Violin Concertos

"Gringolts combines virtuosic energy with security of tone...Gringolts keeps his cool while indulging the work's Romantic warmth and passion. (The Shostakovich) is a gripping performance from beginning to end."
***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine Sept 2002

This is the debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon of this talented winner of the 1998 International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini" - he's the youngest finalist and was cited as the best interpreter of Paganini's Caprices.

Gringolts has studied under Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard in New York.

At the beginning of 2002 Gringolts had a celebrated debut at Wigmore Hall and he makes his Proms debut on 3 August 2002.

Gringolts performed on 28 October 2001 at the "Ground Zero" Family Memorial (sharing the bill with Andrea Bocelli, Renée Fleming, and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber) televised to an international audience.

lya Gringolts's debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon of the famous and popular Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Itzhak Perlman, is an intelligent, contrasting, yet attractive coupling of two Russian works from the 19th and 20th century. As Ilya describes them:
"Tchaikovsky is a romantic hymn from the age of innocence, with many beautiful melodies. The Shostakovich is an expression of pain and solitude, of torments of the soul".

Ilya has an original way of playing these divergent Russian moods and his interpretation is very special. Itzhak Perlman calls him "a wonderful young artist whose gift combines musical intellect with technical wizardry".