Jay Brownstein Review – Abbey Road Concerto | Concerti.de

“We had Beatlemania at home,” explains Jay Brownstein in the booklet interview for his new CD. His son had always wanted the violinist to play something for the legendary band. That’s how Brownstein finally wrote his “Abbey Road” concerto, using material from the Beatles’ last record of the same name: after a magnificent acoustic curtain opens, numbers from the Beatles album are quoted in single sentences, from “Come Together” to “Come Together.” “Here comes the sun.” Brownstein proceeds with a wink and charm. He must have had a lot of fun with the whole thing. Sometimes there are majestic stylistic borrowings from Bach and neo-Baroque motifs, sometimes virtuoso solo performances, and then it becomes musical, light, fragrant, rough, rocky, bluesy, dramatic. Brownstein creates many sparks from pop molds. Naturally, he lets his violin shine, and he is a master of orchestral colors. There are also solo orchestral music from modern British classics. All was well with the troops coming from Liege and the commander Alondra de la Parra.

Brownstein: Abbey Road Concerto, Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending, Delius: Violin Concerto

Guy Braunstein (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, Alondra de la Parra (conductor)
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