Haydn: Violin Concertos

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Brilliant Classics Facebook: Brilliant Classics Spotify: Spotify Playlists: Brilliant Classics Spotify: The best of Liszt: The best of Bach: Most popular piano music: Beautiful classical Music: Classical music for dinnertime: Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn Artists: L’Arte dell’Arco, Federico Guglielmo (violin and concert master) About this Album: Haydn’s violin concertos are early works dating from the 1760s. The First in C was only discovered in 1909 in the archives of the publishers Breitkopf – 100 years after the composer’s death. The First and Third concertos (the second is lost) were composed for the Italian violinist Luigi Tomasini, who, in 1761 was the concertmaster of the court chapel at Esterhaza. Doubtless his considerable skills influenced the writing for the solo parts as it both concertos are indebted to the Italian school, with Vivaldian sequences, and in the case of the First concerto, a delicious slow movement. The Fourth Concerto in G is a very different work in style, and it is doubtful that it was written for Tomasini. More likely (and it is by no means certain that the work is actually Haydn’s – it just has enough ‘finger prints’ to be attributed to him) it was composed for the leader of the Morzin orchestra. It is the most old-fashioned of the three concertos on this CD, but nonetheless contains some lovely moments, especially the slow movement and the restless finale. Tracklist: 00:00:00 Violin Concerto in C Hob VIIa: 1: I. Allegro moderato 00:09:37 Violin Concerto in C Hob VIIa: 1: II. Adagio 00:14:43 Violin Concerto in C Hob VIIa: 1: III. Presto 00:19:01 Violin Concerto in G Hob VIIa: 4: I. Allegro moderato 00:27:35 Violin Concerto in G Hob VIIa: 4: II. Adagio 00:33:17 Violin Concerto in G Hob VIIa: 4: III. Allegro 00:36:52 Violin Concerto in A Hob VIIa: 3: I. Moderato 00:47:38 Violin Concerto in A Hob VIIa: 3: II. Adagio 00:53:17 Violin Concerto in A Hob VIIa: 3: III. Allegro #Classical #BrilliantClassics #Music #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalViolinMusic #Violin #haydn