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Sentimental Work: Leonidas Kavakos

By 2020-02-25T13:21:00

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For the Greek violinist, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto stands apart from the rest of the repertoire – and requires a very special method of interpretation

I was quite young when I heard the Beethoven Violin Concerto for the first time. We had the 1959 recording of David Oistrakh performing with the French National Radio Orchestra under André Cluytens and I knew it was an amazing piece, although I didn’t understand what made it so great. I didn’t begin to practise it until I was 16 years old, and after I’d obtained my violin diploma from the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens…

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