John Adams: Violin Concerto (2001) - Ending

[fireasdf1]

I'm not saying this is bad music, but just like Boulez once said minimalist compositions are too simple to be interesting. What I'm trying to say is that there is nothing special about this, just my opinion.

[brunofelix20]

Two people have no speakers. =)

[BillyWillis89]

The performance is fantastic, but the lighting and camerawork are so over-the-top that it makes it slightly comical.

[SeBi2221996]

he is my mothers uncle

[hebrianailailai]

Great!

[MissInformati0n]

@sajrocks come on, even john adams thought it was fantastic!! be proud man. 2:17 sounds really exciting.

[sajrocks]

Bongos! 2:17.

[puffiez]

well smallest audiences then... huge fans now

[ScottAuc]

this is good but you can't get better than leila!! just saw her play it in baltimore, INCREDIBLE

[uhartchristian]

country western music in a new way.....

[jerrytomball]

This is the first piece that led me to all of John Adams' other remarkable works!

I think the Chloe Hanslip recording on Naxos is probably the most refreshing.

[Dannepihls]

@jerrytomball

But she plays this piece with way too much sautillé, in my opinion though.

[Dcomp29]

incredible

[cenolbaj]

Quite disturbing cacophonic music ...

[1944fernando]

Me saltan las lágrimas!!, no me pregunten por qué!! Increible Adams y Kovacic.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

WOW! I really like this performance on a violin as opposed to the "electric" violin...there is just no comparison to the sound...though I have not yet heard Leila's performance and I am going to get her CD

[luffy210]

my heart stopped.

[vp1981ad]

Sucks that I hadn't heard of this fantastic violinist before! Does he have a solo career or does he perform as part of an orchestra or a chamber ensemble? Either way, I hope I hear more of him - I'm going to run his name through the youtube search engine.

[xxypsilonxx]

tears in my eys...

[benleeb]

thats really great! Ernst Kovacic is definitely

underrated! He´s genial!

[Motiondust]

Even more energy than on the cd-record!

Beatifull to see the limits of possebility of playing.

[BenMcCormack91]

I don't play violin, so I wouldn't know, but I'm betting it'd be maddening to have to perform with a loose bowstring flying around.  Great performance, though. I love Gidon Kremer's, too, of course...

[dolofonos]

The Monster's dendrites must surely look like the work of a black-widow spider.

[Dangles1989]

Haha, i love those vids where they make all the players and instruments glow like that!

[franzliszt370]

I meant in a good way. Adams is without a doubt the most significant American composer living today. It's just that this performance causes me pain at what should be normal volume on my computer.

[lycadorian]

ditto!... his approach to minimalism is at a high level. He combined eastern meditative attentiveness with the Western European notions of drama and narrative. Which negates chance music which shies away from narrative.

[franzliszt370]

This hurts my eardrums, it's so unbelievably intense.

[mikolaj144]

It's the same what critics have written about Beethoven's music.

[alkanista]

Fantastic!! They can't have recorded just this fragment. Somewhere there's got to be the video of this whole performance, right? It needs to be released.

[HinZ3]

Possibly the best recording I've ever heard of this piece. Pitty there's no recording of this out there. Thank you for putting this on youtube, I really love this documentary!

[viningsbee]

Wow! He's playing the (bleep) outta that! Loved the comment by Adams as well.

[CapnKeys]

@viningsbee self-censorship=lulz