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  • Dave2002
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    • Dec 2010
    • 18008

    #46
    Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor, and is now working in the USA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Laredo I agree he was very good - at least on the few CDs he made, but I never saw him.
    Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 10-03-17, 12:13.

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    • pastoralguy
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      • Nov 2010
      • 7731

      #47
      Jamie Laredo.

      I clearly remember being given a cheapie RCA Lp of the Mendelssohn and Bruch concerti played by Jamie Laredo with the Boston Symphony under Munch in the 70's. In fact, that was the first time I'd ever heard the Mendelssohn concerto and I was quite taken with it. Alas, I don't think it ever made it to cd which is a shame.

      He was Artistic Director of the SCO in the 90's and I heard him many times and was always impressed with his wonderful playing. I do remember him playing the Bruch in the Queen's Hall on an occasion when NHS staff were given free tickets so I was in the front row and was about 6 feet away. I have NEVER seen such intensity from a musician.

      He was a bit of an all rounder and played the viola on many occasions as well as the violin in a trio with his 'cellist wife, Sharon Robinson and the pianist Manny Ax. I must check his discography out.

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      • Dave2002
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        • Dec 2010
        • 18008

        #48
        Although he worked in Scotland, surely this is still the same musician who is now working in the USA and his name is Jaime - though did they call him Jamie when he was in the northern parts of these isles? Maybe there is someone else, though I think it unlikely. I have to say though, that I have a vague recollection of him being called Jamie - perhaps it was easier that way.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #49
          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
          Although he worked in Scotland, surely this is still the same musician who is now working in the USA and his name is Jaime - though did they call him Jamie when he was in the northern parts of these isles? Maybe there is someone else, though I think it unlikely. I have to say though, that I have a vague recollection of him being called Jamie - perhaps it was easier that way.
          It's pronounced "Jamie" (I believe), but has always been spelt "Jaime", as shown on the covers of his earliest CD releases back in the late '80s, for example:

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          (It will be noticed that I've moved some posts from the 'Cellists Thread - in so doing, because the algorithms are very keen on chronology, it now looks as if Dave, rather than pasto, initiated the discussion about Jaime. Apologies - but computer said "No". )
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          • Richard Tarleton

            #50
            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            It's pronounced "Jamie" (I believe), but has always been spelt "Jaime"
            A Hispanic name - I see he was born in Bolivia, where it would have been pronounced along these lines.

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            • Barbirollians
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              • Nov 2010
              • 11661

              #51
              Laredo played the viola part and Cho Liang Lin the violin with Leppard on the recording of K364 which completed Lin's Mozart violin concerto set.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #52
                Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                A Hispanic name - I see he was born in Bolivia, where it would have been pronounced along these lines.


                Reminds me of a friend called Jane who taught EFL in Spain, and whose Spanish friends had some problems with her name: the best it ended up was as a sort-of "Heinz" without the "z".
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                • cloughie
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                  • Dec 2011
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                  #53
                  Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                  Laredo played the viola part and Cho Liang Lin the violin with Leppard on the recording of K364 which completed Lin's Mozart violin concerto set.
                  He has great Street cred

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                  • gradus
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5601

                    #54
                    Lynn Harrell was/is? a fine cellist but haven't heard anything of him in recent years.

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                    • Dave2002
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18008

                      #55
                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      It's pronounced "Jamie" (I believe), but has always been spelt "Jaime", as shown on the covers of his earliest CD releases back in the late '80s, for example:
                      I think it's actually pronounced "High May" - or that's what I heard from the Spanish pronunciation link provided just now by Richard T (msg 50).

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                        I think it's actually pronounced "High May" - or that's what I heard from the Spanish pronunciation link provided just now by Richard T (msg 50).
                        - close to the Jewish Haim (from the Hebrew for "life", "Chaim" - the female being "Chaya, as in the composer, Chaya Czernowin - ?and Kaija Saariaho??)
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                        • Richard Tarleton

                          #57
                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                          Reminds me of a friend called Jane who taught EFL in Spain, and whose Spanish friends had some problems with her name: the best it ended up was as a sort-of "Heinz" without the "z".
                          Something like this?

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                          • Richard Tarleton

                            #58
                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                            Reminds me of a friend called Jane who taught EFL in Spain, and whose Spanish friends had some problems with her name: the best it ended up was as a sort-of "Heinz" without the "z".
                            Something like JaƩn, pronounced thus?

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                            • Dave2002
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                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18008

                              #59
                              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                              I think it's actually pronounced "High May" - or that's what I heard from the Spanish pronunciation link provided just now by Richard T (msg 50).
                              Actually on further reflection it might be something like "Jai May" or "DJai May". In some Hispanic countries in South America the pronunciation is very different from European Spanish, and it varies between one country and another too. Not Castilian Spanish!

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                #60
                                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                                Actually on further reflection it might be something like "Jai May" or "DJai May". In some Hispanic countries in South America the pronunciation is very different from European Spanish, and it varies between one country and another too. Not Castilian Spanish!
                                Indeed. I think that the Hebrew original begins with a sound closer to the "ch" sound in "loch" - but maybe Laredo pronounces it differently from his South American forebears?
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