This must be one of the most commonly performed concertos of the violin repertoire. Even though I have heard this Concerto performed countless times, I had never heard this artist play. My overall impression of his performance was nothing short than exciting and intriguing. Some of the techniques and musicality choices Teslov chose amazed me and contradicted some of the principal aspects of solo playing. What I mean by this, is when one is playing with a full symphonic Orchestra the soloist needs to play as loud as he or she can to cut through the heavy textures of the orchestra. So for example a passage that the soloist is playing is marked piano (softly) the soloist actually never comes down quite to the dynamic of piano, but rather is playing a dynamic of mezzo forte (medium loudness). In Teslov's playing his dynamic range was incredible, his loud parts of the Concerto were quite loud but the soft parts of the Concerto Teslov played them so softly that you could barely hear him. In my opinion this had a great effect on the performance, because when you play loud in certain sections and play extremely softly in other sections were dynamic range is quite large.. The effect of Christian Teslov's performance had me sitting on my edge of my seat straining to hear his notes in his soft passages. In my opinion this had a tremendous effect on the piece, and really engaged the listener through the whole Concerto.