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Summary: Excelent Performance
Review: A Bravo for Mr. Vengerov, if you are looking for a violinist with expression, please buy the DVD and hear the Ysaye Sonata, at final you exclaim "Bravo" with the audience. The Sibelius Concerto one of my favorites is very well performed, very clear and expressive.
Mr Daniel Barenboim's and Placido Domingo performance, without works, magnific.
Rating:
Summary: Excelent Performance
Review: A Bravo for Mr. Vengerov, if you are looking for a violinist with expression, please buy the DVD and hear the Ysaye Sonata, at final you exclaim "Bravo" with the audience. The Sibelius Concerto one of my favorites is very well performed, very clear and expressive.
Mr Daniel Barenboim's and Placido Domingo performance, without works, magnific.
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Summary: An artistic genius walks among us!
Review: I am absolutely stupified by this stunning performance. Beautiful and as emotionally involving as any performance I have ever heard. I really don't know if there is a more meaningful or important recording. Vengerov's is both a technical and musical genius without equal. No one compares! The sound of his instrument and the depth of feeling he draws from it is, likewise, the best I have ever heard. Again, no one compares!
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Summary: An artistic genius walks among us!
Review: I am absolutely stupified by this stunning performance. Beautiful and as emotionally involving as any performance I have ever heard. I really don't know if there is a more meaningful or important recording. Vengerov's is both a technical and musical genius without equal. No one compares! The sound of his instrument and the depth of feeling he draws from it is, likewise, the best I have ever heard. Again, no one compares!
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Summary: Not exactly what I had expected
Review: I got this DVD because I was really interested to see Vengerov whom I had not seen before, plus Sibelius Violin Concerto is one of my favourite pieces. However I was rather disappointed. Of course he gave a very high level performance of the piece but I wouldn't describe it as a wonderful one. I actually enjoyed his encores of Ysaye and Bach much more. The impression I got while watching was "wow, it is a very difficult piece but he's managing it! Kind of rough in the last movement though. Especially the scales of thirds". It is especially unpleasant to see Vengerov plays. Looks like playing the violin is a very hard thing to do (well, of course it is impossible to play the violin but you might not want to show it). Vengerov may visually appear rather impressive to some people but if you have even seen Vadim Repin, Shmuel Askenazi, or Itzhak Perlman play, you will understand why I am not so crazy about Vengerov. But anyway, what do I know? He is undoubtledly a very fine violinist.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I put this Vengerov Sibelius in the same class as Gould's Goldberg Variations (DVD): it is more than a performance, it is a study. I have now watched it a good 50 times, and nothing in the experience has become jaded or spoiled by this familiarity, In fact, if anything, my respect for it (the Concerto) and the performance has matured. The Bach & Ysaye encore is a bonus! As for the De Falla - is this not an odd coupling? Perhaps, a Sibelius symphony would have been more desirable (we must have continuity in our concert programs/DVDs, people). Regardless, buy this DVD - and live forever!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I put this Vengerov Sibelius in the same class as Gould's Goldberg Variations (DVD): it is more than a performance, it is a study. I have now watched it a good 50 times, and nothing in the experience has become jaded or spoiled by this familiarity, In fact, if anything, my respect for it (the Concerto) and the performance has matured. The Bach & Ysaye encore is a bonus! As for the De Falla - is this not an odd coupling? Perhaps, a Sibelius symphony would have been more desirable (we must have continuity in our concert programs/DVDs, people). Regardless, buy this DVD - and live forever!
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Summary: A little disappointed with Maxim's Sibelius
Review: I watched this DVD through a slightly compressed file on a computer, but since the sound quality was very good, I suppose I could still give the performance a very fair judgement.
I'm a fan of Vengerov in general, and I greatly enjoyed the da Falla works which I had not heard before. The CSO sound was also excellent. Now for the Sibelius though, I have to disagree with most of the other reviews, as his interpretation just didn't seem convincing to me. Live performance aside, I've listened to a handful of recordings of the piece, and I've even watched the videos of Oistrakh and Ferras. While I'm open-minded about different interpretations (I like both Heifetz and Mutter's versions, for example, which are night and day), I think any good performance of the Sibelius has to depict that vast, icy and angular landscape with a fiery passion underneath it. There is a huge amount of tension that must *sustain* throughout the first as well as the third mov. The problem with Maxim's interpretation is that he phrases it like an ordinary romantic concerto. The tension/passion goes all out every few phrases; His rhythm, tone, accents etc feel way too mellow to portray the unwieldy atmosphere. This is a good DVD, but if you want the best of Vengerov, or the best version of Sibelius (try Camilla Wicks if you can find the LP), I'd say there are other places to look at.
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Summary: Incredible!!
Review: I've been a classical music fan for many years but this was my first classical DVD and I have to say that I was very impressed. The Sibelius concerto is one of my favourites and Maxim Vengerov is amazing - he has matured into an astounding artist (I think he's only 25!) But wait! there's more... The piece by Ysaye which he plays as an encore in my opinion makes this DVD worthwhile in itself. Ysaye composed some of the most challenging and stunning violin pieces and Vengerov playing this one will give you goosebumps.. :)
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Summary: Incredible!!
Review: I've been a classical music fan for many years but this was my first classical DVD and I have to say that I was very impressed. The Sibelius concerto is one of my favourites and Maxim Vengerov is amazing - he has matured into an astounding artist (I think he's only 25!) But wait! there's more... The piece by Ysaye which he plays as an encore in my opinion makes this DVD worthwhile in itself. Ysaye composed some of the most challenging and stunning violin pieces and Vengerov playing this one will give you goosebumps.. :)
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