New cadenza for the Beethoven violin concerto
Why BeethovenThe German violinist Veronika Eberle made her debut at 16 in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival.
She has now recorded the work live with Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, playing three new cadenzas by Jörg Widmann. They will tour the work in March in Hamburg, Dortmund and other German cities.
I’m all in favour of fresh cadenzas. Aside from the Joachim and the Kreisler, the only modern cadenzas I know for the Beethoven concerto are those by Alf4ed Schnittke (which I discuss in my new book, Why Beethoven).
Can anyone recommend other recent Beethoven cadenzas?
Don’t forget Auer, Busoni, David, Flesch, Hubay, Saint-Saens, Vieuxtemps, Ysaye and the rest –
https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_in_D_major%2C_Op.61_(Beethoven%2C_Ludwig_van)
Have a look at this:
https://youtube.com/@philipmarten7648
MILSTEIN!!!
Milstein’s for sure, which I just mentioned here recently commenting on the death of Charles Treger, who used them. The Joseph Silverstein cadenzas (which he recorded) are worthy too, and have been published. A former Fanfare colleague and I jovially agreed to disagree about the merits of the Nigel Kennedy cadenzas.
There is of course an undeniable fascination about the cadenzas by Beethoven himself for the keyboard arrangement of this Concerto, which various hands have attempted to re-do for violin. Ricci and Schneiderhan are among those to record the attempt, Ricci on his must-have Biddulph CD which preserves a whole batch of cadenzas, but by no means a complete list. Even the old Soviet publication of an entire book of Beethoven Vln Concerto cadenzas didn’t get them all. Based on his cadenza Laub must have been one hell of a virtuoso.
Kalevi Aho ?
Robert D. Levin!!!!!
I still remember Gidon Kremer debuting the Schnittke cadenzas in the 80’s in NYC and there were people who literally got up and walked out! In the middle of the performance!
Vasa Prihoda.
Recorded by Josef Suk
Beethoven’s cadenza in his own piano concerto of the same work was reworked by Wolfgang Scheiderhan. It has a tympani accompaniment to the solo violin
So does, I recall, Busoni’s cadenza.
Is this where Tetzlaff’s cadenza comes from?
Thomas Zehetmair/LA Phil ~2001: A nontraditional, rather martial cadenza in the first movement and at least one more elsewhere in the piece. I think they were his own.
Adolf Busch
Henning Kraggerud’s cadenza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lgkhUzjkTw
Going back a bit, Isaak Dunayevsky’s cadenza which was written for a film, wonderfully performed here by Miron Polyakin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZYZ4EMQSzE and Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s performance which seems to be a reworking of the cadenza Scheiderhan plays with a significantly greater part played by the orchestra.
I forgot to paste the Kopatchinskaja link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFm2oZAwG6c