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« Reply #15 on: 07:35:22, 03-03-2007 »
I think that Vengerov is a pop star of classical music.
If they want to pay to him that much why play for less? Pefrorming art is a showmanship sometime. May be one has to be exhibitionist too. Some people are not capable of that.
He has huge repertoire, though plays popular encore sort of pieces. He knows what the audience wants. However he plays less known pieces and people listen.
I am afraid that he is playing too much of populist stuff lately.
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« Reply #16 on: 02:34:49, 04-03-2007 »
Some other violinists I would prefer to hear:
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« Reply #17 on: 09:03:19, 04-03-2007 »
I don't know who these violinsts are, their names.
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« Reply #18 on: 09:15:11, 04-03-2007 »
One is Reinhard Goebel, one of the truly great Baroque violinists - as least he was until about 10 years ago, when his left hand stopped doing what it should. (Some net searches for anything verifiable have referred to 'problem' and 'accident'; I don't know which is true.) For a long time he tried playing left-handed; the only time I heard him in concert was not very long after he started doing that and was of course not very good.

He's stopped playing now - I heard a rumour that he had tried to return to right-handed playing but that it hadn't worked. I read in a recent Diapason that Musica Antiqua Köln would be disbanding in November - a look at the MAK website seems rather to suggest that that might have been old news and that they have already finished playing. The November part appears to have been right, but it seems to have been in 2006.

Didn't know until just now that he had been a student of Saschko Gawriloff...
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« Reply #19 on: 09:20:47, 04-03-2007 »
The other is Irvine Arditti, who plays mostly new and twentieth-century music (quite a lot of it stupendously, especially when it compes to people like Ligeti, Xenakis or Ferneyhough) and is the leader of the Arditti String Quartet.

I suppose if you want a link between them it's Ligeti. Or maybe the WDR in Köln... Wink
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« Reply #20 on: 16:11:32, 05-03-2007 »
See and hear Vengerov tonight:

01:50am BBC 4 (satellite station)
Proms on FOUR 2006
Maxim Vengerov plays Mozart's 4th violin concerto, and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. 
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« Reply #21 on: 17:34:15, 05-03-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 16:11:32, 05-03-2007
See and hear Vengerov tonight:

01:50am BBC 4 (satellite station)
 

Don't forget Freeview and cable, will you John? Wink
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« Reply #22 on: 17:41:08, 05-03-2007 »
For those who do not have access to the this station you can watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppvaBgW3Lk&mode=related&search=
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« Reply #23 on: 18:52:31, 06-03-2007 »
You can hear Vengerov playing Brahms tonight (Tuesday 6 March):

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major Opus 77
Maxim Vengerov – violin. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

On Classic FM 'Evening Concert', a compilation of recordings. Vengerov's recording will be heard just after 9.00pm.

John W
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