Violin Concerto la tempesta di neve

Violin concerto XXXIX (39) la tempesta di neve (The winterstrom) in a minor for solo violin, strings and bc. 

The concerto was written in February of 2017 due to heavy snow and cold winds at the time. The concerto was edited yesterday, the only change is i added bar 279 to 294 to make the part more expressive with some written trills and some double stops for the solo violin.

Personally I think this is some of my more expressive work. The music is full of affects and 16-notes figures that is to symbolic for heavy winds and snow. The dissonances in the slow movement is symbolic for the freezing cold. The third movement is the hellish weather itself, the other movements function is to support the finale.

I. Allegro

- 4/4 time

- Unison opening

2. Adagio (Calm before the storm, the freezing cold)

- Dissonances, chromatic passages,

- The progression of la folia as solo section

3. Vivace - la tempesta di neve (The Snowstorm)

- 3/4 time,

- 16 notes figures/eight note beating rhythm.

Please tell me what you think!

Definitely something I would want to hear again in a performance hall. Very beautiful. I'm usually not much of a fan for a baroque music unless it's really good. So I wouldn't really mind listening to yours again. My internet is getting throttled recently so I haven't been able to open people's PDFs. So I can't really find anything to correct. I want to hear Concerto XXXX now.

you've written 41 concertos or 39?

1 hour ago, Youngc said:

you've written 41 concertos or 39?

 

the I before the X means 10 minus 1. so XXXIX is actually 10+10+10-1+10=39

My questioname is because the Romans added everything up so 41 but thanks

41 = XLI

Some guy that writes music:

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the piece! My latest violin concerto XLIII (43) is in the chamber music section if you want to listen! 🙂

Youngc:

Thanks for asking. My main orchestral/chamber music consist of 43 concertos (ATM) in the late Italian language, 13 concerto grossi and 6 trio sonatas in the early Italian language, 4 overtures, 4 keyboard sonatas, 2 sonatas for unaccompanied, and 1sonata for unaccompanied cello.

I started writing the late Italian concertos back in June 2013. My plan was to write 20 concertos in two in two booklets of 10 each (la prima parte e seconda parte). I wrote the music for the musicians in my ensemble,my hard drive crashed, so i only have the first 10 on paper)

Prima parte:

I. Concerto for violin, 2. Concerto for harpsichord, 3. Double concerto for two violins, 4. Concerto for violin, 5. Concerto for recorder, 6. Concerto for Viola, 7. Concerto for cello, 8. Concerto for violin, 9. Double concerto for two violins, 10. Concerto for violin.

Seconda parte

1. Concerto for violin, 2 Concerto for violin, 3. Double concerto for two violins, 4. Concerto for violin,  5. Double concerto for organ and violin, 6. Concerto for strings, 7. Concerto for strings, 8. Concerto for violin, 9. Concerto for violin, 10. Concerto for bassoon.

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My most productive years was from june 2013 - august 2015. I wrote concerto 1 - 30 in that period. My goal at that time was to end with 30, but could not stop...

The concertos from august 2015 - have been very unproductive due to lack of time to compose. Hope i reach 50 by the end of 2019 😂 Those 12 concertos consists of 1 concerto for flute, 1 double concerto for two celli, 1 concerto for bassoon, 1 concerto for 4 violins, 1 concerto for strings, 2 double concertos for violin and 5 concertos for solo violin.

Right now im working on a booklet with 12 of the concertos i like best from the period 2013 - 2018. Its titled: 12 concerti solisti per violini, scritti in stile italiano. Its content:

2, concertos for 4 violins, 4 concertos for two violins, 6 concertos for violin.