EuroArtsChannel Published on Jan 1, 2016
A Mozart Gala from the Berlin State Opera (Deutsche Staatsoper)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K. 219
0:35 I. Allegro aperto
10:46 II. Adagio
22:17 III. Rondeau (Tempo di minuetto)
Staatskapelle Berlin; Julien Salemkour – conductor
Nicolaj Znaider – soloist, In June 1992 at the age of 16 he won the first prize of the 4th International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition, and in 1997 he received one of the most respected and recognized prizes in the violin world: the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He went on to study with the pedagogue Dorothy Delay at Juilliard School of Music. He plays the Guarneri “del Gesu” violin built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler.