Richard Cohn has included the first movement of this concerto in his detailed discussion of various composers' use of triadic progressions.[9] Cohn has also analysed such progressions mathematically.[10]
Discography
• Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals, Pau Casals Orchestra Barcelona cond. Alfred Cortot (1929).[11]
• Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Feuermann, Philadelphia Orchestra cond. Eugene Ormandy (1939).[12]
• Adolf Busch and Herman Busch, French National Radio Orchestra cond. Paul Kletzki (live Strasbourg 1949).[13]
• Georg Kulenkampff and Enrico Mainardi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande cond. Carl Schuricht (1947).[14]
• Nathan Milstein and Gregor Piatigorsky, Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell Orchestra cond. Fritz Reiner (1951).[15]
• Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra cond. Alfred Wallenstein.[16]
• Gioconda de Vito and Amadeo Baldovino,[17] Philharmonia Orchestra cond. Rudolf Schwarz (1952).[18]
• Jean Fournier and Antonio Janigro,[19] Vienna State Opera Orchestra cond. Hermann Scherchen.[20]
• Alfredo Campoli and André Navarra, Hallé Orchestra cond. John Barbirolli.[21]
• Josef Suk and André Navarra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Karel Ančerl (c.1963).[22]
• Willi Boskovsky and Emanuel Brabec,[23] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler (1950 live recording).[24]
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Enrico Mainardi,[25] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Karl Böhm.[26]
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan and János Starker, Orchestra of Radio-Symphonie Berlin cond. Ferenc Fricsay.[27]
• Henryk Szeryng and János Starker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra cond. Bernard Haitink.[28]
• Emmy Verhey and János Starker, Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Arpad Joó.[29]
• Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York cond. Bruno Walter.[30]
• Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma, Chicago Symphony Orchestra cond. Claudio Abbado.[31]
• Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma, New York Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Zubin Mehta
• Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Leonard Bernstein.[32]
• David Oistrakh and Pierre Fournier, Philharmonia Orchestra cond. Alceo Galliera.[33]
• David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich, Cleveland Orchestra cond. George Szell.[34]
• David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Kirill Kondrashin (live 1963).[35]
• Salvatore Accardo and Siegfried Palm,[36] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RTV Italiana cond Bruno Maderna (live 1961 Milan).[37]
• Zino Francescatti and Samuel H. Mayes,[38] Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Charles Munch (live rec. April 1956)[39]
• Zino Francescatti and Pierre Fournier, Columbia Symphony Orchestra cond. Bruno Walter.[40]
• Zino Francescatti and Pierre Fournier, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis.[41]
• Christian Ferras and Paul Tortelier, Philharmonia Orchestra cond. Paul Kletzki.[42]
• Yehudi Menuhin and Paul Tortelier, London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Paavo Berglund (1984).[43]
• Yehudi Menuhin and Maurice Gendron, London Symphony Orchestra cond. Istvan Kertesz (Bath Festival 1964).[44]
• Yehudi Menuhin and Leslie Parnas,[45] Casals Festival Orchestra cond. Pablo Casals (1969).[46]
• Yan Pascal Tortelier and Paul Tortelier, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. John Pritchard (1974).[47]
• Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, Chicago Symphony Orchestra cond. Daniel Barenboim.[48]
• Vadim Repin and Truls Mørk, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra cond. Riccardo Chailly.[49]
• Gil Shaham and Jian Wang, Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Claudio Abbado.[50]
References
[1] Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra: program notes (http://www.cheltenhamsymphonyorchestra.info/prognotes.htm)
[2] He disguised his reservations with joyless joking in his letter to Clara Schumann: "...I have had the amusing idea of writing a concerto for violin and cello. If it is at all successful it might give us some fun. You can well imagine the sort of pranks one might play in such a case," he wrote, adding "I ought to have handed on the idea to some who knows the violin better than I do." Litzmann, Schumann/Brahms Letters 8/1887, quoted by Jan Swafford, Johannes Brahms: a biography 1997:539.
[3] For Hausmann he had written the Second Cello Sonata the previous summer.
[4] "This concerto is a work of reconciliation— Joachim and Brahms have spoken to each other again for the first time in years", Clara Schumann noted in her journal after a rehearsal in Baden-Baden in September 1887.
[5] Schwartz, Boris (Autumn 1983). "Joseph Joachim and the Genesis of Brahms's Violin Concerto" (http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/
LXIX/4/503). The Musical Quarterly LXIX (4): 503–526. doi:10.1093/mq/LXIX.4.503. . Retrieved 2008-03-16.
[6] Musgrave, Michael (July 1983). "Brahms's First Symphony: Thematic Coherence and Its Secret Origin". Music Analysis (Music Analysis, Vol. 2, No. 2) 2 (2): 117–133. doi:10.2307/854245. ISSN 0262-5245. JSTOR 854245.
[7] Wollenberg, Susan (February 1993). "Reviews of Books: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Konzerts: Festschrift Siegfried Kross zum 60.
Geburtstag (eds. Reinmar Emans and Matthias Wendt". Music & Letters 74 (1): 77–81. doi:10.1093/ml/74.1.77. ISSN 0027-4224.
JSTOR 735204.
[8] Stein, George P. (October 1971). "The Arts: Being through Meaning". Journal of Aesthetic Education (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 5, No. 4) 5 (4): 99–113. doi:10.2307/3331623. ISSN 0021-8510. JSTOR 3331623.
[9] Cohn, Richard (March 1996). "Maximally Smooth Cycles, Hexatonic Systems, and the Analysis of Late-Romantic Triadic Progressions".
Music Analysis (Music Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 1) 15 (1): 9–40. doi:10.2307/854168. ISSN 0262-5245. JSTOR 854168.
[10] Cohn, Richard (Spring 1997). "Neo-Riemannian Operations, Parsimonious Trichords, and Their Tonnetz Representations". Journal of Musical Theory (Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 41, No. 1) 41 (1): 1–66. doi:10.2307/843761. ISSN 0022-2909. JSTOR 843761.
[11] HMV DB1311-1314/Victor V-8208-8211.
[12] HMV/Victor 78rpm:Naxos CD [13] Music and Arts MACD 108
[14] Decca 78rpm AK2025-2028: Archipel CD ARPCD 0301 [15] Naxos CD 8.111051
[16] RCA LD(S)2513
[17] Student of Camillo Oblach's at the G.B. Martini School of Music, Bologna, Baldovino was cellist with the Trio Italiano d'Archi and the Trio di Trieste: see (http://www.answers.com/topic/amadeo-baldovino) here.
[18] HMV BLP 1028
[19] Fournier and Janigro played together with Paul Badura-Skoda in a trio ensemble.
[20] Westminster LP WLP 5117.
[21] (Pye Golden Guinea GGC 4009).
[22] Supraphon LP SUA ST 50573.
[23] Cellist of the Barylli Quartet, Brabec was teacher of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Vienna.
[24] Dynamic IDIS Hist. CD IDI 6554
[25] Schneiderhan succeeded Georg Kulenkampff as violin in the trio ensemble with Mainardi and Edwin Fischer after Kulenkampff died.
[26] Orfeo CD C 359941B [27] CD DG 4775341
[28] Australian Eloquence CD 4643092 [29] Brilliant classics CD 93249 [30] Philips LP ABL 3139/3289.
[31] CBS Masterworks Mk 42387 [32] DGG DVD 000983409 [33] HMV/EMI SXLP 30185 [34] HMV ASD 3312 [35] BBC CD L41972
[36] Palm was a pupil of Mainardi's, and a President of the European String Teachers' Association: see interview (http://www.cello.org/
Newsletter/Articles/palm.htm) here.
[37] Movimento Musica srl Milano (WEA Italiana) 01.017 33/30 DP [38] Samuel H. Mayes (http://www.cello.org/heaven/bios/mayes.htm) [39] Music and Arts, West Hill Radio Archive WHRA 6017
[40] CBS LP SBRG 72087 [41] BBC CD L41492 [42] Testament CD SBT 1337 [43] EMI EG 27 0268 1 [44] BBC CD L4252 2
[45] Leslie Parnas (http://www.answers.com/topic/leslie-parnas) [46] Doremi CD DHR 7844
[47] BBC CD L42362
[48] Warner Classics CD Maestro 2564673668 [49] CD DG 4777470
[50] CD DG 4695292
External links
• History of the Double Concerto (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/brahms_double_con.html)
• Adaptation of the work as a Cello Concerto (http://www.sikorski.de/3041/en/a_cello_concerto_by_brahms.
html)
• Andrews University Symphony Orchestra, November 13, 1999 notes (http://www.andrews.edu/~mack/pnotes/
nov1399.html,)
• Double Concerto: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
• Copyist's manuscript with composer's annotations (http://www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org/composers.
php#/works/BRAH) at The Juilliard Manuscript Collection