Original cd in jewelcase, complete. One of her absolute top recordings. Kyung wha chung, it seems, secured her first broadcast as a singer: well, anything is possible in a world where ella fitzgerald secured her first professional work as a dancer. We are told of the violinists unexpected achievement (admittedly, she was only three years old at the time, a bit young even for a sixteenth-size fiddle) in a biographical note by eg which is partnered by very civilized notes on the music by james harding. The music is, of course, a splendid selection of encore pieces. Most are familiar to encore-fanciers, and probably none the less welcome to them for that. A few will perhaps not have been encountered before, and if so their very unfamiliarity will serve to give variety to a programme quite likely to be subjected to continuous listening. Among these chaminades serenade espagnole states a case for being better known, as one of kreislers arrangements, than it is; and so does the heifetz arrangement of debussys beautiful beau soir, an early song. The continuous listening i suggested as likely will stem partly from the intrinsic variety of the well-arranged programme (a pity, though, to split up kreislers liebesleid and liebesfreud, clearly intended as a pair with their own built-in contrast). But the continuous listening will stem principally from the quality of performance: once you start listening you are very unlikely to be able to stop. Other star violinists have played such pieces with faultless technique; or with bewitching tone; or with a style which could be properly described, without reservation, as the con amore of the records title. But few, indeed, of them have combined all these three aspects of string-playing in such tremendous, heart-warming degree as, on this occasion, does kyung wha chung. This is a stunning demonstration of encore-playing. It is aided and abetted by phillip moll in the part of the most skilful and sympathetic of accompanists: sympathy in the highest degree imaginable is displayed in, particularly, elgars la capricieuse, written one christmas eve as a christmas present for his wife (other husbands stuck with a christmas eve problem may well wish that a similar solution was available to them!). Like the performances, the recorded quality of sound is of the very finest in every respect. This record is a winner.

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