Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.74 (2001)

2+1.2+1.3d1.3d1/4.3.3.1/Timp, Perc(4), Hp, Pno d Cel, Solo Violin, Strings

c. 25'00"

1. Moderato (listen to sample)
2. Larghissimo (listen to sample)
3. Feroce (listen to sample)

Dedicated to Chantal Juillet

Commissioned by the Saratoga Performing Arts Center

First Performanced on August 16th, 2001 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York, by Chantal Juillet, violin with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, conductor

Published by Theodore Presser Company

Reviews:
Canadian violinist Chantal Juillet gave a glowing performance of Lowell Liebermann's new Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Thursday night. The orchestration is rich, colorful and exotic, the violin passages, both haunting and virtuosic, were gorgeously performed by Juillet."

Bill Rice, The Albany Gazette-Reporter

"...this combination of qualities may even lift Liebermann's new concerto to a popularity not enjoyed by any other violin concerto since the Barber"

Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The real highlight of the concert for me, though, was the Lowell Liebermann Violin Concerto...It's not just that the whole piece was lush and gorgeous, or even that the violin part was tremendously melodic, but that Liebermann uses those melodies and lush orchestrations to viscerally, emotionally, directly grab the audience. "

publicradio.org

"...the work is shrewdly writtten for the solo violin, aimed at exploiting the instrument's beauty of tone and it's predilection for lyrical flights. Despite the growl from the lower woodwinds that opens the piece, the work is very lyrical but hardly simple, as is the case with much of Liebermann's music. ..Surely this is a work that will live on. "

Michael Anthony, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)