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Janine Jansen:

Sibelius VC, Prokofiev VC1 w/Oslo Phil. - Makela

Decca is delighted to announce Dutch violinist Janine Jansen's new album, featuring violin concertos by Sibelius and Prokofiev, with Janine as the soloist in both works. These are her first new concerto recordings in nine years. Jansen is a musician of poise, sensitivity and elegance who regularly visits the world’s most esteemed orchestras and concert halls. Joining her on the album is Finnish conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, and the Oslo Philharmonic. Mäkelä’s Decca recorded cycle of the complete symphonies of his compatriot Sibelius with Norway’s flagship orchestra was described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the most electrifying and often revelatory of them all.’

Sibelius’s Violin Concerto No.1 is coloured differently from its counterparts in the Romantic literature. Its combination of fire and ice - of display countered by introversion - is a facet of the score Jansen has always made her own. Her performances of the work, with Mäkelä in 2023, were widely acclaimed by European critics. In addition to Sibelius’s work, Jansen includes one of the major violin concertos of the twentieth century. Unbounded lyricism is pitted against destructive, forceful cynicism in the first of Serge Prokofiev’s concertos, a work in which Jansen has put her formidable technique in service of the work’s savagery and intimacy.

Janine Jansen:

12 Stradivari

For the first time in history, 12 of the most wonderful violins ever made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), have travelled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album, 12 Stradivari, captures the individual characters of each instrument in specially-curated music accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano at the piano. 

These days Stradivari's instruments can reach prices well over $20 million and some of the foundations and museums who own them let them out only on rare occasions. This is also why this recording is particularly special: some of these 12 Stradivari have not been played for many decades and, possibly, have never ben commercially recorded before. Others belonged to legendary virtuosi including Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Ida Haendel and Oscar Shumsky. Janine herself is widely considered to be one of the greatest violinists of our time, and this album is her first release with Decca in 6 years.

Janine Jansen:

Bach Concertos

Janine Jansen revisits her great love of Bach with her second Decca album dedicated to the music of the great composer out on Decca on October 29, 2013. A devotee and advocate of chamber music – her festival in Utrecht, Holland has been running for over a decade – Janine is joined on this album by a hand-picked group of frequent musical collaborators, for an album of violin concertos and sonatas.  This is energizing Bach, recorded in vivid sound and released in the increasingly popular "Mastered for iTunes" format as well as full-resolution HD audio and CD. This is Bach for the Digital Age from iTunes #1 best-selling violinist.