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Anne-Sophie Mutter's recent performance of the E minor Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic proclaimed as much.
The premise -- that Bach coded the Chaconne of his D minor Violin Partita and other works with fragments of chorale tunes and numerological conceits -- is dubious.
She might, after all, have taken up the D minor Violin Concerto (1822), which hasn't been heard much since Yehudi Menuhin gave its premiere in 1952.
Her hand makes a gradual take-off gesture, like the Andante of Bach's A minor Violin Concerto (BWV 1041), where the melody rises and rises until it's set free.
In both the well-known E minor Violin Concerto and the work in D minor that Mendelssohn composed when he was just 13, Alina Ibragimova's inventive playing is set in sharp relief against the Age of Enlightenment's accompaniments.
Since his death his fans have been entirely content with the favorites: the Third, Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, the E minor Violin Concerto, the two published piano concertos, the "Hebrides" and "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overtures, "Elijah," the octet, the "Songs Without Words".
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The Bruch G-minor Violin Concerto was on the end of every violinist's bow for most of the 20th century but seems to have drifted slightly off of the path most music lovers travel.
Tonight, Brahms's trio for violin, horn and piano anchors a program that ranges from Schumann's "Drei Romanzen" through Enescu's A-minor violin sonata to a nocturne by John Cage.
The first half of their program was good: a nice performance of Beethoven's A-minor violin sonata, with especially attractive exchanges between the pianist Sara Davis Buechner and the violinist Stephanie Chase in the slow movement, and a fine account, too, of a trio by Khachaturian that brought the clarinetist Jon Manasse into the conversation.
Here they offer the famous Chaconne from Bach's D minor Violin Partita, arranged by Anne Dudley; Martinu's Piano Trio No. 1; and Dvorak's F minor Trio (Op. 65).
"And for kids whose idea of music had been about learning the Vivaldi A minor Violin Concerto, doing a piece about starting 100 metronomes was kind of a cool way to provoke them".
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