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Paganini 24 Hula Hoop with HH
1 Chausson: Poeme op. 25 for Violin and Orchestra  
2 Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major op. 19 - 1. Andantino Andante assai  
3 2. Scherzo. Vivacissimo  
4 3. Moderato Piu tranquillo  
5 Rautavaara: Deux Serenades - Serenade pour mon amour. Moderato  
6 Andante assai - Comodo Agitato  
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Hilary Hahn's new recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Set for international release by Deutsche Grammophon on 5 March 2021, Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. The three-time Grammy Award-winner's album presents the world premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Deux Sérénades, commissioned by Mikko Franck. It also includes Ernest Chausson's Poème and Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.1, which received its first performance in the French capital in 1923.

  • Hilary Hahn - Eclipse makes VIRGINIA LIVING: Best Albums 2022
    Posted At: December 7, 2022 12:00 AM
    Music moves us; see what got us going in 2022.

    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin...
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  • Hilary Hahn - Eclipse makes 'Virginia Living: Best Albums 2022
    Posted At: December 7, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • On 'Eclipse,' Hilary Hahn turns to Dvorak, Ginastera and Sarasate after yearlong sabbatical / VAN
    Posted At: November 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn finds light on the other side of an 'Eclipse' / Texas Public Radio Q&A
    Posted At: November 10, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Classical Post chats with Hilary Hahn about new 'Eclipse' album, falling for Ginastera, and the many wonders of facial massage
    Posted At: November 3, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn chats with Pennsylvania's WVIA Public Media about Eclipse and other points of interest
    Posted At: November 3, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Triple GRAMMY-winning violinist Hilary Hahn marks her return to the stage with 'Eclipse' / The Violin Channel
    Posted At: October 31, 2022 12:00 AM
    Three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn matches expressive musicality and technical expertise with a diverse repertoire guided by artistic curiosity. Her barrier-breaking attitude towards classical music and her commitment to sharing her experiences with a global community have made her a fan favorite. Hahn is a prolific recording artist and commissioner of new works. She is taking a year-long...
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  • For Hilary Hahn, 'Eclipse' represents a personal and artistic transformation / Montana Public Radio
    Posted At: October 26, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn's 'Eclipse' featured on Cincinnati Public Radio's 'New at Noon'
    Posted At: October 25, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • The emotional release of Hilary Hahn's 'Eclipse' / 99.5CRB - Boston
    Posted At: October 20, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn - Eclipse is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: October 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses: 'Eclipse' with 'more' Classical Radio Stations
    Posted At: October 6, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses: 'Eclipse' with Classical Radio
    Posted At: October 5, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn’s latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and its Music Director (2014-2021), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with universal emotions yet rooted in their composers’ musical heritage: Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, a tour de force from the Czech composer’s “...
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  • Hilary Hahn - Paris makes 'the arts fuse: Top Classical Recordings of 2021'
    Posted At: December 20, 2021 12:00 AM
    Hilary Hahn's ‘Paris’ recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Released by Deutsche Grammophon on 5 March 2021, Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. The three-time Gramm...
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  • Hilary Hahn: Paris makes 'textura - 2021 TOP 30 & 20 PICKS'
    Posted At: December 5, 2021 12:00 AM

    The categories in this year's roundup reflect textura's current focus on classical, opera, jazz, ambient, and New age; previous years' overviews included categories for EPs and compilations, but as the number of releases receiving coverage in those areas during 2021 was modest, releases selected for inclusion were absorbed into the three categories below. As in the past, choices were made in ...
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  • Hilary Hahn's dream program comes together with 'Paris' / 90.1WRTI: Classical Album of the Week
    Posted At: May 17, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.1WRTI's SUSAN LEWIS writes......Recorded before the 2020 shutdown, and released with the end of the pandemic almost in sight, Hilary Hahn's album Paris reminds us of the power of music to uplift and connect us.  The three works on the album span centuries and emotions, with Sergei Prokofiev's lively and vibrant 1st violin concerto from 1917, a luscious Poeme by Ernest Chausson fro...
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  • Montana Public Radio discusses 'Paris' with Hilary Hahn
    Posted At: April 14, 2021 12:00 AM

    Hilary Hahn's new recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Released by Deutsche Grammophon on 5 March 2021, Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. The three-time Gr...
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  • Hilary Hahn memorializes her time in Paris - New Classical Tracks
    Posted At: March 24, 2021 12:00 AM

    New Classical Tracks - Julie Amacher writes......"Paris is a place that I've visited since I was a teenager, and it has this mood to it. It's really an evocative city. Maybe I know too much about the history and I'm just applying it to the city, but I love the feel of the arts in Paris," violinist Hilary Hahn explains why her new album is named after the city. "There's so many beautiful m...
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  • 'Paris' pays musical tribute to the city that Hilary Hahn so adores / ABC - Australia
    Posted At: March 22, 2021 12:00 AM

    ABC - Australia writes.....Paris is a city of chance meetings between artists, of fleeting inspiration and sumptuous premieres. "Paris," says Hilary Hahn, "is about expression, it's about emotion, it's about feeling connected to a city and a cultural intersection, in a way that's inspiring for the player and the listener. It has Parisian threads all the way through it. But it's also a big reference t...
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  • textura has ten questions for Hilary Hahn
    Posted At: March 18, 2021 12:00 AM

    The release of Hilary Hahn's Paris, which features ravishing treatments of works by Ernest Chausson, Sergei Prokofiev, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, is merely the latest in a long and impressive string of accomplishments in the violinist's career. At seventeen, she made an incredible recording debut with Hilary Hahn Plays Bach, and in the decades since has issued numerous albums, three of which-her ...
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  • 99.5CRB goes 'Out of the Box' to 'Paris' with Hilary Hahn
    Posted At: March 9, 2021 12:00 AM

    99.5CRB's CHRIS VOSS writes......Hilary Hahn's newest album Paris might just as easily have been called "Love and Life", after the movement titles of the star piece on the album, Einojuhani Rautavaara's Two Serenades for Violin and Orchestra. The Virginia-born violinist talks candidly about her newest release, a beautiful reflection of love and life, and of music old and new.   "If you ...
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  • Hilary Hahn - Paris is the 98.7WFMT 'Featured New Release'
    Posted At: March 8, 2021 12:00 AM

    98.7WFMT's Lisa Flynn writes.....Hilary Hahn's new recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. The three-time Grammy Award-winner's album presents the world premiere of Eino...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses 'Paris' with Harmonious World Podcast
    Posted At: March 3, 2021 12:00 AM

    Hilary Hahn's new recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Released by Deutsche Grammophon on 5 March 2021, Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. The three-time Gr...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses 'Paris' '#100daysofpractice,' and more with Schenectady NY's 89.1WMHT
    Posted At: March 3, 2021 12:00 AM

    Three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is renowned for her virtuosity, musicality, and creative programming. She has a new recording coming out via Deutsche Grammophon called Paris, with the music of Prokofiev, Rautavaara, and Chausson. The recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career., and the American ...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses 'Paris' with classical radio
    Posted At: February 18, 2021 12:00 AM

    Hilary Hahn's new recording pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career. Set for international release by Deutsche Grammophon on 5 March 2021, Paris sees the American violinist resume her productive partnership with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Fran...
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  • Hilary Hahn announces new album release; 'Paris' / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At: January 22, 2021 12:00 AM

    udiscovermusic. - Sharon Kelley writes....Violinist Hilary Hahn will release her new album ‘Paris', featuring the world premiere recording of Rautavaara's final score, in March 2021. The three-time Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career on her new recording which features her renewed partnership...
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  • Enter to win 'Hilary Hahn Encores' sheet music & cd packs / The Violin Channel
    Posted At: April 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    Throughout her career, Hilary Hahn has been an advocate for new music - most notably commissioning a concerto by Edgar Meyer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning concerto by Jennifer Higdon. Her album, Silfra, was a genre-bending experiment with prepared-pianist Hauschka. Prior to that, she released an album of sonatas by Charles Ives. More than ten years ago, Hahn began her most ambitious project, "In...
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  • Hilary Hahn discusses J.S. Bach with All Classical Portland
    Posted At: April 16, 2019 12:00 AM

    Early in her career, violinist Hilary Hahn took on music that many before her wouldn't approach until they were a little older.  She chose three of the six unaccompanied violin works of J.S. Bach, a set regarded as the pinnacle of solo violin repertoire.  Now, 21 years later, Hahn returns to complete the set.  Naturally, her interpretation may sound different, but one constant remains:...
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  • Hilary Hahn releases sheet music for 'In 27 Pieces' / Violinist.com
    Posted At: April 6, 2019 12:00 AM

    In 2013, violinist Hilary Hahn brought to life 27 new encores for violin, each by a different living composer. Today she releases the sheet music for all of them -- In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores: Violin and Piano, a collection published by Boosey & Hawkes that includes Hahn's own markings as well as style and performance notes. "My goal was to make it as easy to begin as possible, and als...
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  • Hilary Hahn's new Bach recording is exceptional, with the utmost integrity and communication / theStrad
    Posted At: January 18, 2019 12:00 AM

    This issue completes Hilary Hahn's first recording of Bach's solo violin works. The initial volume, her debut recording (1997), had a mixed reception, but these readings, superbly captured, demonstrate greater maturity, a wider range of nuance and a more convincing appreciation of the ‘grand design'. Showing little empathy for ‘period' style, Hahn is largely faithful to Bach's text, but takes...
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  • Watch Hilary Hahn play 'Mercy' on 'A Prairie Home Companion' / theStrad
    Posted At: December 2, 2018 12:00 AM

    Throughout her career, Hilary Hahn has been an advocate for new music - In 27 Pieces: HH commissioned more than two dozen composers to write short-form pieces for acoustic violin and piano and toured these new works internationally over the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons in countries such as Turkey, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Austria ...
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  • Hilary Hahn 'Plays Bach' may be her most personal album yet / WCRB: CD of the Week
    Posted At: November 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    The last time we featured a recording by Hilary Hahn as our WCRB CD of the week, it was a personally-curated collection of favorite recordings from her brilliant career – but now, she's made an album of Bach, and it may be her most personal album yet. The genius and humanity of Bach's music has brought solace to people around the world for hundreds of years. His is the source from which all oth...
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  • Hilary Hahn loves, lives, and breathes Bach. It shows / KCRW - Rhythm Planet
    Posted At: November 20, 2018 12:00 AM

    Hilary Hahn has played Bach every day since she took up the violin at the age of seven, and first recorded Bach's solo violin works as a 17-year-old prodigy. On this album, coming 21 years later, she records other Bach solo violin works that weren't on the debut album. Hahn says in the liner notes that "from the first day I learned the first notes of the Siciliana from Sonata No. 1 for my first full reci...
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  • Hilary Hahn navigates the intricacies of Bach at Davies Hall / Berkeley Daily Planet
    Posted At: November 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    The fiendishly difficult Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach have always been a part of Hilary Hahn's musical life. Ms. Hahn began her musical studies with her first teacher, Klara Berkovich, and at age 10 was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study with Jascha Brodsky, who devoted a part of each lesson to solo Bach. At age 17, Hilary Hahn recorded her...
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  • Hilary Hahn Plays Bach is WRTI 'Classical Album of the Week'
    Posted At: November 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    Celebrated violinist Hilary Hahn is out with a new album of solo works by J.S. Bach and it's the WRTI: Philadelphia Classical Album of the Week. This new Bach recording completes a cycle she started at age 17, when she chose for her debut album two of Bach's three partitias and one of his three sonatas. Now, in Hilary Hahn Plays Bach, she's recorded the remaining one partita and two sona...
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  • Hilary Hahn's Kennedy Center Bach recital was state-of-the-art violin performance / The Washington Post
    Posted At: October 28, 2018 12:00 AM

    For violinist Hilary Hahn, Friday's concert at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater was a homecoming, in more ways than one. It marked the lone stop in the region on the Baltimore native's ongoing international tour. And for this inquisitive and searching musician, it also was a return to the foundation and summit of the violin repertory, the solo works of Bach - music she recorded for her teenage ...
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