
Christian Tetzlaff has proven Bartókian credentials: his account of the sonatas with Leif Ove Andsnes is a reference recording and his gaunt, uncompromising reading of the Second Violin Concerto from 1990 in collaboration with arch-modernist Michael Gielen made quite an impression. His new recording is an even more detailed forensic examination but with the expressive intensity ramped up, aided and abetted by state-of-the-art engineering that puts the listener in the front stalls so you hear every strand of rosined hair on strings.
Tetzlaff uses every resource of tone and colour to shape the phrase yet never pushes over the edge to vulgarity. Lintu and his superb Finnish players support him with a red-blooded reading – the...
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