Synopsis

Richard Baker highlights two performances from this year's 90th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Ida Haendel performs Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77. The London Symphony Orchestra, principal player Michael Davis, is conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Brahms dedicated his sole violin concerto, composed in 1878, to the esteemed violinist Joseph Joachim. The soloist’s Proms debut occurred in 1937, and Sir Henry Wood quickly became a devoted admirer. At 4:30, Tchaikovsky