Fantasie is the fourth studio album

Studio album

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 violinist Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti

- Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...

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Album information

Benedetti's fourth album, Fantasie, was released on September 7, 2009. It features the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexei Grynyuk, Vasily Patrenko and Andrew Litton

Andrew Litton

Andrew Litton is an American orchestral conductor. Litton is a graduate of The Fieldston School, and holds both undergraduate and Masters degrees in music from Juilliard....

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Fantasie is made up from a selection of well-loved violin pieces that form her fourth violin showcase. The repertoire is varied, ultimately all popular pieces and greatly different to the repertoire on her most recent studio albums. The combination of virtuosic, gipsy-influenced pieces with introspective meditations and songs represents the two aspects of violin-playing that particularly interest Benedetti.

For Fantasie, Benedetti has put aside the concerti to explore some of the recital greats, including Vaughan Williams’ "The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending is a work by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by George Meredith's 122-line poem of the same name about the skylark. The work was written in two versions: violin and piano, written in 1914; and violin and orchestra, written in 1920. The orchestral version...

", one of the greatest works for violin which, for the last three years, has been voted Classic FM

Classic FM (UK)

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’s favourite piece of classical music in their Hall of Fame.

Track listing

1. "Zigeunerweisen Op.20" – 8:59
2. "The Lark Ascending" – 16:03
3. "Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso" – 9:19
4. "Meditation From Thais" – 5:40
5. "Tzigane" – 10:03
6. "Spiegel Im Spiegel - 9:50
7. "Vocalise" – 6:11
8. "Apres Une Reve" – 2:48