Monday, January 21, 2008

Double Threat

At a recent concert in Frankfurt, violin phenom Julia Fischer dazzled the audience with Saint-Saens's Third Violin Concerto. Then she returned after the intermission and, in the words of the report on Sign and Sight, "sat herself down at the concert grand and launched into the probably even more difficult Piano Concerto in A-minor, Op. 16, by Edvard Grieg." Talk about an overachiever!