Mailinglist for rare (POLISH) pdf-violinconcerto's. WIENIAWSKI 1, LIPINSKI 2, KARLOWICZ+ soundsamples

February 22, 2006 at 10:19 PM

PART 4 Why are these rare violinconcerto's never been played or seldom recorded?
Dear Mr. Gold and musicians,
I use my mailinglist (with 3 Polish violinconcerto’s this week, WIENIAWSKI 1, LIPINSKI 2, KARLOWICZ) to answer your letter in an unusual way to enlarge the change that I can play this rare "Allegro Dramatique" by Antonio Bazzini or Concerto Number 2 ( "On Indian Themes") by the American violinist-composer Cecil Burleigh with a Dutch amateurorchestra with you one day. Or perhaps a professional Dutch orchestra invites you to play these pieces (and record them?), so I can hear them in the concerthall? I have a cheap bow of 220 euro/170dollar and the violinmaker put for 50 euro a piece of ebony with glu in the top of my bow and I have a metal aing, but I bought some new strings so I will remove it soon for a metal wound synthetic Aing. The violinmaker killed a woodworm in my cheap 7/8-violon, who had eated as hungry animal a lot from the side of my violin, with resin.
Best regards Bram Heemskerk www.violinist.com/blog/jenohubay

Dear Mr. Heemskerk,
Your enthusiasm for non-standard repertoire is wonderful. As you know, there are a few violinists who explore this repertoire. Please remember that the modern violin technique uses synthetic strings ( not gut strings). The result is a very heavy, aggressive style of playing. The gut strings are more sensitive to sensitive nuance. Listen to the range of emotion and nuance in the sound of Jascha Heifetz. His sound is a kalaidescope of tonal color. The gut strings ( unwound gut) he used help express these colors! He used a pure gut "A" string, and a pure gut "D" string. I suggest that you try these strings on your violin. Milstein and Rosand used a pure gut "A" string. If you are interested, I can recommend some strings, and also the measurements of the strings.
My first violin teacher studied at the Berlin Hochschule when Joachim wasc the director. I think he heard Joachim perform the Hungarian Concerto. If it was not Joachim, then it was played by Halir. I do not remember exactly what my teacher said- it was a very long time ago. My teacher also heard Sarasate play in Berlin. He talked about Sarasate many times. I think he prefered the violin playing of Sarasate and not the German style.
Let me recommend a wonderful book about violin concerti. Try to buy this book- it lists more than 6,000 violin concerti."CONCERTOS FOR VIOLIN AND VIOLA" by Burnett R. Toskey.
There are other concereti that I have played. They are great works. One is Concerto Number 2 ( "On Indian Themes") by the American violinist-composer Cecil Burleigh. Leopold Auer said that the Bureigh concerto is the best concerto written by an American. I have played it in concert with piano, and also with orchestra. I recommend it highly.
Another concerto that is unknown is "Allegro Dramatique" by Antonio Bazzini. This piece is about 13 minutes in length. I played it with piano. I have the orchestra parts. Bazzini was the composition teacher of Puccini. Everyone knows his famous piece "La Ronde de Lutins". Bazzini was a fine composer. The Allegro Dramatique sounds like the music of Verdi circa Aida.
If you are interested, I will play one of these "special" violin concertos in Holland. Do you think any of your amateur orchestras are interested?
You can repair your broken bow. Is it an expensive bow?Keep in touch.
Sinceerely,Joseph Gold-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000014E5/qid=1139658970/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-2098388-0529723?s=classical&v=glance&n=5174 Marat Bisengaliev
Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Or http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001GFF/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/102-2098388-0529723?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Gil Shaham
Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/2052177/rk/classic/rsk/hitlist
Moszkowski: Violin Concerto in C, Op. 30, Ballade in G minor, Op. 16 No. 1; Karlowicz: Violin Concerto in A, Op. 8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003W71/qid=1139659702/sr=1-12/ref=sr_1_12/102-2098388-0529723?s=classical&v=glance&n=5174
Polish Concert

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/hnum/3209639/rk/home/rsk/hitlist
Lipinski, Karol (1790-1861)Violinkonzerte Nr. 2-4
Albrecht Breuninger, RSO Warsaw,Wojciech Rajski
CD EUR 7,99

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