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Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64
Soloist: Joshua Bell
Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg
Label: Sony Classical
Cat. No.: 88697074162
- Europe:
Kathryn Enticott
London - General Management:
Elizabeth Sobol
New York
Joshua Bell Violin
For more than two decades, Joshua Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty.
An Avery Fisher Prize recipient who was named 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America, Bell’s season highlights include performances with The New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston and St. Louis symphony orchestras. Chamber music performances with Steven Isserlis in Frankfurt and London followed by a European tour with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conclude 2010.
2011 features performances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in The Netherlands and Spain, and a recital tour to Canada, the U.S. and Europe including Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center and Symphony Hall in Boston. Bell again collaborates with Isserlis in Europe and Istanbul with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Bell came to national attention at age 14 with his orchestral debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A Carnegie Hall debut, the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a recording contract further confirmed his presence. “Bell is dazzling,” said Gramophone.
A Sony Classical artist, Bell’s first sonata recording of French repertoire, which is also his first duo recording with Jeremy Denk, will be released in 2011.
Having recorded more than 35 CDs, recent releases include At Home With Friends, the Defiance soundtrack, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, The Red Violin Concerto, Voice of the Violin, and Romance of the Violin, which Billboard named the 2004 Classical CD of the Year, and Bell the Classical Artist of the Year. Bell collaborated with composer John Corigliano on the Oscar-winning soundtrack to The Red Violin.
Bell received his first violin at age four and by age 12 was serious about the instrument, thanks to violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold. Bell performs on the 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius.
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