Ivry Gitlis - Bartok Solo Sonata Movement One

[desmonds22]

14 people think they can play this better

[angoranimi07]

wow... not tragic at all (hmm.. hmm...)

[sl008m]

Other than throwing the bow and scratching the hell out of the violin, the music is there though. He goes out of the line because he created a style of his own.

[ScrewFoxNews]

He's great, but the music is pretentious and ostentatious.

[MrPianoLover1]

@ScrewFoxNews

sounds like you're pretentious and ostentatious.

[ScrewFoxNews]

@MrPianoLover1 That comment was up there with, "I know you are, but what am I?" and "NO U!".

[CitrusSucker]

@ScrewFoxNews Try Justin Bieber. You might find him more accessible.

[leoncioviolin]

excelente

[makedonka86]

no matter how many wrong notes he plays here,he is really old here and that's impressing!

[NatoViolin]

that poor strad

[nickia88]

omg i wish i can play like him!

[Danofnj]

This is incredibly bad, I think he needs to tune his ears!!!!! Probably the worst I've ever heard from a professional.

[Danofnj]

This is incredibly bad!!!!! Maybe he needs to tune his ears!!!

[inezmaciel]

That's "how" he fells "it". Isn't it? Different, personalized. Beautiful.

[MrVincent537]

he plays 0,01 % of the music of Bartok just because he doesn't understand it as the most of music interpreter and listener don't too.

[ReplicaChile]

siento que pasa a llevar otras cuerdas aveces...pero me gusta igual

[pirnonero]

Young Ivry.

[egonsky]

tell your teacher he s an idiot

[VIOLINMIKE]

if u don't know anything. it is okay. but, please shut up. u r apparently not qualified to criticise

[carrottoponcrak]

you chach

[hvaskerderfordig]

haha..i acturlly agree in some points. I am playing this piece right now. I think he veriates the rytmical to much (!!).. but wow, what an musician! Sound and everyting..

[donesixfour]

@jellantsje honestly, im looking at the score right now, and he is playing this piece just as it is written. (for those who say he missed the pizzicato at 1:03, he plays it as the score is marked, as piano.) he is a master violinist, and any one could aspire to play with just a fraction of his grace and elegance. Furthermore, the rhythm is NOT supposed to be perfect, what would Bach's violin sonatas sound like with perfect rhythm? Like a robot. Btw, jellantsje, tell your teacher kiss my ass.

[jellantsje]

This is awful! I don't mind if it's not perfect, but if you know the score you will see that he is faking his way through the piece. I laughed my guts out watching this video, so ridiculous! It is sad though for the wonderful music of Bartok...

[Neo21803]

This is a live performance of what some people consider the most technical violin sonata ever written.

It's in tune, he doesn't hit all the notes (keep in mind that Horowitz himself doesn't hit all the notes in a live performance of Rachmaninoff Concerto), and it's convincing.

I'm not the biggest Ivry Gitlis fan but I rely on his recording of this piece. It is like a bible. So what if this particular performance isn't that great. Every dog has his day.

[daniluzzu]

Well, i wouldn't say it's awful, but i have to agree with you, this is clearly a superficial, almost improvisatory approach to Bartok's score, he plays most of the chords with the same kind of jete' stroke, very narrow dynamic range, almost no variety of sound color, notes...forget it, etc..but let's put it this way, here we have probably the most demanding violin piece of all, a live performance, a violinist who is REALLY old...i admire the effort, Ivry was among the greatest back in the days.

[mrwasbesonders]

@jellantsje And I laughed my guts out reading your comment. Thanks, made my day.

[CuciucGriga]

oh my gooosh!! how old is Ivry on the video??

[MrRaph87]

c'est à pleurer tellement c'est beau ...

quelle immense Sonate !! toute en grandeur, en fierté et en maestria ...

merci pour ce partage !!

[gulisha520]

I played this damn piece before, it was unbelievable hard! can't believe Ivry still can play it when he is like 100 years old lol

great job Ivry!

[Sandrito702]

This is great, I urge all to find the recording by Philippe Hirshhorn in the 1967 Queen Elizabeth Competition. It will give chills,

[marcvdm1111]

absolutely, Hirshhorns recording is out of this world, not being negative of this great Gitlis performance. Simply one of the great violin solo pieces ever written.

[jsd4544]

I have a recording of Menuhin playing this that I consider superior in some ways, but this is truly exceptional, tremendous playing.

[taiwan886]

My gosh!  Thanks for posting this!

[hakmirchai]

Let's not forget that he started a fantasiestueck for solo viola two days before he died.

[ajanta76]

Immense musicien, immense violoniste ! Prodigieux !

Marc Tettiravou.

[mikrokosmik]

Wow. you almost never see anybody this good when they're as old as him.

[nadyart]

What is this Sonata number?

[cgd147]

Number 3 solo sonata

[daniluzzu]

No, what are you talking about?! Bartok only wrote 1 solo violin sonata and this is its first movement, there is no number. He finished it in march 1944, then wrote his third piano concerto, and then died.

[cgd147]

wrong do your research before you talk. nos 1 and 2 is with piano number 3 is solo. i no becoz yesterday i went to a concert where all 3 bartok sonatas were performed. think bedfore you speak

[daniluzzu]

It's not a matter of thinking, and I perfectly know that Bartok also wrote 2 Sonatas for violin and piano. But that doesn't mean that they belong in the same series in his compositions catalog. Your answer to nadyart "Number 3 solo sonata" means that this is the 3rd solo sonata, which isn't true, that's why i replied. Solo sonatas and sonatas for violin and piano are always considered different genres in classical music, and cataloged separately in every composer's list of composition.

[stradivari147]

We have a mis-understanding. I meant, this is Bartok's 3rd Sonata, which is for solo violin. When you say it like that, I am in the wrong. Sorry about that!!

[daniluzzu]

And most of all, professional violinists don't need to "make their research" to find out that Bartok wrote 2 sonatas for violin and piano; it is standard repertoire, and everybody knows and performs them.

[Seraphmodel02]

lol @ you two.

[cgd147]

what did he do with his bow before starting the piece... wave it around???!!! I love Gitlis!!

[mexindian1]

Bartok would have loved this - it is uniquely Gitlis - spontaneous and free - not literal. Gitlis never played like a machine.

[DGProDuckshon]

i just had a masterclass with him, he's one hell of a personality

[zec2006]

hehehe, he missed pizzicato.

[mshakhz]

AHAHAHAH that's so funnnnnyy! AHAHAH.

-_-

[YsayevBach]

What can to say.... Wow, one of the most big masters! I love his temperament!!

[TOOTHFAAIREE]

I love how he moves the bow; it's so precise yet it's like he's just sawing his violin without even looking at it.

[doezi]

genial, great!

[paganviodio]

if some passages would be played in rythm,it´d make more sense...so sounds more gitlis than bartok.

[jaschenski]

I taped Joseph Silverstein playing this off the radio about 20 years ago. To be honest it's a lot more disciplined and clean, though I love Gitlis' approach and flair.

[shuttlecock85]

the best of bartok!

[MarMatMal]

Wunderbar !

[violashizzle]

I love this video. Do you think you could post the Bach solo sonata that he played as part of the same recital?

[jaroka01]

braaaaaaaaaaavisimoooooooooooo­o;)

[jaroka01]

haHAHHAHA

[Minjiajian]

Excellent!

[jcvelaz]

hello guys! don't criticise the musicians is not ethical! rather you should admire the interpretation.

I've got a nice video of an unknown violinist. check it out at my space and dont criticise. just enjoy the music!!

[sergiocamilod]

actually he is a "maestro" bravo

[titobacha]

soy mexicano y solo quiero decir que los que dicen que esta "out of tune" son una bola de mocosos que creen que la musica debe de ser para fijarse en los errores de los demas y no en la interpretacion del individuo. las notas y la afinacion van y vienen, el buen arte no. IVRY GITILS IS A WONDERFULL VIOLIN PLAYER AND HE PLAYS AMAZING!!!

[beingsomebody2]

estoy de acuerdo contigo. la interpretacion es mucho mas importnate que las 'notas'....es musica no?

[titobacha]

pues gracias por estar de acuerdo conmigo con respecto a lo de la interpretación de Ivry Gitlis.......tocas el violín? saludos

[beingsomebody2]

no toco el violin sino toco el clarinete y el piano. y tu?

[titobacha]

el piano y el violín, pero me dedico mas al jazz. eres de México o de dónde?

[beingsomebody2]

soy de inglaterra! eres de mexico? soy un estudiante de espanol. ah prefieres el jazz? no me gusta el jazz en realidad, no es porque es mal es porque no puedo hacerlo! xD

[titobacha]

trate de enviarte el link de mi página de internet pero no me dejan enviarte ningún link por aqui asi que si quieres escribeme a mi e.mail que es igual titobacha y estoy en yahoo sale? cuidate bye.

[elisabeth717]

1 on my favourite violinists and he also has a strong personality what I admire...

[KoganSvetlanov]

Excellent violinist and excellent artist, he has such a individual way of how to understand the music. Great Violinist , at his age he still playing the violin at the highest levels...Brilliant!!

[gnatural]

so many years later and he sounds this good,??? talk about having the right technique, bravo gitlis

[yehan44bro]

ur a beautiful woman..

[sextetband]

It's kind of a shame Bartok's representation in concert and recording seem a little skewed toward what Gyorgy Ligeti called his 'conciliatory' works, his more traditionally tonal music. On the other hand I guess his works with nonstandard instrumentation or particularly virtuosic appeal are fairly often performed, but I think rarely understood by conservative audiences as more than a clever diversion or display of technique. His nuances sound 'sloppy and out of tune' to conservative ears.

[fonix101]

bartók is one of the greatest composers ever. (and i'm not only saying this because he was hungarian as i'm.)gitlis plays this really great, he really understands the depth, the wisdom, the delicacy but the hard simplicity of bartók's wonderfull piece of works.

[carloslaran]

if it sounds kind of weird its due to quarter tones. u can hear that in many pieces by bartok especially the violin concerto no.2.

[cozylummox]

The 4th movement, depending on which version you play (I'm pretty sure Menuhin put out an edition without quarter tones that is more often played), might feature quarter-tones, but none in this one. :)

[leviolonist]

Thanks a million, Adamwas! Fascinating, Gitlis and his divine Guarneri del Gesu. And the great Bartok. So beautiful and admirable. Please keep on posting Gitlis.

[rojaviva]

he owns a stradivarius of 1713

[guidc]

I didnt like it... I dont know if it because I´m not listenning to bartok much often lately, but most of it sounds sloppy and out of tune. I´ve seen much better videos from Glitis...

[OistrakhMilstein]

please post a video of you playing so that we can see that you play so much better!

[arielpesach]

What a great artist Ivry Gitlis is! His playing is so refreshing for one's whole being.

[ricardojufe]

great!