The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878. It is one of the best known violin concertos, and is considered one of the most technically difficult works for the violin.
A typical performance runs approximately 35 minutes.
Composition
The piece was written in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. He was working on his Piano Sonata in G major but finding it heavy going. Presently he was joined there by his composition pupil, the violinist Iosif Kotek, who had been in Berlin for violin studies with Joseph Joachim. The two played works for violin and piano together, including a violin-and-piano arrangement of Édouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, which they may have played through the day after Kotek's arrival. This work may have been the catalyst for the composition of the concerto. He wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, "It [the Symphonie espagnole] has a lot of freshness, lightness, of piquant rhythms, of beautiful and excellently harmonized melodies.... He [Lalo], in the same way as Léo Delibes and Bizet, does not strive after profundity, but he carefully avoids routine, seeks out new forms, and thinks more about musical beauty than about observing established traditions, as do the Germans." Tchaikovsky authority Dr. David Brown writes that Tchaikovsky "might almost have been writing the prescription for the violin concerto he himself was about to compose."
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour.
Mendelssohn originally proposed the idea of the violin concerto to Ferdinand David, a close friend and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Although conceived in 1838, the work took another six years to complete and was not premiered until 1845. During this time, Mendelssohn maintained a regular correspondence with David, who gave him many suggestions. The work itself was one of the foremost violin concertos of the Romantic era and was influential on many other composers.
Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects include the almost immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work (rather than following an orchestral preview of the first movement's major themes, as was typical in Classical-era concertos) and the through-composed form of the concerto as a whole, in which the three movements are melodically and harmonically connected and played attacca (each movement immediately following the previous one).
Samuel Barber completed his Violin Concerto, Op. 14, in 1939. It is a work in three movements, lasting about 22 minutes.
History
In 1939, Philadelphia industrialist Samuel Simeon Fels commissioned Barber to write a violin concerto for Fels' ward, Iso Briselli, a graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music the same year as Barber, 1934. The Barber biographies written by Nathan Broder (1954) and Barbara B. Heyman (1992) discuss the genesis of the concerto during the period of the violin concerto's commission and subsequent year leading up to the first performance. Heyman interviewed Briselli and others familiar with the history in her publication. In late 2010, previously unpublished letters written by Fels, Barber, and Albert Meiff (Briselli's violin coach in that period) from the Samuel Simeon Fels Papers archived at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania became available to the public.
Barber accepted his advance and went to Switzerland to work on the concerto. Barber started working on the first two movements in Switzerland during the summer of 1939. He hoped to complete the concerto in the early fall to meet the October 1st deadline. His plans were interrupted, however, due to the impending war—all Americans were warned to leave Europe. In late August, he went to Paris and then took a ship to the USA, arriving in early September. After spending a short time with his family in West Chester, PA, he went to the Pocono Mountains to continue working on the concerto.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed a Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, in 1806. Its first performance by Franz Clement was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by Joseph Joachim. Since then it has become one of the best-known violin concertos.
Genesis
Beethoven had previously written a number of pieces for violin and orchestra. At some point in 1790–2, before his musical maturity, he began a Violin Concerto in C, of which only a fragment of the first movement survives. Whether the work, or even the first movement, had ever been completed is not known. However, even if complete, it was neither performed nor published. Later in the 1790s, Beethoven had completed two Romances for violin - first the Romance in F and later the Romance in G.
These works show a strong influence from the French school of violin playing, exemplified by violinists such as Giovanni Battista Viotti, Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer. The two Romances, for instance, are in a similar style to slow movements of concerti by Viotti. This influence can also be seen in the D major Concerto; the 'martial' opening with the beat of the timpani follows the style of French music at the time, while the prevalence of figures in broken sixths and broken octaves closely resembles elements of compositions by Kreutzer and Viotti.
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta. Andante
3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
Julia Fischer, violin
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta: Andante
3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
Joshua Bell, violin
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Live recording. London, Proms 2013
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Violinist Alena Baeve and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Orchestra conducted by Alexandre Bloch perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto op.35 and the Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet (37:15) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Musicians:
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Alexandre Bloch [conductor]
Alena Baeva [violin]
Musical programme:
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2. P.I. Tsjaikovsky - Fantasie-overture Romeo and Juliet (37:15)
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(30.09.1908 - 24.10.1974)
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ПЁТР ИЛЬИЧ ЧАЙКОВСКИЙ
(7/05/1840 - 6/11/1893)
VIOLIN CONCERTO, Op.35, D Dur
00:00 I. Allegro moderato
19:43 II. Canzonetta: Andante
25:43 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Симфонический оркестр Московской государственной филармонии
Дирижер ГЕННАДИЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ РОЖДЕСТВЕНСКИЙ (04/05/1931 - 16/06/2018)
Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, / Москва, Зал им. Чайковского
27/09/1968
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
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2 Canzonetta. Andante
3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
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1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta: Andante
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National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Valery Gergiev, conductor
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta: Andante
3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
Joshua Bell, violin
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Live recording. London, Proms 2013
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Violinist Alena Baeve and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Orchestra conducted by Alexandre Bloch perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto op.35 and the Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet (37:15) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Musicians:
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Alexandre Bloch [conductor]
Alena Baeva [violin]
Musical programme:
1. P.I. Tsjaikovsky - Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (from start)
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ПЁТР ИЛЬИЧ ЧАЙКОВСКИЙ
(7/05/1840 - 6/11/1893)
VIOLIN CONCERTO, Op.35, D Dur
00:00 I. Allegro moderato
19:43 II. Canzonetta: Andante
25:43 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Симфонический оркестр Московской государственной филармонии
Дирижер ГЕННАДИЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ РОЖДЕСТВЕНСКИЙ (04/05/1931 - 16/06/2018)
Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, / Москва, Зал им. Чайковского
27/09/1968
DAVID OISTRAKH / ДАВИД ФЕДОРОВИЧ ОЙСТРАХ
(30.09.1908 - 24.10.1974)
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ПЁТР ИЛЬИЧ ЧАЙКОВСКИЙ
(7/05/1840 - 6/11/1893)
VIOLIN CONCERTO, Op.35, D Dur
00:00 I. Allegro moderato
19:43 II. Canzonetta: Andante
25:43 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Симфонический оркестр Московской государственной филармонии
Дирижер ГЕННАДИЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ РОЖДЕСТВЕНСКИЙ (04/05/1931 - 16/06/2018)
Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, / Москва, Зал им. Чайковского
27/09/1968
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta. Andante
3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
Julia Fischer, violin
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Live recording
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1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta: Andante
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Joshua Bell, violin
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Live recording. London, Proms 2013
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(30.09.1908 - 24.10.1974)
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(7/05/1840 - 6/11/1893)
VIOLIN CONCERTO, Op.35, D Dur
00:00 I. Allegro moderato
19:43 II. Canzonetta: Andante
25:43 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Симфонический оркестр Московской государственной филармонии
Дирижер ГЕННАДИЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ РОЖДЕСТВЕНСКИЙ (04/05/1931 - 16/06/2018)
Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, / Москва, Зал им. Чайковского
27/09/1968
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878. It is one of the best known violin concertos, and is considered one of the most technically difficult works for the violin.
A typical performance runs approximately 35 minutes.
Composition
The piece was written in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. He was working on his Piano Sonata in G major but finding it heavy going. Presently he was joined there by his composition pupil, the violinist Iosif Kotek, who had been in Berlin for violin studies with Joseph Joachim. The two played works for violin and piano together, including a violin-and-piano arrangement of Édouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, which they may have played through the day after Kotek's arrival. This work may have been the catalyst for the composition of the concerto. He wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, "It [the Symphonie espagnole] has a lot of freshness, lightness, of piquant rhythms, of beautiful and excellently harmonized melodies.... He [Lalo], in the same way as Léo Delibes and Bizet, does not strive after profundity, but he carefully avoids routine, seeks out new forms, and thinks more about musical beauty than about observing established traditions, as do the Germans." Tchaikovsky authority Dr. David Brown writes that Tchaikovsky "might almost have been writing the prescription for the violin concerto he himself was about to compose."
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