Leonidas Kavakos on his 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius

[@MD-zm6sn]

I’m 5 days into learning about violin but I admire this guy and his knowledge and ability.

[@pecator70]

Thank you for your amazing and beautiful story wich reflexes the love for this particular violin...but I can tell you it was mutual: the violin was looking for you too...and found you back...after 25 years! Wow!

[@ballerine1]

Such an amazing story. Thanks for sharing it, and being the great inspiration you are!

[@TristenDurocher]

Beautiful instrument.

[@violinvirtuose8531]

The best violinist!!!

[@Francescomedardo]

There you are again...best violinist No 25...

[@weijiang4626]

I still can see some of old repaired cracks on the Violin's table.....

[@Anastasia-Mak-MAk]

Leonidas Kavakos bright personality, fantastic violinist and my compatriot, whom I am very proud of. Your creativity is unique. What a pleasure to revel filigree playing the violin the ingenious artist, the violin in your hands inspires and admires millions of fans.Your exquisite, masterful style of tremolo in all compositions is unrivaled. We love you for your unrivaled talent and effulgent soul. All of Greece is proud of You.

[@georgesotiriou7051]

I prefer Vissi and Remos. Much more substance.

[@HenJack-vl5cb]

Loving your channel,but the sound volume particularly here is somewhat low.

[@CzechPhilharmonicOfficial]

Thank you, we will make sure to double check the audio level next time.

[@weijiang4626]

I can see few fixed cracks on the top table at F hole area, it is a pity about it.

[@JPizzle1490]

On the one hand, I totally understand and appreciate what Kavakos is saying about the prophetic quality of old instruments, but at the same time, the degree which these instruments have to be tampered with to get the kind of projection they have amounts to turning them into kind of Frankenstein monster violins.

[@palladin331]

Nonsense. Nearly all of the old fiddles have been set up to the same modern standards since the mid-19th century. There are literally tens of thousands of great sounding old violins. They are not composites nor have they been re-designed, and therefore they are not Frankenstein monsters. New violins are being made to the same standards to great success.

[@aminghanbari6601]

Best

[@josefgajda2062]

Stradivarius violins were very favorite even if they were new. That was the reason why Stradivarius was very rich man.

[@goddessfrost2668]

🎶♥🎶

[@rlkinnard]

Incredible violinist. There are famous old violinists, and I think that the current crop is just as good. Ditto with the violins - and that has been proven by blinded experiments.

[@laikeatlim8261]

Interesting.

[@gabriel-ke6nk]

Do you use a combination of strings? if anyone knows can you please tell me

[@jbguadaplayer]

Before I watched this video I watched a video with Tetzlaff arguing that a modern violin like his Greiner is as good as any Stradivarius or Guarnerius. Here Kavakos says that when Stradivarius violins were new, the vioiins musicians preferred were the Amati violins that had already been played on for about a hundred years. In my opnion Kavakos is right.

[@csar1523]

jbguadaplayer myth, I played 3 Strads, 1 Guarneri and several new instruments, and I prefer the new over the old

[@NathanielRobinson]

jbguadaplayer I agree. Sure there are nice modern instruments with lots of power, but the best Stradivaris or Guadagninis also have all these colors and flavors that are unique. It’s kind of like comparing the pack of crayons with 12 colors to the pack with 36 colors.

[@nickiemcnichols5397]

@@NathanielRobinson I’m sorry my comment is so late, but I just found this. Do you think that the old violins sound so good because they were played for so many hours by masters?

[@thomas_the_cat]

just curious... how does these soloists actually afford a 10 million dollar violin? sometimes even so early on their careers... are most of them simply just rich to begin with? getting sponsored? or their gigs pay really well?

[@kinoko1516]

Oftentimes they are donated

[@telebtw5697]

A lot of times they do kind of a loaning thing. If an owner finds an amazing player they will loan it to them for their natural plying career. Then they will find another player. Then the cycle continues.

[@vvreno]

For Maxim Vengerov, he purchased his Stradivarius with the assistance of Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina, who paid half the cost of the violin.

[@rlkinnard]

Loaning - Hillary Hahn uses a 19th century violin that is a copy of the famous Il Canone

[@italianbirdvideos6190]

volume...

[@charlesxavier6663]

I have a Chinese strad bought off ebay.

[@schubiduba1]

Its well known that stradivarius had a team which worked for him ;)

[@tarisiosfever350]

Surely Bergonzi helped.

[@nickfaiella9164]

cant hear anything

[@mtv565]

No violin playing? I don’t want to hear him talk and talk!

[@michaelsoza4183]

Politicaly he is a reactionary in Greece , so a poor mind whatever .