Ludwig van Beethoven:
Romance for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40 (with Score)
Solo Violin: Itzhak Perlman
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
None of which provides clues about when and why he wrote Romance No. 1 and Romance No. 2 for solo violin and small orchestra. There is speculation that one of them might have originally been a slow movement to go with the substantial but fragmentary first movement of a violin concerto in C major that Beethoven began — and abandoned — in the early 1790s, while still in Bonn. Both Romances, however, seem to have been written after his move to the Austrian capital. Written in the first years of the 19th century, the Romance No. 1 was published in 1803.
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