Violin Concerto (Sibelius) - Recordings

Recordings

Jascha Heifetz made the first recording of the Sibelius concerto. Heifetz held it to be one of the great romantic concertos in the violin repertoire. What might be considered an authoritative interpretation of the concerto belongs to Ida Haendel. When Sibelius heard her perform it on the radio in Finland, he commented afterwards that she "played it masterfully in every respect. I congratulate myself that my concerto has found an interpreter of your rare standard."

Notable recordings of the concerto include the following:

• Jascha Heifetz with London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
• Jascha Heifetz with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Hendl (RCA Victor Red Seal 63470)
• Ida Haendel with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund (Recorded 1975, Emi Classics Encore)
• Ida Haendel with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle (Recorded 1993, Testament)
• Dylana Jenson with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (Recorded 1981, RCA)
• Salvatore Accardo with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis (Recorded 1979, Philips)
• David Oistrakh with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (Sony Classical SBK 47659)
• Isaac Stern with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy
• Christian Ferras with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan (Recorded Oct 29-30, 1964. DG 4692022)
• Gidon Kremer and Riccardo Muti with Philharmonia Orchestra
• Miriam Fried and Okko Kamu with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Finlandia Records)
• Gil Shaham with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli (DG 437540)
• Cho-Liang Lin with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony)
• Itzhak Perlman with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestraconducted by André Previn
• Leonidas Kavakos with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä (BIS 500) - original and revised versions of the concerto
• Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn with Staatskapelle Dresden
• Hilary Hahn with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen (DG 4777346)
• Sergey Khachatryan with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Emmanuel Krivine
• Kyung Wha Chung with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn (Decca 425 080-2)
• Nigel Kennedy with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle (EMI 754 5592)
• Camilla Wicks with the Stockholm Symphony conducted by Sixten Ehrling
• Adele Anthony with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer (Canary Classics CC09)
• Alina Pogostkina, The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, at the Helsinki Music Centre, Dec 8, 2011
• Sarah Chang, with The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden performed in 2009