Murata Natsuho’s performance is the return of geniuses like Heifetz and Paganini… David Geringas
Murata Natsuho’s performance is the return of geniuses like Heifetz and Paganini… David Geringas
August 19, 2024
The following is from the top 10 best violinists of all time 20 by aokiuva of BBC Music Magazine in the UK, which I just discovered.
The event of Paganini has divided everything into ‘before Paganini’ and ‘after Paganini,’ and exactly the same thing happened with Heifetz.
The same thing happened with Heifetz: the lines were drawn between “before Heifetz” and “after Heifetz.
On October 27, 1917, a young violinist from Russia gave his first recital at Carnegie Hall, setting the standard for what a modern violin should be.
David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Isaac Stern, Henrik Schelling, Itzhak Perlman, and many other violinists have spoken out from time to time.
Yascha Heifetz is without a doubt the most outstanding violinist of the 20th century.
Heifetz revolutionized violin playing and defined perfection for himself.
Heifetz revolutionized violin playing and defined what perfection was all about, and because of his overwhelmingly high level, he became the absolute precedent that no violinist could avoid and to which all players were first compared.
So outstanding was his skill that three-quarters of a century later, the situation is still the same.
In that sense, Heifetz was a timeless prophet.“
I have already mentioned that on New Year’s Eve 2020, I learned that a supernumerary violin prodigy named Natsuho Murata had emerged in Japan.
The other day, I found a video on YouTube that proves that I hit the nail on the head 100%.
I had been trying to find the right moment to introduce this video in this column, and today was the day I discovered the above article.
Natsuho Murata, 11, “2018 Nutcracker International Competition,” second roundhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/HhYCkvlhl_8
Prof. Roman Patkolo (schlossakademie.com)
2024/8/18 in Mihara, Hiroshima