Brahms: Violin Concerto, Double Concerto / Fischer

Julia Fischer - Gramophone Magazine's artist of the year for 2007.
After a string of increasingly impressive recordings, not least a direct, unsentimental (and all the more moving for it) Tchaikovsky Concerto, came some very special Brahms. The Violin Concerto is coupled with the Double Concerto and, as Gramophone attested at the time, in that one recording Fischer leapt ahead of the pack to join the ranks of the greats. “An outstanding disc,” wrote Edward Greenfield in his review. “Fischer's performance never feels self-conscious or too studied and her range of tone and dynamic is extreme, bringing pianissimi of breathtaking delicacy.” The performances are filled with heart, with soul, as Fischer's violin plumbs the emotional depths without once sounding lachrymose. It is the mark of a performer whose time has come.
Gramophone Magazine

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