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- Louis Gruenberg
Violin Concerto (1944)
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The reduction for violin and piano is available from Classical on Demand
- 3(pic)2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4331/timp.4perc/hp.pf(cel)/str
- vn, pf
- Violin
- 37 min
Programme Note
Related works:
Violin Concerto for violin and orchestra
Violin Concerto for violin and piano
Composer Note:
The composition is the result of a commission by Heifetz who desired to add an American concerto to his already stupendous repertory, and this was, of course, nothing less than a challenge. It raised up that question again as to what was really American music. To my mind, American music consists of ALL human emotions. Nothing less!
— Louis Gruenberg
Violin Concerto for violin and orchestra
Violin Concerto for violin and piano
Composer Note:
The composition is the result of a commission by Heifetz who desired to add an American concerto to his already stupendous repertory, and this was, of course, nothing less than a challenge. It raised up that question again as to what was really American music. To my mind, American music consists of ALL human emotions. Nothing less!
— Louis Gruenberg
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Although premiered in 1944 by Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned and also recorded it, Gruenberg's VIOLIN CONCERTO has remained utterly obscure. Until yesterday, no one but Heifetz had played it. The concerto is skillfully written. There was appeal to all three movements: the rhapsodic first, the spiritual-laden slow second, and the merry hoedown finale. The concerto's language is romantically inclined, swinging between Strauss's harmonic idiom and shimmering passages of impressionistic sonorities.