GLAZUNOV / DVORAK: Violin Concertos

Dvorak, Antonin, Glazunov, Alexander

Kaler, Ilya, Kolchinsky, Camilla, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR Katowice)

8.550758

Glazunov wrote his Violin Concerto in A minor in 1904 during the summer months after the death of Belyayev. It was first performed in St. Petersburg on 4th March 1905 by Leopold Auer, to whom it was dedicated. Two weeks later Auer's fourteen-year-old pupil Mischa Elman played the concerto in London and another pupil, May Harrison, has left some account of her own performance of the work in St. Petersburg in 1912. • Dvořák wrote the first version of his Violin Concerto in the summer of 1879 and at the end of November sent the completed work to the violinist Josef Joachim, to whom the concerto is dedicated. The following April he visited Joachim in Berlin and various suggestions were made, leading to a thorough revision of the work. Joachim still had further revisions to suggest and made his own adjustments to the solo part, while the orchestral part had seemed sometimes too heavy, as demonstrated by a run-through in Berlin in 1872 with the Musikhochschule Orchestra, and was consequently revised. The concerto was available in its final form by the end of the year and was first performed in October 1873 in Prague by the Czech violinist František Ondñček.

CD x 1

Naxos

14.11.94

730099575829