WE HAVE A WINNER! The violinist is Oleg Pokhanovski! And the winning guess was made by "Cli". Please feel free to get in touch! theviolin@outlook.com Check out Oleg's transcriptions including La Valse. It's amazing...and he is playing both parts! He also recently transcribed the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata and that will be released soon. Oleg is Professor of Violin at the University of Manitoba, Canada! He shared this live recording of Carmen with me, taken from a recital during his student days in Russia. He is playing a Strad here.

I can’t even guess but please keep bringing this unknown recordings to everyone! Is so exciting and refreshing!

This has been addictive!!!! Whoever he/she is-what a pleasure to listen to!Thank you for sharing it!

Thank you Daniel, once again I'm richer from the experience. It's been a while this work has graced my ears, and it could not have come at a better time.

It would be great to have links to all the folks mentioned.. this is so wonderful to find other fiddlers that are just as amazing as the main stream folks. Thank you for doing these!❤

This person is a real rarity today. Someone who cares for the music and expression. Not technical perfection or intonation. A real human imitating old style very well.

Gonna practice hard so one day I might be featured in one of these mystery violin genius videos 😂😂

FINAL CLUE! This violinist lives in Canada I will be posting the answer on Friday!

Philippe Hirschhorn? Thank you for your videos Daniel. They make me improve a lot. A big hug

What a wonderful way to inject "us" with some new excitement about violin mastery, wasnt so excited about violin virtuoso's since i saw "the art of violin" 20 years ago:) thanks Daniel 🎉 And i have no clue, some secret Spanish jam stone you are hiding here?

A delight - but I haven’t a clue! Thank you.

Amazing performance! Can’t wait to find out who it is.

Wouaw! Bonne idée de mélanger les morceaux connus... sympathique version!!

Roman Kim? feels like it’s his signature Paganini-like flashiness with gorgeous phrasing

Great virtuosity, phrasing, intense sound with a never ending vibrato. Daniel, you mention a funny part - is it the jiggly bow when playing the harmonics around 6:04? Or the piano intro?

I thought of David Oistrakh , but well, he is already in violin heaven.

CLUE #4 Living violinist, and still sounds like this.

I'm not a violinist but I've been refreshing this page about 55 times since yesterday in hopes of seeing the answer :)

Simply amazing!!!😘👍

Feelings of Heifetz. Bravo!!

Oh, in a few days I'll have to check the comments and discover many lesser known great violinists😀

Love this thread btw!

There is a moment that, especially in this recording, reminds me of the Glazunov concerto 😊 And for the violinist, I hear some strong fingers. Could it be Mr. Koelman?

Congrats!!!

I only wish I could recover like that after playing the wrong notes/passage in the middle of a performance! A brilliant performance… but I would be very shocked if this person is one of the well known violinists of today. I’m definitely curious to know it is 😊

First thought was Menuhin based on the photo (that raised index and also the jawline) and the vibrato...

Nice sharing!

Wow! Yet another amazing violinist of whom most people won't have heard.......

Waxman wrote this in 1947 so the violinist had to have been born after 1926. The thumb nail is Hirschhorn holding a Guarneri fiddle. The funny part is at the very end and the mystery violinist is David Nadien. (I'm ready for you to tell me I'm wrong on all counts.) (There must be a reason there is so much Picasso in this video?) 🙂

I think maybe its Vengerov when he was young at the age of 22-28! But this vibrato seems oldschool vibrato to me...damn...its hard!

I just thought Alexander Labko, but I'm not sure about who the player is. at 8:31, there is a messy part where the player got confused with Sarasate's arrangement.

It could be Andrei Korsakov but I know he was not a concert pianist. It could also be Arthur Grumiaux but he was not a concert pianist - he was just an accomplished pianist.

CLUE #5 This violinist is also a concert pianist and master transcriber!

You should do the next vid with luviu prunaru as the mystery violinist!

Пабло Пикассо. На фото именно он. Но Пикассо играл на трубе. По качеству исполнения , сорри, не могу угадать исполнителя. Но само исполнение мне не особо понравилось. Может Исаак Стерн? Хотя Стерну на момент написания Фантазии было уже 26 лет. Загадка. 🙂

It would funny if it was Shunsuke Sato again, but I’m just throwing darts in the dark here :)

I can hear some Kogan echoes but then it goes wildly elegant with those slides with vibrato and I’m like, who’s this? CHE VUOI?

I am very curious to find out the correct answer, but I am not a big fan of this performance I find it somehow inconsistent. Some places are brilliant though. But overall not something I would connect with any big name violinists that are coming to my mind. So many better.

I'm definitely curious of who is the player... 😮 (I have actually no certitude..it could be so many one..)

Is it Ilian Gârnet at the Queen Elizabeth competition of 2009??

Henri Lewkowicz? If it is it’s a great find!

Ooh! Is it Stefan Jackiw?!

I can only say : WOW !!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Maxim vengerov? That flashyness and fire remind me of him

Based off of the comments, he is a (not too well known) living violinist, who is not too old (since he still sounds like this) and he is not of the "old school," i.e. he is not one of the old masters of the 20th century. He is a Russian man, and probably is a student of a student of Galamian, who was himself a student of a student of Auer. This leads me to believe he is a student of Dorothy DeLay, who has trained many notable pupils, and was once Galamian's teaching assistant (which makes perfect sense now, since it was said that he is *3-4* generations from Auer). Altogether this leads me to believe that the mystery violinist is... *MISHA KEYLIN* . And if I am correct, it would be very funny because Shunske Sato, the previous mystery violinist, is also a student of DeLay. And if I am not, my next question is: does he have a Wikipedia page?

I'll go with Koelman. Just amazing.

ok this time it's for sure old school

Is this menuhin? Saw one of the pics in his book before

Could it be Daniel Röhn?

Sergey Khachatryan? Слушала его несколько раз живьем. По стилю похоже.

My teacher!

One more guess from me--young Gidon Kremer?

OMG..he plays like this and is unknown! The music world, like the real world of affairs of homo sapiens, is a deeply screwed up place! Thanks Daniel for your unrelenting artistic idealism, and for this recording.

Oscar Shumsky or Benno Rabinof?

Jazzed up Humoresque at 3:24?

Jascha Heifetz of course

Mischa Ellman?

Just a guess. Glenn Dicterow?

Me, it’s me

I heard they silently clone people… didn’t know they used gens of some old school master ;)

I'd be surprised if this is correct, but Pavel Berman?

itzac perlman, he is living legend

Tonebase's own Eric Silberger

Rene-Charles (Zino) Francescatti

Bravo

Kirill Troussov (Oistrakh student)

Is it Efrem Zimbalist?

Daishin kashimoto?

Marina Yashvili?

Is it Viktoria mullova? :)

Sounds like Ida Haendel to me....

Heifetz???

Chuanyun Li ,by any chance??

I do not know. Stern?

Christian Ferras maybe?

Philippe Quint, Dmitry Sitkovetsky (Desperate answers now) 🙄😁

József Lendvay the Hungarian violinist is a hidden Gem contemporary born Genius violinist as Vecsey was! But they are allways in 100/ perfect pitch....

Is it you Daniel 😉

Pierre Amoyal?

nadja salerno-sonneberg?

Pineau-Benois

Any one of the markovs?

Semyon snitkovsky?

Arthur Grumiaux?

Роман Минц?

David Nadien?

Salvatore Accardo, Peter Rybar 🙄🙄 (just to write something, I'm clueless on this one)

IS IT WAXMAN HIMSELF

Charlie Siem?

James Ehnes?

Dylana Jenson?

david Oistrakh ?

Is it Janine Jansen?

Michael Rabin?

Philippe Quint ?

Валерий Соколов? Никита Борисоглебский?

Сергей Крылов? Стадлер? Юлиан Ситковецкий?

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Bronislaw Huberman?

Vadim Guzman!