The story of violinist Michael Rabin is as colored and tragic as any other in the stressful life of a child prodigy turned adult. His public performances began while still a young boy, and his first foray into the recording industry came at just 14 years of age with a set of the Paganini caprices. As he became an adult, his playing became unreliable and inconsistent, and he developed a host of idiosyncrasies, not the least of which was a fear of falling from the stage. In a cruel twist of fate, he actually did die at the ...
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The story of violinist Michael Rabin is as colored and tragic as any other in the stressful life of a child prodigy turned adult. His public performances began while still a young boy, and his first foray into the recording industry came at just 14 years of age with a set of the Paganini caprices. As he became an adult, his playing became unreliable and inconsistent, and he developed a host of idiosyncrasies, not the least of which was a fear of falling from the stage. In a cruel twist of fate, he actually did die at the age of 36 from a fall, though not from a stage. He ended his recording career far earlier than his public performances for reasons unknown. The present recordings of Wieniawski's Second and Paganini's First violin concertos represent the last time Rabin was to enter a recording studio. Listeners who were heretofore unfamiliar with Rabin's playing may wonder what all the hype was about. Such skepticism comes to an immediate halt upon Rabin's first entrance in the Wieniawski concerto....
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