that's complete nonsense! His bowing arm is one of the most unusual and most extraordinary around. If you take a poll of violinists, most will list him among the violinists of today they admire most. He performs all the time with the world's top orchestras. And, by the way, I think he plays a lot better now, 25 years later! He is a rare example of a violinist who kept getting better and better with time.
Ladies and Gentlemen Kavacos is the heir apparent to the great Ruggiero Ricci. He is capable of playing things that most soloists today don't touch. Just want to throw that on the table.
@horozcorc: I think this guy now is pretty famous and very well known and worldwide recognized as the best among the best. The Strad magazine called him "the violinist of violinists." That statement says it all. In my humble opinion, his technique is superior than Heifetz's or Oistrakh's. Kavakos rules!!!
"That statement says it all." For you, perhaps. As a violinist, Mr. Kavakos doesn't interest me very much. I was curious to hear him when he was younger. Sadly (and pace Maestro Hadelich), I find he has not matured musically in the ensuing years (his Bach Chaconne is a nice try at Baroque style, but there are infinitely better [i.e. Alina Ibragimova]; his Brahms with the DRSO is a ho-hum affair compared with Kachatryan's with Andres Orozco-Estrada, which incidentally is without audience due to the virus, but you'd never know it. His performance is musical as it is original). As a performer, in my opinion, Kavakos lacks charisma. A lingering impression is that an audience means very little to him.
@@villesarkilahti4975 Frankly I don't care about Hadelich's opinion. My impression is that Kavakos doesn't have much charisma. I was not stating a fact. You misread my comment. Furthermore, in my opinion his interpretations are generic, not of the personal kind. So you don't agree with me. Tant pis. P.S. Another misconception at Yahoo is that no one can criticize a performing artist unless they can play at the same level. Dorothy Delay was one of the leading teachers of future violin concert artists in the 60s and 70s, and all of her students played much better than she. I am a violin teacher and I have students that can out-play me technically, yet they remain studying with me. I'm glad you enjoy Kavakos' playing. I don't.
This is certainly the most brilliant performance of this movement ever recorded. I wonder if Leonidas is using Josef Gingold's violin in this performance. It very much resembles Mr. Gingold's "Martinelli" Strad.
jesus, are you going to compare a performance of kogan in his 30s or 40s with this of kavakos at the age of 21??? you should compare editions in equal ages....and kavakos is always developing his style and playing
ItzhakRoxMySox is a HATER! Ricci was the first showpiece specialist of the modern age. He played with ease pieces that other violinists would never perform in public. Respect his authoritah!!!!! And Kavakos (in my opinion) is the greatest living violinist.
@guyincognito84 That was my first opinion of Mehuhin, when I heard his crappy Mendelssohn concerto. I wondered: "why is this guy considered a legend? why is he famous at all?" Looking back, I suspect that was recorded when he was old. Then I watched some videos of him when he was young, and damn he was godly. In his prime, I'd say his technique was up there with Heifetz, Kogan, Milstein, etc... Kavakos looks equally good, but I can't decide who is better. They are all godly.
dear Alexander Mandi your musical analyse is really precise what is rare.I just don t understeand what you re saying about "timing". I think that Kavakos don t need lesons from anyone, even Heifetz in this aspect of his play. but I think people like Heifetz had electricity in theyre expression and not only when they was playing fast and virtuoso pieces, that s meybe the difference.But it s of course a rare pleasure in our days to listen a violonist of the quality of Kavakos.
This is the Radio Symphony Orschestra Ljubljana, Slowenia, by the way. I still remember this performance. Otherwise I don't like his twisted wrist, though he is a very intelligent player.
@fullargon I don't know why Oistrakh is up there in your comparison of techniques, lol. Technically, I think Heifetz was still better overall, and more secure. Kavakos can play fast, but he seems to make more mistakes than he should. In his Paganini caprice 24, he went going off-tune, accidentally hit an extra note, and had uneven left-hand pizzicato--all in that one short piece. In this particular performance of the cadenza, however, he is nearly perfect. No obvious errors.
You were probably listening to things he recorded after age sixty. First of all who else plays like that at sixty, seventy, eighty? Next listen to some of his early recordings when he was in is prime (circa 1930s and 1940s).
nope.He travels all the time.He has alwqays a suitcase in his hand actually and he lives in germany.But ony the last one or two years his career has gone up so much.
@horozcorc He is pretty famous, but today there are lots of good violinists. More competition. Seriously, everywhere I look some random violinist I've never heard of before pounds out Paganini like it's nothing. Where did they all come from? Paganini is now too easy to show off all their techniques. We need something much harder in order to distinguish between them. Playing faster isn't an option because lots of violinists CAN play fast, but too fast sounds bad.
maybe yes, but he is worldwide famous as one of the 3 top! Anywhere he will be playing the tickets are getting sold out in a few days!! A few months ago, in berlin with the berliner philharmoniker, 3 concerts on a row in just a weekend, all of them soldout!! So...he is just a famous violonist worldwide!
The Cold war this and that... don't forget that Oistrakh was a high-positioned KGB-member, he could have done many more things.And Heifetz was more perfect than Oistrakh. Ever seen Oistrakh perform a faster triller than Heifetz or a better staccato (down & up?I guess not.You could hunt Oistrakh with double-trillers.He had a bigger sound than Heifetz, but Heifetz had the most calculated and the best plan and architecture of a piece and every single note in it. They were masters in their own way.
People don't go to concerts and buy recordings because of the racial characterisics of a musician. As Heifetz said, it isn't getting to the top that matters - it is staying there.
all ridiculous statements about jewishness/non-jewishness aside, I've never understood why so many people love Heifetz. He seems so dry and emotionless to me (although virtuosic to be sure). Maybe it's the vibrato, but almost everything he plays seems overly stiff and formal. Listen to Kavakos play Tzigane, he has a beautiful sense of 'nuance, bravura and timing.' And I've always thought that the reason Oistrakh wasn't way more famous than Heifetz was the Cold War, plain and simple.
ricci did this and ricci did that!! however, in what i have heard he was a main soloist!!! nothing special to me!! neither his sound nor his quick-clear enough passages!!! nothing at all, just fame for nothing
that's complete nonsense! His bowing arm is one of the most unusual and most extraordinary around. If you take a poll of violinists, most will list him among the violinists of today they admire most. He performs all the time with the world's top orchestras. And, by the way, I think he plays a lot better now, 25 years later! He is a rare example of a violinist who kept getting better and better with time.
Hi Augustin you are a great violinist as well. :) love your Brahms
Some , or most of his Paganini caprices - recorded 1989 / 1990 - are very good IMO
@@KevinCloudQAQ And also your Paganini !
Your bowing arm is the most extraordinary for me :).
Legendary violinist spotted
It gets more pixelated with every recommendation...
sorry guys for the low quality of video....!
Its not your fault
Haha this comment is almost as old as me
He was fantastic when he was 21 and now he's matured and blows up every young violinist (and most of the old ones).
I love his crisp, beautiful sound and serious type of musicianship. He's definitely one of my favorite violinists!
OH my god!! the double harmonics!!!! do you know how hard that is?
Ladies and Gentlemen Kavacos is the heir apparent to the great Ruggiero Ricci. He is capable of playing things that most soloists today don't touch. Just want to throw that on the table.
Кавакос - лучший скрипач
Он просто маг и чародей)))
@horozcorc: I think this guy now is pretty famous and very well known and worldwide recognized as the best among the best. The Strad magazine called him "the violinist of violinists." That statement says it all. In my humble opinion, his technique is superior than Heifetz's or Oistrakh's. Kavakos rules!!!
Agree
"That statement says it all." For you, perhaps. As a violinist, Mr. Kavakos doesn't interest me very much. I was curious to hear him when he was younger. Sadly (and pace Maestro Hadelich), I find he has not matured musically in the ensuing years (his Bach Chaconne is a nice try at Baroque style, but there are infinitely better [i.e. Alina Ibragimova]; his Brahms with the DRSO is a ho-hum affair compared with Kachatryan's with Andres Orozco-Estrada, which incidentally is without audience due to the virus, but you'd never know it. His performance is musical as it is original). As a performer, in my opinion, Kavakos lacks charisma. A lingering impression is that an audience means very little to him.
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@@villesarkilahti4975 Frankly I don't care about Hadelich's opinion. My impression is that Kavakos doesn't have much charisma. I was not stating a fact. You misread my comment. Furthermore, in my opinion his interpretations are generic, not of the personal kind. So you don't agree with me. Tant pis. P.S. Another misconception at Yahoo is that no one can criticize a performing artist unless they can play at the same level. Dorothy Delay was one of the leading teachers of future violin concert artists in the 60s and 70s, and all of her students played much better than she. I am a violin teacher and I have students that can out-play me technically, yet they remain studying with me. I'm glad you enjoy Kavakos' playing. I don't.
Double harmonics OMGGGG
Low quality is better than no quality.
Thanks for posting.
kogan's version of this piece is amazing. this interpretation is great as well. thanks for uploading this video.
This is certainly the most brilliant performance of this movement ever recorded.
I wonder if Leonidas is using Josef Gingold's violin in this performance. It very much resembles Mr. Gingold's "Martinelli" Strad.
I think this the best version so far in my opinion... O.O
jesus, are you going to compare a performance of kogan in his 30s or 40s with this of kavakos at the age of 21???
you should compare editions in equal ages....and kavakos is always developing his style and playing
ItzhakRoxMySox is a HATER! Ricci was the first showpiece specialist of the modern age. He played with ease pieces that other violinists would never perform in public. Respect his authoritah!!!!! And Kavakos (in my opinion) is the greatest living violinist.
just amazing
@guyincognito84
That was my first opinion of Mehuhin, when I heard his crappy Mendelssohn concerto. I wondered: "why is this guy considered a legend? why is he famous at all?"
Looking back, I suspect that was recorded when he was old. Then I watched some videos of him when he was young, and damn he was godly. In his prime, I'd say his technique was up there with Heifetz, Kogan, Milstein, etc... Kavakos looks equally good, but I can't decide who is better. They are all godly.
dear Alexander Mandi your musical analyse is really precise what is rare.I just don t understeand what you re saying about "timing". I think that Kavakos don t need lesons from anyone, even Heifetz in this aspect of his play. but I think people like Heifetz had electricity in theyre expression and not only when they was playing fast and virtuoso pieces, that s meybe the difference.But it s of course a rare pleasure in our days to listen a violonist of the quality of Kavakos.
thanks sooooo much!! this is great!!
F**k, the double armonics. How. How. He isn't human. I'm not joking
This is the Radio Symphony Orschestra Ljubljana, Slowenia, by the way.
I still remember this performance.
Otherwise I don't like his twisted wrist, though he is a very intelligent player.
Were the audience deaf?? What a lame ass applause for utterly stunning virtuosity!
@fullargon
I don't know why Oistrakh is up there in your comparison of techniques, lol.
Technically, I think Heifetz was still better overall, and more secure. Kavakos can play fast, but he seems to make more mistakes than he should. In his Paganini caprice 24, he went going off-tune, accidentally hit an extra note, and had uneven left-hand pizzicato--all in that one short piece.
In this particular performance of the cadenza, however, he is nearly perfect. No obvious errors.
Fingered octaves on last scales.. what..
which brahms?The one in Irodeio when he was young,or the one i uploaded?(Or both)
You were probably listening to things he recorded after age sixty. First of all who else plays like that at sixty, seventy, eighty? Next listen to some of his early recordings when he was in is prime (circa 1930s and 1940s).
WOW. WOW
Sound intruptions are awful. A bitrayal to this masterpiece.
nope.He travels all the time.He has alwqays a suitcase in his hand actually and he lives in germany.But ony the last one or two years his career has gone up so much.
@horozcorc
He is pretty famous, but today there are lots of good violinists. More competition. Seriously, everywhere I look some random violinist I've never heard of before pounds out Paganini like it's nothing. Where did they all come from?
Paganini is now too easy to show off all their techniques. We need something much harder in order to distinguish between them. Playing faster isn't an option because lots of violinists CAN play fast, but too fast sounds bad.
1:12 - when your favorite part has no music
maybe yes, but he is worldwide famous as one of the 3 top! Anywhere he will be playing the tickets are getting sold out in a few days!! A few months ago, in berlin with the berliner philharmoniker, 3 concerts on a row in just a weekend, all of them soldout!!
So...he is just a famous violonist worldwide!
@guyincognito84 I deeply disagree about Menuhin and I'm not alone I suspect.. BTW, who or what is mango?
He said nothing about people going to concerts, just their fame.
@ACTninja You cannot compare a live performance with a recording. Kogan may be the better musician but Kavakos is the better violinist.
The Cold war this and that... don't forget that Oistrakh was a high-positioned KGB-member, he could have done many more things.And Heifetz was more perfect than Oistrakh.
Ever seen Oistrakh perform a faster triller than Heifetz or a better staccato (down & up?I guess not.You could hunt Oistrakh with double-trillers.He had a bigger sound than Heifetz, but Heifetz had the most calculated and the best plan and architecture of a piece and every single note in it. They were masters in their own way.
You're blowing smoke regarding Oistrakh being a KGB agent; Kogan was working for KGB.
@guyincognito84 Obviously I knew it's a fruit.. I just wanted to point out that mango has nothing in common with violin and violinists.
People don't go to concerts and buy recordings because of the racial characterisics of a musician. As Heifetz said, it isn't getting to the top that matters - it is staying there.
all ridiculous statements about jewishness/non-jewishness aside, I've never understood why so many people love Heifetz. He seems so dry and emotionless to me (although virtuosic to be sure). Maybe it's the vibrato, but almost everything he plays seems overly stiff and formal. Listen to Kavakos play Tzigane, he has a beautiful sense of 'nuance, bravura and timing.' And I've always thought that the reason Oistrakh wasn't way more famous than Heifetz was the Cold War, plain and simple.
Breath_Electric listen to his Sibelius ziguenerweisen and Mozart 5 ur opinion will be different
Menuhin best LH technique (trust me). Rabin the definitive for the bow.
Its a pity about the bowing arm because everything else is sound enough.
thats such an idiotic comment. he is not as famouse because he has not chosen to travel as much as they did.
@Ali Abbas I'm still alive
@Ali Abbas eh, not much changed in 13 years :p
@horozcorc May you have the kidness to order a new brain ? Yours is broken
ricci did this and ricci did that!! however, in what i have heard he was a main soloist!!! nothing special to me!! neither his sound nor his quick-clear enough passages!!!
nothing at all, just fame for nothing
kogan is sooo much better at this song than him