Album Summary
Performers
Nigel Kennedy (Violin)
Janine Jansen (Violin)
Clifford Benson (Piano)
Shlomo Mintz (Violin)
Phillip Moll (Piano)
Kyung-Wha Chung (Violin)
Nicola Benedetti (Violin)
Alexei Grynyuk (Piano)
Salvatore Accardo (Violin)
Samuel Sanders (Piano)
Joshua Bell (Violin)
Akiko Suwanai (Violin)
Lakatos Róbert (Violin)
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962)
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Vittorio Monti (1868 - 1922)
John Williams (Film Composer) (1932 - )
Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
Pablo de Sarasate (1844 - 1908)
Notes & Reviews:
This collection of popular encores celebrates the instrument's glittering brilliance and features some of the world's greatest violinists. It contains the intense lyricism of Massenet, Faure and Elgar with thrilling showstoppers by composer-virtuosi such as Paganini, Sarasate and Kreisler.
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Massenet, Jules : Meditation (from "Thaïs") - Performer: Nigel Kennedy (Violin)
- Conductor: Richard Bonynge
- Running Time: 5 min. 46 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
Williams, John : Schindler's List :: Main Theme - Performer: Janine Jansen (Violin)
- Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
- Notes: Composition written: 1993.
- Running Time: 3 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Film Score
- Written: 1993
Shostakovich, Dmitri : The Gadfly Suite :: Romance - Performer: Janine Jansen (Violin)
- Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
- Notes: Composition written: Soviet Union.
- Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
Kreisler, Fritz : Liebesleid - Performers: Clifford Benson (Piano); Shlomo Mintz (Violin)
- Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: by 1910
Kreisler, Fritz : Liebesfreud - Performers: Clifford Benson (Piano); Shlomo Mintz (Violin)
- Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: by 1910
Elgar, Edward : Salut d'amour - Performers: Phillip Moll (Piano); Kyung-Wha Chung (Violin)
- Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1888
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra in E major, Op. 83 - Performer: Kyung-Wha Chung (Violin)
- Conductor: Charles Dutoit
- Running Time: 9 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1863
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) : Après un rêve, Op. 7 no 1 - Performers: Nicola Benedetti (Violin); Alexei Grynyuk (Piano)
- Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1877
Rachmaninov, Sergei : Songs (14), Op. 34 - Performers: Alexei Grynyuk (Piano); Nicola Benedetti (Violin)
- Running Time: 6 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840) : Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1 - Performer: Salvatore Accardo (Violin)
- Running Time: 4 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: circa 1817
Falla, Manuel de : Danza Española no 1 (la vida breve) - Performers: Samuel Sanders (Piano); Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
Brahms, Johannes : Hungarian Dance for piano, 4 hands, in G minor, WoO 1/1 - Performers: Samuel Sanders (Piano); Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1858-1868
Sarasate, Pablo de : Ziegeunerweisen - Performer: Akiko Suwanai (Violin)
- Conductor: Iván Fischer
- Running Time: 7 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1878
Monti, Vittorio : Csárdás - Performer: Lakatos Róbert (Violin)
- Ensemble: Roby Lakatos Ensemble
- Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1904























