Mozart - The Violin Concertos n°1,2,3,4,5,6,7 + Presentation (Century's recording : Josef Suk)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was still a very young child when he received his first violin lessons, lessons that were based in all likelihood on the violin tutor published in 1756 by is father, Leopold, who was employed at that time as a violinist in the service of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg. If contemporary accounts may be trusted, the young Mozart must have been highly proficient on the instrument, since he too was employed as a violinist in the local orchestra during his years in Salzburg. His special relationship with the violin finds its sonatas that he wrote in the course of his life. The violin concerto, by contrast, was a genre that caught his attention only once, all five of his contributions to the medium dating from 1774/75. There are five official concertos. But, much remains unclear, however. There is also, a concerto in E flat (K.268), but its authenticity is ope to question, while the D Violin Concerto (K 271i) survives only in the form of a late transcription made in Paris in the 19th century, the original form of which can no longer be reconstructed with any certainty. The violin virtuoso and conductor Josef Suk (1929-2011) is a representative of a line of Czech performing art of the past. He has developed the legacy of his excellent teachers, mainly Jaroslav Kocian and his grandfather, the composer Josef Suk, who for a long-time was a member of the famed Czech Quartet. From the beginning of his solo career Suk has also been interested in chamber playing, and was for a short time the first violinist of the Prague Quartet (1950–52), and then for a long time of the Suk Trio, which he had established in 1951. In 1961 he was appointed soloist of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Suk has a special liking for the viola, the instrument of his great grandfather Antonín Dvořák. In 1981 he became the artistic leader and conductor of the Suk Chamber Orchestra. His recordings have won various prizes, such as the Grand Prix du disque de l´Academie Charles Cros in Paris six times, in 1972 he won the Edison Prize in Holland, in 1974 the “Wiener Flötenuhr” prize of the Mozart Society in Vienna, and many others. In 1977 Josef Suk received the Golden Disc of Culumbia, the Golden Disc of Supraphon in 1986 and in 1999 he was granted the Platinum Disc of Supraphon for 1,112,000 recordings sold. He has been a teacher of violin playing and has sat on many juries of international competitions. He has also taken part in the work of foundations such as the Dvořák Foundation for Young Performers in Prague. He is president and chairman of the artistic board of the Prague Spring International Music Festival.. END

Channel: Classical Music/ /Reference Recording

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Keywords: mozart, violin concerto, violin concerto 1, violon, concerto pour violon, complete violin concertos, rondo, adagio, K 207, K 211, K 216, K 261, K 269, K 373, K 218, K 219, K 268, K 271, violin concerto 3, konzert für violine and orchester, concerto per violino e orchestra, complete

Id: WVySGOTLa5o

Length: 191min 34sec (11494 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 29 2018