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