Vadim Repin on the Brahms Violin Concerto
Mastering the emotion of Brahms' Op. 77
Johannes Brahms wrote his only violin concerto in 1878— a three-movement, 40-minute long, gorgeous monster of a piece. It was written in collaboration with the composer’s close friend and contemporary, Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim. The two shared a conservative, late-Romantic musical background and a deep fascination with Hungarian Gypsy music, which they mined for its rich veins of melody and its spiky rhythm section. Perhaps the Gypsies’ sensual harmonies also provided them, as they did many others and the European culture at large, a gateway into exotic fantasies of poetry and music. The virtuoso Joachim, in addition to shared musical and cultural interests, also brought fantastic left-hand dexterity and skillful bow maneuvering to this collaboration with Brahms.
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