Maybe Americans have to find out about Leonid kogan, Legend, doubt they know anything about him, and not surprised. They have propaganda only about "their stuff", here it is, there is nobody like Kogan!!!!!
@liana563 I have a recording of Leonid Kogan performing the Beethoven concerto on vinyl which Inherited from an old Aunty and i agree with you , that he's a legend . I'm not American .Sorry it took 3 months to comment !
it seems that there are people who are never satisfied! why don't they play and publish their rendition so we can hear for once how the perfect chaconne sounds like!
She has a velvety tone but I think she bows her notes too long and need some rest space in between. Also, I think her dynamic isn't right. In this second part of the Chaconne, she doesn't quite make a climax because her bowing isn't correct and her tempo is a smidgeon slow. Thus when she arrives at the epilogue climax at 8:00 it doesn't sound dramatic at all becaiuse she had used up all of her engergy by that timel.
@freeqwerqwer I disagree, the "climax" your are talking about is not to my mind a climax it is a restatement of the opening theme, and she plays it with all the assuredness required for that. There are so many climaxes in this wonderful piece and she handles them all very well. I particularly love the clarity of her tone, no scratches, no whines, pure sound. I think it's fabulous.
Hilary's intonation is so precise. No sour notes. It's a pleasure to listen to the precision, even IF she was to play out of rhythm and with wrong dynamics, I'd still enjoy it. One of the best I've ever heard for sweet pitch accuracy. I also like Julia Fischer. Her Vivaldi summer and winter are beautiful. Bach supposedly picked up on some of Vivaldi's ideas as part of his musical experiments.
I don't get why people '' dislike '' videos... Of course, some people might not like Bach or classical music, but there's really no need to yell it everywhere... I think it's just counter productive and a bit disrespectful for the ones who actually love this music.
I don't know, I just think it's basic respect for the others.
I don't get why people '' dislike '' videos... Of course, some people might not like Bach or classical music, but they don't need to yell it everywhere... I think it's just counter productive and a bit disrespectful for those who actually love this music.
I don't know, I think it's just basic respect for the others.
@Annie59GI just like to think that there is a slight offset in their mice and the click register an inch to the right off their intended point of interest v_v
If god exists, i think he granted Bach the privilege of a glimpse of heaven. There's an instance in christian theology that describes such a state: the beatific vision. I think certain pieces of Bach (like the domine deus in the b minor mass, or this!) are nothing but that, you breathe a sense of serenity and joy, and hapiness, the hope of a fulfilled promise. The vision of a man that while being here on earth, already knows what heaven feels like.
@brainwasher876 you are a hybrid who should be eliminated . we the music lovers don't need people like you. your assumptions are just emptiness of moral values
You know, I never use this kind of language, but those ten people who disliked this video can go screw themselves. This may be the best piece of music ever written, and it's certainly an interpretation fit for the ages.
@jorgeoscar1000 I like rap music, and I am a violinist who adores this piece. Generalizing rap lovers as haters of classical music is sort of like generalizing classical music lovers as elitist snobs who can't accept other genres. Not trying to pick a fight here, it's just never fair to make assumptions like that.
I love her interpretation, and also feel that she is one of the most honest, polite, sweet, giving persons anyone could meet. I also agree, a life with out music like this would be no life at all. Music is a gift from God and the violin is music's heart and gives us the voice to say things we can not otherwise say, for me at least.
Until about 45 minutes ago I had no idea that this piece of music existed. I just had to read an essay for English class about Josh Bell playing this in the DC metro a few years back. I can't claim to "get it" the way you people seem to, but for my own part I'm glad I am aware of it now. What baffles me though is how there can be 800k+ views on part one but only 200k+ for part 2. Total ignorance is one thing, but those 600k-odd views KNOW what they are passing on, right? I don't get it.
@doucheron a huge pity, in my opinion. Hahn's renedition of the second half is godly in comparison to the first, and in comparison to a lot of violinists out there IMHO.
@claytondolive ?? Hilary Hahn is incredibly polite, sweet, and thoughtful. Every time I've ever seen her live or in recorded interviews, she has been a perfect lady. I think calling people "douchebags" on YouTube is more "douchebaggy" than anything she's ever done.
Ms. Hahn presents a most unusual interpretation of this magnificent piece. Aside from a few renderings played by artists struggling with the technical challenges of it, I've never heard it played at such a tempo... almost dirge-like. But the pace is more than worth it, since she's able to give full tonal value to notes that are usually "hacked" in passing at the usual faster tempo. A new look at the Chaconne: very interesting, and quite beautiful. I think Bach would approve.
It's strange and moving to see a man who is restricted by his genre and era to write a music in a way that shows the complexity of his loss over his wife and the times they had together.
Une interprétation du Chaconne de Bach bouleversante par une interprète, Mrs Hilary HAHN brillante, inspirée, profonde et emplie de Musicalité et de maîtrise technique. Je ne cesse de reécouter son CD et ce clip. Merci beaucoup Hilary Hahn. Pour votre amour du violon et de la Musique. Vous avez sûe l'exprimer et le transmettre du fond de votre âme et votre coeur. <3 Hilary Hahn.
This brings one to tears. Hilary you are so pretty, intelligent, talented, sweet and personable it's not fair on the rest of us mortals. On second thoughts, who ever said life was fair. I'm just thankful we have people like you to bring us joy in this world.
@soldier2119 no it wouldn't. This is a symphony for the solo violin that conveys a message that only the voice of this instrument can deliver. This movement is a story of life, love, death, and grief. It was written for Bach's Late 2nd wife and the only way it works is with an unaccompanied instrument.
@JSBBWV1685 it might freak you out, but this peice was recovered because a musician purchased some fish that it was wrapped in this piece. Upon inquiring he found the rest of the Sonoatas and Partitas in the store rooms. Had this piece been lost we would have lost one of the greatest works even written.
@Shadowtech666 This sounds very nice, but I doubt its accuracy. It certainly is true that Bach was generally unknown except by a select few until the revival by Mendelsohnn, but the chaconne manuscript being used to wrap fish I find hard to believe. What's your source for this information?
@JSBBWV1685 my music teacher as well as the inside jacket of an album i purchased. In a similar manner, the Bach cello suites were found buried in a library in the early 1800's during an estate sale!
Hilary Hahn got a "Diapason d'Or" (greatest possible rating from the French magazine Diapason) for this recording. If you have any criticism, please support it strongly...
In my point of view, this piece demands a lot of expression. In a sort of constant cycle, where the music repeats it self over and over, its a FEVER! A crazy man who lost his love, somebody who was betrayed, and thinks about it over and over again, in rage, in despair, in sadness. This is a lament, but its also rage and anger. Hilary looks like a calm person. When she plays it, Chaconne gets a "bit" different... I mean... its like another song. She is not crazy enough. Or didnt suffer enough
In my point of view, this piece demands a lot of expression. In a sort of constant cycle, where the music repeats it self over and over, its a FEVER! A crazy man who lost his love, somebody who was betrayed, and thinks about it over and over again, in rage, in despair, in sadness. This is a lament, but its also rage and anger. Hilary looks like a calm person. When she plays it, Chaconne gets a "bit" different... I mean... its like another song. She is not crazy enough. Or didnt suffer enough
I just relistened to all the various recordings I have of this. My favorite version used to be Johanna Martzy's. I also think highly of Szeryng's, and Mullova's which is different from most but very effective.
I also relistened to all I could find on Youtube. Milstein, Grumiaux, Heifetz, Vengerov, Perlman, Szigeti, KW Chung, Fischer, etc.
I must say Hahn's is now my overall favorite version. This is most similar to Martzy and Szeryng, yet reaches a new level. No need for superlatives. Wow.
Does anyone know the Bach piece where it alternates instruments each time it completes the sort of song? Anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been trying to find it forever.
I love the fact that I can listen to Hilary play this piece at 1:15 in the morning while completing an immense amount of work, and still be incredibly happy.
Thanks man. It's an hymn of hope and love, and a cry of desire and sadness. The major modulation is the most beautiful message of hope, and the last theme exposition in minor tonality is a broken heart. and you'll hope the last note to never end.
I like it. Nothing to say for me. Milstein's different and sublime, so Perlman's and Mullova...I'd say there are some motives where I prefer one artist more than another but ....every of them has heart on the piece, every of them in different way which comes also from their different ages...from the merely technical point of view, Hilary is dramatically impressive (anyway it is my opinion and I can tell you all that I tend to prefer violinists extremely "clean"...)
@sasa110 --- I think (if I can remember correctly) the technique is called 'sustained double stops'. I think. My teacher didn't really pressure me into learning it on the violin.
@sasa110 It is called double stops. The violinist strikes two strings at the same time. Some works (Paganini...) even require triple stops, which are extremely difficult.
Wow...How old is Hilary Hahn? She must have started when she was very young; she looks only about 20 something years old...I'm only wondering because I've started playing the violin in the 6th grade. I'm now a Junior, but all I can play is the chords at 4:19! It amazes me how people learn to play this well.
Brilliantly poised. She shows all her expression and passion through her technique and doesn't have to rely on rubato so when she does put in rubato it is that much extra special.
@Shadowtech666 The BWV1004 Sonata, including the extraordinary Chaconne, was composed between 1717 and 1723. It's thought the massive Chaconne which concludes the partita was composed in connection to the 1720 death of Bach' wife, his wife, Maria Barbara. The violinist Arnold Steinhardt believes this very strongly. The other movements last an average of 3-4 minutes. The Chaconne generally lasts a quarter of an hour! For Bach, this is incredible, to write something that "unbalanced."
What a fantastic player! I enjoy it more than Perlman's version. The splitting of the Chaccone is well done! I cannot get over how technically perfect her playing is...
Wonderful playing, but to split the video on one of the great moments in music (the minor to major) was unforgivable. Once again a lovely peformance, lovely recording, just a pity about the where the split took place in the posting...
@diefuhreroffunk really? I've seen videos that go slightly over it or even (rarely) for stuff like over half an hour. How is it determined? Do people pay to post longer videos?
I love the intensity she puts into this music. Some performers sound a little mechanical with this piece. Plus we get Hilary's tone (beautiful) and pristine clarity. I definitely like this performance the best of what I have heard for this piece so far.
I think her Bach is generally very good. She never indulges in interpretive exaggeration which benefits Bach performances. Personally I dont like her vibrato - it has a pinched sound to it. But her intonation is marvelous.
Haven´t you heard that great art is timeless just like Bach´s music still applies to our senses now after 300 years too? Did Bach know about us in 2010?
You are also not familiar with the works of Leonardo to see the resemblance in the paintings, of which there are very few.
One almost unknown in Madrid with Hilary´s appearance.
When you can play the violin as well, You are hired for my next house concert which i give from time to time.
That has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with leornado da vinci. Did you know him personally? How would you possibly know that he wanted to paint hilary hahn? That's the equivalent of bach travelling forward in time, listening to a rock concert, and saying, hmm, I would like to compose something that sounds like this. Absolute and complete. Bullshit. And FYI I play the violin too so you can suck it. No moron would want to play for someone like you.
If you represent the average Greek, now I understand why Greece is in such a total mess. The stupidity is incalculable unless one can work in negative numbers.
I can tell you didn't even read what I said. Firstly, not to digress but without the ancient greeks there wouldn't be romans or their culture and without the romans there wouldn't have been the modern world and without the modern world there wouldn't be you bitching about politics and nice sets of stones over youtube so show some fucking respect. Secondly it has nothing to do with this topic. Before we go further please take a step back and look at how stupid your argument actually is.
Yes, because obviously that was all that the greeks ever did. Ever hear of Plato, or Socrates, or Aristotle? FYI the mayans and celts contributed far less to modern technology of philosophy than the greeks did. Oh, and by the way the Mayans, Chinese, and Persians all committed horrific genocides too, so your point is void. And when the fuck did I say looking good had anything to do with it? You called the greeks stupid; they certainly did far more for humanity than you ever will, so suck it.
I'm not greek, if that's what you're hinting at. So what if they "may have been" from southern Russia? That has nothing to do with your argument that greeks are stupid.
I never make arguments about anything. I only exchange ideas. If you thought that I said that Greeks are stupid then you don´t know how to read correctly for content. I hope that you are still young so that there is much time left for you to learn about many things. Knowledge can be collected with time but intelligence is the gift at birth. Think before all else.
Quote from you: "If you represent the average Greek, now I understand why Greece is in such a total mess. The stupidity is incalculable unless one can work in negative numbers." My bad, in all english speaking countries I've been to (australia, england, and the United States) that would be considered calling the greeks stupid. Where are you from? Antartica?
and FYI, an "argument" in the civilized term is an exchange of information, viz. ideas. It can also be used to state a position. Going off wild tangents (ancient greeks? celts? harpsichords? leonardo da vinci?) is the antithesis of that. You tell me to think before all else, and I find that richly hypocritical given your comments so far.
Your best line is "show some fucking respect" which is a great oxymoron.
Instead of trying to play the violin I think you ought to buy a taxi and get a liscense because it is the only way you are going to get somehere in life.
Good job, that obviously contributed with your argument that Hilary should be worshipped and leonardo wanted to paint her even though she wasn't born at that time.
brainwasher. Cleaned out brains something like Sarah Palin, empty, vacant, but at least it is cleaned like an ugly but clean house somewhere, nowhere.
Ok, now that's just fucking idiotic. First you're dragging us into an argument over, what, an interpretation of how a violinist LOOKS? Second, you are bringing politics into music, which itself is blasphemy. I was referring to your use of ellipses and cliches being inappropriate because no one at all should be idolized by slavering idiots. You want to turn this into an moronic, pointless spam war? How fucking stupid can you get?
brainwasher9875, it is absolutely hilarious to see people like you still fighting over this video. I recall being one of those fighting individuals two years ago. Then, on another Hilary Hahn video, I started talking to a lovely young lady - another very talented violinist. We are now married. Thanks Hilary Hahn. Your music brought the love of my life into my life!
damm this is the shit (coming from a pperson who knows all of eminems songs by heart) bach is my savior. he brings more joy to my heart than anything else in this world.
Like the rest of you I can't resist comparing HH to Perlman and others who have recorded the chaconne. HH has won my heart for the beauty she distills from each individual note, but in Perlman's version I hear more of Bach's extended phrasing, phrases that are broken up in HH's focus on the notes at the expense of the rhythm.
To bystroffc: very astute observations. Indeed. Hence a challenge for students of the piece - the holy grail of chaconne interpretations - superb extended phrasing, with a well-balanced attention to the beauty of the individual notes!
Funny how I like the Heifetz version of the first half better but the Hahn version of the 2nd half better. It might be the recording studios. The first half should sound gruff and crisp and the second should be harmonic and emotional. Kudos to both musicians.
If I'm not mistaken, she uses a Vuillaume. Cuz I read an interview somewhere on whether she would like to upgrade it for something 'better' like a Strad or Guarneri, but she said she is very happy with her current Vuillaume, which has been with her since her teens.
@MegaSuyan my only argue over instruments is that i cant play them all, or cant play anything in just one..
i play guitar, electric guitar, cello, flute, electric bass, and if i had the money i would buy every instrument that exists. But with 5 i dont have the time to play any of them perfectly, so having 50+ instruments just wouldnt work.
but i cant decide on only one of them to play for the rest of my life :/
i guess im like a duck: walks, flies, and swim, but cant do any of those things well
@ericoschmitt ah...i see, not a religiouse person then. well, i can understand that, with all the different christian sects argueing over whose more holy, the catholic church and thier molestations, the scientologists, the Wickans, aetheists...ect ect ect. And now scientists have created artificial life, we've even found life on moons of saturn. (bacteria) but still life.
if you would like me to share my faith and beliefs all you need is ask. i won't talk about it otherwise XD
@MegaSuyan feel free to share everything you believe in! i like listening different opinions, maybe someday i put them all together and make my own :P
for now i believe my life will end in.. a void? like a dreamless sleep.... that heaven thing seems like an idea created by man, and in the day i die ill see whats the true then
actually, i like faiths, there are a lot of creative ideas and moral lessons in all them, but i dont like church(institution).
Many can master the guitar; many piano masters; but only a handful can master the violin. and its not for lack of trying that violinists can't master it, rather, it's just impossible to play without tapping into the esoteric training stemming from teachers like Auer. however, to be the best at anything can take everything one has, and the greatest violinists would be only just as great at the guitar or piano, which is a master of it.
EPIC 6:36
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I liked and highly regarded Bach's music but I dislike her playing. It's not as fine as Arthur's one.
mtv565 1 week ago
Hilary Hahn is Sheer Brilliance, Gorgeous Magnificence, and her ingenuity is what inspiration dreams about
CChanWoo1 2 weeks ago
Maybe Americans have to find out about Leonid kogan, Legend, doubt they know anything about him, and not surprised. They have propaganda only about "their stuff", here it is, there is nobody like Kogan!!!!!
liana563 2 months ago
Non of you heard Leonid Kogan? For me there is no better violinist than him.
liana563 2 months ago
@liana563 I have a recording of Leonid Kogan performing the Beethoven concerto on vinyl which Inherited from an old Aunty and i agree with you , that he's a legend . I'm not American .Sorry it took 3 months to comment !
TheWoodlandWitch55 1 week ago
@TheWoodlandWitch55 Kogan is one of my favourite violinist too, you should listen his paganini recordings just beyond human!
Tr0jan1337 1 week ago
@Tr0jan1337 Hi thanks for the comment . I'll check out his Paganini . :)
TheWoodlandWitch55 1 week ago
Bach was the greatest !!!!!!!!!!!!!
jorgeoscar1000 3 months ago
it seems that there are people who are never satisfied! why don't they play and publish their rendition so we can hear for once how the perfect chaconne sounds like!
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She has a velvety tone but I think she bows her notes too long and need some rest space in between. Also, I think her dynamic isn't right. In this second part of the Chaconne, she doesn't quite make a climax because her bowing isn't correct and her tempo is a smidgeon slow. Thus when she arrives at the epilogue climax at 8:00 it doesn't sound dramatic at all becaiuse she had used up all of her engergy by that timel.
freeqwerqwer 4 months ago
@freeqwerqwer cool story bro, but i couldnt find your version on your channel. care to show us how its done ?
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bachlover99 3 months ago
@freeqwerqwer I disagree, the "climax" your are talking about is not to my mind a climax it is a restatement of the opening theme, and she plays it with all the assuredness required for that. There are so many climaxes in this wonderful piece and she handles them all very well. I particularly love the clarity of her tone, no scratches, no whines, pure sound. I think it's fabulous.
bachlover99 3 months ago
Hilary's intonation is so precise. No sour notes. It's a pleasure to listen to the precision, even IF she was to play out of rhythm and with wrong dynamics, I'd still enjoy it. One of the best I've ever heard for sweet pitch accuracy. I also like Julia Fischer. Her Vivaldi summer and winter are beautiful. Bach supposedly picked up on some of Vivaldi's ideas as part of his musical experiments.
robertslistening 5 months ago
Beautiful.... but Heifetz version is King
elopez4024 5 months ago
@elopez4024 and Hilary's is Queen; why bother to compare; both are excellent.
amccann7 5 months ago 4
@amccann7 yes... and Kremer's is god
0unhallowed0 4 months ago
The final note of this performance is just -- from another dimension . . .
solowinterwolf 6 months ago
hilary hahn and bach. best combo ever
sweatybeatle 6 months ago
I don't get why people '' dislike '' videos... Of course, some people might not like Bach or classical music, but there's really no need to yell it everywhere... I think it's just counter productive and a bit disrespectful for the ones who actually love this music.
I don't know, I just think it's basic respect for the others.
larousse1308 7 months ago 4
@larousse1308 Did, you jst copy her comment? lol
YukiCrossist 6 months ago
I don't get why people '' dislike '' videos... Of course, some people might not like Bach or classical music, but they don't need to yell it everywhere... I think it's just counter productive and a bit disrespectful for those who actually love this music.
I don't know, I think it's just basic respect for the others.
Annie59G 7 months ago
@Annie59GI just like to think that there is a slight offset in their mice and the click register an inch to the right off their intended point of interest v_v
eli0s78 6 months ago
This is so relaxing... beautiful playing. Love Hilary!!
LadyInDaHouse88 7 months ago
If god exists, i think he granted Bach the privilege of a glimpse of heaven. There's an instance in christian theology that describes such a state: the beatific vision. I think certain pieces of Bach (like the domine deus in the b minor mass, or this!) are nothing but that, you breathe a sense of serenity and joy, and hapiness, the hope of a fulfilled promise. The vision of a man that while being here on earth, already knows what heaven feels like.
sirdelrio 8 months ago 3
@sirdelrio Wow ! I've thought the same thing for years, known it, in fact, but couldn't put it as beautifully as you !
sprygeoffreya17 5 months ago
@brainwasher876 you are a hybrid who should be eliminated . we the music lovers don't need people like you. your assumptions are just emptiness of moral values
jorgeoscar1000 8 months ago
You know, I never use this kind of language, but those ten people who disliked this video can go screw themselves. This may be the best piece of music ever written, and it's certainly an interpretation fit for the ages.
SenorCyprian 8 months ago
I Love this rendition.
TimHGuitar 8 months ago
Tan bello y suave...Tan eterno.
mariadelamor21 9 months ago
the dislikes are the people who like rap noise.
jorgeoscar1000 9 months ago
@jorgeoscar1000 I like rap music, and I am a violinist who adores this piece. Generalizing rap lovers as haters of classical music is sort of like generalizing classical music lovers as elitist snobs who can't accept other genres. Not trying to pick a fight here, it's just never fair to make assumptions like that.
brainwasher9876 9 months ago 18
@jorgeoscar1000 I happen to like both rap and noise and also this.
balist0 9 months ago
Sublime Bach's Chaconne. Well done, Hilary indeed. About the best rendition, please see and hear Nathan Milstein playing it.
MrGunterguerrero 9 months ago
I love her interpretation, and also feel that she is one of the most honest, polite, sweet, giving persons anyone could meet. I also agree, a life with out music like this would be no life at all. Music is a gift from God and the violin is music's heart and gives us the voice to say things we can not otherwise say, for me at least.
trysometime 9 months ago
This is the best rendition i have ever heard it is really sublime just like papa Bach would have wanted it !!
jorgeoscar1000 9 months ago
What a masterful piece of music by the great Bach. Can anyone match this ????
jorgeoscar1000 9 months ago
The D Major is definitely something I could wake in the morning to on any day. =)
bdaniel2008 9 months ago
Until about 45 minutes ago I had no idea that this piece of music existed. I just had to read an essay for English class about Josh Bell playing this in the DC metro a few years back. I can't claim to "get it" the way you people seem to, but for my own part I'm glad I am aware of it now. What baffles me though is how there can be 800k+ views on part one but only 200k+ for part 2. Total ignorance is one thing, but those 600k-odd views KNOW what they are passing on, right? I don't get it.
doucheron 10 months ago 3
@doucheron a huge pity, in my opinion. Hahn's renedition of the second half is godly in comparison to the first, and in comparison to a lot of violinists out there IMHO.
brainwasher9876 9 months ago
her music may be good but who cares when she's a big douche bag in person
claytondolive 11 months ago
@claytondolive
That's a ridiculous way to look at music. I'm sure out of all the music you listen to, plenty of the musicians are douchebags.
sohailio11 10 months ago 3
@claytondolive ?? Hilary Hahn is incredibly polite, sweet, and thoughtful. Every time I've ever seen her live or in recorded interviews, she has been a perfect lady. I think calling people "douchebags" on YouTube is more "douchebaggy" than anything she's ever done.
joedotarch 10 months ago
Her face is like it came out of da Vinci painting. Her music is like it came out of heaven.
douskara 11 months ago
Ms. Hahn presents a most unusual interpretation of this magnificent piece. Aside from a few renderings played by artists struggling with the technical challenges of it, I've never heard it played at such a tempo... almost dirge-like. But the pace is more than worth it, since she's able to give full tonal value to notes that are usually "hacked" in passing at the usual faster tempo. A new look at the Chaconne: very interesting, and quite beautiful. I think Bach would approve.
CPMariner 11 months ago
It's strange and moving to see a man who is restricted by his genre and era to write a music in a way that shows the complexity of his loss over his wife and the times they had together.
brainwasher9876 11 months ago
it's still very beautiful even if I prefer the first part of the solo ...
bridgeyluv 11 months ago
Une interprétation du Chaconne de Bach bouleversante par une interprète, Mrs Hilary HAHN brillante, inspirée, profonde et emplie de Musicalité et de maîtrise technique. Je ne cesse de reécouter son CD et ce clip. Merci beaucoup Hilary Hahn. Pour votre amour du violon et de la Musique. Vous avez sûe l'exprimer et le transmettre du fond de votre âme et votre coeur. <3 Hilary Hahn.
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ravo3211 11 months ago
You can just tell when it's really Music you're listening to.
mapleric 1 year ago
Only Hilary Hahn...
floopydisc 1 year ago
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music to my ears
TheMohan1986 1 year ago
We are so fortunate to be able to see and hear these amazing performances by accomplished artists in our very homes how wonderful
fiddlemad 1 year ago
Thank you mixailaggelos.
Violin can arrive, as someone sid, to that " desolate hall we call heart".
Sensibility and tendress, and force. Lovely lovely execution.
cookaboorra 1 year ago
This brings one to tears. Hilary you are so pretty, intelligent, talented, sweet and personable it's not fair on the rest of us mortals. On second thoughts, who ever said life was fair. I'm just thankful we have people like you to bring us joy in this world.
Luvya
caterthun 1 year ago
A duo piano / violin on this piece would be great ! :D
soldier2119 1 year ago
@soldier2119 no it wouldn't. This is a symphony for the solo violin that conveys a message that only the voice of this instrument can deliver. This movement is a story of life, love, death, and grief. It was written for Bach's Late 2nd wife and the only way it works is with an unaccompanied instrument.
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
Imagine a world without Bach. Doesn't bear thinking about.
JSBBWV1685 1 year ago 52
@JSBBWV1685 it might freak you out, but this peice was recovered because a musician purchased some fish that it was wrapped in this piece. Upon inquiring he found the rest of the Sonoatas and Partitas in the store rooms. Had this piece been lost we would have lost one of the greatest works even written.
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
@Shadowtech666 This sounds very nice, but I doubt its accuracy. It certainly is true that Bach was generally unknown except by a select few until the revival by Mendelsohnn, but the chaconne manuscript being used to wrap fish I find hard to believe. What's your source for this information?
JSBBWV1685 1 year ago
@JSBBWV1685 my music teacher as well as the inside jacket of an album i purchased. In a similar manner, the Bach cello suites were found buried in a library in the early 1800's during an estate sale!
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
@JSBBWV1685 and im not sure it was this movement that was found first, but the whole 3 sonatas and partitas were found in the same butcher shop.
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
@JSBBWV1685 Well we live in a world without Mr Taco Shoes. That's worse.
ObscureAlchemist 8 months ago
@Everyone...
Hilary Hahn got a "Diapason d'Or" (greatest possible rating from the French magazine Diapason) for this recording. If you have any criticism, please support it strongly...
LordHettrick 1 year ago 4
I love how the music flows from 4:28-. This is the ultimate relaxation for me. Just so beautiful.
ilovemusic5861 1 year ago
i ll married Hilary...
STRAD0099 1 year ago
lol
lukascapoygroso 1 year ago
I just have 3 words (or letters): OMG
eleninamyers 1 year ago
In my point of view, this piece demands a lot of expression. In a sort of constant cycle, where the music repeats it self over and over, its a FEVER! A crazy man who lost his love, somebody who was betrayed, and thinks about it over and over again, in rage, in despair, in sadness. This is a lament, but its also rage and anger. Hilary looks like a calm person. When she plays it, Chaconne gets a "bit" different... I mean... its like another song. She is not crazy enough. Or didnt suffer enough
tbm25 1 year ago
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In my point of view, this piece demands a lot of expression. In a sort of constant cycle, where the music repeats it self over and over, its a FEVER! A crazy man who lost his love, somebody who was betrayed, and thinks about it over and over again, in rage, in despair, in sadness. This is a lament, but its also rage and anger. Hilary looks like a calm person. When she plays it, Chaconne gets a "bit" different... I mean... its like another song. She is not crazy enough. Or didnt suffer enough
tbm25 1 year ago
She looks like a Boticcelli madona and with the Bach backgrownd there is a bynary incredible efect.
What a mysteryous and beautyfull duetto.!
astrolabius2 1 year ago
I loved her work for M. Night Shyamalan.
bujoun76 1 year ago
I just relistened to all the various recordings I have of this. My favorite version used to be Johanna Martzy's. I also think highly of Szeryng's, and Mullova's which is different from most but very effective.
I also relistened to all I could find on Youtube. Milstein, Grumiaux, Heifetz, Vengerov, Perlman, Szigeti, KW Chung, Fischer, etc.
I must say Hahn's is now my overall favorite version. This is most similar to Martzy and Szeryng, yet reaches a new level. No need for superlatives. Wow.
semperwifi1 1 year ago 2
Does anyone know the Bach piece where it alternates instruments each time it completes the sort of song? Anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been trying to find it forever.
camreeno360 1 year ago
@camreeno360 I think you're referring to Bach's Musical Offering.
123ash789 1 year ago
@123ash789 Can you be more specific? Thanks.
camreeno360 1 year ago
THIS RENDITION IS PERFECT !!!
jorgeoscar1000 1 year ago
I love the fact that I can listen to Hilary play this piece at 1:15 in the morning while completing an immense amount of work, and still be incredibly happy.
ParisTroyJoanofarc 1 year ago 58
@ParisTroyJoanofarc 10 page paper and im not complaining haha
cmp209 1 year ago 2
@ParisTroyJoanofarc I have a take-home midterm to do but am listening to this...at 3:50 AM...
gjwr 1 year ago 3
@ParisTroyJoanofarc Same Story 2:52 am but listening to this very soothing.
eeuzzy 1 year ago
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It´s a beautiuful blues-country version! I can imagine beat-boxers in the background, bringing out the devil.
ManosOceano 1 year ago
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ManosOceano 1 year ago
Does any one know what edition of the chaconne she is playing? I know it is not the edition I am using.
jnmendez 1 year ago
Thanks man. It's an hymn of hope and love, and a cry of desire and sadness. The major modulation is the most beautiful message of hope, and the last theme exposition in minor tonality is a broken heart. and you'll hope the last note to never end.
lugapsax 1 year ago 2
I like it. Nothing to say for me. Milstein's different and sublime, so Perlman's and Mullova...I'd say there are some motives where I prefer one artist more than another but ....every of them has heart on the piece, every of them in different way which comes also from their different ages...from the merely technical point of view, Hilary is dramatically impressive (anyway it is my opinion and I can tell you all that I tend to prefer violinists extremely "clean"...)
mircovita 1 year ago
A marvelous violinista. She knows to translate Bach into his feelings
alexbarmann 1 year ago
Très beau jeu... jeune et déjà très talentueuse !
wolfibigoude 1 year ago
just like water
onedancer82 1 year ago
wow lol just gah stunning
boomer4666 1 year ago
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She is so fucking hott... excuse my language but yea I am so feeling
huggiehuggie1 1 year ago
Certified Intergalactic! Hallelujah!
Dogaradodia 1 year ago
how can there be two sounds at the same time! sounds very nice!
sasa110 1 year ago
@sasa110 --- I think (if I can remember correctly) the technique is called 'sustained double stops'. I think. My teacher didn't really pressure me into learning it on the violin.
violinlove00 1 year ago
@sasa110 it's called a double stop, i believe, it's when to strings are played at the same time. and yes it sound very nice!
JASPRICE85 1 year ago
@sasa110 It is called double stops. The violinist strikes two strings at the same time. Some works (Paganini...) even require triple stops, which are extremely difficult.
LordHettrick 1 year ago
@LordHettrick lol double stops? 1.2 this piece is 4 note chords.
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
Wow...How old is Hilary Hahn? She must have started when she was very young; she looks only about 20 something years old...I'm only wondering because I've started playing the violin in the 6th grade. I'm now a Junior, but all I can play is the chords at 4:19! It amazes me how people learn to play this well.
DieF1228 1 year ago
@DieF1228 hilary hahn started playing violin around 3-5 (i dont remember clearly) and she is in her late 20s now
RainbowCrayonzzz96 1 year ago
@DieF1228 people like hahn and other virtuoso violinists tend to start very young, like at 6 or 7.
brainwasher9876 1 year ago
@brainwasher9876 Actually, she started a month before she was four.
HahnPotterishFowlnut 1 year ago
@DieF1228 SHE WAS BORN IN 1979 .
yaakovha 1 year ago
Brilliantly poised. She shows all her expression and passion through her technique and doesn't have to rely on rubato so when she does put in rubato it is that much extra special.
Personwithface13 1 year ago
interesting how music often spark religious/spiritual/political debates.
brainwasher9876 1 year ago
Do not be silly, just enjoy the music
MrTigran19 1 year ago
@MrTigran19
Personally, I prefer youtube users trolling each other than leaving oily fingerprints on something really good with their grubby cries of adulation.
shackleton12 1 year ago
4:32 is good
VINGOSTAR 1 year ago
every tiem I look upon her image I can't escape the thought of how stunning, and strikingly beautiful she is
Eviscera09 1 year ago
Awsome!!!!!
Animeolin 1 year ago
I wonder when the great violinists will realize it's a dance... I admire the technique but I really dislike that flat and slow way of playing.
MDjinxi 1 year ago
@MDjinxi do you know what this piece is about?
Shadowtech666 1 year ago
@Shadowtech666 The BWV1004 Sonata, including the extraordinary Chaconne, was composed between 1717 and 1723. It's thought the massive Chaconne which concludes the partita was composed in connection to the 1720 death of Bach' wife, his wife, Maria Barbara. The violinist Arnold Steinhardt believes this very strongly. The other movements last an average of 3-4 minutes. The Chaconne generally lasts a quarter of an hour! For Bach, this is incredible, to write something that "unbalanced."
TheStockwell 1 year ago
have you heard the wonderul versions by Szeryng, Milstein, Suk?
MrMerlin15 1 year ago
What a fantastic player! I enjoy it more than Perlman's version. The splitting of the Chaccone is well done! I cannot get over how technically perfect her playing is...
shellburn1960 1 year ago
bello!!!
benscns 1 year ago
Wonderful playing, but to split the video on one of the great moments in music (the minor to major) was unforgivable. Once again a lovely peformance, lovely recording, just a pity about the where the split took place in the posting...
marsvltor2 1 year ago 2
@marsvltor2 You can't really do anything about it. There's a 10 min cap on vids.
diefuhreroffunk 1 year ago 2
@diefuhreroffunk really? I've seen videos that go slightly over it or even (rarely) for stuff like over half an hour. How is it determined? Do people pay to post longer videos?
brainwasher9876 1 year ago
@diefuhreroffunk Not if you have a director's account - then the cap is unlimited
93oracle93 1 year ago
@diefuhreroffunk i belive they changed it to 15 minutes actually
UBleedIDrink 1 year ago
@marsvltor2
andycchu 1 year ago
This is because YouTube doesn't allow ordinary people to post video-clips longer than a certain limit...
Curatica 1 year ago
Beautiful, simply beautiful ^^
EchizenRyomaLover 1 year ago 2
nix notwendig viel zu denken, zu erklaeren, warum Bach der allerbeste Kompnist aller Zeiten betrachtet wird
jewish1972 1 year ago
I love the intensity she puts into this music. Some performers sound a little mechanical with this piece. Plus we get Hilary's tone (beautiful) and pristine clarity. I definitely like this performance the best of what I have heard for this piece so far.
raywoodsk 1 year ago
I think her Bach is generally very good. She never indulges in interpretive exaggeration which benefits Bach performances. Personally I dont like her vibrato - it has a pinched sound to it. But her intonation is marvelous.
calloffthedogs 1 year ago
Generally we are as lucky as we think we might be
flowforms 2 years ago 2
she reminds me of a robot.. dont get me wrong she's a good player, her songs just lack.... something
246trinitrotoluene 2 years ago
Yup, she plays a mean fiddle.
Foeley 2 years ago
Reducing her art to "Yup, she plays a mean fiddle" is like visiting the Tower of London where all the diamonds are on exhiibition and saying
"Yup, Liz has a nice bunch of stones."
or looking up at the Cistine chapel and saying "yup, the Pope has some cool nudes"
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Consider the forces of destiny.
Hilary plays the violin like an angel like one of those paintings on the ceiling of a great church.
And she has the face that Leonardo de Vinci would have wished to paint.
I can only wonder that some people are so blessed many times over.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
I think you view her too highly. She's a great violinist but she's not an immortal prodigy.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
I could only hope that in my next reincarnation I come back with the talent of Hilary and I will view myself very highly too.
One of the five best living violinists, what else do you want?
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
I wouldn't think that an artist from half a millenium ago would suddenly have a vision of 2010 and say wow, I'd want to paint her!
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
God, nobody can be that dumb.? please.
Haven´t you heard that great art is timeless just like Bach´s music still applies to our senses now after 300 years too? Did Bach know about us in 2010?
You are also not familiar with the works of Leonardo to see the resemblance in the paintings, of which there are very few.
One almost unknown in Madrid with Hilary´s appearance.
When you can play the violin as well, You are hired for my next house concert which i give from time to time.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
That has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with leornado da vinci. Did you know him personally? How would you possibly know that he wanted to paint hilary hahn? That's the equivalent of bach travelling forward in time, listening to a rock concert, and saying, hmm, I would like to compose something that sounds like this. Absolute and complete. Bullshit. And FYI I play the violin too so you can suck it. No moron would want to play for someone like you.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
If you represent the average Greek, now I understand why Greece is in such a total mess. The stupidity is incalculable unless one can work in negative numbers.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
I can tell you didn't even read what I said. Firstly, not to digress but without the ancient greeks there wouldn't be romans or their culture and without the romans there wouldn't have been the modern world and without the modern world there wouldn't be you bitching about politics and nice sets of stones over youtube so show some fucking respect. Secondly it has nothing to do with this topic. Before we go further please take a step back and look at how stupid your argument actually is.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
No Greeks, No Romans? Equals no modern world? HMM.
I could have been a Celt, or Chinese, or a Maya, a Persian,or Egyptian and have developed a very high culture as well.
Lest I forget, "looking good" had everything to do with ancient Greeks.
Only an ugly one would choose to overlook this historical fact.
Alexander (the serial killer monster which he was) had also given rise to the aesthetic of "looking good" as you put it.
You talk more than you think.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Yes, because obviously that was all that the greeks ever did. Ever hear of Plato, or Socrates, or Aristotle? FYI the mayans and celts contributed far less to modern technology of philosophy than the greeks did. Oh, and by the way the Mayans, Chinese, and Persians all committed horrific genocides too, so your point is void. And when the fuck did I say looking good had anything to do with it? You called the greeks stupid; they certainly did far more for humanity than you ever will, so suck it.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
FYI the Greeks may have originated from southern Russia, Ukraine area etc.
And they may have been celtic origin as was the case with the Romans.
In any case, I am sure that they played the violin better than one Greek I know.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
I'm not greek, if that's what you're hinting at. So what if they "may have been" from southern Russia? That has nothing to do with your argument that greeks are stupid.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
I never make arguments about anything. I only exchange ideas. If you thought that I said that Greeks are stupid then you don´t know how to read correctly for content. I hope that you are still young so that there is much time left for you to learn about many things. Knowledge can be collected with time but intelligence is the gift at birth. Think before all else.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
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Quote from you: "If you represent the average Greek, now I understand why Greece is in such a total mess. The stupidity is incalculable unless one can work in negative numbers." My bad, in all english speaking countries I've been to (australia, england, and the United States) that would be considered calling the greeks stupid. Where are you from? Antartica?
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
and FYI, an "argument" in the civilized term is an exchange of information, viz. ideas. It can also be used to state a position. Going off wild tangents (ancient greeks? celts? harpsichords? leonardo da vinci?) is the antithesis of that. You tell me to think before all else, and I find that richly hypocritical given your comments so far.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
Your best line is "show some fucking respect" which is a great oxymoron.
Instead of trying to play the violin I think you ought to buy a taxi and get a liscense because it is the only way you are going to get somehere in life.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Good job, that obviously contributed with your argument that Hilary should be worshipped and leonardo wanted to paint her even though she wasn't born at that time.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
Now I understand why you call yourself
brainwasher. Cleaned out brains something like Sarah Palin, empty, vacant, but at least it is cleaned like an ugly but clean house somewhere, nowhere.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Ok, now that's just fucking idiotic. First you're dragging us into an argument over, what, an interpretation of how a violinist LOOKS? Second, you are bringing politics into music, which itself is blasphemy. I was referring to your use of ellipses and cliches being inappropriate because no one at all should be idolized by slavering idiots. You want to turn this into an moronic, pointless spam war? How fucking stupid can you get?
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
brainwasher9875, it is absolutely hilarious to see people like you still fighting over this video. I recall being one of those fighting individuals two years ago. Then, on another Hilary Hahn video, I started talking to a lovely young lady - another very talented violinist. We are now married. Thanks Hilary Hahn. Your music brought the love of my life into my life!
People, just enjoy the music if you can!!
beelionstinger 2 years ago 28
congratulations! Well I don't think I'll be as lucky as you :P
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
damm this is the shit (coming from a pperson who knows all of eminems songs by heart) bach is my savior. he brings more joy to my heart than anything else in this world.
blurty16 2 years ago 2
Its alright, but it's not that good.
TTLEGOProductions 2 years ago
Great playing Hillary , greetings Johannes jacobs
JohannesJacobs 2 years ago
Like the rest of you I can't resist comparing HH to Perlman and others who have recorded the chaconne. HH has won my heart for the beauty she distills from each individual note, but in Perlman's version I hear more of Bach's extended phrasing, phrases that are broken up in HH's focus on the notes at the expense of the rhythm.
bystroffc 2 years ago 3
To bystroffc: very astute observations. Indeed. Hence a challenge for students of the piece - the holy grail of chaconne interpretations - superb extended phrasing, with a well-balanced attention to the beauty of the individual notes!
ArminRennich 2 years ago
And 4:27 is gorgeous, by the way. Better than anyone else I've heard play it so far.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
Funny how I like the Heifetz version of the first half better but the Hahn version of the 2nd half better. It might be the recording studios. The first half should sound gruff and crisp and the second should be harmonic and emotional. Kudos to both musicians.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
What has happened is that your inner ear has made the adjustment of listening to something new by the second half.
Both halves are consistently excellent.
I wish that I knew who the violin maker was as it is so beautiful.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Guanerius or Stradivari. Probably Strad.
brainwasher9876 2 years ago
Vuiilaume actually
ulyssesjj 1 year ago
I'm sorry, what?
brainwasher9876 1 year ago
If I'm not mistaken, she uses a Vuillaume. Cuz I read an interview somewhere on whether she would like to upgrade it for something 'better' like a Strad or Guarneri, but she said she is very happy with her current Vuillaume, which has been with her since her teens.
soulsurrender 1 year ago
I dislike it when people argue over instruments and music. There is no best, there is only YOU and how the music makes YOU feel.
MegaSuyan 2 years ago 26
Well as a triangle player, I really appreciate your comment
ulyssesjj 1 year ago
@MegaSuyan my only argue over instruments is that i cant play them all, or cant play anything in just one..
i play guitar, electric guitar, cello, flute, electric bass, and if i had the money i would buy every instrument that exists. But with 5 i dont have the time to play any of them perfectly, so having 50+ instruments just wouldnt work.
but i cant decide on only one of them to play for the rest of my life :/
i guess im like a duck: walks, flies, and swim, but cant do any of those things well
ericoschmitt 1 year ago
@ericoschmitt lol, I know exactly how you feel....and i believe that theres nothing wrong with that. XD i like that duck refference XD.
maybe time will help you in the decision, if not, well then theres alwasy eternity in heaven to master them all! :)
MegaSuyan 1 year ago
@MegaSuyan oh.. i doubt theres some kind of eternal life :S cruel, but probably true.. eternal life is just something we hope for :)
well, maybe it does exists, then i will have time haha
ericoschmitt 1 year ago
@ericoschmitt ah...i see, not a religiouse person then. well, i can understand that, with all the different christian sects argueing over whose more holy, the catholic church and thier molestations, the scientologists, the Wickans, aetheists...ect ect ect. And now scientists have created artificial life, we've even found life on moons of saturn. (bacteria) but still life.
if you would like me to share my faith and beliefs all you need is ask. i won't talk about it otherwise XD
MegaSuyan 1 year ago
@MegaSuyan feel free to share everything you believe in! i like listening different opinions, maybe someday i put them all together and make my own :P
for now i believe my life will end in.. a void? like a dreamless sleep.... that heaven thing seems like an idea created by man, and in the day i die ill see whats the true then
actually, i like faiths, there are a lot of creative ideas and moral lessons in all them, but i dont like church(institution).
ericoschmitt 1 year ago
@MegaSuyan I think that is the best thing I've ever heard anyone say in my life. I agree 100%.
lakesidemourning 1 year ago
@lakesidemourning Thank you XD
MegaSuyan 1 year ago
@MegaSuyan
true!!
this is beautiful!
God bless <3
Jesusfreak773 1 year ago
I love how she plays Paganini, but Bach not so much.
plemax 2 years ago
Many can master the guitar; many piano masters; but only a handful can master the violin. and its not for lack of trying that violinists can't master it, rather, it's just impossible to play without tapping into the esoteric training stemming from teachers like Auer. however, to be the best at anything can take everything one has, and the greatest violinists would be only just as great at the guitar or piano, which is a master of it.
brother234 2 years ago