2009-01-12

Mayuko Kamio `In Recital'

Mayuko Kamio
`In Recital'
(RCA Red Seal)

Japanese violinist Mayuko Kamio makes her recording debut with Sony BMG. A winner of the 2007 Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition, she was also the youngest artist, at age 13, to perform at the Kennedy Center in New York.

The young virtuoso chooses a repertoire of Bizet, Tchaikovsky and Stravinksy.

Her fiery rendition of ``Carmen Fantasie'' shows there is room for yet another violinist to shine through the myriad of rising stars. Isaac Stern had long hallmarked the Franz Waxman composition written for the 1946 film ``Humoresque.'' But Kamio topples the monopoly and offers something of her own color.

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