第一号随想曲的连跳弓像暴风骤雨一般奏响的时候，我倒抽一口冷气。Markov的眼神其实远没有封面上的那么温情，和音乐一样冷。他的血是冷的，他的琴是冷的，听音乐的这孙子冻上了……
尤其是，你能想象吗，这是一场音乐会的录像，音乐会的曲目安排很简单，帕格尼尼随想曲1-24。疯子。和一位会弹钢琴的姐姐聊，你能一口气把肖邦练习曲都弹完吗，不能，何况你还是坐着，人家可是站着。我能一口气把刘天华的10首曲子都拉一遍吗？不能，我还差两首没学过……
更要命的是，Markov绝对不是仅仅把这些曲子拉一遍而已。这是我听到过的最疯狂的演奏。第五号随想曲的分弓全被他改成了跳弓，马尾在钢丝弦上飞速运转。在最著名的24号随想曲里他已经完全疯狂了，用一种令人眼花缭乱匪夷所思的方式让小提琴发出了仿佛是地球上从未出现过的声音。我能理解在拨弦之后观众席上爆发出的如雷掌声，尽管那个时候曲子还没结束。如果我在现场，我一定会站起来大声喝彩。Bravo！
Alexander Markov (January 24, 1963) is a Russian American violinist who has received awards from the Paganini International Violin Competition (gold medal) and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is known for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin. A film of Markov playing the Caprices was directed by Bruno Monsaingeon.
Alexander Markov was born in Moscow and studied violin with his father, concert violinist Albert Markov. By the time he was eight years old, he was appearing as a soloist with orchestras and performing double concertos with his father. At the age of fourteen, Alexander Markov received a personal invitation from Jascha Heifetz to study with him. Markov emigrated to the U.S. with his parents and received his United States citizenship in 1982. He made his New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall and appeared with Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall.
Markov has recorded for the Erato label, distributed world-wide by Warner Classics. His reseases have included the Tchaikovsky pieces for violin and piano. He has performed with Charles Dutoit, Ivan Fischer, Neeme Jarvi, Zdenek Macal, Lorin Maazel, and Gerard Schwarz. He has performed with the orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, the BBC Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Seattle Symphony and Houston, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Jerusalem orchestras.
Yehudi Menuhin has written "He is without doubt one of the most brilliant and musical of violinists…Alexander Markov will certainly leave his mark on the music-lovers of the world and in the annals of the violin virtuosi of our day".
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