There’s a new kid on the bridge
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Averse as I am to teenage prodigies, I heard Daniel Lozakovich in a Berlin nightclub this week and had no doubt from the first touch of bow on string that he is the genuine article. Sixteen years old, raised in Stockholm by Kazak-Russian parents, he gives the impression of belonging nowhere but some deep place inside himself. Fresh from a sleepless night on a bench in Tokyo airport where his flight had been cancelled, he draws energy — as the great ones do — from an audience. No-one breathed on the dance-floor during his Bach Partita.
His DG debut recording is…
Read on here.
And here.
Maybe he could collaborate with Sonny Rollins on that bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6qIzZmOw_g
Seriously, this is interesting. He talks about ‘wood shedding’ on the bridge at the one minute mark.
…In Berlin, a minor can play at night club?
In Berlin, a minor can do most any major thing.
In Charlottenburg however, youngsters are only allowed to play major scales on the violin.
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Good to hear that musical talent is regularly distributed among generations.
But the picture in the background raises a symbolic warning.
A special violinist.
I’ve been thinking of buying this cd for a while now but, after 40 years of collecting, I have a LOT OF cds of the Bach Violin Concertos. Is it worth buying yet another?
Mind you, I’d really like to hear his Chaconne- always a tremendous test of a violinist.