27-07-2018

New CD released on 27-07-2018

Live Recording : Prokofiev VC1 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev

20-03-2018

Sofia Gubaidulina’s Violin concerto Dialogue: I and You, commissioned by the Trans-Siberian Art Festival

Vadim Repin will premiere the concerto in Novosibirsk on April 2^nd, 2018 with Novosibirsk Philharmony Orchestra conducted by Andres Mustonen

3-11-2017

New CD

Garayev: Violin Sonata

Vadim Repin (violon), Murad Huseynov (piano)

Garayev: Preludes for Piano 

Murad Huseynov (piano)

20-10-2017

The new double violin concerto by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Shadow Walker, is premiered and toured by the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic in October, with Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope as soloists.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's new double violin concerto, Shadow Walker, is premiered by soloists Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope in Istanbul on 19 October with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra under Sascha Goetzel. This first performance is followed by a European tour visiting the Essen Philharmonie (20 October), Gallus Hall in Ljubljana (21 October), the Musikverein in Vienna (23 October) and the Maag Halle in Zürich (25 October). Shadow Walker is jointly commissioned by Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Essen and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival which includes events in Vadim Repin's native city of Novossibirsk.

The new 25-minute work is dedicated to artist Mark Wallinger, who Turnage collaborated with on his ballets Trespass and Undance. The title Shadow Walker is drawn from a Wallinger video in which the artist films his shadow as he walks along Shaftesbury Avenue in London, exploring themes of identity and replicated imaging. The disembodied shadow takes on its own life in relation to the public on the streets, allowing the artist to experience the city as a flaneur behind a mask of anonymity. Turnage's work also references Wallinger's series of Id Paintings, life-size action art images whose bilateral symmetry resembles the two halves of the human body.

Shadow Walker is cast in four movements, Fast-Slow-Fast-Slow, with the third movement taking the form of a scherzo. A wide range of contrapuntal techniques are employed by Turnage, from general imitation and echo, to strict canon - such as the opening of the fourth movement starting with the two soloists in turn, and proliferating through the strings to build a rhythmically and harmonically complex texture. Mirror canon also appears, which is more closely related to the symmetrical techniques in Wallinger's Id Paintings.

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17-01-2017

Vadim Repin received the Lakshminarayana International Award in January 2017  

The Lakshminarayana International Award was instituted in the year 1997 by the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival. It is awarded to individuals who have made momentous contributions to their respective artistic domains. Each awardee is a legend in his/her own right.

The first award in 1997 was given to Lord Yehudi Menuhin, and was presented to him by the President of India His Excellency K.R. Narayanan. Subsequently, the award has been presented to eminent artists, creative geniuses and living legends.

The award carries with it a specially commissioned unique Tanjore painting of Lord Ganesha playing the violin (as a tribute to Professor V. Lakshminarayana). Lord Ganesha in the Hindu pantheon is the first God one prays to, in order to remove obstacles. Tanjore painting is a specialized art form from the Tanjore region of Tamil Nadu. This form of painting incorporates gold leaf work and semi-precious gems. Each painting is a specially commissioned work of art.

6-10-2016

NEW MacMillan  CD 

ONYX Classics have just released a CD of 2 works by James MacMillan:

Violin Concerto performed by Vadim Repin, and Symphony No 4, with the BBCSO conducted by Donald Runnicles

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James MacMillan's violin concerto had its premiere in London Barbican Centre on the 12th of May 2010.

 The concerto was written in memory of MacMillan’s late mother and dedicated to Vadim Repin who premiered the concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The violin concerto was co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.

Watch an excerpt of the MacMillan VC with Vadim Repin at the Proms in 2013  here

23-02-2016

A live Philharmonia Orchestra concert screening of the 1927 silent film Love, featuring the world premiere of a new score.

The Philharmonia Orchestra provides live accompaniment to a screening of Love, featuring virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin and conducted by Frank Strobel.

Aphrodite Raickopoulou has written a new score for this classic silent film, which is based on Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. The score was written especially for the renowned violinist Vadim Repin, whom Yehudi Menuhin described as 'the best violinist I have ever heard'.

Made in 1927 by director Edmund Goulding, Love starred the most celebrated screen couple of the era: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. The New York Times motion picture critic Mordaunt Hall described Greta Garbo, in this role, as 'a blonde Mona Lisa' and wrote that she 'outshines any other performance she has given to the screen'.

In 2012, Aphrodite Raickopoulou's score for Faustwas premiered in Royal Festival Hall by Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment.

'Raickopoulou's music mirrored the film's fantastical qualities with intensely-coloured string passages and some Wagner-esque brass... [her] sweepingly symphonic writing amplified the dramatic turbulence of Murnau's movie with a passion that would surely have impressed the director himself.' (The Arts Desk on Faust)

A Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment Production.

Love starring Vadim Repin and Greta Garbo is dedicated to Mrs Alfiya Kuanysheva for her special contribution to the Arts.

Carmen Zgouras is proud to announce this concert will launch the 2016 UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature, as it is based on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

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