In Reply to: RE: British composers list posted by genungo on July 14, 2015 at 16:51:04:
Nathan Milstein, in his entertaining memoir, says that the Brahms violin concerto is a poor imitation of Beethoven's, though he was willing to perform it and record it many, many times.
The Elgar violin concerto, on the other hand, he thought a poor imitation of the Brahms, and so bad he would go nowhere near it.
Of course he would go nowhere near the Sibelius violin concerto either, and the Sibelius and Elgar concertos both just happened to be repertoire favorites of ...
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- I always had the feeling that both the Elgar Concertos. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:46:40 07/14/15 (1)
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