Description
The latest release by Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine uniquely pairs the concertos by Antonín Dvorak and Aram Khachaturian, composers who were inspired by the folk music of their respective countries and raised the idiom to high art.
Traditional folk music elevated to high art: that theme binds the unique coupling of Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine's latest release of the Violin Concertos by Czech composer Antonín Dvorak and Soviet-Armenian Aram Khachaturian. The multi-faceted young American Teddy Abrams conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, making for a truly international collaboration.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"By any standard, Barton Pine here enriches the discography with perceptive, pulse-quickening performances of two of the great concerti for her instrument." - Voix des Arts
"moments of extraordinary beauty" – Gramophone, Editor's Choice (on Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach, AV2360)
"there are few more interesting violinists on the worldwide scene than Rachel Barton Pine; she is continuously giving us interesting and well-researched and thought-out concept albums that stimulate the imagination, reinvigorate the ears, and put wrinkles in the brain with their intellctual depth" – Audiophile Audition