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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1Measures 1 to 4 should be played with grace and with an even tone.
2Measures 7 to 9 offer a stumbling block, in as much as it is very hard to play them evenly, without hurrying or holding back, but in strict time. The dynamic plane should be mezzo forte, for here again piano is out of place.
3Measure 29 should be played as strictly in time as possible. It is a very difficult measure, and, as is usually the case, is all the more complicated because it is written in a simple scale.
4The two measures of tutti should be played fortissimo.
6Measure 30 of period five and measure 1 of period six are followed by two measures which form a direct response to them, and should be played with a crescendo at measure 2 and a heavy accent on the second C.
7Play measures 5 to 15 with enthusiasm, and measure 16 calmly.
8In measures 26, 27 and 28 sustain the basses, or lower notes.
10The entire phrase included in measures 3 to 12, should be played forte, and with a well nourished trill.
11Put eloquence into the playing of measure 13, and lend measures 14 to 17 an accent of warmth and grandeur.
12Hold back greatly in playing measure 22, and revert to tempo in measures 23. In measures 24 to 30 guard against bolting.
13Play measures 8, 9, 10 and 11 with great passion and with powerful accentuation.
14Sustain the upper E in measure 23.
16Coda
18The coda proper should be played without precipitation, and the performer should not fall into the error made by some famous violinists, whose playing of it suggests a race against time rather than a dignified interpretation of this noble music, a work which gives its composer a secure place among the purest geniuses of the art.
20THE CONCERTO IN D MAJOR
21by Johannes Brahms, Op. 77
22(1833-1897)
24The Brahms "D Major Concerto" was played for the first time by Joseph Joachim, to whom it is dedicated, at a concert in the Leipsic Gewandhaus, on January 1, 1879, Brahms conducting the orchestra.
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