The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal ... the argument by resolving the first theme in B minor. Then it takes wing in a flight of ecstatic ...
a violin sonata and a piano quintet – which had been given their first performances at the Wigmore Hall the previous May. Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work ...
Giovanni Antonini leads Il Giardino Armonico through a sampler of Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, with a stellar Isabelle Faust leading the soloists.