Over to Barcelona this week for a concert recorded by Radio Nacional Espana on December 2nd of last year featuring two up-and-comers and rising-young-stars from Belgium; violinist Lorenzo Gatto and Pianist Eliane Reyes in a recital of music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Ysaye and Prokofiev.

The concert, at just a little under 90 minutes, is broken up over two players.

The first part (top player) features the Mozart Sonata K. 454, the Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo op. 34 and the Saint-Saens Rondo Capriccioso op. 28. The second part (bottom player) features the Ysaye Sonata for solo violin op. 27 "Ballade" and concludes with the Prokofiev Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 94 - and as always, there's an encore.

A very nice and well received concert, guaranteed to calm things down a bit.

As always, the notes are below:

Concierto celebrado en L´Auditori de Barcelona el 2 de diciembre de 2010.

MOZART: Sonata para violín y piano en Si bemol mayor,
KV. 454. CHAIKOVSKY: Vals-Scherzo en Do mayor, Op.
34. SAINT-SAENS: Introducción y Rondo caprichoso en
La menor, Op. 28. YSAYE: Sonata para violín solo en Re
menor, Op. 27 nº 3 “Ballade”. PROKOFIEV: Sonata para
violín y piano en Re mayor, nº 2, Op. 94 bis. L. Gatto (vl.),
E. Reyes (p.).

Enjoy - relax - turn off the phone.

Over to Hamburg by way of Rome this week. A concert given by The North German Radio Symphony conducted by Matthias Foremny as broadcast by RAI Radio 3 in Italy. It features the wonderful Korean violin sensation Hyeyoon Park playing the Violin Concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold plus an encore of the Ysaye Sonata for Solo Violin Number 2.

The concert was recorded in Hamburg on October 21, 2010.

It's short at a little over 45 minutes so it's all on one player.

Here are the notes:

Concerto Euroradio
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL NDR
violino Hyeyoon Park
direttore Matthias Foremny

Hector Berlioz
Le Carnaval Romain', Ouverture op.9

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Concerto per violino e orchestra in re maggiore op.35
- Moderato nobile
- Romance: Andante
- Finale: Allegro assai vivace

Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata per violino solo in la minore op. 27 n. 2

Registrato il 21 ottobre 2010 nella Laeiszhalle di Amburgo>

I think you'll agree this constitutes pretty serious Anti-Road Rage Wednesday music.