Alessandro Crudele - Britten & Elgar: Sea Interludes, Violin Concerto - BBC Music Magazine

The solo violin's first entry sets out Barenboim's terms - wonderful tawny-brown tone-colour, clear but unexaggerated attack, and rather more sliding, expressive portamento than is standard today (but was very much standard in Elgar's time). Besides superb technical command, there's real engagement with the music's central strand of lyrical warmth ...