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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
With its high drama, unabashed emotionalism, rhythmic verve and sackful of good
tunes, Tchaikovsky's might be the ideal violin concerto to unleash upon a classical
music newcomer.
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Not that the 19th-century critic Eduard Hanslick would have agreed, mind. Hanslick,
conservative in his tastes, labelled the concerto 'stinking music'. Then again,
Hanslick was famously close to Brahms, who had written his own violin concerto at
around the same time. Tchaikovsky had been unimpressed with the latter.
