MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra (with works by Hindemith and Toch)

With an orchestral accompaniment confined to the relatively austere sounds of wind and brass instruments, Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto seems to manifest many of the characteristic musical gestures that one normally associates with Twenties 'New Objectivity'. At the same time, there is a restless undercurrent of nervous tension in the sinister military allusions that frame the opening movement or the volcanic energy of the finale which seem far removed from the detached manner of his contemporary Paul Hindemith. (BBC)