Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto, Op. 35 | Paavo Järvi [HD]

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, 1878. Parts/Movements 00:00 I. Allegro moderato 19:27 II. Canzonetta. Andante 25:28 III. Finale. Allegro vivacissimo 38:46 Johann Sebastian Bach - III. Sarabande from the Partita for solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Encore) Tchaikovsky composed this work in 1878. At Clarens, near Geneva, following both his mistake of a marriage and his suicide attempt, Tchaikovsky completed both Onegin and the Fourth Symphony early in 1878. After a round trip to Moscow in February for the symphony’s premiere, he was visited at Clarens by the violinist Yosif Kotek. Tchaikovsky, in fondness for Kotek, sketched out a violin concerto in just 11 days and had finished scoring it two weeks later, including a new slow movement in place of one that both Kotek and Tchaikovsky’s younger brother, Modest, considered to be weak. Pyotr Il’yich dedicated the new concerto to Leopold Auer, the fabled Hungarian é