Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D, Op.77
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Chicago -- Fritz Reiner
Recorded 1955. RCA, Sony SACD 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4
From the notes: On New Year’s Day, 1879, the concerto was introduced at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, on a program with an overture from a suite by Franz Lachner, an aria from Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and some Chopin songs sung by Marcella Sembrich, the Chaconne from Bach’s D minor Sonata for solo violin, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
The concerto’s reception was typically Brahmsian in that it was simultaneously praised and damned.
Tchaikovsky, writing to Mme. von Meck, called the introduction "an admirable pedestal for a statue." adding, "but the statue is not there: we get merely a second pedestal placed on the first."
The tidbits / details are always fascinating.
Cheers
Violin Concerto in D, Op.77
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Chicago -- Fritz Reiner
Recorded 1955. RCA, Sony SACD 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4
From the notes: On New Year’s Day, 1879, the concerto was introduced at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, on a program with an overture from a suite by Franz Lachner, an aria from Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and some Chopin songs sung by Marcella Sembrich, the Chaconne from Bach’s D minor Sonata for solo violin, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
The concerto’s reception was typically Brahmsian in that it was simultaneously praised and damned.
Tchaikovsky, writing to Mme. von Meck, called the introduction "an admirable pedestal for a statue." adding, "but the statue is not there: we get merely a second pedestal placed on the first."
The tidbits / details are always fascinating.
Cheers