Category Archives: Recordings and CD Releases

This DVD is all about interpretations of familiar violin repertoire. I have played these pieces more than a dozen times and have chosen new approaches and interpretations from previous performances. It is a major advantage to me to get familiarized with these pieces for many years, so my knowledge and insight to these masterpieces grows […]

I’m happy to announce another upcoming release – however, instead of a CD or song download, this time it’s a full-length DVD that I’m releasing. The title is Mischa Lefkowitz Violinist – Live In Concert and it features recent performances of some of my favorite pieces to play on the violin. Itcomes out on AUG […]

I guess you could say I’ve been busy I have news of one more upcoming recording release to share with everyone. Along with guitarist Greg Nestor, I’ve recorded Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 5 and 6 and will be releasing it for download on August 1, 2013. Most people know at least one of these […]

Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances I have another upcoming recording release to share with everyone – along with pianist and USC Thornton Opera Music Director Brent McMunn, I recently recorded Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances – a suite of six short pieces for violin and piano composed in 1915. The recording will be released on July […]

I have recorded Sarasate‘s Introduction and Tarantella with the London Philharmonic at the All Saints Church in Tooting, United Kingdom. The church temperature was very cold and the musicians of the woodwind section were wearing overcoats. My fingers were helped by the cold conditions, so I happened to play very fast in a natural way. Sarasate’s Introduction […]

Bolling Gavotte and Ragtime are from Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio. Claude Bolling, a native of Cannes, France, was a jazz piano prodigy and acquired most of his musical education by listening to recordings. Duke Ellington was his model as a performer. Bolling was also a prolific film composer, having written the music for […]