Sarah Chang: Debut
This miraculous recital was Chang's debut recording, made when she  was nine years old. In Sarasate'sCarmenFantasy you can hear some  very minor flaws in the technique, which were gone when I heard her play it two  years later. There's nothing else to indicate that this is a young violinist, not even  the tone Chang draws from a quarter-size violin. While none of these pieces is  very heavy in musical content, she shows a wide range of sympathies, from the  singing lyricism of Chopin to a very hip-sounding "It Ain't Necessarily  So" from Gershwin'sPorgy and Bess.--Leslie Gerber