Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.74 (2001) c. 25'00"

Commissioned by the Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Dedicated to Chantal Juillet

First performed on August 16, 2001 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York by Chantal Juillet, violin with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit

RECORDINGS

REVIEWS

“…this combination of qualities may even lift Liebermann’s new concerto to a popularity not enjoyed by any other violin concerto since the Barber.”
Philadelphia Inquirer

“It has a lot going for it, to be sure. The orchestration is rich, colorful and exotic, the violin passages, both haunting and virtuosic, were gorgeously performed…”
Gazette Reporter

“The real highlight of the concert for me, though, was the Lowell Liebermann violin concerto…Liebermann is writing unabashedly emotionally engaging music. It’s not just that the whole piece was lush and gorgeous, or even that the violin part was so tremendously melodic, but that Liebermann uses those melodies and lush orchestrations to viscerally, emotionally, directly grab the audience.”
Minnesota Public Radio