Christian Tezlaff: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto online

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff has entered the digital world by exclusively releasing his rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto online as part of a new series by Deutsche Grammophon. Entitled “DG Concerts”, these web-albums will present the public with fresh live performances by some of the label’s top notch artists: Christian Tetzlaff, for example, performed the Tchaikovsky as recently as December of 2007 at Birmingham. Joined by the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner for the Concerto, Tezlaff then goes on to offer the “Gavotte en Rondeau” from Bach’s “Partita for Violin Solo No.3 in E, BWV 1006”, before allowing the orchestra to bring things to a triumphant close with Mahler’s first Symphony. The album makes perfect use of the digital medium, capturing a program which could otherwhise only be made available as an expensive 2CD set. At 20 Euros (approximately $31), the release is now more than reasonably priced. After spending a four month stint as an iTunes exclusive, it will become available at Webstores worldwide afterwards.