Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1

Lorin Maazel had a decisive influence in Frank Peter Zimmermann’s early career, as he opened for him the gates of the Salzburg Festival and took him to his first tour through the United States when the violinist was still a teenager. Their only collaboration on record was devoted to great masterpieces of the Russian repertoire by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.