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Session Report: violinist Chloë Hanslip on recording the Bennett and Duke violin concertos

2025-10-24T09:09:00

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Violinist Chloë Hanslip chats to Harry White about giving voice to two neglected concertos by 20th-century Broadway composers who were compatriots of George Gershwin

There is a particularly memorable review of Chloë Hanslip’s 2001 debut album, recorded shortly after she became the youngest ever artist to sign with Warner Classics, at the age of 13. One can almost feel the tension as the critic, pencil sharpened and ready to pounce, reluctantly succumbs to Hanslip’s ‘formidable’ maturity and ‘dazzling virtuosity’…

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