Bach / Elgar - Violin Concertos - Zukerman, Pinchas (violin)

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Pinchas Zukerman, violin
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor

"One of the most intimate works of this century", wrote the British musicologist Sir Donald Tovey of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B Minor. The final movement is "very rhapsodic and dramatic". Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor, probably written in 1720, is restrained - with a gradual development of tension through the contrast between the solo part and the orchestral accompaniment.