Mieczysław Karłowicz - Violin Concerto in A major Op. 8
I. Allegro moderato
Janusz Wawrowski - violin
Adrian Varela - conductor
POM Lutosławski Youth Orchestra
Concert took place on November 15th 2019 in Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw.
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Janusz Wawrowski plays on Antonio Stradivari violin Polonia 1685, courtesy Roman Ziemian.
Mieczysław Karłowicz wrote his Violin Concerto in A major Op. 8 (1902) for his violin professor and outstanding violin virtuoso Stanisław Barcewicz, and it was Barcewicz who premiered the Concerto - with the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester at a concert of Karłowicz's music in Berlin's Beethoven-Saal on 21st March 1903.
The solo part of the Violin Concerto is difficult, the violinist facing the problem of numerous multi-sounds and figurations involving very high tempos and trills. It takes a highly technically proficient violinist to successfully handle these difficulties.
Karłowicz wrote a work which was both technically sophisticated and brimming with expression, its stage merits equalling those of the most popular concertos by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Mendelssohn.
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