Heino Eller - Violin concerto (1937)

Performed 17.11.2017 by the Estonian National Symphonic Orchestra, soloist Baiba Skride, cond. Olari Elts, celebrating the composers 130th birthday.
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The piece follows the sonata-allegro form, with two prominent themes in either theme-groups and an extended coda with a new theme.
Timestamps:
00:00. Introduction along with an introductory cadenza.
01:32. EXPOSITION: PRIMARY THEME GROUP, theme 1.- Allegro, B-minor.
02:59. Transition
03:41. Second theme, Moderato assai, E-major.
05:00. Transitional theme, Piu allegro and a codetta.
05:58. SECONDARY THEME GROUP - theme 3, Sostenuto e espressivo, F#-minor.
06:44. Transition, animato.
07:11. 4th theme, Piu mosso, A-major.
08:00. DEVELOPMENT
12:08. RECAPITULATION - primary theme group, theme 1.
12:58. Second theme, now in A-major.
14:23. Secondary theme group, theme 3.
15:12. Transitional theme, animato.
15:39. 4th theme, Piu vivo, now in D-major.
16:15. Cadenza.
18:23. Codetta for 4th theme, transition.
18:47. CODA. Particularly elongated, features a new 5th theme which is very folkish-rustic in an ABA form. (18:47-19:59, B: 20:00-21:01, A1: 21:02-21:41), after a transition (21:42) we hear a "coda to the coda" (21:59), a culmination using the 4th theme (22:38) and a conclusion.
Heino Eller composed his violin concerto in 1937. It is his only concerto and the first violin concerto in Estonian classical music. Along with his first symphony (1936) and the symphonic suite "White Night" (1939) it represents the largest orchestral works in the composers output in 1930s and exemplifies his middle-period, where Eller developed a idiosyncratic musical style in which modal, static and quartal harmonies along with folk music influences steadily made their way to the composers late-romantic musical language and his early modernist tendencies relaxed. Still his music from before the Soviet occupation was deemed formalist and frowned upon by the later regime, causing him to simplify his later style greatly. As a result many of his major pieces from this period are still relatively unknown and only recently enjoy more attention.
The composition was not premiered until 1965 until the "thaw" period and a relaxation of the regime. For that performance, at the request of violinist Vladimir Arumäe, Eller revised the concerto, leaving out several sections. In that version the composition is usually performed and recorded after that. This performance claims to be the first true to the original version(though a few bars curiously are still left out).
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[@MumbleJumbles]

What an experience! Thank you for sharing the wonderful works of Eller - I only discovered his music a week ago, and I'm in love!

[@enriquesanchez2001]

I must be going crazy or I am sensing a real BRAHMSIAN connection here!

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The key is B minor.

[@paulusaurelius6563]

This is beautiful music indeed. No 'regime' should ever interfere with art or dictate it, and thankfully, the one who did it to this music is dead.