Nikolaj Znaider performs at the highest level as both conductor and virtuoso violin soloist, and for this album, the second of two releases exploring all five Mozart violin concertos, he directed the London Symphony Orchestra from his instrument, the ‘Kreisler’ Guarnerius ‘del Gesu’ 1741. Speaking of his admiration for these works, Znaider says, “For me Mozart is the greatest composer, because he was able to express everything that Mahler was able to express in one hour and twenty minutes, that Wagner could do in five hours, Bruckner in seventy-two minutes, in twenty-three, twenty-four minutes. He could express the yearning and the desire and the pain of human existence and yet it felt so easy.”
Mozart Violin Concertos: Nikolaj Znaider, London Symphony Orchestra
