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Autographs on cd’s (part4) of Vengerov and Tjeerd Top

November 21, 2005 at 11:40 AM

Vengerov is the sort of player who like to play the evergreens violinconcerto’s. When I heard him (with my parents) he played Beethoven v.c with own candenza and Sinfonia Concertante of Mozart. He is a good showman and good violinist, but like Hilary Han who recorded Meijer and Barber I don’t think he will ever record much ‘rarities’. So a bigger chance that Hilary Hahn will ever some of my list of never recorded violinconcerto’s.


Dutch national competition winnerTjeerd Top was interested in rare violinconcerto’s and liked the 3th v.c. of Jeno Hubay and the 2th v.c of Castelnuovo-Tedesco (played by Heifetz) and the v.c of Korngold. Also the 1th v.c. of Benjamin Godard and the v.c of Heinrich Willem Ernst, which he puts on his repertorelist- but will he ever play it someday in his life?- are both recorded by Aaron Rosand. But he is quite serious. When I and a violinfriend of an amateurorchestra decided to go to a concert of André Rieu in Germany and got no answer after several mails, I rang him up. First he thought I made a joke, but when I told him we were serious he suddenly broke off the telephoneconversation. I think he was offended. No respect for the greatest violinist of the world, André Rieu, also from Holland.
Tjeerd Top website is: http://www.tjeerdtop.com/indexframese.htm and he gave me his cd of composer Carlos Michans with autograph and text: (This cd) for Bram, thanks for all copies of less well known violinconcerto’s.

Wow, he looks kind of like Michael Tilson Thomas.