Violin Concerto
EDUARD MELKUS (violin)
AUSTRIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WINFRIED ZILLIG
First broadcast In this country
Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
Dr. Egon Wellesz , C.B.E.. who will he eighty in October, was born in Vienna. He studied with Schoenberg but his early works were powerfully influenced by the music of Mahler. The Violin Concerto was written in 1961 at the end of an astonishingly productive period in his seventies of which the Fifth Symphony marks a beginning. Writing of this music in The Listener Wilfrid Mellers has said: ' Wellesz has no further need of nostalgia. Tradition and revolution are in tense equilibrium.'