Fire & Ice Svetlin Roussev

• Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 47:
• 1 I. Allegro moderato 16:04
• 2 II. Adagio di molto 08:59
• 3 III. Allegro ma non tanto 07:19
• Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978): Violin Concerto in F Minor No. 1 Op. 11:
• 4 I. Moderato agitato 13:23
• 5 II. Andante cantabile 07:47
• 6 III. Allegro ma non troppo 11:32
• Total Runtime 01:05:04

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To combine this first release of Vladigerov’s violin concerto No.1 with Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is a juxtaposition of great interest: both Sibelius and Vladigerov studied in Berlin and both attached great importance to the folklore of their native countries. These distinctive works were written at an interval of only a few years, yet they seem to be crafted in opposing elements: one gives the impression of sculpting in ice, the other of subduing a raging fire.

Svetlin Roussev, violin
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emil Tabakov, conductor

Svetlin Roussev
The charismatic violin virtuoso, Svetlin Roussev, began his musical education at a very young age as a student of his mother, a professor at the music school in his home town of Ruse, Bulgaria. He was accepted in 1991 to the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris” in the classes of Gérard Poulet, Devy Erlih and Jean- Jacques Kantorow. In 1994 he was unanimously awarded a First Prize, summa cum laude, for violin and a First Prize for chamber music and subsequently entered the postgraduate program.

Svetlin Roussev has won numerous prizes at many international competitions (Indianapolis, Long-Thibaud, Melbourne...) He was voted “Revelation of the year 2000” by the ADAMI at the French industry music festival “Midem” of Cannes and was selected for sponsorship by the Natexis-Banques Populaires Corporate Foundation. May 2001, saw him covered with praises as he was awarded First Prize, Special Audience Prize and Special Prize for the best interpretation of a Bach concerto at the 1st “Sendaï International Competition”, in Japan.

With remarkable virtuosity and intensity, Svetlin Roussev performs a broad ranging repertoire from the Baroque to the contemporary. He is also reknowned for his renditions of Slavic compositions and is one of the foremost propagators of Bulgarian music. Acclaimed in 2006 Bulgarian “Musician of the Year”, Bulgaria honored him, yet again, in 2007 with the “Cristal Lyra” distinction awarded by the Ministry of Culture.

Svetlin Roussev is a regularly invited guest soloist with various orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, Bucarest National George Enescu Orchestra, Roumanian National Radio Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio and Symphony Orchestras, Ankara Presidential Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic...in the United-States, Latin America, Asia and Europe and has performed under the baton of such conductors as Myung-Whun Chung, Leon Fleisher, Yehudi Menuhin, Yuzo Toyama, Marek Janowski, Raymond Leppard, John Axelrod, François-Xavier Roth, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Denis Russel- Davies, Lionel Bringuier, Leo Hussain, Nicholas Milton, Emil Tabakov...

Svetlin Roussev has played in many of the worldʼs concert halls: the Bolchoï Theater, Suntory Hall, Sumida Triphony Center Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Salle Pleyel, UNESCO, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Cité de la Musique, Théâtre de la Ville, Arsenal de Metz, Halle aux Grains de Toulouse, Bulgaria National Concert Hall, Budapest Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles...

Svetlin, shares his love for music with an ever widening public through his chamber music performances with partners such as Myung-Whun Chung, Jean-Marc Luisada, Philippe Cassard, Jean-Philippe Collard, Eric Le Sage, Ralph Gothoni, Peter Frankl, Antoine Tamestit, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Gary Hoffman, Arto Noras, Sung Won Yang, Young Hoon Song, Xavier Philips, François Leleux, Paul Meyer, Philippe Bernold, Nikolaj Znaider and he is a founding member of the “Roussev-Salque-Rozanova Trio”. Following on the heels of his successful CD recording of pieces by Pancho Vladiguerov with the pianist Elena Rozanova, Svetlin has brought out his recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmannʼs “Concerto Funèbre”, with the Orchestre dʼAuvergne, conducted by Arie Van Beek, recordings for French labels Integral and Fondamenta, dedicated to the Franco- Belgian school of violin with pianist Elena Rozanova and sonatas by Grieg and Medtner with pianist Frédéric DʼOria-Nicolas.

He is the concertmaster of the “Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra” and, since 2007, Concertmaster of the “Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra”.

Svetlin Roussev is violin professor at his alma mater, the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris”.

He plays the Stradivarius 1710 "Camposelice" violin kindly loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation.

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