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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
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
This guide follows Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904) in three parts: Allegro moderato (sonata form), Adagio di molto and Allegro, ma non tanto.
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- II
- III,
The enters softly over quiet strings with the first . The music then slows to a broad , which leads into the , and resumes. Later the orchestra prepares the , which stands in for the . The follows, and the heroic second- higher. The gives the violin octaves, harmonics and bouncing bowing before a firm final D.
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II 16:59–24:30
III, 24:40–31:33
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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