I Allegro moderato, 7:26 Cadenza (stiff staccato) 11:56 II Preghiera Largetto , 15:00 III Rondo, allegro giacoso This concerto 18 years old Henryk Wieniawski wrote in 14 days in OCTOBER of 1853 thanks to a very peculiar circumstances& Ferdinand David.
Wieniawski was scheduled to perform with Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra From correspondence with its music director he assumed that his Leipzig debut will be with Beethoven or Mendelssohn ( Brahms and Bruch didn't write their violin concertos yet). But 14 days before his concert a letter arrived from director of Gewandhaus ,that they unfortunately already scheduled both German violin concertos during their season . Ferdinand David-a great violinist himself who nota bene premiered Mendelssohn violin concerto 9 years earlier as a soloist with the same Gewandhaus Orchestra suggested that in this case Polish virtuoso may play maybe his own concerto ?! .Henryk didn't have one but his pride didn't let him to admit that and loose his debut in Lipsk! .So he composed it in 14 days !!!.Second movement is called Prayer because I think he was praying very hard to be able to finish orchestration on time. Concerto with God's help won hearts both public and critics in Leipzig.Also it was a great diplomatic /commercial move to dedicate it to King of Prussia . 18 years Polish old virtuoso from Lublin won hearts of Leipzig.
In comparison Paganini composed his first Violin Concerto when he was already 37 years old.
There is in Moscow Wieniawski's MANUSCRIPT OF CONCERTO NO 3 !!!! to be rediscover.
ConcertoNo2 Henryk premiered under button of Anton Rubinstein in Saint Petersburg in 1862 at the Grand Gala for opening of the first in Russia Music Conservatory in Saint Petersburg which system of music education was created by Rubinstein & Wieniawski from scratch. Wieniawski in fact is a cofounder of St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music and back then become a pivotal person in Russia's music life. He established there fantastic Violin class where he was teaching and with his personal recommendation Leopold Auer was hired as Wieniawski's assistant. Auer was pupil of Joseph Joachim , Joachim was pupil of Serwaczynski who was Wieniawski first violin teacher. This Violin class established by Wieniawski with Auer as his assistant become in future a beginning for many virtuosos(Jascha Heifetz) and was a foundation of so called Russian School of Violin Playing Rubinstein become there also composition and piano teacher .One of his students was Peter Tchaikovsky. Today fact that Wieniawski is a cofounder of first musical institution in Russia is rarely mentioned at all. By 1878 strong position of Rubinstein and Wieniawski in St Petersburg was diminished due to theirs many tours together , not focusing on St Petersburg Conservatory and also due to a very ambitious assistant-Mr Auer. It is often that ambitious assistant of some great teacher is trying at some point to claim all glory for her- or him-self using intrigues against benefactor and mentor, like not that long ago DD to IG at Juilliard .
In 1878 Henryk wrote his Violin Concerto No.3 in a minor.He premiered it not in St. Petersburg where once melomans loved him so much that they gave him STRADIVARIUS but in Moscow to a great success.Since then his concerto no.3 is missing .
Henryk Wieniawski Violin Concerto No.1 in F sharp Minor
Anna Karkowska Violin Katarzyna Karkowska Piano
Photo by Koba
6 окт 2024
