Mikhail Pochekin is one of the most captivating violinists of his
generation. He appears with many renowned orchestras including the
Mariinsky Theater Symphony, the Russian National Orchestra, the Basel
Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the State Academic Symphony
Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, the Tatarstan National Symphony
Orchestra or the Lithuanian National Orchestra and worked together with
conductors such as Heinz Holliger, Vassily Sinaisky, Yuri Simonov,
Kevin Griffiths, Valentin Uryupin, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Dimitris
Botinis, Mei-Ann Chen or Alexander Sladkovsky.
“Pure and penetrating” was the violin playing of Johann Sebastian Bach according to the tradition of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel: “He
fully understood the possibilities of all violin instruments. This is
testified by his soli for violin and cello without bass. One of the
greatest violinists once told me that he had seen nothing more perfect
to become a good violinist and he could advise nothing better than the
violin soli without bass mentioned above.” When Carl Philipp Emanuel
addressed these words in a letter to the musicologist and early Bach
biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel in 1774, Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas
for Solo Violin were known to a still manageable, albeit growing circle
of enthusiasts.
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