LSO/Davis - review

Barbican, LondonElgar's Violin Concerto was exactly 100 years old on Wednesday, and the London Symphony Orchestra, which recorded the work under the composer, naturally marked the anniversary with a performance. Colin Davis conducted and the soloist was Nikolaj Znaider, but what gave their account special resonance was the violin Znaider used – a 1741 Guarneri del Gesu that had once belonged to the virtuoso Fritz Kreisler, and on which he almost certainly premiered the concerto at the Queen's ...

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