From All Music Guide: Recording place:Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Kupfenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Queens

The title of the Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano may suggest to some listeners that they're getting an expanded version of the composer's music from the successful film, which grew from a recurring motif in the film soundtrack itself to the closely related The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra. This is not exactly true; the last three movements of the present concerto are newly composed, although they have links to both the action and the musical material of the film. The Chaconne forms the first movement; Corigliano states, honestly enough, that he simply wanted to expand the music to dimensions that would fill out part of a concert program. He was smart enough not to fool with the Chaconne, which dwarfs the other three movements. The work is rounded out with a quietly energetic scherzo, an andante that is a fine specimen of Corigliano's lyrical mo...

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