JOSEPH JOACHIM (1831-1907)

 

Violin Concertos Op. 3 & Op. 11

 

Violin Concerto in G minor in one movement, Op. 3

Violin Concerto in D minor in the Hungarian Style, Op. 11

 

Suyoen Kim - violin

Staatskapelle Weimar / Michael Halász

 

A colleague of Mendelssohn, the Schumanns and Brahms, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim was himself a composer of note. His exuberant single-movement Violin Concerto Op. 3 from around 1851 was dedicated to Liszt, from whom he subsequently distanced himself. It is a tour de force by a highly gifted twenty year old. The Violin Concerto Op. 11 followed six years later, its Classical three movements frequently coloured by Hungarian inflections, most strikingly in the ‘gypsy finale’ which calls for astonishing technical control, immense stamina and fiery abandon from the soloist.

 

Suyoen Kim is the Winner of the 2006 Hannover International Violin Competition.

 

“Suyoen Kim plays with the technical brillance and musical maturity that have already brought her, at the age of 18, to the attention of conductors like Kurt Mazur and Seiji Ozawa.” The Strad

 

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