Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - 1. Allegro Moderato

Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewhat delayed and far less successful than that of the Piano Concerto. The composer offered his Violin Concerto to Leopold Auer, the brilliant Hungarian-born violinist, long based in Moscow, who now is remembered primarily as a pedagogue. The concerto was premiered with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1881 and is nowadays one of the favourites in the Violin repertoire. This transcription contains the first movement: Allegro Moderato.