Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
00:05 I. Lento molto
07:34 II. Allegro molto
Sergey Kravchenko, violin
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Mark Ermler
Thanks to @YaponyBagsh for the original recordings (linked below); these are the only ones in existence I know of, and I've just cleaned up some of the static and audio clicks. The violinist - a student of Leonid Kogan - isn't quite together with the orchestra, plays a few wrong notes (at least according to this score) and takes some sections up an octave for unknown reasons, but it's hard to blame him as the violin part is fiendishly difficult.
youtube.com/watch?v=ImAs01LPdCY
youtube.com/watch?v=vBFQIVziRmE
Zunduin Khangal (Зундуйн Хангал; 1948-1996) was a Mongolian composer, the first modernist among composers of "Western" classical music in his country. At the same time, he wrote many lyrical melodies for popular songs and films as well as one of the few concerti for the morin khuur, a Mongolian traditional horsehead fiddle. Khangal received his musical education at the music school in Almaty, in what is now Kazakhstan, as well as at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory in Russia.
Written in 1974, Khangal's violin concerto - one of his less obscure works - is a fragmented and uncompromising work typical of post-Shostakovich composers in the Soviet sphere, but with some surprisingly lyrical moments (touches of Mongolian traditional music, perhaps.) As I mentioned previously, the violin part is incredibly difficult, somewhat like the similarly challenging string writing of Alfred Schnittke.
00:05 I. Lento molto
07:34 II. Allegro molto
Sergey Kravchenko, violin
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Mark Ermler
Thanks to @YaponyBagsh for the original recordings (linked below); these are the only ones in existence I know of, and I've just cleaned up some of the static and audio clicks. The violinist - a student of Leonid Kogan - isn't quite together with the orchestra, plays a few wrong notes (at least according to this score) and takes some sections up an octave for unknown reasons, but it's hard to blame him as the violin part is fiendishly difficult.
youtube.com/watch?v=ImAs01LPdCY
youtube.com/watch?v=vBFQIVziRmE
Zunduin Khangal (Зундуйн Хангал; 1948-1996) was a Mongolian composer, the first modernist among composers of "Western" classical music in his country. At the same time, he wrote many lyrical melodies for popular songs and films as well as one of the few concerti for the morin khuur, a Mongolian traditional horsehead fiddle. Khangal received his musical education at the music school in Almaty, in what is now Kazakhstan, as well as at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory in Russia.
Written in 1974, Khangal's violin concerto - one of his less obscure works - is a fragmented and uncompromising work typical of post-Shostakovich composers in the Soviet sphere, but with some surprisingly lyrical moments (touches of Mongolian traditional music, perhaps.) As I mentioned previously, the violin part is incredibly difficult, somewhat like the similarly challenging string writing of Alfred Schnittke.
