Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Pekka Kuusisto
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- Beethoven’s one and only violin concerto was completely unprecedented at the time of its composition, with a range that had never been attempted before in a similar piece of music. The first movement in particular, which was rich in themes, was particularly unusual. At the 2023 Beethovenfest Bonn, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra played the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 under the direction of conductor and violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
00:00 I. Allegro ma non troppo
22:17 II. Larghetto
30:17 III. Rondo. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) dedicated this violin concerto to Franz Clement, a violin virtuoso who allegedly sight-read the piece without any preparation during its premiere on December 23, 1806 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It was not a successful debut and critics panned the composition, describing it as disjointed, with tedious motifs. They also claimed that the sequences at the highest register were too difficult for the soloist to play in a refined and precise manner. As a result the piece was barely performed in the years that followed. But it finally had its breakthrough moment in 1844 when thirteen-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim played it under the direction of Felix Mendelssohn in London. Since then, the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 has enjoyed a solid place in concert repertoire.
The extended opening movement (in Allegro ma non troppo) begins with a rich tutti exposition and a striking timpani motif. From there, it manifests itself repeatedly, almost subliminally. There are also half a dozen opposing thematic structures that function as a musical motor-striding, darting, and leaping through all the instrumental groups and registers in classic Beethoven style, at times lending an explosive quality to the music. The second movement (Larghetto) uses a devoutly lyrical style to attempt to create a mild counterbalance to the opening movement, leading to a cheerful and lively finale (Rondo).
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It strikes me that Kuusisto has reanimated a living, breathing conversation between composer, soloist(s) and orchestra with this interpretation.
What a wonderful version of this piece of music. Puts a spotlight on the unbridled joy this concerto brings to the lucky listeners. A glorious performance by musicians at the top of their game! Bravo to all involved, what a treat that was!!
Yes, absolutely...and the recording is of a very high standard...you can actually hear the 4 kettledrum-beats...as an opening of - and into this masterpiece!!
What an interesting interpretation of this magical piece! I love when the orchestra is so obviously enjoying themselves! Bravo!
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And ensemble that embraces improvisation! All too rare. A marvelous performance.
Nothing out of Pekka is "off the shelf". Never fails to surprise and delight. As for MCO - I never got the idea of "the magic lies in the silence". Now I understand. Thank you for elevating my Sunday afternoon.
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We all❤ BEETHOVEN!👏👏👏🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
You mean, we all love PEKKA KUUSISTO.
Beethoven will always be a magical musical genius!
It really doesn’t matter whether you listen to beautiful violin version or the piano concerto, both are simply awe inspiring masterpieces!
This is like a recomposed version, a lot of freedom was taken here. Nice cover
With Pekka as the solist you never know what will happen :-)
Eine Interpretation die dem Konzert in seiner Entstehung/Zeit nahe kommt! Schön!
Zudem ein phantastischer Interpret und Dirigent. Bravo!👍👏
Yes, this performance reminds me of some of the "smaller, thinner" Geige sounds in some of Beethoven's other works with solo violin parts. Sehr interresant!
Bravo. Great performance
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What a refreshingly original interpretation, bravo!
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Music that restores my faith in humanity.
Indeed, In very trying times
30:47, that's new to me, nice touch. Also I like the slightly Scottish sounding cadenza.
never heart it like that. Great, incredible....
It made my heart lighter :) Spectacular performance :)
This is such an exhilarating experience! There is so much power and strength that comes from this classical piece!
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I will say this is an interpretation with a lot more caring about the "Beethoven Sound" than many other interpretations. Pekka Kuusisto may have a somewhat different solution of this, but his and this orchestras presentation of this music is nothing but spledid. Thank you all so much for making this violin consert exiting again!
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Great artist and orchestra! Original 🔥
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Excellent....!
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Bravo!!!
Absolutely beautiful song. 🎼💛
참 좋습니다(very good)!
Kuusisto is the only fiddle player I know of who undulates the bow - he does it masterfully without encroaching on the adjacent strings. He conducts in the style of David Grimal - without any arm gestures whatsoever. I like that. Every other soloist who dispenses with a conductor waves his arms around as if the orchestra really needed that much fuss. This can be said to be the Kuusisto/Beethoven concerto and I have no idea why he would want to insert so many of his own notes but there you have it. You can take it or leave it but it is NOT the Beethoven concerto. I wonder when pianists are going to start doing the same thing. (Going into 8:27 a horn holds on to the "a" and it sounds awkward but this is nevertheless a very good orchestra.)
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Thank you! I believe at the time this music was new solists had a much greater freedom to play it the way they wanted, in candenzas and so on. With time it has developed a tradition of how to play, even the cadenzas are nowadays schematic. Therefore I like Pekkas playing, it is a big step away from this tradition. You say this is not the Beethoven conserto. Still I only have to listen to this a couple of seconds to recognice "aha, this is Beethovens violin conserto". Best wishes!
@@staffanolofsson8201 That is NOT logical. If what you say were true, piano players would be changing Beethoven's notes too. Cadenzas, yes, the body of the work, no. In any case, I was not criticizing Kuusisto's method - he can do what he wants. In fact, it's the best rendition of the "Beethoven" concerto I've ever heard, although it's not the Beethoven concerto. I would like him to try doing that to the other standard concertos. 🙂
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An interesting discussion. What we can agree about is the high quality of this playing. Let me say that I respect your opinion! But improvisation has been a part of early music, and still at the time of Beethoven was a part of building cadenzas. Sometimes Beethoven himself didnt have his score fully written out, as when he played his third piano concerto for the first time in public 1803-04-05. He improvised a bit, even if he had his music in his head! My own opinion is that it is a bit sad that improvisations nowadays are totally excluded in classical music. So therefore I like Pekkas approach to this music. 👍
Bravo 🌞
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beautiful ❤
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Belíssimo.
What a smooth playing from Pekka!🤓
Nice.
One can’t fairly discuss a Pekka Kuusisto performance without pointing out that he is one of the leading musical geniuses of our time. I would just listen to him and appreciate his talent, because he is a gift from God.
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Grandioso . Beethoven...
Yes, this is a very odd version of this violin consert. But who said you cannot play it this way? Perhaps tradition, but skip tradition. I love this interpretation for its sincerity and its way to try to interprete this music in a somewhat new way. Still with all right feelings about this work. And I admire Pekka Kuusisto for daring to do so.
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And I also think this playing is an attempt to look on the inside of this work instead of its outside. An effort to bring out the essence of it, instead of its regular outside.
Just don‘t call it Beethoven concerto then .
@@mohamedhiber7314 OK, I will call it a Pekka Kuusisto consert, but it for sure sounds very much Beethoven. I myself think this interpretation comes very close to Beethoven, closer then many more "strict" interpretations. Pekka has a wonderful touch in this. He is more Beethoven than many other interpretation. But I agree, we can have different opinions about this.
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The G drone note in the orchestra, with the G minor key violin solo above, in the Rondo movement (33:36), sounds Middle Eastern but less kitschy than Mozart #5 3rd movement. Never heard this in 40 years of listening to the Beethoven concerto. Amazing!
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First of all: I like this performance. First time I have heard it played like that. I have heard about the first performance ever of the concerto. They played without rehearsal, and did all sort of jokes during the concert. I have looked into the score ( have played the concerto myself many years ago). And there are fermatas all the places they are making small cadenzas. So I will say this is absolutely within the limits of what Beethoven has written in the score. Nice they had the courage to do it
Thanks. I believe music sometimes has to expand limits set by tradition.
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Exquisite rendition of a classic composition
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私のこの曲のベスト盤は、オイストラフですが、この演奏も結構いいですねぇ。
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Well, this was certainly an odd interpretation. 37:34 Quoting from Symphony Nr.7? Does anyone have an explanation of what's happening here? The description offers nothing than standard program notes. 🤔
He simply makes a quotation from the 1st movement of the 7th symphony in order to relate the rhythmic pattern of the finale of the concerto to the aforementioned movement's. Andras Schiff makes quotations from Don Giovanni overture while playing the cadenza of the finale of the 20th piano concerto by Mozart, I think, in order to establish the key relation between those two pieces (d minor,).
These are not so weird things to be done.
Which makes sense. Beethoven didn't provide cadenzas so, of course, the soloist has to use ones provided by other violinists (Joachim, Kreisler, et al.).
I'm just puzzled by the many OTHER embellishments, of music added by members of the orchestra at the end of phrases.
I'm not outraged or appalled by these antics - only curious. Have a safe and interesting week, @@caginn
When Pekka Kuusisto plays you never know what will happen!
Yes, time for some folk music at 37:34! A combination of Finnish and Balkan folk music I believe. I like it!
@@TheStockwell In the score Beethoven has placed cadenza markings all over the place. So it is actually in the score. Normally just not done.
I swear I heard a quote from a Mahler symphony in the first movement - played by the oboes! I'm not upset by these antics, or the "improvisations" by the soloist and the winds, but I do miss some of the singing melody lines that get swallowed by Pekka's abrupt and extreme dynamics, or rhythmically distorted almost beyond recognition. Definitely defeats expectations - which is what is intended. It's silly, however, to say it's not Beethoven. It's not Furtwangler, Klemperer, Heifetz, or Szeryng - not 20th century tradition in other words. I can't say I prefer it to any of the above, but I listened to it with close attention, which is more than I can say about most of the slavish "traditional" versions I hear nowadays.
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change the title: Beethoven violin concerto cover.
I think I will stick to Szeryng
Can someone please tell me why this performance is different why it is not like other performance of this piece did they change it?I can't understand
Different playing in the cadenzas, and a little different ornaments. And the bridge from the second to the third movement is different. Otherwise it is totally Beethoven. Thank you for asking!
@@staffanolofsson8201 Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question
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Fantastic interpretation! Too bad Beethoven only wrote a single violin concerto.
Beethoven concerto doesn't need so much change ! horrible
So he's a better composer than Beethoven, eh? Ornamentation is one thing, just ignoring Beethoven is quite another.
No, he is more like Currentzis. According to him (Currentzis) nobody understood Beethoven until he himself came along to enlight all of us🤡🤡
@@isqueirus I had Norrington in mind, TBH. If one of my students played this sloppily i would be embarsssed, the man can't even shift. This isn't Beethoven, more an impression of it. Bah.
Kuusisto's own ornamentations- improvisations are actually much more closer to that period. Performers were much more improvising and using freedom and imagination..Im sure Beethoven himself was playing differently cadenzas each time performing on piano. That makes this performance artistry and discovery rather than reproducting same, what already 100 violinists do. Also it proofs this guy is true musician.
This is not Beethoven's violin concerto. It's okay to play a variation on Beethoven's concerto, just call it for what it is.
I think i have a pretty open mind in general but i have to say I really don't like this version, sorry.
It is no Beethoven 😢
Yeah, just a shame that Beethoven was better at it
Absolutely horrible in every way...he should be banned
Nobody should be banned. Not even you, that wants someone to be banned. 😉
Horrible
This is not a chamber work and should not be performed by a chamber orchestra! Didn't bother listen.
Then you missed an interesting experience. Beethoven's orchestra would not have been much bigger than this, by the way.