Weekend music to chill by...Joshua Bell Edition

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Tchaikovsky Violin concerto (Same guy who wrote the 1812 Overture we traditionally celebrate the Fourth of July with)
Joshua Bell doing some extremely hot and sweaty fiddling.
Valery Gergiev conducting the National Youth Orchestra of the United States at the BBC Proms in 2013.

Enjoy:

Peter Tchaikovsky called Johannes Brahms a "giftless bastard". I beg to differ.
They were both quite talented.

[Blue Owl]

1. One of the great violin concertos

I love the bold, rhapsodic "heart-on-sleeve" lyricism of Tchaikovsky.

But I believe it was Itzahk Perlman who said the Brahms concerto is the "jewel" of the genre, and hard to dispute that claim...

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2. Yes, among the Big Four, as they are called.

Mendelssohn, Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky.

The Brahms is great too. The beginning of the third movement of the Brahms violin concerto was my ringtone for a while:

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3. THANKS!

Waited in the car for this to end yesterday; the bank would still be there!

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4. and Max Bruch!

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5. Yehudi was very cool!

he even got a knighthood so his first name was "Sir".

Thanks for the reminder about the Bruch! I'd forgotten that I am familiar with the last movement theme.

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6. Didn't know that!

Sir Yehudi!!!