Violin Concerto No. 4 D-Minor op. 31, 1st and 2nd Movement (+DVD)

Violin Part annotated by Zakhar Bron

The renowned violin virtuoso Zakhar Bron, who has been honoured with numerous awards and whose pupils (including Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Erik Schumann, and Mayuko Kamino) are also frequent winners of famous competitions, shows his exceptional talent as a violin teacher in the “Student Concert, taught by Zakhar Bron” series.

Each instalment comprises a DVD with a recording of a lesson in the White Hall in the Sheremetev Palace in St. Petersburg, and a piano and violin arrangement prepared by Zakhar Bron based on the appropriate technical level for the violin.

Henri Vieuxtemps was a pupil of Charles Auguste de Bériot, who took Vieuxtemps with him to Paris when he completed his studies. In 1871, he became a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he was a pioneer of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing, which is still taught at the Conservatories of Liège, Brussels and Paris. His compositions (7 concertos) have a prominent place in virtuoso violin literature. The violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 31 dates from 1846, when he was court musician to Tsar Nicholas I in St. Petersburg.