Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 2 -Chloe Chua

Singapore’s winsome darling of the violin, Chloe Chua, stars in Mozart’s lyrical Violin Concerto No.2, accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Hans Graf.

Chloe Chua, violin @ChloeChuaviolinist
Hans Graf, Chief Conductor
Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Recorded at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, on 17 Oct, 2020
Premiered on SISTIC Live on 4 Dec 2020.
YouTube Premiere, 4 Apr 2021
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K.211 (1775)

0:00 I. Allegro moderato
10:20 II. Andante
18:42 III. Rondeau. Allegro

Mozart’s violin concerti present a strange musicological problem: they were composed in a short period of time, but it is not clear what occasion prompted their creation, or who they were written for. A story is sometimes told that Mozart had been so inspired by a meeting with Haydn that he produced these five concerti in the span of half a year, but this sequence of events is more reliably attached to the six string quartets published as Opus 10, nicknamed the “Haydn Quartets”. Those came later, and are actually dedicated to Haydn. To add further to the muddle, the manuscripts of Mozart’s violin concerti had their dates tampered with: the fifth concerto had its 1775 date scratched out and replaced with 1780, and then changed back to 1775; for a long time, three other concerti were confused as Mozart’s, and given various numbers. In any case, these concerti were all composed before his likely first encounter with Haydn, though Mozart would already have been well aware of Haydn’s music long before then.