Beethoven Violin Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
December 23rd, 1806 should have been one of those dates etched into musical history; it was the premier of a new violin concerto by Beethoven, performed by one of the great soloists of the day. But the performance was a relative failure, and the concerto languished in obscurity for decades. Why did it fail? How did it get re-discovered, and how did it slowly become one of the most beloved pieces ever written? We'll explore all that today as well as every nook and cranny of this remarkable concerto!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm a conductor, I'm the artistic |
| 0:05.0 | podcast. My name is Joshua Weilerstein. I'm a conductor, |
| 0:10.0 | and I'm the artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lozan, Switzerland. |
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| 0:50.0 | So I wanted to give you one of my usual updates on how things are going out there with COVID in the classical music world and as you can probably imagine things are a bit bleak at the moment. |
| 1:00.0 | I was supposed to be conducting in Hanover with the N-Day R Hanover two weeks ago, |
| 1:05.0 | supposed to be in Lausanne doing a conducting class last week, |
| 1:09.0 | supposed to be in Denmark next week with the Danish Radio Symphony, |
| 1:12.0 | and then in the Netherlands with the |
| 1:13.5 | residency orchestra of the Hague and then finally back in Lausanne again. |
| 1:17.2 | Essentially it was my busiest period of the year and every single concert has |
| 1:21.4 | either been canceled due to lockdown or I haven't been able to travel |
| 1:25.0 | due to restrictions on travelers from the UK due to the famous COVID variant. |
| 1:30.3 | It's been in a way much tougher than the lockdowns last March because at a certain point last year |
| 1:36.5 | I think for a lot of us reality set in that we weren't really going to be working for many months |
| 1:41.5 | but in this case concerts are being cancelled and rescheduled |
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