Since you are interested in Violin Concerto No.3 in B minor & other French works (Incls Massenet - Meditation from 'Thais'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Free David Garrett (violin) [ Decca / CD - released 4/Apr/2007 ] Yehudi Menuin's star student, David Garrett, reached the pinnacle of the international classical world by the time he was a teenager. Violin studies continued in New York, this time with Itzhak Perlman while discovering his own creativity with... |
PABLO SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for violin and piano Vol 2 (Incls Homenaje a Rossini) Tianwa Yang (violin) Markus Hadulla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Dec/2007 ] "Sarasate's Concert Fantasies on operas by Rossini, Hérold , Verdi and Flotow may not be quite as imaginative as Liszt's, but they still offer many entertaining moments in these sparkling accounts." (BBC Music) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Joshua Bell (violin) / Academy of St Martin In The Fields [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Sep/2008 ] "This music is so familiar and its technical demands so mainstream these days that any of today's better-trained violinists could deliver a respectable rendition--of any Vivaldi concerto for that matter. But Bell's assured performances and... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Corigliano: The Red Violin Concerto / Sonata for Violin & Piano Joshua Bell (violin) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Sony Classical / CD - released 21/Sep/2007 ] American composer John Corigliano (b. 1938) has summed up his artistic aims thus: "It has been fashionable of late for the artist to be misunderstood. I think it is the job of the composer to reach out to his audience with every means at his disposal |