An Impressive Performance Michael Ludwig plays music by John Corigliano - heard by PATRIC STANDFORD '... should not fail to entertain ...'

Very soon after he was asked to provide the signature violin solos for François Girard's film The Red Violin in 1997 -- the story of the life of a violin over three centuries -- Corigliano incorporated the material into a Chaconne for violin and orchestra for Joshua Bell who had played the solos in the film. That however presented a programming predicament. Single movement works (the composer sites Ravel's Tzigane, Chausson's Poeme and the Beethoven Romances) hardly merit a soloist's guest appearance, but a complete concerto might. A further three movements completed the work over the next few years for its first performance by Joshua Bell in September 2003. The opening Chaconne grew into a formidable seventeen-minute movement to become the substantial first of four, powerful, haunting and romantic...

JOHN CORIGLIANO

NAXOS

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA