Unfortunately the begining was destroyed with that sensationalist wind effect. This walking thing is useless too. Comone! Bach's music was interpreted by one of the greatest violin artist. It can't be boost with idiotic visual effects. Anyway I l'm listening this with closed eyes.
@zottypotty1 I agree to a certain extent with what you're saying but in the case of this exceptional documentary the focus was twofold. 1) to hear the music's expressivity 2) to literally relate it to the holocaust situation, this film was bout both the sonic and the visual. the walking makes a lot more sense in these contexts :)
Bach himself was emotional about his creations in such a manner that he wanted them to represent his deep belief in god and thus be as perfectly calculated and constructed as possible. So in a certain way Bach can be considered both an emotional and intellectual composer an the same time, breaking common classifications as usual.
I personally prefer the intellectual side of Bach - emotions turn people into irrational monsters, Auschwitz is the perfect example.
It's almost like somebody took a time machine and went with Bach and told him what was going to happen in his land and the world a few centuries after, and Bach had wept, and in that deep sorrow had written this Partita.
Such a fantastic violinist, probably the best of his generation! However it pains me to say that this is a really poor rendition of the Bach Chaconne. I just heard the Szeryng version (for the 2000th time) and then this. Quite a disappointment!!
@natavicto Shut up, this piece has a right to be analyzed with logic because Bach was an extremely logical composer, not a pseudo-emotional comoposer. Idiot.
dont rely on the score. you need to internalise this music to the point of living it. the pages of score in front of you are not bach, thats just locking you in. let go and let your memory of the music and emotion allow you to play
Can someone please tell me how this video gets only this many amount of views while Justin Bieber and his "music" get hunders of millions of views? You explain it to me, my friends...
Ich weiß nicht, was die Welt an ihm findet. Sein Spiel klingt wie ein Hahn kurz vor der Schlachtung, in meinen Augen wenig differenziert. So ist auch sein Dirigat - er hat nen Sinn für die großen Auftritte und Momente, aber an filigranen Partien scheitert er.
Of all the famous violinists, I believe that Vengerov is the most human. sure, Joshua Bell has star appeal and what not, but he just doesn't have same emotion and passion that Vengerov has. I've heard the many other interpretations of this very piece but this has be the best because of the emotion that is poured into it. I'm not saying that Bell, Perlman, Heifetz, or any othet violinist has no passion; it just seems that Vengerov shows more of it. That of course, makes vengerov more human.
@LRM491 I quite agree, I first saw him play Sibelius when he must have been no more than 20, and I remember thinking, thank God, someone in the present age who plays with the artistry and integrity of the past masters and rejoicing in the fact that the saviour of modern violin playing was now with us.
The individual going under the name of Mr.Wasbesonders has been cyberbullying me by attempting to threaten me. I have made a formal report to my local police department and I'm also seeking counsel with my local district attorney to determine what course of action would be best in this case.
Currently, I have contacted the you tube security department because an individual going under the name of a Mr. Wasbesonders contacted me again via email after I specifically emailed this person not too. I have both emails in my possession , I have been being harassed and threatened non-stop by this individual who has also been harassing my friend Maxim Vengerov non-stop by making untrue defamatory statements about him.
Fifty thousand to about sixty thousand dollars is alright for an beginning student violin that is just average at best. Normally, this kind of money will only buy a beginning student violin to a semi-professional level violin. Now if it was a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi Kreisler which possesses the rich singing tone of a Stradivari combined with the virile sonority of a Guineri then you are talking about a violin worthy of playing in concert at a pro level.
The 1727 Kreutzer” Stradivarius, which is currently played by Maxim Vengerov sold at Christies for a record breaking amount of $1,348,721.56. Still the 1727 Kreutzer Stradivarius is still far superior in many ways. The 1727 Kreutzer Stradivarius is a wise investment by an intelligent, wise, talented virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov who knows his violins.:)
@ewenstrom Still jealous of my success, wishing it was your success how sad you really are.I'm not impressed with you either,take your own advice and crawl back into the hole you came from. By the way, I also made some calls as well to my associates I work with.
@ewenstrom I'm not impressed with you either, no one has ever heard of you either, since you don't know my real name you never checked out my credentials. Wrong again about the tour group, they don't let tour groups sing at Carnegie Hall, therefore I wasn't a part of a tour group. Obviously, I did sing with a professional choir at Carnegie Hall because there is a video to prove that I did.Take your abusive fights elsewhere you are no one,further posts to you will be dismissed and not answered.
not impressed. You were part of a tour group. I checked your credentials and made some calls to some of the managment companies i work with. No one knows you.
Paganini 1388 Recently, I just debuted at Carnegie Hall and recieved a standing ovation with upcoming future opportunities as a professional classical singer-This is the end result when you apply yourself. When you don't you end up like you a bitter, spiteful, narcissistic, hateful venom spewing wanna be like you who can't seem to figure out how to get there and has to insult everyone to make themselves feel better.
Wasbesounders, you need to learn to handle your own problems and not involve other people in them such as you have tried to do to me. Do not contact ever again, I can't help you Future posts and emails from you Wasbesounders will be ignored and no further responses will be forthcoming.
@Firephenoix1 You need to learn to relax and chill out. I made one comment to you in jest, and then you send a private message to me threatening to hand me in to the Youtube authorities to try and get me banned from Youtube! You didn't even have the courage to print it here where everyone can see how unbelievably oversensitive and overreactive you are. If they ban me from Youtube it won't be cause of that comment! Other people have taken much worse with good grace it would seem! Lighten up!!
You, Mr. Wasbesounders must have made some half hearted attempt at trying to figure out classical music, when this failed you became bitter toward classical musicans like Maxim Vengerov who have spent years and years learning their craft and excelling at it, which is why you are so bitter, jealous and angry of Max's success.
Your recent email that you sent me about how jealous of Maxim Vengerov you truly are is a real joke and very sad. I can't help you with your jealousy of Max, it is an illness and a sad illness at that. A wise man once said that we can't all be successful in classical music, he is right, which is what leads me to believe as to why you Mr. Wasbesounders are so jealous of Maxim Vengerov.
Mr. Wasbesounders or whatever your name is, you must really have problems to be contacting a total stranger-me, crying in your recent email to me about how jealous of Maxim Vengerov you truly are. Wow, I have never met you, I don't know you from Adam and I don't wish too. I can't help you with your emotional jealousy toward Max, you need the help of a professional pyscharitist to help you deal with your emotional raging rants of jealousy against Maxim Vengerov.
@Firephenoix1 I have not contacted you by email. Have you ever considered taking up writing fairy tales? You have emailed me somewhat threateningly however, please see comment above, and that is not just addressed to you but to anyone else that is reading this. I have never emailed you, please do not email me again or it will be I that will be informing the "Youtube Police" of you!!!
This video brought tears to my eyes. Half my family is Jewish, so whenever I watch this video or hear Bach's Chaconne I think of my family. There aren't enough words to describe how beautiful this was. Wow... Just, wow...
It sent shivers and got me goosebumps. It's so sad when this piece is played by a master fiddler such as Maxim Vangerov and at the same time dedicated to the memorial of the victims in Auschwitz. So touching!
Die Chaconne ist natürlich fantastisch, und ausgezeichnet gespielt, ohne Frage.
Und das der Holocaust eine gewaltige Katastrophe war steht nicht zur Diskussion.
Aber diese Aufnahme mit diesen unangenehmen Geräuschen und dem übertrieben mahnend schreitenden Geiger entbehrt jeglicher Subtilitätund Geschmack und ist schlicht ein Emo-Holzhammer der uns wieder entmündigen soll, dass wir bereits Trauer geleistet haben, weil wir bei diesem kalkuliertem Effekt heulen.
@WhiteTubeGallery ich trau mich zu wetten,dass du auf deiner geige nichts drauf hast und dieses lied nichteinmal ansatzweise spielen kannst. ps.: wenn du glaubst du wirkst intelligent wenn du viele komplexe wörter benützt, dann muss ich dich leider enttäuschen...es wirkt einfach "aus zwang will intelligent sein"... ein guter redner drückt sich einfach und deutlich aus ,oder liest du keine bücher? groß-klein-schreibung ist im inet nicht nötig. lg
es geht nicht um mich, der gar nicht Geige spielen kann und den seine Wirkung hier gar nicht interessiert. Auch um die tadellose Interpretation dieses Stückes durch Maxim Vengerov geht es nicht.
Sondern ich kritisiere diese erniedrigende Verquickung von großartiger und emotional bewegender Musik und der Tragik dieser historischen Katastrophe.
Die Chaconne ist kein Soundtrack zum Holocaust und der Holocaust nicht die Kulisse für die Chaconne. Das Video ist daneben.
I almost burst in tears with this lame audio video, imgine listening to this live. I'd probably not be able to handle this being played in front of me. Bravo, Maxim. Bravo.
Ein Gedenken an das Schlimmste, was Deuschland der Menschheit angetan hat untermalt von der schönsten Musik, die in diesem Land komponiert worden ist, ein größerer Gegensatz ist künstlerisch wohl kaum darstellbar. Das erste Mal als ich die Chaconne vor vielen Jahren gehört habe, konnte ich vor Ehrfurcht kaum atmen. Hier kommen einem die Tränen, da das Leid der Shoah beinahe fassbar wird. Für mich aber auch eine große Hoffnung, dass das Humane letztendlich stärker ist als die Grausamkeit.
On peut trouver cela indécent, exhibitionniste; ou inversement parfaitement opportun. A bien y réfléchir, je me range à la 2ème voie. La musique de Bach honore les victimes. Elle dit aussi leur agonie. Et lorsque Heifetz, Pehrlman, Giltis, etc. jouent cette même oeuvre, c'est l'humanité qui a gagné contre la mort et la barbarie nazie. Faire retentir dans ces baraques non plus les cris, les larmes, mais l'écho de leurs voix qui ne s'éteindront jamais. Avec Bach.
it is maxim vengereov... he makes it sound the way it does on porpose... NO aruguement about that... he plays the violin as if he invented the darn thing himself
'crude' - yes the quality is a little fuzzy, but the imperfections in my view make it that much more emotive. I like the sound of him walking through the snow.
I don't think it's the quality of the performance as much it is the significance of where it is. Probably not his finest work, one should take into account that he's not in a studio or on stage. He's walking through a prison in freezing weather in Germany. If you listen to his interview, he describes how painful it was to play in the weather.
Awesome vid. Its funny how some people have nothing better to do with their lives but sit on YouTube and brag about their hyper 'sensitive' on sensitive matter such as the holocaust and then write a thesis on the distance between tones. Come on ... Get a life. If you're so good, go and do something useful in your life!
@paganini1388 Same to you, usually I like violinist who have done their work and not people like yourself who play at attempting to make a sloppy effort and don't ever work at it. You still need about twenty years of hard work in order to be ready to perform with a local orchestra. You will never be as good as Vengerov, Perelman or Bell because you have sat on your laurels and allowed your jealousy of Venergov to cost you a career as a violinist.
@paganini1388 There is no room of a bitter individual like yourself in classical music who won't do the work and has the ego to boot. If you ever expect to even come close to the greats, get your head out of the clouds, work on your repertoire and if you are so depressed that you have to be so bitter in life then suck it up and prove you're capable of doing the work or don't bother.
@Firephenoix1 Actually, I have the unique ability to hear AND see bullshit. I can see why a vocalist would credit themselves with an incredible hearing capacity, however, vocalists aren't that good at understanding strings! Sorry to say, but even bad violinists such as myself know the difference between mental case and true musician. I knew a kid just like you with the same sense of perfection at school once...he had a restraining order and was asked to leave the school. He was a vocalist too.
@paganini1388 Oh Man, I like that!! That is SO funny!! By the way, just checked out one of your vids, nice playing of Tchike first mvt, cool. Reckon that Firephenoix1 who despite being an expert thinks THIS piece here is a concerto would probably think it was from Tchaikowsky's solo sonatas and partitas!! Oh and you are NOT a bad violinist, so there. You really nailed that A up the g string better than some pros, lush!
@paganini1388 In response to your answer, not only am I a vocalist but I also study violin as well, so that dispels your Swiss cheese theory about my not being good at understanding strings. You don't need to insult yourself like that by calling yourself a mental case. Yes alright you had a mental break down which caused you to have a restraining order placed against you and you were asked to leave your school.
@paganini1388 Even though you admit that you are a bad violinist maybe if you concern yourself with your repertoire, apply yourself and stop being so jealous of myself and Maxim Vengerov who knows maybe someday you might actually be able to play violin with a real orchestra.
By the way, what is the biggest event you have ever played violin at?
@dutchgoing I mean they seem to like his interpretation. I favor many of the old violinists that sounds far more superior than this guy. To me his interpretation of Bach Chaconne is terrible, and i dont like that he made a violin moving around.
@dutchgoing It is vulgar thats why and people like it just cos it is Vengerov and cos they get understandably emotional over the subject matter. It is a stupid piece to have picked, the chaconne will never be the same again for me as I will now associate it with the Holocaust. Maybe some Jewish folk music would have been more appropriated or a viola piece by Bloch on a viola would have been more fitting example. Or Schindlers List, or Achron Hebrew melody, or Bloch Nigun etc. praps a compilation
@mrwasbesonders A combination of public opinion & good taste is certainly not vulgar. Schindlers list (the film) was one squandered opportunity, a very dull film indeed. The fact is you weren't asked to make a selection & one could say that your educated taste is as of the same value as somebody who likes music because of the way it sounds. I thought this music was liberating.
@dutchgoing I meant his playing of it is vulgar. As is so much of what he does. Like the ridiculous faces he pulls to try and prove he is feeling the music. And as for Schindler's list, I disagree, great film, great soundtrack. And Perlman's playing on it in a different league to this butchered Chaconne.
@mrwasbesonders That's true, he does play the pop star a bit. Stanley Kubrick researched a 'Schindler's List' film in the 1980s, would have been a superb movie. Spielberg is talented but this film was wrong for him, very very dull and much too long.
@dutchgoing Yes, you definitely have a point. It was a bit long, guess I was more moved by the subject matter and the quality of Perlman's playing rather than how good the film was. I was also moved by the scene where Schlindler was being thanked by those he saved and yet he was crying as to whether he could have done more. Pacing of films is always an issue but I felt at the time it was a job well done.
@dutchgoing It is vulgar thats why and people like it just cos it is Vengerov and cos they get understandably emotional over the subject matter. It is a stupid piece to have picked, the chaconne will never be the same again for me as I will now associate it with the Holocaust. Maybe some Jewish folk music would have been more appropriate or a viola piece by Bloch on a viola would have been more fitting example. Or Schindlers List, or Achron Hebrew melody, or Bloch Nigun etc. praps a compilation
This interpretation is truly remarkable and fitting tribute to the innocent who were killed in the holocaust... It's almost impossible to listen to this without crying! I love the color of his sound and the emotion in his playing.
@musicalix they recorded it in sections so he wouldn't freeze to death outside. then they put the video together.
What I really find amazing in this video, is how Mr Vengerov at minute 4:30 changed his clothes, put on a coat and mittens, to emerge 30 seconds later to the outdors and without missing a single note!! Amazing!!
@TheBeethovenlove.. Because of Vengerov's skilled violin bowing and fingering techniques which produces perfect placement of multiple individual semi-tones with multiple whole tones along with perfect timing, this is how I know that he possesses perfect pitch and how I also know that this concerto is perfect as it is performed by Vengerov.
@Firephenoix1 In response to your essay, even those without hyper hearing as you call it can still detect anomalies by listening for dissonance of the chord as a whole.
@TheBeethovenlove To an extent in a general sense hypothetically if the dissonance where to be very apparent which is the norm for inexperienced students of the violin starting out but not in the case of Vengerov who is a virtuoso that has earned this title justly so.
@TheBeethovenlove Especially if you don't possess the trained ear of a vocalist, have never taken up the violin nor have you ever worked with an orchestra can you truly begin to know if and where the placement of the semi-tones within the whole tone are being placed by the violinist...
@TheBeethovenlove Vengerov's proper placement within these semi-tones are occurring which he is and does properly place within the semi-tones of the whole tone to create a wonderful, rich, fluid resonance where the undetectable dissonance melds into the under phrasing as it should and provides a unison vocal quality which is how the composer composed this concerto to be.
@Firephenoix1 If you are such an expert, admittedly of the worst sort, a self-proclaimed one, why on earth do you insist on calling this movement from a partita a concerto? Just admit that you are a bonehead with delusions of intellectual grandeur. And I think I am probably being too kind.
@TheBeethovenlove There are no detectable anomalies in this concerto which the average ear would ever be able to detect in a virtuoso violinist of this caliber. I suspect that you aren't familiar with what to listen for, so you're picking up a phantom echo which is the same sounds bouncing off a surface multiple times and creating a false anomalies which doesn't really exist and isn't a true measure of a violinists true ability to perform a concerto...
@Firephenoix1 Actually, there are slightly out of tune pitches throughout the piece. Generally the higher notes are a tad sharp. That being said, I don't really think it detracts too much from the performance.
@TheBeethovenlove Usually being able to detect phantom echos requires a trained ear of a formally classically trained vocalist or musician who can separate phantom echos from the first sound produced by the vocalist or instrumentalist to determine their skill level, technique and how great their pitch is.
@Firephenoix1 Why are you assuming I have an average ear? I have worked with orchestras and I am a classically trained musician. By picking out separate tones in each chord, it's easy to compare them for dissonance.
@TheBeethovenlove.. In a semi-tone if the placement is even a fraction off either sharped or flat when perfect placement should occur then a domino effect occurs where the semi-tones disrupt the purity of the whole tones and either there is a downward slide out into left field and a complete disruption of pitch which compromises the timing quality which isn't occurring in Vengerov's performance...
@TheBeethovenlove the individual multiple semi-tones blend perfectly with the overall tonal quality to create a perfect resonant quality to the composition which is the case with Vengerov's Chaconne. I listened to Vengerov's interpretation of Chaconne and heard between 4 to 5 individual multiple perfectly placed semi-tones within the whole tones per tone......
@TheBeethovenlove Chances are you are probably hearing the multiple whole tones as they are being played together which is normal and what the majority of people normally hear in a concerto performance so while the listener can get a sense of the overall tonal quality the notes being played....
As a classical singer who has performed and still performs with professional orchestras and chamber orchestras and who hears overtones so well that I'm able to astonish instrumentalists by letting them know when their instruments are out of tune, I disagree with your flat playing theory for these reasons.
First the 1727 Stradivarius which Vengerov is performing with is a masterpiece of craftsmanship made from the finest materials by Stradivarius himself and his horse hair bow is made by one of the finest master craftsman bow makers in the world.
Secondly, The deep, rich, warm tonal qualities coming from Vengerov's violin are some of the best tonal quality in the world compounded by his fluid, light feathering transitions from one phrase to another picato bowing techniques which only can be found in a violinist such as Vengerov after thirty-one years of formal classical violin training and non stop performances that he does in his sleep without thinking about it.
Not to mention beautiful, well executed tempo timing which Vengerov does in his sleep as well. Let's not forget that from age 5 Vengerov has been taught by world renowned master violinists. Vengerov produces gorgeous, well executed, liquid overtones with perfect harmonic and melodic resonant tonal qualities throughout Channone with the skill of a master violinist playing a phenomenal Stradivarius.
Lastly, Vengerov possesses perfect pitch which means there are no flat notes and nothing is out of pitch in his violin solos. If there was a pitch issue as you claim then it would show in the overtones, but since there are no flat overtones apparent it might be a great idea if you had your hearing checked because I believe you have tinnitus of the ears and you are tone deaf which many people possess and don't know they have it.
@Firephenoix1 possessing perfect pitch and being able to play perfectly are mutually exclusive. Having perfect pitch puts you at an advantage for detecting off notes, but in the spur of a performance, the likelihood of a note placed a fraction of a semi-tone higher is still there. I didn't detect anything like that here in this performance though.
@TheBeethovenlove Let me see if I can explain what I hearing in Vengerov's interpretation of Chaconne. Because I have hyper hearing as well as the trained ear of a vocalist, I have been able to hear radio frequencies that no one else could here this is how sensitive my hearing is.....
@Firephenoix1 Oh please. Hyper hearing? Trained ear of a vocalist? The importance of the video should not be marginalized by such self-absorbed distractions.
@ewenstrom Yes it is true that I possess the trained ear of a vocalist but I also possess an ability to hear pitches-semi tones within a whole tone of the overtones and undertones as well as where and when they are placed. What on earth are you talking about, what self absorbed distractions?
@ewenstrom Furthermore, I don't understand how seeing the video Chaconne can even be distracting to you and others like you. What I also don't understand is how you and others like you are incapable of listening to while at the same time watching a skilled virtuoso whose gorgeous interpretation of this concerto is astounding and unparalleled.
per la giornata della memoria, 27 gennaio 2012, per non dimenticare.
132quartet 3 days ago
Wow, the sound quality is pure digestive system output.
randud76 1 week ago
listen...his violin is crying...
musictillthendoftime 2 weeks ago 3
@musictillthendoftime Nice . so sad
xxoverprotectedxx 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
@musictillthendoftime Nice . so sad
xxoverprotectedxx 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
the best Chaconne i ever heard, he looked Confident while he play it
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Unfortunately the begining was destroyed with that sensationalist wind effect. This walking thing is useless too. Comone! Bach's music was interpreted by one of the greatest violin artist. It can't be boost with idiotic visual effects. Anyway I l'm listening this with closed eyes.
zottypotty1 1 month ago
@zottypotty1 I agree to a certain extent with what you're saying but in the case of this exceptional documentary the focus was twofold. 1) to hear the music's expressivity 2) to literally relate it to the holocaust situation, this film was bout both the sonic and the visual. the walking makes a lot more sense in these contexts :)
jducke 3 weeks ago
@zottypotty1 The idiot visual effects are for the movie, I'm surprised they spent 11 minutes of the movie 'just' for this piece.
SomeAnimeOtaku 3 weeks ago
Bach himself was emotional about his creations in such a manner that he wanted them to represent his deep belief in god and thus be as perfectly calculated and constructed as possible. So in a certain way Bach can be considered both an emotional and intellectual composer an the same time, breaking common classifications as usual.
I personally prefer the intellectual side of Bach - emotions turn people into irrational monsters, Auschwitz is the perfect example.
playingmusiconmars 1 month ago
Bravo, Maxim Vengerov. Beautiful.
shoshana13 2 months ago
It's almost like somebody took a time machine and went with Bach and told him what was going to happen in his land and the world a few centuries after, and Bach had wept, and in that deep sorrow had written this Partita.
musicalix 3 months ago 17
this is the most beautiful piece i've ever heard in my life!
princesitaboludita 3 months ago 2
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Barring the genius of bach and this piece its still a poor choice that its a german composer
spiked415 4 months ago
Barring the genius of Bach and this piece its a poor choice that its a German composer
spiked415 4 months ago
no mms se saltó un pedazote...
eldelsombrerillo60 4 months ago
Such a fantastic violinist, probably the best of his generation! However it pains me to say that this is a really poor rendition of the Bach Chaconne. I just heard the Szeryng version (for the 2000th time) and then this. Quite a disappointment!!
prasenjitdutt 4 months ago
seems ironic that a piece composed by and for the elite of german society nationalistic class to be played in a place that gased jews hahahah
fdr100100 4 months ago
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@fdr100100 I'd suggest you take some history lessons
dajohnthomas69 3 months ago
Don't try to analyze it with your logic. Open your heart and feel.
natavicto 4 months ago 3
@natavicto Shut up, this piece has a right to be analyzed with logic because Bach was an extremely logical composer, not a pseudo-emotional comoposer. Idiot.
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aristotledixit 5 months ago
Imagine a strolling violinist, Jewish, playing Bach's Chaconne at Auschwitz. What a tribute to the triumph of good over evil.
MarcelloSteinberg1 5 months ago
First violinist who doesn't use vibrato for bach :DD ( even if he does it's very little )
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@Wishrachi great observation :) .. for great performance :) !
zlato1976 5 months ago
49 people are lost in a generation of fake rappers, empty hip hop music, and fist bumping...
themoldyS4SQU4TCH 6 months ago 39
amazing.....but the major part is missing....
kitlung 2 months ago
geniaaal vengerov unico
NmAlRs 6 months ago
I'm a JEW AND I'm DAMN PROUD OF IT!
TenaciousFuckYou 6 months ago
Missed the D major section immensely. Otherwise, pretty pretty pretty good
Changles 6 months ago
dont rely on the score. you need to internalise this music to the point of living it. the pages of score in front of you are not bach, thats just locking you in. let go and let your memory of the music and emotion allow you to play
dappstarr 6 months ago
try doing it from the heart and take the score away
dappstarr 6 months ago
te adoro
NmAlRs 6 months ago
Beautiful but what an awful quality !
rustyspo0ns 7 months ago
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sonsofsligo 7 months ago
Can someone please tell me how this video gets only this many amount of views while Justin Bieber and his "music" get hunders of millions of views? You explain it to me, my friends...
xaviervandepoll 7 months ago
@xaviervandepoll great question!
zlato1976 5 months ago
I lost the count of how many times I watched this, I listen to this to do homework =D
ShienUchiha99 7 months ago
every time i lixten to it i always discover new languages of emotion and feelings. Bach, sometimes indescritible!!!!
TheMarcelolelo 7 months ago
I've been there...
A performance full of emotions.
And I have to say : Such a brave artist ! It's not easy to play in Auschwitz to tribute all those people.
You have to dare it...
clementrider7 7 months ago
Bach's Blues
JazzLoverKhurram 8 months ago
Amazing... Just amazing!!!
TheSingingViolinist 8 months ago
Very nicely done I am playing this song for a competition next year great job. You have given me inspiration to more forward thank you :)
1nonlyviolinist 8 months ago
nevermind my comment........
Amarynthine 8 months ago
why did he play one key lower? or is that just the recording?
Amarynthine 8 months ago
@Amarynthine
It's because he tuned his violin differently especially for this recording. ;)
xaviervandepoll 7 months ago
is it a whole tone down pitch? awesome
kschiavo 8 months ago
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St8hr 8 months ago
Ich weiß nicht, was die Welt an ihm findet. Sein Spiel klingt wie ein Hahn kurz vor der Schlachtung, in meinen Augen wenig differenziert. So ist auch sein Dirigat - er hat nen Sinn für die großen Auftritte und Momente, aber an filigranen Partien scheitert er.
amiraniable 8 months ago
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sonsofsligo 7 months ago
BEST player ever!
Violinista2008 8 months ago 2
He plays like a god <3
Luftballonss 8 months ago
I love the fact that the violin is tuned like a baroque violin :P
simpo25 9 months ago
Chaconne is like dubstep. of the18th century
fufulog777 9 months ago
@fufulog777 yeah, l always say that's the most rock'n'roll for solo ANYTHING... that and the fugue from Bach's Sonata no.1; pure metal
kschiavo 8 months ago
wow - there are so many emotions !
Juciejuc 9 months ago
Of all the famous violinists, I believe that Vengerov is the most human. sure, Joshua Bell has star appeal and what not, but he just doesn't have same emotion and passion that Vengerov has. I've heard the many other interpretations of this very piece but this has be the best because of the emotion that is poured into it. I'm not saying that Bell, Perlman, Heifetz, or any othet violinist has no passion; it just seems that Vengerov shows more of it. That of course, makes vengerov more human.
Godrick85 10 months ago
@Godrick85 it's a respetable opinion, but personally I think that Heifetz has more passion and expression
Hispanoyorgulloso 8 months ago
That was wonderful, Mr. Vengerov is a great violinist and always will be.
LRM491 10 months ago
@LRM491 I quite agree, I first saw him play Sibelius when he must have been no more than 20, and I remember thinking, thank God, someone in the present age who plays with the artistry and integrity of the past masters and rejoicing in the fact that the saviour of modern violin playing was now with us.
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
The individual going under the name of Mr.Wasbesonders has been cyberbullying me by attempting to threaten me. I have made a formal report to my local police department and I'm also seeking counsel with my local district attorney to determine what course of action would be best in this case.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
Currently, I have contacted the you tube security department because an individual going under the name of a Mr. Wasbesonders contacted me again via email after I specifically emailed this person not too. I have both emails in my possession , I have been being harassed and threatened non-stop by this individual who has also been harassing my friend Maxim Vengerov non-stop by making untrue defamatory statements about him.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
Fifty thousand to about sixty thousand dollars is alright for an beginning student violin that is just average at best. Normally, this kind of money will only buy a beginning student violin to a semi-professional level violin. Now if it was a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi Kreisler which possesses the rich singing tone of a Stradivari combined with the virile sonority of a Guineri then you are talking about a violin worthy of playing in concert at a pro level.
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
The 1727 Kreutzer” Stradivarius, which is currently played by Maxim Vengerov sold at Christies for a record breaking amount of $1,348,721.56. Still the 1727 Kreutzer Stradivarius is still far superior in many ways. The 1727 Kreutzer Stradivarius is a wise investment by an intelligent, wise, talented virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov who knows his violins.:)
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
Incidentally, I just sold the Garimberti for 56k. Now go crawl back into your hole.
ewenstrom 10 months ago
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@ewenstrom Still jealous of my success, wishing it was your success how sad you really are.I'm not impressed with you either,take your own advice and crawl back into the hole you came from. By the way, I also made some calls as well to my associates I work with.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@ewenstrom I'm not impressed with you either, no one has ever heard of you either, since you don't know my real name you never checked out my credentials. Wrong again about the tour group, they don't let tour groups sing at Carnegie Hall, therefore I wasn't a part of a tour group. Obviously, I did sing with a professional choir at Carnegie Hall because there is a video to prove that I did.Take your abusive fights elsewhere you are no one,further posts to you will be dismissed and not answered.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
not impressed. You were part of a tour group. I checked your credentials and made some calls to some of the managment companies i work with. No one knows you.
ewenstrom 10 months ago
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Paganini 1388 Recently, I just debuted at Carnegie Hall and recieved a standing ovation with upcoming future opportunities as a professional classical singer-This is the end result when you apply yourself. When you don't you end up like you a bitter, spiteful, narcissistic, hateful venom spewing wanna be like you who can't seem to figure out how to get there and has to insult everyone to make themselves feel better.
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
Wasbesounders, you need to learn to handle your own problems and not involve other people in them such as you have tried to do to me. Do not contact ever again, I can't help you Future posts and emails from you Wasbesounders will be ignored and no further responses will be forthcoming.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@Firephenoix1 You need to learn to relax and chill out. I made one comment to you in jest, and then you send a private message to me threatening to hand me in to the Youtube authorities to try and get me banned from Youtube! You didn't even have the courage to print it here where everyone can see how unbelievably oversensitive and overreactive you are. If they ban me from Youtube it won't be cause of that comment! Other people have taken much worse with good grace it would seem! Lighten up!!
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
You, Mr. Wasbesounders must have made some half hearted attempt at trying to figure out classical music, when this failed you became bitter toward classical musicans like Maxim Vengerov who have spent years and years learning their craft and excelling at it, which is why you are so bitter, jealous and angry of Max's success.
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
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Your recent email that you sent me about how jealous of Maxim Vengerov you truly are is a real joke and very sad. I can't help you with your jealousy of Max, it is an illness and a sad illness at that. A wise man once said that we can't all be successful in classical music, he is right, which is what leads me to believe as to why you Mr. Wasbesounders are so jealous of Maxim Vengerov.
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
Mr. Wasbesounders or whatever your name is, you must really have problems to be contacting a total stranger-me, crying in your recent email to me about how jealous of Maxim Vengerov you truly are. Wow, I have never met you, I don't know you from Adam and I don't wish too. I can't help you with your emotional jealousy toward Max, you need the help of a professional pyscharitist to help you deal with your emotional raging rants of jealousy against Maxim Vengerov.
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@Firephenoix1 I have not contacted you by email. Have you ever considered taking up writing fairy tales? You have emailed me somewhat threateningly however, please see comment above, and that is not just addressed to you but to anyone else that is reading this. I have never emailed you, please do not email me again or it will be I that will be informing the "Youtube Police" of you!!!
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Firephenoix1 10 months ago
from Japan.
very emotional performance.
We all feel sadness expressed in this performance, now.
I wish listen this performance those who lost their families by the Earthquake.
nobkiya 10 months ago
Powerful.
radstainforth 10 months ago
This video brought tears to my eyes. Half my family is Jewish, so whenever I watch this video or hear Bach's Chaconne I think of my family. There aren't enough words to describe how beautiful this was. Wow... Just, wow...
TheSingingViolinist 10 months ago
What happened to the D major middle section? Why was it cutted out?
mtv565 10 months ago
@mtv565 yes where's the the siciliana?
JazzLoverKhurram 8 months ago
skipped a large part. The best part :(
brainwasher9876 11 months ago
hey was the a string a bit low, or is it just me
but, very good, full of emotion
hi123456789011 11 months ago
@hi123456789011 For baroque tuning, they set it at A 415 instead of A 440.
TheSingingViolinist 10 months ago
It sent shivers and got me goosebumps. It's so sad when this piece is played by a master fiddler such as Maxim Vangerov and at the same time dedicated to the memorial of the victims in Auschwitz. So touching!
nivique 11 months ago
Podziwiam Vengerova. Ja bym nie potrafiła.
chimai14 11 months ago
Das ist schrecklichster Kitsch!
Die Chaconne ist natürlich fantastisch, und ausgezeichnet gespielt, ohne Frage.
Und das der Holocaust eine gewaltige Katastrophe war steht nicht zur Diskussion.
Aber diese Aufnahme mit diesen unangenehmen Geräuschen und dem übertrieben mahnend schreitenden Geiger entbehrt jeglicher Subtilitätund Geschmack und ist schlicht ein Emo-Holzhammer der uns wieder entmündigen soll, dass wir bereits Trauer geleistet haben, weil wir bei diesem kalkuliertem Effekt heulen.
WhiteTubeGallery 11 months ago
@WhiteTubeGallery ich trau mich zu wetten,dass du auf deiner geige nichts drauf hast und dieses lied nichteinmal ansatzweise spielen kannst. ps.: wenn du glaubst du wirkst intelligent wenn du viele komplexe wörter benützt, dann muss ich dich leider enttäuschen...es wirkt einfach "aus zwang will intelligent sein"... ein guter redner drückt sich einfach und deutlich aus ,oder liest du keine bücher? groß-klein-schreibung ist im inet nicht nötig. lg
RRSTYLE77 11 months ago
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Lieber RRSTYLE77,
es geht nicht um mich, der gar nicht Geige spielen kann und den seine Wirkung hier gar nicht interessiert. Auch um die tadellose Interpretation dieses Stückes durch Maxim Vengerov geht es nicht.
Sondern ich kritisiere diese erniedrigende Verquickung von großartiger und emotional bewegender Musik und der Tragik dieser historischen Katastrophe.
Die Chaconne ist kein Soundtrack zum Holocaust und der Holocaust nicht die Kulisse für die Chaconne. Das Video ist daneben.
WhiteTubeGallery 10 months ago
I almost burst in tears with this lame audio video, imgine listening to this live. I'd probably not be able to handle this being played in front of me. Bravo, Maxim. Bravo.
ungusfungus 11 months ago
Ein Gedenken an das Schlimmste, was Deuschland der Menschheit angetan hat untermalt von der schönsten Musik, die in diesem Land komponiert worden ist, ein größerer Gegensatz ist künstlerisch wohl kaum darstellbar. Das erste Mal als ich die Chaconne vor vielen Jahren gehört habe, konnte ich vor Ehrfurcht kaum atmen. Hier kommen einem die Tränen, da das Leid der Shoah beinahe fassbar wird. Für mich aber auch eine große Hoffnung, dass das Humane letztendlich stärker ist als die Grausamkeit.
Ojottojott 11 months ago
On peut trouver cela indécent, exhibitionniste; ou inversement parfaitement opportun. A bien y réfléchir, je me range à la 2ème voie. La musique de Bach honore les victimes. Elle dit aussi leur agonie. Et lorsque Heifetz, Pehrlman, Giltis, etc. jouent cette même oeuvre, c'est l'humanité qui a gagné contre la mort et la barbarie nazie. Faire retentir dans ces baraques non plus les cris, les larmes, mais l'écho de leurs voix qui ne s'éteindront jamais. Avec Bach.
tippi02 11 months ago
Nazis are gone but Bach and Jews are living.. An impressive video and excellent performance!
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atzitzikas 11 months ago
The most authentic, powerful, painful, human performance of this masterpiece.
EternalPerformances 11 months ago 40
6 million tears.
Maxim Vengerov, I salute you.
tulimana12 11 months ago 50
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why just 6 ?
Cedericoco 7 months ago
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@Cedericoco because 6 million jews were killed during WWII and the Holocaust
mzoli1222 7 months ago
What a remarkable thing to do in a place like that. I was moved to tears. Thank you.
HandsHeartFeet 1 year ago
Stupid who doesn't like this video.
FusionCV 1 year ago
Playing violin that way in winter.. In Auschitz as well..
johnlepilote2 1 year ago
it is maxim vengereov... he makes it sound the way it does on porpose... NO aruguement about that... he plays the violin as if he invented the darn thing himself
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fayemarilynh 1 year ago
'crude' - yes the quality is a little fuzzy, but the imperfections in my view make it that much more emotive. I like the sound of him walking through the snow.
fayemarilynh 1 year ago
Imagine what those walls saw
platimontif 1 year ago
Agreed, I've played with numb hands and it just doesnt turn out well.
Aurelius27x 1 year ago
Very crude performance, the worst here on you-tube
MohsenDoctor 1 year ago
@MohsenDoctor You spelled "I'm a troll" wrong.
Th3R3M1nd3r 1 year ago
@Th3R3M1nd3r
Actually I didn't, but you did :-)
MohsenDoctor 1 year ago
@MohsenDoctor What kind of comeback was that? ._. Meh, no good fights here x3
Th3R3M1nd3r 1 year ago
this just breaks my heart. my god!!!!
davecotuit 1 year ago
I don't think it's the quality of the performance as much it is the significance of where it is. Probably not his finest work, one should take into account that he's not in a studio or on stage. He's walking through a prison in freezing weather in Germany. If you listen to his interview, he describes how painful it was to play in the weather.
treehugger059 1 year ago 4
@treehugger059 Jesus Christ, Auschwitz is in Poland, Oświęcim in Polish. Show some respect to history or at least basic geography...
Max0Inq 1 year ago
@Max0Inq i meant no disrespect. it was an honest mistake.
treehugger059 7 months ago
No me gusta nada.
surfboy 1 year ago
He is awesome.The place where he plays is Aushwitz..How many people died there :(
Aysenury 1 year ago
Awesome vid. Its funny how some people have nothing better to do with their lives but sit on YouTube and brag about their hyper 'sensitive' on sensitive matter such as the holocaust and then write a thesis on the distance between tones. Come on ... Get a life. If you're so good, go and do something useful in your life!
haydo143 1 year ago
Just to be sure, I like vocalists, just not this one :-)
paganini1388 1 year ago
@paganini1388 Same to you, usually I like violinist who have done their work and not people like yourself who play at attempting to make a sloppy effort and don't ever work at it. You still need about twenty years of hard work in order to be ready to perform with a local orchestra. You will never be as good as Vengerov, Perelman or Bell because you have sat on your laurels and allowed your jealousy of Venergov to cost you a career as a violinist.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@paganini1388 There is no room of a bitter individual like yourself in classical music who won't do the work and has the ego to boot. If you ever expect to even come close to the greats, get your head out of the clouds, work on your repertoire and if you are so depressed that you have to be so bitter in life then suck it up and prove you're capable of doing the work or don't bother.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@Firephenoix1 Actually, I have the unique ability to hear AND see bullshit. I can see why a vocalist would credit themselves with an incredible hearing capacity, however, vocalists aren't that good at understanding strings! Sorry to say, but even bad violinists such as myself know the difference between mental case and true musician. I knew a kid just like you with the same sense of perfection at school once...he had a restraining order and was asked to leave the school. He was a vocalist too.
paganini1388 1 year ago
@paganini1388 Oh Man, I like that!! That is SO funny!! By the way, just checked out one of your vids, nice playing of Tchike first mvt, cool. Reckon that Firephenoix1 who despite being an expert thinks THIS piece here is a concerto would probably think it was from Tchaikowsky's solo sonatas and partitas!! Oh and you are NOT a bad violinist, so there. You really nailed that A up the g string better than some pros, lush!
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
@paganini1388 In response to your answer, not only am I a vocalist but I also study violin as well, so that dispels your Swiss cheese theory about my not being good at understanding strings. You don't need to insult yourself like that by calling yourself a mental case. Yes alright you had a mental break down which caused you to have a restraining order placed against you and you were asked to leave your school.
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
@paganini1388 Even though you admit that you are a bad violinist maybe if you concern yourself with your repertoire, apply yourself and stop being so jealous of myself and Maxim Vengerov who knows maybe someday you might actually be able to play violin with a real orchestra.
By the way, what is the biggest event you have ever played violin at?
Firephenoix1 10 months ago
esta bien bonito este video ojala y hagan uno = de bonito y que tengan el mismo talento
Hectormendez3355 1 year ago
Terrible. First off why would he even try to play Bach moving? Show some respect. Its terrible anyways. He does Bach no justice.
ericgable 1 year ago
@ericgable How can it be terrible if people like it a lot?
dutchgoing 1 year ago
@dutchgoing I mean they seem to like his interpretation. I favor many of the old violinists that sounds far more superior than this guy. To me his interpretation of Bach Chaconne is terrible, and i dont like that he made a violin moving around.
ericgable 1 year ago
@ericgable I like the period instruments a lot. Menuhin, Perlman et al all much better than Vengerov.
dutchgoing 1 year ago
@dutchgoing It is vulgar thats why and people like it just cos it is Vengerov and cos they get understandably emotional over the subject matter. It is a stupid piece to have picked, the chaconne will never be the same again for me as I will now associate it with the Holocaust. Maybe some Jewish folk music would have been more appropriated or a viola piece by Bloch on a viola would have been more fitting example. Or Schindlers List, or Achron Hebrew melody, or Bloch Nigun etc. praps a compilation
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
@mrwasbesonders A combination of public opinion & good taste is certainly not vulgar. Schindlers list (the film) was one squandered opportunity, a very dull film indeed. The fact is you weren't asked to make a selection & one could say that your educated taste is as of the same value as somebody who likes music because of the way it sounds. I thought this music was liberating.
dutchgoing 1 year ago
@dutchgoing I meant his playing of it is vulgar. As is so much of what he does. Like the ridiculous faces he pulls to try and prove he is feeling the music. And as for Schindler's list, I disagree, great film, great soundtrack. And Perlman's playing on it in a different league to this butchered Chaconne.
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
@mrwasbesonders That's true, he does play the pop star a bit. Stanley Kubrick researched a 'Schindler's List' film in the 1980s, would have been a superb movie. Spielberg is talented but this film was wrong for him, very very dull and much too long.
dutchgoing 1 year ago
@dutchgoing Yes, you definitely have a point. It was a bit long, guess I was more moved by the subject matter and the quality of Perlman's playing rather than how good the film was. I was also moved by the scene where Schlindler was being thanked by those he saved and yet he was crying as to whether he could have done more. Pacing of films is always an issue but I felt at the time it was a job well done.
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
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@dutchgoing It is vulgar thats why and people like it just cos it is Vengerov and cos they get understandably emotional over the subject matter. It is a stupid piece to have picked, the chaconne will never be the same again for me as I will now associate it with the Holocaust. Maybe some Jewish folk music would have been more appropriate or a viola piece by Bloch on a viola would have been more fitting example. Or Schindlers List, or Achron Hebrew melody, or Bloch Nigun etc. praps a compilation
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
@ericgable He is trying to sound like a period performer. And it made me think of just that. He squawks like a woman with PMT
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
Why is this in C# minor? Baroque tuning?
scottydscottd 1 year ago
Sounds like it was recorded on a mobile phone.
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
This interpretation is truly remarkable and fitting tribute to the innocent who were killed in the holocaust... It's almost impossible to listen to this without crying! I love the color of his sound and the emotion in his playing.
@musicalix they recorded it in sections so he wouldn't freeze to death outside. then they put the video together.
ViolistMourlam 1 year ago
playing in tht kind of weather... I used to play when it was 10 degrees C; swear I couldn do vibrato... was frozen
animeaff 1 year ago
What I really find amazing in this video, is how Mr Vengerov at minute 4:30 changed his clothes, put on a coat and mittens, to emerge 30 seconds later to the outdors and without missing a single note!! Amazing!!
musicalix 1 year ago 3
Buenisima interpretación, me gusto porque salteo la parte Mayor, quedó muy bien :)
franco942000 1 year ago
Such an amazing recording of this piece.. I wish he didn't tune to like, 410 though.
Polerification 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove.. Because of Vengerov's skilled violin bowing and fingering techniques which produces perfect placement of multiple individual semi-tones with multiple whole tones along with perfect timing, this is how I know that he possesses perfect pitch and how I also know that this concerto is perfect as it is performed by Vengerov.
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 In response to your essay, even those without hyper hearing as you call it can still detect anomalies by listening for dissonance of the chord as a whole.
TheBeethovenlove 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove To an extent in a general sense hypothetically if the dissonance where to be very apparent which is the norm for inexperienced students of the violin starting out but not in the case of Vengerov who is a virtuoso that has earned this title justly so.
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove Especially if you don't possess the trained ear of a vocalist, have never taken up the violin nor have you ever worked with an orchestra can you truly begin to know if and where the placement of the semi-tones within the whole tone are being placed by the violinist...
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove Vengerov's proper placement within these semi-tones are occurring which he is and does properly place within the semi-tones of the whole tone to create a wonderful, rich, fluid resonance where the undetectable dissonance melds into the under phrasing as it should and provides a unison vocal quality which is how the composer composed this concerto to be.
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 If you are such an expert, admittedly of the worst sort, a self-proclaimed one, why on earth do you insist on calling this movement from a partita a concerto? Just admit that you are a bonehead with delusions of intellectual grandeur. And I think I am probably being too kind.
mrwasbesonders 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove There are no detectable anomalies in this concerto which the average ear would ever be able to detect in a virtuoso violinist of this caliber. I suspect that you aren't familiar with what to listen for, so you're picking up a phantom echo which is the same sounds bouncing off a surface multiple times and creating a false anomalies which doesn't really exist and isn't a true measure of a violinists true ability to perform a concerto...
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 Actually, there are slightly out of tune pitches throughout the piece. Generally the higher notes are a tad sharp. That being said, I don't really think it detracts too much from the performance.
prgmctan 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove Usually being able to detect phantom echos requires a trained ear of a formally classically trained vocalist or musician who can separate phantom echos from the first sound produced by the vocalist or instrumentalist to determine their skill level, technique and how great their pitch is.
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 Why are you assuming I have an average ear? I have worked with orchestras and I am a classically trained musician. By picking out separate tones in each chord, it's easy to compare them for dissonance.
TheBeethovenlove 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove.. In a semi-tone if the placement is even a fraction off either sharped or flat when perfect placement should occur then a domino effect occurs where the semi-tones disrupt the purity of the whole tones and either there is a downward slide out into left field and a complete disruption of pitch which compromises the timing quality which isn't occurring in Vengerov's performance...
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove the individual multiple semi-tones blend perfectly with the overall tonal quality to create a perfect resonant quality to the composition which is the case with Vengerov's Chaconne. I listened to Vengerov's interpretation of Chaconne and heard between 4 to 5 individual multiple perfectly placed semi-tones within the whole tones per tone......
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove Chances are you are probably hearing the multiple whole tones as they are being played together which is normal and what the majority of people normally hear in a concerto performance so while the listener can get a sense of the overall tonal quality the notes being played....
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
very flat playing .... eric grossman's and perlman's far better
egioalex72 1 year ago
@egioalex72 that's cause its not A440.
emai13 1 year ago
@egioalex72
As a classical singer who has performed and still performs with professional orchestras and chamber orchestras and who hears overtones so well that I'm able to astonish instrumentalists by letting them know when their instruments are out of tune, I disagree with your flat playing theory for these reasons.
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1
First the 1727 Stradivarius which Vengerov is performing with is a masterpiece of craftsmanship made from the finest materials by Stradivarius himself and his horse hair bow is made by one of the finest master craftsman bow makers in the world.
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
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Secondly, The deep, rich, warm tonal qualities coming from Vengerov's violin are some of the best tonal quality in the world compounded by his fluid, light feathering transitions from one phrase to another picato bowing techniques which only can be found in a violinist such as Vengerov after thirty-one years of formal classical violin training and non stop performances that he does in his sleep without thinking about it.
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1
Not to mention beautiful, well executed tempo timing which Vengerov does in his sleep as well. Let's not forget that from age 5 Vengerov has been taught by world renowned master violinists. Vengerov produces gorgeous, well executed, liquid overtones with perfect harmonic and melodic resonant tonal qualities throughout Channone with the skill of a master violinist playing a phenomenal Stradivarius.
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
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Lastly, Vengerov possesses perfect pitch which means there are no flat notes and nothing is out of pitch in his violin solos. If there was a pitch issue as you claim then it would show in the overtones, but since there are no flat overtones apparent it might be a great idea if you had your hearing checked because I believe you have tinnitus of the ears and you are tone deaf which many people possess and don't know they have it.
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 possessing perfect pitch and being able to play perfectly are mutually exclusive. Having perfect pitch puts you at an advantage for detecting off notes, but in the spur of a performance, the likelihood of a note placed a fraction of a semi-tone higher is still there. I didn't detect anything like that here in this performance though.
TheBeethovenlove 1 year ago
@TheBeethovenlove Let me see if I can explain what I hearing in Vengerov's interpretation of Chaconne. Because I have hyper hearing as well as the trained ear of a vocalist, I have been able to hear radio frequencies that no one else could here this is how sensitive my hearing is.....
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Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@Firephenoix1 Oh please. Hyper hearing? Trained ear of a vocalist? The importance of the video should not be marginalized by such self-absorbed distractions.
ewenstrom 1 year ago
@ewenstrom Yes it is true that I possess the trained ear of a vocalist but I also possess an ability to hear pitches-semi tones within a whole tone of the overtones and undertones as well as where and when they are placed. What on earth are you talking about, what self absorbed distractions?
Firephenoix1 1 year ago
@ewenstrom Furthermore, I don't understand how seeing the video Chaconne can even be distracting to you and others like you. What I also don't understand is how you and others like you are incapable of listening to while at the same time watching a skilled virtuoso whose gorgeous interpretation of this concerto is astounding and unparalleled.