Saint-Saëns - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor (French: Introduction et Rondo capriccioso en la mineur ), Op. 28, is a composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 by Camille Saint-Saëns for the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate.The piece opens with a 36-bar theme in A minor, establishing key as well as rhythmic and harmonic themes. The orchestra supports the violin with block chord progressions while the soloist plays virtuosic arpeggios and chromatic scalar passages. Saint-Saëns destabilizes the rhythm of the soloist oscillating between syncopated rising arpeggios and falling eighth notes. In bar 18 the motion picks up when the tempo indication changes from Andante malinconico to animato and the soloist jumps into a rapid thirty-second note line.
Violin: Bomsori Kim Bomsori Kim (Korean: 김봄소리, born December 13, 1989) is a South Korean classical violinist. She is an internationally recognized violinist and currently performs concerts around the world as a recitalist and as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors.As a violinist, Bomsori has won prizes at ten international violin competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Queen Elisabeth, ARD, Sibelius, Montreal, Sendai, Wieniawski, Joachim, China (Qingdao), and Schoenfeld. She has recorded for the major record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Warner Classics. She currently plays on the 1774 J.B. Guadagnini Turin, generously on loan to her from Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation.
