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Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Arnold Schoenberg
Frank Huang: Violin Recital
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. Fantasy For Violin And Piano In C Major, D.934, Op.159
2. Fantaisie Brillante Sur L'opera 'Otello' De Rossini
3. Phantasy For Violin With Piano Accompaniment, Op.47
4. Carmen Fantasy (Based On Themes Frmo Bizet's 'Carmen')

CD Details

All Artists: Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Waxman, Dina Vainstein
Title: Frank Huang: Violin Recital
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 11/18/2003
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 747313212125

Synopsis

Album Description

First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation?s Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition, Frank Huang has now embarked on a major career as a violin virtuoso. At the age of eleven he performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in a nationally broadcast concert and has since performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony and NDR-Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hannover. He has appeared on NPR?s Performance Today, Good Morning America and CNN?s American Morning with Paula Zahn. Other awards include the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Indianapolis International Violin Competition.

CD Reviews

Fine Playing, Uneven Material

Chris in L.A. | Los Angeles, CA | 06/14/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I heard Frank Huang perform in Escondido, California in May 2005. I was impressed by his technique, but more even impressed by the maturity with which this very young vioinist played sonatas by Prokofiev and Ravel. I immediately bought this CD, recorded about three years earlier.

I'm a big fan of Schubert masterpieces like the Quintet in C, so I'm sorry to say that the Fantasy included here is a pretty insipid and tedious work, and at 24:45 in this performance it's easy to see why, as the liner notes point out, people walked out during its 1828 premiere.

The Ernst is a fun, unpretentious Paganini-esque work. The Schoenberg is a real modern delight. Huang, with his alternatively smooth, ethereal, or dark tone, and fleet-fingered accompanist Dina Vainstein play it with authority. The Waxman Fantasy rounds out the group nicely. So three out of four ain't bad for a disc so reasonably priced, and Frank, if you're reading this, I'm eagerly waiting for your next recording to come out."