Chris Bonds wrote:

>Ron Chaplin wrote:
>
>>At the concert I attended, Rachel Barton was the soloist for Bruch's
>>Scottish Fantasy.  ...For an encore, she played a solo piece by the
>>composer who had been called the successor to Paginini, because of the
>>difficulty of his work, based on a Irish folk song.
>
>Possibly the variations on "Last Rose of Summer" by H. W. Ernst.

Maxim Vengarov has this as a favorite "lollipop" and has recorded it.
Extraordinary.  He did this at the London Proms a couple of years ago and
you can hear the audience gasp as he negotiates the difficulties section
by section.  Then the applause - enough energy to send up a space shuttle.

Eric