It's always an event when Heifetz Institute faculty member Ilya Kaler takes the stage at a Heifetz concert: The only violinist ever to win the "trifecta" of Gold Medals: (The Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Sibelius competition in Helsinki, and the Paganini competition in Genoa), Kaler's performances invariably dazzle and delight.
Never more so than when he performs music from his Russian homeland. From this 2019 "Celebrity Series" concert, Kaler introduces and then performs with faculty pianist Beilin Han Shostakovich's Four Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 34 (an arrangement by violinist Dmitri Tsyganov of four of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes for Piano), which Kaler in his introduction describes as a "little universe...a kaleidoscope of moods and emotions." That's followed by the ever-charming Valse-Scherzo in C major, (coincidentally also an Opus 34), which Kaler dryly notes that as a staple of the Tchaikovsky competition, is well know to other Heifetz faculty members who are laureates of the Competition, including Elmar Oliveira, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and founder Daniel Heifetz!
00:30 Introduction by Ilya Kaler
03:35 Shostakovich, arr. Dmitri Tsyganov: 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 10 in C-sharp minor
05:22 No. 15 In D-Flat Major
06:18 No. 16 In B-Flat Major
07:26 No. 24 In D Minor
09:10 Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo in C major, Op. 34
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7 янв 2021
