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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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. . . used Dvorak's Cello Concerto as a model - in some ways at least, such as the tempo reductions and nostalgic reminiscences of earlier themes just before the end of all three concertos. Of course, this is taken to such an extreme in the violin concerto that it may be too much of a good thing, and you want to tell Elgar to get on with it already! ;-)
I think the point was, the Sibelius and Elgar concertos were both major successes for his rival Jascha Heifetz.
Also, Milstein's tastes were surprisingly modernist. He was bitterly disappointed that for his violin concerto Stravinsky chose to work with Samuel Dushkin, another violinist whom he considered his inferior. He liked Prokofiev's concertos, especially the first. He also very much liked the Berg concerto, and got permission from Louis Krasner, who commissioned it, to perform it with piano.
He was also lukewarm about the Dvorak and the Glazunov, which he played as a child prodigy with the composer conducting. On the whole, the classical and modern composers appealed to him more than the romantics.
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