Kubelík & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Pavel Šporcl, Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner

• Jan Kubelík (1880 - 1940): Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major:
• 1 Kubelík: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major: I. Allegro moderato 16:53
• 2 Kubelík: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major: II. Andante cantabile 09:01
• 3 Kubelík: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major: III. Allegro molto, ma non troppo 08:32
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847): Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14:
• 4 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14: I. Allegro molto appassionato 13:44
• 5 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14: II. Andante 08:02
• 6 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14: III. Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace 06:45
• Total Runtime 01:02:57

Info for Kubelík & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos

World premiere recording of Jan Kubelík's Violin Concerto No. 1 - A tribute to the virtuoso.

Kubelík's reputation and importance began to decline in the years before the First World War. Some thought he was out of touch, but it was more likely that his audience turned to new idols: Elman and Vecsey. In 1915 he retired to devote himself seriously to composition. He resumed his concert activity only in 1920. From 1900 to 1934 he made 20 tours of Great Britain (in 1926 he filled the Royal Albert Hall with 7000 spectators) and several times of the USA until 1938 (in 1920-21 6000 spectators heard him at the New York Hippodrome). He mastered a wide range of music and is remembered in Central Europe as a great musician. He died in Prague on December 5, 1940.

The most important fruits of Kubelík's five-year hiatus were his first three violin concertos, published in Prague in 1920. Of the later six concertos, Pavel Šporcl says, "They are technically very demanding and musically extremely interesting." The first concerto in C major, which he plays here, is a melodious late romantic work that fits well with the strengths of a front-line virtuoso and should not disappear from the repertoire. It was premiered by Kubelík at the Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna on January 29, 1917, with Oskar Nedbal conducting the Tonkünstler Orchestra.

Pavel Sporcl, violin
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Tomas Brauner, conductor

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