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Hilary Hahn

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Hilary Hahn is one of the foremost violinists of our time, presenting the royal works of the violin concerto while also taking on a wide range of contemporary works. This album marks a musical milestone for the violinist, as Hahn takes more than a year off to record for the first time the works she has loved for so many years. These three very different works are linked not only by the violin as an instrument, but also by the idea that each composer, despite being away from home for so long, maintained some kind of musical and geographical connection: the Czech Dvorak, active in the late 19th century, the Spanish Sarasate, and the mid-20th century Argentinean Hinastera, who combined early musical influences with contemporary developments to create a musical language of their own. Dvorak and Sarasate were part of the same great current of late Romantic musical nationalism as Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky in Russia, Grieg in Norway, and Sibelius in Finland. (C)RS