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After Mendelssohn’s superb musical picture of the surging sea around Fingal’s Cave, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is the supreme masterpiece of the form, building from the simplest of openings to a beautifully balanced and satisfying work.

Mendelssohn’s fourth symphony is like a journal of the excited young composer’s first impressions of Italy, in which the overall feeling is one of sheer exhilaration.

“It does not suffice to say that his tone is big and silvery, his musicianship prodigious, his intellectual grasp profound. He has a unique personal affinity for his instrument and for music…” Daily Telegraph on Ernst Kovacic

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