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. Although the work is probably best known for the heartachingly-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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