Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was written by Danish composer

Knudåge Riisager Knudåge Riisager (6 March 1897 in Kunda, Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia follow ...

in 1950–1951 for violinist , to whom it is dedicated. Tworek gave its first performance with conductor

Nicolai Malko Nicolai Andreyevich Malko (russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Малько́, ua, Микола Андрійович Малько; 4 May 188323 June 1961) was a Russian-born American symphonic conductor. Biography Malko was born in ...

at a Thursday Concert on 11 October 1951.''Claus Røllum-Larsen.'
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to dacapo 8.226145 There is a second, revised, version of the concerto, which was performed for the first time by at Gothenburg.''Mogens Wenzel Andreasen, tr. by Jeffrey Duckett.'' Booklet notes to DANACORD 467-468 The approximate duration is 23 minutes.

Structure

The concerto has only two movements, a calm, meditative ''Tranquillo'' and a brilliant ''Vivo'', the latter being in the

sonata form Sonata form (also ''sonata-allegro form'' or ''first movement form'') is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th c ...

Recordings

* (1973.V) ,

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra The Aarhus Symfoniorkester (Aarhus Symphony Orchestra) is the principal orchestra for the Danish city of Aarhus. Description Established in 1935 as ''Aarhus By-Orkester'' (Aarhus City Orchestra), since 1982 it has performed most of its concerts in ...

, — (2009) DANACOR
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* (2017.VI) Ian van Rensburg,

Andreas Delfs Andreas Delfs (born 30 August 1959) is a German conductor. He is the music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Biography Delfs was born in Flensburg, West Germany. He be ...

— (2019) dacap
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References

External links

*''Claus Røllum-Larsen.'
Booklet notes
to dacapo 8.226145 Compositions by Knudåge Riisager Riisager Compositions in A minor 1951 compositions {{Concerto-stub