2025.08.21-22 蔡珂宜 ChloeChua ｜柴可夫斯基《D大调小提琴协奏曲》Op.35｜新加坡交响乐团

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The path to the premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto was fraught with problems: the famous violinist Leopold Auer, the concerto’s initial dedicatee, cast it aside, deeming it almost impossible to play. Tchaikovsky then asked his friend the Russian violinist Iosif Kotek to premiere the work, but with Kotek also reluctant to learn it, the dedication eventually went to virtuoso violinist Adolf Brodsky, who managed to persuade Hans Richter and the Vienna Philharmonic to give the concerto its first performance on 4 December 1881, three years after it was written.
Brodsky practiced hard, but the orchestra was under-rehearsed and thus played the score pianissimo out of uncertainty. While there were mixed reactions to the work at the premiere, most damning of all was none other than Eduard Hanslick’s review in Vienna’s Neue freie Presse, which affected Tchaikovsky so much that he was said to be able to recite the review in the original German until his dying day.
Hanslick remarked that the concerto “moves soberly, musically, and not without spirit. But soon vulgarity gains the upper hand and asserts itself to the end of the first movement. The violin is no longer played; it is pulled, torn, drubbed. The Adagio is again on its best behaviour, to pacify and to win us over. But it soon breaks off to make way for a finale that transfers us to a brutal and wretched jollity of a Russian holiday. We see plainly the savage, vulgar faces, we hear curses, we smell vodka… Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.”

Recorded live at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore on 21/22 August 2025.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878)
Applause 0:00
I. Allegro moderato 0:30
II. Canzonetta: Andante 19:40
III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo 26:12
Applause 36:39
Bonus! & Credits 39:41