The Violin Concerto, Op. 54, is a three-movement concertante composition for violin and orchestra written in 1952 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. The piece premiered over Swedish Radio on 11 January 1953 in Stockholm, Sweden, with conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra. The soloist was the Hungarian violinist André Gertler, its dedicatee.
In 1976, Larsson wrote a new cadenza to movement I. Structure The Violin Concerto is in three movements. They are as follows:
Instrumentation The Violin Concerto is scored the following instruments:
Soloist: violin Woodwinds: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A; later in B), and 2 bassoons Brass: 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in C), 3 trombones, and tuba Percussion: timpani Strings: violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
published the piece in 1956.
Recordings The sortable table below lists commercially available recordings of the Violin Concerto: ConductorOrchestraSoloistTimeRecording venueLabel Swedish Radio Orchestra (1) 195???London International Swedish Radio Orchestra (2) 195524:35?Music & Arts Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra 197625:54Stockholm Concert Hall Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (3) 199326:50Berwald HallSony Classical
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