Joseph Joachim — Concerto No.2 in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra, «Hungarian» | Aaron Rosand (Violin)

Joseph Joachim (Hungarian: Joachim József) (#June28th, 1831, Kitze near Presburg, Austrian Empire — August 15, 1907, Berlin) An Austrian-Hungarian 🇦🇹-🇭🇺 #violinist 🎻 and #composer of Jewish origin. A teacher who made an international career based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the XIXth century. #JosephJoachim — Concerto No. 2 in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra, «Hungarian». un poco maestoso 00:00 II. Romanze: Andante 19:05 III. Finale alla zingara: Allegro con spirito 27:55 Aaron Rosand (Violin), Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, Louis de Froment, Conductor (rec. 1971-1973) Most of his works are of a grave, melancholy character — all of them earnest in purpose and aiming at the ideal. His most important work, and the one which for a time was highly successful and seemed to his contemporaries to possess permanent vitality, is the Hungarian Concerto (). ======================================================= «The concerto, composed in Hanover in the summer of 1857 but not performed until March 1860 (by Joachim himself, then still only twenty-eight years old), is the second of Joachim’s three violin concertos and the only one of his works with Hungarian characteristics. Of all of the «forgotten» works of the Romantic era, this D minor concerto of Joachim is surely one of the most substantial... As Joachim originally set it down, the D minor concerto is one of the longest violin concertos in the literature, its first movement alone longer than the entire G minor concerto of Bruch. In this performance, judicious minor cuts have been made in the outer movements, without eliminating any of its rich thematic content or in any way affecting its basic structure.» (from Album Notes) #190thBirthday