As i expected another Powerfull and amasing Interpretation from lovely Sarah Chang,it looks like that she has a special Enterance to a hidden unvisible Dimention of Infinit Music Worlds,wich are definitly not reachable for another Human Bings so easily,Genius like,(Sahrah Chang,A.S.Mutter,Hilary Hahn and many others),have allready been having this Tallent deeply in their Subconscious,(the Instinkt of Mother Natur),as they was borned,this is a cosmological Low,Thanks all of you
I take it that you have no idea what you're talking about in terms of playing with an accompanied orchestra and particularly this piece...there are different dynamics and intricacies to playing with an orchestra I'm sure you have never understood.
Listen back before that when she's doing her up-bow & down-bow third staccatos and goes into the high C run.
I admire the passion and ferocity of Sarah Chang's interpretation. Her performance carried an ineffable power that complemented the quintessential intensity of the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
Es maravillosa pero yo prefiero a Benjamin Beilman, es simplemente maravilloso, pulcro en cada nota, su sonido y afinación son extraordinarios!!! y qué de la musicalidad??? fuera de serie
See my channel for the complete performance in a single video, and in better quality. There's even a direct link to the third movement in the description if that's all you fancy.
Who's this conductor guy? He was completely lost at around 2:30, caused the bassoons complete chaos and came in a beat late, omitted a beat, then landed on the D downbeat in a hurry, I've never seen a major screw up like this by an orchestra of this level. Orchestra's at this level don't need conductors, all he was doing was beating the crap out of the orchestra anyway and he even screws that up so badly, what a shame.
Scratchy? It's not because she cannot play pretty, she plays how she wants it to be heard. If you don't like it, shut up and go listen to what you want.
I like her but I think that this is super aggressive! I suppose that this movement is the exciting finale but I feel like she hacks away a ton in places she could have been more musical?
THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A POLONAISE FOR POLAR BEARS! Imagine polar bears dancing to this version. They'd slip and fall ;)
hmmm....she can play all the notes, but it's like she threw all her sense of sound out the window. she kinda hammers at this piece and my ears aren't so happy. i think the problem with sarah chang is that she's more concerned with looking impressive while she's performing, without much regard for what sound she's producing. i mean, try watching hilary hahn's version of sibelius when she was 17 on youtube. she has so much poise even at that age compared to sarah now, and her sound is perfect.
@lee4ivy I agree with you: the sound is scratchy sometimes, and is a little bit agressive, and there are some notes out of tune... but I think she's just being carried away by her feelings and emotions. You can never tell how you are going to react on stage. Hilary Hahn's rendition is more accurate in the sense that she doesn't miss a note, but if you ask me, her interpretation is so boring I could fall asleep with this movement which Ida Haendel describes as a Dance macabre. No ofence to Hahn!
@lee4ivy lot of jeoulsy to Sarah. It is insult to Sarha compare to Hillary and etc. Hillary is still learning and try to correct every part not a level of interpreting............... Naturally born vs. practiced
sarah IS a prodigy and good interpreter, but here you can't tell cuz she focuses all her energy on the flourish and not much on technical aspects; all i hear is sawing noises, wobbly vibratos, major intonation issues, and hysterical high notes. you don't get a gist of her great interpretation BECAUSE she couldn't execute it. as for hilary, her playing's so subtle, almost internal/personal, and a careful listener could totally fall in love once hooked. not all great interpreters have to be showy.
@lee4ivy ditto. you can't deny her talent, but she's better at slow romantic stuff. i'm a HUGE sarah fan like many others, but to be frank, her playing here SUCKS. i've listened to countless recordings and know this piece inside out but this made my ears literally ache. it's way out of tune and so unrefined. BUT that does NOT mean i love her any less, so sarah fans, let's get real here: if you've never heard this piece before, go listen to the recording for a while, and THEN come back & compare.
@TheDeviltrace I love this performance. My favorites are the ones by ginette neveu and hilary hahn - but I love this one too, it's so exciting! I think her crashing down on the strings and sawing at the strings are part of her expressive technique - bowstrokes very characteristic of her. that's just the way she expresses the music. It's not a polished, perfect sound like heifetz's but her musicmaking is always daring, confident and totally uninhibited.
She´s great! Her performance is very passionate, even though her playing isn´t as effortless as, let´s say, Ferras´. I also like a lot the conducting starting at 4:34 :)
Don't even get into the comments of Menuhin. Other top conductors like Karajan had the utmost reverance for Mutter or Perlman's or Oistrakh or Jeifetz' or Bell's or Hahn's playing. Every conductor has their preference. At the end of the day, it comes down to one's taste.
There's no doubt that she's very capable but her playing is so scratchy so often. And before someone gives me a diatribe about how it's solely because of the emotion that she's pouring into it, I realize that, but she could use that reckless abandon far more effectively if she uses it more sparingly and get a cleaner sound out of that Guarneri.
@aPMism its not that she doesnt get a clean sound. she has a very good sound. its more that she has developed this sort of "style" for herself over many years, which is very robust and heavy, and its sort of her trademark. its doesnt sound scratchy without a tone behind it; there is always tone there. her playing is very consistent throughout a piece too; never extremely smooth or extremely rough. it is not easy to do what she does, even if she doesnt sound a "clean" as you would like her too.
@aPMism and i agree with you about the emotion thing. theres not really much "emotion" shown through roughness, except maybe anger? but i think its more sarah's way of being her own violinist and stamping something with her style. im a fan.
@Mayplestory1 n1 x100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000!! absolutly agree with you
To all haters: How can Hilary Hahn a cold (though technically good) clinical performer can compare to fiery, skilled and expressive violinist like Sarah who Lord Yehudi Menuhin called "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".? hmmm?
so weak, no strenth at all , she counld hold most of the phrases. her timing is poorly. I hardly feel her emotion without watching the video and seeing her face. she couldn't dominante the orchestra completely. absolutely terrible. She was just more superior than the other kids when she was a child. However, she is not at the same level with other violinists who have the same amount of fame or even less. she doesn't deserve the fame she got.
I am a great admirer of Sarah Chang but this was not as fine a performance as some others I have heard; although admittedly only on disc. I don't think the nordic quality of Sibelius's music suits Sarah's style. One of her heroes is David Oistrakh and he plays this concerto with a brilliance which she, nor anybody else, can't hope to match. However, I am scheduled to see Sahra perform the Max Bruch in April and nobody plays it better than her. In the romantic
Also considering Hilary Hahn is using technique all fingered octaves in the entire performance makes this one look like a student rendition... By the way, having the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest helps you sound good -- she's not good anything. Her time is over -- I don't think she was ever good...
@cageynerd Here we are again Mr. Cageynerd... Remember me from Sarah's version of Air on a Gstring? well have you uploaded any of YOUR own videos to prove your better than Sarah? I guess not YOU SUCK
I love this. There must be some controversies on better one between Hahn and Chang. It's ridiculous. Hahn's work is like a text book technically. But I (and most music loving people) don't want to hear some outstanding pupil's performance who teaches me the right way to "play violin". We want a new interpretation which might be different with the composers intention. This uncertainty or creative re-construction of the plot is the one we thirst for and Chang did well undoubtedly.
This is easily the most eletrifying version of Sibelius I have ever seen or heard. The surge of passion and hysteria superbly complemented with chilling pathos of "emotional turbulence" as pppsssssssss so eloquently puts it, makes this performance truly exciting. Sarah's virtuosity is simply astounding, but it's her red-blooded musicality that goes straight to the heart of the music.
This is proper live music making. Risks are taken. She communicates and interpets the music. Great tone colours and subtle shifts in tempi. Wonderful. I've watched the Hahn version and quite franky it sounds like a note perfect teenager who has rehearsed the piece to death but has nothing to say about it. It sounds robotic and boring. I'm not bothered about Chang's stage presence. This is high art not the X Factor.
sarah is great and i love her playing but she really should work on her stage presence. she comes across as very fake. and i think in part due to her appearance. the hair, makeup, and dress are all so unflattering and un-elegant. she needs a stylist.
@hodgrix are you kidding? she looks gorgeous. And if we're talking about something as shallow as stage presence, she's very animated and her emotions show in her movements. What more could you want?
@hodgrix that's funny, because I think she looks always so perfect and elegant, that I asked myself, if she has a stylist. And I always admire her stage presence, it still can't be more natural I think *_* you don't just see the happiness and energy - you FEEL it. She's so amazing 8)
this performance is already at the peak of its maturity... just imagine how much more intense it would be if she played it 30 years later, with more experience...
i don't like her sound... I don't like her. I was at her concert a few years ago, she played Mendelssohn concerto. I was shocked that she made only big show, not MUSIC. And she didn't feel anything, she was playing like she wanted audience to admire her... I think she isn't good musician. Hilary is better!
sarah chang is an excellent violinist... however, this is a horrible rendition. she's probably having an off day but i've heard alot better. my favourite performances would be by susanne hou and david oistrakh. especially the susanne hou rendition.
@purbanegoro Really?! It's one thing to be constructive, but being completely immature and idiotic is quite another. Do you listen to what she is playing? This performance is brilliant as is the soloist. If you going to post something like that, why comment?
i dont kno how these people endure it !! -_-... for me i get freakin tired after playing only the first movement.. My guess is playing grand concertos like this one is not only a technical challenge but also a "fitness test" lol
i dont kno how these people endure it !! -_-... for me i get freakin tired after playing only the first movement.. My guess is playing grand concertos like this one is not only a technical challenge but also a "fitness test" lol
I adore Sarah's performance of this concerto. She plays with a lot of passion and musicality. She is a true inspiration for young violinists. In music, I can feel her strong personality.
Sarah Chang & Wen Wei THE BEST QUALITY , EXPRESSION AND TECHNIQUE for Sibelius Concerto (i've listened to Perlman, Oistrakh and many others performing this, but the full achieve is worthy of Sarah!)
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Rubbish.
Yet another Ching Chong clone.
Comapre to Salvatore Accardo. No post 1970's classical musician can approach the standards of Ricci or the Klezmer clowns Oistrakh, Perlman, or Stern.
Just an excuse for mail-order bride fantasies to be masturbated to art-music
@purbanegoro Don't be jealous of east asian musicians. Everyone acknowledges Oistrakh or Stern's legacy but times change. Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Joshua Bell are the defining faces of today's classical music. What's the point of comparing them to Oistrakh? How about comparing them to Vivaldi or Paganini?
@purbanegoro Is that what you have to say to the world? "Ching Chong clone"? Do you really know how offensive and racist that remark is? What you say doesn't tarnish her performance and im pretty sure nobody agrees with your statement. You're only making yourself appear to everyone else as an ignorant racist bigot. You sir are racially closeminded, and I hope one day you realize how pathetic that is. We can only hope you don't contribute to the overall gene pool.
@purbanegoro Perhaps you should pull yourself out of that hole you are living in and stop referring to a person of Korean descent as a 'ching' chong'.
@purbanegoro It would be hard for you to distinguish any real music from not so good ones wearing that Ku-Klux-Klan hood over your ignorant dumb head. I thought your tribes live in the woods marching around the fire and burning crosses. Since when did KKK start listening to art music?? Maybe you guys got bored of those drum roles, but your ear is still not so sophisticated.
Some people prefer HIlary Hahn's 17year old performance of this, but when I listen to that version, I don't hear the emotional turbulence and final jubilant resolution that I hear in Sarah's version. Sarah creates so many more different colors with her sound which results in the conveyance of so many emotions. With Sarah's performance/interpretation, it's like you're on a journey with her and she's showing you everything whereas with Hilary, Hilary is telling you the story.
@jasonform what you hear on the recordings/tv shows is much different than what you hear out in the hall. I'm assuming you haven't seen Sarah live in concert? I've watched her 5 separate times and the sounds I heard in the hall were all very full, lush, and silk-like...all of the scratchiness evaporates...
On another note, I've heard Gil Shaham 5 feet away rehearsing and he had a "scratchy tone" as well...but out in the hall, the sounds were so beautiful
@pppsssssssss I think that people who don't know much about violin or music like Hillary's version more. I will concede this Hilary practices like a fiend and as a result has amazing control and a phenominal technical acumen. Also her (Hilary) intonation is spot on nearly all of the time. Sarah on the other hand has a deep and abiding understanding of the rudiments of music and knows exactly how to display the depths of her soul through her fingers.
@pppsssssssss WOW, you're very eloquent and concise! Nobody could have said it better than you, thanks! I completely agree with you, Hahn's playing is too robotic. She just plays the notes, but she doesn't express(or convey) the EMOTION with which the composer intended this piece to be played.
But this completely BLOWS me away, it just gives me GOOSEBUMPS!! I recently auditioned for AGT and in the application I wrote "Sarah Chang" when they asked who my professional role model is.
the scratchy bow is the fault of the tempo being too fast,, the conductor is pushing the orchestra too much thus she is pushing to keep up, listen to the slower tempo parts, she plays perfectly
@McSplat i think you need to have a closer listen and maybe even listen to it with a metronome for a sec because on the 16th note runs, she clearly takes off ahead of the tympani. i know you like Sarah Chang very much and adore her but no artist is beyond reproach. every1 makes mistakes.
The edge you hear in the sound is a function of proper projection. If you stand right next to a soloist they will sound scratchy but if you go out in the hall the sound will be smooth and beautiful.
los agudos de SARAH CHANG despiertan a los olvidados en el tiempo, los graves, envuelven a las almas sedientas de alivio y calma vivificàndolas, los arqueos empuja con potencia y entusiasmo a las almas perezozas, agobiadas y pasivas levantàndolas con estupor y alegria.
¿que mas puede ser SARAH? que la misma redentora de aquellos que han percibido su talento, divinidad esa gracia que poseen los iluminados como CHANG en los universos de la eternidad.
Yikes. Love the passion and there's some stellar technique in there, but it actually does come a bit unhinged, in my opinion. Not that I (or anyone) could do better, but I prefer more tempo and control in the edge. Still a fantastic performance though - feels like she's flying by the seat of her pants, except you know she's Sara Chang, and that this is likely a technical walk in the park for her, so it's likely what she chooses to interpret at the moment.
I'm not an expert. I don't know anything about violin. I just like to listen to great music, Sibelius violin concerto is really nice.... esp this part. so I have searched and listened to some of famous volinists' interpretations, I really like this one among them. yes kind of aggresive and very strong, but that's why I love it. I think the 3rd part needs such powerfulness and shrillness.....
What a great analogy. The continuous, insistent, ruthless forward movement is what is so hard to pull off in this movement. Very few play this so well.
@rubinklee actually Menuhin already commented in her playing once he said :"the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".
Maybe it's me... she looks so nervous ! ...I don't like this performance :( She's just screaming the melody.. maybe this concerto is more for hilary hahn than her...
jerrytomball... small mistakes is understandable in live performance... but as greater the violinists are.. the smaller the mistakes must be.. she is a great violinist.. in a bad [TERRIBLE] day... maybe she didnt practice enough or idk... but its awful you cant deny it... listen to Hahn playing when she was 17!! .. much better than this :)
Or Sarah Chang herself on Paganini... She one time said (in a interview) that she use to play in two manners... The calm, maybe the right way (technically) and the passioned way... Maybe this is the case of the last one, I don´t know, I´m just guessing (Sorry my english, I´m learning)
@blumountainsage what a stupid commentary... im not a solist.. though i hear all the good solists playing, and if your ear and a crap, you can look up for any other famous violinist and you'll notice that her version is the worst
Gives me chills every time I listen to this movement, especially when played well like this.
Why do people waste so much time analyzing every little "mistake" in a live performance? Can they go back in time and fix it? Try not to miss the forest for the trees.
that biting, consonant, articulate power just gets me every time. i don't know any other violinist that can maintain that perfect articulation so well throughout this entire movement. it's really better than words can even describe.
I mentioned the mistake at 2:36 before but when I think now I kinda get a suspicion that the wind section did it on purpose for Sarah scratching too much.
And I think that the fast pace of rhythm may caused the scratchy sound.
one more thing, just noticed that the conductor drops one beat at exactly 2;34, causing the bassoons to miscount. look carefully youll see he stays on the stays on the second beat one beat too long!
Too much agressive¡¡
fulltrole 2 weeks ago
YO, the bassoon(s) is(are) late at 2:38 !! oh snap!
BFL0W 3 weeks ago
Is it just me, or the orchestration is real thin in the third movement?
dasteufelhund 1 month ago
IDA HAENDEL- THE TRUE MASTER OF SIBELIUS CONCERTO!
TheWala2lang 1 month ago
As i expected another Powerfull and amasing Interpretation from lovely Sarah Chang,it looks like that she has a special Enterance to a hidden unvisible Dimention of Infinit Music Worlds,wich are definitly not reachable for another Human Bings so easily,Genius like,(Sahrah Chang,A.S.Mutter,Hilary Hahn and many others),have allready been having this Tallent deeply in their Subconscious,(the Instinkt of Mother Natur),as they was borned,this is a cosmological Low,Thanks all of you
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the strings of her heart plays beautiful music
johnmjack 2 months ago
The BEST Sibelius I have ever heard. Utmost respect to Sarah.
brianrhie 2 months ago
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I take it that you have no idea what you're talking about in terms of playing with an accompanied orchestra and particularly this piece...there are different dynamics and intricacies to playing with an orchestra I'm sure you have never understood.
Listen back before that when she's doing her up-bow & down-bow third staccatos and goes into the high C run.
pppsssssssss
brianrhie 2 months ago
She's not a bad violinist by any means...she does kinda use her bow like a saw though.
SteelyPhil37 2 months ago 6
@SteelyPhil37 well, consiering the song, that's kind of reasonable
she is relly gradeful in some of the more romantic songs (meditation from thais, salut d' amor)
animallover7777777 1 month ago
I don't understand how can there be people who dislike this performance.
Well ....
socalhiker1 2 months ago
So many people are jealous of her... as for me, her performance is truly amazing.
s1gurros 2 months ago
until now i was not real full blast classical music fan and after, sarah's sofia sibelius performance -26.10.2011. i think i know better...
HOMErnn1 3 months ago
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I admire the passion and ferocity of Sarah Chang's interpretation. Her performance carried an ineffable power that complemented the quintessential intensity of the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
Editors4Writers 3 months ago
Es maravillosa pero yo prefiero a Benjamin Beilman, es simplemente maravilloso, pulcro en cada nota, su sonido y afinación son extraordinarios!!! y qué de la musicalidad??? fuera de serie
Luchitaviolinful 3 months ago
See my channel for the complete performance in a single video, and in better quality. There's even a direct link to the third movement in the description if that's all you fancy.
Lemon77UG 4 months ago
1:23 LOL
IlEtaitUneForet 4 months ago
@IlEtaitUneForet project runway anyone?
7thgradeviolin 4 months ago
Who's this conductor guy? He was completely lost at around 2:30, caused the bassoons complete chaos and came in a beat late, omitted a beat, then landed on the D downbeat in a hurry, I've never seen a major screw up like this by an orchestra of this level. Orchestra's at this level don't need conductors, all he was doing was beating the crap out of the orchestra anyway and he even screws that up so badly, what a shame.
teosdad 4 months ago
Scratchy? It's not because she cannot play pretty, she plays how she wants it to be heard. If you don't like it, shut up and go listen to what you want.
teosdad 4 months ago
And all this in 5 inch heels. :D
iHatePlasticBags 4 months ago
prefere fanny clamagirand au mont carlo masters
elle est plus musicale
fastben2010 5 months ago
OMGGGGGGGG the artificial harmonicssss DROOOOLLLLL
cheeriosfanatic 5 months ago
Not only aggressive, but also BRUTAL and MERCILESS!! God damn it, She is a BEAST lol
Sarah sometimes does this.... I think she has sadistic tendency... :p
Her inner nature can easily overpower even the original conductors intention and tonal language.
complexionne1 5 months ago
I like her but I think that this is super aggressive! I suppose that this movement is the exciting finale but I feel like she hacks away a ton in places she could have been more musical?
THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A POLONAISE FOR POLAR BEARS! Imagine polar bears dancing to this version. They'd slip and fall ;)
ohfreundeforever 5 months ago
She nailed it.
JPLGaGa123 5 months ago
Check out the version Batiashvili which is much better to me, more musical, more precisely played as well ( both violin and orchestra part).
caothanhlan 5 months ago
Intonation...
halneufmille 6 months ago
hmmm....she can play all the notes, but it's like she threw all her sense of sound out the window. she kinda hammers at this piece and my ears aren't so happy. i think the problem with sarah chang is that she's more concerned with looking impressive while she's performing, without much regard for what sound she's producing. i mean, try watching hilary hahn's version of sibelius when she was 17 on youtube. she has so much poise even at that age compared to sarah now, and her sound is perfect.
lee4ivy 6 months ago
@lee4ivy I agree with you: the sound is scratchy sometimes, and is a little bit agressive, and there are some notes out of tune... but I think she's just being carried away by her feelings and emotions. You can never tell how you are going to react on stage. Hilary Hahn's rendition is more accurate in the sense that she doesn't miss a note, but if you ask me, her interpretation is so boring I could fall asleep with this movement which Ida Haendel describes as a Dance macabre. No ofence to Hahn!
raist84 5 months ago
@lee4ivy lot of jeoulsy to Sarah. It is insult to Sarha compare to Hillary and etc. Hillary is still learning and try to correct every part not a level of interpreting............... Naturally born vs. practiced
brianrhie 3 months ago
sarah IS a prodigy and good interpreter, but here you can't tell cuz she focuses all her energy on the flourish and not much on technical aspects; all i hear is sawing noises, wobbly vibratos, major intonation issues, and hysterical high notes. you don't get a gist of her great interpretation BECAUSE she couldn't execute it. as for hilary, her playing's so subtle, almost internal/personal, and a careful listener could totally fall in love once hooked. not all great interpreters have to be showy.
lee4ivy 2 months ago
@lee4ivy Try hearing her Bruch, her Saint-Saens and Lalo (Both concerts on YouTube and albums) in those she sounds like a real virtuoso
JPLGaGa123 2 months ago
@lee4ivy ditto. you can't deny her talent, but she's better at slow romantic stuff. i'm a HUGE sarah fan like many others, but to be frank, her playing here SUCKS. i've listened to countless recordings and know this piece inside out but this made my ears literally ache. it's way out of tune and so unrefined. BUT that does NOT mean i love her any less, so sarah fans, let's get real here: if you've never heard this piece before, go listen to the recording for a while, and THEN come back & compare.
TheDeviltrace 2 months ago
@TheDeviltrace I love this performance. My favorites are the ones by ginette neveu and hilary hahn - but I love this one too, it's so exciting! I think her crashing down on the strings and sawing at the strings are part of her expressive technique - bowstrokes very characteristic of her. that's just the way she expresses the music. It's not a polished, perfect sound like heifetz's but her musicmaking is always daring, confident and totally uninhibited.
jin12345678 2 months ago
@lee4ivy I concur!
dasteufelhund 1 month ago
Look up Benjamin Beilman's version, his is definitely the best.
alexwonton 6 months ago
for me this sounds like cabaret concerto, i don't like her version but i think she''s so great.
veidhleadoir 6 months ago 2
This is not a very good performance at all actually. In fact, it's surprisingly bad.
jason101other 6 months ago 2
There are definitely quite a few scratchy, distorted-sounding areas throughout this.
jason101other 6 months ago
I like the 1935 recording of heiftetz and Beecham, elsewhere on Youtube.
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
Why do you comment? It's subjective.....
Chandulin2007 7 months ago
Really wonderful violinist! I can hear honesty in her music. My favorite violinist from now on.
martinstoss 7 months ago
not bad
veidhleadoir 7 months ago
Chang sometimes holds the violin so that the bow is highly skewed. As a result the sound sometimes drops and the sound quality deteriorates.
harrynking777 7 months ago
tehnica si exprisevitate.....super!
TheMalinka578 7 months ago
can anyone see the face at 4:49? behind sarah chang?
commentsviewing 7 months ago 21
@commentsviewing o_o
iluminada333 7 months ago
@commentsviewing Lol you mean the giant lego robot looking thing?
MoesTube1 5 months ago
can anyone see the face at 4:49?
commentsviewing 7 months ago
Rhythm?
jonnyviolinist12 7 months ago
She´s great! Her performance is very passionate, even though her playing isn´t as effortless as, let´s say, Ferras´. I also like a lot the conducting starting at 4:34 :)
lajt01 8 months ago
She finished with a E and not with D jaja
veidhleadoir 8 months ago
Don't even get into the comments of Menuhin. Other top conductors like Karajan had the utmost reverance for Mutter or Perlman's or Oistrakh or Jeifetz' or Bell's or Hahn's playing. Every conductor has their preference. At the end of the day, it comes down to one's taste.
jason101other 8 months ago
absolutely marvelous!
llcamus249 9 months ago
There's no doubt that she's very capable but her playing is so scratchy so often. And before someone gives me a diatribe about how it's solely because of the emotion that she's pouring into it, I realize that, but she could use that reckless abandon far more effectively if she uses it more sparingly and get a cleaner sound out of that Guarneri.
aPMism 9 months ago
@aPMism its not that she doesnt get a clean sound. she has a very good sound. its more that she has developed this sort of "style" for herself over many years, which is very robust and heavy, and its sort of her trademark. its doesnt sound scratchy without a tone behind it; there is always tone there. her playing is very consistent throughout a piece too; never extremely smooth or extremely rough. it is not easy to do what she does, even if she doesnt sound a "clean" as you would like her too.
hodgrix 4 months ago
@aPMism and i agree with you about the emotion thing. theres not really much "emotion" shown through roughness, except maybe anger? but i think its more sarah's way of being her own violinist and stamping something with her style. im a fan.
hodgrix 4 months ago
#1 Violinist in the world, Sarah Chang, Korean American.
Mayplestory1 9 months ago
@Mayplestory1 n1 x100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000!! absolutly agree with you
AlexMascaViolonist 8 months ago
I think Sarah's version is best
grandpiano21 9 months ago
To all haters: How can Hilary Hahn a cold (though technically good) clinical performer can compare to fiery, skilled and expressive violinist like Sarah who Lord Yehudi Menuhin called "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".? hmmm?
JPLGaGa123 9 months ago
so weak, no strenth at all , she counld hold most of the phrases. her timing is poorly. I hardly feel her emotion without watching the video and seeing her face. she couldn't dominante the orchestra completely. absolutely terrible. She was just more superior than the other kids when she was a child. However, she is not at the same level with other violinists who have the same amount of fame or even less. she doesn't deserve the fame she got.
zhujun516 9 months ago
Sarah is best.
1mikeharr1 10 months ago
lol the face she does at exactly 5:22...... she looks up at the camera like '' sh*t ! ''
IlEtaitUneForet 11 months ago
une des plus belles interprétations
quelle émotion avec la perfection en plus
quelle grace et sensualité
jm de heredia
jmdeheredia 11 months ago
really hate her vibrato. and i wonder why she sounds so cratch even though she's clearly capable of a huge range of tones and colors.
misspookette 11 months ago
I am a great admirer of Sarah Chang but this was not as fine a performance as some others I have heard; although admittedly only on disc. I don't think the nordic quality of Sibelius's music suits Sarah's style. One of her heroes is David Oistrakh and he plays this concerto with a brilliance which she, nor anybody else, can't hope to match. However, I am scheduled to see Sahra perform the Max Bruch in April and nobody plays it better than her. In the romantic
repertoire she's unbeatable
MartinPadderborn 11 months ago
4:47 -> [o_o]
gurtrudelim 11 months ago
oh my god take it easy at 1:15. scratch scratch on the most glorious part of the whole movement
misspookette 11 months ago
Also considering Hilary Hahn is using technique all fingered octaves in the entire performance makes this one look like a student rendition... By the way, having the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest helps you sound good -- she's not good anything. Her time is over -- I don't think she was ever good...
cageynerd 1 year ago
@cageynerd Here we are again Mr. Cageynerd... Remember me from Sarah's version of Air on a Gstring? well have you uploaded any of YOUR own videos to prove your better than Sarah? I guess not YOU SUCK
JPLGaGa123 9 months ago
the conductor looks like the guy in the Princess Diary movie, the queen's assistant
esther8495 1 year ago
Her final note: Eb
jaja
veidhleadoir 1 year ago
You have too much for learn from musicians like Kavakos. Music isn't just a perfect technique.
jjvisual92 1 year ago
i was just watching the mendelssohn violin concerto and sarah grew so much since then D; she sounds amazingg!!
elmosworld684 1 year ago
Wow.When u hear a younger Hanh invest this concerto with her mind and soul and she has less trouble playing it.Much more secure. HAHN is a gift!!!
lovesGenet 1 year ago
gotta love Sarah's rendition.
markwongsk 1 year ago
I love this. There must be some controversies on better one between Hahn and Chang. It's ridiculous. Hahn's work is like a text book technically. But I (and most music loving people) don't want to hear some outstanding pupil's performance who teaches me the right way to "play violin". We want a new interpretation which might be different with the composers intention. This uncertainty or creative re-construction of the plot is the one we thirst for and Chang did well undoubtedly.
Jackyjhwang 1 year ago
Sarah is my favourite violinist and her Sibelius is my favourite video of all!!!! I really liked the beginning =).
Sibelius is also very great.
commentsviewing 1 year ago
This is easily the most eletrifying version of Sibelius I have ever seen or heard. The surge of passion and hysteria superbly complemented with chilling pathos of "emotional turbulence" as pppsssssssss so eloquently puts it, makes this performance truly exciting. Sarah's virtuosity is simply astounding, but it's her red-blooded musicality that goes straight to the heart of the music.
AllegroConBrio67 1 year ago 6
This is proper live music making. Risks are taken. She communicates and interpets the music. Great tone colours and subtle shifts in tempi. Wonderful. I've watched the Hahn version and quite franky it sounds like a note perfect teenager who has rehearsed the piece to death but has nothing to say about it. It sounds robotic and boring. I'm not bothered about Chang's stage presence. This is high art not the X Factor.
john1951w 1 year ago
@john1951w hahn was only 17 !! I want to hear you play it like hahn wirth 17...I like them both, Sarah and Hilary...
pathetiqueous 1 year ago
sarah is great and i love her playing but she really should work on her stage presence. she comes across as very fake. and i think in part due to her appearance. the hair, makeup, and dress are all so unflattering and un-elegant. she needs a stylist.
the performance was great though
hodgrix 1 year ago
@hodgrix are you kidding? she looks gorgeous. And if we're talking about something as shallow as stage presence, she's very animated and her emotions show in her movements. What more could you want?
zachpiano 1 year ago
@zachpiano yea i guess ur right, i think its just the asian thing u know?
hodgrix 1 year ago
@hodgrix that's funny, because I think she looks always so perfect and elegant, that I asked myself, if she has a stylist. And I always admire her stage presence, it still can't be more natural I think *_* you don't just see the happiness and energy - you FEEL it. She's so amazing 8)
pathetiqueous 1 year ago
@pathetiqueous yea ur right. i was just being a hater when i wrote that comment lol.
i love sarah
hodgrix 1 year ago
@hodgrix ummm...what? in-elegant?? Which fashion shows do you goto?
canzo0378 1 year ago
@canzo0378 slightly on the trashy side
hodgrix 1 year ago
Ihana esitys ja solisti.
RistoPaappa 1 year ago
what is so good about hilary.. sarah eats her for snack. do not mention hilary. sarah is the real prodigy.
sumimimi0 1 year ago
I'm suprised I've never seen her break a string. She plays so strongly and passionately on that thing and it's amazinggggg
wgj7gec 1 year ago
this performance is already at the peak of its maturity... just imagine how much more intense it would be if she played it 30 years later, with more experience...
TempoFurioso 1 year ago
Bien sûr beaucoup de talent , mais c'est pas la version que je préfère
poildours 1 year ago
i love sarah chang so much but to be honest, this performance wasn't the best.
iamemod 1 year ago
Sloppy performance.
jfs50 1 year ago
What a temperament ! :D
monpuomonpuomonpuo 1 year ago
i don't like her sound... I don't like her. I was at her concert a few years ago, she played Mendelssohn concerto. I was shocked that she made only big show, not MUSIC. And she didn't feel anything, she was playing like she wanted audience to admire her... I think she isn't good musician. Hilary is better!
pbusiwpz 1 year ago
EPIC
zucchini2007 1 year ago
Ach, too much scratchy sound
Well, playing passionately and making scratchy sound should be differentiated.
pinball2734 1 year ago
I just love the way she smiles at the end!!!! :-)
ItalianViolinist 1 year ago
sarah chang is an excellent violinist... however, this is a horrible rendition. she's probably having an off day but i've heard alot better. my favourite performances would be by susanne hou and david oistrakh. especially the susanne hou rendition.
allannalla420 1 year ago
maybe she has to play with so many faults to convey emotions?
it definitely sounds different from a 'clean' version
jiwonast222 1 year ago
@purbanegoro Really?! It's one thing to be constructive, but being completely immature and idiotic is quite another. Do you listen to what she is playing? This performance is brilliant as is the soloist. If you going to post something like that, why comment?
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i dont kno how these people endure it !! -_-... for me i get freakin tired after playing only the first movement.. My guess is playing grand concertos like this one is not only a technical challenge but also a "fitness test" lol
hojin92 1 year ago
i dont kno how these people endure it !! -_-... for me i get freakin tired after playing only the first movement.. My guess is playing grand concertos like this one is not only a technical challenge but also a "fitness test" lol
hojin92 1 year ago
4:11.....wow. the power and emotion is overwhelming (in a good way!). she's AMAZING.
burntcookie123 1 year ago
wow...so cold.......but thats why I love it
borntowitness 1 year ago
So intense!!!
cardiovideo 1 year ago 2
I adore Sarah's performance of this concerto. She plays with a lot of passion and musicality. She is a true inspiration for young violinists. In music, I can feel her strong personality.
adrianavioline 1 year ago
Great perfomance. Does anybody know the opusnumber?
Sjaakstuurman 1 year ago
Sarah Chang & Wen Wei THE BEST QUALITY , EXPRESSION AND TECHNIQUE for Sibelius Concerto (i've listened to Perlman, Oistrakh and many others performing this, but the full achieve is worthy of Sarah!)
nemmo82 1 year ago 5
@nemmo82 Hows Gil Shahams?
TheSkept1cal 7 months ago
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Rubbish.
Yet another Ching Chong clone.
Comapre to Salvatore Accardo. No post 1970's classical musician can approach the standards of Ricci or the Klezmer clowns Oistrakh, Perlman, or Stern.
Just an excuse for mail-order bride fantasies to be masturbated to art-music
purbanegoro 1 year ago
@purbanegoro Don't be jealous of east asian musicians. Everyone acknowledges Oistrakh or Stern's legacy but times change. Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Joshua Bell are the defining faces of today's classical music. What's the point of comparing them to Oistrakh? How about comparing them to Vivaldi or Paganini?
waistoi 1 year ago
@purbanegoro Is that what you have to say to the world? "Ching Chong clone"? Do you really know how offensive and racist that remark is? What you say doesn't tarnish her performance and im pretty sure nobody agrees with your statement. You're only making yourself appear to everyone else as an ignorant racist bigot. You sir are racially closeminded, and I hope one day you realize how pathetic that is. We can only hope you don't contribute to the overall gene pool.
aceTL87 1 year ago
@purbanegoro Perhaps you should pull yourself out of that hole you are living in and stop referring to a person of Korean descent as a 'ching' chong'.
foodmore 1 year ago
@purbanegoro It would be hard for you to distinguish any real music from not so good ones wearing that Ku-Klux-Klan hood over your ignorant dumb head. I thought your tribes live in the woods marching around the fire and burning crosses. Since when did KKK start listening to art music?? Maybe you guys got bored of those drum roles, but your ear is still not so sophisticated.
canzo0378 1 year ago
at the end she lough so beatiful !!! i love it !
machecosaprego 1 year ago
i hope people just hear the music, instead of seeing what ethnicity or race the performers are...
RiccardoBroschi 1 year ago
How come sumtimes she is so beautiful..and sumtimes is so freaking fat ugly woman..ZZ
ActivatedSemen 1 year ago
Both are wonderful, but I have to say that Hillary is an Angel and her music is Heaven.
yocreo 1 year ago
The harmonics are great! So incredibly beautiful :)
Dannepihls 1 year ago
this piece has the hardest bowings ever!
galexwong 1 year ago
Some people prefer HIlary Hahn's 17year old performance of this, but when I listen to that version, I don't hear the emotional turbulence and final jubilant resolution that I hear in Sarah's version. Sarah creates so many more different colors with her sound which results in the conveyance of so many emotions. With Sarah's performance/interpretation, it's like you're on a journey with her and she's showing you everything whereas with Hilary, Hilary is telling you the story.
pppsssssssss 1 year ago 47
@pppsssssssss your not the first to be left a bit cold by ms hahn. i agree here too.. this performance is very passionate.. hahn more clinical
jaimebyrne777 1 year ago
@pppsssssssss with her scratchy ugly sound you mean...
jasonform 1 year ago
@jasonform what you hear on the recordings/tv shows is much different than what you hear out in the hall. I'm assuming you haven't seen Sarah live in concert? I've watched her 5 separate times and the sounds I heard in the hall were all very full, lush, and silk-like...all of the scratchiness evaporates...
On another note, I've heard Gil Shaham 5 feet away rehearsing and he had a "scratchy tone" as well...but out in the hall, the sounds were so beautiful
pppsssssssss 1 year ago
@pppsssssssss It's called 'super-articulation'
JPLGaGa123 1 month ago
@pppsssssssss
i saw hilary play this live at tanglewood this season
it was amazing live much better than this performance of sarah chang
heywillieYUM 1 year ago
@pppsssssssss I think that people who don't know much about violin or music like Hillary's version more. I will concede this Hilary practices like a fiend and as a result has amazing control and a phenominal technical acumen. Also her (Hilary) intonation is spot on nearly all of the time. Sarah on the other hand has a deep and abiding understanding of the rudiments of music and knows exactly how to display the depths of her soul through her fingers.
violatione 1 year ago
@pppsssssssss WOW, you're very eloquent and concise! Nobody could have said it better than you, thanks! I completely agree with you, Hahn's playing is too robotic. She just plays the notes, but she doesn't express(or convey) the EMOTION with which the composer intended this piece to be played.
But this completely BLOWS me away, it just gives me GOOSEBUMPS!! I recently auditioned for AGT and in the application I wrote "Sarah Chang" when they asked who my professional role model is.
zucchini2007 1 year ago
this rendition annoys me. The Hillary Hahn play is correct
myironlungca 1 year ago
the scratchy bow is the fault of the tempo being too fast,, the conductor is pushing the orchestra too much thus she is pushing to keep up, listen to the slower tempo parts, she plays perfectly
KasparWise 1 year ago
actually at 2:15-2:16 she just took off and rushed hardcore thats why it did not sound together with the tympani.
gnatural 1 year ago
@gnatural um...no
McSplat 1 year ago
@McSplat i think you need to have a closer listen and maybe even listen to it with a metronome for a sec because on the 16th note runs, she clearly takes off ahead of the tympani. i know you like Sarah Chang very much and adore her but no artist is beyond reproach. every1 makes mistakes.
gnatural 1 year ago
The edge you hear in the sound is a function of proper projection. If you stand right next to a soloist they will sound scratchy but if you go out in the hall the sound will be smooth and beautiful.
violatione 1 year ago
What a great crescendo at 3:09!!! Great spin on Sibelius's 3rd movement!! That's definetely not the original version. I like this!!!!
travonprince 1 year ago
los agudos de SARAH CHANG despiertan a los olvidados en el tiempo, los graves, envuelven a las almas sedientas de alivio y calma vivificàndolas, los arqueos empuja con potencia y entusiasmo a las almas perezozas, agobiadas y pasivas levantàndolas con estupor y alegria.
¿que mas puede ser SARAH? que la misma redentora de aquellos que han percibido su talento, divinidad esa gracia que poseen los iluminados como CHANG en los universos de la eternidad.
tito -argentina
pryjatel 1 year ago
Yikes. Love the passion and there's some stellar technique in there, but it actually does come a bit unhinged, in my opinion. Not that I (or anyone) could do better, but I prefer more tempo and control in the edge. Still a fantastic performance though - feels like she's flying by the seat of her pants, except you know she's Sara Chang, and that this is likely a technical walk in the park for her, so it's likely what she chooses to interpret at the moment.
agarose2000 2 years ago
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I'm not an expert. I don't know anything about violin. I just like to listen to great music, Sibelius violin concerto is really nice.... esp this part. so I have searched and listened to some of famous volinists' interpretations, I really like this one among them. yes kind of aggresive and very strong, but that's why I love it. I think the 3rd part needs such powerfulness and shrillness.....
borntowitness 2 years ago
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borntowitness 2 years ago
Wonderful but a little scratchy and heavy on the bow but other than that the performance is brilliant?
travonprince 2 years ago
She played that final movement exactly as it was meant to be played — as a single perfectly sustained imperative verb. I am overcome.
magelpie 2 years ago
What a great analogy. The continuous, insistent, ruthless forward movement is what is so hard to pull off in this movement. Very few play this so well.
pyroprince78 1 year ago 3
So many jealous back seat drivers!!! Shame on you!!! This is one of the best. I would like to hear comments from Menuhi, Stern, or Levine!!!!!!
rubinklee 2 years ago 4
@rubinklee actually Menuhin already commented in her playing once he said :"the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".
JPLGaGa123 9 months ago
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Maybe it's me... she looks so nervous ! ...I don't like this performance :( She's just screaming the melody.. maybe this concerto is more for hilary hahn than her...
nombrill 2 years ago
jerrytomball... small mistakes is understandable in live performance... but as greater the violinists are.. the smaller the mistakes must be.. she is a great violinist.. in a bad [TERRIBLE] day... maybe she didnt practice enough or idk... but its awful you cant deny it... listen to Hahn playing when she was 17!! .. much better than this :)
BaRToLoMaSi 2 years ago
Or Sarah Chang herself on Paganini... She one time said (in a interview) that she use to play in two manners... The calm, maybe the right way (technically) and the passioned way... Maybe this is the case of the last one, I don´t know, I´m just guessing (Sorry my english, I´m learning)
SickForest 2 years ago
Let's watch your version of this. I want to see and hear the way it really should be played.
blumountainsage 2 years ago
@blumountainsage what a stupid commentary... im not a solist.. though i hear all the good solists playing, and if your ear and a crap, you can look up for any other famous violinist and you'll notice that her version is the worst
BaRToLoMaSi 2 years ago
@BaRToLoMaSi I did...all I hear are notes, not music.
canzo0378 1 year ago
She is a gorgeously beautiful woman!
But her violin playing is filled with faults everywhere! Too many to count. Maybe she should concentrate on less demanding pieces!?
maxhansendk 2 years ago
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OH MY GOD SHE'S AWFUL.
rycsu84 2 years ago
WOWWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!
Kellserz 2 years ago
Gives me chills every time I listen to this movement, especially when played well like this.
Why do people waste so much time analyzing every little "mistake" in a live performance? Can they go back in time and fix it? Try not to miss the forest for the trees.
jerrytomball 2 years ago 24
@jerrytomball well said!
gnimez 1 year ago
Her shifts are unbelievably fast and clean!!!
eBooeBoo 2 years ago 7
Thanks for your high standard and positive comments, I really learn a lot from them.
lifenw1 2 years ago
Hearing her... watching her move... is a joy!
40junno 2 years ago 5
not only is she a great instrumentalist, she is also beauuutiful =)
chazincaz 2 years ago 6
Her violin, a battered spouse...
whereismyanima 2 years ago
i prefer Hilary verson ...
doublefur 2 years ago
that biting, consonant, articulate power just gets me every time. i don't know any other violinist that can maintain that perfect articulation so well throughout this entire movement. it's really better than words can even describe.
johntwebbjr 2 years ago 2
sometimes that bite annoys me tho, it makes it sound a bit unclean... in that respect i prefer hahn's version ^_^
clevercleverchris 2 years ago
it's definitely not for everybody, but for me, it's perfection.
johntwebbjr 2 years ago
I agree. She is perfect for me too. I love her music!
raxigp 2 years ago
that bite is what makes this amazing
McSplat 2 years ago
I mentioned the mistake at 2:36 before but when I think now I kinda get a suspicion that the wind section did it on purpose for Sarah scratching too much.
And I think that the fast pace of rhythm may caused the scratchy sound.
SSHIBAL99 2 years ago
what mistake?
McSplat 2 years ago
No this was an honest mistake of the bassoons entering at 3 past rehearsal 8 one beat too late, and causing havoc for a second or too.
neilvaron 2 years ago
one more thing, just noticed that the conductor drops one beat at exactly 2;34, causing the bassoons to miscount. look carefully youll see he stays on the stays on the second beat one beat too long!
neilvaron 2 years ago
yea i didnt hear anything wrong at that part either?
BBRENTTAGHAPP 2 years ago
Bombom bom bom bom booom~ changed to Bombbom bom bom boooom~
SSHIBAL99 2 years ago 2