Maxim Vengerov

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Golden opportunity: Vengerov, photographed for BBC Music Magazine at London’s Oxford and Cambridge Club

Thirteen years ago, Russian

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e bounds into the building – dark, glamorous, and wearing jeans. I’d

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Musical summits: Vengerov conducts the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra at HE HAS LOVED LONDON, he says, Carnegie Hall in 2007 since winning the Carl Flesch Violin Competition here at the age of 16: a remarkable triumph that launched his international career. But when he plays at the Royal Albert Hall on 12 June – a starry gala in which, among other things, he will For personalbe joined use by only. pianist Printed Martha by PressReader Argerich Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. and cellist Mischa Maisky in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto – he will be celebrating the anniversary of an even more auspicious event. It will be 40 years since he gave his first public recital. And yes, he’s only 45 now. He really did start young. ‘Not really,’ he laughs. ‘I was already in the world for four years and eight months before I had my first violin lesson.’ His Leading light: · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com mother was a conductor, his father the Vengerov’s conducting principal oboist of the orchestra in the mentor Yuri Simonov Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where he grew up. ‘You could say I was a child of For personalthe orchestra use only. from Printed the by start,’ PressReader he continues. Copyright ©For 2019powers personal PressReader (or use so only.I thought) Inc. Printed andby PressReader the wretched Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. ‘The only question was which instrument physical condition of his listeners struck I would learn. I chose the violin because I me as heartbreakingly poignant. noticed they sat nearest to the audience.’ Little did I know that this would be one His progress was phenomenal, and of the last times Vengerov played the violin · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] word about this extraordinary five-year- before taking a break of several years. The old prodigy spread fast. ‘Believe it or ‘virtuoso at the peak of his powers’ was not, 800 people turned up for that first in fact an exhausted 32 year-old on the concert,’ Vengerov recalls. ‘It was only a edge of permanent burn-out, and about half-hour recital of all sorts of pieces. But to disappear from the· http://about.pressreader.com scene so suddenly, · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com I knew even then that this was what I would do for a living.’ How does he think his five-year-old self ‘I was like a hamster For personalperformed use only.that Printedday? ‘Well, by PressReader you know Copyright the ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright So©For 2019 they personal PressReader speculated use only. Inc. that Printed there by PressReader must be Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. story about Mischa Elman? When he was something wrong.’ 90, a journalist asked him: “What’s the on a wheel – I felt I And the truth? ‘It’s true I was tired, difference between playing at 90 and at 5?” emotionally,’ Vengerov admits. ‘When I He replied: “No difference at all. Whether had a missed a little won the Carl Flesch competition at 16 I at 90 or 5, they always told me I play very · [email protected] already playing 70 concerts a year, · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] good for my age.”’ bit of my childhood’ and it rose to twice that number by the Although Vengerov is celebrating the time I was 22. Giving 140 concerts a year 40th anniversary of his debut, that doesn’t completely and mysteriously that his is not a joke. I was like a hamster on a mean he has been playing continuously for absence from concert platforms became as wheel. And maybe I felt I had missed a · · · · 40 years. In May 2007 I went to watch him much a subject for analysis http://about.pressreader.com as his playing little bit of my childhood.’ http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com give an incredible concert in extraordinary had been in the two decades before that. That’s understandable. One of the circumstances: for patients with severe There were rumours that he had a last products of the intensive Soviet neurological conditions or traumatic brain problem with his bowing arm, caused (it method of training prodigies, the child For personalinjuries use at the only. Royal Printed Hospital by PressReader for Neuro- Copyright ©For 2019was personal PressReadersaid) byuse rupturing only. Inc. Printed a bymuscle PressReader when Copyright he Vengerov©For 2019 personal PressReader would use only. have Inc. Printed practised by PressReader seven Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. disability in south-west London. (Since was working out in a gym. At the time, hours a day, mostly alone, in his parent’s 1998, as a UNICEF ambassador, he had Vengerov did not deny the rumours. Now basement flat in Novosibirsk. ‘So I guess,’ also been playing for war-traumatised he is much more forthright. he continues, ‘that when I turned 30 I

children in places such as East Africa, as ‘The arm and shoulder injury was · [email protected], perhaps even subconsciously, to · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] well as in many hospitals round the world.) all totally exaggerated,’ he says. ‘People have my teenage rebellion. I was feeling The contrast between this handsome couldn’t believe that, at the level I was this heaviness weighing on my body. Every

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CLUB, LONDONyoung Russian virtuoso at the peak of his playing at when I was 32, I could just stop. other morning I had to pack my bags for

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String theory: Jaap van Zweden is a master violinist

From bow to baton More violinists-turned-conductors

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· [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] signed on for conducting lessons with one mean that just literally, or that they all have of the big beasts of the baton brigade: none to play in time. Today’s orchestras are so other than Yuri Simonov, for 16 years chief ‘As a soloist, you expert that they don’t need a conductor conductor of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. to do that. I mean you have to give them a ‘In fact, Simonov approached me,’ come and· http://about.pressreader.com go. You common purpose. You· http://about.pressreader.com have to bring your · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com Vengerov says. ‘He had seen me conduct own sound to the orchestra.’ a symphony, Mendelssohn’s Scottish, are never part of a Vengerov spent three years studying and invited me to study with him. I said with Simonov. What happened to his For personal“maestro use only.I would Printed be honoured,by PressReader but Copyright will ©For 2019permanent personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by set-up’PressReader Copyright ©For violin2019 personal PressReader playing use only. during Inc. Printed this by time? PressReader Did he Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. you tell me why you would be the best simply stop? ‘Yes,’ he replies. ‘I needed to teacher for me?” He replied: “Because I am put the violin aside completely, simply the answer to all your prayers”.’ would say: “where’s the first beat?” to get my arms moving vertically not At the first lesson, Simonov gave Simonov has arguably the best conducting horizontally – as they had been doing Vengerov what he said was the first rule of technique in the world. He teaches you that · [email protected] the age of four.’ · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] conducting – that the orchestral musicians clarity is essential, but so much more. He But wasn’t he worried about losing his are always right. ‘I asked him why and made me aware of how a conductor must peerless technique on the fiddle after he said: “Because they are the ones who be responsible for every single musician, such a long lay-off? ‘Actually no, and for have to make the sounds. In their eyes, individually and as a group.’ that I thank my first violin teacher. Right · · · · if they sound good it’s because they are Did Vengerov not http://about.pressreader.com feel that responsibility from the start he made http://about.pressreader.com me take a break http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com a good orchestra. And if they sound bad, already? He always struck me, even in his from playing of 40 days each year. When it’s because you are a bad conductor!” youthful days, as the most empathetic I came back I was totally out of shape, as So I asked him: “And what if they sound of musicians. ‘Yes, of course as a soloist you can imagine, but the technique always For personalmarvellous?” use only. HePrinted replied: by PressReader “Well, then Copyright the ©For 2019you personal PressReader do try use to only. take Inc. Printed some by responsibility PressReader Copyright ©For came2019 personal PressReader back use after only. Inc.two Printed or three by PressReader days, and Copyright I ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. players will say it was because you didn’t for the entire performance,’ he says. ‘But was refreshed mentally and physically. interfere too much.”’ you come and go. You are never part of a That trick of the brain has stayed with The first thing Simonov had to put right permanent set-up. You don’t have to take me. I know there are soloists who feel they

was Vengerov’s arm movements. ‘As a care of a group. What I’ve learnt is that · [email protected] to practise every day, but I have never · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] violinist, everything you do is horizontal,’ each musician in the orchestra is like a worried about that.’ Vengerov says. ‘But imagine if you different string on my violin. They all have Since graduating from Simonov’s conducted horizontally. The musicians to be in tune with each other. And I don’t classes, Vengerov hasn’t exactly eased

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Royal appointment: Prince Charles presents Vengerov with an honorary doctorate at the Royal College of Music in 2019

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Maxim Vengerov A brief biographical timeline 1974 Vengerov is born in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where his father is first oboist in the Novosibirsk Philharmonic. 1984 He wins the junior division of the · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com · http://about.pressreader.com Wieniawski Competition in Poland. 1990 At 16, Vengerov wins London’s International Carl Flesch Competition. himself gently into the conducting world. cannot spare the time for more opera if I 1997 He is made UNICEF’s Envoy for He has Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony want to continue playing.’ For personal use only. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. Music and travels to battle-scarred and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the And, thank goodness, Vengerov does countries to give concerts. ‘Pathétique’, under his belt now, neither want to continue playing. But you will 2000 Following his first recording with of them works you would associate with have to shift into a decidedly 21st-century EMI Classics in 1999, Vengerov signs beginners. ‘And the amazing thing is mindset if you want to hear his recordings an exclusive contract that after conducting the “Pathétique”, I in future. In January he signed up to the · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] with the major label. see Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in a streaming-service Idagio. ‘CDs are dying 2003 His EMI disc completely different light,’ he says. out,’ he says. ‘Streaming is a great new of the Britten Violin Does he conduct without a score? ‘No, medium, and the sound is fabulous.’ Concerto and Walton because if the musicians are reading Not only will Idagio be releasing Viola Concerto (left) from music, why shouldn’t· I?’ he replies. exclusive recordings of· Vengerov, it will · · wins a Grammy. http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com ‘To show that I am superior to them? To also carry playlists devised by him. ‘Yes 2007 He steps away from concert show off? No. There’s a great story about I will be creating a series of them, each performances and takes a six-month sabbatical during which he films the Mendelssohn. He was conducting one of themed to help, for example, people with For personaldocumentary use only. ‘Living Printed the by PressReaderDream’ with Copyright ©For 2019his personal own PressReader works, use only. Inc.but Printed someone by PressReader mistakenly Copyright ©insomniaFor 2019 personal PressReader or use people only. Inc. Printedwith depression. by PressReader Very Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright © 2019 PressReader Inc. director Ken Howard. It goes on to win put a score of a Bach work on his stand. Russian! They will be simple, effective, and a 2008 BBC Music Magazine Award. Yet as he conducted he continued to turn tested on me and my friends.’ He starts conducting. the pages. He was too humble to make a It’s hard to imagine Vengerov being 2010 Appointed the Gstaad Festival fuss, and he didn’t want the musicians and depressed for long. At 45 he looks in Orchestra’s first chief conductor. audience to realise anything was wrong.’ · [email protected] prime of life. Since 2011 he has been · [email protected] · [email protected] · [email protected] 2013 Returning to playing, Vengerov While studying with Simonov, Vengerov married to Olga, the art-historian sister begins a long and fruitful relationship conducted a production of Tchaikovsky’s of another top violinist, Ilya Gringolts. with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugene Onegin. Has that given him a taste ‘We were constantly flirting at the Verbier recording the Brahms and Sibelius for conducting opera as well? ‘Absolutely Festival,’ he says, ‘so she was a known soul · · · · violin concertos. not,’ he declares. ‘I did http://about.pressreader.com Onegin as part to me and has made me http://about.pressreader.com very happy.’ Now http://about.pressreader.com http://about.pressreader.com 2014 After studying conducting with of my studies, safely within the walls living in Monaco, they have two daughters. Yuri Simonov, Vengerov graduates of my university [the Moscow Institute Are they musical? ‘Miraculously, yes,’ he as a conductor with a diploma from of Ippolitov-Ivanov]. But being a soloist replies. ‘Because you know the old theory For personalthe Ippolitov-Ivanov use only. Printed State by PressReader Musical Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. Printed by PressReader Copyright ©For 2019 personal PressReader use only. Inc. 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