Henrique Oswald Violin Concerto (1899)

[Alan Howe]

Just spotted this YouTube performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqa837LRsaQ

Not great sound, but try the music...

[Martin Eastick]

This must surely be one for Hyperion to consider - hopefully accompanied by another late romantic South American concerto!

[semloh]

Well, Hyperion recorded his Piano Concerto in G minor so yes, maybe they will consider this too.

[matesic]

I enjoyed the opening tutti

[Alan Howe]

...but nothing beyond?

[matesic]

It does possess a certain distinctiveness and charm in the orchestral writing; if asked to guess the nationality I might conceivably have gone for the Americas although I don't hear much Latin. And I also don't sense much love or commitment from the soloist. I felt a bit queasy during the lyrical passages of the slow movement, a bit like my old SP25 turntable. When Brahms ends his VC with three big D major chords you get the feeling you've arrived somewhere, but Oswald's are apparently to tell you it's finished and you can start clapping now.

[eschiss1]

This is 1899. Far as I gather, "Latin American music" , like "Northern American music", from the 19th century is often by German-area-trained composers and rather sounds it , not like Copland or Ponce or Villa Lobos, etc. and this shouldn't surprise...

[matesic]

Certainly not, its Germanic roots are obvious, but can you detect something individual in embryo?

[Revilod]

Easier to follow than the piano concerto and enjoyable though, on a single hearing, I wouldn't say it's its equal. The syncopated melodic writing in the first movement seems to be characteristic of the composer.  Wikipedia says it dates from c 1888, not 1899.