The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op.28 by Karl Goldmark was composed in 1877 and premiered in Bremen the same year. Goldmark is supposed to have later composed a second violin concerto, but if so it was never published, and is believed to be lost.
Structure and analysis The concerto consists of three movements:
A standard all movements performance lasts approximately 32 minutes.
It has a Magyar march in the first movement and passages reminiscent of Dvořák and Mendelssohn in the second and third movements. It has started to re-enter the repertoire, through recordings by such prominent violin soloists as Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell. Nathan Milstein also championed the work and Milstein's recording of the Concerto (1957) is widely considered the definitive one. It has been used in several movies before.
Recordings
Recordings of this concerto include: SoloistOrchestraConductorRecord CompanyYear of RecordingFormatNathan MilsteinNew York PhilharmonicBruno Walter1942Vinyl / CDPhilharmonia OrchestraHarry BlechEMI Classics1957Vinyl / CDBronislav GimpelSouthwest German Radio Symphony OrchestraRolf ReinhardtVox Records1957Vinyl / CDItzhak PerlmanPittsburgh Symphony OrchestraAndré PrevinEMI Classics1978Vinyl / CDRuggiero RicciLuxembourg Philharmonic OrchestraLouis de FromentDecca Records1979Vinyl / CDHu Nai-yuanSeattle SymphonyGerard SchwarzDelos Productions1995CDVera TsuRazumovsky SinfoniaYu LongNaxos Records1995/1997CDJoshua BellLos Angeles PhilharmonicEsa-Pekka SalonenSony Classical Records2000CD
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