Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto
Jan 22nd, 2009 by oldfogey
Before I started this blog I did a trial run where I posted a few pieces on a trial site just to see how it would work. One of these pieces was the slow movement from Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. It’s so good I’m reposting it here.
I can’t understand why Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto is not more widely popular. It is easily the equal of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, which is done to death, and much better than any of the Russians since Tchaikovsky. This is from a BBC broadcast from Cheltenham, England on 7 July 2007. I had switched on the radio for want of something to do, just in the silence before the opening of the heavenly slow movement. Enough to bring tears to a stone.
Here, from that concert, is the English teenage violinist, Chloe Hanslip, playing that slow movement. It has never been played better.
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