Among the cadenzas for the Beethoven violin concerto, Fritz Kreisler's has for a long time been the most played. It creates an apotheosis of the whole movement, in which two of the themes from the movement are played simultaneously. When the orchestra enters again, it feels like one of the most tender and vulnerable moments in the whole piece! I love composing my own cadenzas, and have been working for years on a cadenza for the Beethoven concerto, but the bar is set so high by Kreisler, and I l

99K views · 2.1K reactions | Watch a remarkable archival footage of Itzhak Perlman presenting Elgar’s three-movement Violin Concerto in B at the Royal Albert Hall. Accompagnied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Perlman offered us a passionate rendition of a piece dedicated to the legendary Fritz Kreisler. https://bit.ly/43KODlf | medici.tv | Facebook