Violinist Fedor Rudin performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits. The performance was recorded live in Poole, England, in October 2022.

When it was first publicly performed in 1806, Beethoven's Violin Concerto was received largely as an oddity. From its striking opening marked by a lone timpani to its vast symphonic scope, the work had little in common with much of the existing violin concerto repertoire at the time.

While the premiere made relatively little impression on the public, the concerto found its way into the pantheon of standard violin concerti thanks to mid-nineteenth-century virtuoso violinists including Joseph Joachim and Ferdinand David, and today, it remains popular thanks to its blend of classical structure and Romantic sensibility.

Hear Rudin's performance below:

 

Violinist and conductor Fedor Rudin was a prizewinner at the Premio Paganini and George Enescu Competitions, and he served as the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra from 2019 to 2021. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Rencontres Musicales de Chaon chamber music festival in France, and he is the co-founder of the Fratres Trio, which explores intersections between classical and jazz styles. An accomplished conductor as well as a violinist, Rudin serves as Professor of Orchestral Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.