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Bram Heemskerk

July 24, 2005 at 10:15 PM

I haven’t play violin for the last month since my last amateurconcert. Normally I never practise as an amateur with my 5 orchestra’s a week, only for one good one, so why should I play? Perhaps it would be good to take some violinlessons after 23 years of not seriously having violinlessons. But I don’t think I would have enough time for that, because with a job and 5 orchestra’s every week there is not much time left and I don’t like to play in only 4 or 3 orchestra’s in a week. My D-string was 2 months ago so old that the iron got of the string and he lowered in tone. But someone else had a new D-string. After 10 years it is perhaps better to put a new set of 4 strings on my violin. Half a year ago I had a wood-worm in my violin and he had eaten a lot said a Dutch national violincompetition winner. He had never seen something like that. The violinbuilder had put some resin in the holes and canals, so you can also put some resin in your violin instead of on your bow. My bow had lost a lot of hair so I bought a new one. That was cheaper, said the violinbuilder.
Now I have more time to go to concerts. I was for example at the Dutch national violin competition in the public and that!! was a great show. Former laureates with a scarf of miss Holland with the year they were laureates or a cummer bund (for the boys) around their still slender bellies with the year on it. Big Show. Much better than at the Queen Elisabeth. There you had to wait for 2 long lasting hours before you know the new price winners. I also went to a concert in the open air of André Rieu who gave a big show with a big audience. He played the Seranata of Tocelli, a piece I hadn’t heard for 30 years. My grandfather, who didn’t understand Mozart, liked it and a cousin of 10 played it for him when he was married 50 years.
And my violinconcerto collection has been growed, mainly because of the suggestions of Carlos Majlis. These are my new violinconcerto-cd’s. I am closing to 100. The rest from 1 till 85 you can find on my weblog http://www.violinist.com/blog/jenohubay down below.

Cd 86) Frank Martin v.c, Darius Milhaud v.c. no.2, Samuel Barber v.c by Dene Olding, ABC Classics 8.770004
Cd 87) Niels W. Gade v.c., Carl Nielsen v.c by Kai Laursen, Danacord DACOCD 467
Cd 88) Otto Malling Fantasia for violin + orchestra, Axel Gade v.c no.1, Knudaagse Riisanger v.c by Kai Laursen, Danacord DACOCD 468
Cd 89) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari v.c. by Ulf Hoelscher, CPO 999 271-2
Cd 90) Josef Suk Fantasy by Pamela Frank, Decca 460 316-2
Cd 91) Sergei Barsukov v.c no.2, Samuel Barber, Revol Samuilovich Bunin v.c by Leonid Kogan, Relavation RV 10058
Cd 92) Israeli violin concerto’s Paul Ben-Haim v.c, Noam Sheriff v.c, Oded Zehavi v.c by Michael Guttman, ASV CD DCA 1038
Cd 93) Alban Berg v.c (Leonid Kogan), Paul Hindemith v.c (David Oistrakh), Igor Stravinsky (David Oistrackh) Relevation RV10075
Cd 94) Lev Knipper little concerto for violin + stringorchestra (Arkady Futer), Tikhon Khrennikov v.c. (Yako Sato), Kara Karayev v.c (Gidon Kremer), Nikolay Rakov v.c.1 (David Oistrakh) Revelation RV10104
Cd 95) Hilding Rosenberg v.c no. 2 (Leon Spierer), Lille Bror Söderlundh (Leo Berlin) Caprice CAP 21367
Cd 96) Lars-Erik Larsson v.c, violinconcertino by Leo Berlin SCD 1056
Cd 97) Barber, Khatchaturian, Walter Piston v.c. by Louis Kaufman cd2 Dantecd LYS 533-537
Cd 98) Hermann Goetz, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dag Wiren by Louis Kaufman cd3 Dantecd LYS 533-537

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