Rachel Barton Pine on Mozart:

Summary:

In celebration on Mozart’s birthday on January 27 and Sir Neville Marriner’s 90th year, Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs the five Mozart Violin Concertos, as well as the Sinfonia Concertante, with the Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. The CD is Pine’s first record with AVIE records and marks the recording debut of violist Matthew Lipman, a Rachel Barton Foundation recipient.

Pine continues to perform the complete five Mozart Violin Concertos in a single evening’s concert and feels that playing them as a cycle has deepened her relationship with them. She has drawn on a tremendous amount of research in crafting her interpretation. Her study of the composer’s operas strengthened her appreciation for the drama and playfulness of Mozart’s violin concertos, and she highlights the subtle nuaces of the concerti’s ever-changing dialogue in her performance. Pine revels in Mozart’s gift for improvisation, particularly in the little variations in the repeating rondo theme in the last movement of the A major concerto.

Tracklist:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
CD 1
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K218
1.  I. Allegro (8.39)
2.  II. Andante cantabile (6.28)
3.  III. Rondeau: Andante grazioso – Allegro 
ma non troppo (7.20)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat, K207
4.  I. Allegro moderato (6.56)
5.  II. Adagio (7.51)
6.  III. Presto (5.45)
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K216
7.  I. Allegro (9.38)
8.  II. Adagio (8.19)
9.  III. Rondeau: Allegro (6.35)
Total time CD 1: 67.35

CD 2
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K219
1.  
I. Allegro aperto (9.37)
2.  II. Adagio (9.37)
3.  III. Rondeau: Tempo di menuetto (8.35)
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K211
4.  I. Allegro moderato (9.27)
5.  II. Andante (7.11)
6.  III. Rondeau: Allegro (4.23)
Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K364
7.  
I. Allegro maestoso (13.13)
8.  II. Andante (10.49)
9.  III. Presto (6.29)
Total time CD 2: 79.24

Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Matthew Lipman, viola
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Recorded 29 August–2 September 2013, Air Lyndhurst Studios, London
Producer: Andrew Keener
Recording engineer: Simon Eadon
Editing: Stephen Frost
Assistant engineer: Adam Miller

Violin: Guarneri ‘del Gesu’, Cremona, 1742, the ‘ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat’
Violin strings: Vision Titanium Solo by Thomastik-Infeld
Violin bow: Dominique Pecatte
Viola: Matteo Goffriller, 1700, on generous loan from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation
Cadenzas for K211, K216, K218, and K219 are published in The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, Carl Fischer, 2009

Biography:

In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classical works, she plays with passion and conviction across an extensive repertoire. Audiences are thrilled by her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making.

Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago, Montreal, Baltimore, and Vienna Symphonies; the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Mozarteum, Scottish, and Israel Chamber Orchestras; the Royal Philharmonic; and the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie. She has worked with such renowned conductors as Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Neeme Järvi and Marin Alsop. She has performed all 24 Paganini Caprices live in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Washington D.C. and at Ravinia.

Pine’s prolific discography of 24 recordings includes her performance of the Glazunov Violin Concerto with the Russian National Orchestra, conducted by José Serebrier, which is featured on Glazunov Complete Concertos on Warner Classics. Her Violin Lullabies performed with pianist Matthew Hagle and released on Cedille Records debuted at number one on the Billboard classical chart. Her Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos was recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carlos Kalmar.

With the publication of The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, a collection of original compositions, arrangements, and cadenzas penned or arranged by Pine, Pine became the only living artist to join musicians including Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz in Carl Fischer’s Masters Collection series. Her Rachel Barton Pine Foundation assists young artists.

Pine performs on the Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu (Cremona 1742), known as the “ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat,” on loan from her patron.