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Violin Concerto by Brahms with Alena Baeva and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovichby Vasily Schipkov
I went to the Arnold Kats State Concert Hall (Krasny prospect, 18/1) on 17th September 2014 to a concert called "To the 90th anniversary of A.M. Kats" by Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius) with the beautiful violinist Alena Baeva, the winner of the Competition of Young Violinists in Novosibirsk (1994), the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan (2001), the Grand Prix at the Moscow International Niccolo Paganini Competition (2004), the Sendai International Music Competition (2007).
Alena Baeva is clearly a virtuoso like Paganini, she performed excellently, expressively and energetically. The Orchestra also played very well, with passion, as must play the Russian orchestra. The conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius almost jumped up, then bent and sometimes mightily, sometimes gently waved arms.
"Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77" by Johannes Brahms is a great work. So in this case Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was not right when he wrote about "scoundrel Brahms" and "self-inflated mediocrity".
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