| I got a copy of Scontrino's Concerto.
Edited and published by Oscar G. Zimmerman
90 Westminster Road - Rochester, NY 14607
dated 1980
The Foreword says :
"Antonio Scontrino (born in Trapani, Sicily, 1850 - died in Florence, 1922) was a prodigy, who played DB in his father's "Children's Orchestra" by the age of nine, and who toured widely as a virtuoso before he was twenty. He ultimately abandoned his concert career to devote full time to composition, which he taught at the Palermo Conservatory and, from 1892 to his death, at the Florence Conservatory.
Scontrino composed chamber music, orchestral pieces,- and five operas. The Concerto for DB and orchestra is by far the most important work among those he wrote for the instrument, which, as a young man, he played so well.
Warnecke, in 1909, described it as "a counterpart, in form and content to the Brahms Violin Concerto", and called for its immediate publication. This edition is the first to grant that wish, and to make this virtually unknown Romantic Masterpiece easily available to the modern player.
Oscar G. Zimmerman "
Well, this piece contains a clear Brahmsian inspiration, some phrases
recall Brahms. Certainly it lacks respiration and genuine construction.
To me it doesn't seem very attractive at a first reading. It would be worth analise further the structure of the piece, and above all I would like to have an idea of the original orchestration. Maybe it would be nice to hear with orchestra, although I doubt it is a masterpiece.
1st movement, I wouldn't say that it is great music, but it seems an excellent piece for technical training, like Bottesini No.2 or Nino Rota
(which are real good music). | 
