In our "Classic classics" series, we present special highlights of the season.
The solo violin begins this concerto all alone, with a simple, wistful, almost folk-like melody. Prokofiev wrote it in Paris and you can hear his homesickness for Russia in it; he returned to Moscow shortly afterwards. In connection with this concerto, Prokofiev himself spoke of "new simplicity" and that it tells of the "nomadic life" of a concertising artist. The second movement was composed in Voronezh, he completed the orchestration in Baku and the premiere took place in Madrid in 1935 - in keeping with the castanets in the finale.
Amelia Maszonska-Escobar, 2nd violin, plays an excerpt for us.
