Internationally Acclaimed Concert Violinist

Pine made her return to Madison, Wisconsin performing Korngold’s Violin Concerto, a piece that bridges the worlds of classical music and Hollywood film scores.

“It has so much color and excitement,” said Pine. “It sounds like it could be telling a story and in fact, he took parts of the concerto and recycled them into four different films, one of which won an Oscar.”

The famed violinist returns to the Midday to tell listeners about performing one of the 20th century’s greatest works–the Violin Concerto of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The composer wrote some of Hollywood’s most enduring film music.

Review: Rachel Barton Pine - and Tuvan throat-singing - at Summermusik

CCO’s Summermusik travels down Silk Road with Rachel Barton Pine, Kronos Quartet

The ‘realisation of a three-decades-old dream’ is how US violinist Rachel barton Pine describes this recording of Ernest Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano, and string quartet - one inspired by her love of the work itself, in conjunction with having known and admired the Pacific Quartet since its 1994 foundation