Leonidas Kavakos - Paganini Concerto no.1(3rd movement)

[jeffersonfsoares]

Acho que dizer que ele é melhor que Heifetz Oistrakh e Kogan acho um pouco de exagero pra mim esses 3 são os melhores de sempre mais pode se dizer que ele se encontra num nivel quase igual aos 3.

Mais pra mim o melhor continua sendo David Oistrakh onde ele combina sua perfeita tecnica com sua musicalidade com seus fraseados perfeitos que nunca vi em nenhum violinista

[Sorcerer2k]

ACTninja and violatione You are both wrong! First there is no "better". Second you cannot seperate good violinist from good musician.

kavakos is amazing as always, better quality would show it more obvious.

[ACTninja]

kogan is sooo much better at this song than him

[violatione]

@ACTninja You cannot compare a live performance with a recording. Kogan may be the better musician but Kavakos is the better violinist.

[crazy77town]

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

[demosj]

The man's name is Leonidas, you just know he means business.

[ellegin88]

i haven't heard something this good since kogan's paganini after he won sibelius

[takhirviolinest]

He play very well there no any comment's about his playing. I like more playing of Mr. Menuhin. (especial of this concerto)

[violatione]

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.

[crazy77town]

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

[violatione]

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).

[Rufy99999]

just amazing

[pianisteugene]

I think this the best version so far in my opinion... O.O

[CknSalad]

kogan's version of this piece is amazing. this interpretation is great as well. thanks for uploading this video.

[guyincognito84]

you need to get out of your mom's basement and talk to some real people....jerking it on a chair all day to menuhin won't accomplish much man.....any violinist can name a dozen violinists who surpass menuhin.....he's more overrated than mango.

[MIchaelYiochalas]

True.I have never heard anything from Menuhin that doesn't sound like painful practice.Except Mendelsohn concerto I guess...

[blichilde]

@guyincognito84 I deeply disagree about Menuhin and I'm not alone I suspect.. BTW, who or what is mango?

[guyincognito84]

@blichilde Mango is a fruit...I'm not a fan.

[blichilde]

@guyincognito84 Obviously I knew it's a fruit.. I just wanted to point out that mango has nothing in common with violin and violinists.

[SkrPchr3]

@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.

[blichilde]

He was fantastic when he was 21 and now he's matured and blows up every young violinist (and most of the old ones).

[snovotne]

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.

[ItzhakRoxMySox]

Yeah right, Menuhin and Mintz rock this

[guyincognito84]

dude menuhin doesn't rock anything haha...i don't even think he deserves to be one of the greats.

[ItzhakRoxMySox]

Wow, you are certainly the ONLY person I have ever heard say that. That was stupid of you to say that. Haha, laughable.

[MIchaelYiochalas]

Mintz???Dude,get a grip on yourself...

[ItzhakRoxMySox]

Get a grip on myself? You get a grip on YOURself, respect my opinion.

[radrianov]

he plays very nice,but i prefer the version of Victor Tretjakov´s!Sorry...

[violatione]

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.

[ItzhakRoxMySox]

To me, Ricci isn't great. He can play notes. But I don't think it sounds good. Just my opinion though.

[serafinichess]

you know I've had the same thought myself about Ricci; fabulous technician but doesn't have the beatiful tone of Francescatti, Oistrakh, etc.

[Gallipoli717]

I disagree! Ruggiero Ricci is one of the most natural violinists in history. Soon I will put his live video recording of the Paganini concerto. No one comes close to his playing. Find his early recordings from the 50's (Lalo, Prokofief, Tchaikovsky)...he is in the handful of greats (Heifetz, Milstein, Francescatti, Szeryng, Kreisler, & Oistrakh). He is labelled a technician, but not many rival his live Bach recordings...and no one has played everything like Ricci.

[dfxlr]

Sterile.

[violin03]

It's interesting, the greater a violinist is the more he acknowledes Heifetz's superiority.

[bubbles9816]

OH my god!! the double harmonics!!!! do you know how hard that is?

[bartpet]

check paganini 24 first by Kavakos and then by Heifetz. I think that Heifetz brings in more colour by adding his slides and special timing. For me Heifetz is the absolute king of violin-playing and Kavakos is a rare phenomenon. I didn't really like Brahms by Kavakos.

[leonidaskavakos]

which brahms?The one in Irodeio when he was young,or the one i uploaded?(Or both)

[akiuitr]

with out words...it is great even i dont like how he think paganini,i think accardo understand more than him

[leonidaskavakos]

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[pacoviolin]

impresionanteee!!!!

[victorfb01]

I love his crisp, beautiful sound and serious type of musicianship. He's definitely one of my favorite violinists!

[horozcorc]

Kavakos changed all my mind regarding the violin. From now on, in my opinion, He is more impressive than both heifetz and oistrakh. I'm so sorry to say that but he is less famous just because he isn't a jew...

[AlexanderMandl]

Dear horozcorc:

I'm sorry, but there are many Jews that were great violinists and were not even close to the fame that either Heifetz, Oistrakh, Kogan or Kreisler had. These reached their fame because the audience and their own peers have acclaimed and crowned them as such. The fact is, although I am a huge Kavakos fan and adore his intonation and precision, he still lacks some of the colors, textures, nouances, bravura and timing that Heifetz or Kreisler were masters in. Don't stereotype!

[9461305]

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.

[nickjman1987]

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.

[MarlowStardust]

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.

[frohlock]

How do you explain then the unsurpassed fame of, say, Anne-Sophie Mutter or Yo-Yo Ma who aren't jewish either?

[misterbg1]

thats such an idiotic comment. he is not as famouse because he has not chosen to travel as much as they did.

[leonidaskavakos]

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.

[Bautisnemo]

@horozcorc May you have the kidness to order a new brain ? Yours is broken

[crazy77town]

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!

[violin614]

@horozcorc

Are you sure?

Most violinists today don't get as much fame as they used to get.

I don't think Hillary Hahn is Jewish, nor Sara Chang, nor some other tops of today. There are not many young jewish top names today. It's a different generation.

Kavakos is extremely great in technique, otherwise, i think he is average great, and his technique helps his musicality too.

[fullargon]

@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!!!

[janeseads]

@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.

[SkrPchr3]

@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.

[Flylikenaigel1]

@horozcorc since when has religion got anything to do with Music you Ignorant Racist Bigoted Piece of SHIT . People like you are a Waste of Space. Kavakos is a supremly gifted Virtuoso and I speak as a Proud Jew so Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

[horozcorc]

@Flylikenaigel1 First of all, I didn't insult jewry. I'm talking about something else idiot! Unfortunately all your insult will never change the truth of my words about kavakos :) you are too stupid to accept any criticism about judaism, even if they are not insult..hehehe.and lastly, I don't think you have enough cock to fuck me, what I gathered from your words is that because you can't fuck, you are just insulting people in youtube in your free times :)

[stechino123]

thanks sooooo much!! this is great!!

[cellosail]

sorry guys for the low quality of video....!

[kmhjyellow]

Low quality is better than no quality.

Thanks for posting.

[pviljoen]

No, it is great. Thank you very much, everyone is very happy you posted it.

[naumrenato]

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