2011 BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award to Repin and Lugansky

Violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Nikolai Lugansky won the Chamber Award for their dazzling performances of Sonatas by Janacek, Grieg and Franck, their first recording together.
 (The Official Website of BBC Music Magazine)

You can find details of and interviews with all the winners in the May issue of BBC Music Magazine. Plus you can hear extracts from the winning discs and watch the ceremony online here.

Vadim Repin Becomes Chevalier Of The French Order Of Arts And Letters

Novosibirsk-born violinist Vadim Repin, 39, has been made a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.  The honour was conferred at the weekend following a recital in the Salle Pleyel, Paris, by Laurent Bayle, director-general of the Cité de la Musique, on behalf of the French Minister of Culture.    Bayle paid tribute to Repin’s unique sound, his dedication and artistry, and his fidelity to the high standards of musicianship set by two of his greatest mentors, Mstislav Rostropovich and Yehudi Menuhin, both members of the same distinguished French Order during their lifetimes.  Vadim Repin made his French debut at the age of 13, and has performed in France regularly for over a quarter of a century.   He started to play the violin at the age of five and six months later had his first stage performance. At eleven he won the gold medal in all age categories in the Wienawski Competition and gave his recital debuts in Moscow and St Petersburg. In 1985 at fourteen he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki;  a year later in Carnegie Hall.  Two years later Vadim Repin was the youngest ever winner of the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours.  Since then he has performed with all the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors.   Last season featured concerts with Muti in New York, with Thielemann in Tokyo, with Chailly in Leipzig, a tour of Australia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, and the unanimously acclaimed première of a violin concerto written for him by James MacMillan and performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev.   Earlier this year he was awarded the Victoire d’Honneur, the French recording industry’s most prestigious musical award for a lifetime’s dedication to music.

7 December 2010
(Press Release from the Interclassica Music Managemanet)

Violin Sonatas - Album website launched

The album website for "Violin Sonatas -Vadim Repin/Nikolai Lugansky" was launched, with detailed information about the CD: Notes, Track list, Music and Gallery.

http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/html/special/repin-lugansky/

     Photo from the album website (C) Harald Hoffmann

Les Stars du Classique - Vadim Repin

A new compilation album, Les Stars du Classique - Vadim Repin, was released from Universal Music/Radio Classique on 20th September, 2010.
It is a series of 20 CD albums devoted to the 20 most iconic artists of our time in four disciplines: singing, violin, piano and conducting: Roberto Alagna, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Hélène Grimaud, Janine Jansen, Philippe Jaroussky, Nigel Kennedy, Magdalena Kozena, Lang Lang, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Patricia Petibon, Simon Rattle, Vadim Repin and Rolando Villazón.
There were 7 tracks chosen for Repin's CD:

1. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op.35 (1st mov)
2. Taneyev: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 (2nd mov)
3. Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102 (3rd mov)
4. Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 - "Kreutzer" (3rd mov)
5. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61 - (2nd mov)
6. Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No.1 in G minor for Piano, Violin and Cello
7. Miaskovsky: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.44 - (3rd mov)

More on Vadim Repin Discography

New CD to be released

A new CD "Violin Sonatas - Repin, Lugansky" will be released by Deutsche Grammophon on 1st October, 2010.

Violin Sonatas - Repin, Lugansky
1. Janácek: Sonata for Violin and Piano
2. Grieg: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, op.13
3. Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A

Vadim Repin, vn
Nikolai Lugansky, pf

More on Deutsche Grammonphon Catalogue

Vadim Repin premiers James MacMillan Concerto

Photos: VR by Olaf Heine, JM by Gautier Deblonde

James MacMillan's first full violin concerto for Vadim Repin is to be premiered by Repin and the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev at Barbican, London on 12th May, 2010. It was co-commissioned by LSO, Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam, Philadelphia Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.

MacMillan's new three movement concerto is imbued with the influence of Scottish traditional music as described by the composer: "Fiddle music has long been under my skin, and in writing a Violin Concerto it is inevitable that it would rise up to the surface. Its roots are in song and dance, and these most ancient modes of expression and storytelling are at the heart of my new work."

James MacMillan Violin Concerto World Premiere

12 May 2010 7:30 PM
Barbican Centre, London
Vadim Repin/London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev

MacMillan: Violin Concerto premiere with Vadim Repin
Programme Notes for James MacMillan Violin Concerto
Performances
Classic FM Interview about MacMillan VC
  Classic FM Arts Daily 12 May, 2010: James MacMillan
  Classic FM Arts Daily 13 May, 2010: Vadim Repin
Reviews of the premier on 12th:
  The Arts Desk
  The Independent
  Times Online
  Musical Criticism
 
 

Vadim Repin Takes Prestigious French Prize

Vadim Repin has won the most prestigious French music award 
 "Les Victoires de la Musique Classique (Victories in Classical Music)".
On 8th February, 2010 in Montpellier, Repin has been awarded
the highest nomination, Victoire d'Honneur (the Victory of Honour). Earlier among its winners were the singers Montserrat Caballé and Teresa Berganza, the pianist Evgeny Kissin, and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Montpellier, 8 Feb., 2010

Les Victoires de la Musique Classique

RT.com: Honorable Victory for Russian musician 

Russia-InfoCentre: Russian Violinist Vadim Repin Takes Prestigious French Prize