Ginette Neveu plays Gluck - Mélodie (from Orfeo ed Euridice)

[paulostroff99]

Superb! TY Tom for posting.

[KorkadLyktstolpe]

It's interesting to compare this version with others; I think it's more similar (but still differnet) from Changs verion of this piece, and I woulnd't call this one similar at all with the verion Heifetz played.

But one thing I can't find something to comapre this with is the beauty of it: There's nothing which is as fullfilled and magic as this piece when Neveu play it.

[teofrasto51]

As long as one can hear things like this, one may think that, in spite of everything, Life is worth living...

[violinhunter2]

Neveu died young - in a plane crash while coming to play in the U.S. Her brother was on the plane as well. Tragic.

[Sylvain894]

I don't know much about her, but i guess it was sad time for people like Jewish cause antisemitism, and music associated to Gluck(German) was maybe related to the rising of Germany before the second World War(next year); French people and Russian had to suffer from that event ! I know that she disappeared at a young age. Her music witnesses that sadness in the air !

[Boccoli90]

Bravissima!!

[PhillipLWilcher]

This is everything to me!

[bummy33]

I never understand why people always look for a better interpretation. If you think something is better than something else than doesn't that mean you have the "best" idea of the interpretation? So get off your lazy butt, pick up a violin and practice 14 hours a day and lets see if you truly do have the perfect interp. If not, then go back to the living room and watch TV. If you are done now, sit back and listen to the vision this holy woman had of this piece. <3

[luzsorial]

J'aime tant l'écouter interpréter ainsi que Rachmaninov cette sublime mélodie.

Merci!

[c0066310]

I have heard this piece for 1xx time......including heifetz...milstein...etc...thi­s record make me feel i am the first time to hear this

[Perseus12345678]

@c0066310 it is the best...this sounds so fresh and alive doesn't it?

[Perseus12345678]

@c0066310 this is the best...the recording sounds so fresh and alive

[pondeflouers]

Исполняет так, словно торопится сказать что-то очень важное и боится быть непонятой....

[ita2255]

Interpratation here better

youtube.com/watch?v=MCjUMU8X5M­I, although she did wonerful job. Little too fast, I think.

[ita2255]

Too fast, less romantic freedom.

Here is the best interpretation in my opinion

.youtube.com/watch?v=MCjUMU8X5­MI

[pondeflouers]

Очень эмоционально исполнено (по сравнению с Яшей Хейфецом). И даже оптимистично. Качество записи лучше.

[russianbee]

marina

[sw8074]

Is it ok for a man to cry? ♥♪♫

[weezeedee]

definitely in this case!

[paulostroff99]

Awesome

[ChocolaMeiure]

i really respect to her.......how moving performance and spiritly sound..

[pouchichi]

She was killed like Lipatti.Too much talent for a goy.

[XaveJamesGrey]

So glad to find this. I will have to read more about her.

[OEDBrowser]

To Xave JamesGrey. You will find a biography of Ginette Neveu on Abebooks( Worldwide site for secondhand books /out of print etc !!! She was one the best violinists of the 20th century - so sad she died so tragically at such young age !! She will never be forgotten !!

[ydraki]

Not too many know of Neveu. A shame really that some of the greatest artists didn't get their deserved promotion. Still in Ginette , as well as Christian Ferras, you hear the most sensitive, heavenly interpretations ever.

[ydraki]

Unsurpassed sensitivity! Neveu and Ferras are at the very top.

[justwarren]

Exactly! Well said!

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! Love her vibrato. Why did she have to die so young? I'm misty-eyed...

[poulha]

This is beyond words ...

[RIPLEYvsALIENS]

Thomas,

I had never heard of Ginette Nevue until I came across your video.

Thank you so much for posting this

great performance. This is the most beautiful rendition of Melodie that I've ever heard!

[takhirviolinest]

she move a lot of tempo and she have no one big frase like singer's i like Menuhin's playing. Just listen He was 23 When he played it.

[Silvio823]

More musical than Heifetz.

[cjh37878]

She had so much talent... and it was all for naught. Her life was cut short so early on. She could have been so much more... She was better than Oistrakh in his near-prime, and only at the age of 15, at that! From what I've heard, we can all conclude she had just as much, if not more potential than Heifetz. May Ginette Neveu forever rest in peace.

[takhirviolinest]

Do you see How Oistrakh was play When he was 17 year's On TV. It was Fantastic and no speaking about music you feel just shocking I have on VHS His playing of Ernest last Rose It's so fantastic.

[tappytoto]

Thank you Thomas !! You have given us the benefit of listening to a most moving rendition by the Great Neveu !! The world needs a lot of this beauty to melt hard hearts and hearts of hate and prejudice and I am certain after listening to the performance by Ginette Neveu that it hits at the heartstrings !!!! It cannot get any better than this !! the summit has be attained and the standard and template has been established !! Such a beautiful force for good !!!!!!!!!!

[tappytoto]

So Beautiful and moving !! it has to be definitive rendition along with Heifetz !!. A shinning Star appeared for such a short while and touched those who would listen !! Sometimes it happens that the brevity of the situation its sustenance !!and gives immortality. Long live her memory for ever for ever forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PandabeerMEISTER]

Dhhh.. She can match Heifetz' stunning performance. This is extraordinary. Did Heifetz got his interpretation from her? Probably..

[ttellerx]

I have her playing the Sebelius Violin concerto on 78s.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Thank you so much..and hearing this we understand why she is such a legend.

[arielsonnenberg]

@OriginalMoonbeam ....rather wayward intonation and abrupt changes of tempo which are not marked mean that Oistrakh and heifetz are far better examples of this piece.

[vincecharus]

unsurpassed

[kevalkeval1993]

stunning....just sublime. Gorgeous music and fabulous playing! Thanks for sharing this Thomas!

[cattleman6420012000]

This is fabulous.She was such a beautiful player.

[simipiano]

Beautiful Happy new year my friend :)

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you Thomas. You know what this means to me....

[MarasVeil]

How stunningly beautiful... I had the utter bliss to dance to this once long ago. How wonderful to hear this recording.

Thank you for the lovely post.