Hii

Other day in musc was practising listening questions and a violin concerto came up. It's quite modern, neo-classical ish .

It's got lots of glissando's/glissandi? in it.

BUT I DON'T KNOW THE NAME!

It was really good and I'm dying to know the name of it?

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Some 20th C composers who wrote violin concertos:

Barber
Bartok (published two; third, early, has been reconstructed, IIRC)
Berg
Dutilleux
Elgar (not neo-classical!!)
Glass
Glazunov
Khachaturian
Korngold
Nielsen
Prokofiev (two)
Schoenberg
Shostakovich (two)
Sibelius
Stravinsky (nearest your description, IMO)
Szymanowski (two)
Walton

I hope, for your sake, it was Glass. What a piece!

Glass didn't put any glissando in his violin concerto, but yes, it is a great work isn't it! It's grown on me. I have to admit that when I first heard the 2nd movement I found it wrist slittingly depressing. Even though it's minimalist in its writing, I think it needs to be listened to many times so that you learn to hear what's going on in the underlying orchestral part.


where did you hear it? on the radio, at college, on a music course of some kind?

I'm sure someone at the location you heard it would be able to supply you with the composer's name. If it was on the radio, you might need to be specific about the day and time you heard it.

I heard it at school.

It was on a CD made up by the exam board I think...SQA. It was a comparing question, identifying concepts you hear in both excerpts and stuff.

I think it was syncopated around the glissando section.

I'm not sure though. I asked my teacher and she wasn't sure which surprised me 'cause she always knows what piece the excerpt is from.

Probably Prokofiev no 1?