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Edward Elgar Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor op. 61
Peter Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 74 "Pathetique"

Violin Daniel Hope
Staatskapelle Halle
Conductor Fabrice Bollon

"This is a requiem, a real requiem!" wrote a devastated friend to Tchaikovsky before the premiere of the "Pathetique". Less than two weeks later, the composer died under circumstances that remain unexplained to this day. In their own way, Elgar's B minor Symphony and B minor Violin Concerto tell of longing and hope, but also of heartbreaking farewells: in this they are the musical and emotional legacies of their composers. How puzzling, and what a pity that this melancholy, pulsating work, unlike the related "Pathetique", never really became popular after an early recording of the rhapsodic solo part by the very young Yehudi Menuhin...

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