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This is about an Asian violinist.

It says, "Mi-Sa Yang and Jonas Vitaud have hopped over Mozart’s childhood piano and violin sonatas and gone straight for the gold in this four-strong programme: a pair each from the 1778 (K304 and 306) and 1781 (K379 and 380) sets, published respectively in Paris and Vienna just before and just after his final resignation from Archbishop Colloredo’s straitjacketing court life. The first thing to hit your ears in the opening K379 is the delectable combination of timbres from Yang and Vitaud’s modern instruments. Softly sparkling, delicately jewel-like from Vitaud, drawing all the plus points and none of the negatives of employing a modern concert grand in this repertoire. Then Yang sounding darkly stringy and lean, vibrato used sparingly. Indeed, ‘less is more’ is the order of the day here. Beautifully so too, although for some it might be a little too … little. Take the variations of K379 where, by and large, their approach to the repeats is simply to add ornamentation (and Yang’s ornaments in the first half of Var 3 are really delectable). Then compare it to the subtle colouristic and articulational contrasts of Petra Müllejans and Kristian Bezuidenhout (Harmonia Mundi, 6/09), or the even more pronounced shifts – portamentos even – to be heard from Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim (DG). Likewise compare the gentle shift of mood in Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov’s K304 Allegro first-half repeat (Harmonia Mundi, 11/18) to the pretty much verbatim one of Yang and Vitaud."

They are trying to go back in time and downsize people's popularity by attacking them in the cradle.  It's probably a "no" to me, for good, not like, "They said no, now we can say they were wrong."  Maybe, "Christina is okay, but these people are better," and I actually meant the people responsible for the ideas/inspiration of this blog post.  People keep thinking they can jog the past, (must be Democratic...)

Edit: I mainly posted this because I found they mentioned a violinist I like who is not famous and at least one other famous person who I haven't seen featured like this at random.  It's as though, it were everyday mentions.  I think Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn are more famous but not usually mentioned.  Yo Yo Ma seems to come up with most reports.  Oh, and one more violinist who has been involved with people the violinist I noticed works with.