Sarah Chang
An American violinist of Korean heritage, Sarah Chang was already a celebrity as a prepubescent soloist; unlike many child prodigies, she made the transition to adulthood painlessly, and remains a high-profile soloist on the international circuit.
She began performing in public at age 5; within two years, she had won the Starling scholarship to the Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. At age 8, after only two years of study at Juilliard during which she still regarded playing the violin as a hobby, she auditioned for conductors Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti and bowled them over. She made her professional debut in 1988 performing Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Soon she found herself playing Paganini, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius concertos with the world's greatest orchestras, with an EMI recording contract tucked into her frock. Initial features and reviews focused on the incongruity of such technical virtuosity coming from a cute little girl, and coverage during her teen years was similarly half awed, half patronizing.
As she approached her twenties, Chang began to enjoy more serious critical appraisal. One critic summarized her attributes as "consummate technical ease, a gorgeous, vibrant, flawlessly beautiful tone, and a heartfelt but unsentimental expressiveness." Conversely, some of her performances of Romantic repertory were sometimes criticized for being slightly emotionally disengaged.
Chang quickly became associated with concertos of not only Paganini but also Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius. She also advocated not-quite-standard concertos by Goldmark, Strauss, and Dvorák. But not until she was nearly 20 did Chang begin exploring chamber music with any frequency, initially playing in small festivals but also recording with other high-profile soloists on the EMI roster.
Less apparent from her discography is her interest in contemporary music. She has worked on new pieces with jazzman Eddie Karam, as well as Jack Elliott and Korean-American composer Donald Sur.
One area in which Chang has been slow to develop self-confidence is teaching. Feeling she was too young to be a credible authority, she didn't give her first master class until she was 22, and that was hidden away in Singapore. After that, she embarked on a small-scale series of recitals and educational events for rural and underserved populations in the United States.
Chang plays a 1717 Guarneri del Gesù; reluctant to expose it to hot lights, she uses a cheap but attractive stand-in violin for publicity photos.
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18 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Shostakovich & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics International le 6 mars 2006
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Bruch / Brahms : Concertos pour violon
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 21 sept. 2009
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Vieuxtemps/Lalo Violin Concertos
Sarah Chang, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Angel Records le 1 janv. 1996
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 28 sept. 2007
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Simply Sarah: Popular Encores
Classique - Paru chez Angel Records le 1 janv. 1997
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
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Fire & Ice: Popular Works for Violin and Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 janv. 2001
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Violin Concerto Op. 12 No. 1, RV 317
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 oct. 2007
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Sarah Chang - Paganini & Saint-Saens Violin Concertos
Sarah Chang, Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Classique - Paru chez Angel Records le 1 janv. 1994
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Concertos pour violon
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 24 févr. 1998
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Strauss: Violin Concerto
Sarah Chang, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Classique - Paru chez Angel Records le 15 nov. 1999
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Sonates por violon de César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns et Maurice Ravel
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 mars 2004
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
French Violin Sonatas
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 mars 2004
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Concerto pour violon en la - Quintette avec piano
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 20 mars 2003
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Sarah Chang: Debut
Classique - Paru chez EMI Classics le 1 janv. 1992
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Tchaikovsky:Souvenir de Florence /Dvorak: Sextet
Sarah Chang, Bernhard Hartog, Wolfram Christ, Tanja Christ, Georg Faust, Olaf Maninger
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 15 juill. 2002
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Phantasia: The Woman In White Suite
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Lloyd Webber, Sarah Chang
Comédies musicales - Paru chez UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) le 19 juill. 2005
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99 - Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 19
Sarah Chang, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 janv. 2000
Disponible en16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo