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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Awesome Violin Concerto

I wrote this in my draft ages ago. So here it is:

Erm, I have some inspiration to try giving some commentary on a classical piece by Tchaikovsky. I hope this post won't be a boring topic. I will try my best to make it very interesting haha...

So, here it is: Violin Concerto in D Major opus 35 by P.I. Tchaikovsky, my favorite violin concerto of all time.

I have been trying to capture Tchaikovsky's feeling in this piece since ages. I knew that Tchaikovsky wrote this composition to describe his marriage. After listening to this piece for like maybe hundred times or more I guess, I still couldn't capture Tchaikovsky's love inside the piece. That made me curious and wanted to listen to more and more. Instead of love, what I could feel is unstable state, pathetique phase and some kind of bursting emotion.

As a result of my curiousity, I tried to do some research about Tchaikovsky and this piece particularly. Soon, I found out that he was a homosexual and married to a woman. He felt trapped in his marriage. That's the reason he wrote this epic piece. This concerto is written in 3 movements. My favorite movement is the 3rd movement. I love it when the piece reaches its peak.

This piece has been played by many world famous violinists. My favorite violinist's interpretation of this piece Maxim Vengerov (My all time fav violinist). I listened to almost all violinists' interpretation such as Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell and Itzhak Perlman but so far, I think Maxim interprets the piece the best. Joshua Bell has a good musical interpretation as well, but the notes and slurs being played not as smooth as Maxim.

So yeahh,I am really looking forward to watch this concerto live some days!!

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