Kyung Wha Chung plays Bartok violin sonata No.2 (2nd Mov)

[shobarsch]

Who the hell is talking in the background?

[twcal]

Amazing performance!..... If one is having problems understanding Bartok, this period of his life is probably not the easiest to listen to. Try Piano Concerto #3, String Quartet 5 or 6, Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste or Concerto for Orchestra......

[p1nkfizz]

I love her dress and facial expressions!

[TubeFreakification]

Truly a beautiful performance. Classical music is a language of its own. No need for words to convey a message to the audience.

[StefanAnderson]

why doesn't he get his hair to turn the pages for him?

[Bagas]

NIce sound effects

[oelte]

Yes, who's the pianist's hair dresser and does he know about attaching turbines to hair. Maybe it's Figaro! In that case someone will have to go in disguise somewhere which will probably have to do with some love plot (and I hope some lady doesn't die of consumption in the process, go crazy, commit suicide or jump to her death). That's if it's Figaro and he's still in some Opera!

I love Kyung's violin!

[sl008m]

All I can say it's damn! Good job to both!! Well delivered.

[foshizzlefizzle]

What is Robert Deniro doing playing the piano? 

[sunilviolin11]

What is the NAME of the Pianist.

Kindly let me know friends :)

thanks

[dalecampbl7]

@sunilviolin11 Mr. Headbanger?

[tempodimarcia]

One of my favorite violin sonatas. Thanks for sharing!

[Nancarrower]

Great performance by both of them! But two questions:

1) How about putting the whole movement on (and the first too)? If there's a size limit you can find a not-too-intrusive break in the movement.

2) In this day and age of looming energy crisis, can we really justify NOT attaching little turbines to the pianist's hair?

[twofinedays]

Not a question but a comment;

"How about thanking for the effort of getting this hard-to-find video, convert it to a computer file and put it on Youtube so that people can enjoy, before you make a complaint about the 1 mit cut I chose to make to fit into the time limit of Youtube?"

[ashburnhouse]

@twofinedays Whoa, lady.

[twofinedays]

@ashburnhouse woteva you mean by that

[RaRaLandEQ]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder(dalecampbl5). In the dark-ages people had an aversion to the tritone (augmented 4th/diminished 5th), centuries later, it became the cornerstone of heavy metal(music). Throughout history minor 2nd's and augmented 7th's have been deemed dissonant, yet today, jazz music and composers from the 1950's onward have incorporated it into our psyche as consonant. Bartok may not be for every one, but who knows, it might be a tv jingle in the future.......sure hope so:)

[Galiah13]

To groslucas:You are right, indeed!

To everybody: In april in our Library will take start a great international conference. I hope I^ll speak about that sonata.But in that video the beginning of the 2d part is missing!

[twofinedays]

I could not put on the whole movement because of the time limit of Youtube (less than 11 mit)

[dalecampbl5]

how we lay people feel about this music is not really important...but I would give 1 million dollars to hear what bach, mozart, beethoven would say about this music

[Galiah13]

Now we have crises all over the world, so it^s better to leave 1 million dollars in your pocket.Much better and honest to say: "I personally don^t understand Bartok".

[dalecampbl5]

one can say this music is radical or discordant but not beautiful

[Galiah13]

Yes, I try to understand what you mean. I think I have catched it.I had listened this sonata 4 or 5 times, only after that I have understand a specific charm of that music. Really!

[dalecampbl5]

i've listened to bartok for a while...hasn't grown. probably not meant to be

[rrrjjjyyy]

Bartok's 6 Rumanian Dances performed by Akiko Suwanai will most definetly change your mined. It is full of passion and a beautiful melody that is not common in most of Bartok's music, which tends to be abstract such as this.

[violinmusicfan]

could take months or years. I first heard the bartok violin concerto 2 years ago. I have only started to enjoy it recently. The trick is not to force yourself to listen to it but to listen to it kindly and with an open mind.

[dalecampbl5]

my comment from 5 month ago can be reversed...I finally developed a liking for bartok's string quartets and piano concerto and wooden prince...he's so unromantic and romantic at the same time

[violinmusicfan]

haha good for you. what a massive transformation from your last comment. I haven't fully appreciated him yet though.

[dalecampbl5]

thanks...i'm quite happy with bartok...he's something different all right...but very cohesive...now Alban Berg that's someone I haven't gotten used to after 8 years of listening.

[Chromometron]

@violinmusicfan Just as with all art.

[vlhere]

@violinmusicfan I did the same thing. When I first heard this sonata I'm like why did Bartok write some gibberish notes. But then I forced myself to listen to telling myself I really love this peice even though I hated it to the core from the inside. But now I just LOVE it..

[777cc777]

listen more... and even better in the context of the whole sonata

is worth it x 1000000

[groslucas]

it is beautiful in its extreme violence, like einsturzende neubauten....

beauty does not come only from tonal harmony

[vlhere]

looks like she ran out of prison and had no other outfit....hehe...

[yaieve]

if the violinist n the pianist r warin wigs i wonder their wigs must already have been shaken off frm their head .

n if u c it carefully u will c tht its such a

contrast picture when two ppl gone wild cuz of

epilepsy n the note opener who stay calm with dry face

[vlhere]

hahah omg his hair !!!!!! its flying like crazy. hate this sonata. i hate bartok. the music has no meaning.

[kwcfan]

LOL welcome to 20th century music.

 I'll tell you what what I consider to be music with no meaning... much of Sarasate's music... flash and brilliance and little substance... YMMV.

[violintviolinist]

wow you're talking to a carmen fantasy lover...keep your negative opinions to yourself.

[qwertzuiop07]

I am really sorry to hear that..

As a Hungarian I think that NOBODY EVER could express the feeling of a people on such a way that Bartok did. I know it's not so kind to say, but I think that nobody's music has such a lot meaning as Bartok's and it doesn't matter for me, how many say, worthless, I'll be loving him forever!!!

[777cc777]

Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra Great..

once really heard, this music has no parallel

[airad2]

It's a she.

[airad2]

wups saw my mistake.  But pointless? No way.

[HwangMyungShin]

Try Bartok Romanian folf arrangements - there tonal and brilliant.

[mauriceivansaraza]

i love the pianist's hair hehe

[theskankiest]

the chung family is brilliant.. her brother.. and her sister.. such a blessed family.

[nijnohin]

She fits Bartok toooooooo much !!

[MrSeqi]

@nijnohin ..listen to her early recording of the Prokofiev 1st concerto....possessed...

[violintviolinist]

hahaha that's great. anyone know where i can find music for this?

[pacifik231]

Goûter un Havane (les premières fois, c'est dégu...) ou un très grand bordeaux peu flatteur à prime abord (un Pauillac, par exemple), cela demande un apprentissage, quand bien même ce sont des plaisirs !

Alors il faudra vous faire à l'idée qu'on n'écrit plus au XXe siècle comme Mozart ou Beethoven.

Cette page est probablement la plus géniale jamais écrite pour violon et piano.

Patience, vous y viendrez... C'est plein de mélodie et d'harmonie... pour qui sait entendre...

[Fr3derick]

Can you all teach me how to appreciate this piece of music? I want to like this but- with my small brain- I don't seem to derive pleasure out of listening to this. I cannot detect any real melody or tune. To me,it it something like the music in a horror movie.

[twofinedays]

it usually applys for many modern music; try to listen to its rythem and tempo rather than melody or harmony. Just as in modern art, the concept of beauty has been changed greatly in 20th century.

[adidas01003]

Usually with Bartok, alot of his music has alot of theory behind it. If you can listen to melodies being inverted, mirrored, and so on. It certainly is an acquired taste, however Bartok's music is quite the contrary to romantic music in its "down to earth" style. Just start surrounding yourself with more 20th century music, or even 21st, even though alot of recent music has reverted back to tonality.

[Drummere]

You're reminding me of Charles Ives' famous sneer (I believe the quote comes from something he said angrily to another concert-goer who, like you, had difficulty with modern music): "Ya sissy! When you hear a dissonance like that, take it like a MAN!!"

[smile]

But seriously, Fr3derick, I think it's mostly a question of getting more used to the dissonant harmonies, rather like learning to enjoy an unfamiliar flavor in food. In Bartok, once you get past the dissonance, it's the folk-like

[Fr3derick]

Ok Drummere, thank you for replying.

[Drummere]

...it's the folk-like dance movement...try to hear, not the craggy and sharp dissonance, but instead, enjoy the abandoned, wild "fiddling" sound...think of it along the same lines as the wild, somewhat uncontrolled, wild spirited dancing of Copland's "Rodeo"--the difference here is that Bartok is HUNGARIAN, and his music is shot through with Gypsy and other ethnic wildness...it doesn't have its hair combed, like Copland's music, and its neck is a little grimy and sweaty. Keep listening, and the

[Drummere]

and the dissonances will sound less and less peculiar and begin to sound like they make sense, just as the chord progressions of 19th century music makes sense to you. After you accustom yourself more, you'll find far less harshness to the sound, and instead, hear the spirited joy in it, the fun, the excitement, and you'll begin to hear the melodies, too, which are there--but right now, you're too focused on the seconds and sevenths, so you aren't hearing them. Takes some getting-used-to.

[BenQdamnit]

@Fr3derick Yes I felt similar when I first heard any of Bartok's music but then I heard Nina Simone in an interview say "an artist's job is to reflect the times". This twisted chaos reflects it very well for me.

[p1nkfizz]

@Fr3derick I don't appreciate this for any sort of tune that is has. I appreciate if for the wild emotions it brings up inside me. It really throws you around.

[richardyingren]

She is so talented, I love her!

[OdessaLP]

Her style is perfect for bartok!

[altonoir1]

very crisp and incisive rendering of this piece...love the pianist's hair...he is a true head banger...rock on!!...

[junglefunny]

she's got the right sound for bartok - lyrical yet gritty, clear, immediate. even her pianissimos have a core to them. it's a sound in the context of the sonories of sandor vegh or oistrakh.

[jaqueca69]

SO SO GREAT PLAYING FROM CHUNG AND GOLAN CONGRATULATIONS AND PLEASE UPLOAD MORE OF her.

[chulesq]

Absolutely stunning!

[batuocanhsang]

i never knew that there r such horrible sounding violin pieces lyk this T___T

[kwcfan]

LOL.... grow up and listen to real music man, this is real music ..

[scottbos68]

bartok is musicians music

[ritaviolin]

She's soooo great!!! Thanks for uploading it!

[kwcfan]

I am astounded by her playing.!