July 2005
I haven’t play violin for the last month since my last amateurconcert. Normally I never practise as an amateur with my 5 orchestra’s a week, only for one good one, so why should I play? Perhaps it would be good to take some violinlessons after 23 years of not seriously having violinlessons. But I don’t think I would have enough time for that, because with a job and 5 orchestra’s every week there is not much time left and I don’t like to play in only 4 or 3 orchestra’s in a week. My D-string was 2 months ago so old that the iron got of the string and he lowered in tone. But someone else had a new D-string. After 10 years it is perhaps better to put a new set of 4 strings on my violin. Half a year ago I had a wood-worm in my violin and he had eaten a lot said a Dutch national violincompetition winner. He had never seen something like that. The violinbuilder had put some resin in the holes and canals, so you can also put some resin in your violin instead of on your bow. My bow had lost a lot of hair so I bought a new one. That was cheaper, said the violinbuilder.
Now I have more time to go to concerts. I was for example at the Dutch national violin competition in the public and that!! was a great show. Former laureates with a scarf of miss Holland with the year they were laureates or a cummer bund (for the boys) around their still slender bellies with the year on it. Big Show. Much better than at the Queen Elisabeth. There you had to wait for 2 long lasting hours before you know the new price winners. I also went to a concert in the open air of André Rieu who gave a big show with a big audience. He played the Seranata of Tocelli, a piece I hadn’t heard for 30 years. My grandfather, who didn’t understand Mozart, liked it and a cousin of 10 played it for him when he was married 50 years.
And my violinconcerto collection has been growed, mainly because of the suggestions of Carlos Majlis. These are my new violinconcerto-cd’s. I am closing to 100. The rest from 1 till 85 you can find on my weblog http://www.violinist.com/blog/jenohubay down below.Cd 86) Frank Martin v.c, Darius Milhaud v.c. no.2, Samuel Barber v.c by Dene Olding, ABC Classics 8.770004
Cd 87) Niels W. Gade v.c., Carl Nielsen v.c by Kai Laursen, Danacord DACOCD 467
Cd 88) Otto Malling Fantasia for violin + orchestra, Axel Gade v.c no.1, Knudaagse Riisanger v.c by Kai Laursen, Danacord DACOCD 468
Cd 89) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari v.c. by Ulf Hoelscher, CPO 999 271-2
Cd 90) Josef Suk Fantasy by Pamela Frank, Decca 460 316-2
Cd 91) Sergei Barsukov v.c no.2, Samuel Barber, Revol Samuilovich Bunin v.c by Leonid Kogan, Relavation RV 10058
Cd 92) Israeli violin concerto’s Paul Ben-Haim v.c, Noam Sheriff v.c, Oded Zehavi v.c by Michael Guttman, ASV CD DCA 1038
Cd 93) Alban Berg v.c (Leonid Kogan), Paul Hindemith v.c (David Oistrakh), Igor Stravinsky (David Oistrackh) Relevation RV10075
Cd 94) Lev Knipper little concerto for violin + stringorchestra (Arkady Futer), Tikhon Khrennikov v.c. (Yako Sato), Kara Karayev v.c (Gidon Kremer), Nikolay Rakov v.c.1 (David Oistrakh) Revelation RV10104
Cd 95) Hilding Rosenberg v.c no. 2 (Leon Spierer), Lille Bror Söderlundh (Leo Berlin) Caprice CAP 21367
Cd 96) Lars-Erik Larsson v.c, violinconcertino by Leo Berlin SCD 1056
Cd 97) Barber, Khatchaturian, Walter Piston v.c. by Louis Kaufman cd2 Dantecd LYS 533-537
Cd 98) Hermann Goetz, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dag Wiren by Louis Kaufman cd3 Dantecd LYS 533-537
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On the violin discussion site about repertoire “Repertoire suggestions for Sophomore year” I copied my long list of violinconcerto’s and never recorded violinconcerto’s, which is also on my blog http://www.violinist.com/blog/jenohubay down below and I got a reaction of Pieter Viljoen. But another violinconcertocollector Carlos Majlis wrote on another repertoire violin discussion “Myaskovsky’s violin concerto…thoughts?” also a list with beautiful rare violinconcerto’s. Also they write about Mahler violinconcerto and 2 never published violinconcerto’s of Wieniawski, next to the 2 well known violinconcerto’s.
Yesterday I was at a chamberconcert and I meet a violoncelloplayer Paul Uyterlinde in the public, now first violoncelloplayer from a regional Dutch professional orchestra Brabants Orkest http://www.brabantsorkest.nl who had played in 1991 in Oxford and Cambridge when we were touring with an amateurorchestra. He knew the violioncelloconcerto’s of Britten , Vieuxtemps 1,2 Shostakovitsj 1,2 and the violionconcerto of Gustaf Bengtsson, who also wrote a violinconcerto. I was astonished about his repertoireknowledge and specially that he know Bengtsson violoncelloconcerto, compared to many violinists. But O.K. there has been written much more violinconcerto’s than violoncelloconcerto’s, so violinists have more work to do."Repertoire Suggestions for Sophomore Year?"
What's next for this college student?
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Cd83) Max Reger violinconcerto op.101 by Walter Forchert, Koch Schwann 311 186
Cd 84) F.Kreisler violinconcerto by Fritz Kreisler MG Music, disc 11, 09026 61649 2
Cd 85) Ernest Bloch violinconcerto by Oleh Krysa, BIS-CD-639
From Pieter Viljoen
Posted on July 5, 2005 at 12:29 AM (MST)
Bram, your zealot like crusade in the realm of new repertoire is very heartening, but the manner in which you express is less than honourable. Stop being such a snob.
I'm sure his teacher knows plenty about music, and that their "poor" knowledge of repertoire is good enough for the people who respect his/her knowledge enough to entrust their violin learning process to them for 4 years.
"Myaskovsky's violin concerto ... thoughts?"
discussion about Myaskovsky's violin concerto, specifically, recordings, sheet music availability, and other background.
From Scott 68
Posted on July 8, 2005 at 9:25 AM (MST)
i think its an incredible concerto that should be more well known and played
i love repin and oistrakh recordings
repin really has a wonderful sound
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From carlos majlis
Posted on July 8, 2005 at 3:10 PM (MST)
Scott, my friend: there are dozens of great works that very few know or recorded ,and almost nobody plays live,besides Miaskowsky. Like:
Taktakishvili first v.c.
Hubay all 4
Lipinski any of them
Karlowicz
Rodrigo
Suk Fantasy
Taneyev suite
Arensky
Godard
Moszkowsky
Rakov first v.c
Joan Manen
Lalo the 2 concertos
Vieuxtems 2,3,6 and 7
Ysaye 8th
and many,many more
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From Julie C.
Posted on July 8, 2005 at 7:41 PM (MST)
Speaking of rare concertos, do any of you have information on the Gustav Mahler violin concerto?
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