Violin Concerto No. 1 (Goldmark)

The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op.28 by Karl Goldmark was composed in 1877 and premiered in Bremen the same year. Goldmark is supposed to have later composed a second violin concerto, but if so it was never published, and is believed to be lost.[1]

Structure and analysis

The concerto consists of three movements:

  1. Allegro moderato
  2. Air: Andante
  3. Moderato – Allegretto

A standard all movements performance lasts approximately 32 minutes.

It has a Magyar march in the first movement and passages reminiscent of Dvořák and Mendelssohn in the second and third movements. It has started to re-enter the repertoire, through recordings by such prominent violin soloists as Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell. Nathan Milstein also championed the work and Milstein's recording of the Concerto (1957) is widely considered the definitive one. It has been used in several movies before.[citation needed]

Recordings

Recordings of this concerto include:

Soloist Orchestra Conductor Record Company Year of Recording Format
Nathan Milstein New York Philharmonic Bruno Walter 1942 Vinyl / CD
Philharmonia Orchestra Harry Blech EMI Classics 1957 Vinyl / CD
Bronislav Gimpel Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Rolf Reinhardt Vox Records 1957 Vinyl / CD
Itzhak Perlman Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra André Previn EMI Classics 1978 Vinyl / CD
Ruggiero Ricci Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Louis de Froment Decca Records 1979 Vinyl / CD
Hu Nai-yuan Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz Delos Productions 1995 CD
Vera Tsu Razumovsky Sinfonia Yu Long Naxos Records 1995[a]/1997[b] CD
Joshua Bell Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen Sony Classical Records 2000 CD

References

Notes
  1. ^ Released by Marco Polo Records, along with a recording of the Korngold Violin Concerto in D minor by the same forces
  2. ^ Released by Naxos Records, contents are identical to the earlier release
  1. ^ (Botstein 1999)
Sources
  • Botstein, Leon (1999). "Program Notes: Goldmark Violin Concerto". American Symphony Orchestra.


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