Violin Concerto in g minor

Composer: SOMERVELL, Sir Arthur
  • Somervell wrote his Violin Concerto in g minor in 1930 for Hungarian violinist Adila Fachiri. Fachiri was the grandniece of renowned violinist Joseph Joachim and sister of Jelly d’Aranyi.
  • The piece premiered in Edinburgh in 1932, and while it was considered a success, the concerto was soon largely forgotten and consequently left out of standard concert repertoire for decades.
  • Violin Concerto in g minor was the composer’s last major orchestral work.1

Sources

  1. Lewis Foreman, Essay in accompanying booklet, Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos performed by Anthony Marwood and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins, Hyperion 67420, 2005, compact disc.

Cut IDs

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