Violin and orchestra
(Solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 -
4.2.0.0 - timp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-16110
Urtext from the new
Complete Edition (G.
Henle Verlag).
Composed by Johannes
Brahms. Edited by Linda
Correll Roesner and
Michael Struck.
Orchestra; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Solo
concerto; Romantic;
Late-romantic. Full
score. 216 pages.
Duration 35'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 16110.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-16110).
ISBN
9790004214374. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Johannes
Brahms's only violin
concerto, one of the most
important violin
concertos of the 19th
century, is now a central
repertoire piece. This
fact is all the more
notable, as, by his own
account, Brahms
understood all too little
about the instrument. The
concerto was composed at
Worthersee during the
summer of 1878 in
collaboration with Joseph
Joachim, a leading
contemporary violinist.
The solo part is
extremely demanding, with
really unusual
difficulties. This
circumstance did not go
unnoticed by the critics
of the first performance:
Even to Joachim, the
battled-seasoned
wrestler, the technically
difficult and tricky solo
part was to be mastered
only with obvious effort.
Evidencing this close
collaboration between
composer and performer is
not only the work's
genesis and publication
history, together with
its dedication to
Joachim, but also its
solo cadenza. Based on
the New Brahms Complete
Edition, this Urtext
edition includes both the
printed version of
Joachim's cadenza as well
as its shorter version
arranged in 1885 by the
violinist Marie
Soldat.
