Julia Fischer plays violinconcerto of Lorin Maazel

October 20, 2006 at 11:00 AM

Last monday I saw a concert of Julia Fischer, a violinist.com member, who plays the violinconcerto of Lorin Maazel, a well known conductor with conductior Yakov Kreizberg and the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra.

It was a modern piece. My violinfriend specially like the last and slow movement. There was a lot of strange percussion and a Sintiinstrument a cymbal, with someone hammering on strings, you seldom or never see in the concerthall. As encore Julia plays a well known piece of a sonate or partita of Bach, from a totally different period than the modern violinconcerto. My violinfriend says that Julia plays perfect. I am not so interested in perfection but more in rarities, which she plays. The Concerthall (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam) was nearly sold out and it was sold out when she plays the same piece that saturday and sunday when she plays the well known Mendelssohn. After the break the 4th Bruckner (I played that piece twice with 2 amateurorchestra's) and someone of the orchestra, who had make an exhibition about Bruckner near the wardrobe, told that Julia had choosen this piece of Maazel, but for touring with the orchestra they would play Bruch1 and Mendelssohn in e, because "you could not play a rare piece on tour?".
As usual I tried to give the soloist my 10 rare violinconcerto's and my Bach-wine, Saint-Saens-wine, Vieux Temps=beer, Janacek-beer, but I was not on a list, so I could not meet her personally, like other soloists like Maxim Vengerov, Janine Jansen, Hilary Hahn, Nikolaj Znaider, Vadim Repin, etc, because she had problems with a stalker, poor Julia, so I gave my presents for her to the porter, who would give it to her producer, who knows her hotel. The batteries of my photocamera were empty, but I could not use the camera after the concert and of course it is forbidden to make photo's during the concert. So I hope Julia or FMF, Frank Michael have received my presents and will get new inspiration from this music.
Wednesday I took a midday free to make some copies in Brussel of rare pieces of Emile Sauret, like a piece for soloviolin, for violin/piano and a violinconcerto of this obscure composer.

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