Sarah Chang - Debut
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Composer or Director: George Gershwin, Nicolò Paganini, Sergey Prokofiev, Fritz Kreisler, Edward Elgar, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pablo (Martín Melatón) Sarasate (y Navascuéz), Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 1/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 51
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 754352-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concert Fantasy on Carmen |
Pablo (Martín Melatón) Sarasate (y Navascuéz), Composer
Pablo (Martín Melatón) Sarasate (y Navascuéz), Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Salut d'amour, 'Liebesgrüss' |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Gayaneh, Movement: Sabre Dance |
Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Composer
Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(La) Capricieuse |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Tempo di Menuetto in the style of Pugnani |
Fritz Kreisler, Composer
Fritz Kreisler, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(24) Caprices, Movement: No. 1 in E |
Nicolò Paganini, Composer
Nicolò Paganini, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(24) Caprices, Movement: No. 15 in E minor |
Nicolò Paganini, Composer
Nicolò Paganini, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(24) Preludes, Movement: C sharp minor |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(24) Preludes, Movement: D flat |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Porgy and Bess, Movement: It ain't necessarily so |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(6) Consolations, Movement: Lento placido |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Movement: No. 3, Mélodie in E flat |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin |
(The) Love for Three Oranges, Movement: March |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Sandra Rivers, Piano Sarah Chang, Violin Sergey Prokofiev, Composer |
Author: mjameson
Sarah Chang uses a quarter-size violin here which cannot be expected to match the amplitude or tonal resources of a larger instrument, but discreet engineering and sensitive accompanying from the excellent Sandra Rivers ensures that she is never unduly pressured. Her tone is pliant and imaginatively modulated, whilst every purely mechanical aspect of her technique seems to be already fully formed. None of the formidable demands of the Sarasate Carmen Fantasy (heard in Zino Francescatti's edition) challenge her in any degree; and even if her performance fails to generate the last frisson of excitement, Chang's playing is utterly reliable. The two Elgar miniatures have a captivating innocence of their own but her liberal use of portamento in
Sarah Chang's Paganini leaves the listener dumbfounded. She plays the first and fifteenth Caprices with the confident elan of a seasoned virtuoso, whilst her apparently innate grasp of their hidden symmetries raises the music far above the level of the merely didactic. The programme also includes two of the Op. 34 Shostakovich Preludes, in transcriptions by Dmitri Zyganow, again played with remarkable assurance and maturity. Chang is marginally less convincing at this early stage, however, in any less obviously demonstrative offerings. Tchaikovsky's
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