classicalmusic.network: Addition to our playlist by ELGAR

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22,56,FAURE Pavanne - DEBUSSY Sax Concerto,FAURE Pavanne - DEBUSSY Sax Concerto
C. Rosenberger (piano) - Haydn. Andante from Sonata in
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cha - Ravel - Mother Goose - I. Pava
Antal Dorati: Detroit Symphony - Copland: Dance Symphony - 2. A
Tasmine Little, violin - Elgar: Chanson De Matin, Op. 15/2
Leslie Tung, fortepiano - - HAYDN Andante with variations in f -
L Bernstein - - BARBER Adagio for Strings -
FAURE Pavanne - DEBUSSY Sax Rhapsody
HAUSER - Adagio (Albinoni)
Various - 04. Consert of Sound / Albinon

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.