Grimbert-Romuald Barre * Saint-George & Pecou: Violin Concertos [New CD] 6/30/17 Jeff Ballard

Jeff Ballard

The Suburbs

winner of the 2016 Yehudi Menuhin Competition at just 16

With Adam Schlesinger's untimely passing from COVID-19 in 2020

The collective result is a magnifying glass into the lives of four discrete individuals coming to terms with their own humanity

Grimbert-Romuald Barre * Saint-George & Pecou: Violin Concertos [New CD] 6/30/17 Jeff BallardThe Chevalier de Saint George is in many respects an exceptional figure. Born in Guadeloupe in the eighteenth century to an aristocrat and an enslaved woman, he received in Paris the education of a court gentleman: violinist, fencer, Freemason, participant in the Revolution, and conductor, he was also a composer. It is naturally to the violin that he dedicated his finest works, among which the concertos, marked by a virtuosity that is both unbridled