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  • so amazing !

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  • гений фальшивит но гений

  • Wow, seriously? The highest rated comments are people tell this guy to wait to play this piece? Fuck off...

    Don't listen to those retards. You play fucking amazingly. Just play, fuck whatever those stuck up elitists say.

  • I love his teacher, I love him, I love his parents, and i love his music. A magnificent inspiration for violinists everywhere!

  • @1953jwdjr Thank you for support me. Greetings and the best for you Stepan ^^

  • great work for his age. keep it up! you're doing great.

  • very promising child!!!! i started to play this piece when i was 22, and he's done it at 10!!!

  • Супер!!! Жаль запись звука не очень хорошо.

  • Well, this kid is fantastic, no doubt! At such an early age, he's done very well on a magnificent piece. However, I do have to agree with several below. I don't think he's old enought to understand and appreciate what he's playing. He looks like he got forced into this; look at his face. There's no feeling in this. And of course the intunation is off. But overall? Great job =] Just try to feel it a bit more

  • hola stepan la verdad estoy muy impresionado con tu forma de tocar

    yo toco violin desde los 8 años y por mas q practique

    y practique se me hacen muy dificiles esas tecnicas lo e intentado

    y algo e logrado pero la verdad eres un ejemplo a seguir para cualquier violinista

    yo toco en la orquesta sinfonica juvenil de colombia

    y igual siempre es algo dificil

    la verdad lo felicito y animo q asi va a ser alguien muy grande en la vida felicitaciones

  • @chachan1232 GraciaX por escribir. Salu2

    Stepan ^^

  • very nice performance for a child of 10 years old. I suggest you (if it is possible) recording this part every 10 years then you will see your "precipitation" from your life and music career totally contained in this piece of music. J.S.Bach, no word to discribe his music.

  • O_O guao impresionante de verdad tienes un gran talento, yo también toco violín te felicito! no lo critiquen para ser tan joven toca muy bien y muy afinado!! Exelente XD! Saludos desde Venezuela

  • Es loable que a tu edad toques de esa manera, pero definitivamente tienes que trabajar con algunos defectos, a mi parecer tienes el brazo derecho muy caido y eso hace que tu arco se descontrole por ratos y por eso cuando tocas las notas graves suena muy chocante y grotesco tambien trabajar en la afinacion y cambios de posicion sin glissar, es mi opinion, sigue adelante!! tienes un gran futuro, saludos desde Peru!

  • WELL Mr. alexanderbratsche if someone of young age has the skill to play a song of this difficulty then their age doesn't matter.

    KUDOS TO THE TEACHER!

    Someone sounds a little jealous eh? :D

  • @DestinyFaye7 Thanks for your comment. Greetings

    Stepan ^^

  • Amazing! What bad intonation? Too early? No way! This is incredible! He's obviously very into the performance. There's absolutely nothing wrong with trying difficult pieces early.

  • @Marsplasticwoman i agree im only 13 and trying paganini

  • este nene es increible!!!

  • I think the concern in starting a piece like this so young is the develpoement of bad habits. As long as the teacher monitors for this, starting difficult pieces early is a good thing. Music such as this needs years to develop and season before it is ready for the concert stage, so early start is necessary. Bravo Stepan, you are doing many things right.

  • Killing the teacher this child, he is a fool, this piece not was made for kids, is need much studing an mature sound an technic for play it.

  • No te creo ... donde están tus videos ... Representante de Stepan

  • @alexanderbratsche no matter what age, as long as he feels the music and expresses it through his definition which isn't compatible to anyones but his own, he is and will become an excellent musician.

  • @ninjalikesweapons I agree with alexanderbratsche, doing this piece like this too early, with lots of tension and tone problems may lead to problems, any professional player needs to develop foremost a refined and relaxed technique.

  • @jin12345678 Te gustan videos de ninjalikesweapons ? Por eso estan como están ... solo puedan opinar sin poder tocar el violin ;) Less dude ... Please watch the recent videos ;)  Velioz

  • @Velioz i did and I commented on some of them ;)

  • @ninjalikesweapons

    Absolutety agree with you !

    His teacher is a very good pilot for him.

    Daria

  • @Valsedesneiges Thank you for watch my videos. Greetings Stepan ^^

  • @alexanderbratsche Don't be jealous...you could be as good if you worked as hard!

  • this boy is putting heart into it isnt that what counts when i first started chaconne i was terrible but i put my heart into it knowing that i would get better someday

  • A miracle for a ten year old . Keep on checking out his videos .Watch a virtuoso grow.

  • hey haters

    give him a freakin break.

    he's 10

    and really, could you do better?

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  • Look ... i think if you can't play this piece at 10 years old, it's probably you never will play this. Yeah ... you can play Chopin??? I can't see your videos ... please practice more and upload them. I want to hear you ... ;) Greetings Stepan ^^

  • i really dont care bout playing this at ten years old...yea ill never play though i would want it.....well its not important what you play its how you play it...

  • somebody could tell me HOW IS THE TEACHER OF THIS CHILD???!! pleassee

  • God

  • intonation and tonality need a lot of work... but i must give him credit, considering his age

  • really, maybe he should wait a couple years, 3 maybe? He isn't at that level at the moment =/ and the feeling isn't there. The chords aren't smooth and the intonation is way off.

  • Check the dates of posts. This was 3 years ago. Check his channel now.

  • @iamsobored01 And who are you?...the child education police?

  • @iamsobored01 Please...get off your high horse. One should always support children, especially with this much work behind them.

  • @iamsobored01 I hope you can play it better than him when you were at that age ;) I think for that age thats pretty amazing, and the sound is not good of course because that wasnt the best studio.. try it with an regular recorder

  • @7multi7 I actually started violin at 12, so no I couldn't. However, I fail to see your point in making that comment. Are you inferring that one must be at least at the same level in order to give criticism? I will commend him for attempting the piece, but like many others including the user, thelightisahead, I believe that he is just too young to be playing such a prestigious piece as the Bach Chaconne. Perhaps you should direct your advice of "try it with an regular recorder" to him

  • @iamsobored01 Thank you for watch my videos. Greetings Stepan ^^

    Do you have some video?

  • @iamsobored01 why he schouldn´t play this? Are you jealous of him?

    he has a big talent, let him play all he want!

  • to slow and he sounds bad chaconne is to hard hes technique isnt up there or hes intonation OMFG lmao thats soo bad

  • на мою думку це взагалi не твiр для твого вiку. такi п'єси грають справжнi професiонали i взагалi, не варто загружати себе такими витворами мистецтва оскiльки ти лишень iх псуєш

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  • В епоху барокко такого поняття як вiбратто не iснувало :S

  • Spravdi... ne tilky ne bulo vibrato... ne bulo takozh internetu, kompiuteriv, elektryky ta bagato chogo ... Diakuu za komentar Stepan Grytsay

  • the fiddle may be big, but he can play it beautifully. And it's really difficult to find nice sounding smaller violins that are loud and rich enough in tone. Many high acheiving children play on full sized fiddles if their hands are strong enough.

  • the violin looks a little too big for him

  • Great already, perfection just around the corner. Super!

  • este chico ia es argentino!! .. bravoo sigue practicando pero sobre todo disfruta lo que haces hazlo con pasion y ama la musicaa!

  • that violin is way too big on you

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  • sorry but they're right...it is way too big for him. Yes it was good, but it could been so mush better on a 3/4 size maybe.

  • is a magic kid can play bach sonata and partita for violin solo-chaconne

  • Excelente, sigue asi, ADELANTE.

  • exelente te felicito

  • very good for your age!! =D

  • ya te lo dije sos genial, deci que sos muy chico. tengo 17 años y mi nombre es juliana, te felicito mucho, te admiro!

  • hola stepan, mi nombre es juliana y sos genial, me encanta, sos un talento viviente. te felicito, no pares, sos simplemente genial. ojala progreses siempre!.

  • Excelente

  • amazing man! xoxo

  • Ciaconna is to hard for a child, but it plays good for his age, even this piece is too difficult . Bach is the most difficult composer.

  • Too slow... Maybe about 5 bps faster.

  • or maybe like 20

  • It's not meant to be played THAT fast. Just the slightest hair faster. Trust me, I've played it. Been there, done that, never want to do it again.

  • And I haven't, we've all played this piece, or else we won't be watching it, and what do you mean not meant to played that fast? How the hell do you know? You're probably one of those jackasses that comment "I like the original interpretation" on a 300 year old piece of music. You don't know how it's meant to be played, no one does, we all just interpret how we want to.

  • 20 bps faster IS too fast.

  • Have you seen Heifetz's interpretation? It's likely the best one online, and its 15-20 bps faster.

  • Sarah Chang's is the best by far, though. It's a little slower than that. I guess his speed is rather pushing it. It's not worth it discussing this.

  • perlman is best by far

  • He doesn't have any recordings of this that I know of. He's better than Chang, but she'll surpass him and possibly rival Heifetz one day. Just watch.

  • u never kno lol

  • Perlman has recorded this quite a few times. There are even recordings on Youtube. =)

  • non si può fare questo a un bambino.....

  • sembra una macchina (he seems like a robot!). non sono d'accordo col maestro che lo fa esibire cm un topolino (i disapprove of his teacher who makes him play like a little laboratory mouse)

  • Give him better you comments for more recent videos... it already happened!

  • where are theese recent videos??

  • And the fact he seems to play from memory!!!

  • I think any ten year old who can at least cogently attempt to play this is something special! Perhaps best to wait for better maturity, in life and violin playing, before taking Bach seriously into your repertoire, but nothing wrong with trying - he's unafraidly aiming high already, and that's what counts (as long as not at the expense of necessary technical practice etc.!)

  • how you dare playing that amazing piece like this?

  • It's beautifull but he's not playing it with his heart. He's playing it with his head.

  • ..he's 10. how can you expect him to have enough life experience to reflect it in his playing? for what it's worth i think he plays amazingly sensitively for a 10 year old.

  • You seem to have failled to read. Tsk <3 I never said he was untalented. Prestige and passion are two different things.

  • Milstein is just envious of your obvious natural abilities, pay no heed to such imbeciles.  Try to have more fun while you're playing :-)

  • You had 10 years when you played this. This is amazing. You will have great future.

  • Better it doesn't use ugly words... First test something to play at least... before saying with so much irresponsibility...

  • Well... it is noticed... For sure you are not a good person and musician. I will block you, for not continuing with this... Good-bye! Administrator of this channel.

  • prodigy

  • I am going to break my violin over my knee now. ;-)

  • Excellent!! Amazing!!! All your hard work and hours of practice are evident and will continue to pay off! Keep it up!

  • Great peace of work

  • I think it´s a very difficult piece for violin, but...this monster is 10 years older!!! when i had his age i don´t knew who was bach...

  • very good.

  • Sorry, but he's too young to play the bach ciaconna...Its' too hard for you, playing bach takes a very long time, but you are very good, continue...

  • This is why I get sad. Wat ching young kids play 100% better than me.

  • Not sure what the rest of you are thinking with all this age-elitism, but at ten years old, this is pretty amazing. If kids can sing the "Mass in B minor" with dead-on accuracy to large critical acclaim (the "Bigger Libera," the Windsbächer Knabenchor), a child should be able to make music with the Chaconne regardless of his age. I think Bach would be proud to see one of his very greatest masterpieces rendered by a child...after all, he was a child once too, you know.

  • Bad sound. You look too much proud of yourself to play this piece. You need maturity to the intonation. This piece without interpretation is a crime.

  • you know it is not your fault if you don't know music if it hit you in your butt

  • Surely but in this clip there's no music. it's good job but is too young to work a difficult piece as the chaconne

  • "There's no music."

    THEN TURN YOUR SPEAKERS ON. Why do you have to be "older" to "make music" or play "a difficult piece as the Chaconne"? If ten year-olds can sing the Mass in B minor, ten year-olds can play the Chaconne.

  • Very valid argument on Chaconne... Thank you!

  • kelsiejackson I totally agree, you can be whatever age to play the violin well, you just got to practice hard and just keep going

  • that. was. amazing.

  • what what what you play you have no only one clearn notes expect (mi la re sol,) no no listen impossible. i am sorry very bad

  • you are right listening this is impossible!

  • Maybe you are right. I think he must start to play little before end east piece for understanding what he play. But it's good work by Teacher. Bravo teacher. But you go wrong way. Impossible listen this music. It's my personal opinion.

  • needs to work on tonality a bit, but I like that he emphasizes the down beats. Keep in mind that this is a dance. Very well interpreted.

  • awesome!

  • amazing for a young child..

    hehe keep up the good work?

  • I agree ajnilles on this one, a person should reach a maturity age in their personality as well as their playing ability before they should play a number of peices, and this is certainly a big... this peice should be graceful and beautiful, and it must express the players soul... and I have to say a such a young age a person really doesn't have one. Work on the interpertation, too many drastic changes in dynamic, makes me cringe...

  • no matter how good you are, i dont think it is good for a 10 year old to play this piece.

  • Why? That's ridiculous. Ten year-olds sing the Mass in B minor (even the arias), play the Well-Tempered Clavier...????????????

  • Kid, you do a great job. Keep it up! (Poman, you suck bro. You suck hard)

  • this kid is what i could have been if had started violin at the right age :-(

    he ENJOYS what he plays AND he has the natural skill to play what he enjoys.

  • What counts is not the absolute age, but the time/years actually spent practicing and performing (relative age). This boy has a hard time reaching the third finger in first position. He does have a good bow hand, though; and he interprets the piece with gusto. But there are so many out of tune notes to the trained ear... I think the violin is too big for his left hand. Which would explain why his bow hand is much more advanced than his left.

  • teachmaster, you are right. he's not playing a happy piece, so why should he look happy? while playing partita no.3 he's laughing the most time...

  • This kid is great!! Great intonation, great tempo, and the dynamics are great(fortissimo, pianissimo, etc.). Keep rockin' on that violin!!

  • yo a esa edad estaba jugando a las canicas y al tinenti. DIos lo que me perdi!

  • oh my goodness...

    i've never heard it like this!

  • Stepan has good memory!

  • Bravissimo per la sua età, ma... per me la ciaccona andrebbe suonata solo in età adulta: se non altro per non storpiarla, nell'anima, compresa quella del bambino.

  • bravo! idk what u guys r saying. this kid has talent for his age. but sorry to say hes not a child prodigy. but that said. it doesnt mean he cant triumph in the world of music. bravo again!

  • This kid has so much dimension and musical character, Usually when it comes to prodigies, they have perfect technique but no feeling or emotion towards the music. This kid is the opposite. His technique isn't perfect, but hey, he's 10, he has time. Something i wish i had.. lol. But more importantly, he has spirit and a soul for music, something no amount of IQ points can equal.

  • Stepan - I have played this piece many times on classical guitar and baroque lute, and have listened to it hundreds of times on guitar, lute and original violin. I think your interpretation captures the grave and legatto style it is meant to be in - I would slow down the scale and arpeggio runs because the legatto does get lost a bit. But for your age, you capture the serious-minded feel this piece is supposed to have pretty well and commendations to you.

  • try and perfecting some of these before moving on to the really hard stuff. You are very talented and i think you would benefit from slowing down a bit. you are an inspiration.

  • stop giving your kid these pieces that are way beyond his level!

    you can never stop learning those pieces, but you can stop learning technique!

    once he is past 17...

  • poman265 what are you talking about? beyond his level? I'd say he's playing it pretty darn well, with a lot of maturity and thought. and what do you mean you can stop learning technique? you can always learn technique. that makes absolutely no sense. And please don't bring up the "does he look happy?". When you play the violin, the goal is not to "look happy", it's to play the violin. Heifetz, Oistrakh, Hilary Hahn, many violinist don't "look happy" when they play.

  • It's obvious that he is being forced

    it sounds like he listened to a recording and copied the recording phrases.

  • poman you have no basis for your comments. if he sounds like he listened to a recording and copied a recording's phrasing, would you care to tell me which recordings he copied? If not, then there is absolutely no way you could know if he did. I don't really see how it is "obvious" that he is being forced. Once again, I should point out that he just because he doesn't "look happy" when he plays doesn't mean a single thing. The majority of violinists don't look happy when they play

  • have you seen his sister

  • um... i don't know why that is pertinent to my response or to his playing, but no i have not seen his sister... i think you should stop bashing his playing and speculating about his parents' upbringing of him, which is rather foolish.

  • So true. Way to be. What if the song is a sad song or something do you want to look happy? and if not how is that of indicator of whether he enjoys what he's doing? If he's doing this well I think it's more than him being forced to play

  • unbelievable D:

  • damn

  • vorrei avere la tua bravura

  • bravissimoooooooooooooo

  • It always makes me laugh when I see that people say that they played this piece as the age of 10! This kid is exceptional! I have been playing for over 20 years and I syill wouldn't perform this piece.... in fact live performances of this piece are rare... only because it is so difficult... if you lose it playing the chaconne there is no recovery! Lets show this kid some respect.... he will indeed be the next Heifetz!

  • Does this little boy have some Hungarian origins? :) (Grytsay = Gricsay)

  • no, no puedo y hablo espanol. :]..y tu puedes leer? por que yo puse que yo NO PODIA.

  • ur bach partita isnt perfect..and youre playing paganini?...even though ur paganini caprices arent that bad..youre not ready for his caprices yet...but if u do them for fun like i do i respect that. cuz im not ready for them lol

  • ;) , y tu algo puedes ?!

  • violaplayer1995, get lost u!!! Shut up!!! The Stepan is the best 11-years old violin player! I'm not better [im 15 y. old], and u also sure too! He's got TALENT and he's playing with emotions!

  • where the hell u come from, and im not offending him, i was sayin i respected his playing. and i said he was better than me. so u shut up.

  • can you look at his face?

    does he look happy?

  • I played that piece before when I was 10; very hard piece yet this boy is very talented in playing the base notes of the chords and double stops. Excellent job!

  • mmm... VERY GOOD for a young boy, my respects... BRAVO!!!

  • Bravo..a haunting and monumentel piece by a little boy

  • This is quite possibly my favourite Bach piece, listening to such beautiful technique brings a tear to my eye.

  • Bravo le gamin! Oui c'est sûr, y a des choses à redire, mais j'aurais bien aimé jouer si bien à cet âge-là! Y a des doigtés pas mal, une bonne maîtrise en général, et surtout tout est par coeur! Le tempo et l'interprétation sont discutables, mais avec un peu de maturité ça deviendra incroyable. Bravo et bonne suite!

  • has amazing sound for someone so young!!

  • GREAT!

  • It is true some notes are forced, and intonation is not perfect yet. But I agree with Cath...there is much maturity...when his (amazing) technique catches up to his level of emotional playing, and he has more life experiences, he will soar to the highest heights.

  • Excellent performance of what is a very technically demanding piece. What has impressed me more than anything is the maturity in this performance, something that you don't see often in performers of such a young age, although some notes are rather forced.

  • :O

    Wow.

  • Thats God given talent plus hard work I'm sure. It's purely amazing and nothing short of it.

  • excelente!!! sos un capo!

  • He is the next Heifetz. And maybe he will be even better than him, when he grow up

  • sos groso, sabelo... segui asi !

  • This is amazing! Honest!

  • Dear God! He's just amazing! I've no words for something this great.

  • I admit that I cried a little...while watching this...the music...its so beautiful.

  • Is he planning on going to Odessa or an American school. Man, I never thought I would see a 10-year old play Bach. Bravo..Bravo.

  • BRAVO!!!!

  • holy shit! he is amazing!

  • bravo !!!!

  • perfeeeeeeeeeeectttttttttt

  • He is really great ! I feel the spirit of the J.S.Bach through his bow and lovely sound. Thank you !

  • impressive. watch sustaining long notes

  • How old are you?? Your amazing, you've inspired me to practice my violin more!!

  • he is 10 years old

  • Wonderful. Thank you so very much.

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