August 25, 2008

Hahn’s Schoenberg an important event

There aren’t many recordings of the Violin Concerto of Arnold Schoenberg — Zvi Zeitlin and Pierre Amoyal have done it — so the disc of the concerto released this spring by the American violinist Hilary Hahn with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is something of a major event.
And with good reason: [...]