Sarasate: Violin & Piano Music, Vol. 4

The finale to this critically acclaimed four-disc series contains some of Sarasate’s greatest—and also some of his rarest—transcriptions and arrangements, some of which have been in the repertoire of violinists since they were published. They include a delectable Chopin sequence, arrangements inspired by the music of French Baroque violinists, an early and beautifully constructed Souvenirs de Faust based on Gounod, and Sarasate’s own favourite concert piece, Raff’s La fée d’amour. “Yang throws off merciless chains of double stops and finger-crippling arabesques with scintillating aplomb…simply inimitable…Bravo!” (BBC Music Magazine on Volume 3, 8.570893)