Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950)

Concerto for violin and wind orchestra op. 12

Edition after the complete Kurt Weill edition

för:

Violin, symfonisk blåsorkester

Utgåva:

Klaverutdrag, solostämma

Artikelnr.:

602709

Författare / kompositör:

Redaktör :

Svårighetsgrad:

avancerat

Omfattning:

68 sidor; 23 × 30,5 cm

Varaktighet :

33 minuter

Ursprungsår:

1924

Publiceringsår:

2012

Förlag / Tillverkare:

Tillverkarens nr.:

UE 35046

ISBN:

9783702470289

ISMN:

9790008083617

UPC:

0803452067399

Kurt Weill developed his creative energies mainly within the world of musical theater, where he proved to be an immensely productive and imaginative innovator, but he also left behind a small body of work for the concert hall. The Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra op. 12 dates from the spring of 1924. Scored for two flutes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, one oboe and trumpet, percussion and four contrabasses, the concerto comprises three movements. While composing the work, Weill informed his publisher: 'I am working on a concerto for violin and wind orchestra that I hope to finish within two or three weeks. The work is inspired by the idea
one never carried out before
of juxtaposing a single violin with a chorus of winds.' The specific character of Weill's concerto as music written for chamber orchestra (with an often soloistic treatment of instruments) leads to a transparency that requires utmost precision in the ensemble playing. In the quest for an overall sonic balance, the coarser-sounding wind instruments need to explore all dynamic nuances. The solo part is challenging not only from a technical standpoint but also from an acoustic one (it is crucial to make the violin 'sound'). In spite of these challenges
or precisely because of them
critics in the 1920s called the solo part highly idiomatic and extremely rewarding. Since then the concerto has become a 'modern classic' in concert halls around the world. (Elmar Juchem, August 2010)

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