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Summary: Maxim Performance
Review: Incredible performance. Great video. Great audio. Except for Vengerov's ugly coat this DVD is perfect. Check out his encore of Ysaye's third violin sonata. It really brought the house down. You can see his musical evolution here compared with his other DVD performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto done 7 years earlier. Also interesting to see Placido Domingo filling in as conductor while Daniel Barenboim performs the DaFalla piano concerto.
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Summary: Maxim Performance
Review: Incredible performance. Great video. Great audio. Except for Vengerov's ugly coat this DVD is perfect. Check out his encore of Ysaye's third violin sonata. It really brought the house down. You can see his musical evolution here compared with his other DVD performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto done 7 years earlier. Also interesting to see Placido Domingo filling in as conductor while Daniel Barenboim performs the DaFalla piano concerto.
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Summary: Good use of the medium
Review: Solid recording, solid performance of the Sibelius concerto, excellent interpretation of the Nights in the Garden of Spain by Placido on the conductor's stand. Highly recomended.
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Summary: Maxim Vengerov, a master pays tribute
Review: The Sibelius Concerto was written to stir your soul and Mr. Vengerov has acheived the ultimate translation with this work on DVD. A master of technique with this much sensitivity is very rare in the realm of today's virtuosi. A very good performance from the Chicago Symphony (considering many orchestral players become bored with this Concerto due to lack of participation). Mr. Barenboim keeps the ranks in check through most of this work. A "must have" for any violinist.
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Summary: brilliant !
Review: This is my favorite dvd violin concerto..the filming is clear, the sound magnificent ! Maxim Vengerov is an exciting young performer who is absolutely at ease playing the Concerto . The music flows through him spectacularly and he expresses the adagio beautifully on his 1723 stradivarious...! This is fine art captured on dvd folks...Life is good... Michael
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Summary: Violin Playing at its BEST
Review: This is SUPERB violin playing from all aspects. If you were to own only one recording of a violinist in any format (CD, Laser Disc, VCR, DVD), this would be the one. I have been a violin teacher for more than forty years.
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Summary: Maxim Vengerov is great to watch!
Review: Vengerov is such a charismatic performer and I wish he would record on DVD every time he recorded, because he is so wonderful to watch. It's so great to see a musician become so deeply absorbed in the music, and to be able to express his love for the music in his face and his body without any inhibition. He brings so much beauty out of the Sibelius concerto, and his Ysaye encore is astonishing. The music of Manuel de Falla that follows is very lush and beautiful. The Chigago Symphony orchestra sounds great and Barrenboim's piano solos are done with a very nice latin florish.
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