#tchaikovsky violin concerto

[musicianrambles]

I love you valse scherzo I love you souvenir de florence I love you canzonetta I love you nutcracker I love you melodie I love you symphony 4 I love you romeo and juliet I love you piano concerto 1 I love you adagio for wind

[figureskatingcostumes]

Alysa Liu skating to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto at the 2022 World Championships and 2021 NHK Trophy.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

[violinconcertobracket]

Semifinal time!

Propaganda:

Tchaikovsky:

- the first movement orchestral tutti is SO BEAUTIFUL every time I listen to it I cannot help but smile. it waters my crops and cleans my pores. I don't know how one moment in a piece is able to hold such emotional power over a person but that's Tchaikovsky for you ig. - also the trill where it resolves at the end of the cadenza. and then the flute comes in with the main melody. it's so comforting - almost hopeful?? - the melodic lines and countermelodies are so nice there's really nice bassoon and cello lines in the first movement I'm thinking of and there's also a moment in the third movement where the melody gets passed between the clarinet and oboe - the entire concerto is like a warm hug :)

I've left the submission form tab open for three days and I still can't find words to describe how beautiful Tchaik VC is. THE TUTTI IN MVT 1 MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME

Shostakovich 1:

The third movement is the most awe inspiring horrifyingly gorgeous masterpiece of music that exists in the violin repertoire. Followed by a slow build cadenza where the rage creeps up on you until the violin is screaming. And then a brutally fun final movement. First and second mvts are sickeningly spectacular too, but the 3-cadenza-4 is just simply the crown jewel of violin rep. It doesn’t get better than this.

It’s got a passacaglia AND a burlesque what more could you want

It is everything.

[saviourkingslut]

abt to go to the royal concertgebouw for the second time in a week like the bourgeois i am apparently

[gasparodasalo]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D-Major, Op. 35, III. Finale. Allegro vivaccisimo. Performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin, and Teodor Currentzis/MusicAeterna on period instruments.

[symphonybracket]

Do you think you're gonna run another bracket after this, as was suggested early on? (ie. concertos, suites, song cycles, etc.)

I've been thinking about this and unfortunately I think I'm all bracket-ed out. This was a lot of fun but it was also more work than I was expecting. I would LOVE to participate in a suite/concerto/etc bracket though.

Does anyone else want to host a suite bracket?

Here are some of the things I learned hosting this one:

There should probably be some kind of way to limit how many submissions one person can do. For this bracket there were a couple people who submitted a LOT and then others therefore couldn't submit any later.

There should also be a way to help diversify the bracket a bit and preferentially select poc and women etc.

[twinprime]

having emotions related to experiences that are specific to me alone is SICKENING. what do you mean no one will ever understand the way i feel about this specific life event because it didn’t happen to them. what am i supposed to do when i start feeling too strongly about it again. who am i supposed to talk to. who will understand me

[dandelion-de-deus]

Once again thinking about the fourth movement of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2

[misty-feathers]

tchaikovsky violin concerto my beloved

im nowhere NEAR able to play it but gimme like 10 years and im GOING to get there im transcending rn

[beesholmes]

yknow that part in tchaikovsky violin concerto when the soloist goes zhzhzhhjkzjhzjhzjh and then the orchestra starts playing duuuhduuuh duhduhduhduh duuuuuh duuuduuuh duh

[musicianrambles]

I will never stop thinking about the themes of Valse Scherzo vs the themes of the violin concerto... how one of them is an ode to everything he loves about a man and the other was the only thing keeping them together... how only valse scherzo was dedicated to Kotek... how one is filled with new love and optimism and the other is with heaviness and complexity... both pieces are intrinsically connected to the reason they fell in love in the first place... Kotek refusing to play the violin concerto ultimately caused the end of their affair forever... thinking about this

[rolflovesclassicalmusic]

Concert review, ★★★★, Alexandra Dovgan, Leia Zhu, Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich @ Tonhalle am See, Zurich, 2023-04-01 (Orpheum Foundation) — Chopin: Piano Concerto in F minor, op.21, B.43, CT 48; Scriabin: Étude in D♯ minor, op.8/12 (encore); Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op.35; Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Violin op.11/6 (encore: III. Finale, Lebhaft); Ravel: "La Valse", poème choréographique pour orchestre, M.72

Blog post #645

[violinconcertobracket]

The seeding is done!

I've finished seeding the brackets! The posts with the first few concerti will go up shortly. Please note that the bracket is seeded so that the most popular contestants will go up against the least popular contestants first, so please don't be upset if you feel that the matchup is "unfair" - that's intentional.

[mikezafer]

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major on Cello (cover)

[hayleylovesjessica]

Jessica Chastain posting a video of Augustin Hadelich performing a work for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe? Swoon!