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Dear Maestro, your playing is marvellous and I really enjoyed it in this for me absolutely unfamiliar violin repertoire. Your new violin sounds wonderful under your fingers. Bravo!!! I'm curious: you are playing a for you quite untypical string setup on this instrument, rather high tension Synthetic G and D and even a steel a string!!! Do you still prefer the Tricolore Strings on your Strad or do you have new favourites! Thank you for all your fabulous videos, Professor!
Many thanks for the comment, yes it's Pirazzi Gold G and D, Chromcor A, and Kaplan Solutions E. It's not a totally random violin, I have some personal attachment to it: it was my very first violin teacher's violin with whom I studied between age 5-7. Actually, one of my earliest memories is this violin, I remember to see it at lessons, and as a little boy, I was fascinated by its really very dark color. In the same time, now it hasn't been played for 20-25 years, its projection in a larger hall isn't convincing, this is what I'm trying to compensate with this string setup. Otherwise it really has a beautiful tone, and the size (35,3) and the bit more narrow body is just perfect. I've very recently purchased it from my first teacher who's retired now. Yes, my other one still has the Tricolore strings.
Thank you for this wonderful story! A violin from a teacher for a teacher!!! Recently I saw a video with one of the violinists of the Vienna Philharmonic, he explained his old viennese made violin, almost black in colour. I forgot the makers name...
@@AntalZalai Yes, the tone is dark, lush, fulsome, and sweet. This is my kind of sound! Glad you own this special violin. It is in most worthy hands! And thank you for recording these studies. Perhaps I’ll muster the courage to work on them someday! 🙏🏻🎻
@@caiushiticas4619well, i don't do everything like he does! But i manage to stay in tune in similar pasages that he does not. I mean, his double harmonics are superb in some of his recordings! But i suppose everyone has different problems. I recently have wrist and thumb pains, which is a disaster for maintaining a firm controlled grip.
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Ich könnte Ihnen stundenlang zuhören. Vielen Dank.
You are now the violin professor at Brussels conservatory. That's amazing 🎉, congratulations Professor. I hope to meet you there one day❤
Great to see you uploading again! I always love your performances
Thank you very much. Excellent performance, as always.
BRAVO !
Amazing playing once again, i am thinking of studying one of this pieces for my future exams, thank you
Bravo!
Siempre es muy grato escuchar sus interpretaciones, todas maravillosas.
Очень здорово!
Браво! Дякую!
Köszönöm, hogy feltöltötted! Élvezettel hallgatom (és nézem a könnyed, brilliáns hegedűjátékod!)
wow what a tone! what violin is this?
Gracias por compartir. ❤
Bravo!🤩
Dear Maestro, your playing is marvellous and I really enjoyed it in this for me absolutely unfamiliar violin repertoire. Your new violin sounds wonderful under your fingers. Bravo!!! I'm curious: you are playing a for you quite untypical string setup on this instrument, rather high tension Synthetic G and D and even a steel a string!!! Do you still prefer the Tricolore Strings on your Strad or do you have new favourites! Thank you for all your fabulous videos, Professor!
Many thanks for the comment, yes it's Pirazzi Gold G and D, Chromcor A, and Kaplan Solutions E. It's not a totally random violin, I have some personal attachment to it: it was my very first violin teacher's violin with whom I studied between age 5-7. Actually, one of my earliest memories is this violin, I remember to see it at lessons, and as a little boy, I was fascinated by its really very dark color.
In the same time, now it hasn't been played for 20-25 years, its projection in a larger hall isn't convincing, this is what I'm trying to compensate with this string setup.
Otherwise it really has a beautiful tone, and the size (35,3) and the bit more narrow body is just perfect.
I've very recently purchased it from my first teacher who's retired now.
Yes, my other one still has the Tricolore strings.
Thank you for this wonderful story! A violin from a teacher for a teacher!!! Recently I saw a video with one of the violinists of the Vienna Philharmonic, he explained his old viennese made violin, almost black in colour. I forgot the makers name...
@@falkomahnert1166 Probably the same maker then. He was an important violin maker in Vienna in the 18th century, and also Leopold Mozart’s luthier!
@@AntalZalai Yes, the tone is dark, lush, fulsome, and sweet. This is my kind of sound! Glad you own this special violin. It is in most worthy hands! And thank you for recording these studies. Perhaps I’ll muster the courage to work on them someday! 🙏🏻🎻
well done.bravo
love it!,,, tried to get a student to play these, so then they quit. haha oh well.
Beautiful, thank you! I realized you are not playing your Strad this time. What are you playing here?
It’s my teaching violin, a Johann Christoph Leidolff (Vienna, 1750)
@@AntalZalaiHow lucky those students are, to be studying with you, Professor Zalai!
Master, come to Brazil to perform with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra - OSESP - Brazil.
Is 16:19 etc. so hard to make in tune?
Probably not, I'de love to listen to your version.
@@caiushiticas4619well, i don't do everything like he does! But i manage to stay in tune in similar pasages that he does not. I mean, his double harmonics are superb in some of his recordings!
But i suppose everyone has different problems.
I recently have wrist and thumb pains, which is a disaster for maintaining a firm controlled grip.
These definitely sound like they were composed to develope technique rather than for the musical content.
That's the usual idea of a study.