Credits:

Bull / Folleso / Plagge

Description:

The latest recording from 2L, the Grammy-winning audiophile labelRarities by Ole Bull, the Paganini of the NorthMorten Lindberg, who produces and engineers for 2L, won the Best Immersive Audio Album award at the 62nd Grammy Awards in 2020 for the album “LUX” (2L150SABD) – a win that came after thirty-six nominations since 2006.His first album since that award is a collection of works by Ole Bull (1810-1880), hugely popular in his day as a violin virtuoso. It follows the “Works for Violin and Orchestra” album (2L067SABD) released by the Norwegian violinist Annar Folleso (b. 1972) in 2010, the bicentenary of Bull’s birth, and offers a programme of five pieces that no one but Bull himself ever played.”Largo posato e Rondo capriccioso” opens with dark chords in D minor and ends in humoresque vein; Halfdan Kjerulf described it as “music of rich religious feeling”. It is performed here fro