Tetzlaff - Beethoven and Sibelius Concertos review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

The Guardian 100

Tetzlaff/Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Ticciati
(Ondine)
Well-known works played with impressive nonchalance and grace by violinist whose touch is light, and right

Who needs another recording of the Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos? It turns out we all do, and this is it. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff has recorded both these warhorses before, but these performances have the lightness and rightness of touch born of long experience. That levity finds an ideal grounding in the unapologetically modern-instrument sound Robin Ticciati draws from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, weighty yet supple.