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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'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...
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...
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...
'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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Hilary Hahn's first-ever Alice Tully Hall violin-alone recital culminates in the majestic Chaconne from Bach: Partita No. 2 / The New York Times

Posted At : October 24, 2018 12:00 AM

Encores have never been an afterthought for Hilary Hahn. In recent years, this brilliant violinist has commissioned 27 short solo pieces from as many composers to expand her stash of end-of-concert treats. She might have been expected to pick one on Tuesday, when she gave her first-ever violin-alone recital in New York at Alice Tully Hall as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. But her even...
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach is WFMT: Featured New Release

Posted At : October 20, 2018 12:00 AM

When Hilary Hahn Plays Bach came out in 1997, critics were astounded that a performer would choose solo Bach for her debut album. They were further confounded by Hahn's elegant approach to this music's technical and interpretive challenges at the age of 17. Now 38, she completes her recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin with her Decca label debut, featuring the first partita and firs...
Hilary Hahn speaks with KDFC: State Of the Arts

Posted At : October 17, 2018 12:00 AM

Hilary Hahn‘s first studio release was in 1997, with a disc of two of Bach's Partitas and a Sonata for solo violin. More than 20 years later, she's just released the followup on Decca, called Hilary Hahn Plays Bach, with the remaining Partita, and two Sonatas. She'll be coming to San Francisco toward the beginning of November to play some of the repertoire that she's been ‘collaborating with'...
At age 38, Hilary Hahn completes her recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin / WGTE

Posted At : October 15, 2018 12:00 AM

Violinist Hilary Hahn made a big splash with her first recording at age 17: an album of the first three sonatas and partitas by J.S. Bach – some of the most difficult solo works for the instrument. At that time, Stereo Review wrote, "I would go so far as to say that I've never heard this legendary, impossible piece of music played on a higher level, technically and musically, than it is on...
Hilary Hahn on WCRB - The Bach Hour

Posted At : October 15, 2018 12:00 AM

On The Bach Hour, one of today's finest violinists joins WCRB: Boston - Brian McCreath to talk about - and perform - Bach's music for solo violin. On the program, you will hear Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068: I. Overture (arr. Crespo) - German Brass Cantata BWV 98 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (translation) - Sophie Karthauser, soprano; Petra Noskaiova, alto; Christoph Genz, teno...
Hilary Hahn Q&A with WFMT

Posted At : October 12, 2018 12:00 AM

Many musicians and music-lovers thrive on their "daily dose of Bach." Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn does too: Bach has been a part of her life, both in practice and performance, nearly every day since she was nine years old. Her most recent album on Decca, Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2, Partita 1, explores her ongoing fascination with the composer. Hahn spoke with WFMT: Chica...
Hilary Hahn completes some unfinished business on latest release / npr

Posted At : October 9, 2018 12:00 AM

Over two decades ago in 1997, when violinist Hilary Hahn was 17, she made a celebrated recording debut, Hilary Hahn Plays Bach. That year, Hahn told NPR about her enthusiasm for Bach's music. "There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach," Hahn said. "I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things that surprise me every time." That album, of two partitas and on...
Hilary Hahn breakfast with 88.9 IdeaStation - WCVE

Posted At : October 7, 2018 12:00 AM

Violinist Hilary Hahn has released a new album featuring Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 1 and Sonatas 1 and 2. This completes the set of solo Bach music that she started with her debut recording back in 1997. Her affection for his music is clear and she says "not a week has passed since then without an audience member asking me when I'll record the rest of the set." Hahn's relationship with Bach...
WQXR spends 15 minutes with Hilary Hahn on release day

Posted At : October 5, 2018 12:00 AM

When Hilary Hahn plays Bach came out on Sony in 1997, critics were astounded that a performer would choose solo Bach for her debut album; they were further confounded by her elegant approach to this music's technical and interpretive challenges at such a young age. Bach expert Nicholas Anderson wrote in BBC Music Magazine at the time, "Bach's six unaccompanied solos - three ea...
Hilary Hahn returns to Bach, 21 years older, and maybe wiser / The New York Times

Posted At : October 5, 2018 12:00 AM

A lot changes in two decades. A lot also stays the same. Take "Hilary Hahn Plays Bach," the violinist's audacious 1997 debut recording, released when she was just 17. The photo on the cover shows her with soft, youthful features but the solemn stare of a serious artist. No mere prodigy, she was declaring that she was ready to leave her mark on some of the most challenging and profound music in her in...
Hilary Hahn speaks with 95.5KHFM about new Bach recording

Posted At : October 4, 2018 12:00 AM

When Hilary Hahn plays Bach came out on Sony in 1997, critics were astounded that a performer would choose solo Bach for her debut album; they were further confounded by her elegant approach to this music's technical and interpretive challenges at such a young age. Now 38, she completes her recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin in a Decca Classics album that releases today, Octob...
Why now is the right time for HH to release 'Hilary Hahn Plays Bach' / Radio Purdue

Posted At : October 3, 2018 12:00 AM

Twenty one years ago, violinist Hilary Hahn hit the classical scene with Plays Bach on Sony Classical. Now a superstar performer, Hahn returns on Decca Classics to finish the cycle of solo violin works by Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Sonatas 1 and 2, plus the Partita No. 1. Hahn says "Not a week has passed since then without an audience member asking me when I'll record the rest of the set." We're so ...
Hilary Hahn opens LACO season with a high-flying performance of Bach / San Francisco Classical Voice

Posted At : October 2, 2018 12:00 AM

The big black letters on the marquis of the Alex Theatre - an art deco landmark on Glendale's Brand Ave. - read "Hilary Hahn Plays Bach." It also could have mentioned that the evening was the opening concert of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's 51st season. Hilary Hahn was 23 when she first performed with the musicians of LACO, an association that has continued for 15 years. But as LACO con...
Hilary Hahn plays Bach and speaks with Spokane Public Radio

Posted At : October 2, 2018 12:00 AM

When Hilary Hahn plays Bach came out on Sony in 1997, critics were astounded that a performer would choose solo Bach for her debut album; they were further confounded by her elegant approach to this music's technical and interpretive challenges at such a young age. "Not a week has passed since then without an audience member asking me when I'll record the rest of the set," Hahn says, having relea...
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach is an experience to be savored / STAGEANDCINEMA

Posted At : October 2, 2018 12:00 AM

It's now practically lore that violinist Hilary Hahn decided that her debut album would not only be solos, but partitas and a sonata by Bach, works that have been held as the zenith of violin composition and the most intangible of objectives for a newcomer recitalist. It was a move that raised a few eyebrows, since some musicians (cellist Mstislav Rostropovich being a famous example) wait until midlife o...