Quirkily Playful Vilde Frang plays Tchaikovsky and Nielsen - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... exhilarating to the highest degree.'

In mid-March 1878 Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck about a promising start on his violin concerto after some days' disappointing work. He was at Clarens in Switzerland, and was now exuberant: 'I have been seized by the fire of inspiration that comes from no one knows where, that I have talked about, and that enables me to know in advance that everything I have written today will have the power to enter the heart and make a lasting impression on it.' The lyrical power of the concerto's opening makes the point.She is occasionally elusive and almost surreptitious, spinning a very delicate thread of sound that yet follows the curves of the music in a manner quite her own...

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

CARL NIELSEN

VIOLIN MUSIC

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

EMI CLASSICS

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