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Mendelssohn & Schumann Violin Concertos

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Rachel records Mendelssohn & Schumann
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
RBP on Israel's i24 news June 2018
Rachel Barton Pine, Artist Check-In with WQXR - NYC's Elliott Forrest

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01/12/2020 - Morton Arboretum / Lisle, IL
02/01/2020 - Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra / Chicago, IL
02/06/2020 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Dundee, Scottland
02/07/2020 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Edinburgh, Scottland
02/08/2020 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Glasgow, Scottland
02/16/2020 - Big Arts Center / Sanibel, FL
02/17/2020 - Queen of All Saints Academy / Tampa, FL
02/21/2020 - Javacya Conservatory / Tallahassee, FL
02/25/2020 - University of Evansville Orchestra / Evansville, IL
03/07/2020 - Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra / Winston-Salem, NC
03/08/2020 - Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra / Winston-Salem, NC
03/10/2020 - Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra / Winston-Salem, NC
03/13/2020 - Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra / Flagstaff, AZ
03/15/2020 - Chamber Music Albuquerque / Albuquerque, NM
03/20/2020 - San Francisco Early Music Society / Palo Alto, CA
03/21/2020 - San Francisco Early Music Society / Berkeley, CA
03/22/2020 - San Francisco Early Music Society / Franklin, CA
03/28/2020 - Davis High School Baroque Ensemble / Davis, CA
03/29/2020 - San Diego Early Music Society / El Cajon, CA
04/02/2020 - The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center / College Park, MD
04/06/2020 - Congregation Rodef Shalom / Pittsburgh, PA
04/18/2020 - Early Music Seattle / Seattle, WA
04/19/2020 - Early Music Seattle / Seattle, WA
04/24/2020 - National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica / San Jose, Costa Rica
04/26/2020 - National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica / San Jose, Costa Rica
05/02/2020 - Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra / Oglesby, IL
05/03/2020 - North Shore Senior Center / Northfield, IL
1 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64/1
2 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64/2
3 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64/3
4 Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra, No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40
5 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor, WoO 23/
6 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor, WoO 23/2
7 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor, WoO 23/3
8 Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Nol. 2 in F Major, Op. 50
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Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs early Romantic concertos by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann with Christoph-Mathias Mueller conducting Germany's Göttinger Symphonie Orchestera on the new album Mendelssohn & Schumann Violin Concertos (Cedille Records CDR 90000 144). Following critically praised and commercially successful recordings of the violin concertos of Brahms and Beethoven, the internationally acclaimed musician interprets two more major works of the violin literature. 

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  • 9-year-old Sylvia Pine performs a traditional Hanukkah song in a most entertaining way
    Posted At : December 10, 2020 12:00 AM

    Happy Hanukkah from Violinist extraordinaire Rachel Barton Pine. She says: I'm so grateful to the Chicago Children's Choir for introducing my daughter Sylvia to this beautiful Hebrew song. CCC  inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music. In just the last few months, Sylvia has taken classes about Latin America, jazz, and gospel music,...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine and Elliott Forrest to donate lessons in support of battered women and children / The Violin Channel
    Posted At : November 24, 2020 12:00 AM

    The American violinist; Rachel Barton Pine is joined by WQXR: NYC broadcaster; Elliott Forrest to give lessons in support of battered women and children. The pair's Zoom classes will be auctioned off online from November 20th-28th as part of a larger fundraiser held by the Los Angeles House of Ruth, a shelter for the abused. Barton Pine, the violinist, will provide a violin-specific course while Forr...
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  • OurConcertslive brings together classical music's biggest stars for virtual concert supporting Artist Relief Tree / PIX11
    Posted At : April 2, 2020 12:00 AM

    This Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT, OurConcerts.live, a new online channel and streaming service, will bring together some of the industry's biggest stars for a virtual benefit concert. All proceeds will go to the Artist Relief Tree, a fund created in the past few weeks to financially support artists who are affected by cancellations due to COVID-19. The concert will feature pianist...
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  • 95.5KHFM: Albuquerque interviews Rachel Barton Pine
    Posted At : March 9, 2020 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine, joined multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a new Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos release on AVIE Records.  The album, featuring Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each composer's prominent use of his own traditional ethnic m...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine records 'headbanger' concerto / New Classical Tracks
    Posted At : February 26, 2020 12:00 AM

    What happens when you have hall and a producer reserved and ready to go, and your musical collaborator has to back out at the last minute? If you're violinist Rachel Barton Pine, you find a new collaborator, and you record two concertos that have been on your bucket list for a long time. Teddy Abrams and the Scottish National Orchestra join Rachel on her 39th recording, which features violin concerto...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine gets folksy with Dvorak And Khachaturian / CLASSICAL CLASSROOM
    Posted At : January 29, 2020 12:00 AM

    Violinist and Classroom mascot Rachel Barton Pine is back to teach all about the violin concertos of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and Soviet-Armenian Aram Khachaturian. Learn about their lives and music! Get lost with Dvorak in NYC! Hear about Khachaturian becoming a new father! Find out who threw shade at Dvorak and mucked up his concerto composing process, and how Khachaturian wrote his concerto in a ...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine takes WETA through her favorite moments of the Dvorak - Khachaturian Concertos
    Posted At : January 24, 2020 12:00 AM

    WETA Evening Host James Jacobs speaks with world renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine about her latest album on the Avie label, a pairing of the violin concertos of Antonín Dvořák and Aram Khachaturian, in which she collaborates with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams. In this wide-ranging conversation Ms. Pine takes us through her favorite moments of bot...
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  • Dvorak & Khachaturian Violin Concertos is a wholly enjoyable coupling with Rachel Barton-Pine in good form throughout / MusicWeb International
    Posted At : January 24, 2020 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton-Pine is one of my very favourite violinists. There are a number of reasons for this but, in essence, it is her fusion of rock-solid yet scintillating technique allied to brilliant musicianship as well as intelligent and stimulating programming. The liner mentions that she has recorded 39 discs which, by definition, covers the bulk of the core violin repertoire as well as many fascinating ra...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine discusses Dvorak & Khachaturian Violin Concertos with Central and Northern Michigan Radio
    Posted At : January 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    Chart-topping, international violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine, joined multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a new Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos release on AVIE Records.  The album, featuring Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each composer...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine inspires young musicians by celebrating black composers / CBS Evening News
    Posted At : January 16, 2020 12:00 AM

    At Brooklyn's Ryder Elementary School, students in the Harmony Program got a front row seat to world-class violinist Rachel Barton Pine. She plays music you may have never heard, by composers like Ignatius Sancho, a self taught British slave, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who was once the envy of Mozart. "This music, a lot of it hasn't been published. A lot of it was published but is long out o...
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  • A pair of folk-inspired concertos from Rachel Barton Pine / KDFC: State of the Arts
    Posted At : January 8, 2020 12:00 AM

    Violinist Rachel Barton Pine says the concertos she's paired on her most recent recording are often overlooked, since they aren't learned and performed as frequently as Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, or Brahms. But Antonin Dvorak and Aram Khachaturian‘s concertos are great works, which were influenced by the folk traditions of their homelands. "Both of them have been part of my life since I was a te...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine discusses Dvorak & Khachaturian Violin Concertos with Spokane Public Radio
    Posted At : January 7, 2020 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine, joins conductor Teddy Abrams leading the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a new Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos release, on AVIE records. Featuring Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, the album highlights each composer's prominent use of his own traditional ethnic music. This Dvo"...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine discusses Dvorak & Khachaturian Violin Concertos with 90.3KEDT - Corpus Christi
    Posted At : December 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    Chart-topping, international violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine, joined by multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, has released; Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos, on AVIE records.  The album, featuring Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each composer&#...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine makes a PublicRadio90 - Classiclectic Connection
    Posted At : December 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    Violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine performs Dvorak and Khachaturian concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (led by Teddy Abrams) on this recording from Avie Records. Growing up with a piece of music is something very special for many instrumentalists, and that's something that violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine has done in this new recording (along with the Royal Scottish National Orchest...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine is back for day 2 with classical radio
    Posted At : December 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Chart-topping, international violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine, joined by multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, released Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos, on AVIE on November 1.  The album features Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each compos...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine talks Dvorak and Khachaturian with classical radio
    Posted At : December 11, 2019 12:00 AM

    Chart-topping, international violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine, joined by multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, released Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos, on AVIE on November 1.  The album features Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each composer...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine - Dvorak and Khachaturian Concertos is unlikely to duplicate anything in your collection / New Music Buff
    Posted At : December 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton-Pine is one of the finest and most interesting performers working today.  Her unique look at the performing repertoire for her instrument continues to be one of the most salient features of her artistry.  Certainly her interpretive abilities are foremost but her choices of neglected repertoire make any release of her recordings a reason to pay close attention. In the past she ...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine presents a thoroughly enjoyable album of Dvorak - Khachaturian concertos, worthy of more attention / THE REHEARSAL STUDIO
    Posted At : December 2, 2019 12:00 AM

    At the beginning of this month, Avie Records released its latest album featuring violinist Rachel Barton Pine. The album is devoted to two concertos, both of which get less attention than they deserve. These are presented in chronological order, beginning with Antonín Dvořák's Opus 53 concerto in A minor, which always seems to lurk in the shadows behind the far more popular Opus 104 ce...
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  • New OSM, Kent Nagano - John Adams & RBP - Khachaturian, Dvorak get this week's Classical104.9 New Orleans 'pick'
    Posted At : November 25, 2019 12:00 AM

    JAMES AREY picks for NOV 23, 2019........We've been previewing some terrific new recordings for our Classical 104.9 FM music library. Some of these new CDs feature familiar material; some explore brand-new musical landscapes.  Conductor Kent Nagano leads the Montreal Symphony in a survey of American composer John Adams' iconic music from the 1980s, in 'The John Adams Album.' The viol...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine - Dvorak, Khachaturian Violin Concertos w/RSNO - Teddy Abrams is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At : November 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, joined by conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, has released a new album pairing the violin concertos by Antonín Dvořák and Aram Khachaturian. Pine explains, "The thing that really connects these concertos is that both composers were really inspired by the ethnic music of their particular region of the world: Dvořák ...
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  • Cedille Records announces 9 semifinalists in Chicago based - emerging artist competition / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At : November 14, 2019 12:00 AM

    Cedille Records Announces Nine Semifinalists in Emerging Artist Competition for Chicago-Based Musicians. Liste includes:  Artemisia, vocal ensemble (28, 30, 36) Emily Birsan, soprano (34) Claire Bourg, violin (24) Maya Anjali Buchanan, violin (19) Karisa Chiu, violin (20) Johannes Gray, cello (22) Clare Longendyke, piano (32) Andrew Rosenblum, harpsichord (33) Jul...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine talks 'Blues Dialogues' with WCMU - Public Radio Michigan
    Posted At : June 3, 2019 12:00 AM

    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, jo...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine discusses 'Blues Dialogues' with 89.9WKCR
    Posted At : May 28, 2019 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine, is back with an album of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and for violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.  World-premiere recordings include Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, based on American fiddle tunes, and Errollyn Wallen's Woogie Boogie, an inventive reimaging of the boogie woogie blues dance. ...
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  • On 'Blues Dialogues' Rachel Barton Pine champions the work of black composers / LIMELIGHT
    Posted At : April 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    American violinist Rachel Barton Pine's Blues Dialogues explores music of Black composers working across blues and classical traditions. Pine was a prodigy, debuting with the Chicago Symphony at age 10. Far from fish sandwiches and moonshine, she has had a celebrated career, and was the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition's youngest ever gold medal winner. But Pine is not merely pillaging the...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine will join the New Mexico Philharmonic in Vivaldi 'The Four Seasons' / Albuquerque Journal
    Posted At : April 7, 2019 12:00 AM

    Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" amounts to a baroque legend. A series of four concerti grossi written in 1716 and 1717, it remains the best-known of the composer's works. They represented a revolution in musical conception; listeners heard flowing streams, singing birds of various species, a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties, frozen landscapes and hot fire...
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  • New coloring book honors black composers / Chicago Parent
    Posted At : March 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    One day, if Rachel Barton Pine gets her wish, more children of color will see themselves on stage with a symphony, playing the music of black composers. In what has become a passion project over the past 15 years for the internationally renowned violinist and Chicago mom, Pine and her Rachel Barton Pine Foundation have collected more than 900 pieces of music by more than 350 black composers from the 18th...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine in 'Blues Dialogue' with KEDT: Corpus Christi
    Posted At : March 14, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of our favorite violinists, Rachel Barton Pine, is back with an album of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and for violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.  World-premiere recordings include Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, based on American fiddle tunes, and Errollyn Wallen's Woogie Boogie, an inventive reimaging of the ...
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  • Watch Rachel Barton Pine pair Brahms and Metallica / CLASSIC fM
    Posted At : March 9, 2019 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine has spent almost her entire life with a violin tucked under her chin. The 43-year-old violin virtuoso first fell in love with the instrument at age 3, performed on stage with the Chicago Symphony at age 10 and today travels the world playing solo violin with some of the world's best orchestras. But besides being a fan of classical composers like Mozart and Bach, Pine is also a head...
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  • NetNebraska chats with Rachel Barton Pine
    Posted At : March 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of our favorite violinists, Rachel Barton Pine, is back with an album of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and for violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.  World-premiere recordings include Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, based on American fiddle tunes, and Errollyn Wallen's Woogie Boogie, an inventive reimaging of...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine aims to place overlooked music by black composers into today's consciousness / Forbes
    Posted At : February 28, 2019 12:00 AM

    Although few people can name even three black classical composers, the Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine can name 350. Pine's RBP Foundation Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has recently released four landmark initiatives celebrating these composers:  MBC Violin Volume I, the first in a series of pedagogical books of music exclusively by black classical composers; the Rachel Barton Pi...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine shedding light on long-neglected works by black composers / All Classical Portland
    Posted At : February 26, 2019 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine long ago established herself as a violinist willing to step outside the normal realm of the classical canon to explore a broader landscape of music. Pine's performances of metal bands such as Metallica (she actually formed a band of her own, Earthen Grave), are one example of how she embraces music that touches and challenges her. Being a native Chicagoan, Pine also feels a deep af...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine. Getting the music of black composers into the hands of music students / WRTI
    Posted At : February 17, 2019 12:00 AM

    A self-described "research geek," classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine has a passion for discovering new repertoire and turning kids on to classical music. That drive and commitment fuels her Black Composers Project, now out with its first volume of violin music by Black composers for music students.  The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation was started in 2001 to increase awareness of classical musi...
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  • FM91 'Classical Conversations' talks 'Blues Dialogues' with Rachel Barton Pine
    Posted At : February 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    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, jo...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine is much more than a fine violinist. She joins Performance Today in-studio
    Posted At : February 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Rachel Barton Pine is much more than a fine violinist. She has some concerns about the future of classical music in American society, and she's doing something about it. On this episode of Performance Today, Rachel Barton Pine joins us in the studio and tells us about the next big phase of her career. Hour One includes;  David Baker : Blues (Deliver My Soul) Rachel Barton Pine, v...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine - Blues Dialogues is WRTI Classical Album of the Week
    Posted At : February 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    Trained as a classical violinist, Rachel Barton Pine grew up listening to the blues, and one day was thrilled to discover the two genres combined in the sheet music for David Baker's Deliver My Soul - a 12-bar blues in a classical work for violin and piano. She made it the first track of her recent album, Blues Dialogues-an album of blues-influenced classical works by 20th- and 21st-century black com...
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  • Rachel Barton Pine - Blues Dialogues is the WCLV: Recording of the Week
    Posted At : February 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of our favorite violinists, Rachel Barton Pine, is back with an album of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and for violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.  World-premiere recordings include Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, based on American fiddle tunes, and Errollyn Wallen's Woogie Boogie, an inventive reimaging of the boogie w...
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