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Post by julesd68 on Sept 5, 2016 16:48:06 GMT
This is great - DG have signed 15 year old violinist Daniel Lozakovich.
Check him out as a 12 year old playing in the Menuhin competition - no shortage of technique or confidence!
Supposedly the Beethoven concerto will be one of his first releases. That's a mammoth task for a young boy - much is made of the emotional maturity required to master this work ...
All the best to him.
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 6, 2016 6:09:26 GMT
Impressive - and I wish him well, but I am left with an uneasy feeling.
I know this is the way the music industry has worked for centuries - 250 years ago the child Mozart was a wunderkind shown off and hauled around Europe by his ambitious father - but it does feel just a bit like child exploitation to me.
Recording company desperate for the Next Big Thing contracts a teenager, dropped like a hot potato when sales start to droop.
Early burn out, ruined life. It happens.
Or maybe he will be lucky and follow in the footsteps of Midori and Nigel Kennedy. Let's hope so.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 6, 2016 11:03:38 GMT
Supposedly the Beethoven concerto will be one of his first releases. That's a mammoth task for a young boy Not half. I doubt that he will have the emotional maturity for the Beethoven. |
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Post by jandl100 on Sept 6, 2016 11:20:40 GMT
I think it was violinist Ida Haendel who said that violinists shouldn't even try to play the Beethoven concerto until they were 50!
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 6, 2016 11:26:26 GMT
Yes my son's violin teacher said something much the same and she's in her 20's!
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