The piece was written in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. He was working on his Piano Sonata in G major but finding it heavy going. Presently he was joined there by his composition pupil, the violinist Iosif Kotek, who had been in Berlin for violin studies with Joseph Joachim. The two played works for violin and piano together, including a violin-and-piano arrangement of Édouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, which they may have played through the day after Kotek's arrival. This work may have been the catalyst for the composition of the concerto. He wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, "It [the Symphonie espagnole] has a lot of freshness, lightness, of piquant rhythms, of beautiful and excellently harmonized melodies.... He [Lalo], in the same way as Léo Delibes and Bizet, does not strive after profundity, but he carefully avoids routine, seeks out new forms, and thinks more about musical beauty than about observing established traditions, as do the Germans." Tchaikovsky authority Dr. David Brown writes that Tchaikovsky "might almost have been writing the prescription for the violin concerto he himself was about to compose."
| Date of composition | 1878 |
| Type | Concerto |
| Tonality | D Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 35 |
| Approx. duration | 35 minutes |
| Instruments |
Violin
Orchestra |
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Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski: Concerto pour violon en ré majeur, Op. 35 Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij: Concerto per violino in re maggiore, Op. 35 Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: Konzert für Violine D-dur, Op. 35 |
Support us on Patreon and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/classicalvault --- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 1 Allegro moderato 2 Canzonetta: Andante 3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo Joshua Bell, violin National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America Valery Gergiev, conductor Live recording. London, Proms 2013
0:00 Intro 0:42 Allegro moderato 18:45 Canzonetta. Andante 24:57 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo Konstanty Andrzej KULKA - skrzypce/violin Maciej TARNOWSKI - dyrygent/conductor Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra koncert zarejestrowano 27 listopada 2015 w sali koncertowej Filharmonii Narodowej recorded at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, November 27, 2015
Support us on Patreon and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/classicalvault --- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 1 Allegro moderato 2 Canzonetta. Andante 3 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo Julia Fischer, violin Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Vasily Petrenko, conductor Live recording
From the Gasteig Philharmonic Hall in Munich, Germany With the sixteen-year old Maxim Vengerov ! Maxim Vengerov - violin Pavel Kogan - conductor Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 0:50 Allegro moderato 19:24 Canzonetta (Andante) 25:36 Allegro vivacissimo Watch the whole programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T61VRKL9KOA&list=PLDOx7nx0z2hgOQi5-4fxYeTZ8WLOcvH_- Subscribe to LOFTmusic: https://goo.gl/wwlZl8 Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is an Israeli violinist, violist and conductor who was born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, in the Soviet Union.