New Zealand-born American violinist Geneva Lewis is the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been Musical America’s New Artist of the Month, and was a BBC New Generation Artist in 2022–24.  Her solo debut album features a high-flying all-American program, accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Gemma New. Starting with Samuel Barber’s neo-Romantic Violin Concerto – the notorious finale provides hardly any respite to the soloist – it is followed by the first recording of John Zorn’s Partita for the Firebird, a solo violin work in which “every note burns and demands your entire self” (Geneva’s own words), and Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Written to please his father, the work is less symphonic than operatic, befitting a composer then in the full flight of operatic composition.