I own Hahn, Bell, Takezawa, and Buswell and have heard McDuffie. Buswell didn't do much for me and Takezawa REALLY didn't do much for me. Technically great...and aloof as anything. Stravinsky might suit her better but then I have too much respect for the Stravinsky to have her play just the notes. McDuffie I would like to hear again, as I remember thinking well of his interpretation. I also remembering not thinking well of Levi's orchestral blahness. If I had to decide between Hahn and Bell, I would pick...both. Hahn plays it a bit closer to her chest, stoically refusing to let all the emotion out, with the effect of bathing the first two movements in a haunting glow. Then the last movement, taken at breakneck speed, is nothing short of an eruption. Bell I love and I just might give him the nod, because his sound is simply a wash of passion (some might even find his rubati a bit too much. I know how hokey this will sound but it's as if he's living the piece, not just playing it. This CD also happens to have a great orchestral accompaniment (Zinman/Baltimore) and the Barber is paired with Walton's concerto and the underperformed Bloch Baal Shem Tov. Check them both out! Though this info. can be found elsewhere easily enough, here's a list of some recordings to further discussion. Soloist; Conductor/Orchestra, Label Shaham; Previn/London S.O., DG Hahn; Wolff/St. Paul Chamber O., Sony Oliveira; Slatkin/St. Louis S., EMI Stern; Bernstein/NY Phil., Sony Bell; Zinman/Baltimore S.O., London Buswell; Alsop/Royal Scottish Nat. O., Naxos Takezawa; Slatkin/St. Louis S., RCA Victor McDuffie; Levi/Atlanta S.O., Teldec Ricci; Clark/Pacific S.O., Reference *Verdehr; Bohuslav Martinu Phil. O., Crystal Kun; Boughton/English String O., Nimbus Shapira; Sanderling/Russian Phil. O., Asv Living Era *Salerno-Sonnenberg; M. Shostakovich/London S.O., Angel/EMI Olding; Iwaki/Melbourne S.O., ABC Classics L. Kogan; P. Kogan, RV What we really need is someone like Mr. Satz to do one of his fine comparison taste tests. Ben Malkevitch <[log in to unmask]>