Joshua Bell plays Beethoven (3/5)

[gtyz]

go watch joshua bell playing the tchaikovsky 3rd movement during 14 yrs old if u arent convinced enough that he is absolutely fantastic.

[xoxCarlyx7]

is he using his own cadenza? if not whose is it? i want to play this cadenza lol

[jaygross803]

Whatever he does and however he does it, the resulting music is fabulous. Joshua Bell can stand on his head or dance a tango while he plays for all I care. I love this piece, and I adore the way he's playing it. So there. -J:

[22dan22dan]

Hi MATT COOPER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stefviolin1306]

WHAT CADENZA IS HE PLAYING???????

[DavideBizzarri]

Orchestra meravigliosa... Bell ogni tanto un po' troppo "barocco" ma comunque bravo

[SurayaL1]

Joshua is so deeply involved in the music that he is not feeling how his body is moving. And we are here to LISTEN to him, not to see how he moves, no? He is NOT Shakira.

[ScarletBegonia1986]

@SurayaL1 agreed. I think that the more into the music he is..the better it is. who wants to watch someone who doesnt feel the music,isnt touched by it..how can you touch others,if your not touched?

[SurayaL1]

Joshua is so deeply involved in the music that he is not feeling how his body is moving. And we are here to LISTEN to him, not to see how he moves, no?

[NateDigidyDogg]

Performance movement is completely subjective, it's a style of performance and whether you like it or not, it's absurd to critique a musician's performance or talent based on their movements. I agree that some musicians and singers have facial/bodily movements which can be less than exciting, but I would never judge them because of how engaged they themselves are by the music (or it's side-effects). Simply put, if you don't like what you see, then close your eyes and appreciate what you hear.

[legoinaboat1]

what cadenza is he playing?

[TheKIKO1698]

when i am sad i heard bell and i feel in the moment a beatifull sensation that gets my body into another part of universe.... what can i say .....hear

[youngJkim15]

superb

[TheElvissimo]

monuments are made for those who do amazing things.

critics are just the ones who tell who is amazing or not.

that's why there are no monuments for critics. why would there be?

i think joshua bell overexaggerates his movements sometimes

[345bomberman]

@TheElvissimo true, but moving with the music helps to get a good sound.

[WVR511]

Esta cadenza es de Bell?....Primera vez que la oigo y me gustaria saber al respecto

La orquesta carece de conductor o Bell la dirige ?

[mandolino79]

@WVR511 La Orpheus Chamber Orquestra desde su fundación jamás ha tenido director.

[NicodemusCoop]

Plenty of monuments have been erected to critics.

[BXQ001]

And what's about Glenn Gould?

[MilkThatEmo]

watch this on mute and lol.

[Emcakes1337]

@MilkThatEmo No point to this video then.

[unclefeezus]

Wow, the recording quality is excellent.

[OMGImaViolinist]

4:40-6:50..orgasmic.

[1psoas9]

if not St Saens -- WHO wrote this cadenza?

Wonderful performance by all hands....

[xxMagicGuyxx]

was that cadenza composed by saint-saens?

[BTC141]

Eat your heart out PBS.

[HectorJW2007]

PBS sucks... all they do is play Antiques Roadshow... and Andre Rieu

"Bleech"

- Snoopy

[BTC141]

@HectorJW2007 I echo that same sentiment.

[janebader]

Beethoven is nodding his approval. Joshua Bell is inspired from beyond this world. I love this performance.

[drccddmm]

I have never heard the cadenza played this way. Looks like Joshua Bell took liberty with it.....

[PeaceAndLard]

Who is actually watching the performance? I thought the point was to listen... What does it matter how he moves as long as he sounds amazing.

[cheakiter]

awesome amazing wonderful...

i think there are no words which could describe how this sounds oh well maybe "Joshua Bell plays Beethoven :D haha i love this music

[MusicLoverLondon]

For me, utter perfection ..... but one question - is there a conducotor?

[VelvetCat1]

@MusicLoverLondon No, there isn't. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is known for its collaborative leadership playing style, in which the musicians, not a conductor, interpret the score. Actually they won the worldwide award for the most democratic workplaces.

[goblin915]

balance,precision,an excellent interpretation!!

[rolfpeterosa]

Inner vibrations of the invisible matter move Joshua´s body. He flows with the inertia of music. He dances with the notes as if he could see them flying around him like a beautiful tornado of the soul. He writes poetry in the air. The bow is his pen.

[halneufmille]

Such a wonderful concerto. Not about tormented emotions or incredible virtuosity. Just beauty, tenderness, love, peacefulness. Very different from other of Beethoven's works like the 5th symphony for example.

[waddleduckie1]

The Beethoven piece fits perfectly with Joshua Bell's mastery of the technique with the violin. He is also more in tune to being part of the orchestra itself. I am so fond of both Beethoven and Joshua Bell.

[TheMmesser]

This a wonderful recording, glorious acoustic and that Strad really sings! Joshua Bell is possibly the finest American violinist since Isaac Stern..in reply to the question below..the cadenza was written by Bell; it is every bit as good as the great Kreisler cadenza

[daloveromania]

joshua you are so lucky, in genius talent you save your soul from this world of misery...

[TheMmesser]

so true

[rk2qt]

does anyone know who composed the cadenza?

[TheMmesser]

Bell himself compased the cadenza

[987bry]

Lovely cadenza ! ! !

[halneufmille]

At 3:30, it looks like the Japanese violonist behind is thinking: well, not bad, but I could do that too...

[animeghibli]

is this guy famous or something? cause i'm going to see him this year w/ my orchestra.

[phoolisness]

don't know whether to blame it on the violin or the violinist, but that sounds pretty good.

[comanco1954]

Joshua, ti ricordi a Parma?

[Ttennets]

Simply beautiful.

[traslavc]

Great cadenza, I wonder if it was improvised?

[halneufmille]

Never in a thousand years!

[sanclspbr1]

I´m from Brazil and Joshua Bell is KAKA OF VIOLIN, RSRSRSRSRS

[halneufmille]

0:10

[ifeellikekissing]

i met him before...he's a nice guy and he smells good.

[HomerGlop]

it's fantastic. i don't have words to express it.

[katongougakyunojutsu]

there's no such a thing as words to express how fantastic is it, only music

[quijanoart2001]

Will be very interesting that Joshua Bell play a great guarnery dal jesus one day.

[rpowarz]

I love it !

[louiseduvee]

Once in a great while, you get a preview of Heaven. Thank you.

[sosinovitch]

I love how uniquely romantic and splendid his tone is. He has one of the most passionate and energetic tones amongst the giants of the violin world.

[someone91510]

Well all of you have the right to disagree with me, but one of the most important reasons for my fanaticism of Joshua Bell stems from his movement. I might just have weird taste, but he's always able to entrance me into his music with his movements.

[goforic]

Oh come on.. Josh is awesome. It's like saying oh I do not like Tiger woods swing. The movements are part of the music & rhythym.

[mario54671]

@goforic I can usually tolerate theatrics here and there (even though they're not needed to make the performance any better), but they should be backed up by a moving performance musically, this would be the case, so I don't mind him doing so. But if it's let's name not a violinist, but a pianist, Lang Lang, who not only goes way too far with theatrics, but who also gives nothing but crazy movements, no music in his playing. So here, I can tolerate Bell's movements.

[vyvyanos]

@mario54671

youtube.com/watch?v=Dz_BlYlBi4­0

I respectfully disagree.

[NiceVideos11]

@mario54671

Um actually I feel that movement does help the creation and momentum of the sound, and can also assist in the musicality of a phrase. If you think about it... how does one create music... with movement... how is sound created.... through vibrations and the MOVING of air. Music when it is done right comes alive. Music is a living breathing moving entity.

[mario54671]

@NiceVideos11 Yes, but certain movements are unnecessary. They don't do anything to the performance, in fact, they actually distract you in many ways. Are you saying Rubinstein and Horowitz "could've used a lot more body movement" in their performances? They were able to create music with the movement of their fingers, not their body.

[zt1lblmao]

@mario54671 it's a live performance mother fucker, u can close ur god damn eyes if you don't like it.

[mario54671]

@zt1lblmao I was simply saying I don't like it to a point. I didn't say I disliked the performance, because there was still music there. I was simply saying it gets bad when there's no music left because the person decided to resort to ONLY theatrics, instead.

And my, what a mouth do you have. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

[zt1lblmao]

@mario54671 and my, who gives a shit. stop being a baby.

[mario54671]

@zt1lblmao So...you DO? Lovely. :)

No one's being a baby about anything. It's just a bit odd, you know? I'm expressing how I don't like movement in general (not attacking Joshua Bell's performance here, as you somehow misunderstood), and you and your filthy mouth come over here and spout out a bunch of nonsense and give nothing insightful to this rather old conversation. ;)

[zt1lblmao]

@mario54671 It -is- just a bit odd, you know? I'm expressing how you're a baby and you're having a tantrum over it (not attacking you here, well, who am I kidding yes I am) also you're a monkey

[tyrannicoystercult]

@zt1lblmao i'm enjoying the performance, then scroll down, and what i find annoying here is you not the other guy.

fantastic bit, if a bit masturbatory

[primadonna101]

I agree that the cadenza is marvelous, albeit an acquired taste. What I don't understand is how a classically trained musician with TENS OF THOUSANDS of hours of practice could possibly have been able to develop and KEEP the habit of moving so discordantly. It astounds me. This is the first time I have seen Joshua Bell play, and I must remark that his constant, seemingly ungovernable movement is most unfitting and distracting.

[anarchy24586]

Who cares about training, the guy is one of the best their is. If he wants to move like that while playing, he is more than welcome to do so!

When you can play as good as him, you can complain. It is clear that HE is the featured performer here, not the other 30 talented unknowns on the stage.

[SoulNinjaClub]

Well Primadonna101 i disagree with your comment completely, to me his movements show that he is completely into the the piece he is playing, if he were just standing still while playing i would possibly get the feeling that he didnt enjoy the piece he was playing

[javideleon24]

I think this cadenza is marvelous, and the way he Bell plays it...wow

[guarneri20]

The fact that Kreisler wrote a cadenza doesn't mean it must be played for the next 100+ years.....

A think that a true artist has to play his own cadenza and that's exactly what Bell does. Why don't you like?? I'm surprised!

[NoX29]

oh shit!!! what a waste!!!! excelent concert, but the cadenza :S:S:S:S:S:S horrible.......

[brianfan1]

His cadenza spoiled the excellent music of Beethoven.

[thudunder]

never heard that cadenza before. is it new?

[violinmaniac666]

the violinist will often compose his/her own cadenza with a basic structure provided by Beethove, and this was what Bell made. So there isn't really a "new cadenza", because there are probably dozens of different versions

[amapparat]

Regarding taste: the good ones stay at home, are not on any famous stages :) and: they are not valuable for any hedge fonds of the big companies.

[jaafarshinobi]

mama mia !!!!

[oldmutti]

You enjoy it more if you only listen but do not watch him playing. This should not be a gym performance...Violin music has to flow out of the fingers. It is not necessary to be a contortionist!

[PanamaCabana]

Yeah but, hes expressing emotion. The people see what he really thinks of the music rather than standing as straight as a bored. Hes just enjoying it. Thats what its all about. I would much rather see that as an audience member than to see him still. As long as it dosnt effect his technique, which it certainly sounds like it dosnt.

[oldmutti]

I think it´s a personal taste. He enjoys expressing his feelings that way and you enjoy seeing it. In my case, it distracts me from enjoying the author and the concert as such, to listen to my own feelings, as I keep watching the "show" ! But I respect your position.

[1TheSorrow]

oldmutti: You're so incoherent. you first state 'Violin music shouldn't be a gym perfomance', then you state "it's personal taste". Jesus Christ, every musician is this pretentious?

[someone91510]

Well I guess it's your opinion, but personally, I think the movement (even if it's found distasteful) may just be for the sole purpose of giving the audience something to look at, to be interested in. In cases like this, the soloist is comparable to a conductor like Leonard Bernstein. Even the other violins are moving quite a bit.

[dafiddler2004]

I agree, and at times the motion is distracting, BUT and that's a big BUT, the Cadenza is masterfully concieved AND executed, eyes opened or closed. I frequently disagree or am surprised by things he does. But one cannot question his integrity or sincerity of purpose in this reading. Also, it's pretty damned good from a strictly instrumental standpoint, provided the listener isn't undly biased towards more tonally opulent , visceral playing

[johntomfoolery]

Distasteful. This recording makes me a little sick to my stomach. I understand he plays this piece very well and it's just my musical taste here but I much prefer most other recordings and my favorite is definitely Heifetz. Joshua Bell sounds to me like he's only concerned with himself, not the music, not Beethoven or the orchestra or the audience, just himself. It's extremely self-indulgent playing I hear exemplified by the gaudy cadenza. Sorry to all that like it.

[DoubleGauss]

No monument was ever erected to a critique.

[phoolisness]

and they're so jealous they have to criticize anyone who might get one.

[Neopluto]

Oh wow, I watched a couple videos of the younger classical violinists, and they were mostly lacking in the emotion department, but Bell has got it down here. It makes me want to get back into classical music. Sigh

[richlook1]

The merits of the cadenza aside (I was floored by it), this is a brilliant account of one of the masterworks of all music. Soloist and orchestra are in top form, and the magnificent acoustics of Suntory Hall are unmistakable.

As to how much Bell moves around when playing, Sr. Violista... Violista? Of course, now I understand!

[violista2266]

Me cargó su cadenza, la de Kraisler es superior y mucho más bonita, cualquier cadenza hecha posterior a la de Kreisler...., ufffff....bien feitas.., nnguna le ha hecho el peso.

Con respecto a Bell, si, si toca bien el muchacho pero se mueve mucho y este concierto necesita un poco de más de sobriedad para tocarlo...no sé de donde sacan estos nuevos violinistas como Chang especialmente(es una verguenza como se mueve ...)que creeran que al moverse más les saldrá mejor la performance....

[DarkZodiark]

awesome cadenza!

[jodycheung90]

Bell's cadenza is awesome! I prefer his, as well as Kreisler's most =D

I think Bell's marvellous cadenza in Brahms' Violin Concerto in D is also worth listening...

[Andante444]

Great cadenza. Bell should do more writing, he's quite gifted.

[Dogaradodia]

Bravissimo! The world needs to hear new cadenzas.

[ojyarumaru]

Wow, his cadenza is gorgeousness over gorgeousity.

[uriebae]

I LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC!!!*

[molecram]

He use to play the violin concertos with cadenzas written by himself, pretty amazing this one

[jagon69]

Not totally sure, but I think the cadenza was written by Bell himself.

[flodobaggins]

Yes, it's his cadenza. To cross-check, listen to his Mendelssohn-Beethoven Violin Concerti cd.

[TheBowIsMightier]

yep

[cellodude1]

Amazing, cazenza perfect.... Very, Very satisfied....

[thehackrz]

who's cadenza is that?