Jenny Lin

Spain’s Catalonia region has produced some household names of the art world, including Pablo Casals, Salvador Dali and Joan Miró. But it also gave us lesser-known artists, like composer Xavier Montsalvatge, who belonged to a “lost generation” of artists that worked in the shadow of the Franco regime. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianist Jenny Lin join us to perform the Catalan composer’s work live in our studio.

Pianist Jenny Lin was born in Taiwan, raised in Austria, studied in Geneva and Baltimore and now calls New York City her home. Her musical tastes are similarly wide-ranging, with CDs embracing Russian revolutionaries, insomnia-themed works, and her latest, the blazingly difficult 24 Preludes of Shostakovich. The enterprising pianist joins ...