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Compact Discoveries 190: Rachel Barton Pine

Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:00

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This tribute to violinist Rachel Barton Pine includes an interview with her when she was 10, just before her début performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her comments on that event today, more than a quarter of a century later. Read the full description.

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She played Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capricioso, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, at that "1986 Illinois Young Performers Competition" TV/FM live simulcast. That recording is featured here. The program also includes the story of the violinist's tremendous success despite her nearly fatal train accident when she was 20.
Other music included in the program: the final movement of Joseph White's Violin Concerto in F-sharp Minor; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Romance in G Major for Violin and Orchestra; Deep River; Asturias by Albéniz as arranged for solo violin by Barton Pine, and Dvorák's Songs My Mother Sang.

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She played Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capricioso, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, at that "1986 Illinois Young Performers Competition" TV/FM live simulcast. That recording is featured here. The program also includes the story of the violinist's tremendous success despite her nearly fatal train accident when she was 20.
Other music included in the program: the final movement of Joseph White's Violin Concerto in F-sharp Minor; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Romance in G Major for Violin and Orchestra; Deep River; Asturias by Albéniz as arranged for solo violin by Barton Pine, and Dvorák's Songs My Mother Sang.

Broadcast History

This is the world premiere.

Transcript

Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2011 by Fred Flaxman

Program 190
"Rachel Barton Pine"

MUSIC: Dvorák: Songs My Mother Sang performed by Rachel Barton Pine, violin, and Matthew Hagle, piano [Çedille CDR 90000 097, Track 3] [under the following]

FLAXMAN: The violinist playing in the background is Rachel Barton Pine, and I’ve been following her career since she was 10, that is to say, for more than a quarter of a century.

MUSIC: fades out

FLAXMAN: Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman, and I’m going to devote the next hour to the recordings of Rachel Barton Pine on the Çedille label. But I’m going to start with a live recording of her spectacular live broadcast début with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf when she was only 10.

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