VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concertos

Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra;
Keylin, Misha;
Burkh, Dennis

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It was in 1836 that Vieuxtemps wrote his first violin concerto, the Concerto No. 2 in F sharp minor, published as Opus 19. He had had some technical instruction in Vienna from Simon Sechter, the teacher with whom Schubert was planning to study at the time of his death in 1828, and further lessons in Paris with Anton Reicha. At the same time he had taken care to observe possible techniques of instrumentation by attending orchestral rehearsals with score in hand. • In 1843 and 1844 he toured America and in the summer of the latter year, during a holiday at Cannstadt, near Stuttgart, he wrote his Concerto No. 3 in A major, Opus 25, a work later described by Ysaÿe as a great poem rather than a concerto, influenced, he went on to suggest, by Beethoven's Violin Concerto, a work that Vieuxtemps had revived in Vienna in 1834, seven years after its composer's death.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

14-04-1997

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