Sorry, I didn't reply to you sooner. XD
Been caught up in the SD lately, as have you I see.

Anyway, violinists.
I'm not familiar with the playing styles of all those guys, per say. But there's a really amazing recording I heard of Tchaik piano trio with Kogan, Guteman, and Richter. Kogan's sound is just ****ing amazing. Really fine player. Old Russian school I would assume is his background. Yea, I'm a sucker for the ol' russian school players. Kogan is just brilliant.

Oh, jeez. I don't know if I have a favorite. :x

I guess I tend to judge violininsts on a case by case basis, but some of my personal favorites are David Oistrakh, Michael Rabin, Leonid Kogan, Izthak Perlman, and of course Nathan Milstein, Henryk Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin.

In my view they're all great in their own ways, and on pieces by certain composers some seem to excel where others would not. Milstein is godly when he's playing Bach and Paganini, but he really wouldn't be my first choice for a piece by Tchiakovsky or Brahms. That seems like it would be better suited to someone with more romantic flair, like Heifetz.

So I guess it's all really subjective to me.

Menuhin plays Paganini Concerto No 1. Those double stopped moveable harmonics! I'm going to need a defibrillator. :O

I've been listening to Emerson's version of the Beethoven string quartets lately.
Dude, Op. 131 is so amazing. also, op. 132 second movement is really really nice. Just thought I'd share.
So who's your ultimate favorite violinist of all-time these days? Like the one who's sound you keep coming back to?
On cello it would have to be Heinrich Schiff for me. He's a bad-Azz.

I'll be a senior in performance. I'm at a conservatory in Kansas City. It's not too-bad of a school. Some of the professor and other students are quite amazing. the others...meh....

Yup. Next year I'll be a Sophmore in Performance. How about you?

Ah nice. I'm a cellist 12 years. You go to school for violin?

You bet. Violinist, 12 years.

hello hello. Are you a classical musician by chance?