Midlands Classical Music Making

                                             ELGAR VIOLIN CONCERTO               Frank Peter Zimmerman, London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Edward Gardner (BIS) Elgar’s Violin Concerto has been recorded over 40 times (I have more versions than I can remember), and I can’t recall a duff offering. In just the past two years we have had fine accounts from Vilde Frang, drawing us inward, and Christian Tetzlaff, more extrovert, and both examples of how this wonderful work can inspire international soloists, not just British ones. Now we have a new release from Frank Peter Zimmerman, like Tetzlaff a German violinist, and one who has this concerto under his fingers after many performances worldwide. In an interview pu...