You know, i get the feeling i play this Concerto every other week [and never get bored with it], in reality i have such a large cycle of discs being played, that i get to listen to this work every other month!, and this certain disc was played two years ago! [1st August 2010], but it was so good to listen to this again today.
Pinchas Zukerman is Israeli, but now lives in Canada i believe, he is now 64 years old, he made this recording in 1992, the booklet is all oranges and browns [photo by Richard Haughton], really nice, it's clever that the photographer probably used a step ladder to shoot down at his subjects, a nice angle, and a wonderfully sharp picture to boot.
I very much enjoyed all of these movements equally, Bruch has a consistent quality to this Violin Concerto, i suppose if i had to plump for one movement above the others, it would be the slow middle movement, linked to the ending of the first movement, it has an endearing tune presented by the violin, full of pathos, but this broadens out into a deeper passion [0:58-1:41], later Zukerman brings the full force of the violin into play [.
Here's Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta playing the slow movement on YouTube, though it's not the same performance as on this disc.
Here's Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta playing the slow movement on YouTube, though it's not the same performance as on this disc.
