My criticism was to expose this violinist's errant way. If he doesn't change his act up then he'll never move anyone to tears but puppets and children, and, oh, idiots like his supporting critics.
Sounds maudlin, unsincere, forced, and the playing is too rubato ......there;s no charm to this performance. He has no true sense of european old world beauty....but, alas, he is just a new york city street violin talent .
I love his playing it touches my soul. Did not come to look at him but to hear him play. He at one time lived only 1.4 mile from my home and inspired my own daughters to play. Last time I saw him in London he was wonderful people applauded for 20 minutes. Nupa Maka L Cota
He used to be so cute ten years ago. He needs some neck lip and maybe a facelift. And lose some weight. And get a different violin-- I don't care if it is a 4 million dollar Gibson strad. I don't care for the sound of it.
This is the best representation of the song that I've heard so far. Such a tender way to play, he absolutely caught all the emotions of the piece and managed to make it sound THAT beautiful.
Being a violinist myself, I can tell that he has worked each phrase over and over until he has gotten it exactly how he wanted to. The way he goes into some of the softer phrases without pressing too hard on the bow at the wrong moment is actually very hard to do consistently. Of course, he plays a Strad. . .so maybe that kind of intricate bowing is easier on a strad. Doubt it.
@losmoneyful After hearing this song, a studio version perhaps by Bell himself, over and over, I can tell he's definately rushing some phrases, to the point where they're not mere inflictions but rather musical errors. I don't think this is his best performance of the song, but if you've seen him live, I've heard it's like nothing else, so I'm sure it equals out.
@losmoneyful Beautifully said, you are saying you can hear every sweats and tears from his tune.......how many times we shed our tears and sweat over our desires without cause, instead we could shed those into something more beautiful.
I am sad for the lost tears and sweats of this world.
Argh.... I love listening to this, Joshua actually plays it very well, so effortless and stuff, but I just can't watch him play. He holds violin and bow in such an awful way... makes my teeth grind...
@LooneyNina Well I suppose one takes from that there is no one right way to play beautifully? It's whatever works for you. (Glenn Gould used to play in an overcoat and hum along :))
anybody who posts their negative criticism on his playing should do so with a video post of themselves doing it the right way, if unable to do so , if not shut the Fuck up !!
@musicislife748 Into it for sure. It's rare and never celebrated enough when someone is miraculously able, despite everything in the world that exists to stop it from happening, that someone can gain such command and control of their craft to produce such beauty so effortlessly as to create a view of elysium. You can only sit back, sigh and say my God what a beautiful epiphany! Got to enjoy it while you can, I don't care who you are.
@DBHAYES82 That was the most beautiful thing I've ever read. You must be the first person I've met who has been able to describe the feelings I feel when I listen to astounding music like this
It's not a big deal, just an observation. My accompanist is gay and he's so sure Bell is too he's determined to score a date at some point. I've encouraged him to consider all the poor ladies he's going to be angering. Lol!
I don't care who he's sleeps with, Bell is a great player.
@musicalidea...Idiot, plenty of gay people I know are wonderful parents, Bell just doesn't happen strike me as one of them. But his playing is marvelous. As far as encouraging me to kill myself, you first.
i had the privilege of watching him play in Singapore, and i can assure all of you that his music is beyond the description of words. the words which come closest: tranquil, alluring, mystical, heavenly. A sweetness beyond compare.
Joshua Bell does for the violin what Lang Lang does for the piano. Their movement at the instrument is awkward, looks contrived, and off-putting for the viewer. Maybe it's a modern phenomenon - the stage is so filled with artists they feel the urge to be different in order to sell their "product". The old masters, whether it be Heifetz for the violin or Horowitz for the piano, never resorted to histrionics. And here, one really has to close one's eyes and just listen to the music....
Joshua Bell has got the bulltshit figured out. Pretty boy makes the teenage girls get gooey in their panties, all of those who know NOTHING about classical music; he makes the little blue haired ladies think he is the "darling of the classics" inspite of those rather obvious mistakes (usually when he's high). Yep!
It's part and parcel of the 21st Century concert goers; musically illiterate and loving pretty-boi 'closet cases' from the get-go.
@rumpwrestler If you're going to attack his actions, it's more atrocious to keep his girlfriend in his life as a baby factory, hired servant to raise the kids he's too gay to comitt to. And that's the reason I like to listen to him but...I don't buy his CD's and I don't run to his concerts.
@MiloArc Your homophobia is as uninteresting as it is ignorant. Kill yourself in a novel way - even for a grand cause if you like. This might be a better application of your mental energies.
To the critics: go learn the piece, make a video of yourself playing it markedly better than Bell and post it so so we may all join in your delusions of grandeur.
If we lived in a world where critics could not critique until they learned the piece they were judging, how would we be able to know the difference between the good and the bad?
But I enjoyed to try out how far I can get at learning to play that piece.
Actually this video is the most beautiful version of Love Sorrow I could find on YouTube. Better than the original (due to the recording quality). I don't think, one can improve.
es un magnifico violinista , si tan solo pudiera lograr que autografiara mi violin y que tocara un par de notas en mi violin seria el mas feliz del mundo
@moranrd The reason why his histrionics are irksome & disrespectful is that they allow surfeited bourgeois concert-goers and petty professionals 2 congratulate themselves 4 some vague sense of sympathy when expropriating this humble tune about peasant suffering & longing in their over-done, super-infused 30 seconds of 'folk' . It detracts from the social context of the Kreisler tune, which was itself already bourgeois-ified enough. But you'll never see what I'm driving at, obvious as it is.
@moranrd How can the plaintive descending 4th sequence of the Liebeslied be felt properly - on top of the chromatic oboe line - when one does not feel the simultaneous arduousness and sweet nostalgia of the Shtetl? the commitment to one another amidst mutual oppression. Well even Kreisler had a certain petty kitsch to his arrangement of these humble cries for bankers and upward-aspiring shopkeepers...but one can hear the class longing of their origins even still.
Your writing sounds like that of a first year arts student (or the french post modernist social texts). Either your readers won't understand your writing, or they'll be put off by the self important tone. Complexity doesn't imply profundity.
"...but one can hear the class longing of their origins even still."
@ethositachi Ok. If anything, my comment was a squarely "Modernist" 1; there's nothing "Postmodern" about it. What's so pretentious or "complex" abt the wording? All I'm saying is that the collective struggle of an oppressed peasant class & the feelings of hope they cherished in their melodies were expropriated & mocked by a histrionic, overdone, saccharine performance by Bell, & - to a lesser extent - by Kreisler in his cheesy setting. This allows the indifferent consumerists to feel authentic.
I'm playing Liebesfreud on the saxophone for a recital soon, it's actually quite straight-forward on that instrument. Perhaps it's the way a violin's strings are tuned that makes it trickier?
Are you kidding me?! This guy's the reason why I love the violin so much. He brings out the expression and feeling of the instrument and music. I've been an avid fan for the the last 19 years. I think I have all his recordings.
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American violinists (Bell, Chang, Perlman, etc.) focus more on musicality. European violinists (Kavakos, Markov, etc.) have absolutely solid technique. European violinists don't get much attention in the U.S. because of that.
wefasdf23, it seems that you actually don't know nothing about
violinists :D No one from your ''american violinists'' isn't american... Bell's mother is jewish, Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, so he has jewish ancestry, ok she born in usa, but parents are from Korea (1st) and 2nd i don't like how she plays... she isn't so musical... So you see the best violinist are jewish people ;) Americans just like to call them americans when they move to USA and play in Carnegie hall for example :)
I'm not speaking genetically, I'm speaking culturally. Violinists with an American cultural upbringing.
Ya, if I meant actually purebred Americans, that wouldn't make sense, understanding that an American isn't a pure breed. I referred to the American culture.
As a violinist I must say; the movement of the body in context with the violin (which remains fixed because of his shoulder rest) is somewhat awkward.
He always does that movement, when he plays Ave Maria he does that too, he's used to do that. I'm a violinist too and some ppl say to me that i'm too expresive, almost dramatic lol, and don't even notice that when i'm paying, maybe for him that's natural too. ;)
Das Lied erinnert mich an meine große Liebe die ich schon seit 2001 in meinem Herzen trage und die Hoffnung niemals aufgebe das wir doch noch zusammen glücklich werden... Kathi I miss you !!
I like the moving. Imagine having the ability to completely withdraw from the world and live inside each and every note. The moving is simply a byproduct of this phenomenal talent.
Beautiful. The only thing I dont like about Bell is that the sways too much, but fortunately you dont have to see him when you listen to his CDs hehehe. But hey, he is a genius not only with the violin strings but also with the heart strings. I really feel the emotion in his playing. I have Kreisler's version as well as Vanessa Mae's version and I think Bell's version is definately the best.
What a wonderful piece! Today Mr. Joshua Bell is one of the best violinists in the world! His "Strad" looks like the Nathan Milstein´s violin, a genious of the past. There is a wonderful film called "The Red Violin" and you can see it complete in You Tube! Twelve marvelous chapters! For violin lovers!
you know, you hear about joshua bell, sophie mutter, sarah chang etc all the time. what about others who have also at least debuted in Carnegie hall but you never hear about after that. is it just luck?
If two or three other players behind Mr Bell did all the airy fairy movements in time with him they would be thrown out of the orchestra for taking the MICK! I`m with the old guys on this one.Too many women in that group as well.
That's the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra behind him. I played in that group 30 years ago. Lovely playing all around but it's very hard to watch Joshua.........
Bell does a good imitation of Kreisler but there is actually a world of subtle difference between them that some of us can hear - and some cannot. Kreisler is charming stylish and expressive without showboating. I always get the impression that modern violinists use music more to impress us with THEIR virtuosity while older violinists used music more to impress us with the MUSIC's aesthetic beauty. Its a subtle but powerful difference.
I don't think it would be possible to perfectly imitate any violonist. Or that would mean they weren't REALLY brilliant and would diminish their talent. I value originality and I like to think that those differences Bell and Kreisler's plays you are talking about are allowing us, listeners to understand and capture another dimension of the piece.
MEDIOCRE? Are you just totally insane and deaf on top of it? Turn your blame Beltone on and listen to this--my heart weeps..it leaps..what other violinist can do all of this with the stroke of the bow. The man is utter genius. Only a fool would miss the emotion that Bell can illicit..and should have to waste on trash that cannot understand and dare to underate him. Remove yourself from my space...Uncle Junior KNOWS good music.
kneeling over like that while doing staccatos actually shifts some of the weight to your arm, which makes it easy to do staccato if you have restricted upper arm movement.
As IF the great Bell should have to resort to any tricks to operate his stacatto..he is above such. He has the best bow arm in the world! Uncle JUNIOR KNOWS>
When I was conducter of the NYP I knew people just like you...total morons who thought they knew it all. BE GONE IDIOT. You are not worthy of listening to Bell
Great performance from Josh as usual.
Does anyone here know have sheet music for liebesleid?
I can trade you for a copy of liebesfreud -- win win :)
246trinitrotoluene 3 days ago
Awesome, it was great to hear. As for haters will always be haters
deathblade909 1 month ago
My criticism was to expose this violinist's errant way. If he doesn't change his act up then he'll never move anyone to tears but puppets and children, and, oh, idiots like his supporting critics.
freeqwerqwer 1 month ago
@freeqwerqwer lol successful troll is successful
Imbetterthanmost 1 month ago
BRAVO! Delicious!
poluboyar 1 month ago in playlist joshua bell the Violinist of the Century
Sounds maudlin, unsincere, forced, and the playing is too rubato ......there;s no charm to this performance. He has no true sense of european old world beauty....but, alas, he is just a new york city street violin talent .
freeqwerqwer 2 months ago
@freeqwerqwer WHAT a load of crocksh!t!
Firestoner46 1 month ago
@freeqwerqwer idiot!...put your video moron f u think ur good...asshole
jackieanna117 1 month ago in playlist Joshua Bell
@freeqwerqwer lol he's from indiana tard
Imbetterthanmost 1 month ago
I love these themes
OtakuTepic 3 months ago
Sorry: The Genious is Kreisler, as komponist...
nakkeleLE 3 months ago
Syncro .... Music and ballet ! Awesome !..... Sau , cum ar zice Nenea Iancu : Mai rar cadumneata , bibicule !
inocentiu5 4 months ago
I love this! Joshua plays the violin with so much heart and love. Keep on playing!! It's not just a hobby or job, it your soul!
Anzhela2 4 months ago
I love his playing it touches my soul. Did not come to look at him but to hear him play. He at one time lived only 1.4 mile from my home and inspired my own daughters to play. Last time I saw him in London he was wonderful people applauded for 20 minutes. Nupa Maka L Cota
Nupamaka 4 months ago
Marvelous, excellent interpretation, great violinist, thank you
Jaimejimmyjim 4 months ago
phönomenale interpretation,einer der besten die ich kenne.
puccini4711 5 months ago
I like Joshua Bell, but for this particular piece, I actually prefer Gingold's version. I find it more spontaneous and bittersweet.
primaverashima 5 months ago
he kinda stands funny...but he's so good. Those triple stopped up bows are not as easy as they sound or look.
weirdviolinfreak 5 months ago
He used to be so cute ten years ago. He needs some neck lip and maybe a facelift. And lose some weight. And get a different violin-- I don't care if it is a 4 million dollar Gibson strad. I don't care for the sound of it.
jason101other 6 months ago
@jason101other That's not shallow at all....
maxianart 5 months ago
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musicrocks9 6 months ago
Perfekt, Genial.
jozanesszel 7 months ago
Oh my....how wonderful
Mamasan41 7 months ago
Brabo!! thank you!! great!!
Kttyts9485323 7 months ago in playlist クラシック
he should really change his hair style.
PersianPianist12 7 months ago
Absolutely Beautiful Music! Thank you so much for sharing.
masteroftheeouse 8 months ago
:) this is soo awesome:)
equineface 8 months ago
sounds so vulnerable, if that makes sense... :) Just wonderful!
musicislife748 8 months ago
Can hardly like the strings accompaniment...which made the piece sounds like some disney sound track.
victordesabata 8 months ago
This is the best representation of the song that I've heard so far. Such a tender way to play, he absolutely caught all the emotions of the piece and managed to make it sound THAT beautiful.
Adnama3697 9 months ago
me encantaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
enyagenial 9 months ago
love love love love love love love love love :)
bananapark14 9 months ago
Being a violinist myself, I can tell that he has worked each phrase over and over until he has gotten it exactly how he wanted to. The way he goes into some of the softer phrases without pressing too hard on the bow at the wrong moment is actually very hard to do consistently. Of course, he plays a Strad. . .so maybe that kind of intricate bowing is easier on a strad. Doubt it.
losmoneyful 10 months ago 24
@losmoneyful After hearing this song, a studio version perhaps by Bell himself, over and over, I can tell he's definately rushing some phrases, to the point where they're not mere inflictions but rather musical errors. I don't think this is his best performance of the song, but if you've seen him live, I've heard it's like nothing else, so I'm sure it equals out.
Quandrify 5 months ago
@losmoneyful Not being a violinist myself, I like it anyway.
circusitch 2 months ago
@losmoneyful $2000 bow right there.
MyBrieCheese100 2 months ago
@losmoneyful Beautifully said, you are saying you can hear every sweats and tears from his tune.......how many times we shed our tears and sweat over our desires without cause, instead we could shed those into something more beautiful.
I am sad for the lost tears and sweats of this world.
TheDirectorWong 1 day ago
I just love this :D
manyworlds123456789 10 months ago 3
I like listening to him play more than I like watching.
farragatish 10 months ago
Argh.... I love listening to this, Joshua actually plays it very well, so effortless and stuff, but I just can't watch him play. He holds violin and bow in such an awful way... makes my teeth grind...
LooneyNina 11 months ago 3
@LooneyNina Well I suppose one takes from that there is no one right way to play beautifully? It's whatever works for you. (Glenn Gould used to play in an overcoat and hum along :))
firestartertwistedfi 10 months ago
que maravilha joshua! voce me surpreende.
marlidemelo1 11 months ago
21 people have absolutely no taste in music.
violinjuggler 1 year ago
@violinjuggler AGREE WITH YOU100%
steinwaygrande1 1 year ago
anybody who posts their negative criticism on his playing should do so with a video post of themselves doing it the right way, if unable to do so , if not shut the Fuck up !!
aryanc77 1 year ago 12
@aryanc77 I agree with you 100% . Too many smart alecs who know little if anything about good music
steinwaygrande1 1 year ago
Slips at 6:37-38? Nonetheless I applaud Bell's interpretation!!
khira07 1 year ago
I fucking hate his movement while he plays...
theblackcomp111 1 year ago
@theblackcomp111
I have to disagree. I see his movements as much a part of the performance as his playing, but that's just my opinion.
1032974b 1 year ago 3
@theblackcomp111 Shut up, he's into it.
musicislife748 8 months ago
@musicislife748 Into it for sure. It's rare and never celebrated enough when someone is miraculously able, despite everything in the world that exists to stop it from happening, that someone can gain such command and control of their craft to produce such beauty so effortlessly as to create a view of elysium. You can only sit back, sigh and say my God what a beautiful epiphany! Got to enjoy it while you can, I don't care who you are.
DBHAYES82 6 months ago
@DBHAYES82 That was the most beautiful thing I've ever read. You must be the first person I've met who has been able to describe the feelings I feel when I listen to astounding music like this
musicislife748 6 months ago
Why is his sexual orientation being discussed? What a shallow conversation in the face of such unadulterated and incredible talent...
HeedleGlavin 1 year ago
It's not a big deal, just an observation. My accompanist is gay and he's so sure Bell is too he's determined to score a date at some point. I've encouraged him to consider all the poor ladies he's going to be angering. Lol!
I don't care who he's sleeps with, Bell is a great player.
MiloArc 1 year ago
@musicalidea...Idiot, plenty of gay people I know are wonderful parents, Bell just doesn't happen strike me as one of them. But his playing is marvelous. As far as encouraging me to kill myself, you first.
MiloArc 1 year ago
i had the privilege of watching him play in Singapore, and i can assure all of you that his music is beyond the description of words. the words which come closest: tranquil, alluring, mystical, heavenly. A sweetness beyond compare.
cowlikesbeef 1 year ago
Joshua Bell does for the violin what Lang Lang does for the piano. Their movement at the instrument is awkward, looks contrived, and off-putting for the viewer. Maybe it's a modern phenomenon - the stage is so filled with artists they feel the urge to be different in order to sell their "product". The old masters, whether it be Heifetz for the violin or Horowitz for the piano, never resorted to histrionics. And here, one really has to close one's eyes and just listen to the music....
TimAnders44 1 year ago
Beautiufl music, played so well, by the talented Joshua Bell.
playjazzpiano 1 year ago
come on girls,is there a connection betwen sexual orientation and the music presented tothe audience?
leontud 1 year ago
This is splendid playing. Bravo.
PECTOR1 1 year ago
he has a tense bow arm
5felixfelicis5 1 year ago
magical... I`m playing it at the moment too, so it`s a good example to follow:)
BSBua5star 1 year ago
very good
keyon808 1 year ago
C'mon, dude, he tripped my gay-dar a long time ago. I still like listening to him.
MiloArc 1 year ago
@MiloArc don't think he's gay, but then again who cares?
astrogeek15 1 year ago
Joshua Bell has got the bulltshit figured out. Pretty boy makes the teenage girls get gooey in their panties, all of those who know NOTHING about classical music; he makes the little blue haired ladies think he is the "darling of the classics" inspite of those rather obvious mistakes (usually when he's high). Yep!
It's part and parcel of the 21st Century concert goers; musically illiterate and loving pretty-boi 'closet cases' from the get-go.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
@rumpwrestler If you're going to attack his actions, it's more atrocious to keep his girlfriend in his life as a baby factory, hired servant to raise the kids he's too gay to comitt to. And that's the reason I like to listen to him but...I don't buy his CD's and I don't run to his concerts.
MiloArc 1 year ago
@MiloArc Your homophobia is as uninteresting as it is ignorant. Kill yourself in a novel way - even for a grand cause if you like. This might be a better application of your mental energies.
musicalidea 1 year ago
@rumpwrestler So, as a person, he kind of sucks. However he does play much better than I ever will.
MiloArc 1 year ago
@rumpwrestler you remind me of the old saw : "Better remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
firestartertwistedfi 11 months ago
I wish the audio was louder!
silasha 1 year ago
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i remember when i played with him he's amazing
ITSzJEAn 1 year ago
i remember when i played with him he's amazing
ITSzJEAn 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing! The sound Joshua produces represents the altimate beauty of the sound the humanity is capable of. Thanks a bundle Joshua!!
dragon51527 1 year ago
Good interpretation
MoGotMilk 1 year ago
How do you pronounce the song? Liebesleid.
Thanks
MrYamable 1 year ago
@MrYamable
they are german.
its "Lee-bus-lie-d"
and "lee-bus-froi-d"
JosuaLouie 1 year ago
Just perfect! Bravo! :)
rebeccanubodys 1 year ago
Bravó!!!!!!
cindike 1 year ago
absolutely brilliant!
weiyuan919 1 year ago
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This guy is fucked up..i mean he sucks. Cute, stiff little puppet, i liked the puppet-dance who moved the strings by the way....
trogerhunter 1 year ago
Hvilken Gave at få,at man kan Trylle så smukt
MrOflor 1 year ago
Can anybody tell me what DVD is this from ? I really want to buy this show. Thanks!
diegomax 1 year ago
One of my favourite interpretations so far.
diegomax 1 year ago
everything he plays it touches me with sentiment...love from Greece
purple4irene 1 year ago 3
I've played Liebesleid a number of times and it's great to hear so many quite distinct interpretations of it. This beautiful version is my favourite.
enalevets 1 year ago
oh it's great!!!
EFBCORP 1 year ago
It will be my wedding song..
alkalicja 1 year ago
lindo encantamento !
gloriaazevedo 1 year ago
OMG LOVE THIS TUNE :-)
asero83 1 year ago
Que lindo como disfruta y transmite el disfrute de su arte
85plenilunio 1 year ago
To the critics: go learn the piece, make a video of yourself playing it markedly better than Bell and post it so so we may all join in your delusions of grandeur.
MiloArc 2 years ago 113
If we lived in a world where critics could not critique until they learned the piece they were judging, how would we be able to know the difference between the good and the bad?
kilace 2 years ago
I would by no means say mine would be better.
But I enjoyed to try out how far I can get at learning to play that piece.
Actually this video is the most beautiful version of Love Sorrow I could find on YouTube. Better than the original (due to the recording quality). I don't think, one can improve.
Btw: added mine as video response
lazererazer 1 year ago
@MiloArc
then first get me a violin like his ... prob. one of the 10 most expensive violins there are :)
Donluggy 1 year ago
@Donluggy ....Oh, so spend enough money and you can pick up technique and talent. Why, I never knew...: )
MiloArc 1 year ago
@Donluggy You want it handed to you? May I be the first to say 'Welcome to Earth.'
MiloArc 1 year ago
@MiloArc He dances that well because he's gay.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
dont you think he would be working up a sweat playing like that? no offence though he does sound REALLY good.
oreaos 2 years ago 2
I think he's sweating before he plays the piece- probably because he finished playing a different piece that required alot of emotion and precision.
fluteHinata 2 years ago 3
es un magnifico violinista , si tan solo pudiera lograr que autografiara mi violin y que tocara un par de notas en mi violin seria el mas feliz del mundo
joseeduardo1983 2 years ago
a little dancing star...
ina1470 2 years ago
His histrionics are irksome and disrespectful.
musicalidea 2 years ago
i agree
daphnechan12 2 years ago
@musicalidea is irksome and disrespectful, to say the least!
moranrd 1 year ago
@moranrd The reason why his histrionics are irksome & disrespectful is that they allow surfeited bourgeois concert-goers and petty professionals 2 congratulate themselves 4 some vague sense of sympathy when expropriating this humble tune about peasant suffering & longing in their over-done, super-infused 30 seconds of 'folk' . It detracts from the social context of the Kreisler tune, which was itself already bourgeois-ified enough. But you'll never see what I'm driving at, obvious as it is.
musicalidea 1 year ago
@moranrd How can the plaintive descending 4th sequence of the Liebeslied be felt properly - on top of the chromatic oboe line - when one does not feel the simultaneous arduousness and sweet nostalgia of the Shtetl? the commitment to one another amidst mutual oppression. Well even Kreisler had a certain petty kitsch to his arrangement of these humble cries for bankers and upward-aspiring shopkeepers...but one can hear the class longing of their origins even still.
musicalidea 1 year ago
@musicalidea
Your writing sounds like that of a first year arts student (or the french post modernist social texts). Either your readers won't understand your writing, or they'll be put off by the self important tone. Complexity doesn't imply profundity.
"...but one can hear the class longing of their origins even still."
LOL
ethositachi 1 year ago
@ethositachi Ok. If anything, my comment was a squarely "Modernist" 1; there's nothing "Postmodern" about it. What's so pretentious or "complex" abt the wording? All I'm saying is that the collective struggle of an oppressed peasant class & the feelings of hope they cherished in their melodies were expropriated & mocked by a histrionic, overdone, saccharine performance by Bell, & - to a lesser extent - by Kreisler in his cheesy setting. This allows the indifferent consumerists to feel authentic.
musicalidea 1 year ago
Musicaldea is irksome and disrespectful!
moranrd 1 year ago
Who are the orchestrra and conductor?
Garpinator 2 years ago
orpheus chamber orchestra
icet827 2 years ago
Look for a DVD named: "The Art of violin"
The old masters will "blow you away"!
maxhansendk 2 years ago 3
very true
BeneBon 2 years ago
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Really boring play.
Listen to "the classics" instead:
Neveu, Oistrakh, Kogan, Heifetz, Szeryng, Ferras and of course Kreisler himself!
maxhansendk 2 years ago
Wonderful playing as always from Bell. Was fortunate to hear him play in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmoniker....a great experience!
mpj67 2 years ago
awesome!
Liebesfreud was one of the harder pieces I played back when I used to play- he makes it look so easy!
Fritz Kreisler FTW imo!
copyfaxscan 2 years ago 12
I'm playing Liebesfreud on the saxophone for a recital soon, it's actually quite straight-forward on that instrument. Perhaps it's the way a violin's strings are tuned that makes it trickier?
drewflav 2 years ago
Yeah, playing 3 strings at once in tune like that is harder than it sounds!
copyfaxscan 2 years ago
@drewflav
the adapted revision is just easier that's all.
teh5o 2 years ago
i actually got to meet him when he came down to miami to play with the new world symphony and vladmir ashkanazy was the conductor
RedSteel142 2 years ago
Unlike others I do love his expressions and movements, you have to be a true performer to understand the thrill and joy that some music can give you!
kikapulido 2 years ago
plays nicely but the appearance and the moves...
somewhat disliked. as if he's silently screaming:
"wow look at me, I'm such a genius!" Could well be more self-contained and humble.
assa123assa123 2 years ago
haha assa123assa123 i reply to ur comment once again, except not on vanessa mae.
i think his movement may well just be natural for him. i kinda find it a bit awkward, but i doubt that hes trying to be arrogant.
if u think this guy has awkward movements, then lang lang...omg lol, that kid needs to give up haha
prayformercy4 2 years ago
yeah, but he is, so what can one say, haha.
jL0v3 2 years ago
Are you kidding me?! This guy's the reason why I love the violin so much. He brings out the expression and feeling of the instrument and music. I've been an avid fan for the the last 19 years. I think I have all his recordings.
yankebloke 2 years ago
@assa123assa123 is judgemental
moranrd 1 year ago
his movements are strange,because he is trying to conduct the orchestra...
rihannalover93 2 years ago
Sexy!!
username14657 2 years ago
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American violinists (Bell, Chang, Perlman, etc.) focus more on musicality. European violinists (Kavakos, Markov, etc.) have absolutely solid technique. European violinists don't get much attention in the U.S. because of that.
wefasdf23 2 years ago
wefasdf23, it seems that you actually don't know nothing about
violinists :D No one from your ''american violinists'' isn't american... Bell's mother is jewish, Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, so he has jewish ancestry, ok she born in usa, but parents are from Korea (1st) and 2nd i don't like how she plays... she isn't so musical... So you see the best violinist are jewish people ;) Americans just like to call them americans when they move to USA and play in Carnegie hall for example :)
CardiHack 2 years ago 4
I'm not speaking genetically, I'm speaking culturally. Violinists with an American cultural upbringing.
Ya, if I meant actually purebred Americans, that wouldn't make sense, understanding that an American isn't a pure breed. I referred to the American culture.
wefasdf23 2 years ago
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prayformercy4 2 years ago
besides who are you, that you can say something like that. XD
cybertronixxx 2 years ago
i was replying to wefasdf23, he was saying that european violinists are not well known because they focus on solid techniques
prayformercy4 2 years ago
As a violinist I must say; the movement of the body in context with the violin (which remains fixed because of his shoulder rest) is somewhat awkward.
wefasdf23 2 years ago
You are wrong again... why you call every violinist who comes and works in USA Classical Music industry - american? It's really wierd!
CardiHack 2 years ago
He always does that movement, when he plays Ave Maria he does that too, he's used to do that. I'm a violinist too and some ppl say to me that i'm too expresive, almost dramatic lol, and don't even notice that when i'm paying, maybe for him that's natural too. ;)
vanisha017 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I've seen his early recordings back when he was about 14yrs old and body expression never changed. It's become au naturel ;o)
yankebloke 2 years ago
Das Lied erinnert mich an meine große Liebe die ich schon seit 2001 in meinem Herzen trage und die Hoffnung niemals aufgebe das wir doch noch zusammen glücklich werden... Kathi I miss you !!
Thank you for this wonderful play on the violin
kaletabo 2 years ago
I like the moving. Imagine having the ability to completely withdraw from the world and live inside each and every note. The moving is simply a byproduct of this phenomenal talent.
liquidc2 2 years ago
Beautiful. The only thing I dont like about Bell is that the sways too much, but fortunately you dont have to see him when you listen to his CDs hehehe. But hey, he is a genius not only with the violin strings but also with the heart strings. I really feel the emotion in his playing. I have Kreisler's version as well as Vanessa Mae's version and I think Bell's version is definately the best.
MrFroad 2 years ago 3
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The new Heifetz...simply the best today!
mozart200657 2 years ago
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*0*
yin2ip 2 years ago
neck pain neck pain lols
Adamantinia 2 years ago 5
what the heck? who cares how he looks like if he sounds like that good?!
shintee 2 years ago 27
What a wonderful piece! Today Mr. Joshua Bell is one of the best violinists in the world! His "Strad" looks like the Nathan Milstein´s violin, a genious of the past. There is a wonderful film called "The Red Violin" and you can see it complete in You Tube! Twelve marvelous chapters! For violin lovers!
victoriakraus 2 years ago 3
you know, you hear about joshua bell, sophie mutter, sarah chang etc all the time. what about others who have also at least debuted in Carnegie hall but you never hear about after that. is it just luck?
shintee 2 years ago
If two or three other players behind Mr Bell did all the airy fairy movements in time with him they would be thrown out of the orchestra for taking the MICK! I`m with the old guys on this one.Too many women in that group as well.
acermusika 2 years ago
who the hell cares. Does it really affect the music they produce in any way?
MariusCarlia 2 years ago
plz take a look at my rendition of the first piece thanku
xchaosblade0 2 years ago
hey boy~!! too much !! too much!!
jandychou 2 years ago
briliant!
but kinda bad posture...
violin957 2 years ago
Lol. Even with bad posture, he's proclaimed one of the best violinists in the world...
Beautiful music!
Starfire3218 2 years ago 3
That's the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra behind him. I played in that group 30 years ago. Lovely playing all around but it's very hard to watch Joshua.........
ipmoic 2 years ago 4
That's it ! I can feel the spirit of old Vienna.
Very nice!
Neno978HR 2 years ago
Excelente! Very God
filomusico159 2 years ago
se escribe good animal
yakkovsmirnov 2 years ago
A decent interpretation. But Kreisler's is much more masculine and faithful to the artistic intention. Nice try though!
themightymouth 2 years ago
my soul is flying while i am listening such a lovely music
sweetprison 2 years ago 2
beyond words
a man of taste, class and total musician
( and he dirves a nice set of wheels too!)
hawkandpanther 2 years ago
He sound exactly like Kreisler when he plays it.
Good jod Joshua.
garrett663 2 years ago
Bell does a good imitation of Kreisler but there is actually a world of subtle difference between them that some of us can hear - and some cannot. Kreisler is charming stylish and expressive without showboating. I always get the impression that modern violinists use music more to impress us with THEIR virtuosity while older violinists used music more to impress us with the MUSIC's aesthetic beauty. Its a subtle but powerful difference.
inter215 2 years ago 2
I don't think it would be possible to perfectly imitate any violonist. Or that would mean they weren't REALLY brilliant and would diminish their talent. I value originality and I like to think that those differences Bell and Kreisler's plays you are talking about are allowing us, listeners to understand and capture another dimension of the piece.
cendrenoire 2 years ago 2
his Liebesfreud is always my favourite
even supress perlman's verson stylistically...well just my opinion
NKY8190 2 years ago 4
Ya...YT is sickening... you are probably sick now..... Just open your eyes!!!!!
patcalisura 2 years ago
This sound cute. That boy dance like Stevie--real good! Rubye enjoy this!
RubyeWashington 2 years ago 18
May I say that I don't like him without being killed?
blichilde 2 years ago
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victoriautube 2 years ago
When you make a comment like than you should support it with valid arguments. Otherwise you sound as a jealous guy who is trying to discredit him.
koninete 2 years ago
MEDIOCRE? Are you just totally insane and deaf on top of it? Turn your blame Beltone on and listen to this--my heart weeps..it leaps..what other violinist can do all of this with the stroke of the bow. The man is utter genius. Only a fool would miss the emotion that Bell can illicit..and should have to waste on trash that cannot understand and dare to underate him. Remove yourself from my space...Uncle Junior KNOWS good music.
UnclJuniorSuprano 2 years ago 3
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iGotSpaceLikeNASA 1 year ago
*_*
luizaxD 2 years ago
IN FACT
kneeling over like that while doing staccatos actually shifts some of the weight to your arm, which makes it easy to do staccato if you have restricted upper arm movement.
So that much is justified.
PlatypusofCalifornia 2 years ago
As IF the great Bell should have to resort to any tricks to operate his stacatto..he is above such. He has the best bow arm in the world! Uncle JUNIOR KNOWS>
UnclJuniorSuprano 2 years ago
He moves because it helps him feel the music. Some people move some don't. People dislike you if you do (bell) or if you dont (heifetz).
Just play however you feel like playing as long as its all technically good and sounds musical.
PlatypusofCalifornia 2 years ago
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When I was conducter of the NYP I knew people just like you...total morons who thought they knew it all. BE GONE IDIOT. You are not worthy of listening to Bell
UncleJuniorDivine 2 years ago
I think even in dancing he will look terrible..... he can be a very good actor though.....anyway just dont look at him.....mediocre still!!!!!
patcalisura 2 years ago
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Whom are you to judge mediocrity when all you do is watch YT? Be gone with you! You sicken me!
UncleJuniorDivine 2 years ago