When planning his move from Helsinki to the provincial city of Järvenpää, Jean Sibelius – as Finland’s most honoured composer – was offered a purpose-built home, designed free of charge by the eminent architect Lars Sonck. Sibelius specified that this should overlook Lake Tuusula. In 1903, the year building started on his new home – named Ainola after his wife Aino – Sibelius began composing his Violin Concerto, its rapt opening possibly inspired by his view over the lake. Sibelius’s only concerto was his poignant farewell to his one-time dream of becoming a virtuoso violinist. Given its eloquence and the sustained quality of its inspiration, it seems almost incredible that at the time Sibelius was struggling with alcoholism. Aino had to retrieve him from various bars when he was supposed to be finishing the Concerto’s finale, and the premiere was postponed from the autumn of 1903 to the following February. Meanwhile Sibelius, despite his fame, was so desperate for income from a performance – having frittered much of his income on drink – that he gave the concerto not to an internationally established player but to a local professor of violin, Victor Nováček. 01. Sibelius- Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47- I. Allegro moderato.flac |
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