Can the French play Elgar?
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The first soloist I ever heard play Elgar was the French cellist Paul Tortelier at the Royal Festival Hall — elegant, expressive and chastely romantic, half an hour of unblemished beauty. I was a kid and that must have been 60 years ago. Since then, I’ve heard maybe one other French cellist attempt an Elgar concerto, but never, until now, a violinist….
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