Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Richard Strauss - Momentum 2 (Liya Petrova)

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Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Richard Strauss

• Korngold - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
• Strauss - Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, TrV 151

Liya Petrova, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Duncan Ward, conductor

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

Date: 2025

Label: Mirare

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The second instalment of our ‘Momentum’ diptych offers a mirror image in two pieces never before recorded together: the young fin-de-siècle Strauss in his last chamber work, and the Korngold of the post-war period, still decked in the colours of Hollywood. The fleeting moment of this reflection is captured in the snapshot of this recording, in which Liya Petrova and her partners Alexandre Kantorow and Duncan Ward combine to make the strings of two masterpieces vibrate in sympathy. A unique élan, a momentum to be grasped.

Liya Petrova (b. 1990) was born in Bulgaria into a family of musicians and studied with Augustin Dumay at Brussels’ Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler Berlin and Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. She burst onto the international scene in 2016 when she took First Prize at the Carl Nielsen Competition in Denmark. Two years later, she recorded the Nielsen Concerto and Prokofiev’s Concerto no.1 for Orchid Classics with the Odense Philharmonic and the Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska. This first album earned her international acclaim from the press.

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