Born in 2002, the prodigiously gifted violinist Maria Dueñas placed first in some eight international competitions, including the prestigious Menuhin, by the time she was 20, when Deutsche Grammophon wasted no time signing her up, her maiden outing the greatest of all concertos for the instrument: Beethoven’s, recorded, before she turned 21, under the sympathetic baton of Manfred Honeck, a string player himself (viola), conducting the Vienna Symphony. Dueñas has everything it takes to be both a superstar and a musician of the first order: imagination, intelligence, flawless technique, interpretive insight beyond her years, a temperament fiery and passionate yet graceful and lyrical. Her reading is broad (a nearly 28-minute first movement), but everything flows and surges, exquisitely phrased and inflected, by turns rhapsodic and introspective, her tone rich, glowing, vibrantly colorful. While all the cadenzas are her own, the “Beyond” in the album title suggests a serious flair for cultivated programming: five additional cadenzas by Spohr, Saint-Saëns, Kreisler, Wieniawski, and Ysaÿe, plus additional pieces for violin and orchestra by the same composers, all superlatively essayed. The sonics are excellent, wide in range and very transparent, albeit a bit close up. Recommended without qualification.