he is amazing!

And that came from having a really regimented practice routine that he undoubtedly held to until very late in life. He played a lot of scales and arpeggios. Not that doing so works for everyone but it worked for him!

This is an understatement . It’s fantastic playing . Few can make the piece sing like this . can only count on one hand how many violinist had the tone and musicality to do this piece justice

I also miss the days when violinists played concertos with piano for their VIOLIN recitals.

@@unvioloniste I prefer many violin concerti with just piano!

Hello Mr. Shumsky! Thanks for your nice comment. It's great to find you here. I'm a long-time admirer of your father. I have many of his CDs (including violin-viola duo with you).

One of the greats!

Absolutely! It drow my attention from the very beginning. Being from europe, i didn't know this violinist until wantching this video. First few second and i was like OMG what a bow work!

It has been said that as we age, the bow arm is the first to go. Not in this case. It is really great.

Nooooo!!!!

It could be his ‘Ex-Kochanski’ Guarnerius del Gesu. He had that fiddle until 2009. Amazing instrument that had been his voice for a very long time.

At the Munson Recital Hall of Azusa Pacific University.

And Bruch never visited Scotland until a year after this premiered. Wondering why if it doesn’t take a Scotsman to compose it why would it take one to play it?

@@alanwittert2169 And you know this how? About his travel schedule I mean? Um, alright, assuming that were true, well...the Scotch tunes were probably printed and he got ahold of them. Composing and performing are two different things. A good composer can take a rather unspectacular melody and transform it. As far as music making - performance - let's just say that Russians don't quite play Gershwin tunes with the understanding that someone from the US probably does. Just like I wouldn't play Shostakovich with the understanding of the music that someone from Russia has. Anyway, all of this aside, most people who play this piece don't ever manage to make it sound Scottish. They're more concerned about showing the audience that they can nail all those runs in Mvts 2 and 4 and end up getting a standing ovation just because of that. Which is absurd.

Mozart has written a " Turkisch March", and he's been never in Turkey!! If i cook Japanish, i dont need to be Japanish.

@@paganviodio Mozart "has never been in Turkey" (maybe you meant 'never went'?) What's Japanish?! I love it! Is that a hybrid of Spanish and Japanese?! My original comment stands. It's funny hearing Kogan play the Gershwin-Heifetz "Bess You Is My Woman Now" and "It Aint' Necessarily So" and Kogan DID come to this country. Vieuxtemps actually wrote a "Yankee Doodle Dandy" variations based on our popular patriotic hokey song of the same title. At least he came to this country and wrote it here. People still play it and it's a hoot - it transformed the original (boring) tune. Anyway...you're entitled to your own generalized opinions. I won't try to change them.