Violin Concerto & Romances

Album by Ludwig van Beethoven & Liza Ferschtman & Jan Willem de Vriend & Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

Violin Concerto & Romances is a collection of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, with the violin concerto composed in 1806 and the two romances composed in 1798. The works are rooted in the Classical period, pairing a large-scale concerto that balances expansive orchestral writing with a technically demanding solo part and shorter, lyrical romances that foreground cantabile violin lines, and they illustrate Beethoven's development from his early to middle compositional periods.