Schoenberg and Sibelius Violin Concertos
Hilary Hahn (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Hilary Hahn (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Could this finally be the coming-out party for the Schoenberg Violin Concerto, some 70 years after it was written? Hahn's technically superb, warmly impassioned reading shows the Romantic heart that beats beneath this work's sometimes prickly exterior. Her Sibelius is less distinctive, but that work doesn't need her advocacy.


