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Igudesman & Joo playing at Carnegie Hall April 17th, 2012

Apr 05, 2012 -

My brilliant friends, the hilarious Igudesman and Joo, will be performing their hit show "A Little Nightmare Music" at Carnegie Hall, on April 17.

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LIVE webcast with the DSO and Leonard Slatkin on Feb. 10!

Feb 01, 2012 - Tune in to www.dso.org/live on Friday, February 10 at 10:45am (4:45pm - European time) for a free live webcast of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Julian Rachlin playing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1. Short interview to follow at intermission.

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Debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst

Jan 09, 2012 - This week, Julian debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra led by Franz Welser-Möst with the Brahms Violin Concerto.

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Gramophone selects Rachlin’s recital as “Highlight of 2011”

Jan 01, 2012 - In its January 2012 edition, the Gramophone Magazine selects Rachlin’s recital with Itamar Golan at the Beethovenfest in Bonn as Highlight of 2011. They played the complete Beethoven Sonatas cycle. The article can be viewed here.

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Celebrating the Israel Philharmonic’s 75th anniversary

Dec 24, 2011 - Julian participated in a gala concert in honor of the Israel Philharmonic’s 75th anniversary, playing Saint-Saens’ Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Watch the TV production of EuroArts Music & WDR in association with Arte here.

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Rachlin opens the Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 season

Oct 15, 2011 - Together with Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit, Julian Rachlin successfully opens the Philadelphia Orchestra subscription season at the Kimmel Center with the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

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In-depth look into Julian Rachlin

Oct 12, 2011 - "When I had the pleasure of hearing the young violinist Julian Rachlin performing live and seeing him in action at this year’s summer festival at Verbier, it was clear that this performer had something more to offer than a beautiful tone-palette on the violin..."

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Rachlin plays with Filarmonica della Scala and Harding

Sept 11, 2011 - Concert in commemoration of the victims of the September 11 attacks in New York. The recording of this concert will be available soon in the Audio section of the Julian Rachlin website.

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Closing night - cherry on the top!

Sept 09, 2011 -

The 11th Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival closed with a delightful program called Humoresque. The audience rose to their feet and cheered in joy to congratulate this splendid performance! The moral of the evening was – Laughter brings us together!

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MusicalAmerica.com praises Rachlin and Friends Festival

Sept 08, 2011 - Alexandra Ivanoff describes the festival, its guest artists and the world premiere of Dubugnon’s “Violiana”.

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“Rachlin and Friends” festival begins in Dubrovnik

Aug 27, 2011 - The 11th annual chamber music festival "Julian Rachlin and Friends" began in the southern Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik on Saturday.

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Julian opens for FC Barcelona in front of 35,000

July 23, 2011 - Rachlin performs before a crowd of 35,000 in Hajduk Split, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the football club as they played against FC Barcelona. Watch the video here.

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Interview with Rachlin ahead of concert with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

July 06, 2011 - His concert in Bodrum, with the acclaimed British orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, is titled "The Seasons," which puts together Vivaldi's famous Baroque-era suite, "The Four Seasons," with that of Astor Piazzolla's 20th century suite, "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires".

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New Penderecki Concerto for Rachlin

Apr 04, 2011 - Krzysztof Penderecki is writing a Double Concerto for Julian to be premiered in 2012 at the Vienna Musikverein with Janine Jansen and Mariss Jansons.

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Julian Rachlin appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Jan 26, 2010 - Julian Rachlin has been contributing to UNICEF activities for years. Giving his time and energy, he has proved his commitment to UNICEF and his willingness to continue this mercy mission”, says J. Majauskaite, Executive Director of the UNICEF National Committee in Lithuania.

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Reviews

Vienna Konzerthaus, Rotterdam Philharmonic & Nézet-Séguin

Mar 26, 2012 - "... Rachlin thrilled the audience…stupendous technical ability, brilliant sound quality…exquisite musician …"

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Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig with Josep Pons

Mar 24, 2012 - "...a soloist who sings and bubbles with enthusiasm on his Stradivarius…"

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"...Rachlin gave a blistering, virtuoso account of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1…"

Feb 11, 2012 - "...Rachlin gave a blistering, virtuoso account of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1…"

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Stravinsky with the Halle Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder

Nov 18, 2011 - "...huge character and impressive technique... great beauty from the solo line… richly-deserved warm reception."

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Krzystof Penderecki, a giant

Oct 20, 2011 - "...the young violinist knows this concerto intimately and freely displays his tremendous qualities as virtuoso and musician - full and sensual tones, perfect pitch, total commitment..."

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Rachlin, Dutoit open the Philadelphia Orchestra season

Oct 15, 2011 - "The orchestra's playing was excellent and guest violinist Julian Rachlin went beyond even that… the first movement alone made the concert a reference point in one's history with the piece"

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Rachlin leads the Camerata Salzburg

Sept 24, 2011 - "Rachlin, an excellent instrumentalist with a powerful, confident and glowing gold-threaded yet always elegant sound…"

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Sibelius with Filarmonica della Scala and Harding

Sept 15, 2011 - "…That is the particular forte of the 36 year old Lithuanian: he doesn't just stand stiffly and play, but brings forth the highs and lows of the rapid changes and the highly sophisticated accompaniment with dynamic passion…"

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The 66th Prague Spring International Music Festival

May 17, 2011 - “In the music of Brahms, he convinced us that he can play the viola just as well as he had played Mozart on the violin beforehand.”

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Beethoven Violin Concerto with Israel Philharmonic

Apr 11, 2011 - “His approach to this well-known work was entirely fresh, with nothing routine about it – novel without any attempt at being artificially or deliberately ordinal, and thus thoroughly enchanting”

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Sibelius with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Bringuier

May 29, 2010 - "There was a mind at work here, also an artist and impeccable technician. He knew when to deliberate, when to orate, when to give it the gas and have some fun."

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Germany Tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Jan 24, 2008 - "Seldom at a classical concert, where a polite ‘Bravo’ is more the rule, does one hear an audience stamping with sheer enthusiasm".

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Featured Article

Rachlin opens the Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 season

15 October 2011

Philadelphia Orchestra shines in season's second concert

By David Patrick Stearns
Inquirer Classical Music Critic

Let's not be too concerned that listeners seemed to stay away in droves from the Thursday concert/gala opening of the Philadelphia Orchestra's 112th season.

Such events are crucial for fund-raising and community visibility, but the real opening was the Prokofiev/Sibelius/Beethoven program Friday afternoon at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, which was three-quarters full and populated by listeners inclined to give the orchestra a whooping, hollering hero's welcome.

The orchestra's playing was excellent and guest violinist Julian Rachlin went beyond even that. But one's ears couldn't escape the circumstances. You listened in the spirit of a war veteran at a peace treaty. Any serious music lover has felt the agony of the orchestra's bankruptcy and the Kimmel Center's labor issues. In that light, the orchestra emerged as a collection of individuals more than a monolithic purveyor of the Philadelphia sound.

Incidental solos in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 felt like old friends saying "hello." Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 ("Classical"), the one holdover from the Thursday opening, was brimming with witty details popping out of the orchestra's side doors. The kind of precise, subtle sound imagination that chief conductor Charles Dutoit brought to the Sibelius Violin Concerto is what really makes the orchestra world class, and what left Europe wowed in the summer festivals tour.

Many play Sibelius with the smoothness of an ice cap viewed from afar. But in real life, such terrain is craggy and primal, which was the Rachlin/Dutoit view. The opening seconds felt hushed, distant, and incredibly mysterious. Rachlin used almost no vibrato, as if to suggest a folk fiddler lost in the tundra.

He could be accused of splintering many of his phrases, but the music can take it and it wasn't just a matter of parceling out the notes in unconventional ways. Every musical paragraph had its own coloring. Every melodic permutation had its own kind of internal obstacles. No other live performance I've heard was so personal and original - at least in the first movement. Though the second and third movements didn't maintain that pitch of inspiration, the first movement alone made the concert a reference point in one's history with the piece.