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Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Composed: 1806First performed: 23rd December 1806, Theater an der Wien, ViennaGenres: Concertos » Violin Concertos Artists in first performance: Franz ClementDedicated to: Franz Clement

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, in 1806. Its first performance by Franz Clement was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by the then 12-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim with the orchestra of the London Philharmonic Society conducted by Felix Mendelssohn.

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  • Vilde Frang (violin), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Pekka Kuusisto

    Frang’s exquisite tonal subtlety and enhanced range of dynamics allows her to weave in and out of Beethoven’s carefully graded orchestral textures, with a profound sense of listening and responding... More…

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  • Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

    Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati

    Such glorious playing cannot be recommended too strongly, but for me the Beethoven performance makes a greater contribution to the work’s discography. I won’t soon forget how deeply Tetzlaff... More…

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  • Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert

    Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... More…

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  • Nicola Benedetti (violin), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon

    Benedetti’s first entry is swift, weightless and agile, landing as it does on the softest of pianissimos, the effect at once both virtuosic and ethereal...because her overall approach is so... More…

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  • Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno

    Steinbacher not only plays [the Lentz] wonderfully, with all the luminescence and flying, flowing, silvery-sweet technical ease it appears to call for, but there’s a clear interpretational link... More…

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  • Nemanja Radulović (violin), Double Sens

    The arrangement [of the Kreutzer Sonata] works quite well in the more excitable moments of the outer movements, particularly given the stunning virtuosity not only of Radulović himself, but... More…

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  • Ronald Brautigam (piano)

    Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Parrott

    Brautigam's tempos are characteristically brisk, but he gives dazzling performances of both works, supported by the stylish, non-vibrato playing of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Andrew... More…

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