Delius: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

Since Brahms’s seminal work, very few composers have dared to tackle the genre of double concerto for violin and cello, a true challenge in terms of orchestration and balance of the voices. Frederick Delius’s double concerto is undoubtedly the only one to have stood the test of time, and for good reason: with its elegiac character and the great sensuality of the intertwining solo parts, it is one of the composer’s underappreciated masterpieces. Here we hear it performed by two of the greatest virtuosos on their respective instruments, Yehudi Menuhin and Paul Tortelier: the delicate poetry of one blends perfectly with the warm lyricism of the other in this definitive recording.