Young People's Concert: What is a Concerto? / Bernstein • Corigliano • New York Philharmonic

Young People's Concert: What is a Concerto? Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor - III. Allegro molto vivace Leonard Bernstein, conductor and speaker John Corigliano Sr., violin New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein discusses the development of the concerto form from Bach to Bartok. Bernstein conducts examples of early concertos - Bach's Fifth 'Brandenburg' Concerto and Vivaldi's Concerto in C Major. From the Classical period, he conducts Mozart's 'Sinfonia Concertante' and, finally the fourth and fifth movements of Bartok's neo-classical 'Concerto for Orchestra'. In this excerpt, concertmaster John Corigliano Sr. performs the last movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Original CBS Television Network Broadcast Date: March 28, 1959 Produced and directed by Roger Englander Available through KulturVideo.com: http://www.kulturvideo.com/Leonard-Bernstein-Young-Peoples-Concerts-p/d1503.htm © 1990, 1993 The Leonard Bernstein Office Inc.