Album Notes

...Around the World with mysterious One Violin, crying to Creator and smiling to the World...

(Violinist Leib(Leonid)Levin and Friends in presentation of new recordings.)

"Leonid Levin is outstanding violinist"
(Harold Berlinger,Professor of Music NE IL University).

"Mr.Levin,s tone is sonorous...Bloch,s "Nigun" is an outburst of passionate lamentation. Mr. Levin clearly identified with its rhetorical style and Judaic idiom"
(New York Concert Review,April,2008)

Association of Jewish Libraries
NEWSLETTER
February/March 2008:

"... The violinist at the heart of this work, Leib Levin, shows tremendous understanding of Jew­ish music. There is no showiness here; the music takes center stage. The jazz arrangements achieve a perfect fusion, avoiding the awkwardness that so often accompanies at­tempts to inject jazz into Jewish music. ... The nigunim are played with a particular reverence and appreciation..."
Beth Dwoskin, Proquest Information and Learning, Ann Arbor,MI



Violinist Leonid Levin featured on recently released CD by American composer David Heckendorn with violin solo piece"Nostalgia"-dedicated by composer to Mr Levin. Mr Levin performed at UN,Carnegie Hall,around USA and Europe and toured with Erlc Clapton and Luther Vandross. He won a Siver Medal at Villa-Lobos International Violin Competition in Rio de Janeiro(Brazil).
Selected recordings of Award-winning violinist Leonid Levin: From Solo to Jazz Quartet, From Classics to Pops plus original composition by Leonid Levin:
samba"Obrigado,Rio!"(top download at iTunes)