Saturday, December 16, 2023

Music: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (Tchaikovsky)

I've been a fan of classical music since I was a little kid, and one of the pieces that started that fandom was Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. As I recall, the bubbly, uptempo final movement was used as incidental music for a cartoon I saw on TV, and it stayed with me ever since.

I recently saw a spirited performance of the concerto by the Palm Beach Symphony and Akiko Suwanai, who famously won the International Tchaikovsky Competition back in 1990 at the tender age of 18:



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