Packet 3: Tossup 4

This concerto’s rondo finale has A and B sections in 2/4, a C section in 3/4, and a Poco più presto coda in 2/4 with a 6/8 feel. Ruggiero Ricci’s recording of this concerto with Norman Del Mar uses the timpani-roll-filled Busoni cadenza for the first movement and provides fifteen other cadenzas as bonus tracks. The composer of this concerto replaced its original inner movements with a so-called “feeble adagio” (-5[1])in the piece’s (10[1])flat mediant key, F major. A (10[1])refusal to “listen to the oboe playing the only (10[2])tune (10[1])in (10[1])the adagio” (10[2]-5[2])was the excuse given by Pablo de Sarasate (10[1])(“sah-ruh-SAH-tay”) for declining (10[1]-5[1])to premiere this concerto. (-5[1])At this piece’s premiere, it was paired with Beethoven’s earlier piece in the same key and genre by soloist Joseph Joachim (10[2])(“YO-sef YO-ah-kim”). For 10 points, name this concerto for a string soloist by the composer of (10[1])A German (10[1])Requiem. (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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