(Section C)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conductor, ADRIAN BOULT
MAY HARRISON (violin) ORCHESTRA
MAY HARRISON AND ORCHESTRA
Violin Concerto in A minor Glazunov
Glazunov's Violin Concetto in A minor was completed at St. Petersburg in 1904 and published in the following year. It is dedicated to the eminent violinist, Leopold Auer. There are three distinct movements of contrasting character, but they follow one another without a break.
It opens in moderate time, and the solo violin enters immediately with a broad flowing melody which has a large say in the first section. There are several changes of mood and of time before the actual second movement appears in a slower triple time. The theme of this will be recognised as closely akin to the opening. Striking use is made of the harp in the accompanying figures of this section. Again, here, the movement. passes through varying moods, and a brilliant cadenza for the solo instrument leads straight into the lively last movement. ORCHESTRA