Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Nicola Benedetti album)

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto is the second studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

by Scottish

Scottish people

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violinist Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti

- Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...

Album information

Benedetti's second album, recorded with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, was released on 15 May 2006. Works include Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's Adagio for Violin and Orchestra, Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

's Serenade and Ave Maria, and James MacMillan's From Ayrshire, which was written especially for her.

Track listing

"Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64"
1. I. "Allegro molto appassionato" - 13:01
2. II. "Andante" - 8:35
3. III. "Allegro non troppo - Allegro molto vivace" - 5:55
"Adagio in E" – 6:43
"Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C" – 5:26
"Serenade: Standchen No. 4 from Schwanengesang" – 4:07
"Ave Maria" – 5:01
"From "Ayrshire" - Largo, molto rubato" - 5:32
"From "Ayrshire" - Like a Very Fast Reel" – 1:37

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