This release by violinist seems to fit a common enough pattern, with a photogenic young artist playing melodic, moderate-tempo stuff tailor-made for Britain's Classic FM and its cousins in other countries. It fills its role well, but there are some notable new wrinkles here. The album's " " theme is common enough, but not all of the music here consists of movie themes. The most novel thing is the presence of anime music by , , and . These are not familiar names outside the anime world, but to aficionados of the genre, their music is appreciated, and they will be known by name among the harder core. integrates them well into the rest of the program; the idiom is slightly different, with more concentrated sentiment, so to speak, but she links pieces tonally and, interestingly, drops in pieces with no connection to cinema to make the whole thing fit together. A guitar-and-violin arrangement of 's marks something of a high point, breaking the sequence of slow numbers. As for the movie themes, they are naturally enough centered in French films but also include figures known beyond France; 's "The Hanging Tree" from is included. has a nice cantabile, and she has set herself the task of creating nothing less than a violin crossover album for a new age. She has largely succeeded. ~ James Manheim