To no one’s surprise, critics can be wrong, as Hanslick was on this occasion. So wrote critic Eduard Hanslick at the 1881 premiere of Tchaikovsky’s concerto in Vienna. We see plainly the savage vulgar faces, we hear curses, we smell vodka…Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.” finale transfers us to the brutal and wretched jollity of a Russian holiday. The violin is no longer played it is pulled, torn, and beaten black and blue.
“Vulgarity gains the upper hand, and asserts itself to the end of the first movement.
Hilary Hahn performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night.
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