Then a shoulder injury sidelined him, it was thought, permanently, and he began reinventing himself as a teacher and conductor. On Friday night, he took the stage at Strathmore with the pianist Roustem Saitkulov, looking stockier and more staid, and more conventional in his presentation. If the Brahms was the meat of the program, the Ravel was, to me, its wondrous delight. Maxim Vengerov took the stage at Strathmore on Friday night. The Paganini “Cantabile” was a lyrical wonder; “I Palpiti,” the final piece on the official program, took the violin into the realm of bel canto opera with Paganini’s reworking of a Rossini aria, as arranged by Fritz Kreisler.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2018 21:20 UTC