Joseph Joachim: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 3 'in einem Satz'

It is my sincere desire that any and all remuneration that is or may be my due be forwarded instead to the performers, label, and/or any holders of copyright. Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 3 'in einem Satz' Allegro - Presto assai Sunyoen Kim, violin Staatskapelle Weimar Michael Halász, conductor Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century. He was born in Kittsee, near Eisenstadt and what is now Bratislava, Slovakia, in what is today's Burgenland area of Austria, the seventh of eight children born to Julius, a wool merchant, and Fanny Joachim, who were of Hungarian Jewish origin. His infancy was spent as a member of the Kittsee Kehilla (Jewish community), one of Hungary's prominent Siebengemeinden ('Seven Communities') under the protectorate of the Esterházy family. He was a first cousin of Fanny Wittgenstein, the mother of Karl Wittgenstein and the grandmother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein. In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanisław Serwaczyński, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. (Serwaczyński later moved back to Lublin, Poland, where he taught Wieniawski). In 1839, Joachim continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory (briefly with Miska Hauser and Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.; finally – and most significantly – with Joseph Böhm). He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein to live and study in Leipzig, where he became a protégé of Felix Mendelssohn, who arranged for him to study theory and composition with Moritz Hauptmann at the Leipzig Conservatory. In his début performance in the Leipzig Gewandhaus he played the Otello Fantasy by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. In Leipzig he had some lessons from Ferdinand David, Mendelssohn's concertmaster in the Gewandhaus Orchestra and a composer in his own right. The Violin Concerto in G minor dates from 1851, when Joachim had a brief flirtation with the musically 'Progressive" school of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, headquartered in Weimar. It is dedicated to Liszt, for whom Joachim led the Weimar court orchestra from 1850 to 1852. It is a true one-movement concerto, following an expansive sonata-form layout, with several cadenzas for the soloist, and a brief coda, where the tempo increases from Allegro to Presto assai. Joachim went to Hanover in 1853 to serve as the concertmaster in the orchestra there. It was in Hanover that he gained the acquaintanceship, and later, the friendship of the young Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, which eventually led him to renounce the progressive ideas of Liszt and Wagner and to instead become one of the 'keepers of the flame' of musical conservatism.