Mendelssohn / MacMillan / Mozart

in 2004 when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year

and wowed the audience and judges alike with her performance

of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto, which later became the

repertoire for her debut CD.

The repertoire for her follow-up album focuses on

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and also includes a World

Premiere two-movement piece by fellow-Scot, James

MacMillan, composed especially for Benedetti. The title From

Ayrshire is a reference to the musicians' shared home country.

Both of these pieces and a new arrangement of Schubert's

Serenade (Leise flehen meine Lieder, D957) are conducted

by James MacMillan with the Academy of St. Martin-inthe-

Fields. Completing the disc is a harp and violin arrangement

of Schubert's Ave Maria and Mozart's Rondo K.373

and Adagio K.261, directed by Benedetti from the violin.