Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Gil Shaham and David Zinman
Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto calls for a soloist who can bring its tenderly autumnal, lyrical tone to life without sentimentality. Gil Shaham, who performed the work with the Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor David Zinman in 2008, is such an artist. Also on the programme was Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra from the composer’s last years, which brilliantly alternates between elegy and a defiant will to live.
Berliner Philharmoniker
David Zinman
Gil Shaham
© 2008 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Our recommendations
- Claudio Abbado conducts music from “Carmen” at the 1997 New Year’s Eve Concert
- 2002 Europakonzert from Palermo with Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham
- Zubin Mehta conducts Saint-Saëns’s “Organ Symphony”
- Susanna Mälkki and Gil Shaham
- David Zinman conducts Beethoven and the “Neruda Songs” by Peter Lieberson
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