Elgar: Violin Concerto | Classical review

(RCA)Nikolaj Znaider has the good ­fortune to play an extraordinary violin – the 1741 Guarnerius del Gesu that once belonged to Fritz Kreisler – that ­Kreisler used for the premiere of the ­Elgar concerto, with the composer ­conducting, in 1910. Yet though Kreisler admired the work ­enormously, calling it the greatest ­concerto for his instrument since Beethoven's, he never recorded it, so Znaider's recording is the first using this very special violin. Even wit...

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