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CBS Evening News
RBP & Sylvia Pine share two pieces
Deep River on Chicago Tonight
Rachel Barton Pine & Jory Vinikour ? J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord
PBS NewsHour
Sunday Interludes: Rachel Barton Pine performs Black Sababth/Ozzy Osbourne
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1 David N. Baker: Blues (Deliver My Soul)  
2 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blues Forms for solo violin  
3 Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk) for solo violin  
4 William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Piano  
5 Noel Da Costa: A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin  
6 Clarence Cameron White: Levee Dance  
7 Duke Ellington, arr. Wendall Logan: In a Sentimental Mood  
8 Dolores White: Blues Dialogues for solo violin  
9 Errollyn Wallen: Woogie Boogie  
10 Billy Childs: Incident on Larpenteur Avenue  
11 Daniel Bernard Roumain: Filter for Unaccompanied Violin  
12 Charles S. Brown: A Song Without Words  
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille Records' best-selling artist and longtime advocate for music by Black composers, performs a program of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and violin and piano by Black composers of the 20th and 21st centuries on Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers, her newest Cedille Records album. Pianist Matthew Hagle, Pine's longtime recital partner, joins her on their third album together on Cedille and Pine's 21st for the Chicago-based label.

'Blues Dialogues' features several world-premiere recordings: Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, Dolores White's expanded, four-movement version of her Blues Dialogues for solo violin, and Billy Childs's Incident on Larpenteur Avenue, a single-movement violin sonata exploring the events and impact of the 2016 killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer.

  • How Rachel Barton Pine is converting heavy metal fans to classical music / BBC Music Magazine
    Posted At: August 21, 2024
    From BBC Music Magazine…..American violinist Rachel Barton Pine takes inspiration from Scottish folk to thrash metal – and, as she tells Charlotte Smith, she’s now making new musical discoveries through parenthood. Charlotte Smith writes…..Rachel Barton Pine is a violinist through and through. As a three year-old, the precocious youngster pestered her bemused parents for lessons following a performance by s...

  • Joined by her daughter Sylvia, Rachel Barton Pine is set perform with Symphoria / localSYR.com
    Posted At: January 25, 2024
    In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classic and contemporary works, her performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly fascination with historical research. She plays with passion and conviction, thrilling audiences worldwide with her dazzling technique, lustro...

  • Rachel Barton Pine: Violin virtuoso bridging boundaries / One Symphony with Devin Patrick Hughes
    Posted At: January 5, 2024
    Devin Patrick Hughes writes….Conductor Devin Patrick Hughes is joined by the remarkable violin virtuoso Rachel Barton Pine on One Symphony. Dive into Rachel’s intriguing blend of genres from her early beginnings with the violin and her Chicago Symphony debut, to her exploration of heavy metal and traditional fiddling styles. Rachel shares how experience with modern composers enhances her interpretation of h...

  • Dependent Arising: Rachel Barton Pine on her latest concerto album that combines classical and heavy metal / Planet Hugill
    Posted At: December 18, 2023
    Planet Hugill writes…..American violinist Rachel Barton Pine's most recent disc, on the Cedille Records label, Dependent Arising, pairs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with a new concerto, Dependent Arising, written especially for Rachel, by Earl Maneein, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Tito Muñoz. The pairing very much encapsulates Rachel's freewheeling...

  • Rachel Barton Pine introduces 'Music By Black Composers, Vol. 2' / Violinist.com
    Posted At: December 11, 2023
    Violinist.com's Laurie Niles writes……Rachel Barton Pine has made it her mission to bring music by Black composers to the concert stage, to the recording studio and to the classroom.To that end - today she has some exciting news for violin teachers and students: the release of Music By Black Composers, Violin Volume 2 - a set of two books of sheet music containing 31 works for violin by 20 Black composers. (...

  • Rachel Barton Pine chats about 'Dependent Arising' with NYC's 89.9WKCR
    Posted At: November 30, 2023
    Heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music. Pine performs with the world’s leading or...

  • Rachel Barton Pine and Inna Faliks show off the blues at Ravinia / third coast review
    Posted At: November 6, 2023
    3CR's Louis Harris writes….Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianist Inna Faliks gave a lovely recital at Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall on Saturday night. The program included bluesy and soulful modern music by African American composers from Pine’s CD release Blues Dialogues from 2018 on Cedille Records. The concert also included music by European composers influenced by African music and musicians.Pine and...

  • Rachel Barton Pine's 'Dependent Arising' mixes classical with heavy metal / third coast review
    Posted At: November 2, 2023
    third coast review writes….Chicago is well known for having a rich and robust classical music community. One of the best measures of that is the talent that emerges from it. One great example is violinist Rachel Barton Pine, who tours the world and has performed with every great orchestra. She has a large recording catalogue. She does chamber music. She has a foundation that helps children with financial ne...

  • Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein chat about 'Dependent Arising' with Tucson's classical 91.5KBACH
    Posted At: October 18, 2023
    The Cedille Records release of ‘Dependent Arising,’ is violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording with the label. The album, inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concerto written exp...

  • Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein chat about 'Dependent Arising' with WFSU Public Media
    Posted At: September 29, 2023
    The Cedille Records release of Dependent Arising, by Rachel Barton Pine is the violinist's 24th recording with the label. The album, inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concerto writte...

  • Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein chat about 'Dependent Arising' with FM91 - Toledo OH: WGTE, Classical Conversations
    Posted At: September 28, 2023
    Cedille Records releases Dependent Arising, violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording with the label. The album, inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concerto written expressly for ...

  • With fiery, passionate playing, Rachel Barton Pine delivers an unforgettable night of music with FM Symphony / INFORUM
    Posted At: September 24, 2023
    Guest violinist wowed the big crowd with three numbers, receiving multiple standing ovations.INFORUM's John Lamb writes….In its first concert of the season, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra set the bar outrageously high for the remaining four Masterworks shows. Guest violinist Rachel Barton Pine was thoroughly dazzling in three wildly different pieces, showcasing her amazing skills and feel for music. ...

  • Louisville Public Media: Behind the Playlist chats with violinists Rachel Barton Pine and Earl Maneein
    Posted At: September 22, 2023
    The Cedille Records release of Dependent Arising features violinist Rachel Barton Pine in her 24th recording with the label. The album, inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concerto wri...

  • Lots of sound and fury on Rachel Barton Pine's 'Dependent Arising' / the arts fuse
    Posted At: August 28, 2023
    the arts fuse - onathan Blumhofer writes….A three-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, Dependent Arising fuses the worlds of heavy metal, punk rock, and 20th-century classical composition into a furious, frenetic, sometimes tortured thirty-minute whole.“I love when people say ‘like crack’ who’ve obviously never done crack,” B.J. Novack’s character, Ryan Howard, quips in a 2011 episode of The Office. ...

  • Rachel Barton Pine at full steam / SFCV Q&A
    Posted At: August 25, 2023
    She “self-identified” as a violinist by age 6 and some years later also became a devoted headbanger. She is Rachel Barton Pine, and at 48, the Chicago-born musician has performed with the world’s leading orchestras. Her recording Dependent Arising just dropped on Cedille Records. Exploring connections between classical music and, yes, heavy metal, the release features concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich and Ea...

  • Rachel Barton Pine - Dependent Arising is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: August 21, 2023
    On Friday, August 11, Cedille Records released Dependent Arising, violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording with the label. The album was inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concer...

  • Violinist.com - For the Record features: Rachel Barton Pine's 24th Cedille Records recording: 'Dependent Arising'
    Posted At: August 11, 2023
    Cedille Records releases Dependent Arising, violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording with the label. The album, inspired by the surprising consequences between classical and heavy metal music, pairs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein's “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a heavy metal-influenced classical concerto written expressly for ...

  • Rachel Barton Pine. Uncovering a valuable legacy / New Music Buff
    Posted At: April 23, 2023
    New Music Buff's Allan J. Cronin writes….This album, largely a re-release of Barton’s groundbreaking recording of 1987 without the Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major by CHEVALIER J.J.O. DE MEUDE-MONPAS (FL. C. 1786) but with the wonderful addition of Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto of 1952. That alone is worth the price of this disc.Rachel Barton Pine who made her debut at age 10 with the Chicago Symp...

  • Rachel Barton Pine brings her superb violin skills to the work of criminally overlooked black composers / TAKE EFFECT
    Posted At: March 28, 2023
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th...

  • Winnipeg CLASSIC 107 honors 'Black History Month' with Rachel Barton Pine
    Posted At: February 13, 2023
    Black History Month: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine champions violin concertos by Black composersWinnipeg CLASSIC 107 - Chris Wolf writes……Last year the Cedille Record label re-issued a landmark recording done by the American Violinist Rachel Barton Pine called “Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.” Originally released in 1997, this re-issue marks 25 years since the CD’s initial release....

  • After 25 years, Rachel Barton Pine continues to champion Black composers / Texas Public Radio
    Posted At: February 3, 2023
    Texas Public Radio's Nathan Cone writes….Rachel Barton Pine's album "Violin Composers by Black Composers" has been newly reissued.Classical music may occupy the number one spot on violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s personal playlist, but close behind is Chicago blues. And growing up in Chicago — where different kinds of music naturally coalesced — influenced her approach to performance and curation.“We had ense...

  • Rachel Barton Pine chats with The 2nd Street Dreams Audio Network about 'Black Composers Through the Centuries'
    Posted At: January 23, 2023
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her latest Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 1...

  • Rachel Barton Pine chats with 88.9WFSU Public Media
    Posted At: January 9, 2023
    Violinist Rachel Barton Pine is Cedille Records’ best-selling artist. She regularly solos with leading orchestras including, in 2022, the Chicago and Vienna Radio Symphonies and Grant Park Orchestra. She has also performed on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR’s Tiny Desk.Her discography of 40 albums includes 21 for Cedille as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in repertoire spann...

  • KDFC: Play On, California! features Rachel Barton Pine - Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries
    Posted At: December 6, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th...

  • Rachel Barton Pine performs and speaks at the Purdue University Northwest Sinai Forum / nwi.com
    Posted At: December 4, 2022
    World-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Sunday at the Purdue University Northwest Sinai Forum at its Westville campus.Violinist speaks at PNW forum and starts, ends presentation on high notesnwi.com's Doug Ross writes….Rachel Barton Pine, a former child prodigy on the violin, is working to help young musicians in their early careers.Pine, who started playing the violin at age 3, performed with ...

  • Rachel Barton Pine talks about 'Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries' with VPM Music
    Posted At: November 30, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th...

  • Rachel and the Violin / IPR chats with Rachel Barton Pine
    Posted At: November 7, 2022
    Rachel Barton Pine says for her, one instrument is enough."I'm interested in everything that has to do with the violin and nothing that doesn't," Pine says. "The only thing I wanted to do was play things that were like the violin, whether it was a medieval ancestor of the violin, a cousin of the violin like the viola d'amore, the electric violin."IPR - Classical Sprouts host Kate Botello writes….When she wa...

  • Rachel Barton Pine: Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries is ideastream: Recording of the Week
    Posted At: October 28, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th...

  • Rachel Barton Pine sits down for a 2nd round of classical radio interviews to discuss her new Cedille Records album
    Posted At: October 25, 2022
    Violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries, available September 9, 2022.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of th...

  • Rachel Barton Pine chats with radio about 'Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries'
    Posted At: October 25, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries, available Released on September 9, 2022, the new album marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos...

  • Rachel Barton Pine - Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries is a delightful album / Classical Candor
    Posted At: October 22, 2022
    Music of Bologne, Lafitte, Coleridge-Taylor, and Price. Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Encore Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Hege, conductor; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jonathon Heyward, conductor. Cedille Records CDR 90000 214.Classical Candor's John J. Puccio writes….Cedille Records reached back into their archives for several of the items on this album and recorded a brand-new selection to wrap it up. Mo...

  • 'Violin Concertos by Black Composers' is an indispensable addition to Rachel Barton Pine's 40 album discography / textura
    Posted At: October 20, 2022
    textura writes….In issuing an album of violin concertos by composers of African descent, Rachel Barton Pine could be seen to be capitalizing on the recent resurgence of interest in figures such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, George Walker, and Florence Price. Said presumption would be wrong on a number of counts. Firstly, Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries is a Pine ...

  • Rachel Barton Pine's 'Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries' gets 91.5WXXI - CD Spotlight
    Posted At: October 17, 2022
    Sharing releases, present and past, to brighten your day. WXXI Classical has its eyes and ears on the latest releases from classical artists working today. When we come across a story or a release we think you might enjoy, we’ll be sharing it with you on CD Spotlight. You’ll learn more about the artists online at WXXI Classical, and you’ll hear selections from these artists on FM 91.5. CD Spotlight shares n...

  • Rachel Barton Pine. Discovering music by Black composers / theStrad
    Posted At: October 6, 2022
    theStrad writes…The violinist recalls her journey exploring works by overlooked composers and how embracing diverse voices promises enriching experiencesOne of the most joyful recent developments in classical music is the widespread embracing of a greater diversity of repertoire than ever before. Performers and teachers are adding works by underrepresented composers, including women and composers of colour,...

  • Rachel Barton Pine's 'Violin Concertos by Black Composers' debuts No. 5 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums Chart
    Posted At: September 22, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries. The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19t...

  • Rachel Barton Pine - Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: September 15, 2022
    Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward, on her new Cedille Records album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.The new release marks the 25th anniversary of Pine’s pioneering 1997 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th...
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