I was struck today by a charity shop find of how virtuosi can go in and out of fashion nowadays .
The CD was of Cho Liang Lin playing the Bruch 1 Mendelssohn and Vieuxtemps 5 on Sony . I hardly need any more recordings of any of these but CLL was a violinist of renown in the 1980s when I first became interested in classical music and one of my favourite Cassettes was his coupling of the Nielsen and Sibelius concertos with Salonen .
It is a lovely record and the Bruch 1 in particular has all the charm and warmth I found so missing from the Heifetz .
CLL still seems to be playing in the US but I wonder when he was last over here . He seems to have gone out of fashion as it seems soloists do - I wonder why that is ? His recordings I have from the 1980s seem to me a cut above many recent highly rated violinists .
The CD was of Cho Liang Lin playing the Bruch 1 Mendelssohn and Vieuxtemps 5 on Sony . I hardly need any more recordings of any of these but CLL was a violinist of renown in the 1980s when I first became interested in classical music and one of my favourite Cassettes was his coupling of the Nielsen and Sibelius concertos with Salonen .
It is a lovely record and the Bruch 1 in particular has all the charm and warmth I found so missing from the Heifetz .
CLL still seems to be playing in the US but I wonder when he was last over here . He seems to have gone out of fashion as it seems soloists do - I wonder why that is ? His recordings I have from the 1980s seem to me a cut above many recent highly rated violinists .
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