I'm very interested to learn that this Concerto is actually by Henri Casadesus. When I was an adolescent, I performed it (in 1966) at my high-school graduation ceremony. The published score said that the Concerto was by J.-C. Bach; and in those pre-Internet days, even though I smelled a rat, I had no way of verifying the attribution.
This was one of a few attempts Casadesus made at broadening the concerto repertoire of the viola. He succeeded, like Kreisler, to "introduce" such fraudulent works in the style of the named composers, himself soloing on the viola, and for a long time it was believed that J.C. Bach and Handel composed concerti for viola. Fact of the matter is, that, like with Kreisler, history forgives him because he truly enriched the repertoire immensely. Alas, the viola still gets the short end of the stick...
@@ProudBerliozianWhile I fully agree that the viola deserves a richer repertoire as soloist with orchestra, I should like to add a personal note of my own. The viola is the protagonist in Berlioz's wonderful 'Harold en Italie", and in my opinion, It doesn't get much better than that!
The adagio is utterly gorgeous.
Wow! Qué interpretación! Muy diferente a lo que estaba acostumbrado a escuchar con esta obra.
Gracias por subirlo, Carlos.
I'm very interested to learn that this Concerto is actually by Henri Casadesus. When I was an adolescent, I performed it (in 1966) at my high-school graduation ceremony. The published score said that the Concerto was by J.-C. Bach; and in those pre-Internet days, even though I smelled a rat, I had no way of verifying the attribution.
This was one of a few attempts Casadesus made at broadening the concerto repertoire of the viola. He succeeded, like Kreisler, to "introduce" such fraudulent works in the style of the named composers, himself soloing on the viola, and for a long time it was believed that J.C. Bach and Handel composed concerti for viola.
Fact of the matter is, that, like with Kreisler, history forgives him because he truly enriched the repertoire immensely. Alas, the viola still gets the short end of the stick...
David Teitelbaum but it was originally a cello concerto...
@@ethanma3916 no it wasn't.
@@ProudBerliozianWhile I fully agree that the viola deserves a richer repertoire as soloist with orchestra, I should like to add a personal note of my own. The viola is the protagonist in Berlioz's wonderful 'Harold en Italie", and in my opinion, It doesn't get much better than that!
2022
What year is this from?
I mean like the recording
@@xiaozhouyang9256 I found it is from 1946
www.discogs.com/es/release/11722024-Maurice-Mar%C3%A9chal-The-Artistry-Of-Maurice-Mar%C3%A9chal
That’s so old!
Almost 80 years!