Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61 | Uto Ughi

💿 Order the CD on Amazon: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 00:00 I. Allegro ma non troppo 24:11 II. Larghetto 32:58 III. Rondò Violin: Uto Ughi Orchestra RTSI Conductor: Marc Andreae Live recording The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1806. Its first performance by Franz Clement was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by the then 12-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim with the orchestra of the London Philharmonic Society conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. Joachim would later claim it to be the “greatest“ German violin concerto. Since then it has become one of the best-known and regularly performed violin concertos. --- Bruto Diodato “Uto“ Ughi (born 21 January 1944) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia between 1987 and 1992. He is considered one of Italy’s greatest living violinists and is also active in the promotion of classical music in today’s culture. He started to play the violin when he was around five years old, and he made his debut two years later at the Teatro Lirico di Milano. At the age of twelve he was already considered a mature artist. On September 4, 1997, he was commissioned Cavaliere della Gran Croce by the Italian President and in 2002 he received a degree honoris causa in Communication studies. He has won various awards, the most prestigious “Una vita per la musica - Leonard Bernstein“ (1997), “Galileo 2000“ prize (2003) and the international prize “Ostia Mare“ (2003). Ughi has possessed the following fine instruments: the Van Houten-Kreutzer (1701) and Sinsheimer-General Kyd-Perlman (1714) by Antonio Stradivari; and the Kortschak-Wurlitzer (1739), Ole Bull (1744) and Cariplo-Hennel-Rosé (1744) by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. He received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2015. #beethoven #violin #classicalmusic All rights reserved