Sibelius: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra (Christian Tetzlaff, violin)

"Mr. Tetzlaff ... opened his season-long Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall. ... He directed performances of Schoenberg’s 'Verklärte Nacht' and Haydn’s Symphony No. 80 in D minor. ... But Mr. Tetzlaff the virtuoso soloist also showed up, in ... Sibelius’s Suite for Violin and Strings (Op. 117), a seldom-heard miniature that Mr. Tetzlaff has recorded for Virgin Classics. Strange to say, the suite must be considered a late work of Sibelius, though it was written in 1929, almost three decades before his death in 1957. It was perhaps the last work he finished before he quit composing, and he suppressed it throughout his life. It is certainly not a late work in any profound sense, with, say, lofty summing up or reflection. After two movements of pastoral melody, 'Country Scenery' and 'Evening in Spring,' it arrives at 'In the Summer,' a breakneck display piece for skittering violin over pizzicato strings" (James R. Oestreich, "Sibelius, Faster than Speeding Bee," New York Times, 10/31/10).

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