Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op.61 - review

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Violin Concerto, Op.61

Thomas Gould

(Edition Classics)

"As close as I get to having a religious experience through music," is how Thomas Gould has described playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

The lanky, long-haired violinist has become a familiar figure as the leader of the Britten Sinfonia. Here he is found live in Riga, playing the Beethoven concerto with a pure, shining, even spiritual lyricism, accompanied by the lean forces of the Sinfonietta Riga.

Adapting for violin the cadenzas that Beethoven wrote for the later version of the concerto with piano was a novel idea. Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending makes a suitably soaring bonus.

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