
Wynton Marsalis might be best known as a superstar jazz trumpeter and composer, but he has also enjoyed considerable success creating works that blend that rich sound world with classical music, another genre he knows well.
But few of these cross-genre ventures have found greater immediate popularity than his Violin Concerto in D, which was written for famed Scottish soloist Nicola Benedetti and premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra and her in 2015.