An eight-year-old Samuel Tan from Singapore performs Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro. The violinist has just won the top prize at the 21st International Andrea Postacchini Violin Competition in Fermo, Italy at the age of nine – competing against musicians up to the age of 35.
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Bruce Hodges hears the performance of Bartók, Dvořák and Kreisler at Philadelphia’s Perelman Theater on 10 May 2024
Newly reissued recordings from a musical legend
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