COMPANY: Pentatone
ARTIST: Arabella Steinbacher
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Various Composers

Product: 8717306260176

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J.S. Bach & Pärt: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra

Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Christoph Koncz (violin), Peter von Wienhardt (piano)

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Arabella Steinbacher is a multiple award-winner with an extensive Pentatone discography, including Mozart’s complete violin concertos (2014 and 2021), Four Seasons (Vivaldi & Piazzolla, 2020), Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos (2015) and many others. Christoph Koncz and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester make their Pentatone debut.

BBC Music Magazine

Concerto Choice

Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043
Bach, J S: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041
Bach, J S: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042
Pärt: Fratres for Violin, Strings & Percussion
Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

April 2023

Steinbacher weaves in and out of Bach’s contrapuntal textures, occasionally reducing her tone to a radiant pianissimo to allow the orchestral lines through...[In Fratres] she demonstrates the same hypnotic voicing of cantabile lines that makes her Bach so treasurable.

March 2023

The collective tone ranges from depth and strength to chamber-weight fragility, while Steinbacher is luminously lithe, lyric and light in her upper registers, and plumbs her instrument’s velvety depths on the lower strings.