Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor - 1st Movement | Maria Ioudenitch, NEC Philharmonia

Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D Minor, op. 47 - First Movement, Allegro moderato
NEC Philharmonia, Hugh Wolff, conductor
Maria Ioudenitch '22 AD, violin
Maria Ioudenitch was born in Balashov, Russia, and moved with her family to Kansas City when she was 3 years old. Her teachers have included Gregory Sandomirsky and Ben Sayevich in Kansas City, then Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi at the Curtis Institute of Music. Maria recently graduated with her master’s degree at NEC and is finishing her Artist Diploma, both degrees studying with Miriam Fried.
Jean Sibelius’ passionate love affair with the violin began with lessons at the age of fourteen. This late start handicapped his dream of becoming a great virtuoso. As a young student in 1891, Sibelius failed an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic and gave up solo violin playing. But his enduring love for the instrument is reflected in his Violin Concerto, begun in 1902 and finished two years later. Sibelius was justifiably proud of its delicate, melancholy opening - the violin entering with a gentle dissonance against shimmering strings. Dark, moody, and dramatic, the first movement follows Mendelssohn’s example in placing the cadenza just before the recapitulation. The deeply felt slow movement seems like a farewell to the violin from a frustrated virtuoso and the exuberant finale - “a polonaise for polar bears” in the oft-quoted words of Donald Tovey - brings the work to a brilliant conclusion.
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[@Art1e-Green]

Ohh ..what a magnificent interpretation, brava!!! so precise and full of power...thank u very much! 🙌🏻🎻this is a treasure to me.

[@tdykes83]

Absolutely love this Concerto!

[@PianoPsych]

Magnificent! Will we be privileged to hear and see the other two movements?