Chihyun Chang

This miraculous recital was Chang's debut recording, made when she was nine years old. In Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy 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.

With the performers on this disc, you would expect first-rate performances of Dvorák's Violin Concerto and his Piano Quintet. Unfortunately, no matter what you think of the performances, the sound quality of the recording will leave you disappointed. In both the concerto and the quintet, the sound from everyone is rather thin and flat. The depth of the vibratos, the reverberation of the strings, and the orchestra in general are all very shallow.

The student who plans to study from this text is expected to have either read or has the equivalent knowledge of Introduction to Chinese Cursive Script by Fred Wang, Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, 1958 and Read About China In Cursive Script written by Chang Yi-nan, FSI Chinese Language and Area Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 1965. …