: Virtuoso - Ray Chen
Catalogue Number: 88697808122
Product Description
Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of "Virtuoso", the debut album on the label from the acclaimed young violinist Ray Chen. Winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition (2009) and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition (2008), he has been receiving rave reviews from critics and high praise from distinguished musicians around the globe for the fresh insight he brings to his performances and a musical authority far beyond his age. Maxim Vengerov, impressed by Ray's charisma, stunning technique and natural ability to communicate, has described him as "a very pure musician with great qualities such as beautiful, youthful tone, vitality and lightness".
Ray's upcoming engagements include performances with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester at Berlin's Philharmonie, and with the Munich Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Spanish National Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, as well as recitals and chamber music at today's most prestigious venues and festivals, such as Verbier and Ravinia. "Virtuoso", Ray Chen's first recording for Sony Classical represents a selection of his personal favourites from different strands of the violin repertoire.
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