Path 11
The concerto, 1721 to 1959
Soloist and orchestra across two and a half centuries, from Bach's harpsichord to Rostropovich's cello.
Bach → Vivaldi → Mozart → Beethoven → Mendelssohn → Tchaikovsky → Dvořák → Rachmaninoff → Ravel → Shostakovich
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
This guide follows Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844) in three parts: Allegro molto appassionato (sonata form), Andante (ternary form) and Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace (sonata form).
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After a and a half of accompaniment the sings the alone, and the orchestra takes it up only about 45 later. A follows. Then the calm appears in the woodwinds over the violin's open G string. The leads into the , which Mendelssohn wrote out. Its rushing arpeggios become the accompaniment for the 's in the . A fraught follows, and a solitary bassoon steers the music into the slow .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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Path 22
Romantic violin concertos
Ten violin concertos, from Beethoven's of 1806 to Sibelius's of 1904.
Beethoven → Paganini → Mendelssohn → Wieniawski → Bruch → Lalo → Brahms → Tchaikovsky → Dvořák → Sibelius
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