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"... The same is true of the Violin Concerto, which is conducted by Michael Halasz with Takako Nishizaki playing a brilliant solo. It is well-made music of no great originality but considerable charm, and it could find an affectionate audience if it became better-known. On the same disc (8.220359) is a "Humoresque" for orchestra, a comic tone poem titled "Don Quixote" that shows a fine knowledge of orchestration and a knack for musical description. It was eclipsed, of course, by the "Don Quixote" of Richard Strauss, one of the pinnacles of Romantic orchestral music, which was composed a few years after Rubinstein's death." --Joseph McLellan

ANTON RUBINSTEIN (1829-1894)
Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 46
Don Quixote (Humoresque), Op. 87

Takako Nishizaki, violin
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Halász, conductor