Maxim Vengerov
'Our Artist of the Year 2002/3 is a violinist whose rise to the top of his profession has been as meteoric as it has been well earned.'
Gramophone
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'I understood what miracles you can bring to children with music... it goes from heart to heart'
Classical Feel
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' Maxim Vengerov's mastery of the violin is so complete, his embrace of music so rife with emotion, that it often appears as if his playing can fill a concert stage all by itself.'
Chicago Tribune

'The violinist Maxim Vengerov is a musical colossus, international superstar and heart-throb, delivering a performance of such unbridled passion and energy that it provoked one of the world's most stolid audiences to rise as one from their seats, pounding the floor and yelling for more.'
London Times

'Were it not for his passionate and phenomenal ability to play the violin, Maxim Vengerov would appear to be your ordinary rock star.'
Time Out, New York

'Maxim Vengerov is the kind of artist that comes along once every 100 years.'
The Strad
'Take a Bow: the world's greatest violinists'
The Independent
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'Playing for Change'
Mail & Guardian
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'Maxim Vengerov is the greatest violinist in the world - and I believe there will not be a word of dissent from anyone present at this extraordinary, incredible occasion.'
Glasgow Herald


'Vengerov engages at every level'
The Citizen
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'Humbling, deeply moving: it can only be Vengerov'
concert review
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'Vengerov looks over the horizon'Gramophone
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'Maxim Vengerov did not win a Grammy in February…the astonishing violinist from Siberia won the night, the whole enchilada. Which is to say that Vengerov came as close as anyone to stealing the show.'
Los Angeles Times

'This young player is extraordinary. It's as if Heifetz was crossed with Grumiaux, so sure is the technique, mature the conception and ravishing the sound. How can such a young man project such unutterable despair?'
Independent

 

'From prodigy to Legend: Vengerov'Classic FM
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'He has a strong technique coupled with a singing tone and an ability to connect with the emotional underpinnings of a score that evokes the legendary virtuosos Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh.'
Wall Street Journal


'a life in the day'Sunday Times
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'He is a rock of infallible technique and an interpreter of intimidating assertiveness. His control over the instrument was eerie perfection. His sound did not imitate emotion, it was emotion.New York Times
'Siberian, single and turbo-charged'Sunday Telegraph
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'Russian School'Mail & Guardian
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'Celebration of music'
Pretoria News
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'Vengerov kom'
Plus
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Maxim Vengerov