Fantasia appassionata / Ballade and Polonaise / Fantaisie-Caprice / Greeting to America

"The recorded sound (from 2008 except for the Ballade from 2002) sets the violin in a respectable balance with the orchestra. Keylin generally plays an Antonio Gagliano violin from 1831 but, for the earlier recording of the Ballade, borrowed the 1715 Baron Knoop Stradivari from the Fulton Collection. Aficionados of 19th-century violin music and students of the virtuoso technique upon which it depended should find Keylin's performances of these works nearly irresistible, though general listeners should be delighted by both Keylin's plucky advocacy and by the works' melodic richness and wealth of orchestral detail, which the recorded sound reveals in natural clarity. Recommended, accordingly, to all types of listeners."
(Fanfare Nov 2010)