstage to play this concerto! But the musical content is magnificent, and we should all do justice to this work by rising to the challenge.”

A unique virtuoso career that began almost four decades ago is being honoured by a number of prestigious awards: Antje Weithaas has just received the 2024 German Record Critics' Annual Prize (for her recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas with Dénes Várjon). And this fall, she will be awarded the honor of Instrumentalist of the Year 2025 at the OPUS KLASSIK prize-giving ceremony in Berlin. She is "probably the best-known insider tip in classical music," according to an arte Metropolis documentary made about the Lower Lusatian native a few years ago. A clear change in status is now in order. Not only a look at her impressive discography of thirty albums, many of which have received top critical acclaim, but also her broad repertoire, which includes the most important solo concertos from the classical to modern age, making Antje Weithaas one of, if not the, European authority on the art of violin. And she does so without any extroversion, predictability, or overt display, which might be more appealing to an audience, but simply doesn't suit her nature. Her passion for and mastery of chamber music reveals one of her greatest strengths: listening to and sensing the musical counterpart, withdrawing the self – something from which her students at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin also benefit greatly, allowing them to explore their own individual paths.

It's all the more gratifying that Antje Weithaas is now in the spotlight of the classical music market in 2025, with two top awards at once. She's already releasing another exciting album on the CAvi Music label in mid-August: an album which is believed to be the first recording of Dvořák's Violin Concerto and String Serenade, where the soloist also acts as conductor. Weithaas recently demonstrated that this concept, borrowed from the Baroque period in music history, can lead to extraordinary interpretive results with Pēteris Vasks’ Violin Concerto No. 2 “In Evening Light,” in which she shone together with the Camerata Bern – and was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK. orchestergraben.com was also impressed with the innovative assemblage: “In the first part, Antje Weithaas embeds herself very much in the orchestra, she really melts with the high strings… With calm and experience, the violinist knows how to position herself skillfully and tactically in the spirit of the music.”

With her new, now 31st studio production, Weithaas adds another heavyweight record to her own discography, following recordings of the epochal solo concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bruch, Berg, Khatchaturian, and Vasks; namely, Antonín Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53. "In his music," says Weithaas, "we have the dance-like figures, a generous portion of poetry and melancholy, and all of this works together to create a far-reaching emotional depth." Despite the underlying musical and folkloristic tone, the technical challenge for the soloist here is particularly testing – it is no coincidence that the violinist of the century and dedicatee Joseph Joachim played a significant role in the concerto's creative process, which lasted a good three years (1879–1883). Antje Weithaas states that the solo part is "difficult to play and somewhat uncomfortable," but at the same time knows: "Of course, it shouldn't sound difficult to the audience!" But rather self-evident, almost natural - a predicate that is regularly attested to the German violinist and her style (*"Triumph of naturalness," was the headline on Deutschlandfunk, for example).

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01. I. Allegro ma non troppo
02. II. Adagio ma non troppo
03. III. Finale. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo
04. I. Moderato
05. II. Tempo di valse
06. III. Scherzo. Vivace
07. IV. Larghetto
08. V. Finale. Allegro vivace

Antje Weithaas, solo violin & leader
Camerata Bern
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

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