Mendelssohn / Macmillan / Mozart
Young Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti caused a sensationin 2004 when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Yearand wowed the audience and judges alike with her performanceof Szymanowski's Violin Concerto, which later became therepertoire for her debut CD.The repertoire for her follow-up album focuses onMendelssohn's Violin Concerto and also includes a WorldPremiere two-movement piece by fellow-Scot, JamesMacMillan, composed especially for Benedetti. The title FromAyrshire is a reference to the musicians' shared home country.Both of these pieces and a new arrangement of Schubert'sSerenade (Leise flehen meine Lieder, D957) are conductedby James MacMillan with the Academy of St. Martin-inthe-Fields. Completing the disc is a harp and violin arrangementof Schubert's Ave Maria and Mozart's Rondo K.373and Adagio K.261, directed by Benedetti from the violin.