史特拉文斯基：小提琴作品集 Stravinsky: Works for Violin

Stravinsky's rarely-performed Violin Concerto, coupled with the main
works of his repertoire for violin and piano. The composer was initially
convinced that he lacked the experience necessary for writing
a violin concerto and taking full advantage of the instrument's possibilities
in concertante style. But in 1931 he went on to compose a
Neoclassical masterwork in close collaboration with violinist Samuel
Dushkin, a work that bears his unmistakable fingerprint. It is considered
one of the 20th century's greatest violin concertos. He also
made numerous arrangements for violin and piano, joining again with
Dushkin to enrich the violin repertoire with his imaginative genius.
Along with the multi-movement works, the Suite italienne and Divertimento,
Liana Gourdjia and Katia Skanavi present a selection of miniatures:
the Berceuse from The Firebird, the Danse russe from Petrushka,
the Chanson russe from the opera Mavra, and Tango, a piano piece arranged
by Dushkin for violin and piano.

Liana Gourdjia gave her solo debut with orchestra at the age of nine.
Her talent was then actively supported, and she performed numerous
concerts in Russia's great concert halls as well as on radio and television.
She studied at the Moscow State Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music in the U.S.. She is the
winner of the Sion-Valais International Competition and a prizewinner at the Michael Hill, Corpus Christi, Hudson
Valley, and Kingsville International competitions. She has been awarded a residency with the Montgomery Symphony
in the U.S., where she appeared as an orchestral soloist and concertmaster and performed solo recitals.
Katia Skanavi performed her first concert at the age of 12 at the Great Hall of Moscow's Tchaikovsky
Conservatory,

where she interpreted Kabalevsky's Third Piano Concerto under the baton of the composer
himself. By her eighteenth birthday she had won several prizes at the Marguerite Long-Jacques
Thibaud Competition
in Paris, followed by debuts at the great international concert halls. She then continued her studies at
the Conservatoire National in Paris and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and later at the Cleveland Institute
of Music in the U.S.. In 1994 she won the Maria Callas Competition in Greece and was a finalist at the Van
Cliburn Competition in 1997.

Zsolt Nagy studied conducting with István Párkai at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. Further studies
with Péter Eötvös led him to become Eötvös' assistant at the Institute for New Music of the Staatliche Hochschule
für Musik in Karlsruhe and for numerous other projects including Guest Professor at the International
Eötvös Institute. In 1999 he was appointed Chief Conductor and Musical Advisor of the Israel Contemporary
Players. From 2002 to 2014 he was Professor of Conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique et de Dance in Paris (CNSMDP). Zsolt Nagy appears regularly on stages of four continents, working
with outstanding soloists, leading orchestras, ensembles and choirs.

The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern presents concert series in the cities of
Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern. It makes regular appearances across the border in France and Luxemburg, as
well as in Brussels, Mainz, Karlsruhe, and Mannheim. Tours in recent years have taken the orchestra to Switzerland,
China, and Japan, and in 2016 it will be visiting South Korea for the third time, followed by an appearance
at the Warsaw Beethoven Festival in 2017. The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie was created in 2007 out of the
fusion of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (SR) and Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern (SWR).