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You're listening to a download of soul music from BBC Radio 4.

The first thing that strikes me about this piece is that unlike concertos pre this period,

there's no big orchestral introduction where you get an idea of the themes that might be about to appear.

Not at all in the Mendelsohn's Violin Chetto.

You are straight in, you have a mere bar and a half to get your act together

and you are in with this fantastic theme.

Music theme. And of course, listening to that theme, one thing is glaringly obvious.

Where are the other three strings on the violin?

It's all on the east ring.

I would say to play it as an enormous gift because it's so full of emotion.

It's a young man's declaration of laugh, really.

And in every, almost in every bar, you have jubilation.

Even in the sad moments or the sadder moments,

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