{"product_id":"bach-violin-voice","title":"Bach: Violin \u0026 Voice","description":"Review\n\n\"Hilary Hahn is a formidable musician. She astonishes audiences in performance after performance and recording after recording with her superb technical prowess, refined good taste and intuitive musical understanding . . . she is able instinctively to combine a highly assured virtuoso ability with a deeply thoughtful engagement with the score . . . this technically awe-inspiring, wonderfully imaginative violinist . . .\" -- Gramophone Awards Issue, London, November 2008\n\nProduct description\n\nVirtuoso Hilary Hahn’s violin and guest singers bring new life to Bach—graceful, inventive interpretations for classical fans and newcomers.\n\nFrom the Artist\n\n\"These magnificent pieces go to the heart of Bach's artistry...No matter how many times I play this music, I am always surprised to find in it new intricacies, new touches of beauty.\" --Hilary Hahn\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nHilary Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia, USA, and moved to Baltimore in 1983, where she had her first violin lessons. In 1985, she began five years of study with Klara Berkovich who had taught at the Leningrad School for the Musically Gifted for 25 years before emigrating to Baltimore. In 1990, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study with 83-year-old Jascha Brodsky, the last surviving student of Eugène Ysaÿe. Alongside her solo work and a deep interest in chamber music, she has also collaborated with non-classical musicians and can be heard as featured soloist on the soundtrack of M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village, on the album Worlds Apart by Austin alt-rockers . . . And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, and on singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Brosseau's latest album Grand Forks.\nHilary Hahn plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin from 1864.\n1991 Major orchestra debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in December\n1992 Begins full-time undergraduate studies at Curtis in music, liberal arts and foreign languages. Appears at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival for the first time\n1993 European orchestral debut in Hungary with the Budapest Festival Orchestra\n1994 Debuts with leading American orchestras, including the Cleveland, New York Phil¬harmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony. European chamber-music debut in France at the Festival of Sully-sur-Loire, with future recital partner Natalie Zhu\n1995 Spends the first summer (of four) studying and performing chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in the USA. German orchestral debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\n1996 First recording featuring solo Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach is released. Carne¬gie Hall debut. Performs in Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York\n1998 Recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Bernstein's Serenade with the Bal¬timore Symphony under David Zinman is nominated for a Grammy®, and crowned with a Diapason d'or and Echo Award\n1999 Graduates from the Curtis Institute of Music with a bachelor's degree. Orchestral debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony. Performs and records the Violin Concerto written for and dedicated to her by Edgar Meyer\n2000 Her recording of concertos by Barber and Meyer wins the German Record Critics' Prize and Cannes Classical Award. BBC Proms debut at the \"Last Night\" in London's Royal Albert Hall. Tours Japan with the Berliner Philharmoniker\n2002 Signs an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon and makes her first recording for the Yellow Label of four concertos by J. S. Bach with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, which is released to wide critical acclaim in 2003\n2004 Release of Elgar's Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with Sir Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (German Record Critics' Prize 2004). Concert appearances include the New York and Rotterdam Philharmonics and the Cincinnati, Toronto, NDR (Hamburg) and New Zealand Symphony orchestras. US and Euro¬pean recital tours with pianist Natalie Zhu\n2005 Recital tours with Natalie Zhu of the US, Europe and Far East; European tour with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano \"Giuseppe Verdi\" plus concert appearances including the Philadelphia and St. Paul Chamber orchestras, the Swe¬dish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Russian National Phil¬harmonic Orchestra. Her release of Mozart Violin Sonatas with Natalie Zhu opens at no. 7 on the classical Billboard charts and also makes the German pop charts\n2006 Engagements include the Los Angeles Phil¬harmonic (Hollywood Bowl), the San Francisco, BBC and Montreal Symphony orchestras, and the Cologne and Frankfurt Symphony orchestras. Festival appearances in¬clude Aspen, Barbican (Mostly Mozart), Mont¬pellier, Verbier and Tanglewood. Release of violin concertos by Paganini and Spohr with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Eiji Oue\n2007 Concerts in North America with the Cleve¬land Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, th\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B002SSZ7E6\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B002SSZ7E6.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hilary Hahn|Johann Sebastian Bach|Matthias Goerne|Christine Schafer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. 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