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Background: In 2012 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Eugčne Ysa˙e Competition, drawing on its extensive archive of unreleased recordings to put together a 4CD set containing 8 of the most celebrated violin concertos as performed by the laureates. Handsomely presented as a CD-book, with texts, photographs and reminiscences it contains live recordings made between 1967 and 2005, which were painstakingly remastered in 2011 in order to ensure optimal sound quality for today's listeners.

Founded in 1937 the first Ysa˙e Competition brought to Brussels a number of talented young violinists and the name of the first laureate shows just how high the standard was: David Oistrakh! After WWII, the Competition was revived in 1951, when it took the name of its patron Queen Elisabeth. The list of laureates over 75 years is dazzling: Kogan, Senofsky, Sitkovetsky, Laredo, Michlin, Hirshhorn, Kremer, Fried, Horigome, Repin, Znaider, Skride and Khachatryan, to name but a few.

The set opens in 1967 with the Paganini Concerto, played by Philippe Hirshhorn, a great artist and teacher, who died in 1996, but not before he had influenced several generations of musicians; the Elgar Concerto as interpreted by Gidon Kremer, never previously available on disc; performances by Miriam Fried in Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky from Vadim Repin in 1989 and an equally memorable performance of the Sibelius by Nikolaj Znaider from 1997, the same year as Kristóf Baráti's superb Beethoven. The compilation concludes with two laureates from the past decade: the Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen playing Bartók and, finally, Belgium's own Yossif Ivanov in the Shostakovich.

CATALOGUE NR: MU002
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 4 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.50
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
TITLE: Ysaye & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition
TRACKS: Vadim Repin 1st prize 1989 - Concerto in D major op.35 (Tchaikovsky). Nikolaj Znaider 1st prize 1997 - Concerto in D minor op.47 (Sibelius). Gidon Kremer 3rd prize 1967 - Concerto in B minor op.61 (Elgar). Philippe Hirshhorn 1st prize 1967 - Concerto No.1 in D major op.6 (Paganini). Kristof Barati 3rd prize 1997 - Concerto in D major op.61 (Beethoven). Miriam Fried 1st prize 1971 - Concerto in E minor op.64 (Mendelssohn). Yossif Ivanov 2nd prize 2005 - Concerto No.1 in A minor op.77 (Shotakovich). Barnabas Kelemen 3rd prize 2001 - Concerto No.2 (Bartok).

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