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MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major; Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major; Violin Sonata No. 22 – Ray Chen, violin/ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orch./Christoph Eschenbach, p. & cond. – Sony

MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major; Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major; Violin Sonata No. 22 – Ray Chen, violin/ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orch./Christoph Eschenbach, p. & cond. – Sony

by John Sunier | May 5, 2014 | Classical CD Reviews

Ray Chen transcends his ‘virtuoso’ status with these elegantly stylized versions of two Mozart concertos and one of his sonatas.

Paganini Variations = LISZT: Grandes etudes de Paganini; BRAHMS: Paganini Variations, Op. 35; LUTOSLAWSKI: Paganini Variations for Two Pianos; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Tzimon Barto, p./ Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orch./ Christoph Eschenbach – Ondine (2 CDs)

Paganini Variations = LISZT: Grandes etudes de Paganini; BRAHMS: Paganini Variations, Op. 35; LUTOSLAWSKI: Paganini Variations for Two Pianos; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Tzimon Barto, p./ Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orch./ Christoph Eschenbach – Ondine (2 CDs)

by John Sunier | Mar 22, 2014 | Classical CD Reviews

Tzimon Barto traverses several of the familiar treatments of the Paganini Caprice No. 24 by composers who relish its bravura keyboard possibilities.