![]() ![]() The poor old Melbourners are relegated to a much smaller font and a colour that nearly merges into the picture around it. No dounting the album is introduing Christian Li, whose name is markedly larger than Vivaldi's. ![]() It is perhaps telling to just check out the font sizes on that cover. In 2014 he won First Prize in the "Golden Beijing" violin competition in China and in 2013, aged just five, Christian was chosen for a TV commercial in China that features him playing the violin. He also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York in the American Protégé Showcase 10th Anniversary concert. His success has been phenomenal: at the age of nine, Li won First Prize in the violin category of the Young Artist Semper Music International Competition in Italy and gave many solo and chamber music performances as part of the Semper Music International Festival and Summer Academy. In addition, Li directs the Melbourne orchestra (he was born in that city in 2007). With the excellent Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and a continuo section that includes an additional lute, this is an eminently worthwhile purchase. ![]() There is indeed a remarkable maturity here: and Li plays on he 1737 ‘Paulsen’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ with a François Peccatte bow. When he was 10, Li played "Summer" at the Menuhin Competition, which he won. What were you doing at 13? Like myself, not recording a major piece for a major global label, probably. Vivaldi's sequence of four concertos for violin and orchestra, the so-called "Four Seasons," have over the years acted as a magnet for the great and the good, and many more besides.Ĭhristian Li is a mere 13 years old.
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