Antonin Dvorák:
Songs My Mother Taught Me

Vittorio Monti:
Czárdás

George Gershwin:
Porgy and Bess - Summertime

Pietro Mascagni:
Cavaleria Rusticana - Intermezzo

Aram Khatchaturian:
Gayaneh - Sabre Dance

Dmitri Shostakovich:
The Gadfly - Romance

Claude Debussy:
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Hungarian Dance

A unique demonstration of massed instrumental playing, featuring no less than 48 violinists under the baton of Geoffrey Simon. Three of London's finest sections drive the concept of the violin ensemble to new heights in these innovative, hugely sonorous treatments of repertoire from Debussy to Gershwin.

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Recorded in All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London, 14 May 1994.