Violin Concerto No. 3 (Bruch)

Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58, was composed in 1891 and dedicated to the violinist/composer Joseph Joachim, who had persuaded him to expand a single movement concert piece into a full violin concerto.

Violin Concerto
by Max Bruch
Key	D minor
Opus	58
Period	Romantic
Genre	Concerto
Composed	1891 (1891)
Movements	3
Scoring	Violin & Orchestra
Premiere
Date	31 May 1891

It has never attained the same prominence as the G minor concerto.

Description

In 1891 Bruch composed his Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58, which was dedicated to his friend (and superior at the Berlin Academy of Music) the violinist/composer Joseph Joachim, who had persuaded him to expand what had started out as a single movement concert piece into a full violin concerto. Joachim was the soloist at the work's premiere, in Dusseldorf in 31 May 1891.

Despite being advocated by Joachim and Pablo de Sarasate, the concerto, which differed from its predecessors in its adherence to traditional classical structures, never attained the same prominence as the G minor concerto.

In recent years the concerto has been described as "...a musical unicorn: since it has almost never been played, its existence is for many the stuff only of musicological folklore." Program notes for a 2013 performance of the G minor concerto by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra even denied the existence of the concerto, stating that Bruch had composed only two violin concertos, the G minor concerto and the D minor concerto composed for Sarasate.

Structure

External audio
Performed by Salvatore Accardo with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur
I. Allegro energico
II. Adagio
III. Finale (Allegro molto)

The concerto has three movements:

1. Allegro energico
2. Adagio
3. Finale: Allegro molto

A typical performance lasts around 38 minutes.

References

Notes

Sources

• Anderson, Keith (2009). Bruch: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 (CD). Naxos Records. No: 8.557793.
• Johnston, Blair (n.d.). "Violin Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op. 58". Retrieved 2021-05-09 – via AllMusic.
• Meltzer, Ken (2013). "Program notes to Concerts of January 24 & 25 2013". Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 2016-09-05.

External links

• Violin Concerto No.3, Op.58 (Bruch, Max): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• "Max Bruch - Violin Concerto no. 3 in D minor". TheTutorPages.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
• Fitfield, Christopher (2005). Max Bruch: His Life and Works. Boydell Press. ISBN 1-84383-136-8.
• Maynard, Rob (October 2009). "Classical Music Reviews: Bruch Violin Concertos 2 & 3, Naxos 8.557793". Musicweb.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
• Potter, Tully (2014). "Liner Notes to The Romantic Violin Concerto 17: Max Bruch - Violin Concerto Nº.3 in D-minor, Op. 58, CDA68050" (PDF). Hyperion Records.
• Wood, Thomas. "Max Bruch Home Page, Catalog of Works". Wooster College. Archived from the original on 2011-06-02. Retrieved 2016-09-05.