(1996) Ernst: Romantic Pieces for Violin Robert Carr Vocalist Gun-Brit Barkmin is flawless

Vocalist Gun-Brit Barkmin is flawless and the recording by Almut Telsnigs (Bavarian Radio) is guaranteed to satisfy the most critical audiophile

Jörg Ewald Dähler

receiving a soloist diploma «with highest honors»

The wintry weather offers its signifiers of decay and dying throughout – the frozen tears

8 in G Minor

(1996) Ernst: Romantic Pieces for Violin Robert Carr Vocalist Gun-Brit Barkmin is flawlessViolinist Ingolf Turban has made a valuable, momentous rediscovery: the compositions for violin by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (18141865), the German Paganini. Contemporary opinion held Ernst to be the only violinist who could match, perhaps even surpass, Paganinis mastery of the violin. But Ernst was much more than merely an instrumental virtuoso, he wasnt merely a Paganini mimic; Ernst was an innovative and profound composer. Each of his works is