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Posted by Douglas Smith
on July 29, 2008, 2:44 pm
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I have no idea how many times I have listened to the Elgar Violin Concerto in the sixty-five years since I first heard it, but after three hearings of this month's Prom performance I'm prepared to go out on a limb and say that this is the standard against which all performances, past and future, should be assessed. I'm sure Elgar would have been thrilled. We had a wonderful interpreter with well nigh faultless technique, as we have known for well over 20 years now; a sensitive conductor who, for me, has never put a foot wrong in anything I have heard him play, especially Elgar; and what a splendid experience and a total triumph for the members of the astonishingly versatile BBCCO. Surely I can't be alone in thinking this way.
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