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SACD

Akiko Suwanai, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit – Poeme (2004) [SACD / Philips – 475 6189]

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Akiko Suwanai, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit - Poeme (2004)

Title: Akiko Suwanai, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit – Poeme (2004)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Award-winning violinist Akiko Suwanai is backed by the City of Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit for this recording of compositional works by Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Chausson, Kreisler, Berlioz, and Ravel. This music here is a collection of pieces that fall just short of “major” concertos (more like encore pieces) though Akiko Suwanai does them full justice!!!! Particularly, the Saint-Saens “Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso” and Ravel’s “Tzigane” are top notch. Ms. Suwanai plays with a great deal of warmth, personality, and maturity that allows her Strad to really sing! The recording is top notch, with the violin a bit forward and the orchestra back a ways.

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Akiko Suwanai, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius & Walton: Violin Concertos (2003/2008) [SACD / Philips – 470 622-2]

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Akiko Suwanai, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius & Walton: Violin Concertos (2003)

Title: Akiko Suwanai, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius & Walton: Violin Concertos (2003/2008)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Award-winning violinist Akiko Suwanai is backed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo for this recording of compositional works by Sibelius and Walton. In 1990, Suwanai was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition following a second place award in the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in 1989. The performances display warm virtuosity, captured with brilliant sound quality.

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Akiko Suwanai – Johann Sebastian Bach: The sonatas and partitas for violin solo (2022) [2xSACD / Decca – UCGD-9086/7]

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Akiko Suwanai - Johann Sebastian Bach: The sonatas and partitas for violin solo (2022)

Title: Akiko Suwanai – Johann Sebastian Bach: The sonatas and partitas for violin solo (2022)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO

 

25 years after her CD debut, Akiko Suwanai finally recorded Bach’s milestone, unaccompanied works! This is a new recording with Guarneri del Gesu “Charles Read”, a new masterpiece that she continued to earnestly face under Corona. Akiko Suwanai, one of the leading violinists of our time, celebrates the 25th anniversary of her album debut this year with a long-awaited recording of the complete works of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. In 1990, Akiko became the youngest solo violinist in history to record the complete works of Bach. In 1990, she became the youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and in the 30 years since then, she has disciplined herself strictly, and with a musicality nurtured with rich sensitivity, she gives us Bach performances that are supple and dynamic. The first pressing is a SACD hybrid with liner notes by Sawako Agawa. The first pressing is a SACD hybrid with liner notes by Sawako Agawa and comes in a sleeve case with a different design from the standard edition. The instrument used is a 1732 Guarneri del Jez “Charles Reed”.

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