Schlomo Mintz Plays Sibelius Movement 1 Part 1

Except for James Ehnes, Schlomo Mintz may well be the best living violinist and this recording will prove it. I downloaded a fragment of his recording of the Dvorak back from the napster days and started to look for this cd, I looked for a long time and after about 2 years I finally got it on ebay and was stunned to hear how good the sibelius was.

Some shmuck on amazon didnt rate this recording very highly but I love it, probabaly the best ive heard next to shaham and j. stikovetsky. Its a shame kogan or rabin didnt record it but if they did i think it would sound like this: full of color and completely effortless technique. Yes this was recorded by dg, so the sound quality is amazing, why dg dropped mintz and kept mutter makes no sense to me at all ill never know why they did this but mr mintz is back and still making recordings, i am anxious to get his mozart disks he just did. Someone on you tube put up one of this mozart recordings also check out the videos of mintz playing paganini caprices, paganini concerto with paganinis violin and vieuxtemps concerto 5, truly stellar playing! I would also like to recommend someone put up shaham video of the sibelius, make sure to check them all out!

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[OriginalMoonbeam]

All of the violinists mentioned above have marvelous performances of Sibelius. I have 2 great recordings of Heifetz that I love. These are all so great it is just a matter of taste (I also really like Kaler's) I am looking for this one of Mintz as it is my personal favorite-I about have to go smoke a cigarette after listening to him play; he just tears me out of my frame.

[rareviolintreasures]

someone out up a video of mintz playing sibelius paganini concerto and caprices and vieuxtemps 5 really stunning to see him actually play them

[haykhhh]

there is no doubt it is amazing! BUT!!! if you want to listen to the best performing of this conserto, i pronounce another name: Sergey Khachatryan, a brilliant and fantastic violinist! extremly gifted and tallented, no one played it better than him !!!

[rareviolintreasures]

My favorite recordings are by shaham, gitlis and Yulian Stikovetsky but this is really a treasure and herd to find!

...and yes ill admit heifetz did very well with this piece, but this is afterall a virtuoso concerto and he always did well with those kind of pieces

I would also like to say I would be much happier if rabin and kogan recorded them!

[silverviolin4]

I loooved the beginning :)

[xephyr417]

3:47... i died a little.

[xephyr417]

>: /

hilary hahns is better. yes.

[HumanGrinder]

excatly, my mistake!

[aria099]

thats not shlomo mintz...

thats james levine, that looks like perlman

[HumanGrinder]

shlomo mitnz looks just like perlman haha.. by the way...GREAT recording, thanks alot for uploading

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

There's no way James Ehnes is better than Shlomo Mintz. I've heard Ehnes live and I'd rather listen to Mintz's recordings than Ehnes live.

[farzadvengerov]

I agree with haykh khachatryan played it so good,but i don't think that's the best.i think there is not the best,we only can say i like(or love)some performanes.i like ferras's and vengerov's interpretations on this concerto