A quest of many years!

[pjme]

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Mr. Demolder from Belgiuml apparently is looking for this violin+ orchestra work for more than 50 years! He'll be 86 soon and hopes to find this long lost (but never forgotten) melody.
It is not the slow movement from Mendelssohs violin concerto, nor the Méditation de  Thais...
It definitely is a rather popular work : he remembers having heard it on an 78 rpm and was discouraged by his musicteacher to learn it: This is nothing for you, it is too difficumt...

Any ideas?

Peter

[Cato]

https://soundcloud.com/raygunsound/nonkel-eddy-v1-ori


Mr. Demolder from Belgiuml apparently is looking for this violin+ orchestra work for more than 50 years! He'll be 86 soon and hopes to find this long lost (but never forgotten) melody.
It is not the slow movement from Mendelssohs violin concerto, nor the Méditation de  Thais...
It definitely is a rather popular work : he remembers having heard it on an 78 rpm and was discouraged by his musicteacher to learn it: This is nothing for you, it is too difficumt...

Any ideas?

Peter

Is it too obvious - since the man is from Belgium - to suggest the concerti of Vieuxtemps, Ysaye, and de Beriot as a starting point?

I have not heard all of them by any means, but the Adagio of the Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto has a melody similar to what he is remembering.  And who knows how reliable his memory may be?

[pjme]

Many thanks! Ill keep you informed.
And indeed - after so many years his memory easily could be ..rather unreliable.

Peter

[Brian]

I am 100% certain I have heard this before. Let me do some checking...

[Brian]

Yes, it is Henri Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, "Gretry"

[pjme]

Many thanks. I'm waiting for a reply from mr. Demolder's family...

Au revoir,

Peter

[Cato]

Yes, it is Henri Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, "Gretry"

I was wondering about that!  Do you also hear it in the slow movement?

[Karl Henning]

Fascinating endeavor!

[Brian]

Do you also hear it in the slow movement?

Yes!

I had not listened to that concerto in many years. I associated it with an unfortunate event about a decade ago and tried to avoid it for some time after that...but listening to the concerto again this week (including once more, now), I am reminded that it really is a very good and very concise romantic piece with, as Mr. Demolder knows, beautiful melodies!

[Cato]

I have not heard all of them by any means, but the Adagio of the Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto has a melody similar to what he is remembering.  And who knows how reliable his memory may be?

Yes, it is Henri Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, "Gretry"

I was wondering about that!  Do you also hear it in the slow movement?

Yes!

I had not listened to that concerto in many years...

Probably 50 years have gone by in my case!  But the old    memory for music is still working well!

Anyway, I hope that "the quest of many years" has now come to a successful end!

[Brian]

Probably 50 years have gone by in my case!  But the old    memory for music is still working well!

Wow, I hope that my memory works that well in 50 years...heck, I hope it works that well in 5!

[Cato]

Wow, I hope that my memory works that well in 50 years...heck, I hope it works that well in 5!

Mrs. Cato has been known to wonder why my memory can recognize a tune after only a few notes, but failed  e.g. in remembering to pay the dentist!

Perhaps if the dentist had played Lohengrin    or Pelleas et Molarsande
I would have remembered to stop by and pay the bill! 0:)

[Karl Henning]

Or the Bridge Variations

[Monsieur Croche]

Or the Bridge Variations

Too,. there must be at least one stirring work song / folk tune from the blokes who hauled barges down the old Root Canal.