Concerto

And so in Sibelius Competition, uh, audience, I loved the audience, and I had very wonderful experience with, uh, with my colleagues, with the co-participants.

The first prize was divided between me and Leonidas Kavakos, who got the first prize, and, uh, I got also special prize for the best performance of the Sibelius Concerto.

All right.

So it was a tie, in other words, you're saying.

Quite remarkable.

Okay, let's go to the last one here.

Am I pronouncing this correctly, Szymanowski, the Concerto No. 1?

Yeah, Szymanowski Concerto, yeah.

Well, I guess we all benefited by knowing George.

Oscar by playing the Rhapsody in Blue, the Concerto, and Preludes.

And Bing, you and I still have the privilege of singing his great songs.

Well, let's warm up Oscar and get after him, huh? ¶¶ Deep in my heart, that melody will always linger.

I would've moved on anyway, I think.

It's quite an incredible moment in terms of joining Deep Purple, and then the first key work was the Concerto.

That's a different scale to Episode Six.

Absolutely.

And-

Now we come to the Concerto category, and this is a recording of concertos by Ligeti, Violin Concerto, uh, the, the Concert Romanesque, and the Piano Concerto.

The soloists here are Isabelle Faust, Jean-Frederic Neuberger, and the orchestra Le Siècle and François-Xavier Roth, and that's on Harmonia Mundi.

Gavin, why do you think this grabbed our critics' attention?

Isabelle Faust, so, so amazingly versatile.

Um, and yeah, best known for Baroque music, really, yeah.

Um, but it's a, um, it's a per-performance that's-- Oh, and obv-obviously Jean-Frederic Neuberger as well is the, in the, in the Piano Concerto.

I'm old enough to remember when this was cutting-edge, and this was only, um, specialists in contemporary music who, uh, played this music.

The final section of Pietro Locatelli's The Art of the Violin.

That was the conclusion of Pietro Locatelli's Concerto Il Labirinto Armonico, The Harmonic Labyrinth, performed by the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch and the Raglan Baroque Players, directed by Nicholas Kraemer.

Thanks for your time, and I look forward to playing you some more incredible music on the next Classical for Everyone.

And if there is a little voice in your head going, "Where else have I heard the term diving for pearls?" you might be thinking of Elvis Costello's wonderful song about the Falklands War called Shipbuilding.

And if you have listened to the credits, here is a little bit more music for you.

This is by Giuseppe Valentini.

It's the final movement of his Concerto in A minor for four violins from seventeen-ten, and it is performed by Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Cologne.

Thanks again for listening.

So Schumann only wrote a few concerti, and they were all later in his career.

His great works kind of span from about 1831 through... 1853, so just over a 20-year span.

And the Concerti, the important Concerti, are all from the last about eight years or so.

So the Cello Concerto is from 1850, one of his last important works.

And then a couple of 20th century works.