Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Phil and Janine Jansen Perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (Excerpt)

In 2011 and 2012, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented a series of live simulcasts called LA Phil LIVE. This special series included full-concert performances with the LA Phil, led by dynamic Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, live from both Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles as well as Dudamel's home nation, Venezuela.

In this excerpt recorded in October 2011, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soloist Janine Jansen, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, perform Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

See Semyon Bychkov conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in what's sure to be another fantastic performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on October 29 & 30 and November 1, 2015 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, featuring Renaud Capuçon as the soloist.

ABOUT MENDELSSOHN'S VIOLIN CONCERTO:

This excerpt from the aforementioned LA Phil Live theatercasts features Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's beloved Violin Concerto.

The Violin Concerto is not only the creation of a mature master, but sui generis: brimming with lyric inspiration and structural inventiveness. The Concerto was written for another violinist-friend of the composer, Ferdinand David, whom Mendelssohn had appointed his concertmaster when he became conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1835.

It was begun in 1838, but completion was delayed by other projects and by Mendelssohn’s frequent bouts of ill-health. He never abandoned the score for long, however, and at intervals showed sketches to David, soliciting practical advice from its eventual dedicatee.

The composer was particularly interested in David’s opinions regarding the cadenza: not only whether it would be too difficult to play, but whether its unusual positioning would prove detrimental to the whole. Instead of placing the cadenza at the end of the first movement, Mendelssohn introduces it just beyond midpoint, allowing it to serve an integral function, growing as it does out of the development and enriching everything to come in a score that is seamless, literally and figuratively: not only are the three movements played without a break, but they might be regarded as variations on a single, evolving thought.

The E-minor Concerto was given its first performance by David in Leipzig in March of 1845. The conductor was the Danish composer Niels Gade, substituting for the ailing Mendelssohn.

[Roma-kpqg]

Dudamel, Janine Jansen AND Mendelssohn?? This is the perfect intersection of my likes

[brigittequerre]

J'ai eu la chance de les voir (et surtout entendre) à la " Grange au Lac" à Evian ...2 Concerts qui ont marqués cette saison 2019...Magnifique!...