
Like her previous album for Cedille, which paired concertos by Brahms and Joachim, everything about this release by violinist Rachel Barton Pine is exceptional, from
Oddly, neither the CD front cover nor the title “Virtuoso Violin” indicates that this is an all-Spanish program. What’s important, however, is that these 1972-80
If you want to hear some very well-played Sarasate violin music, performed on a disc devoted solely to that composer’s Spanish Dances, then this new
Dvorák’s Violin Concerto has been undergoing a renaissance of sorts on disc, one that it entirely deserves. Its critics (starting with Joachim and Brahms) dismissed
Sensible programming and freshly minted performances make this Dvorák and Sarasate disc an attractive proposition. Akiko Suwanai, a Japanese virtuoso with an assured technique and
Few violinists can even begin to approach Heifetz in the great Romantic showpieces for which he set formidable standards of technique, temperament, and taste. Henri
Violist Luigi Alberto Bianchi specializes in performances on historical instruments–that is, instruments that have historical value, not period instruments. In these recordings from 1973 and