2nd violin concerto (Penderecki)

The 2nd violin concerto "Metamorphoses" is a violin concerto by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki .

overview

Penderecki was inspired to write his second violin concerto by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter , with whom he collaborated in the 1988 Lucerne performance of Prokofiev's 1st violin concerto. With an interruption from 1992 to spring 1995 he worked on the new, approx. 38-minute piece. It was to be much brighter in shape and expression than his 1st Violin Concerto, which he wrote for Isaac Stern two decades earlier .

On 24 June 1995, it was the opening concert of the MDR Music Summer in Leipzig Gewandhaus by Anne-Sophie Mutter (soloist dedicated) and the MDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons premiered . It was commissioned by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

To the music

1. Allegro ma non troppo - Allegro vivace
2. Allegretto - Allegro vivo
3. Molto meno mosso - Andante
4. Vivace
5. Scherzando - Vivacissimo
6. Andante con moto - Tempo primo

Discography

• Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist, London Symphony Orchestra , Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; DG , 1997 (= Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance (with orchestra), Grammy Awards 1999 ).
• Kim Chee-Yun , violinist, National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio , Antoni Wit , conductor; Naxos , 2003.
• Ju-Young Baek , violinist, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Grzegorz Nowak , conductor; RPO, 2013.

See also

• List of violin concertos

Web links

• Violin Concerto No. 2 “Metamorphoses” on the Three Composers website of the National Audiovisual Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 188.