Apparently, I'm not a tasteless cad for only enjoying the first movement of this piece.

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64 - 1. Allegro Molto Appassionato by Anne - Sophie Mutter; Herbert Von Karajan: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra  
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I sent out an email to some folks this AM looking for some guidance on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. I thought that I was perhaps overlooking something in the second and third movements of this piece but here's one of replies I got:

" . . .Violinists love it, but like some piano concertos and other works (like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata) they suck you in with a great first movement and then they don’t find a good way out. It makes for great list potential – works with great first movements that fall apart after that. Then there’s works with great finales that you have to suffer through. And Rachmaninov is the king of this – there’s usually one great movement in all of his works and the rest of it is sub-John Williams orchestration/time keeping."

Anyway, here's the first movement, listen loud:

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in Em, first movement:

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