Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor, 1st Movement

[JulieMorrel1]

Why didn't you play the rest of the piece? You play very fast!

[ncmoonlight]

Very nice playing! I've always loved this song.

[UltraGeeky]

good job! whenever i try to play this song my tempo gets all wonky... it's really frustrating. -_-'

[kiramay16]

good

[calmpawok]

how old was fifi when she played this?

[bigfatfoot]

Nice effort there. I hope to be able to play that in the future too.

[wwwSCYOAcom]

great job!

[Momocookie2]

keep working!!

[Chucklingalex1]

Pretty good for her age a few out of tune notes and scratchy sound bow but overall it is good great way to go Fifi!

[actionz133]

She has not played the whole piece in this video. Why?

[CuteTerrier]

I would say,

to get a bit beter with intonation,

add some vibrato,

and this piece is made for the lower 2/3 of the bow, so there's no need to use the tip.

[toushirouhitsugaya7]

i've been playing for 2 years (i'm 14 now)

and i can play this :D.

she's better than me though

[glpj9529]

of course you would cut out the hardest part of the song.

[Nukefuzion]

Well she has improved A LOT in her other videos.

[musikchik1013]

Her intonation problems stem from her lack of left elbow movement for her string crossing. It is really apparent when she has a tritone between 2 strings to play with the same finger.

Vibrato is a very personal, individualized aspect of playing violin. She will start doing it when she's ready, though there are various methods of instruction to get her started sooner than later.

[HighlandViolinist]

she should be bowing more at the frog then the tip, but other than that she's pretty good

[akamaruito23]

Very good , I have to play this piece as my solo this year , This really helped me :D Thank you

[ph860109]

wonderful! i couldn't find a single mistake in her play.

she's really good.she'll become a great perfomer in future i suppose. by the way, this room looks classical

[Theodore1704]

Hey, guys the notes are not as flat as they seem. The violin is such. If this was done on an electric violin with a roland cube 60 amp, it would sound great. I tried it myself

[trscor12]

intonation i think.

and some vibrato sounds lovely with this piece...so she should add some

[wtfsophia]

Love it, i just began playing the violin and i am 14 i wish to play like this soon :)

[ShakerLouie]

Some of her tones were flat. But no doube it is a wel-performance. Not bad.

[leopatrickg]

very nice! wish i could play like that = )

[jlvolleyball]

how much did she have to practice to get this song

[petiteflowers]

I can't remember as it was 2 years ago, but I know she works very hard for everything she plays! :) Keep working...

[otachurn]

:/ I feel like some notes were out of tune...

[cameosam]

flat C maybe?

anyways some more vibrato would be nice.

[petiteflowers]

Yes! There are some intonation problems that are normal for a musician of her age at the time. The good news, is that she has improved to such a caliber now that she studies with a city symphony member! She has also developed a very lovely vibrato as of late, though she might not choose to us it on Vivaldi, as his compositions are best played sans the vibrato if one is going for period authenticity.

[safineh5555]

me too =[ like the high notes, and some of the shifting. she needs more passion in her playing, and needs to work on tone.

[cocobysweets]

magic in her hands!!

[chingjentang]

Wow!

That's really good!!!

[thekoteXD]

very good muy bien

[blissinged]

Enjoyed your performance of this piece. I am just starting to learn it (and 3rd position) and it was nice to hear it so well played. Keep up the good work!

[paugarriga]

Great!

[mahashakty]

bellisimo !! =)

[xToatsies]

cool, im in suzuki book one but i really wannt play this piece

[Evour]

I learnt this in maybe 5 days its a great song im 13 level 5.

[500xrebirth]

not completely in tune but it is overall good. i give it a 9/10 because of tuning. ^_^ keep up the good work soon u'll beat me ^_^

[alzy2221]

omg i have to play this tomorrow 4 a tryout this really helped me to see what it sounds like...Thanx oh and by the way you are very good at this song!

[legoinaboat1]

wow, i have to play it tomorrow for a tryout also

[emmanuellicayan]

i'm workin on dis song on my violin n i luv it

[dramaqueen412]

that's the best i have heard on youtube =)

[Svieirak]

As i watched you play, i was reading the music from the suzuki book and you played everything exactly as it was written but your biggest trouble was your dynamics so watch those but other than that it was fantastic. Good Job!

[qkrchl412]

play shorter everything is good

[Lyssakae134]

YOU ROCKED IT! :D

I wish I could play this song as well as you!!!

you= my inspiration!!

[akm5176]

Though she's good, it'd be nice if her teacher showed he what it means to play in the style of vivaldi, nothing against her of course, she can't do something she hasn't been taught. But you can't switch from having some eighth notes short and others long in this style, it's baroque. You do either one or other. Rule of thumb=short eighth, long sixteenth, quarter depends on the context

[NikNammerz]

Wow really good :)

Does anybody know the grade for this piece, like on the ABRSM course?

[sapphire5434]

suzuki's level 4 would mean that this piece can be anywhere from grade 4-6 because the book 1 has grade 2 exam pieces in it so it should around that but i think my bet would be its somewhere around grade 5-6

[tokiobabes411]

this piece can be for any grade. it all depends on what grade you started playing violin. i started violin in 3rd grade and i'm just 1 song above this piece. now i'm in 6th grade.

[Bioniclexzabl]

that's scary,i started in 3rd grade too,and now i'm in 6th grade also O_O

[dinikinmi]

cool..

[Ryoma0227]

why not finished?

[totalwombatfan]

Good job! I'm working on this piece, it is SO FUN! Not that I didn't love all the Seitz, but I need a change of pace. Vivaldi's pieces are so... well... full of dynamics! I love making huge crescendos at the beginning of this piece!

[ladyMandrake]

you are good but I think you need a better violin :-) you can tell it to parents ;P

[hannerbananer468]

Yeah, I can't play the violin, I play the clarinet...

[jandrec]

la chica es muy buena se nota su esfuerzo

[laxgirllover5]

Wow! You're really talented!!! Just a thought though, if you added vibrato and made the notes a little more sticattoy, it would be EVEN BETTER!!!! Great job! Keep playing!

[danggitscarol]

good job!

i played this last year for solo and ensemble. i got a 1 (: hahaha i wanted to burn the last page when i was learning the first movement. and same with the 3rd movement.. except that time it was the second page i wanted to burn lol

how long have u been playing? youre pretty good.

[tugmuffin]

I was looking for some inspiration as I just started playing this one. Thanks, you play with a lot of charactor. Lovely, thanks!

[mpereztwomx]

very nice, i dont know how long uve been playing, like 3 o 4 yeras?,

keeit up, very good job!

[najam133]

your bow is so straight - very well done. im learning and just about play with my bow straight lol. inspiration thankyou - your parents must be proud. keep it up.

[lmitijrnts7x]

beautiful form, maybe try to close the open E with 4th finger and watch pitches. wonderful though :)

[poofyfred]

she's so good! she's pretty too! :]

im play the piano... but i love violin as well..

[Ryoma0227]

cool so fast!!!!!!!

[juliaCSL]

nice nice. I wanna play this real soon =D

[violinplayer101]

She's really good! A little out of tune on some notes, but still great

[violinista20]

peace of the Lord Jesus Christ

that good that you support his daughter and son of the people of GOD vivalid of the half is a complicated issue but very nice to hear continue to support her daughter and climb more concerts played very well and continue to grow more, God prosperity throughout Asia and spiritually in Christ Jesus Lord

Renzo Santamaria deste arequipa.perù

[colfranz1278]

I love this song! It's very virtuoso-like how Fifi plays it. This is Concerto in A Minor by Vivaldi, is it? She has a good use of vibrato and a pretty fast tempo, plus the song is baroque. Fifi rocks! -Frank

P.S. By the way, why wasn't the whole song on video? Please reply.

[petiteflowers]

That's as much of the song as she knew at that time; or maybe that was as much camera battery as I (her mother) had available!  lol.

[violinista20]

MUY BUENA INTERPRETASION DE VIVALDI

[Oo5t3v3NoO]

u lost ur vibrato, overall it's nice, keep up the work with your pitches, it's a very little bit too flat sometimes. :)

[violinista20]

muy bien

[NerdBifflesNOthers]

I'm playing this song next year I can't wait, but It's going pretty difficult because I never practice. haha

[sheetmusic1]

on violin cello bass viola what do you play?

[anupamsircar]

Fifi has inherent talent. She has confidence too. God bless your family. I wish more families would bring up their children like you do. There would then be so much more peace and love in this world.

[Rpkist77]

that was great. I can play it except i fumble up on the odd bowings in the 16th sections where there an accented notes followed by 2 slurs then a regular then it repeats itself over and over. I just mess up there. Good job though, keep it up

[annieisdabest]

Love this song! I just got back from one of my lessons (i have lessons 4 times a week and practice 1 and a half hours a day).

I've been playing violin for seven years now, and still going strong. I'm playing this song in the Kiwanis festival competitive class tomorrow I'm REALLY nervous.

you played this song really well. One suggestion: your G# on the D string was a little flat. Also I was taught to play the begining staccato.

[lightningstrike1000]

she would sound marvelous if she did vibrato

[petiteflowers]

Thank you, you're right. Her vibrato was a long time in the making, but it's coming along nicely now.

[ThaSchwab]

Despite some slow vibrato, this was fairly good.

[GothicalSOberhauser]

I loved the way she playes it. Congratulate her, please!

Just a little suggestion, if I can...

Perhaps, she'd like to use more bow...

case I noticed she does not use enough bow in the quarter notes.

Thanks for this!

[cellistx3]

Wow. That was incredible. I'm also playing this song this year, and I can tell I have a lot of work to do xD

[kabbeldiing]

wonderful..

i'm playing the song, too, and the fast

notes are really difficult !

[lasvegasmaniac]

I love it!!

[ibleedromance]

that was a beautiful song, the only thing i would say it make most of quarter notes more staccato to add a professional sound to it, but overall that was great :)

[theONLYloverofSasuke]

this is really great!

I'm learning this song now and listening to it helped me xD

^^

[pinko2512]

reminds me :). I also played this studying 7th year violin. Nice job

[classicalmaiden]

wow great!

[raymondgrc]

when did she star playing violin?

[petiteflowers]

My daughter has been studying privately for near 7 years now. A slow start when you're that young, but beginning to pick up now. Thanks for commenting.

[iiihatteeuuu]

I've only played for one year... Is this in the suzuki book? Cuz I see that its 3 pages. and mine is 2 pages

[petiteflowers]

It is a 3-page song; we make a photo copy of the odd page and tape it onto the two adjacent pages to make playing easier.

[iiihatteeuuu]

oh.... I play 3 mvt.

[lilxdevil3654]

good work on accents tho

[alan141287]

i cant wait to lear it! ^^

good job!

[NoelGalagher]

falta staccato

[childofGod10692]

That was really good! A lot better than I did! lol. Could have used a little more vibrato though. Excellent job!

[pikachoi2007]

Thats the same piece I'm learning on my own, kinda messed up in my own version and still working on it. Great playing.

[clarinetlaj]

absolutely excellent i really enjoyed this

[busymum]

Beautiful! Great job.