WE HAVE A WINNER! The violinist is Oleg Pokhanovski! And the winning guess was made by "Cli". Please feel free to get in touch! theviolin@outlook.com Check out Oleg's transcriptions including La Valse. It's amazing...and he is playing both parts! He also recently transcribed the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata and that will be released soon. Oleg is Professor of Violin at the University of Manitoba, Canada! He shared this live recording of Carmen with me, taken from a recital during his student days in Russia. He is playing a Strad here.
@@violintegral "At 10, he was accepted into renowned Special Music School for Gifted Children in Moscow and later studied at the Moscow State Conservatory. Pokhanovski cites his most influential teachers to be his uncle violinist Lev Zaides, and pianist Svetlana Vorobyova. Invited to move to the United States, he received full scholarships at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music studying with Dorothy DeLay, Pinchas Zukerman and Ani Kavafian, and took part in the “Solisti dal Mondo” program under Taras Gabora. "
@@DanielKurganov Wow, very impressive! He was a student of three students of Galamian! Really goes to show the wide influence of renowed teachers. It would be very interesting to see a "family tree" of violinists to see how the art has been passed down for generations.
Amazing lol, I wasn't going to bother with a guess until I saw clue 5. I had the opportunity to hear Oleg play live I think 14 or 15 years ago and remember being completely awestruck. An inspiring musician and also an incredibly kind person!
This person is a real rarity today. Someone who cares for the music and expression. Not technical perfection or intonation. A real human imitating old style very well.
It would be great to have links to all the folks mentioned.. this is so wonderful to find other fiddlers that are just as amazing as the main stream folks. Thank you for doing these!❤
Thank you Daniel, once again I'm richer from the experience. It's been a while this work has graced my ears, and it could not have come at a better time.
What a wonderful way to inject "us" with some new excitement about violin mastery, wasnt so excited about violin virtuoso's since i saw "the art of violin" 20 years ago:) thanks Daniel 🎉 And i have no clue, some secret Spanish jam stone you are hiding here?
I just thought Alexander Labko, but I'm not sure about who the player is. at 8:31, there is a messy part where the player got confused with Sarasate's arrangement.
It’s not Labko! He’s a wonderful violinist though. Yes that is the funny part I mentioned in the description :) Imagine playing the wrong Carmen momentarily and then making quite the recovery.
@@violon-no3wl I agree, definitely this violinist is deep deep deep in that aesthetic. But...not a student of Yankelevich, and not Bezverkhny or Schwarzberg!
Great virtuosity, phrasing, intense sound with a never ending vibrato. Daniel, you mention a funny part - is it the jiggly bow when playing the harmonics around 6:04? Or the piano intro?
I only wish I could recover like that after playing the wrong notes/passage in the middle of a performance! A brilliant performance… but I would be very shocked if this person is one of the well known violinists of today. I’m definitely curious to know it is 😊
It could be Andrei Korsakov but I know he was not a concert pianist. It could also be Arthur Grumiaux but he was not a concert pianist - he was just an accomplished pianist.
OMG..he plays like this and is unknown! The music world, like the real world of affairs of homo sapiens, is a deeply screwed up place! Thanks Daniel for your unrelenting artistic idealism, and for this recording.
There is a moment that, especially in this recording, reminds me of the Glazunov concerto 😊 And for the violinist, I hear some strong fingers. Could it be Mr. Koelman?
Waxman wrote this in 1947 so the violinist had to have been born after 1926. The thumb nail is Hirschhorn holding a Guarneri fiddle. The funny part is at the very end and the mystery violinist is David Nadien. (I'm ready for you to tell me I'm wrong on all counts.) (There must be a reason there is so much Picasso in this video?) 🙂
I am very curious to find out the correct answer, but I am not a big fan of this performance I find it somehow inconsistent. Some places are brilliant though. But overall not something I would connect with any big name violinists that are coming to my mind. So many better.
Пабло Пикассо. На фото именно он. Но Пикассо играл на трубе. По качеству исполнения , сорри, не могу угадать исполнителя. Но само исполнение мне не особо понравилось. Может Исаак Стерн? Хотя Стерну на момент написания Фантазии было уже 26 лет. Загадка. 🙂
@@DanielKurganov Первый раз слышу это имя. Живу в Лондоне 14 лет, постоянно хожу на концерты и в лучших залах никогда не встречала его имя. Такой тайный гений? :-) Прячется? Даниель, Вы серьезно считаете его гением? С его внешностью надо в Голливуде сниматься. :-)
@@DanielKurganov I randomly discovered Charlie Siem many years ago I think on Spotify, specifically a Carmen recording if I recall correctly, which I found decent and liked it. I was going to ask you what you meant by not serious but before I though I'd search some videos of him and I think I see why. I don't think he's soloist level by any means. Even as an amateur myself I hear uninteresting tone, a great lack of musicality, lack of direction of what he wants to do in the pieces, no brilliance in the sound and with all due respect I think he has that "student" dull sound. He's technically competent for sure but as one of my teachers said "play music and not only notes".
József Lendvay the Hungarian violinist is a hidden Gem contemporary born Genius violinist as Vecsey was! But they are allways in 100/ perfect pitch....
WE HAVE A WINNER!
The violinist is Oleg Pokhanovski! And the winning guess was made by "Cli". Please feel free to get in touch! theviolin@outlook.com
Check out Oleg's transcriptions including La Valse. It's amazing...and he is playing both parts! He also recently transcribed the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata and that will be released soon. Oleg is Professor of Violin at the University of Manitoba, Canada! He shared this live recording of Carmen with me, taken from a recital during his student days in Russia. He is playing a Strad here.
Do you know who his teacher was? He has a phenomenal sound!
@@violintegral "At 10, he was accepted into renowned Special Music School for Gifted Children in Moscow and later studied at the Moscow State Conservatory. Pokhanovski cites his most influential teachers to be his uncle violinist Lev Zaides, and pianist Svetlana Vorobyova. Invited to move to the United States, he received full scholarships at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music studying with Dorothy DeLay, Pinchas Zukerman and Ani Kavafian, and took part in the “Solisti dal Mondo” program under Taras Gabora. "
@@DanielKurganov Wow, very impressive! He was a student of three students of Galamian! Really goes to show the wide influence of renowed teachers. It would be very interesting to see a "family tree" of violinists to see how the art has been passed down for generations.
Bravo!!!!!I 've never heard about this wonderful musician.Congratulations to the winner!
Amazing lol, I wasn't going to bother with a guess until I saw clue 5. I had the opportunity to hear Oleg play live I think 14 or 15 years ago and remember being completely awestruck. An inspiring musician and also an incredibly kind person!
I can’t even guess but please keep bringing this unknown recordings to everyone! Is so exciting and refreshing!
This person is a real rarity today. Someone who cares for the music and expression. Not technical perfection or intonation. A real human imitating old style very well.
FINAL CLUE!
This violinist lives in Canada
I will be posting the answer on Friday!
All clues fit Oleg Pokhanovski, your guest on tonebase Violin.
@@aMaudPowellFan You got it!!! But "Cli" got it 2 hours ago :) Bravo to all
This has been addictive!!!! Whoever he/she is-what a pleasure to listen to!Thank you for sharing it!
It would be great to have links to all the folks mentioned.. this is so wonderful to find other fiddlers that are just as amazing as the main stream folks. Thank you for doing these!❤
Gonna practice hard so one day I might be featured in one of these mystery violin genius videos 😂😂
Feelings of Heifetz.
Bravo!!
Thank you Daniel, once again I'm richer from the experience. It's been a while this work has graced my ears, and it could not have come at a better time.
Wonderful to hear!
Philippe Hirschhorn?
Thank you for your videos Daniel. They make me improve a lot. A big hug
Thanks so much! It’s not Hirschhorn:)
Wouaw! Bonne idée de mélanger les morceaux connus... sympathique version!!
CLUE #4
Living violinist, and still sounds like this.
Has someone got the answer, I think midori
@@gloriacalungsod5956I can totally see this being her, but I believe in another comment Daniel said that their nationality is Russian
Ilya
Kaler. Could have been Kagan if you didn’t tell the clue no. 4.)
What a wonderful way to inject "us" with some new excitement about violin mastery, wasnt so excited about violin virtuoso's since i saw "the art of violin" 20 years ago:) thanks Daniel 🎉
And i have no clue, some secret Spanish jam stone you are hiding here?
🙏 so glad yo hear that. Can’t wait to share the answer with you!
I just thought Alexander Labko, but I'm not sure about who the player is.
at 8:31, there is a messy part where the player got confused with Sarasate's arrangement.
It’s not Labko! He’s a wonderful violinist though.
Yes that is the funny part I mentioned in the description :) Imagine playing the wrong Carmen momentarily and then making quite the recovery.
@@DanielKurganov
It sounds old Russian school, just sounds a student of Yuri Yankelevich.
Mikhail Bezverkhny or Dora Schwarzberg?
@@violon-no3wl I agree, definitely this violinist is deep deep deep in that aesthetic. But...not a student of Yankelevich, and not Bezverkhny or Schwarzberg!
A delight - but I haven’t a clue! Thank you.
Roman Kim? feels like it’s his signature Paganini-like flashiness with gorgeous phrasing
Simply amazing!!!😘👍
I thought of David Oistrakh , but well, he is already in violin heaven.
Amazing performance! Can’t wait to find out who it is.
Great virtuosity, phrasing, intense sound with a never ending vibrato. Daniel, you mention a funny part - is it the jiggly bow when playing the harmonics around 6:04? Or the piano intro?
No! It’s a funny moment in the actual text:)
Oh, in a few days I'll have to check the comments and discover many lesser known great violinists😀
Congrats!!!
I'm not a violinist but I've been refreshing this page about 55 times since yesterday in hopes of seeing the answer :)
Thanks for your enthusiasm!! I am really excited to reveal the violinist! But I want to give people a bit more time to guess :)
@@DanielKurganov sure thing! :)
CLUE #5
This violinist is also a concert pianist and master transcriber!
Ysaye maybe ahahaha jk
But ysaye's dead hehe
Julia Fischer!?
@@vandrossiI thought she was German lol
Roman Kim???
Love this thread btw!
I only wish I could recover like that after playing the wrong notes/passage in the middle of a performance! A brilliant performance… but I would be very shocked if this person is one of the well known violinists of today. I’m definitely curious to know it is 😊
I think all great artists recover pretty gracefully from mistakes. Although most never publish live recordings so we don’t get to see that :)
You are correct that this person is not super well known.
Could it be Daniel Röhn?
You should do the next vid with luviu prunaru as the mystery violinist!
It could be Andrei Korsakov but I know he was not a concert pianist. It could also be Arthur Grumiaux but he was not a concert pianist - he was just an accomplished pianist.
I think maybe its Vengerov when he was young at the age of 22-28! But this vibrato seems oldschool vibrato to me...damn...its hard!
Oscar Shumsky or Benno Rabinof?
First thought was Menuhin based on the photo (that raised index and also the jawline) and the vibrato...
nope! good guess :)
Mischa Ellman?
James Ehnes?
My teacher!
Nice sharing!
It would funny if it was Shunsuke Sato again, but I’m just throwing darts in the dark here :)
Jazzed up Humoresque at 3:24?
Wow! Yet another amazing violinist of whom most people won't have heard.......
Ooh! Is it Stefan Jackiw?!
Heifetz???
Good guess, but no:)
Dylana Jenson?
OMG..he plays like this and is unknown! The music world, like the real world of affairs of homo sapiens, is a deeply screwed up place! Thanks Daniel for your unrelenting artistic idealism, and for this recording.
david Oistrakh ?
Not Oistrakh!
This is what I thought. Such passion!!!
There is a moment that, especially in this recording, reminds me of the Glazunov concerto 😊 And for the violinist, I hear some strong fingers. Could it be Mr. Koelman?
Strong fingers indeed!!! But it's not RK :)
Is it Ilian Gârnet at the Queen Elizabeth competition of 2009??
Waxman wrote this in 1947 so the violinist had to have been born after 1926. The thumb nail is Hirschhorn holding a Guarneri fiddle. The funny part is at the very end and the mystery violinist is David Nadien. (I'm ready for you to tell me I'm wrong on all counts.) (There must be a reason there is so much Picasso in this video?) 🙂
WRONG!!! But wonderful guess
And yes, if you mean the funny part as a slight mixup in which piece he was playing :)
itzac perlman, he is living legend
I'll go with Koelman. Just amazing.
Good guess! It's not Rudolf Koelman :)
ok this time it's for sure old school
Are you sure :) ?
Pierre Amoyal?
Me, it’s me
I'm definitely curious of who is the player... 😮 (I have actually no certitude..it could be so many one..)
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
Any one of the markovs?
i thought it sounded like albert markov but no recordings available :(
I can hear some Kogan echoes but then it goes wildly elegant with those slides with vibrato and I’m like, who’s this? CHE VUOI?
Marina Yashvili?
nadja salerno-sonneberg?
Just a guess.
Glenn Dicterow?
arnold eidus?
Is it Efrem Zimbalist?
Not Zimbalist!
Charlie Siem?
Semyon snitkovsky?
I heard they silently clone people… didn’t know they used gens of some old school master ;)
😁
I am very curious to find out the correct answer, but I am not a big fan of this performance I find it somehow inconsistent. Some places are brilliant though. But overall not something I would connect with any big name violinists that are coming to my mind. So many better.
One more guess from me--young Gidon Kremer?
Ilya gringolts?
Пабло Пикассо. На фото именно он. Но Пикассо играл на трубе. По качеству исполнения , сорри, не могу угадать исполнителя. Но само исполнение мне не особо понравилось. Может Исаак Стерн? Хотя Стерну на момент написания Фантазии было уже 26 лет. Загадка. 🙂
Maxim vengerov? That flashyness and fire remind me of him
Nope :)
Hadelich ?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Henri Lewkowicz? If it is it’s a great find!
Not him!
Is it Janine Jansen?
Spivakov?
No!
Philippe Quint ?
Daishin kashimoto?
olekseii semenenko?
Thumbnail is charlie siem
Bravo :))
@@DanielKurganov Первый раз слышу это имя. Живу в Лондоне 14 лет, постоянно хожу на концерты и в лучших залах никогда не встречала его имя. Такой тайный гений? :-) Прячется? Даниель, Вы серьезно считаете его гением? С его внешностью надо в Голливуде сниматься. :-)
@@KoteikaUchenaja Charlie Siem is just the photo. It’s not who is playing. I don’t consider Mr. Siem a serious musician :) but he is photogenic!!
@@DanielKurganov I randomly discovered Charlie Siem many years ago I think on Spotify, specifically a Carmen recording if I recall correctly, which I found decent and liked it. I was going to ask you what you meant by not serious but before I though I'd search some videos of him and I think I see why.
I don't think he's soloist level by any means. Even as an amateur myself I hear uninteresting tone, a great lack of musicality, lack of direction of what he wants to do in the pieces, no brilliance in the sound and with all due respect I think he has that "student" dull sound. He's technically competent for sure but as one of my teachers said "play music and not only notes".
Валерий Соколов? Никита Борисоглебский?
Is this menuhin? Saw one of the pics in his book before
not Menuhin!
Any more clues?
What would you like to know :)
@@DanielKurganov Nationality?
@@SenanSheridan Russian!
Marc Boushkov ?
Not Marc!
Kerson Leong?
Nope
Are you deaf?? Kerson sounds Nothing like him
Ilya Gringolts?
Nope:)
Алина Ибрагимова?
Bronislaw Huberman?
Nope!
Роман Минц?
Sergey Khachatryan? Слушала его несколько раз живьем. По стилю похоже.
Nope!
Renaud capuçon ?
No!
Tonebase's own Eric Silberger
Jascha Heifetz of course
A wonderful guess, but NO! :)
Shlomo Mintz?
Rene-Charles (Zino) Francescatti
Zakhar Bron?
Josef Hassid?
Not Hassid!
IS IT WAXMAN HIMSELF
That would be cool:)
József Lendvay the Hungarian violinist is a hidden Gem contemporary born Genius violinist as Vecsey was! But they are allways in 100/ perfect pitch....
Love Lendvay! But it’s not him :)
@@DanielKurganov Yes I know becouse he is and Vecsey cleaner than this really outstanding maestro...
Erick Friedman?
Good guess but no!
gonçal comellas?
I'd be surprised if this is correct, but Pavel Berman?
Good guess, but it’s not Berman :)
Andrei Korsakov????
Not Korsakov!