Mendelssohn - Complete String Symphonies, Violin Concerto in D minor
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900337
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Contents
Artists
Henry Raudales (violin)Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Henry RaudalesWorks
String Symphonies (13)Violin Concerto in D minor, op.post.
Artists
Henry Raudales (violin)Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Henry RaudalesAbout
It was thanks to his father's penchant for organizing musical concerts in his family's Berlin apartment on Sunday mornings that the 11-year-old Felix Mendelssohn began to compose quite a long series of string symphonies, and also that the works were initially performed. The study of music and composition spurred the young composer on greatly; his diligence as well as his youthful creativity developed early, and he made astonishing progress. In 1821, he wrote the first half of his string symphonies, which together took less than two years to complete. During performances that formed part of the concerts at home, he always took over the direction of the chamber orchestra, which consisted of amateur and professional musicians from the Berlin court orchestra.
Mendelssohn’s early Concerto for violin and string orchestra, written at around the same time for his violin teacher Eduard Rietz, was probably played in the same setting. Formally, it owes much to the concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach, but it clearly sounds like Mendelssohn.
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