NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Frank Peter Zimmermann / Andris Poga

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Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 20:00

Venue

»If you want to know who I consider to be the most important living composer, I say without hesitation: Elgar... I put him on the same level as my idols Beethoven and Brahms.« This is how the violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler enthused about Edward Elgar in 1905 – and added a personal request: »I wish Elgar would compose something for the violin.« The flattered man was happy to fulfil this wish. Albeit with a few years’ delay. Edward Elgar completed... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert

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Musicians

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Frank Peter Zimmermann	Violin
Andris Poga	Conductor

Program

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 61	Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93	Dmitri Shostakovich

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