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For many years this was my favorite version of Vivaldi’s most popular work. When it first came out, it seemed fresh and alive, bursting with
This second volume of “Reiner Era” historical recordings, available direct from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, contains several significant additions to his repertoire, including an intensely
The hard-to-blend association of violin and piano has often been considered by American composers a good opportunity to display their imagination and craft, whatever their
Born in France from a Spanish father, Philipp Jarnach (1892-1982) found his own voice as a composer in Switzerland during World War I. Later he
Naxos embarks on a cycle devoted to violinist Fritz Kreisler’s complete concerto recordings, and the verdict for Volume One is a big, ripe hosanna! The
Naxos’ exciting and important American Classics series now includes music of the present day, in this case three recent works by Philip Glass. The Violin
Harmonia Mundi and Radio-France co-produce a collection presenting what they call “the cream of the new generation of musicians”. As in any collection of this
The violinist Gilles Apap was born in Nice, France, but has been living in California for more than a decade. A protégé of Yehudi Menuhin,
This generous compilation presents Sibelius’ popular Violin Concerto along with some of his lesser-known works. Boris Belkin pulls out all the stops and then some
Dimitry Sitkovetsky plays Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with such convincing musicianship, intelligence, and nobility that had he played the premiere in 1881 the work might have
