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18 July 2015
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
The purpose of my paper is to incorporate facts I determine are crucial to understanding a magnificent performance mentioned above. I’m also including the background information about great performers who collaborated to create the masterpiece. My goal in this paper is to bring you to the source of my inspiration after beholding this violin concerto. To achieve this goal, I have organized a review of this performance.
Violin Concerto in E minor
Outstanding masterpiece by Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E Minor - is always present in the repertoire of violinists all around the world, maintaining a comparison with the most remarkable
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Violin compositions in the works of Mendelssohn are pretty rare; Violin Concerto - one of the most viable Mendelssohn’s masterworks in which Sarah Chang brilliantly demonstrated the best features of her talent: the plasticity song lyric and scherzo, fantastic images, the simplicity and sincerity of lyrical expression, richness of melody. Concert genre - solo works, which being accompanied by a symphony orchestra, and therefore complies with the big stage - to determine the extent of the composition, emotional intensity, the virtuosity violin style. The first two parts of the concert - Allegro, molto appassionato and Andante – have their common lyrical character. Finale, performed by Sarah Chang, includes a range of topics that are typical for the bright world of Mendelssohn’s fiction with his usual graceful, elegant …show more content…
Despite the apparent dependence on major, new properties - expanding the range of sound, tone chromatic halftone upstream - give the subject more vigorous expression and a greater tendency movement. Secondary part contrasting primary and connective part, differs with its closed structures. But the lack of internal contradictions and conflict of images eliminates the need for dramatic-effective development. Indeed, the functions of development in sonata Allegro concert rather modest and limited. While refreshed tonal modulation moves the scope of the concert; motivic fragmentation of thematic material makes it possible to keep close and give the simultaneous sounding melodic theme elements to complement its figuration, and thus to prepare, to make the appearance of a natural virtuosic cadenza in an unusual place - at the end of the development, and not between the recapitulation and coda, as was customary in classical

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