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Kolja Blacher
Kolja Blacher is a German violin player. He plays the 1730 "Tritton" Stradivarius. Aged 15, Blacher won the Jugend musiziert competition and studied violin with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard in New York City. He then continued his studies with Sándor Végh. He was first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado from 1993 to 1999, and later at the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Blacher performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Kitayenko, Mariss Jansons, Matthias Pintscher, Markus Stenz. Kolja Blacher was born in Berlin, the son of the composer Boris Blacher and Gerty Blacher-Herzog; his sister is the actress Tatjana Blacher. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolja_Blacher) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

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Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8: I. Allegro con fuoco
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Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio
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Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro
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Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro
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Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: III. Allegro assai

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Bach For Inspiration

Album2021
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Beethoven and Eichberg

Album2018
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 & Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2

Album2015
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Chamber Music by Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Prokofiev

Album2018
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Dmitri Shostakovich

Album2018
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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9, "Kreutzer" - Eichberg: Endorphin

Album2012
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Partiten für Violine solo Nos. 2 & 3 (Mit Texten von Andreas Gryphius, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau und Paul Fleming)

Album2018
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Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Op. 33, FS 61

Album2016
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Stravinsky: Die Geschichte vom Soldaten (German Version)

Album2018
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Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 & Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Album2015

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SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445-1510) Italian Renaissance artist ✽ Bach / Violin Concerto

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F. Chopin: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8 - III. Adagio sostenuto

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Haydn Symphony nº 33 Hob. I:22 "Der Philosoph". 4th movement: Finale: Presto

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