Christian Ferras - Christian Ferras Plays Violin Sonatas & ConcertosChristian Ferras will most likely be remembered as the violinist who was filmed shedding tears at the end of the slow movement of Sibelius's Concerto in 1965, and who, after a dramatic downturn in his career, took his own life at the age of 49. And, of course, as the child prodigy from the French provinces who became at the height of his fame Herbert von Karajan's favorite violinist. His artistic personality was shaped by his utter, though humble,

the first piece featured here is Jealousy - his first declared piece of program music

sadistic torture and murder

the brain a silver screen

Spanish sparrows

Rearrange My Heart is an impressively cohesive 12-track record for the many influences it melds: Uruguayan murga

so off to India he went

Post Traumatic Love

Having a career spanning two decades

He cut his teeth with groups such as The Enterprise

revitalizing western musical heritage by bringing it back to a shared living experience

an almost endless list of diverse influences that ebb and flow like an ocean of sound

and this is the first recording under his own name with his group Eclipse