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Stephanie Chase, violinist - Live in Concert!

Listen to violinist Stephanie Chase live and unedited in concert, from a recital of "Fiddlers' Delights!" at the National Arts Club on January 10, 2011.  Click on a work's title below to hear a piece in its entirety (and please allow time for the audio files to load).

This program includes the world premiere of her transcription of the Andante from Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata.  She is accompanied by pianist Todd Crow.


FIDDLERS' DELIGHTS!

La Folia - Arcangelo Corelli (arranged by Fritz Kreisler)Stephanie at Philoctetes Center, November 2010

Romanza Andaluza - Pablo de Sarasate

Tambourin Chinois - Fritz Kreisler

Andante (from the Sonata for Cello and Piano, transcribed for violin by Stephanie Chase) - Sergei Rachmaninov

Obertass (Mazurka) - Henryk Wieniawski

Meditation - Richard Pearson Thomas

Zigeunerweisen - Pablo de Sarasate

Embraceable You - George Gershwin (arranged by John Wood)

“One of the violin greats of our era” Newhouse Newspapers


“Stephanie Chase has a great sense of style, matchless technique and flawless intonation” BBC Music Magazine


“The soloist was the superb violinist Stephanie Chase, who played with elegance, dexterity, rhythmic vitality and great imagination. This was a Classical performance in the best sense: clear-headed, straightforward, intelligent” Boston Globe


“Rich, passionate tone, dead-true intonation throughout, and virtuosity galore”  Gramophone


"…one of the twenty most outstanding performances in the (Beethoven Violin Concerto's) recording history” – ‘Beethoven: Violin Concerto,’ Cambridge University Press


“...a deeply poetic account of the (Sibelius) Concerto by Stephanie Chase, (who) poured out the impassioned northern lyricism on a spacious scale, holding enough throbbing tone and gutsy bravura in reserve for the extroverted passages” Chicago Tribune


“A supreme musical performer whose complete virtuosity enables her to ennoble everything she plays.” Byron Belt, Newhouse Newspapers


“A Record to Die For” - Stereophile


“Refreshingly stylish…(Chase) “makes each work a new musical journey, riveting the audience’s attention from beginning to end” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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