Description: Vili: Concerto for Violin Alone, Op 109 redefines what music can be.
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Two modern visionaries, an extreme concerto, and a quest to push musical boundaries.
“The Violin Alone” is an extraordinary documentary film portrait of this revolutionary work of music, shared across continents, and lands that are rich with history and struggle. The music will melt in your ear, heart, and mind as the complete work is premiered in Budapest’s Nador Hall by Olah, with stunning High Definition photography and pristine surround sound audio. How close have you ever been to a violin? This film will take you closer. You will hear the hair of the bow coursing the strings, see the r
Written especially for the unique virtuosity of Olah, Vili: Concerto for Violin Alone is groundbreaking. He faces a seemingly impossible task: navigating idiomatic techniques that composer Eric Funk considered theoretically possible but most probably impossible. Olah must emulate flutes, oboes, clarinet, and timpani, must move his bow towards the bridge in an exact unique position to capture the timbre, the crisp brass punch, of a trumpet fanfare. In the third movement, his right hand is bowing the solo par