There are many violin concertos that have become crowd pleasers, but I have a fondness for Samuel Barber's only concerto for the instrument. The somewhat apocryphal story about the work is that it was commissioned by Samuel Fels, a rather demanding fellow who thought the work was too simplistic. Barber’s solution was to add a fiendishly challenging finale, to which Fels’s response was that it had become too complex and impossible to play. Although the work is probably best known for the heart achingly beautiful middle movement, here's that "fiendish" finale, titled "perpetual motion," as played by Joshua Bell and the Baltimore Symphony, with David Zinman conducting:
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