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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1.(Ludwig van Beethoven, Max Bruch)(Sound recording review)
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1. Arthur Grumiaux, violin; Sir Colin Davis; Heinz Wallberg; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra. PentaTone Classics SACD 5186 120.
After an evening of close and careful listening, it is my expert, absolute, and unequivocal opinion that it's a toss-up. Let me explain.
Around 1974, Henryk Szeryng recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra for Philips. Around the same time Arthur Grumiaux recorded the same concerto with the same orchestra, this time with Colin Davis, and again for Philips. I always confused the two releases, but ultimately I came to like Szeryng's better-controlled (though marginally slower) account to Grumiaux's smoother, more romantic, but slightly more lax version. After an hour or so comparing this new PentaTone SACD remastering of the Grumiaux performance to Szeryng's, I still confuse them.
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