First Loves
Tim Fain, violin
Robert Koenig, piano

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First Loves

The Beeb  3's Afternoon Concert

Haruki Murakami's vinyl collection - 3

Mix clasica?

The Beeb 3's  Through the Night - 3

Pablo de Sarasate

Chris (HD Remastered)

I Hear Music

Enjoy Your Free Time With

What Is There To Say

Sings Lullabys of Birdland  (HD Remastered)

Lullaby of Birdland

Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 33 - I. Allegro Non Troppo

Blue to Red

Interstellar

Impromptu

Le Tic-Toc-Choc

Tamar Melzer, flute
Erez Yaacov, guitar
Oren Sagi, contrabass
Omer Shneidman, percussion

Live recording, 4/1/2014



Romanza Andaluza by Pablo de Sarasate, Op. 22

"Chris"

Everything I Love

Chris Connor Best Of

All About Ronnie

Ridin' High

Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, violin
Ondřej Kukal, Conductor
The Louis Poulet Chamber Orchestra
recorded live during the concert on April 30th, 2009, in the Great Academic Hall of the Liege University, Belgium.

Pablo de Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op. 20

Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61 & Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro

"'Symphony No. 10 in E Minor' op. 93, II. 'Allegro' for Percussion Ensemble" (2020) is an arrangement that was written for the Minooka Community High School Marching Band Front Percussion Ensemble (Minooka, Illinois, U.S.A.). This arrangement is based on "Symphony No. 10 in E Minor op. 93, II. 'Allegro'" composed and orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich. This work was mixed and produced using the composition/engraving software, MuseScore.

Instrumentation: percussion ensemble (brake drum, concert bass drum, concert snare drum, cymbals (crash, suspended), drum set, glockenspiel, 3 marimbas, ratchet, 2 synthesizers (brass, strings), timp, tubular bells, 2 vibraphones, xylophone).

CREDITS
Arranger: Collin Wittlich
Mixing Engineer: Collin Wittlich
Orchestrator: Collin Wittlich
Parts/Score Copyist: Collin Wittlich
Producer: Collin Wittlich

"'Symphony No. 10 in E Minor' op. 93, II. 'Allegro' for Percussion Ensemble" (2020)

After the surprise success of Scrimshire's autumn-celebrating EP in 2021, the prolific producer and label manager has written a new set of songs that expand the concept record into a full length album. 

Introducing this new release is the gentle, picked guitars of Hazel. A piece that draws so many of Scrimshire's influences together from lo-fi folk to cinematic jazz and beyond. An atmospheric and dream-like journey into the autumn world Scrimshire clearly loves so much. 

The full length album will be released in October, featuring the Guy Garvey favourite Hornbeam.

Hazel

Scrimshire - Hazel

Pablo de Sarasate - Caprice Basque op. 24 for Violin and Orchestra

Michael Ponti, Piano
Philharmonia Hungarica
Hans Richard Stracke, Conductor

Moritz Moszkowski Piano Concerto in E major Op. 59, 2nd Movement Andante

Interplay

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Remastered 2025)

When You Wish Upon A Star (Remastered 2025)

Interplay (Remastered 2025)

You Go To My Head (Remastered 2025)

First Loves
Tim Fain, violin
Robert Koenig, piano

First Loves is a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired me to be a violinist. Includes showpieces by Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, Wieniawski, and more, plus “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
As a kid, I was surrounded by classical, pop, rock, jazz, film and contemporary concert music – finding a balance of old and new music is still very important to me. Many of the works on First Loves are the ones that drew me in as a child – Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, and Wieniawski, arrangements by Heifetz, and Kreisler – and remain profoundly relevant today. I’ve also included “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which I made after my work on-camera and on the soundtrack of the film Black Swan. Each track is dedicated to someone who inspired me or made it possible for me to be the person and the artist that I am today. My hope is that First Loves will inspire others, young and old, to fall in love with the violin as I did.

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Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy

Praeludium And Allegro - Fritz Kreisler

Meditation from Thais - Jules Massenet

Carmen Fantasy -Franz Waxman

La Capricieuse - Edward Elgar

Introduction And Tarantelle - Pablo de Sarasate

Piano 2003

Mozart: Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397

Bach Partitas: Nos. 4, 2 & 5

Partita no. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 (: Allemande)

Violino romantico

Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25

Bach for Breakfast - The Leisurely Way to Start Your Day

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: II. Adagio ma non tanto

Mozart: Ouvertüren

Don Giovanni, K. 527: Overture

"4. In the Hall of the Mountain King" from "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46" by Edvard Grieg

Pablo de Sarasate (Josef Hassid / Gerald Moore) – Spanish Dances (2) for Violin and Piano, Op. 23: I.Playera

Musique issue du film « Les Indes galantes » réalisé par Clément Cogitore pour la 3e Scène de l'Opéra national de Paris.

Musique :
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes : Les Sauvages 
« Danse du Calumet de la Paix et duo Forêts paisibles » - Le Concert d’Astrée –
Direction : Emmanuelle Haïm

(P) 2012 Erato Disques, a Warner Msic UK Division 
Avec l’aimable autorisation de Warner Music France, a Warner Music Group Compagny

Arrangement : 
Coco Josua / Mozarf
Thomas Deborde 
Arnaud Toulon

Voir le film : www.operadeparis.fr/3e-scene/les-indes-galantes

Les Indes galantes (Jean-Philippe Rameau)

The Centennial Collection

Goodnight, My Love (Remastered)

King Of Swing

Sing, Sing, Sing

Opus 3/4 (Remastered)

I Want to Be Happy (Remastered)

Rosetta (Remastered)

Jam Session (Remastered)

Chris

Come Back to Sorrento

Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1

24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 5 in A Minor

Best Jazz Songs

How Long Has This Been Going On?

Pablo de Sarasate - Souvenir de Domont Op. 8 (Valse de Concert for Violin and Piano) - very rare recording


Julius Aria Sahbai, violin
Amador Fuentes, piano

Pablo de Sarasate - Souvenir de Domont Op. 8

Ravel: Suites auriculaires, Rapsodie espagnole & Frontispice

Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria (Version for 2 Pianos)

With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene.  The “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops” (Boston Globe) was most recently seen on screen and heard on the soundtrack of the new hit film Black Swan, and heard as the sound of Richard Gere’s violin in Fox Searchlight’s feature film Bee Season. Selected as one of Symphony and Strad magazines’ “Up-and-Coming Musicians,” Fain captured the Avery Fisher Career Grant  and a Young Concert Artists International Award.  As The Washington Post recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”

He electrified audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  He has also appeared with the Mexico City and Oxford (UK) Symphonies, Cincinnati Chamber Symphony, Brooklyn and Hague Philharmonics, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.  In addition, he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach and continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Phillip Glass.

Fain appeared in recital at the Ravinia Festival, Amsterdam’s venerable Concertgebouw, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, University of Georgia, Boston’s Ives and Ringling International Festivals, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, and elsewhere across the globe. His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles and at its midwestern premiere at Omaha’s KANEKO. The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for solo violin, a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass, and also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied, Leonard Cohen, film maker Kate Hackett, and with radio personality Fred Child and pianist Nicholas Brittel appearing on screen.  

A dynamic and compelling performer in traditional works, he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers, with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano; as the Los Angeles Times recently noted, his career “is based, in part, on new music and new ways of thinking about classical music.“  His provocative debut CD Arches, music for solo violin, reflects Fain’s inquisitive passion and intellect, combining old and new solo works by J.S. Bach, Fritz Kreisler, Kevin Puts, Mark O’Connor, Daniel Ott, and Randy Woolf. His new disc, River of Light (Naxos), brings the tradition of the virtuosic short piece into the present, with short works by living American composers.

He has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jonathan Biss, has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria." He has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus), guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), and appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center with singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20). 

A sought-after chamber musician, Fain has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Spoleto (Italy), Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Lucerne (Switzerland), “Bravo” Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard Festivals. He has toured nationally with Musicians from Marlboro, and was first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet. 

A native of Santa Monica, California, Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.  He performs on a violin made by Franceso Gobetti, Venice 1717, the “Moller,” on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Introduction And Tarantelle - Pablo de Sarasate

TimFain