Sibelius – Violin Concerto in D minor. Oleksii Semenenko (violin). Queen Elisabeth Competition 2015

Jan Sibelius. Violin Concerto with Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47. Oleksii Semenenko (violin) 🎵 Join the community of classical music lovers: ………………………………………………………………………… When the Finnish composer Jan Sibelius was young, he dreamed of becoming a violinist, but did not pass the audition for a place at the Vienna Philharmonic. At the age of 50, he wrote in his diary: “I dreamed that I was twenty and I was a virtuoso.“ However, he did more for the violin than dozens of other violinists, writing one of the most famous works for this instrument – Violin Concerto in D minor. In this Concerto, he competes not only with internal demons, but also with prominent predecessors. Namely, with Felix Mendelssohn, whose concert Sibelius played during his student years, and whose example he used when writing his concert, that barely has any traditional orchestral introduction. In this video, Sibelius’s concert is