Post by erik on Feb 12, 2022 13:24:59 GMT -5
The father of the symphony and the string quartet, Franz Joseph Haydn, is in this week's Classical Works Spotlight with the fourth and final contribution of his to the repertoire of the violin concerto.
Haydn: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 4 IN G MAJOR
While he was known as the “father” of both the symphony and the string quartet, Franz Joseph Haydn also composed a fair share of instrumental concertos in his day—the most popular of these being the Trumpet Concerto that he had composed near the end of his London tenure in 1795. During the second half of the 1760’s, he composed four concertos for the violin, although one of them has gone missing and is assumed to be lost (what was known as the Third Violin Concerto). The fourth of these, the G Major one, was long assumed not to have been by Haydn, but further inspection showed that this 1769 work was indeed one of his. As with his First Violin Concerto, from four years earlier, the Fourth is believed to have been written for Luigi Tomasini, the concertmaster of the Esterhazy orchestra, where Haydn was the long-serving conductor and composer. Scored for solo violin, string orchestra, and basso continuo (usually a harpsichord), the Fourth Violin Concerto is somewhat obscured nowadays by the five violin concertos composed during the 1770’s by his much younger contemporary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; but certain violin soloists, including Daniel Hope, and Cho-Liang Lin have taken the mantle to bring this and the other Haydn violin concertos to greater audiences.
Violin: DANIEL HOPE
Zurich Chamber Orchestra/DANIEL HOPE (Deutsche Grammphon)
Included (Journey To Mozart):
Gluck: DANCE OF THE FURIES/FROM “ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE”
Gluck: DANCE OF THE BLESSED SPIRITS/FROM “ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE”
Mysliviecek: LARGHETTO FROM VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
Mozart: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3 IN G MAJOR, K. 216
Johann Peter Salomon: ROMANCE FOR VIOLIN AND STRINGS IN D MAJOR
Mozart: RONDO A LA TURCA/FROM PIANO SONATA NO. 11 (Arranged For Violin And Orchestra)
Haydn: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 4 IN G MAJOR
While he was known as the “father” of both the symphony and the string quartet, Franz Joseph Haydn also composed a fair share of instrumental concertos in his day—the most popular of these being the Trumpet Concerto that he had composed near the end of his London tenure in 1795. During the second half of the 1760’s, he composed four concertos for the violin, although one of them has gone missing and is assumed to be lost (what was known as the Third Violin Concerto). The fourth of these, the G Major one, was long assumed not to have been by Haydn, but further inspection showed that this 1769 work was indeed one of his. As with his First Violin Concerto, from four years earlier, the Fourth is believed to have been written for Luigi Tomasini, the concertmaster of the Esterhazy orchestra, where Haydn was the long-serving conductor and composer. Scored for solo violin, string orchestra, and basso continuo (usually a harpsichord), the Fourth Violin Concerto is somewhat obscured nowadays by the five violin concertos composed during the 1770’s by his much younger contemporary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; but certain violin soloists, including Daniel Hope, and Cho-Liang Lin have taken the mantle to bring this and the other Haydn violin concertos to greater audiences.
Violin: DANIEL HOPE
Zurich Chamber Orchestra/DANIEL HOPE (Deutsche Grammphon)
Included (Journey To Mozart):
Gluck: DANCE OF THE FURIES/FROM “ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE”
Gluck: DANCE OF THE BLESSED SPIRITS/FROM “ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE”
Mysliviecek: LARGHETTO FROM VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
Mozart: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3 IN G MAJOR, K. 216
Johann Peter Salomon: ROMANCE FOR VIOLIN AND STRINGS IN D MAJOR
Mozart: RONDO A LA TURCA/FROM PIANO SONATA NO. 11 (Arranged For Violin And Orchestra)