Menuhin Flight of the Bumblebee

[jehovahuponyou]

COUNT DRACULA ON THE FIDDLE - WHAT WONDERFUL LIGHTING EFFECTS!

[mari01500]

If Menuhin have a bad technique, for mine didn't exist a name yet :'(

[Kinjutsuu]

Uni eyebrows

[stevenfann]

That's Bear Grylls playing the violin.

[itsGratisFreebies]

the lighting makes menuhin look really creepy

[evePARK11]

seco wn!!! grande Menuhin!!! :3

[charlemagne762]

Have you seen the film 'The Magic Bow' (1947) it's Stewart Granger miming to Yehudi Menuhin.

[deanxleong]

i thought he was played the whole thing in 34 seconds but it was only a clip.

XD

[PaladinswordSaurfang]

1 person is a bumblebee

[mfskarphedin]

Faster than David Garrett, I believe!?

[saintmichael104]

@mfskarphedin yep, and this was like 70 years ago. Plus, David Garrett doesnt play as well as this guy.

[TheJugglenut]

i taught him that

[SteauaBucuresti]

Menuhin is great. Probably cuz he got the best teacher ever. Enescu.

[shaulea]

he didn't play the whole piece but still sounds good menuhin is pretty good too

[rapter9800]

Wow, his fingers move so smoothly and gracefully

[EnvyPerse]

I've never played it more smoothly than this... although, this way... it sounds less like a bee

[shaulea]

@EnvyPerse true



[minasgekos]

very good piece for finger training on almost every instrument, but very overrated musically. (even f i love RK music and YM playing :))))

[elitetrooper4]

It was originally an orchestral interlude for "The Tale of Tsar Saltan." Great playing by Menuhin!

[ipmoic]

Interesting to hear Menuhin play this all legato while Heifetz separates each note. Somehow the legato playing reminds me more of a bee!!

Does anyone know for what instrument Rimsky-Korsakoff wrote this? Nowadays everyone does it--even Tuba players!

[AlexanderWung]

to ipmoic its not actually legato he seperated evevry bowing. its just the recording thats too shitty that it makes it echoy and therefore it makes it sound like legato

[hypsophilus]

he composed it for the violins of the orchestra.

a propose of Legato, Pablo Casals too plays it legato

[dgmrrtt]

That's kind of spooky.

[PouKii]

remembers me to bela lugosi movie

[shizukashiawase]

awesome cool!! ^^

[k3christine]

no one could beat the originals. (=

[jonahkwok]

Menuhin was my hero, is my hero, and will remain to be my hero.

[masael255]

Ironically I tend to like his recordings when he is older better. Sure they're not as technically perfect but it's as if he's putting more passion, in my ears, in the music then. Not that I don't think he's great before he got older, just a matter of opinion. :P

[AytidaRed]

I agree completely, i have a cd of vivaldi's concertos with menuhin as soloist and i can hear far more imperfections but it makes it all far more beautiful for me somehow.

[takamori400]

Some people said that Menuhin doesn't have good technique; it's not true! Like this, and many other videos I have seen, he is a great violinist! Superb, Menuhin!!!

[folegandros10]

forget about technique, close your eyes and dream of.

Excelent!!!

[MusicCloud1]

@takamori400 He never properly learned how to play the violin. He was THE prodigy to end all prodigies, being able to just pick up a violin from a young age and just play ridiculously well. If you compared Menuhin's young learning years to Heifetz's, you could see the difference. Also, others say that he doesn't have good technique because his technique began to falter at an older age as he questioned how he did things...not a good thing to do as a prodigy

[trevorpinnocky]

@MusicCloud1 Menuhin was much more than a prodigy and did in fact spend a great deal of time of on technique more than once in his life. It is true that when he was a child, he was heavily dependent upon his natural gifts, but later in life, which he struggled to carry that into adulthood, he 'reinvented' himself. It was then that he spent significant time on methods and techniques. In fact, some of them are detailed in books that he wrote.

[maxreger100]

@trevorpinnocky and @MusicCloud1

Menuhin DID properly learn how to play from Louis Persinger. But if anyone ever took to the violin and made it seem like child's play, it was Menuhin. I believe he was probably the most natural talent EVER to play the violin.

Like many prodigies, he had a pushy mother, but seemed to relish the joy of playing regardless. At least until age 17. The recording of the Chausson Poeme (here on YouTube) begins the decline in his un-selfconscious exuberance. A tragedy.

[gongzee]

that is a smooooth as tone

[alissashape]

>:3

[manishbabu]

wow

[hlaakso]

the video quality is so bad it sounds like a flute.

[sukirani]

Ohmy ! That is freakingly fast! :O

[aatechnologyACYT]

practice, practice practice....

[goss525]

so funny where do you guys dig up those old videos