"with virtuoso movement and enchanting sensuality"

This album combines recordings of Kreisler’s orchestral works with the first recording of the ‘Concerto for Beni Schmid for Solo Violin and String Orchestra’ (2023) by Georg Breinschmid, born in Vienna in 1973, which the dedicatee describes as a « wonderful violin concerto that, in my view, has much in common with Fritz Kreislers understanding of music: music with an undivided joy of playing, which surrenders itself immediately and as artfully as possible to the parameters of melody, harmonic experience, and dance-like (or groovy) rhythms. At the same time, there is always a close relationship to instrumental virtuosity and sonority – both of which are very pronounced in both composers. »

This description fits perfectly with this work, which is almost chamber music in concept and can be stylistically anchored in the 1920s or 1930s. The performers, soloist, and conductor are passionate about making the music effective. Schmid plays with virtuoso movement and enchanting sensuality.

Kreisler’s Concerto in One Movement is based on the first movement of Paganini’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 6, and is heard here in an arrangement for wind orchestra, recorded with the Salzburg Wind Philharmonic under Hansjörg Angerer.

Norbert Tischer for PIZZICATO March5th 2026

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