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Brahms - Violin Concerto [Kremer/ Bernstein-Wiener Philharmoniker]

And here's another work from this wonderful 3 disc box set, surprisingly it's been almost a year since this work appeared in my Blog, it's one of my favourite Concertos, however i feel that Brahms laboured under the shadow of Beethoven, and never really shook off his influence, therefore i find a lot of similarities between Brahms and Beethoven, especially Brahms making a huge statement in the first movement with 22 minutes. 

Gidon Kremer is Latvian, born in 1947, he's now 64, one of the greatest living Violinists,  

Here's Gidon Kremer playing the slow middle movement on YouTube, with Bernstein conducting.