This is because he is the soloist. It is a status symbol, as the sociologists say.

Lol that's what you noticed? >< It's true though, his hair = goals

Two set!! Lets gooo

D'Accordo.

잘했어요.. Good job... What a complicated and profound writing is.

@@youngwoo5860 Thanks so much, I'm happy!!!🌹

I hope you are right. It's chilling to remember that Prokofiev and Stalin died on the same day: March 5, 1953.

not2tees I mean people are already doing that, sort of.

Shostakovich, please.

aha...@@donaldallen1771

I don't believe at all.There will never forget the "Jeschowina". A collective nightmare. The Day Prokofiev died,5.3.1953,Stalin died. There wasn't any flower for Prokofiev s Funeral. Kavakos the Best!

De Accuerdo.

앗! 정말 이쑤시게 같은거 손에 있네. 맨손인줄 알았는데. 유별나다. 보이지도 않을텐데. 양손 지휘 테크닉이 어지러워 보임.

I don't, but probably missed it?

This is a Stradivari toothpick, specially suited for concertos played with Strad violins.

Também fiquei curioso,

Gergiev geralmente conduz com um palito de dentes. Acho que é pra orquestra prestar mais atenção nos gestos dele do que na batuta (se isso fizer sentido).

@@miguelfontesmeira mas o q eu acho estranho é q o Karajan sempre regeu sem batuta e com leves movimentos de sobrancelha e tava tudo bem. O gergiev é brilhante, mas esteticamente esse palito... Parece q acabou de comer um ovo de codorna e tá com pena de desperdiçar o toco de madeira... Estranhérrimo...

Gergiev es mundialmente conocido como "el zar del palillo"

It's irresistable! Even when they can't hear the music, they are triggered to cough...

He did that to express the openness and kinda wild-life feeling, like natural nature (sorry, bad grammar) That kinda feeling I think it's OK to be slightly wild there.

It's also in the score

Valerie Gergiev is knowed by the nickname: "toothpic zar"

1910th .... what

+muslit you must be joking son.

He plays that opening in such a hauntingly powerful but not overstated way - musical power that listeners who are desperate to be wowed with colour and vibrancy, perhaps like yourself, will always miss

just because the man has now"show" and glamour,other than true musicianship and integrety , he is "undoubtely boring" ????? I bet you are not a musician

Actually I am, and I know the concerto well (and played it). I admire Kavakos as one of the best violinist today, but he is not my favorite in this concerto. His technique his amazing, but not as creative and colorful here as others like Jansen - who again is not my favorite in everything either- Listen just to the opening phrase. Unavoidable to compare in youtube, with all these great players at the right side of the screen waiting to show their renditions...! Believe me, glamour doesn&#180;t distract me ;)

I believe you:-)

boring is a subjective word, and boring by comparison is even more subjective. The expression Kavakos has in the opening line is very different than Jansen's, much more subtle, subdued, and internal. it's personal preference at the end of the day, but I wouldn't diminish his interpretation by calling it boring, that's not what art is about.

couldnt agree more

what is amazingly over-rated about him, specifically? Do you have big reasons to back up your big statements? I hope so.

Jonathan Garabedian, Leonidas just plays the notes, no personality at all!

Perhaps we are too used to artists imposing their personalities and ideas on composers. Would you rather hear Kavakos playing Prokofiev, or Prokofiev being played by Kavakos? We are all secondary to the music, and in my opinion Kavakos allows Prokofiev's music to shine through and not his own ideas and ego...that is artistic integrity.

I couldnt agree more !

simple...jealousy

I guess yours is way better :)

+muslit you must be joking son.

+Nathan Selman No, I'm not joking, and I'm not your son

+muslit Out of the hundreds of bars throughout this entire piece, the first two were already enough to put you off. And all because "he plays the first two repetitions of the opening the same". Way to nitpick

It was enough to put me off for the last two movements. I am familiar with Kavakos's playing. The orchestra I play in just performed the Sibelius Concerto with a new wunderkind, Karen Su. We performed it twice, and she played it exactly the same way both times. Of course, one has to admire the technical proficiency for one so young (17), and the musical maturity will come later. But I would be hard-pressed to know any real difference, if someone asked me, between Kavakos's or Su's rendition, or Hahn's or Ehnes', for that matter, of the same concerto. It all sounds the same to me. A generic musical and technical approach to the violin dominate the scene today. Gone are the days of the Franco-Belgium School, the Italian School, the German School, Russian School, the English School. It's basically German Generic and Russian Tech. There are those who stand out: Janine Jansen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sergey Khatchatryan, Christian Tetzlaff - for their musicality and individual approach to the repertoire. But the younger the violinist, it seems, the more profound is the conformity.

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