When you listen to Jean Sibelius’ violin concerto, you hear a dark, wintry night; a pure, crystalline melody above a cushion of pianissimo strings; brooding motifs; a violin that laments but never stops singing.
In the second movement, the Adagio di molto, a gorgeous melody arises amid the lower voices that makes your heart swell and swell, even as it is close to breaking.
Later one hears the brass from the orchestra slowly building, and there you are with your violin, desperately trying to stay alive… to survive against the odds…
Here is violinist Viktoria Mulova to play this haunting music for you:
