Julius Röntgen - Violin Concerto No. 3 (1931)

Описание: Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer and well known pianist, highly sought after as an accompanist. working for the great violinist Carl Flesch, the singer Johannes Messchaert, and the cello player Pablo Casals. He was close friends with, amongst others Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Percy Grainger, Sir Donald Tovey and Niels Gade. His exchange of letters with especially Brahms and Grieg give an excellent insight in the musical climate of the day.

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Viiolin Concerto No. 3 in F-sharp minor (1931)
Jelly d' Arányi (1893-1966)

1. Moderato - Allegro - (0:00)... - Cadenza (7:29)
2. Andante tranquillo (11:30)
3. Allegro capriccioso (18:49)

Liza Ferschtman, violin and the Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz conducted by: David Porcelijn

There are 3 surviving (and 2 lost) Röntgen violin concertos. The 3 that survive are in A minor (1902), D major (1925/6, also called Ballade), and this one in F-sharp minor (1931).

Röntgen dedicated his 3rd Violin Concerto to the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi. After concert tours of Europe and America as a soloist and chamber musician she settled in London. She formed a notable chamber trio with the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals and the Australian pianist Frederick Septimus Kelly, with whom she was in love, even referring to him as her "fiancé". On memorable occasions, she and Béla Bartók gave sonata recitals together in London and Paris. His two sonatas for violin and piano were dedicated to her; Jelly and Bartók presented them in London in March 1922 (No. 1) and May 1923 (No. 2).

She was an excellent interpreter of Classical, Romantic and modern music. After d'Aranyi had, at his request, played "gypsy" violin music to him one evening, Maurice Ravel dedicated his popular violin-and-piano composition Tzigane to her. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Concerto Accademico to her. Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for Two Violins was written for Jelly and Adila. The D'Aranyi String Quartet is named after her.

She played a curious role in the emergence and 1937 world premiere of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto. On the basis of messages she received at a 1933 séance, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time. That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere.

From her 20s, Jelly d'Aranyi was a lifelong friend of Georgie Hyde-Lees, the wife of W. B. Yeats.

She died in Florence in 1966 aged 72.