Violin Concerto (Klami)

The Violin Concerto, Op. 32, is a three-movement concertante composition for violin and orchestra written from 1940 to 1943 by the Finnish composer Uuno Klami. The piece premiered on 29 October 1943 in Helsinki, Finland, with Toivo Haapanen conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; the soloist was the Finnish violinist Anja Ignatius.[1] However, in 1944, the autograph manuscript was lost when Ignatius played the concerto in Stockholm.[2] Klami rewrote the piece from 1953 to 1954: this new version he based on the old, albeit with substantial alterations to each of the three movements.[1][2] On 9 April 1954, Ignatius, Haapanen, and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the revised concerto.[1]

Violin Concerto
by Uuno Klami
The composer
Opus32
Composed1940 (1940)–1943; rev. 1953–1954
DurationApprox. 28 minutes
Movements3
Premiere
Date29 October 1943 (1943-10-29)
LocationHelsinki, Finland
ConductorToivo Haapanen
PerformersHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Ignatius

Although the original score was eventually found in the archives of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in 1957, the 1954 version had already by then become established in the repertoire.[1][2] According to Heikki Poroila, the two versions are so different from each other that they "should be treated as independent works".[3][lower-alpha 1]

Structure

The Violin Concerto is in three movements. They are as follows:[4]

  1. Allegro molto moderato
  2. Adagio ma non troppo
  3. Allegro giocoso

Recordings

The sortable table below lists commercially available recordings of the Violin Concerto:

No. Conductor Orchestra Soloist Rec.[lower-alpha 2] Time Recording venue Label Ref.
1 Eero Bister Kouvola City Orchestra Ilkka Talvi 1981 27:27 Central Church, Kouvola Finlandia
[lower-alpha 3]
2 Jukka-Pekka Saraste Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Kaija Saarikettu 1988 26:04 ? Yle
[lower-alpha 4]
3 Osmo Vänskä Lahti Symphony Orchestra Jennifer Koh 1996 28:44 Ristinkirkko BIS
[lower-alpha 5]
4 Dmitri Slobodeniouk Kymi Sinfonietta Pekka Kauppinen 2005 28:36 Kuusaa Hall, Kuusankoskitalo Alba
[lower-alpha 6]
5 Johannes Gustavsson Oulu Symphony Orchestra Benkamin Schmid 2016 28:09 Madetoja Hall, Oulu Music Centre Ondine
[lower-alpha 7]

Notes, references, and sources
Notes
  1. The original Finnish is: "Versiot ovat niin erilaisia, että niitä on syytä käsitellä itsenäisinä teoksi-na".[3]
  2. Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work; this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.
  3. E. Bister–Finlandia (FACD 702) 1991
  4. J. Saraste–Yle (YLE CDY 341) 1996
  5. O. Vänskä–BIS (CD–696) 1997
  6. D. Slobodeniouk–Alba (ABCD 235) 2008
  7. J. Gustavsson–Ondine (ODE 1278–2) 2016
References
  1. Aho 1997, p. 6.
  2. Korhonen 2016, p. 7.
  3. Poroila 2012, p. 10.
  4. Aho 1997, p. 3.
Sources
  • Aho, Kalevi (1997). Uuno Klami: Whirls, Act 1 / Violin Concerto / Suomenlinna (CD booklet). Translated by Barnett, Andrew. Osmo Vänskä & Lahti Symphony Orchestra. BIS. p. 4–9. CD–696. OCLC 40569371
  • Korhonen, Kimmo (2016). Uuno Klami / Einar Englund: Violin Concertos (CD booklet). Translated by Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko. Johannes Gustavsson & Oulu Symphony Orchestra. Ondine. p. 3–8. ODE 1278–2. OCLC 966451034
  • Poroila, Heikki (2012). Yhtenäistetty Uuno Klami [List of Works by Uuno Klami]. Helsinki: Suomen musiikkikirjastoyhdistys (Finnish Music Library Association). ISBN 978-952-5363-30-2.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.