All Leonidas Kavakos articles
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News
Leonidas Kavakos appointed professor of violin at the Basel Academy of Music
The Greek-born violinist will assume his new role in autumn 2025
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Review
Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Beethoven for Three
Music-making of great warmth from long-standing friends
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Video
Kavakos, Ma and Ax: a legendary trio performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Watch the trio of musicians perform an arrangement of the first movement from Beethoven’s epic C minor symphony
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Premium ❘ Feature
Masterclass: Leonidas Kavakos on Brahms Violin Concerto, first movement
Musical imagination, measured vibrato and a sense of thematic continuity are all essential to playing this celebrated work. From June 2014
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Review
Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Beethoven for Three
A stellar trio offers familiar Beethoven in unorthodox garb
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News
Leonidas Kavakos inducted into the Academy of Athens
The violinist receives the honour in recognition of his work promoting classical music in Greek rural areas
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Review
Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Charlotte Gardner hears the premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Second Violin Concerto at London’s Barbican on 6 January 2022
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Focus
‘The most perfect music ever written’: Violinist Leonidas Kavakos on recording Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas
’Bach’s music is a reflection of life, and life is not always serious – there is also humour and dancing, and uplifting moods to counter the darker ones.’
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Review
Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Yuja Wang (piano)
Bruce Hodges attends the recital performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 4 Noember 2021
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Review
Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Tim Homfray hears a live-streamed performance from London’s LSO St Luke’s on 7 January 2021
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Article
Major US agency goes bust
As Covid-19 prevents artists from making money, those who represent them are feeling the pinch too
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Review
Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra/John Wilson
Charlotte Gardner hears the pereformance at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 February 2020
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Feature
Sentimental Work: Leonidas Kavakos
For the Greek violinist, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto stands apart from the rest of the repertoire – and requires a very special method of interpretation
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Review
Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Munich Philharmonic/Valery Gergiev
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance at Carnegie Hall, New York, on 26 October 2019
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Video
Leonidas Kavakos plays Beethoven at Tanglewood
Leonidas Kavakos joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as conductor and violinist this past August, for a programme including Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. This video features an excerpt from his Beethoven performance.
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News
The Strad August 2019 issue is out now
South African-born double bassist Leon Bosch on commissioning, conducting, his favourite basses, diversity in classical music, and much more
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News
Strings at the BBC Proms: our pick of the 2019 programme
What does the biggest classical music festival in the world offer in terms of string concertos and other highlights for Strad readers?