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Maxim Vengerov is back on the concert platform as a
Maria Malibran (1808-1836) arguably was the early 19th-century’s most famous diva (Giuditta Pasta ran her a close second and her much younger sister, Pauline Viardot,
First, let me say that this new Beethoven Violin Concerto recording undoubtedly will generate controversy: it stands as the polar opposite to Heifetz’s classic, invigoratingly
This entertaining and smashingly played recital focuses on the music of Wieniawski, opening with a dazzling performance of his Variations on an Original Theme Op.
This well-filled disc contains extremely distinguished performances of all three works, particularly the Lalo, a piece that so often winds up being merely annoying but
Here’s another outstanding disc by Maxim Vengerov, a successful frontal assault on three showpiece pillars of French Romanticism. The Lalo and the Saint-Saëns were written
Given the hugely successful results of their Prokofiev and Shostakovich recordings, Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Vengerov might have been expected to spin similar magic in
Virtuosity is the name of the game for this solo recital recording by Maxim Vengerov. Here, virtuosity reigns in both substance–incredibly demanding compositions that would
The Dvorák Concerto always has been on the fringe of the repertoire, never matching the Tchaikovsky or the other big guns in the Romantic concerto