Violin Concerto No. 5 (Vieuxtemps)

The Violin Concerto No.5 in A minor, Op. 37, by Henri Vieuxtemps was published in 1861 and composed 1858–1859. This remains Vieuxtemps' most popular violin concerto, having been recorded by many great violinists, including Jascha Heifetz, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin and Kyung-wha Chung. Auer (1925, p. 75) writes that the concerto had been "practically forgotten" but if played as its composer intended, "will not fail to impress the majority of its auditors". The second movement borrows from "Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?" in Grétry's opera Lucile.