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Work: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61

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ComposerElgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)
PeriodRomantic
Year1910
Work typeOrchestral
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Frankfurt am MainGstaad Festival Orchestra

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Elgar, Beethoven
Gstaad Festival Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden; Daniel Hope

HamburgGstaad Festival Orchestra

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Elgar, Beethoven
Gstaad Festival Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden; Daniel Hope

HanoverGstaad Festival Orchestra

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Elgar, Beethoven
Gstaad Festival Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden; Daniel Hope
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Elgarian emotion from the Benedetti, Karabits and the RSNO

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Nicola Benedetti’s Elgar is a slow burn in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, but Kirill Karabits’ Firebird instantly ignites.
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Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

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As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.
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Walton 2–0 Elgar: triumph and failure for the CBSO at Symphony Hall

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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO give an aimless, flabby account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, but a rambunctious reading of Walton is filled with delirious joy. 
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StockholmStrauss Don Juan

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Elgar, Prestini, Strauss R.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Speranza Scappucci; James Ehnes
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Quintessentially English or establishment outsider? Elgar was seen as provincial – and was never more at home than in his beloved Malvern Hills – but he had a European outlook.