About this work
The Violin Concerto in A major K.219, completed in 1775, closes the group of five concertos. Its nickname “Turkish” comes from the A-minor episode in the last movement, whose accents and struck bass writing evoked an alla turca style to contemporary ears. The work delivers its first surprise well before that finale: after the orchestra’s Allegro aperto exposition, the violin enters in a suspended Adagio, as though briefly opening another movement, before joining the principal tempo.
This displacement gives the soloist a distinctive status. The violin does not merely decorate material from the tutti; its entrance changes time and makes the orchestra listen differently. Brilliant runs then alternate with more restrained phrases in the Allegro aperto. The central Adagio in E major develops this vocal quality further; oboes, horns and strings create a stable space where every appoggiatura in the solo line can carry real tension.
The finale begins as an elegant, measured Tempo di Menuetto. Its minor-key Allegro episode abruptly breaks that politeness through repeated accents, changes of bowing, basses moving between arco and pizzicato, and more percussive writing, although the orchestra contains no percussion. When the minuet returns, it no longer sounds entirely innocent: the roughness of the interruption remains in the listener’s memory.
Performance should make these oppositions clear without turning them into caricature. The opening Adagio needs space but must lead naturally back into Allegro aperto. Ornaments in the slow movement remain subordinate to the phrase. In the finale, keep a common underlying pulse between minuet and fast episode; change weight, articulation and colour above all. The “Turkish” contrast then becomes a transformation of the same orchestra rather than an added effect.
What the document containsDocument: The document contains 32 pages in PDF format. No MIDI file is currently attached to this historical record. The 32-page full score contains the Allegro aperto with the soloist’s Adagio entrance, the central Adagio, and the Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto with its Allegro episode. The forces match the other concertos in the group: principal violin with two oboes, two horns and strings.The historical record marks the work and file as public domain but does not document the editor or exact provenance of this copy. The file preserved by LesPartitions.info can be compared with the reference catalogue. Following that check, LesPartitions.info separates established facts from information that remains incomplete.