A new live recording of Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen has been released featuring VC Artist Diana Adamyan as a soloist alongside Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

The concert was recorded at the 2025 Rheingau Music Festival at the Eberbach Monastery on June 21, 2025.

Sarasate drew inspiration for Zigeunerweisen during an 1877 visit to Budapest, published it for violin and piano in 1878, and later orchestrated it in 1881. Although the work was based on existing dances and songs, one major melody in the third section was composed in 1873 by Elemér Szentirmay. Sarasate acknowledged Szentirmay's section in an 1884 reprint, but in a 1904 recording, he omitted that section entirely, jumping straight to the finale.

Listen to the recording here:

 

Currently based in Switzerland, Diana won international acclaim when she earned first prize at both the 2018 Menuhin Competition and the Khachaturian International Competition. 

She has since played solo with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Niederbayerische Philharmonie, Staatsorchester Darmstadt, and more. 

Diana has also presented recitals across the US, Tokyo, and France, and performed at the Aspen Festival, Seiji Ozawa Academy, and the Matsumoto International Music Festival. 

A graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the NAC Summer Music School, her mentors included Petros Haykazyan, Ana Chumachenco, Pinchas Zukerman, and Leonidas Kavakos. In 2024, she signed with Askonas Holt for general management.