Post by erik on Jun 25, 2022 11:29:32 GMT -5
An incomplete work of Mozart's gets revived and revealed in this week's Classical Works Spotlight.
Mozart: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND ORCHESTRA IN D MAJOR, K. ANH 56 (COMPLETED BY PHILLIP WILBY)
It is not uncommon for certain composers to be involved in creating works that they don’t manage to finish because death intervenes. Both Beethoven and Schubert were in the process of sketching out each of their own Tenth symphonies when each passed away; and Mozart himself died after having sketched out the entirety of his Requiem, but not having started with the orchestration. But there was one work of Mozart’s that remained unfinished while he was in the prime of his life. This was the Concerto For Violin, Piano, and Orchestra In D Major. This work was composed for a group called “Academie Des Amateurs” in Mannheim in 1778, when he was twenty-one and a half years old. But the Concerto was only written to the first 120 bars, and the composer only scored the first seventy-eight of those bars…and then set it aside after that, largely because he had left Mannheim between the time of his 22nd birthday and the end of 1778. It is not known why Mozart never took this concerto up after that. But music scholar Philip Wilby, sometime during the 1990’s, theorized that the composer’s Violin Sonata In D Major (K. 315) was actually a reworking of that long-thought-lost concerto, and thus he reconstructed it in this fashion. What is unique is that, unlike his Second and Fourth violin concertos (but like the 5th, 16th, and 26th piano concertos), this particular concerto utilizes trumpets and timpani. This reconstructed “double concerto” has slowly but surely been creeping into numerous classical programs since Wilby’s efforts in the 1990’s.
Violin: MIDORI
Piano: CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra/CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (Sony)
Included (2 CD Set):
SINFONIA-CONCERTANTE IFOR VIOLIN, VIOLA, AND ORCHESTRA IN E FLAT MAJOR, K. 365 (Violin: MIDORI) (Viola: NOBUKO IMAI)
Mozart: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND ORCHESTRA IN D MAJOR, K. ANH 56 (COMPLETED BY PHILLIP WILBY)
It is not uncommon for certain composers to be involved in creating works that they don’t manage to finish because death intervenes. Both Beethoven and Schubert were in the process of sketching out each of their own Tenth symphonies when each passed away; and Mozart himself died after having sketched out the entirety of his Requiem, but not having started with the orchestration. But there was one work of Mozart’s that remained unfinished while he was in the prime of his life. This was the Concerto For Violin, Piano, and Orchestra In D Major. This work was composed for a group called “Academie Des Amateurs” in Mannheim in 1778, when he was twenty-one and a half years old. But the Concerto was only written to the first 120 bars, and the composer only scored the first seventy-eight of those bars…and then set it aside after that, largely because he had left Mannheim between the time of his 22nd birthday and the end of 1778. It is not known why Mozart never took this concerto up after that. But music scholar Philip Wilby, sometime during the 1990’s, theorized that the composer’s Violin Sonata In D Major (K. 315) was actually a reworking of that long-thought-lost concerto, and thus he reconstructed it in this fashion. What is unique is that, unlike his Second and Fourth violin concertos (but like the 5th, 16th, and 26th piano concertos), this particular concerto utilizes trumpets and timpani. This reconstructed “double concerto” has slowly but surely been creeping into numerous classical programs since Wilby’s efforts in the 1990’s.
Violin: MIDORI
Piano: CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra/CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (Sony)
Included (2 CD Set):
SINFONIA-CONCERTANTE IFOR VIOLIN, VIOLA, AND ORCHESTRA IN E FLAT MAJOR, K. 365 (Violin: MIDORI) (Viola: NOBUKO IMAI)