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Roby Lakatos could play 1200 notes in 1 minute + Adelina Hasani

January 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM

After my concert of the 6th Bruckner I had a party with some friends and thereafter I quickly had to go to the ConcertGebouw in Amsterdam, the concerthall with around 800 concerts!! every year with 800.000 visitors! With a violinfriend I saw Roby Lakatos
together with his gypsy orchestra and Amsterdam Sinfonietta THE ORCHESTRA OF CARLA LEURS. She played with the 1th violins, but I did not speak her afterwards. But we are waiting of her professional contributions on her weblog. She plays more than that she is writing and that is a bad thing. Also the brother of Janine Jansen Maarten Jansen plays in that orchestra.
Roby Lakatos and Amsterdam Sinfonietta played also 2 pieces (Hejre Kati, On the waves of Lake Balaton) of JENO HUBAY, the name of my blog, because I am a big fan of this composer.
I did not know exactly knew what they would play, so I was surprised by these 2 pieces of Hubay. They also play something of the Hungarian compser Leo Weiner.

After 2.15 minutes he plays with 2 or 3 fingers quick pizzicato's like a guitarist. They say that he could play 1200 notes in 1 minute. That is 20 notes every second!
He has lost some weight.
Here the well known Czardas of Monti of him:

During the coffeebreak of the concert I saw a friend with his wife, the concertmaster ADELINA HASANI of the
Brabants Orchestra, a professional orchestra in the Netherlands. ADELINA HASANI is born in Albania, Europe.


ADELINA HASANI took part in various international competitions and was awarded first prizes and as a result of which she performed as a soloist with various Italian orchestras (so if you need a soloist made contact, her website is: www.adelinahasani.com). In the same time she was active with chamber music forming a duo partnership with pianist D. de Santis and the Hasani String Quartet, with which she won several prizes in international chamber music competitions as well.
From Mara Gerety
Posted on January 15, 2008 at 7:51 AM
"On the waves of Lake Balaton"--that HAS to be my favorite Hungarian Gypsy song of all time...*sigh*...

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