Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Joshua Bell, Henning Kraggerud, Yuri Bashmet in Shostakovich

[poetcomic1]

This is the famous Shostakovich "Dance of the Disintegrating Bows".

[futuroid]

poor page turner had to gtfo the stage :(

[Grobanite122549]

GUYS would you stop hating on Joshua Bell? Can YOU play it as well as him?? x3

[mikesmith007x]

@Grobanite122549 No I can't play as well as Joshua Bell but I can sit still for longer!

[Grobanite122549]

This is so freaking awesome xD

[MusicosinFrontera]

@manufoto que hagas mejor......tu ers un musico frustrado???

[quinterotonalayo]

the reason J B Need to move that much is due to the fact that the music is too much for him but look Martha Argerich Calm and Clear/ the thing is Lang Lang and J.B. Have that overly hasitant musical body twitching, all for show does nothing to the music

[gutenberg80]

My wonderfull Martha...When she was younger was the most beautifull girl I have ever seen...

[manufoto]

ho rro ro so

[tlcooper93]

He needs a haircut. 

[arsenstepanyan]

23 jackass!!!

[MusicosinFrontera]

@arsenstepanyan in your ass ashow

[shaibaliqbal]

This is what I call jam.. amazing..

[SnowClouds810]

Martha is amazing!

[animemusic8]

THIS IS THE STANDARD!!!!

[superpudding14]

:3 Mischa MAisky's hair is just amazing. its like,, the ultimate, rocker jewfro.

[Thegreatbuk]

I think this is referred to as "bukake" in japanese terminology.

[SpringInTheSchool]

Great! Great!!!!!! Just that word comes out from my mouth :D

[satansprick13]

what a bunch of cunts. the violoncello player should be impaled on a public place in germany.

[Thegreatbuk]

@satansprick13 Beautiful!!!!

[Barber702]

JOSHUA RUINS EVERYTHING



[Thegreatbuk]

@Barber702 The truth!

[langlois1]

Why so fast?

[bassmusic6]

What chamber music should be!

[kizkiz2210]

0.58 - Holy crap.

[kungfudancin]

David Garrett > Joshua Bell

[hifredyo123456789]

@kungfudancin no man Joshua Bell > David Garrett

[kungfudancin]

@hifredyo123456789 I respectfully disagree =]

[hifredyo123456789]

@kungfudancin let's just say Joshua Bell= David Garrett

[kungfudancin]

@hifredyo123456789 Sounds good to me

[gergsar]

this is great...what a line-up of musicians!

[BeatrizCelina]

no me canso de escucharlo y verlo!!!

[LadyInDaHouse88]

lol Shostakovich is rock in classical music. ;)

[OldSkewl101]

Fiyah! These guys look like rock stars!!

[karmmanuel1]

haha I love how Henning Kraggerud's just looks at Bell like 'wtf'

[theconnornolanbox]

They make that amazing piece of music and then miserably fail at bowing (3:10). I love musicians!

[MsVaxxine]

@theconnornolanbox people like you make me sick. So you have this amazing performance but you absolutely had to focus on and talk about that bowing... why can't you just relax and enjoy?

[af1guysays]

Yo that shit is tight!

[irrationalmonster]

Bell is so eccentric it's laughable. I want to glue him to his seat! Oh well. At least the others were more enjoyable.

[gnatural]

bell should do more chamber, his movement bring more energy than when he does solo in my opinion.

[jghamm]

argerich stands so much above them all!!!

[jeffersonfsoares]

@jghamm Você esta muito enganado dai quem tem mais nome é Joshua Bell depois Argerich e depois Mischa Maisky e Yuri

[MusicosinFrontera]

@jeffersonfsoares quanta ignoranca...Martha é soberana....!

[BluesSkillz]

this should be under the comedy section

[allfre2]

@1:13 the viola plays a note a little flat and the 2nd violin goes "huh ...wtf... oh well " lol .

[CubanasoX]

Beastly!!!!!! What an amazing performance!

[outoftunefiddler]

Can anyone guess if Bell was using the Stradivarius when playing here?

[jsivanataru]

They tore that shit up! Amazing!

[jocko93]

Mejor imposible!!

[ekrenek]

The ultimate Martha & friends dream team! Wish they'd done the whole quintet!

[ekrenek]

The ultimate Martha & friends dream team! Wish they'd done the whole quintet!

[radicallytubular]

holy crap the energy immediately leaves me transfixed. there's nothing better than having that connection and adrenaline rush while playing in a group.

[NikkDriver]

Abstract........Possibly

[edsonhilios]

Bravo!

[Dbrazz88]

Maestro Bell has triggered my damn epilepsy yet again...

[anisometropie]

does anyone know where I can find the score ?

[franciscocoser]

@anisometropie sharmusic . com has it

[AmelieWuensche]

argerich doesn't even have to look on the keys... XD

[GustafNeilsonViolin]

I LOVE Martha Argerich! She's tha bomb!

[lindberg555]

@NemoProkofiev551 With the due respect- I am not Amicus but Joshua Bell is terribly flat in many places. It really doesn´t matter though - it´s a live concert and it can happen. Maybe his e string loosened a bit. But I find a tempo in this Schostakovich scherzo far too fast- again it was an encore and it doesn´t matter too much. But for heaven´s sake contemporary music doesn´t mean playing out of tune-unless a composer wants quarter of a tone. And Schostakovich is not Berio, Ives or Tom Ades.

[vkoracx]

@ nemoProkofiev551 :

the violin is a bit out of tune here and there and it is lower than it is supposed to be ,namely "flat" as you say ;-)

on the other hand,Shostakovich obviously put a great demand on players ,in a witty and clever way , and I think his expectation was for the players(and instruments) to get "out of tune" by the end of this remarkable composition

[dabeatdurand]

so much feeling, awesome

[buxter]

Is this what is meant by "circle jerk"?

[tanitoevan]

@buxter

hahahahahahahaha

[keishadelacerna]

"there is no such genius without a touch of madness"

[JEatsbabies]

the cellist busted some hairs on his bow xD

[anisometropie]

he has caught his beard between the string and the fingerboard

[NSProductions1432]

Their mad people, I tell ya, haha XD

[gurtrudelim]

Now I wonder how the heck these instuments survived through this pieces for hundreds of years.

[jamesh625]

Best interpretation of Star Wars ever!

[buxter]

@jamesh625 LOL!!!

[smthddy]

@jamesh625 Where do you think John Williams got a LOT of his ideas from...? -- Shost 5th symph too..

[thewoz82]

@jamesh625 Star Wars? What's wrong with you!?

[CSPlayerDamon]

@thewoz82 Oh come one. Can't you even understand that the musical theme used is the same? Or rather, the Star Wars theme and this movement from Shostakovich's quintet actually sound a lot alike.

[30secondstomarstv1]

@jamesh625 No you wrong HAHAHAHA Is the Shostakovich`s Quintet ( :

[zobi5]

Very, very, very good.

[ollibolliboll]

Exellent :D :D

[k73f]

holy crap these guys are beasts

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

lol!!! ahhhhahahahaha

[KearneyPiano]

Imagine having been there? i think that the sheer force of energy coming from that stage would be enough to knock you into unconciousness!

[Gregory98]

Wow! It renders one in awe.

[classicalaudiofool]

Hey Nemo,

I love Josh bell and as awesome as he is, he plays a bit flat off and on in this particular live clip. It happens to the best of us. The music is of course what matters most and I will take an awesome violinist who plays a tiny bit out of tune here or there over a mediocre player playing perfectly in tune any day of the week. And yes, you came across as being somewhat ostentatious.

[xgodmodez1]

Such emotion in each person it's incredible! Fantastic, each instrument compliments the other perfectly.

[KBMKBMKBMKBM]

What do you think Martha Argerich plays for her grand kids, she probably scares the shit out of them hahahaha

[mattbassoon]

:58 to 1:00 is unREAL!

[OriginalBasaliskos]

Martha's hair is fabulous.

[Pianistrocker101]

She's getting old LOL! But her music isn't, just the way I like it :)))

[kidmuso]

can he just settle down lol

[ijkanov]

why is everyone so caught up with intonation? you guys are not seeing the forest for the trees.

[enanotodo]

why do musicians need to draw attention to him/herself by having fucked up looking hair ?

[echospetr]

Martha's out of tune silly! The piano messed everbody else up. Anybody with any musical sense knows that. Joshua can not make mistakes. I mean he plays Indian music! I am right!

[cteno411]

What a hilarious piece of music! I love Shostakovich's humor.

[frocock]

Joshua Bell is definitely flat at least some of the time. Refer to his solo at 1:03, and at 1:50. Not to mention he cheats the high notes (they should definitely have vibrato) at 1:44 by playing artificial harmonics. It is possible his strings were out of tune given the level of aggression in which was hammering the notes out of his violin. Although it seems nit-picky, it is definitely noticeable mistakes to any violinist or musician familiar with this piece.

[sirasy]

GRANDE MARTHA!

[viol999]

Pieces like this keep bow rehairing people in business.

[Pianistrocker101]

These guys should replace that dude with the fiddle in the Geico Commercial LOL!

[jcwk87]

Note the hair of the bow coming off at 2:20.

[vlhere]

in the starting of the video, Joshua Bell looks soo effing HOT..oh my, I'm getting all gaga over him..

[thisismikestanley]

perhaps there wouldn't be so many apparent intonation issues if they would sit still for a moment...

[grocheo1]

fantastico

[AllegroDemolish]

okay, i almost cant slp as the energy keeps on flowing thru.....

[smudgepots]

Full circle? Now the older generation of classical musicians have long hair (the older you get, the older, sadder and more ridiculous it makes you look) while the young generation all have tidy short haircuts. Happily, the notably absymal dress sense of classical musicians (perhaps Karajan was one of the few exceptions) has never impinged on their musicianship. I do wish Marta would do something about her hair, it really does look dreadful now.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@smudgepots smudgepots, you've touched up on the most important aspect of this video. Martha's hair.

Thank you for being so very smart and profound.

[smudgepots]

@th3wing3dpaint3r You're too kind. One does one's best. By the way, I don't think one can be smart AND profound. Some people can actually manage to be neither, as you obligingly illustrate.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@smudgepots " I don't think one can be smart AND profound" Please do explain :)

"Some people can actually manage to be neither, as you obligingly illustrate" hmm, maybe then i was too shallow to understand your comment. Would you care to elaborate on how important Martha's hair is to this music?

[smudgepots]

@th3wing3dpaint3r I think smart means obviously clever and bright, whereas profundity is not always so obvious. You seem to want to go on about Martha's hair more than me, so maybe, actually, her hair is more important to you than it is to me?

But to answer your question, it has nothing to do with the music whatsoever. You knew that, though, didn't you?

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@smudgepots "I think smart means obviously clever and bright, whereas profundity is not always so obvious" Being profound and being smart are two completely different things. My question was why you're suggesting that they're mutually exclusive.

"You seem to want to go on about Martha's hair more than me" Again with the smartness. Boy, you are one bright bulb!

[smudgepots]

@th3wing3dpaint3r I think once you are concerned with profundity and the truth, the issue of being clever or bright is no longer an issue - you'd have transcended such superficialities. Thank you for the compliment, by the way.

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@smudgepots " think once you are concerned with profundity and the truth.." Ahh, now i get your point. I meant to use the word to convey the seriousness of your comment though. My bad!

"Thank you for the compliment, by the way"

You've earned it! Deducing that i'm utterly obsessed with Martha's hair from a request i made for you to explain your comment is brilliant!

[smudgepots]

@th3wing3dpaint3r There you go, on about her hair again! Why don't you focus on the profundity of the music, instead?

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@smudgepots Too bad i'm not smart enough to make theories about it as you did. I'll leave those vital issues to experts such as yourself.

Seriously though, It's sad to think how the effort put into this performance was met with a shallow comment about a performers' hair and garb.

[smudgepots]

@th3wing3dpaint3r There you go, again. Just as I thought you were acquiring a smile and a sense of humour about the whole thing. Do you think you'll ever be able to let this one go?

[ursin1]

What a nerve, what a musicality - just amazing.

[TheYuLeeAn]

Wow! I'm 16 and this is the first time I realy head this kind of music consciously. 1 year ago I dicovered Jazz for me and now THIS. It's extremly powerful and ... phuu ehhhrr.... WOW!

[0518violinist]

good

[clairannette]

@NemoProkofiev551 The qualms with intonation are *probably* from 1:03 - 1:06 (Bell) & 1:14 - 1:17 (Bashmet). They are both fishing for pitches. Begs the question as to whether this is human error (logical, they're humans) or whether Shosty wrote quarter tones for some extramusical purpose (maybe). The 8vas from 1:49 - 1:51 b/w vln & cel are also flat in the soprano (i.e. Bell again). The cellists lazy intonation from 2:22 - 2:35, however, seems to be programmatic & is brilliantly done w/ Martha.

[funnygrudge]

@NemoProkofiev551 Hahahaha I'm pretty sure Shostakovich doesn't ask musicians to play notes that don't have desginated pitches, which was what Bell was doing. He definitely has the credibility, but that doesn't make him have immaculate pitch. I must say that I am surprised to hear him out of tune so much- it is unlike him....

As for your childish final question, most of the incorrect intonation was on the flat spectrum.

[ink28]

It's clear that you did not understood that I was joking at a second degree. I was answering to somebody who was critisizing this amazing performance. I'm a professional violin player and of course I know all the musicians. By the way, Argerich lives in Brussels not far from my place.

[Uruguruh]

Are they mad? Well, it's full of life anyway. It sounds like an electrified Shostakovich.

Fingers in the plug and play.

[3intelligents]

Music !,musique !,musica !, musiek,musi,musiqi,muziko ,e.t.c.

[PlaystehPiano]

Josh Bell just made my day. (bounces around in chair)

[mybad823]

@NemoProkofiev551 You're wrong.

[davidofpiano423]

God her octaves are amazing at 0:57, perfect economy of motion.

[stagesix6]

wow! great video. i pround of clicking that link!...

[muslit]

Sorry. Joshua Bell had some out of tune moments. Anyone can hear it, eminent violinist or not.

[kolb94]

Joshua bell looks like he needs to get medical attention. I'm all for musical expression but give me a fucking break

[xxjewledxxromance]

I like how they all have hairs hanging from their bows :) Such wonderful representitives of their instruments!

[Shoebappa1]

haha, as one of my professors said when I mentioned this video, I am surprised all these ego's can fit on the same stage :D

Excellent nonetheless!

[pila406]

Martha Argerich - Ego?!?!?! What?!?!?!

[kolb94]

joshua bell is so overrated. He is just advertised well. His playing at times is very sloppy and he makes all these unnessicary head movents that he plays off as side effects of his "extreme power of expression"

[sutphoe]

All stars!

[jonaman1]

This has to be the most spaced out arrangement of star wars i've ever heard! But hats off for amazing playing!

[anabananuhh]

I agree with PianoKid1171

& this sounds amazing!!! :]

[PianoKid1171]

i agree Nemo =)

[PianoKid1171]

this piece was purposely meant to be played this way...even though it sounds out of tune

[kbuva06]

@PianoKid1171

Thanks, i thought such masters were just having an off day

::eyeroll::

[DecimasCaminantes]

thats ok! they wants to rock sometimes!

[ink28]

Yes, they play out of tune and not in rythm. But it's normal. Joshua Bell who knows him? Argerich? Never heard about. Maisky? Poor people. I'm sure that we could play much better than them!

[beebeequail]

Even the least musically sensible person knows those too are playing out of tune.

[laqin007]

dude... the violinst and the viola was out of tune..... dont say they played in tune..

[Bluecorvette69]

Bashmet, you play OUT OF TUNE. You SUCK!

[gldfoto]

Friend, you're crazy or have a hearing supernatural?

[Bluecorvette69]

And clearly you are illiterate. Yes Bashmet plays out of tune, so does Bell.

[gldfoto]

Bluecorvette, A poet said, sometimes "I am on the right, turned this you" jajaja!

[Bluecorvette69]

I doubt a poet wrote that. It makes no sense. WTF is 'jajaja'?

[gldfoto]

Bluecorvette69: Well my friend, you talk like a true expert. I'm an amateur and I can hear the ominous error. I'm sorry. a greeting.

PD: Are you a musician?

[DecimasCaminantes]

@Bluecorvette69 , "jajaja" is "hehehehe" in spanish "cyber" language.

those ones on the video are amazing musicians...no more to say!

[verkhovensky99]

Shostakovich piano quintet . third part .

you should listen to all it's parts , for me the best chamber music of the planet

[kimchi010708]

shangri-la..

[WLBWA]

Wordless, thanks for document and share this masterpiece.

[ispymartuni]

Neurotic and beautiful at the same time!

brova!

[evrythngtkn]

Joshua bell is like jumping out of his seat LOL

[jinddz]

yeah, subway shocked him for ever ^^

[lio689]

@evrythngtkn This is what we call "the feeling of music" ^^

[AlanPotter9]

The pizzicato of Bell in 2:33. Is it the meaning that he does this so silent?

[zeeweirdeye]

Pizzicato means plucking the string, which is not easy to play loud. But I think, in this case, Bell's just following the dynamic marking of the music, and maybe the sound quality is not good enough to pick it up.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

I LOVE bell's quirky little head movements......

[IsisCarvalho]

Bravissimi!

[ngtszman]

bravo！

[Pianosaphiens]

virtioz party :=)

[kirsche123100]

brova~

[zekariyah]

OOOOOHHHH Too much greatness in one room!!!

[tnmtemerity]

@zekariyah and generally with the hair to prove it!

[charliebeatz]

bravo ? bravi!!!!!

[wehody]

They are like wizards and witches 1o1 Bravo!