April 20, 2013

20-04-2013

Chess TV     Live Broadcast

The Alekhine Memorial. Opening ceremony in Le Louvre, Paris, April 20,2013

Vadim Repin and Nikolai Lugansky perform:
Rachmaninov "Romance" Op.6 no.1
Tchaikovsky "Waltz scherzo"
Ponce "Estrellita"

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April 7, 2013

8-04-2013

Brava HDTV      8-04-2013     13h38
Programme

Film Portrait by Claudia Wilke, 'Ein Magier des Klangs' (2010)

Repin: Magician of sound
Born in Siberia in 1971, Vadim Repin started to play violin at the age of five and had his first stage performance six months later. At only eleven he won the gold medal in all age categories in the Wieniawski Competition and gave his recital debuts in Moscow and St Petersburg. In 1985 at fourteen he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki; a year later in Carnegie Hall. Two years later Vadim Repin was the youngest ever winner of the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours. From the vastness of Siberia to world fame, the violin virtuoso Vadim Repin returns to where his career began, for a Brahms tour, far away from the cultural centre of Moscow. From Irkutsk at Lake Baikal to Novosibirsk, we follow the magnificent artist to the West, where Yehudi Menuhin once called him the ‘most perfect violinist in the world’ he ever heard.
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7-04-2013

Brava HDTV    7-04-2013    22h02
Programme:

Bruch VC No1

Vadim Repin
Berlin Phil. / Simon Rattle

Max Bruch’s first violin concerto in G minor is one of the most popular violin concertos. Bruch started composing this piece in 1857 and on April 24th 1866 it was first performed, with Otto von Köningslow on violin and Bruch himself conducting. It was Bruch’s first piece for large orchestra and he found it quite a challenge: unsatisfied with the result, he took the piece from the stand. Only after substantial revisions, with the help of violinist Joseph Joachim among others, a second version was premiered in 1868. This version is played to this day. Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Vadim Repin (violin)
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