Nicola Benedetti - Elgar Violin Concerto review I Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

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Benedetti/London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Jurowski/Limonov
(Decca)
Benedetti’s tone and decisiveness is made for this work, and she brings an understated edge to the added miniatures, too

The violin was Edward Elgar’s instrument, and when he was composing he thought as a string player: you can hear the idiomatic shaping of lines, the relishing of sonorities, in everything he wrote. Nicola Benedetti’s new recording – out today as a download, with the CD release planned for July – brings together his huge, sumptuous 1910 Violin Concerto with three miniatures for violin and piano that nevertheless say a lot in a few minutes.