Violinist Paul Huang and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jun Märkl present two American concertos from the mid-twentieth century: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 and Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14. In an interview for the album, Huang shares, “These concertos offer two complementary visions of American musical identity. Korngold brought with …

Recent guests on Live from WFMT, violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang (no relation) present their second album as a duo. Following the critical praise for Kaleidoscope, the duo’s 2023 release featuring sumptuous Romantic Era works by Respighi and Saint-Saëns, Mirrors centers two violin sonatas composed during the Second World War. Paul Huang explains that both the Prokofiev Violin …