Violin Concerto
Full title | Violin Concerto in D Major / Violinkonzert D-Dur | |
Date composed | 1928 | |
Details |
Allegro Largo Allegro molto Orchestration: Solo vln./2(2nd alt.=Picc.),2,2,2/4,2,0,0,Timp.,Hp.,Str. Composed 1928. Performance duration: ca. 33 min. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-131, holograph (73/21/61 pages; includes revised pages 89–92 in the Largo). See also JPB 99-7 no. 82, photocopy of copyist's manuscript of piano reduction. | |
Publication details | Boosey & Hawkes, [date tbd]. | |
Availabiity | Score, parts, and piano reduction available from B&H; score and parts available from FCP; score, solo part, and piano reduction available from KWF | |
Recordings | ||
Listen |
Violin Concerto: movement 1, Allegro |
25 January 1930*** | Vienna, Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Arbeiter-Sinfonie Konzerte: Josef Wolfsthal and Arbeiter Sinfonie-Orchester, cond. Nikolai Malko. Also on program: Franz Liszt, Les Preludes; Joseph Haydn, Symphony in G Major; Rimsky-Korsakov, from the suite Zar Saltan; Igor Stravinsky, final scene from Petrushka. |
18 December 1956 | New York: Sidney Harth and Musica Aeterna Orchestra, cond. Frederic Waldman. |
17 December 1966 | New York: Sidney Harth and Musica Aeterna Orchestra, cond. Frederic Waldman. |
15 April 2009 | Taiwan, National Concert Hall, First Taipei International Lyricism in 20th Century Music Festiva: Violin Concerto, with Philippe Graffin and Taipei Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, cond. Israel Yinon. Also on program: Blacher, Concertante Musik op. 10; Rathaus, Symphony No. 3 op. 50. |
23 March 2013 | Rostock, Germany, Großes Haus des Volkstheaters Rostock, 7. Philharmoinisches Konzert: Violin Concerto, performed by David Fruehwirth and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, cond. Florian Krumpöck. Also on the program: Weigl’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with Florian Krumpöck and cond. Horia Andrescu; and Mahler, Adagio from Symphony No. 10. The concert was repeated on 24 and 25 March, and the last performance was broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on 26 March. |