Yuri and Daniel Beliavsky perform Kol Nidre

Yuri Beliavsky, violin and Daniel Beliavsky, piano perform Bruch's Kol Nidre at Christ & St. Stephen's Church, NYC, September 18, 2005.

Yuri Beliavsky was born in Moscow, USSR in 1932. He studied violin with Professor Abraham Yampolsky and chamber music with the great Russian pianist Maria Yudina at the Gnesin State Music Institute in Moscow. Beliavsky has been a member of the Grand Symphony Orchestra of Soviet Radio and Television, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and has taught at Jerusalem's Rubin Academy, and performed as soloist with both the Moscow Radio and the Israeli Radio. Between 1972 and 1974, he made several recordings with the Jerusalem Symphony, among them Mozart's Concerto No.3 in G-Major, K. 216, Bartok's Violin Concerto No.1, and Bruch's Kol Nidre, which was recorded just before the Yom Kippur War, during which Yuri served in the Israeli Army.

Since 1975, Yuri has been with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and has been on the teaching faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has often appeared in recitals with his son, pianist Daniel Beliavsky. In 1983, Beliavsky recorded Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra with the XX-Century Ensemble.

In 1986-87, Beliavsky created a series of special programs for WFMR, the Classical Radio Station in Milwaukee, called "An Historical Perspective on the Art of Violin Playing since the Beginning of the Recording Era." These 33 programs were broadcast during the 1986 and 1987 seasons during prime time and were very well received. One of the highlights of these programs was the first international broadcast of a previously unknown Russian recording of ten year-old Jascha Heifetz made in 1911.

Yuri Beliavsky also gives lectures on the "Art of Violin Playing." The most memorable of these lectures were given at the International Workshops in Austria and at the Gnesin Institute in Moscow, Russia. These programs are broadcast on Davidzon Radio in New York City.

Yuri continues to perform actively in both Milwaukee and New York City.

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[MurrayMD]

I don't feel it was necessarily rushed; too many people seem to listen to a performance thinking the artist has to play things a certain way. Shouldn't they be teaching us something instead? People who demand technical perfection seem to view it as an end in itself, not as a means to an end. Sure, it can be spectacular but if that's all it takes then we might as well be watching machinery at work instead of people communicating through an artistic medium. Thanks for reading this far :)

[maireadnesbittforum]

I don't feel it's rushed. A master of violin can play on any string and in any position and still play flawlessly and beautifully. It is never written in stone in which position to play a particular piece. Just let the music take you. :)

[MelancholyWhisper]

My violin instructor gave me this piece today, this if my very first time hearing it.

It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, I can't wait to play it. c:

[reginaDexant]

To all my Jewish friends on this holiest of days I wish an easy fast. God's Peace.

To all my friends let us seek the LORD God at this perilous time.

"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."Patrick Henry

May God Bless us all,

Regina

[TheCapstanShanty]

Well said MurrayMD.

[susieecool]

Yes, it was composed for cello, but it's music. Music should be played, no matter how or on what instrument. If you become a music snob, then you are limiting yourself. I adore the feeling and emotion he puts into this piece, it is entirely unique to him.

[mluc]

This is the Kol Nidrei.. it's an Adaggio about a jewis pray for Violoncello and Orchestra. It was composed by Max Bruch :·)

[cellist08]

this piece was composed for the cello. there's a reason for that.

[yarrtiscrapulence]

The G and D strings have a different colour to the A and E. A darker more mournful tone is produced which certainly lends itself to this music. I suppose it is just personal preference as to which string the music is played on, but colour is something that should not be dismissed. Just a question, what would lend you to play this music on the A and E? Is it a matter of sound, or because the music doesn't stipulate where you should play?

[yprero]

Great performance Prof. Beliavsky, just wish we could see more of you in the video.

[dogsrsocule]

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