Anthony Marwood’s recording recommended by Gramophone
Anthony Marwood’s recording of Peteris Vasks’ ‘Distant Light’ is Gramophone Magazine’s top recommendation this month in an exploration of the composer’s first violin concerto. Gramophone writes:
“Top of the class, though, is the 2004 recording by Anthony Marwood, whose purity of tone, combined with the sense of inner peace radiating from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, really gets to the heart of things… His recording offers a particular view not just of the solo line – with a highly atmospheric purity of tone – but of all that surrounds it in the orchestra. The coupling, Kurt Weill’s Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, sets Vask’s work brilliantly in relief’.
Anthony Marwood recorded the concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on Hyperion, and it was released in 2005. He continues to perform the work across the globe and recently presented it with Sydney Conservatorium of Music in September 2025.
Marwood’s recording can be heard here.