Musical Analysis
Elgar said of the Violin Concerto, "It's good! awfully emotional! too emotional, but I love it." Like earlier violin concertos including those of Beethoven and Brahms, Elgar's has three movements. The Elgar biographer Michael Kennedy suggests that structurally the concerto is modelled on those by Brahms and perhaps Bruch. It is on a very large scale for a concerto, typically taking between 45 and 55 minutes to perform (see "Recordings" below for indicative timings).
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