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The Violin Concerto of William Walton was written in 1938–39 and dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, who performed it at its premiere on 7 December 1939 in Cleveland.Walton later re-orchestrated the concerto in 1943. Walton Concerto for Violin and Orchestra composition page on former Walton website. Violin Concerto, Op.61 (Elgar, Edward). PDF scanned by US-R Carolus (2011/8/9) Pub lisher.

Jasha Heifetz (1920), who commissioned the violin concerto

The Violin Concerto of William Walton was written in 1938–39 and dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, who performed it at its premiere on 7 December 1939 in Cleveland. Walton later re-orchestrated the concerto in 1943.

History[edit]

The concerto was written for the American virtuoso Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned the concerto in 1936. Walton started work on it in January 1938.[1][2] The British Council supported the commission in 1939, intending to present the piece at the New York World's Fair. Heifetz took the view that the new composition was very intimate,with little show or bravura, and doubted whether it would come across in a vast hall holding ten thousand people.[3] Consequently, the premiere of the original version took place in Severance Hall, Cleveland on December 7, 1939, with Heifetz on violin and the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodziński. Heifetz made the first recording of the piece with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens in 1942.[4] A revised version was first performed on January 17, 1944, in Wolverhampton, England, with Henry Holst on violin and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

Among the violinists who have recorded the revised version are Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescatti, Nigel Kennedy, Tasmin Little and Joshua Bell.

Musical structure[edit]

The concerto has three movements:

  1. Andante tranquillo
  2. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana

About a half-hour in length, it is scored for violin solo and standard orchestra (the revision reduced the size of the percussion section in the original). Like the Viola Concerto (1929), with which, along with Façade (1921–22), the composer had made his name, the work follows a pattern of lyrical opening—scherzo—sonata-form finale.

Among the works written by Walton around the same time are the march Crown Imperial and In Honour of the City of London for double chorus and orchestra (both 1937) and the Second Orchestral Suite from Façade (1938). How to install oci8 php code. The violin concertos of Samuel Barber, Ernest Bloch, Benjamin Britten, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Paul Hindemith, and Walter Piston are contemporary, as are those of Berg, Schoenberg and Sessions and the second concertos of Bartók, and Prokofiev.

Walton Violin Concerto Sheet Music

References[edit]

  1. ^Harold C. Schonberg (December 12, 1987). 'Jascha Heifetz Is Dead at 86; A Virtuoso Since Childhood'. New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  2. ^Paolo Petrocelli (2008). William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England between the 1900 and 1940 from Elgar to Brtitten. p. 49. ISBN1-59942-654-4.
  3. ^Petrocelli, 50. p.
  4. ^'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra'. Retrieved 2017-06-23.

External links[edit]

Walton Violin Concerto Piano Reduction

  • Walton Concerto for Violin and Orchestra composition page on former Walton website (archive from 24 January 2012, accessed 1 August 2016).
  • Petrocelli, Paolo (2008). William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England between the 1900 and 1940 from Elgar to Brtitten. Oxford. ISBN1-59942-654-4.


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