1.Allegro moderato

 

2.Romance: Andante non troppo

 

3.Allegro con fuoco – Allegro moderato

 

 The finest of these is the D-minor Concerto, a work which, with its full range of virtuosity and lyricism, continues to be an essential in any violinist’s repertoire. A veiled orchestral melody sets the Concerto’s tone of pulsating Romanticism; the soloist continues it when he enters on this same theme that fully exploits the violin’s sweetness of tone. The first movement goes to the second, a soulful Romance, without pause, the link being a brief clarinet solo. About this movement, the renowned violinist Leopold Auer said, “It is a song to be sung in away to make us forget the instrument.” The gypsyish finale is prepared for by a short but fiery violin cadenza which prefigures the section’s vital dash and verve. In the course of the movement, a return of the first movement’s second theme brings an element of formal unity to a work that relies for its primary effect on the combination of bravura and melodiousness.