Yehudi Menuhin plays Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5

[lalealynn]

WOW would you look at that bowing!.....

[Klassik2012]

Great footage, thank you.

[246trinitrotoluene]

ahh... interesting idea by yehudi

i also love how 6ths sound (also they're the easiest to play)

[matias14stella]

Esplendido, saludos desde Chile.

[SpanishLeader]

sencillamente, INCREIBLE.

[TheTrasheurfou]

virtuose,un grand violoniste

[Rogue4renhiw]

Genious, simply the best violinist ever.

[1983slash]

awesome. and depressing. how hard it is to play this f.....g instrument!! even after years you, normal being, cant even do half of this!! huge

[Matachancha]

4 an 11 

[valentin80]

Thumbs up if you're thinking to Chaplin when you listen this :)

[countrygurl322]

@ZapdosKim everyone says G Minor, but it's in so many different keys I don't think anyone even knows anymore.

Anywho, I will be playing this in an audition in November for the Connecticut Music Educator's Association Southern Region Middle School Solo Adjudacation Festival.

[kristinelizabeth23]

what an awesome piano player

[BigBobbyWeiss]

Any idea who the copyright holder for this film is? Or if there is still a rights holder?

[kateviolin9999]

woooow AMAZIIING!!



[Nibu111]

he is the best... NO woRds To saY !!!

[Francisco1950s]

I have nothing to say but "AWESOME!!!!!" yup thats all :D

[ZapdosKim]

wait, what key is this in?

[ViolinistZach218]

@ZapdosKim g minor

[ZapdosKim]

AMAZING

[AlicePanouVEVO]

he died a year before 2000... how can this be true? before the 1.000 years.... wow.....

[DanaNikolajenko]

It`s good!

[momo03329]

keep*

[momo03329]

Once you know the part, you doesn't need to keed your eyes open, it doesn't change anything. :)

[CallMeBusy]

@ThorAxeTheThunder ... thats not impressive...if you play with closed eyes its easier to play...

[ThorAxeTheThunder]

does he play it with his eyes closed all the time? IMPRESSIVE!!

[SuperGamer87]

Why did those 7 people come here?

[darinrosa]

@SuperGamer87

because they think he improvises too much. sorry 8

[Lzztopz]

o.o

[martymarty08]

figo..ejisqx, lo sai che  esiste il congiuntivo?

[ca1cifer]

Holy crap, I can only dream of play my double stops that well.

[Deathzwei]

Hey, is this 2x or 3x speed? lol, can anyone confirm this?

...kidding...

[TheHideg8]

Jol nyomja.:-)

[Ejisqx]

he's amazing. but i think vengerov plays it better.

[HIMADESU223]

It is not all about moving your body while playing, it is simply just showing/expressing who they are and what they can do.

[HIMADESU223]

The reasons why I adore his musical expression/playing is because Menuhin has different layers of colors in his playing. His playing goes straight through people heart by him playing just the opening. It draws audiences in, it grabs the audiences in. I also think Menuhin is a gentlemen, however it does not matter whether he moves or not. It is each player's styles of playing. When I play my violin, I move to express my musical emotion, but that is just MY style of playing

[bazlur]

The greatest violinist

[chia208uk]

So follow trend if you wanna stand a chance,

Follow the steps and let's do the Upper Clapton Dance

[SherlockHolmes585]

ohhh i love his music!

[saintmichael104]

look how much freakin bow he uses! I bet he played super loud, would have blew my teacher out of his chair!

[alex9920iasi]

 A great violonist, a great musical piece. Other words aren't so necessary

[ildivod]

nadie como el......

[MasterOfEnk]

pity how everyone ignores how skilled the pianist is, too..

[khl1975]

This is super! The tempo and the mood elements from gypsy music is really in this, and also the voice of Brahms! Menuhin was a legend!

[Beaver217]

6 viewers seem to miss the "i suck dick compared to this guy" button

[FFSray]

@Beaver217 dislike jokes in the comments section of this classical piece? what are you twelve? get the fuck out of here and never come back!

[An0niempje]

@FFSray Uncivilized and rude people anywhere around classic music? What are you, a caveman?

Please leave let people have some fun and enjoy the music. 

[FFSray]

@An0niempje sorry son, i won't discuss this with anyone who listens to best of hardcore...

[An0niempje]

@FFSray Since when is a versatile taste in music a crime? I think it's very narrow minded to limit yourself to a genre when there is other good music which you can enjoy.

Hardcore covers other emotions then classical music, which I listen depends on my mood. Who are you to judge that?

I don't react to the pinkpop videos on your channel either.

[FFSray]

@An0niempje "Who are you to judge that?" - Well, I am a 6'6 tall guy with blue eyes and brown/grey hair. I enjoy reading books and I have a great interest in science. Still, the Counting Crows (PinkPop) videos aren't as shallow as "best of hardcore" with one on-going bassline for about 2 minutes, even dubstep is better than that, come on.

[An0niempje]

@FFSray In everything I wrote about yourself I fail to see a reason why your opinion or taste would be any more valuable then anybody else's.

Well, i have enjoyed the best of Hardcore at one moment, but I hardly think this is the appropriate place to discuss our different opinions about what is the most 'shallow' music. I rather listen to a on-going bassline then to a person that tries to sing and sucks at it. But that's just my opinion.

[SirDanOfHell]

I'll take Menuhin over Heifetz and Garrett any day...

[iamshaychan]

wow! all i can say is wow! AWESOME!

[jyothisjames9]

his bow technique seems weird., towards the end of each stroke the bow tilts towards him. is this a technique of some sort?

[Asumiru]

@jyothisjames9 no its not a technique. The solution to this would be to just push your arm out a little at the end of the bow but just enough to keep the bow parallel with the bridge of the violin. It's caused by using the arm to move the bow, rather than your elbow.

[mrwasbesonders]

@Asumiru ???????????

[shinejoe86]

such great musicians, it works great, unfortunately, no longer

[orientalsunflower]

That's my husband right there. ;D

God, been playing violin for 5 years and I'm no where near as great as him. How I envy his awesomeness. ;o;

[nbguitar90]

he was Enescu's pupil, that matters a lot!

[MsBlizi]

Fantasztikusan jó!!!

[zombiefewd1]

Epic skills.

[Billy520917]

Thanks for posting this!

[HeiligerPavianarsch]

yehudi=one of the great violin artists of the 20th century...

he was THE Wunderkind...

he played brahms, bach and beethoven with the berlin philharmonic in the age of 12!! (his official debut)

he played with the san francisco philharmonic at 11

and started makeing vinyls with 9/10 years old (if you watch "Young Menuhin Encore, you will hear his level with nine/ten-it's pretty good, but for a 9-year old its just AMAZING)

cu

[BonePhone]

Who's yahudi?

[kittenstoes]

WatchCharmedOnline and checkthisjunkout: I actually feel the same way about musicians who play too stiffly...like someone shoved a rod up their tush. I can't imagine any emotion coming from it.

[nosferatusism]

no,i am sorry, i wish to say that menuhin had studid viola during the '30 s together and from enescu...

[nosferatusism]

he has learning viola from enescu...the best player and heifetz the same...

[shiveringflower]

That's interseting,could you tell me when Heifetz studied with Enescu?

[violinartist1]

i'm learning this as a solo right now. But not this fast ;)

[phoebewrightmusic]

played a little too fast for me. but what skill. i find it amazing how he can stay so perfectly still while playing this. i play guitar and am by no means a virtuoso but i still move my feet and sway a little while playing.

possibly the best musician of his time.

[checkthisjunkout]

As still as he is, it makes me wonder about all the squirming and head-wiggling that many violinists do these days. :-D

[DeedMDavid]

Mainly for show, I imagine. I always move so much while performing, because I really get into the music, and want to show that to whatever audience I'm playing for.

[checkthisjunkout]

Yeah that's what instructors used to say. The communication with the audience is more than just through the sound. Some of it is inevitable, though. I've been told that I shape my mouth/jaw/lips in a peculiar fashion when I play (used to play).

[WatchCharmedOnline]

@checkthisjunkout

I agree. It's the same for Piano.

There's no reason why people squirm like that, even if it's for show. The first idea that comes to my mind: It's all an act and I automatically have a prejudace against the performer.

The squirming is just stupid. All the great composers and unmatched performers plays relativly stiff. They understand that music isn't a stage act.

[checkthisjunkout]

I must say that I believe the experience should be the same for a blind person as it is for someone that can see! So what good is all that movement, right? :-D I overlook it, though.

[WatchCharmedOnline]

The difference is that one annoys the heck out of me and the other lets me enjoy my music at peace.

[ViolinistTB]

Music is a stage act. Why would rockstars move when they play, or why do the best musicians (as in a symphony) move? It is because they are not just playing the music, they are feeling the music and taking the audience along with them. For music to be good you must be having fun. Someone who is loosened up and letting the music take them sounds better than someone standing there just playing music, holding back.

[blichilde]

@ViolinistTB

Questo discorso a me pare una solenne stupidaggine.

Un musicista suona male se non si agita? Ma mi faccia il piacere...

(need translation?)

[Tim92G]

Damn you, youtube. I tried uploading a Bach concerto performed by Yehudi Menuhin last night, but it was rejected for being 11 and 54 seconds long!

[spind]

Lame brains? I am sure you can teach them to play better ... Why don't you post a clip of yourself playing something ...

[oldgoat5]

heifetz doesnt have a recording of this in the first place...

[kittenstoes]

Damn, well thanks..I was looking for it...now I'll stop!

[WatchCharmedOnline]

THE BEST IVE HEARD!

[fenderguitargirl]

Oh my goodness.... I played this when I was 11... This is amazing

[2Boios]

you've got to be kidding me. im sorry

[mykadia]

Wait 'till you get to be a little older. I tell people I'm majoring on cello and play the violin and they tell me they wish they had my life. It gets better :)

[ShredRedemption]

Yeah. Well your peers can go die. I actually play the three main forms of guitar: rock, jazz, and classical. But, I also play Double Bass. I think both are great, and yeah, I have gotten shit from jocks who know nothing. But I also know all of us can agree on one thing. You cannot be a bad ass and a french horn player... Sorry frenchies! =D

[Nowekian]

guitar doesn't have strings?! ;)

[AneurysmMaster]

...I said a string instrument COMPARED to the guitar, another string instrument. I'm saying that my peers consider the guitar to be the only cool string instrument. |:

[ShredRedemption]

So what have I been playing on my guitar for last 4 years? 'Cause I sure haven't been blowing as if it were a trumpet...

[1BarefootCowboy]

lol

[1BarefootCowboy]

So this is the real Yehudi. My dad always warned me about him. lol

[PhilipLu3]

very beautiful, a bit too fast for me however.

[lostturtlesandbox]

I totally understand what you mean about the form. I always move my feet about and it always annoys me.

[mikesul16]

Such an unappreciated instrument in todays day and age, this is a true wonder. Just look at his fingers! Menuhin was such a talent in his day, perhaps the best musician ever.

[MrTman16]

He plays like such a gentleman. God, I envy how straight he is able to keep his arm. Look at that form. How does not move once, concentrating so hardly. No matter what I do I always take small steps and sway my body while playing. I've been told that it just varies from person to person. Some people can play like that, others can't.

[iplehguitar]

@MrTman16 it sure does take a lot of skill to play so straight and perfectly, but its kinda freaky how he ALWAYS bow in this PERFECT line. and how his violin NEVER moves and how its PERFECTLY PARALLEL to the floor, or how he uses the EXACTLY the same amount of bow for a series of notes. the only part of him that says he's human is his head, and his head only ticks occasionally O_O other than that, he might as well be a robot

[PoorYorrick7]

@iplehguitar The fact that he is dead says that he is/was human.

[iplehguitar]

@PoorYorrick7 when i said he was a robot, it was a figure of speech.

[straightarrow372]

@MrTman16 why is it bad to move?

[JohnEBPiano]

@MrTman16 Don't think that swaying or stepping around gives you less powers as a violinist. I watched Oistrakh play the Shostakovich concerto, and at the end of the 3rd movement he was at a completely different point in the room from where he was when the movement started.

[shiveringflower]

@JohnEBPiano In 1981 i saw Igor Oistrach play the Brahms concerto and he wandered about quite a bit as well. Also, he frequently stamped his left foot really hard.

[luigiperso]

@MrTman16 , our bodies are all different. I have never seen anybody move like Bruce Lee. for example. I believe that these people have put so much work and passion into what they do that no one can imagine how much work they have put into. We can only get a glimpse of how much work and passion.

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

@MrTman16 I honestly don't think it takes a lot of concentration to play this piece

[XquisiteVx]

@MrTman16 Haha, I sway my body too. I thought I was the only one!

[chia208uk]

@MrTman16 dude, shut the fuck up, u know how retarded you sound?

[deathendz]

@MrTman16 doing that is good, it means you're showing expression that's what my teacher says, but jesus, how can menuhin play with so much expression with barely any movement, that's god-like talent

[Adam0047]

Best music ever!!

[justfallen516]

I love his vibrato =D , is very beautiful...

[jazzecca2007]

*Bows at his amazingness*. It's not a "hard" piece but to stay in tune like that is amazing

[PulpFictionK]

Me da gracia esta pieza de musica!!! =) siempre me la ha dado!!!

[offer1988]

Yehudi Menuchin was indeed one of the best fiddlers ever lived... listening to this recording is an honor- for us, fo the music and for him.

[cjh37878]

In my opinion, he's the only violinist who comes close to Heifetz, save for Neveu, who had more potential than either but never was able to peak.

[ShipperS7]

Agreed

[Robert1911000]

@offer1988 Menuhin and he was a violinist

[Maplestory656]

It's great

I think it's a bit too fast, though

[VuLeTrung]

World is Music ...he he

[LovelyRivals87]

Amazing!!! Thanks so much for the video*****

[ATYUOT]

wow... I love him. I'm practicing it for a concert in next week, hope i can play a little like him.

[spystou1990]

Very nice music!!! I like it very much!!! Thanks for uploading...