Talk:Louis Spohr
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I would like to know what are considered the greatest of Spohr's Violin Concertos - I love #5 and think that it is most worthwhile and would like to investigate others. Any comments are appreciated.
Violin Concerto No. 8 in A Minor was selected to share the stage with Paganini's No. 1 in D, for an album called "Paganini-Spohr: Violin Concertos", released just this month (Oct. 2006) and sold on iTunes. Those two concertos are the only concertos on the album. The artists are Eije Oue and Hilary Hahn. Hilary Hahn being the virtuoso that she is, No. 8 must have some extra significance.
- All twelve of Spohr's violin concertos have been recorded, but No. 8 has multiple recordings going back to Jascha Heifetz. Spohr subtitled it "in moda d'una scena cantata" but the influence of opera arias on the cantabile melodic line in Romantic writing for stringed instruments would lead us to "original research" and be hooted down. It partly accounts for the particular popularity of this concerto, however. --Wetman 23:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
