Virtuoso (2011)

Ray Chen was born in Taiwan, trained partly in the U.S., and has lived in Australia, making for a suitably diverse résumé for a young virtuoso in the era of globalization. With several high-profile competition wins under his belt, his task is to carve out a distinctive style. His style falls generally into the Russian school that shaped American violin tuition, with a quick but expressive vibrato and a sweeping feeling of the long line. His program here is purely in the Romantic violin tradition favored by his teacher, ... Read More

Ray Chen was born in Taiwan, trained partly in the U.S., and has lived in Australia, making for a suitably diverse résumé for a young virtuoso in the era of globalization. With several high-profile competition wins under his belt, his task is to carve out a distinctive style. His style falls generally into the Russian school that shaped American violin tuition, with a quick but expressive vibrato and a sweeping feeling of the long line. His program here is purely in the Romantic violin tradition favored by his teacher, Aaron Rosand, and no nods to historical performance are made in Tartini's Violin Sonata in G minor, "The Devil's Trill," which is performed in its Fritz Kreisler arrangement, or the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1004. The latter work doesn't fare that well here; Chen, as did so many violinists in the old days, seems to work hard at cross purposes with the profound structures of the music. But in the two works by Henryk Wieniawski, including the brutally... Read Less

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