Midori Goto – Salut d´Amour, Op.12 [Edward Elgar]Art by © Vladimir Volegov
Salut d´Amour was composed by Edward Elgar in 1888 for violin and piano. Edward Elgar was born on 2nd June 1857 at Broadheath, a village some three miles from the small city of Worcester in the English West Midlands. His father had a music shop in Worcester and tuned pianos.
Midori was born in Osaka, Japan in 1971 and began studying the violin with her mother, Setsu Goto, at a very early age. Zubin Mehta first heard Midori play in 1982, and it was he who invited her to make her now legendary debut – at the age of 11 – at the New York Philharmonic’s traditional New Year’s Eve concert, on which occasion she received a standing ovation and the impetus to begin a major career. Today Midori lives in Los Angeles. Her violin is the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù “ex-Huberman”. She uses three bows – two by Dominique Peccatte, and one by Paul Siefried.
Album – Encore! (1999); Label – Sony Classic.
Midori – violin; Robert McDonald – piano.
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