Mozart, Ysaÿe, Kreisler & Milstein: Music for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Kathy Kang
Mara Mednik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eugène Ysaÿe
Fritz Kreisler
Nathan Milstein

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Performer Biography

Kathy Kang has performed as a soloist with leading symphony and chamber orchestras in Germany and Europe, including at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Performer Biography

Mara Mednik, the pianist, was a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory and the Hamburg Conservatory for Music and Theatre, and has taught at the Rostock Conservatory since 2007.

Performer Biography

Kathy Kang, the violinist on this album, began playing at age three and was accepted into a master class at the Robert Schumann College in Düsseldorf at age eleven.

Interpretation

Kathy Kang feels a connection to the 'Russian school' of violin playing, specifically to the school of David Oistrakh, through her teacher Rosa Fain.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album features compositions by eminent violinists of the 19th and 20th centuries, whose music reflects their personalities, playing styles, tonal color, virtuosity, and elegance.

Performer Biography

Mara Mednik has been the official pianist for the competition of the Deutsche Musikinstrumentenfonds in the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben since 1995.

Instruments

Kathy Kang plays an 1864 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin, a renowned instrument maker.

Dvořák, Ysaÿe, Matsushita & Wieniawski: Works for Violin & Piano

Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F, Op.24 / Milstein: Paganiniana / Saint-Saens: Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op.75; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28