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During the composer's life, it was known simply as his Violin Concerto. His other violin concerto, Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36, BB 48a, was written in the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death, as "Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. posth." Bartók composed the concerto in a difficult stage of his life, when he was ...
The concerto is more conventional than the composer's early bold compositions. It starts off with a simple violin melody related to traditional Russian folk music . The graceful violin melody flows throughout the entire second movement, and ends with the initial violin theme reappearing in the orchestra's somber lower register, now accompanied ...
This new concerto is unmitigated trash: the usual strung out sequences of arpeggiated banality, driven by the rise and fall of fast-moving but still leaden triplets, and vacuously formulaic. Whatever gives Glass cause to think he can get away with it I can’t imagine (well, perhaps I can: those damned standing ovations).
Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók) in B minor; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bruch) in D minor; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Glass), The American Four Seasons; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Haydn) in D major, by Joseph Haydn; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Joachim) in D minor; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Lindberg) Violin Concerto No. 2 (Martinů) in G minor; Violin Concerto No. 2 ...
The concerto has been generally praised by music critics. Reviewing the world premiere, Simon Thompson of The Sunday Times called the concerto "a radiant jewel of a piece that seemed to inhabit a multitude of human emotions while guiding the listener through them with luminous clarity." He added, "MacMillan builds his concerto from the three ...
Concerto No. 2 in D major for 2 violins and orchestra, H. 329; Karl Marx: Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concertone in C major for 2 violins and orchestra, K. 190; Mark O'Connor: Double Violin Concerto for 2 violins and symphony orchestra; Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa for 2 violins, prepared piano and string orchestra ...
The concerto was written at the request of Paweł Kochański, to whom Szymanowski had dedicated his first concerto in 1916. Kochański and his wife Zofia visited Szymanowski in the summer of 1932 in Zakopane where Paweł provided help with the violin part, and later also provided a cadenza. Szymanowski wrote the work in less than four weeks.
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor can refer to: Antonio Vivaldi's Violin Concerto No. 2, in G Minor, Op. 8, Summer (L'estate) from The Four Seasons. Sergei Prokofiev's 1935 Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) in G Minor, Opus 65. Bohuslav Martinů's 1943 Violin Concerto No. 2 (Martinů) in G Minor, H. 293.