Dima Slobodeniouk & Elina Vähälä
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By the time he came to write his second Violin Concerto in the 1960s, Shostakovich had become free from some of the constraints of the strict Soviet regime. The solo violin of Elina Vähälä shadows the French horn, giving the concerto a gripping sense of a world beneath the surface.