Violin Concerto (Wirén)

23, is a three-movement concertante composition for violin and orchestra written from 1945 to 1946 by the Swedish composer Dag Wirén.

The piece premiered on 10 April 1947 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Clarence Raybould conducting the Gothenburg Orchestral Society; the soloist was the Swedish violinist Otto Kyndel [sv].

[1] The Violin Concerto is a rare example of Wirén—the idiom of whom was primarily neo-classical—embracing a "full-blooded" neo-romantic style; it is, with its "greater depth of expression, ... in the spirit of" Jean Sibelius.

They are as follows:[1] The Violin Concerto is scored the following instruments:[1] Gehrmans Musikförlag [sv] published the piece in 1948.

The sortable table below lists commercially available recordings of the Violin Concerto: