Concerto for violin and orchestra 2
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Opus 67
History
- Composed in 1966 as compulsory work for the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition.[1]
- First performance during the final round of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, on 22 May 1967 in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels by Marjeta Delcourte-Korosec and the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by René Defossez.[2]
Music
- instrumentation: solo violin and symphony orchestra[3]
- duration: ca 21'
Parts
- I.
- a. Introduzione
- tempo: Andante e senza rigore nel tempo (quasi una cadenza)
- time signature: 4/4
- b. Allegro
- time signature: 4/4
- a. Introduzione
- II. Quasi adagio
- time signature: 9/8
- III. Allegro risoluto ma non troppo vivace
- time signature: 3/4
Recordings
- Archive.org: recording by André Gertler and the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by François Huybrechts.
- Youtube: recording by Philippe Hirschhorn and the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by René Defossez.
Sources
- autograph: Royal Conservatory Antwerp (B-Ac), shelf number MM-DUBP-LEGLE-conc-1. This score seems to have been used for the television broadcast of the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition, as it contains many staging annotations.
- photocopy of the autograph piano reduction: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number CBD-B-1376-(20914)
- first edition (reduction violin-piano): CeBeDeM, Brussels, 2006
- first edition (study score): Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich, 2017. Koenraad Sterckx's critical apparatus to this edition can be consulted here.
Notes
- ↑ Tessely, p.54.
- ↑ See:
- STEHMAN, Jacques: Visite à douze violonistes en cage... et heureux in Le Soir of 20 May 1967, p.7
- STEHMAN, Jacques: Le concours musical international Reine Elisabeth in Le Soir of 23 May 1967, p.9
- Tessely, p.54.
- ↑ 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, harp and strings.
