| To celebrate his 50th birthday, Youri Bashmet offers an original and varied program which reveals the diversity of his passionate work and witnesses his peculiar role in twentieth century music. With Moscow’s soloist in “l’Abbatiale de la Chaise-Dieu”, he plays the pieces of Reger, Chostakovich, Paganini, Hindemith and Weber. This video shows he plays the viola piece by Paganini. Youri Bashmet was born in 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in Russia and spent his childhood in Lvov in the Ukraine. He began studying at the Moscow Conservatoire at the age of eighteen, first with Vadim Borisovsky, violist of the Beethoven Quartet, and later with Feodor Druzhinin. He subsequently became the youngest person ever to be appointed to a professorship at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 1976, Bashmet won first prize at the International Viola Competition in Munich, which launched his international career. Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest violinists who ever lived. Although nineteenth century Europe had seen several extraordinary violinists, Paganini was the preeminent violin virtuoso of that century—it was rumored by his contemporaries that he had sold his soul to the devil for his unbelievable ability. |
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