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Published: 03 June 2013
Leonidas Kavakos conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on 4 June in a concert in which he will also play as soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.3. The programme also includes Haydn Symphony No.83 'The Hen' and Schubert Symphony No.9. Kavakos will lead the same programme on 28 June in Bad Kissingen, as part of the Kissinger Sommer Festival. The concert will be recorded and broadcast on 6 July on the Bavarian Radio station BR Klassik.Also this...
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Published: 07 May 2013
On 9 and 10 May, Leonidas Kavakos returns to the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig to perform the Brahms Violin Concerto with Riccardo Chailly. These concerts will be recorded by Decca Classics as the second release in his exclusive recording contract.The first, released in January 2013, was the complete violin sonatas by Beethoven, and has been met with outstanding praise, described as “a masterly set” (Strad), a “beautifully balanced survey”...
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Published: 18 March 2013
In March, Leonidas Kavakos and Denis Kozhukhin are joined by cellist Patrick Demenga for a three-concert chamber tour in Italy.The trio will perform Brahms's Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 and 3 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (22 March), Salone Estense in Varese (24 March) and at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan (25 March). Earlier in the month, Kozhukhin travelled to the UK to make his debut with the Royal Liverpool...
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Published: 06 February 2013
Leonidas Kavakos’s long-awaited debut album for Decca Classics has been released. Together with regular collaborator Enrico Pace, Kavakos recorded the complete Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano for a 3-CD release.
This recording follows the performance of the complete sonata cycle by Kavakos and Pace at the 2012 Salzburg Festival, Milan and Florence and will be supported by further performances in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in the...
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Published: 21 January 2013
Leonidas Kavakos continues his close association with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, as soloist on the orchestra’s Jubilee world tour with Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons (25 January to 15 February). He will appear in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vienna, Washington and New York and will play Bartók's second concerto, the work he played with Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw at the 2012 Salzburg Festival. Leonidas Kavakos will also...
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Published: 04 January 2013
This month sees Vassily Sinaisky returning to the US where he will conduct four concerts with the LA Philharmonic.The programme is made up of Holst’s The Planets where Sinaisky will be joined by Women of Pacific Chorale, Liadov’s Eight Russian Folk Songs and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, performed by Leonidas Kavakos.The first three concerts will take place at Walt Disney Concert Hall on 10, 11 and 12 January with the final concert on the...
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Published: 12 November 2012
Leonidas Kavakos is resident this season with the London Symphony Orchestra as the UBS Soundscapes LSO Artist Portrait. The first of his four concerts is on November 25, when Kavakos plays Berg’s Violin Concerto under Semyon Bychkov. Returning to London on November 30, Kavakos plays a recital with pianist Nikolai Lugansky at the Barbican in a programme of Janáček, Brahms, Stravinsky and Respighi. Kavakos and Lugansky also perform this programme...
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Published: 01 November 2012
Leonidas Kavakos plays the first of the recitals in his 2012/13 cycle of the complete Beethoven sonatas at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on November 5 with his regular recital partner, Enrico Pace. This recital anticipates the imminent release of Kavakos’s recording of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas on Decca Classics in January 2013. Kavakos and Pace return to the Concertgebouw in February and March to continue the cycle.
Leonidas Kavakos is the...
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Published: 25 October 2012
Leonidas Kavakos played the first concert in his cycle of the complete Beethoven sonatas at the Vienna Musikverein on October 15, with Emanuel Ax as his partner. The cycle at the Musikverein continues through the 2012/13 season, with the remaining two concerts in February and April 2013. Kavakos’s debut recording on Decca Classics of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas, with pianist Enrico Pace, is widely anticipated and is due for release in January...
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Published: 01 October 2012
Leonidas Kavakos is Artist in Residence with both the Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra in 2012/13.Kavakos’s residency with the Berliner Philharmoniker opened on 20 September with a chamber programme for which he was joined by several of the orchestra’s players. On 3 December, he returns to play a second programme, again with members of the orchestra, and will perform Bach, Gubaidulina, Dutilleux and Messiaen.The residency...
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