Rachel Barton Pine, Teddy Abrams, Royal Scottish National Or - Dvor�k, Khachaturian: Violin Concertos

The latest release by Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine uniquely pairs the concertos by Anton�n Dvorak and Aram Khachaturian, composers who were inspired by the folk music of their respective countries and raised the idiom to high art.

Traditional folk music elevated to high art: that theme binds the unique coupling of Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine's latest release of the Violin Concertos by Czech composer Anton�n Dvorak and Soviet-Armenian Aram Khachaturian. The multi-faceted young American Teddy Abrams conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, making for a truly international collaboration.

CRITICAL ACCLAIMBy any standard, Barton Pine here enriches the discography with perceptive, pulse-quickening performances of two of the great concerti for her instrument. - Voix des Artsmoments of extraordinary beauty � Gramophone, Editor's Choice (on Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach, AV2360)

there are few more interesting violinists on the worldwide scene than Rachel Barton Pine; she is continuously giving us interesting and well-researched and thought-out concept albums that stimulate the imagination, reinvigorate the ears, and put wrinkles in the brain with their intellctual depth � Audiophile Audition