Tonight’s Live From Lincoln Center featured violinist Gil Shaham offering a wonderful performance of some of the better and less well known works by Pablo de Sarasate. Among them my favorite was his arrangement of music from Ambroise Thomas’ opera Mignon, known to all Suzuki violinists for the Gavotte, which is featured (in a much fancier and more impressive form) in Sarasate’s arrangement.
At the end of the program, Shaham was surprised with the 2008 Avery Fisher Award, which I understand is the highest honor given in the United States to a solo instrumentalist.
Congratulations, Gil Shaham! And those readers who have never heard him play are encouraged to have a listen. Why not start with his his recording of Korngold’s and Barber’s Violin Concertos, two of my all-time favorite pieces of music?
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