Galina barinova violin biography of barack
Barinova, Galina [ru], Galina Vsevolodovna Barinova, /10/7, Saint /12/05, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, US, living, American, Performs as soloist /.!
Violinist Volodja Balzalorsky born on 31 January in Kranj, Slovenia, is regarded as one of Slovenia's most distinguished musical personalities.
This is an unexpected pleasure. Barinova, now little remembered, was one of the Soviet Union�s star fiddlers. Born in 1910 in St Petersburg she studied with Paul Kochanski amongst others, though later gravitated to Thibaud in Paris, Carl Flesch - in the notes spelt �Flesh� - having left for America and being thus unavailable.
At the age of twenty-seven she took third place in the All-Soviet Union violin competition but it was in the post-War years that her career took off. Henry Roth has some sour things to say about her in his book on violinists, barely bothering to hide his feeling that it was some kind of political pressure and not her innate talent that led to her ascent of what was the toughest violin ladder in the world.
He seems only to have had access to one of her recordings and to have made his prognosis on limited audition, though I have to add that having listened to seventy minutes of her playing, captured over a twenty-year period, I have to agree with most of his com