Wiener Symphoniker / Frang / Luisi
Sunday
25
June
2023
11:00 – ca. 13:10
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Elgar's Violin Concerto
»I wish Elgar would compose something for the violin. He could, and it
would certainly hit.« Thus challenged in 1905 by an interview with Fritz
Kreisler, Edward Elgar did not take long to respond and, having
completed his First Symphony project, composed a concerto for the
instrument he himself also played: the violin. A few years and stages of
composition later, Elgar in turn met his admirer Kreisler, who, looking
at the score, said, »I'll make Queen's Hall shake with this«. At the
Vienna Konzerthaus, where the violin concerto has been performed only
three times, this task now falls to the Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang,
Artist in Residence of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
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