Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra

• Smyth composed this work in 1927, and it was published in 1928. 
• This work comes from later in Smyth’s career, when she had begun to achieve recognition in her native England; this was also a time when her rate of composition slowed down, because she had begun to lose her hearing around 1915.¹
• The second movement of the concerto is entitled “Elegy (In Memoriam).” Smyth never disclosed whom or what in particular this movement memorialized (if anything).²

Movements

1. Allegro moderato 
2. Elegy (In Memoriam): Adagio 
3. Finale: Allegro³

1. Sophie Fuller, “Smyth, Dame Ethel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 7, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000026038. 
2. Luedeke, Janiece Marie, “Dame Ethel Smyth’s Concerto for Violin, Horn, and Orchestra: A Performance Guide for the Hornist,” DMA diss., Louisiana State University (1998), LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses, 6747, https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6747, 28.
3. Odaline de la Martinez, liner notes to Ethel Smyth: Premiere Recordings, Sophie Langdon, Richard Watkins, BBC Philharmonic, Odaline de la Martinez, Chandos 9449, CD, 1996.