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But while she negotiates the high-speed conclusion of Saint-Saens' "Rondo Capriccioso" with vitality, I prefer her work on the slower pieces, tackling "The Lark Ascending" with due grace and becoming effulgently romantic on the "Meditation" from Massenet's Thaïs. Most moving of all is her intimate version of Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel", where you can all but hear her violin breathing as its strings are gently caressed.
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