classicalmusic.network: Addition to our playlist by ELGAR

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25,56,CHAUSSON Poeme - MERCADANTE Variations in A,CHAUSSON Poeme - MERCADANTE Variations in A
Katia and Marielle Labeque - Pavanne for a dead Princess - Maurice RavelRe1(1)
Herbert von Karajan - Thais, opera: Méditation
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mozart - Adagio from Violin Co
Charles Makerras, cond - Brigg Fair
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G maj
Herbert von Karajan - Canon and Gigue for 3 violins
Diabelli andante D Cohl - Diabelli Andante - Deborah Cohl an
Robert Farnon - A la Claire Fontaine - Canadian Impressions
J F Pailliard Chamber Orch - ALBINONI Adagio - Pailliard Alb

Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success. The concerto was composed for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, who gave the premiere in London in 1910, with the composer conducting. Plans by the recording company His Master's Voice to record the work with Kreisler and Elgar fell through, and the composer made a recording with the teenaged Yehudi Menuhin that has remained in the catalogues since its first release in 1932.