The Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra, Op. 77 by

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an England, English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music a ...

was finished in

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. It is in three movements: #Allegro risolutoCraggs, Stewart R. (1998). . Greenwood Publishing Group. page 20. . #Andantino #Vivace – Presto The work was commissioned by

Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor ** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England ** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to t ...

for him and his pupil

Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor of Ukrainian ancestry. The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss ...

. They premiered the work during the Bath International Music Festival on 24 June 1962 at the

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Guildhall. The

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was conducted by the composer.Jackson, Paul R.W. (2003). . Ashgate Publishing. pp. 118-9, 234. . The first London performance was given by Menuhin and Robert Masters, with the Bath Festival Orchestra, and was also conducted by the composer.

Selected commercial recordings

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and Frances Mason,

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, conductor

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and

Sophia Reuter Sophia Reuter, born in 1971, in Dresden, Germany, comes from a family with a long musical history. Her father was the late Rolf Reuter, a conductor, and her grandfather, the late Fritz Reuter, was a composer. Sophia is a violinist and violist wit ...

, Camerata Lysy, conductor

, Dinemec DCCD 001 * Igor Gruppman and

Vesna Gruppman Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman is a violin and viola professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory (CODARTS), a position she has held since 2006. Stefanovich was born in Serbia which was then part of Yugoslavia. She met her future husband, Igor Gruppman ...

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, conductor

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, Koch 37134-2 * Kenneth Sillito and Lyn Fletcher, London Musici, conductor Mark Stephenson, Decca 4765343 * Peter McHugh and Paul Kling, Louisville Orchestra conductor Robert Whitney, First Edition FECD1904

References

External links

The Concerto on Malcolm Arnold's Official SiteFaber Music page on the ConcertoFortissimo, Spring 2008
Compositions by Malcolm Arnold

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1962 compositions Compositions for string orchestra {{concerto-stub