Isn't that interesting? The top comment says that 10 months ago, 8 people disliked it. Now, there's 4 more dislikes over the course of the next 10 months after that comment. It just goes to show, everyone loves your music!
i dont want to criticize cause that was great but sometimes his bowarm could use a little straightening. not that ive seen many people with perfect bowarms tho lol
I'm a pianist I know jack about violin and even I can tell he's good so maybe people who say he is not good should post a video of them playing if they say they know so much about classical music.
I heard this live.. it was amazing and made me cry.. the quality of this recording is lacking and he added a few extra ornamentation's which yeah.. didn't fit.
For me, I'm just not feeling it.. I love other Violinists' interpretations of this piece, but it just doesn't hit home for me. He sounds like too many other Violinists I've already heard--only difference is he's an international performer. One of my favorite Violinists is Augustin Hadelich, who I listen to every day and has this sound like I've never imagined could come from a violin. So I guess when I listen to any other player, it just doesn't sound right to me...
This piece is marvellous and Joshua Bell of course is a good musician and violinist,
but I don't know why I can't apreciate Chopin's pieces played in other instrument than piano. It just doesn't sound harmonical to me, maybe it's just a problem I have got, or maybe because Chopin composition were mostly made for piano.
My violin teacher took me to one of his performances when I was in 2nd Grade, and when he played this, it Blew. My. MIND!! I could even say it changed my musical taste forever.
what it comes down to is he is good, obviously talented but no more so than a lot of others definitely much luckier than many though. The point though is that there is a difference between interpreting and just flying in the face of intent a line he is flirting dangerously close to here.
The reason people do not like his interpretation is because he approaches it as if it were a light dance, and it's not. Every essence of this Nocturne is mourning, and saddening. He plays as though it is a happy frolic through a field of flowers.
This was probably one of the longest 3 minutes in my life, not because it was boring, it's because the amount of emotion seeps through my headphones and as a result, my brain has forgotten what time is.
He is the first and best violin player plays Nocturne in C sharp minor PERFECTLY..no one else. It makes one forget everthing and one just goes into that fantasy world. It´s an amazing feeling.
@orizja1294 He says that to you because of the applied ignorance you're comment gave up. He, while being a fantastic and personally my favorite, is not the ONLY one to play this well. It's a stellar performance, but to say there has been no one else that has played this piece well is just a little ignorant.
@JayLovePlaysGuitar Please note that I said as far as I´ve HEARD he is the best one according to ME. Perhaps there are others who play even better or worse or atleast not as good as him, which I had experienced, and when I see or hear someone play bueatiful I´ll not hesitate to share my thoughts. And I admit I should have been more carefull........
@orizja1294 .......................And one more thing @jasonform (and I should also be more accurate in future instead of copy/pasting the titel of the music like I did last time, and by the I knew the titel and the name of the composer everybody knows.)
It was all a missunderstanding! But thanks for pointing things out.
I do not deny that Bell has extraordinary talent, and it is quite clear that he is valiantly trying to play so lucidly and emotionally, however this interpretation simply does not register for me as the others have...
I've listened to several variations and interpretations of this master piece by numerous extremely talented musicians, and I have to say this is one of my least favorites...
I _know_ Bell is in a different league than "the chinese girl on the karate kid"
...best not to mention third-world players in the same breath as those
who understand the western musical tradition....and yes, its in their genes....
(musical chauvinist - after nearly a century of observation...) Lets be honest, it will take another century at least, for asian players to learn s-o-u-l ..... I exclude Yo-Yo Ma - an exception that proves the rule...
@Kyousuke687 yes, but it still lacks soul - compare any piece she plays
from behind a curtain, to Heifitz, Milstein, Kreisler, and one can tell its a non-euorpean tradition person playing.... perfectly...but too perfectly..... Arthur Rubinstein said "some musicians take the piece out of their pocket, and other take the piece out of their heart..." Yep another century at least for Asian musical storytellers .....
@sdorr wow this comment is so racist. I'm pretty sure there are good asian musicians in the world. And not all asian countries are third world countries and China is not a third world country. FYI, i am not chinese nor chinese descendant. I have absolute respect for Joshua but I don't think talking not very nice thing about others is a good way to praise him.
@sdorr I had no idea anybody could pack so much bigotry and racism into so few sentences. I found it rather disgusting that you could, with such confidence, state that all Asian musicians are "soulless" players.
By the way, the statement on your YouTube profile drove me into TOTAL hysterics: "I strongly advise higher education for the dozens of badly-educated folks who want to post something .....mean....or very ignorant...."
mrami9994, THANK YOU! Those comments were incredibly ignorant. I'm a concert level classical pianist, and it takes absolute brilliance to move me...this kid moves me to chills! An unbelievable and un-matched talent!
VanessaMaeFan18: A violin junkie does not make a violinist!!! To say Bell is not talented is inane. Of course he's talented, you just happen not to like how he interprets violin music. That does not make him untalented!
tayrone2001 - you may be a music student, and if you do not "get" Bell's beautifully exquisite playing, then, I'm afraid, you might be in the wrong profession!!!
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Im a music student, he's not playing very good, there are no clear musically plans, just a pseudo-feeling. watch her to understand: Anna Tifu-Chopin-Nocturne
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finally. and i agree too. i am a violin junkie and i listened to a good bit of violin players. i know them all. bell is not talented. he butchered up mendelsholns violin concerto in e minor. his cadenza sucked bad .
@VanessaMaeFan18 Really, if Josh isn't talented, how come you're not the one traveling the world to please a lot of people? How come, you're not the one playing a Gibson Str.?
AMAZING! WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOOOWOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOWOWowoWOWOWOW LOVE IT! LOVE it!!! I'd give my left nut to play the violin like this!
Not everything in this world i so sad, but listening a wonderful and sad music like this one really makes you believe that everything is sad in this world ;-)
wow... can this genius make the violin sing or what?! outstanding control... and I'm not even that crazy about classical pieces... but he makes you appreciate it in all its intricacy!
Y es en estos momentos de belleza, al escuchar esta pieza, en los que vale la pena luchar contra la muerte, brindar por lo estético y lo bello, y dejarse llevar por aquello que vale la pena.
Toecallous go and get yourself a nice emory board...this too tore at my heart strings and I am now a "Bell Man"...Oh that I could get my arms around him and shed my tears on the shoulders that play that expressive music and maybe even put a kiss of appreciation on his very lips. I am now a man in love forever charmed by this sound...Uncle Junior + Josh Bell, words that hang in my heart 4 ever and ever--a fantasy I will dream of tonight and maybe live out one day!
ViciousCallousness, your name suits you. While you are entitled to your opinion, you do not have to patronize Polydactyl for liking his performance. Nor do you need to call Joshua's performance as "second-rate showmanship". He's been playing for decades, improving and perfecting his performance. Sure, we all have things in ourselves to improve upon, but his performance wasn't "God-awful" just because he doesn't interpret a piece of music as you would have. I thought it was beautifully played.
Thank you so much for your comment Writerspen010. You are so very nice. Thank you. ViciousCallousness is living up to his name. He doesn't know that making beautiful violin sound is VERY DIFFICULT and to make the melody touches your heart is more amazingly difficult. I play piano and am taking violin lesson, so I know how hard it is (I still make squeaky and scratchy sound... not good).
Your welcome! We Joshua Bell fans have to stick together :)
I too play the piano and violin, and know how difficult, though rewarding, it is to learn and play a piece accurately, but also with an emotional connection to the piece.
Polydactyl13, from the way you speak anyone would think that Bell had achieved some sort of mastery of this difficult instrument. Alas, that is not the case.
writerspen010 is only interested in bedding you, poly; I on the other hand am interested only in your musical education. Listen to me and realise the true nature of Bell's caricatural interpretations. His incongrous swaying and jigging, not to mention the risible facial contortions, ought to be all you need to come to judgement on this man
Anyway, the point: His "incongruous (which you spelled wrong) swaying and jigging" and "risible facial contortions:" only prove how into the piece he his playing. If you watch other musicians, you will notice they do things of this sort when they have an attachment to they piece they're performing.
Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion. If Poly, I, and others enjoy his playing, let us enjoy it in peace and stop watching if you don't like it.
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Polydactyl13: Pull yourself together dear.
I also wept when I watched this video, but they tears of bitterness, tears of hatred. How can Bell dare to gut a beautiful work like this and turn it into something fit only for mockery.
Bell's 'musicianship' is nothing but second-rate showmanship, nothing more.
people criticise him for the faces he makes and although they dont make a good violinist it shows that he is totally lost in the music or just doesnt care what people think, probably both!
I dare say he doesn't care what people think, all the while there are enough of them who give him their attention and money.
His melodramatic, second-rate showmanship is utterly tedious to watch. It's purpose is to attempt to convince you that he has some clue as to what the piece he is playing is meant to be about. If you just listen to him playing you will see that he hasn't actually got a clue.
Both Joshua Bell and Midori Goto made good performances of this piece. But the thing is, each has his/her own interpretation. So you can't really say who's the better player.
joshua bell is my favourite violinist if you type in joshua bell hungarian dance on youtube all the people who criticise him further down will have to eat their words he does have a wierd bowing action but it obviously works for him
You must play so so excellent and perfect... I think he do a good job. He's not having sex, he's doing something better, loving the music. He has a contract. If u just be in his place, do u'll reject the contract? omg.. i don't think so. He do a excellent job and msic. Don't kill hm. Is a human, not a musical alien.
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here is a joke: joshua bell plays the devil's trill while hilary hahn plays vivaldi. LOL! bell needs to quit playing....the worst violinist i ever heard....
hahahah...u shud watch Goto Midori's rendition of this piece...ull be stunned and amazed that a piece like this could be played so beautiful and fragile....
I don't understand what's funny about that joke. Bell played Vivaldi beautifully live here in New York about a year and a half ago. Your entitled to your opinion, but just get your facts straight. Bell also released a Vivaldi CD.
yea, i know he has a cd out. i just cannot get w/ him....i tried listening to all his cd's...didnt like them at all...the only song i like by him is tizgane. he owns that hands down.
@airplanelova93 And who the **** is VanessaMaeFan18 to post critiques on anything? Guess the name says it all...whoever adores Vanessa Mae's frequent if not recurrent crimes against classical music should have no say about Joshua Bell or classical music in general.
Im amazed he can keep the bow on the strings with all the bldy contortions he goes through. Gingold didn't teach him to do that! If I close my eyes I think he is decent to listen to - he is no Leonid Kogan, though, that is for certain.
lol i know right! he like sweats and makes that face like its so painful. lol lol!! yea, i agree w/ you about hes decent when u close ur eyes. as for kogan, i only heard him play part of the violin concerto in a minor by shoshti. im like, WOW!!! i do not know nothing about him at all. is he fantastic like heifetz, perlman or oistrakh?
the day joshua bell plays something like elgar violin concerto thats the day the whole world is gonna be in shock and ppl. will start to see the piece as something "not so hard"but then again i doubt he'll ever play the elgar.
he has a good technique. it just so happens that a lot of his contempories r better in terms of ability,interpretation intellect and basically he sounds an average conservatory grad compared to a lot of those virtuosos out there.
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roland11111111 3 days ago
a beautiful play... get the chills...!!
Thepantherenoire64 1 week ago
It's been 4 years since I've watched this vid. I still get the same chills. Stunning <3
MissROFLMAO 2 weeks ago 2
I listen to this regularly and I'm always amazed at the emotion that comes out of his violin. Music like this give my spine divine tingles.
vincentjasonmorales 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
bravo bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheLordCristo 1 month ago
Isn't that interesting? The top comment says that 10 months ago, 8 people disliked it. Now, there's 4 more dislikes over the course of the next 10 months after that comment. It just goes to show, everyone loves your music!
Superb performance as always, Joshua.
EatenAlive33 1 month ago
3:02 onwards is my fave.
littlemonster1984 1 month ago
12 people who've watched this, are deaf.
onotarh 1 month ago
fantastic....
jccelerio 2 months ago
He also played this as an encore in San Francisco
bayareapianist 2 months ago
12 people are jealous of the refined talent Joshua Bell has.
applesauceis22 2 months ago
He played this for an encore in Tacoma last night. :^)
tubbers20 2 months ago
breathless perfomance, best ever.
MrChukoR 2 months ago
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sonnyIDI 3 months ago 8
Absolout incredible
TheMariogarra 3 months ago
Chopin and Bell. What could be more sublime
lobo71482 3 months ago
He make me feel good and happy. He will be a mega star.
propatria0704 4 months ago
@propatria0704 "will be" a star? Boggle. He's been pretty much the premiere violinist on the planet for quite a few years now :)
vsmith23 3 months ago 2
@vsmith23 -- Totally agree. Thank you for correcting me.
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i dont want to criticize cause that was great but sometimes his bowarm could use a little straightening. not that ive seen many people with perfect bowarms tho lol
Acey2424 4 months ago
I just love the bow control
darkgarb555 5 months ago
He might be my favourite person ever!
simplegifts91 5 months ago
@Kuraujia Of course THIS isn't Traumerei... But look at the author's comments: he says: Joshua Bell plays Traumerei by Frederic Chopin....
MrGrasshopper60 6 months ago
Traumerei is by Schumann ...
MrGrasshopper60 6 months ago
@MrGrasshopper60 But this song is not called Träumerei. It's Nocturne. Go and watch a video where Joshua plays Träumerei. It's just amazing!
Kuraujia 6 months ago
I cried.
DannyBv3 7 months ago 2
whoever does not like Joshua Bell is crazy
sfirdman 7 months ago 2
beautiful !
Barbara6406 7 months ago
how he plays this gives me chils... truly captivating.
TheSchwarz1000 7 months ago
One of my favourite Chopin nocturnes by my favourite violinist. Doesn't get better than that! ♥
wudayes 7 months ago 2
I love Joshua Bell, he has extroidinary talent that is very rare.
dancer1179 8 months ago
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I'm a pianist I know jack about violin and even I can tell he's good so maybe people who say he is not good should post a video of them playing if they say they know so much about classical music.
peacenotwar500 8 months ago
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peacenotwar500 8 months ago
I heard this live.. it was amazing and made me cry.. the quality of this recording is lacking and he added a few extra ornamentation's which yeah.. didn't fit.
lovelystrings 8 months ago
I dont understand.. His interpretation of most of the pieces is impeccable but he failed at that one...
genetikist 8 months ago
For me, I'm just not feeling it.. I love other Violinists' interpretations of this piece, but it just doesn't hit home for me. He sounds like too many other Violinists I've already heard--only difference is he's an international performer. One of my favorite Violinists is Augustin Hadelich, who I listen to every day and has this sound like I've never imagined could come from a violin. So I guess when I listen to any other player, it just doesn't sound right to me...
Mainehorse 8 months ago
the way he plays this song, it takes you somewhere, tells a story, makes you feel something in your heart. magnificent!!!!
imaginethewonder 8 months ago
This piece is marvellous and Joshua Bell of course is a good musician and violinist,
but I don't know why I can't apreciate Chopin's pieces played in other instrument than piano. It just doesn't sound harmonical to me, maybe it's just a problem I have got, or maybe because Chopin composition were mostly made for piano.
But I prefer listening to : watch?v=PEyEw-8Kuv8
than listening to this piano + violin version
TheChileanpsycho 9 months ago
My violin teacher took me to one of his performances when I was in 2nd Grade, and when he played this, it Blew. My. MIND!! I could even say it changed my musical taste forever.
kinesthetiac 9 months ago 2
the way he plays this gets to my very soul! there are no words.
zsmithtv 10 months ago
what it comes down to is he is good, obviously talented but no more so than a lot of others definitely much luckier than many though. The point though is that there is a difference between interpreting and just flying in the face of intent a line he is flirting dangerously close to here.
rtalbott0112 10 months ago
The reason people do not like his interpretation is because he approaches it as if it were a light dance, and it's not. Every essence of this Nocturne is mourning, and saddening. He plays as though it is a happy frolic through a field of flowers.
Rpkist77 10 months ago
to much to much ...romantic I mean and to much kills romanticism !
anastasia7536 10 months ago
He is talented and good looking! The perfect combination for violinist.
How does he make the violin cry so beautifully?
mozarthaus1 10 months ago
sigh~ its annoyin to like everyone of his vid cause its too guuuddd
ShiroyamaEiri 10 months ago
beautiful
mrhowardvalencia 11 months ago
Amazing!!!
TheGetHappy1 11 months ago
WOW! that was amazing!!! its so nice to listen to!
jewelsrules2 11 months ago
8 people thought dislike meant dis i like :)
SourAndLime 11 months ago 14
IMO, there are better interpretations of this out there....
thepromman 1 year ago
7 people are completely deaf.
anapinkstar 1 year ago
Wow, seven people missed the like button and/or have no taste.
bondottoson 1 year ago
This was probably one of the longest 3 minutes in my life, not because it was boring, it's because the amount of emotion seeps through my headphones and as a result, my brain has forgotten what time is.
gayglue 1 year ago 2
The description is incorrect. This is not Traumerei and Chopin didn't write Traumerei, it was Robert Schumann.
cstang9 1 year ago
Que belleza...
dla184 1 year ago
I don't care much for this interpretation. I find it too soft and airy. It is, however, well played.
unfoldingart 1 year ago
He is the first and best violin player plays Nocturne in C sharp minor PERFECTLY..no one else. It makes one forget everthing and one just goes into that fantasy world. It´s an amazing feeling.
orizja1294 1 year ago
@orizja1294 wow you really don t know shit about music...
jasonform 1 year ago
@jasonform seriously, and what makes you think that? One don´t need be a music teacher to be able to see the difference between good and bad music.
orizja1294 1 year ago
@orizja1294 He says that to you because of the applied ignorance you're comment gave up. He, while being a fantastic and personally my favorite, is not the ONLY one to play this well. It's a stellar performance, but to say there has been no one else that has played this piece well is just a little ignorant.
JayLovePlaysGuitar 1 year ago
@JayLovePlaysGuitar Please note that I said as far as I´ve HEARD he is the best one according to ME. Perhaps there are others who play even better or worse or atleast not as good as him, which I had experienced, and when I see or hear someone play bueatiful I´ll not hesitate to share my thoughts. And I admit I should have been more carefull........
orizja1294 1 year ago
@orizja1294 .......................And one more thing @jasonform (and I should also be more accurate in future instead of copy/pasting the titel of the music like I did last time, and by the I knew the titel and the name of the composer everybody knows.)
It was all a missunderstanding! But thanks for pointing things out.
orizja1294 1 year ago
@orizja1294 Actually, you said neither of those things. But it's all behind you now.
JayLovePlaysGuitar 1 year ago
Beautiful video!
Thanks for sharing.
Who is the pianist?
FrancoMFT8 1 year ago
Sao con người lại có thể làm ra những thứ siêu phàm như thế nhỉ.
HotelThanhCong 1 year ago
Si los angeles cantaran lo harian así...
pillinabaila 1 year ago
who are the 6 fucks that disliked this?
rosemarpr 1 year ago 10
ademas de tocar maravilloso es lindo
thetlanezi 1 year ago
At 2:12, I thought for a moment that Joshua Bell was suddenly going to burst into Havanaise of Saint-Saens...
ninjacello 1 year ago
I love this song.......very nice
Brickmachine 1 year ago
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
tinykarin 1 year ago
Encore une découverte d'Isabelle Lefebvre...
huguespenot 1 year ago
Chopin and Bell. What could be more sublime.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jazyag 1 year ago
thats the best song for violin
WaterLikey 1 year ago
Esta pieza es de mis preferidas¡¡¡ Me encanto poderla escuchar ejecutada por
este gran musico¡¡¡ amo el sonido¡¡¡
divaphalenopsis 1 year ago
I'd recommend Nocturne in C-sharp Minor. op.posth/midori
Novelaffinity92 1 year ago
I do not deny that Bell has extraordinary talent, and it is quite clear that he is valiantly trying to play so lucidly and emotionally, however this interpretation simply does not register for me as the others have...
Novelaffinity92 1 year ago
I've listened to several variations and interpretations of this master piece by numerous extremely talented musicians, and I have to say this is one of my least favorites...
Novelaffinity92 1 year ago
I _know_ Bell is in a different league than "the chinese girl on the karate kid"
...best not to mention third-world players in the same breath as those
who understand the western musical tradition....and yes, its in their genes....
(musical chauvinist - after nearly a century of observation...) Lets be honest, it will take another century at least, for asian players to learn s-o-u-l ..... I exclude Yo-Yo Ma - an exception that proves the rule...
sdorr 1 year ago
@sdorr What about Sarah Chang? She is amazing!
Kyousuke687 1 year ago
@Kyousuke687 yes, but it still lacks soul - compare any piece she plays
from behind a curtain, to Heifitz, Milstein, Kreisler, and one can tell its a non-euorpean tradition person playing.... perfectly...but too perfectly..... Arthur Rubinstein said "some musicians take the piece out of their pocket, and other take the piece out of their heart..." Yep another century at least for Asian musical storytellers .....
sdorr 1 year ago
@sdorr wow this comment is so racist. I'm pretty sure there are good asian musicians in the world. And not all asian countries are third world countries and China is not a third world country. FYI, i am not chinese nor chinese descendant. I have absolute respect for Joshua but I don't think talking not very nice thing about others is a good way to praise him.
linhduong0809 1 year ago
@linhduong0809 There many great Asian musicians....just not in the same league
or the same page as those from the european tradition.... yo yo is an exception to this rule...there may be a few other exceptions....
sdorr 1 year ago
Respond to this video...
leontud 1 year ago
@sdorr I had no idea anybody could pack so much bigotry and racism into so few sentences. I found it rather disgusting that you could, with such confidence, state that all Asian musicians are "soulless" players.
By the way, the statement on your YouTube profile drove me into TOTAL hysterics: "I strongly advise higher education for the dozens of badly-educated folks who want to post something .....mean....or very ignorant...."
Can you not just taste the hypocrisy? ;-)
unfoldingart 1 year ago
It was better played by the virtuoso Chinese girl on the Karate Kid. That's just sad.
Barakuda549 1 year ago
Please, does anyone know who arranged this accompaniment? It is way better than the one I have.
haydn4ever 1 year ago
Nah, the arrangement doesn't work for me..
Jiyuu89 1 year ago
one of the greatest Nocturnes left for the world by Chopin
omatu1 1 year ago
Es increíble,que talento,
Que hrmoso y perfecto sonido,
Joshua bell pone el alma en sus canciones,
Es de esas personas que nacen para la música al igual que Vanessa mae.
Gracias por subir este video 5/5
larukukei 1 year ago
I think he's a great violinist and has a beautiful sound but I just don't like his technique...
I guess you can have whatever technique you want when ur a virtuoso...
I do love this piece though..it's the one I'm gonna learn next. :)
gabsmyster142 2 years ago
mrami9994, THANK YOU! Those comments were incredibly ignorant. I'm a concert level classical pianist, and it takes absolute brilliance to move me...this kid moves me to chills! An unbelievable and un-matched talent!
y1e2l3l4o5w6 2 years ago 22
@y1e2l3l4o5w6 Amen!
I'm sure that the virtuosi of the past would be awed by Bell's playing - and glad to welcome him to their number!
skatesindreams 1 year ago
VanessaMaeFan18: A violin junkie does not make a violinist!!! To say Bell is not talented is inane. Of course he's talented, you just happen not to like how he interprets violin music. That does not make him untalented!
mrami9994 2 years ago 28
And vanessamaefan18 is THE authority on violin performance!!! LOL !!!
Just ask it!!!
Idiot.
jesusjones5151 1 year ago
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sonnyIDI 3 months ago 6
Tayrone2001: I happen to have a master's in music composition and performance (cello, voice), so I do think I know somewhat about this business!!!!
mrami9994 2 years ago
tayrone2001 - you may be a music student, and if you do not "get" Bell's beautifully exquisite playing, then, I'm afraid, you might be in the wrong profession!!!
mrami9994 2 years ago 3
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well I guess you should let the musicians jugde about that and care about your business.
tayrone2001 2 years ago
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Im a music student, he's not playing very good, there are no clear musically plans, just a pseudo-feeling. watch her to understand: Anna Tifu-Chopin-Nocturne
tayrone2001 2 years ago
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finally. and i agree too. i am a violin junkie and i listened to a good bit of violin players. i know them all. bell is not talented. he butchered up mendelsholns violin concerto in e minor. his cadenza sucked bad .
VanessaMaeFan18 2 years ago
says vanessa mae's fan...
o0r3tloK0o 2 years ago
hahahahahahahaahahahahahahah
datataro 2 years ago
@VanessaMaeFan18, and vanessa mae is just so much better than bell? definitely....
prayformercy4 1 year ago
Julliard doesn't seem to think so, but I'm sure you're much more qualified to than they, to comment.
jesusjones5151 1 year ago
@VanessaMaeFan18 this coming from a Vanessa Mae fan. nice.
craisslayer 1 year ago
@VanessaMaeFan18 Really, if Josh isn't talented, how come you're not the one traveling the world to please a lot of people? How come, you're not the one playing a Gibson Str.?
IAmMadeUpOfSugar 8 months ago
simply wonderful
fcnmsstodiefor 2 years ago
waooooooooooo que sentimiento...
moronismith 2 years ago
divine and glamorous
beh1310 2 years ago
Recordé llorando lo que más he amado mientras escuche este Nocturno
violinfrank 2 years ago
Para mí el mejor violinista!!! Siempre un placer escucharte Joshua Bell. Ven pronto a Madrid. Una fan.
ofelia1851 2 years ago
Magnifico
miguelitoruiz33 2 years ago
AMAZING! WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOOOWOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOWOWowoWOWOWOW LOVE IT! LOVE it!!! I'd give my left nut to play the violin like this!
fm1224 2 years ago 3
HAHAHA, ur left nut?!?!?! lmfao thats a good one.
violin957 2 years ago
i love how like when he plays it looks like its nothing to him
and the way he holds his violin just baffles me
bravo!!!
marshmallowfool 2 years ago 3
O.O *speechless*
---BEAUTIFUL (: <33
xxJen967 2 years ago 3
He's a bad guy
he makes her violin cries
LOL
IdiotViolinist 2 years ago
is tehre a reason he only seems to play romantic pieces? Not that i'm complaining, I adore romantic pieces.
SurreyViolinHero 2 years ago
I have this as a ringtone too! This is my second favorite classical piece. And Joshua Bell is brilliant. Makes me want to play more often.
Hailo7788 2 years ago
Защо в този свят всичко вълнуващо и прекрасно е изпълнено с тъга?
galinkabg 2 years ago
Not everything in this world i so sad, but listening a wonderful and sad music like this one really makes you believe that everything is sad in this world ;-)
MaterTaenebre 2 years ago 3
Just amazing. I really enjoyed it.
akaboudian 2 years ago 2
Perfect.
wwwalaki 2 years ago
Very nice...
MTajvidi 2 years ago
you should see hungarian dance no.1 by him
i like it so much
scorpi97 2 years ago
WOW! Stunning! words can't describe just how good!!
fm1224 2 years ago
wow... can this genius make the violin sing or what?! outstanding control... and I'm not even that crazy about classical pieces... but he makes you appreciate it in all its intricacy!
Safaya13 2 years ago 2
this work just gets in my heart in my veins
brandix30000 2 years ago
Awesome piece and one of my favorites. I have this one as my ring tone :)
ErktheEngineer 2 years ago
I'm as amazed as I can't say a word :) He is brilliant x 10000000000000. Thanks for sharing :)
sarevilo31 2 years ago
emet truth
bigqueensam 2 years ago
he makes it look so easy lol
love ittt!
chiiijenny 2 years ago
Y es en estos momentos de belleza, al escuchar esta pieza, en los que vale la pena luchar contra la muerte, brindar por lo estético y lo bello, y dejarse llevar por aquello que vale la pena.
Hermosa pieza, impecable interpretación.
Gracias por este maravilloso video
brunoriosmtz 2 years ago 4
I can't say a word. It is so wonderful!!!!!!
rog8271 2 years ago 4
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rog8271 2 years ago
Rubye say this sound good-Rubye get misty
RubyeWashington 2 years ago 15
Toecallous go and get yourself a nice emory board...this too tore at my heart strings and I am now a "Bell Man"...Oh that I could get my arms around him and shed my tears on the shoulders that play that expressive music and maybe even put a kiss of appreciation on his very lips. I am now a man in love forever charmed by this sound...Uncle Junior + Josh Bell, words that hang in my heart 4 ever and ever--a fantasy I will dream of tonight and maybe live out one day!
UnclJuniorSuprano 2 years ago 14
Oh Please UnclJunior, Please don't take Joshua from me. Joshua and I will be getting married soon. Pleas have a heart.
Polydactyl13 2 years ago 8
ViciousCallousness, your name suits you. While you are entitled to your opinion, you do not have to patronize Polydactyl for liking his performance. Nor do you need to call Joshua's performance as "second-rate showmanship". He's been playing for decades, improving and perfecting his performance. Sure, we all have things in ourselves to improve upon, but his performance wasn't "God-awful" just because he doesn't interpret a piece of music as you would have. I thought it was beautifully played.
writerspen010 2 years ago 9
Thank you so much for your comment Writerspen010. You are so very nice. Thank you. ViciousCallousness is living up to his name. He doesn't know that making beautiful violin sound is VERY DIFFICULT and to make the melody touches your heart is more amazingly difficult. I play piano and am taking violin lesson, so I know how hard it is (I still make squeaky and scratchy sound... not good).
Polydactyl13 2 years ago 8
Your welcome! We Joshua Bell fans have to stick together :)
I too play the piano and violin, and know how difficult, though rewarding, it is to learn and play a piece accurately, but also with an emotional connection to the piece.
Good luck and have fun!
writerspen010 2 years ago 5
Polydactyl13, from the way you speak anyone would think that Bell had achieved some sort of mastery of this difficult instrument. Alas, that is not the case.
writerspen010 is only interested in bedding you, poly; I on the other hand am interested only in your musical education. Listen to me and realise the true nature of Bell's caricatural interpretations. His incongrous swaying and jigging, not to mention the risible facial contortions, ought to be all you need to come to judgement on this man
VicicousCallousness 2 years ago
Whoa! Excuse me? I'm a girl for God's sake!
Anyway, the point: His "incongruous (which you spelled wrong) swaying and jigging" and "risible facial contortions:" only prove how into the piece he his playing. If you watch other musicians, you will notice they do things of this sort when they have an attachment to they piece they're performing.
Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion. If Poly, I, and others enjoy his playing, let us enjoy it in peace and stop watching if you don't like it.
writerspen010 2 years ago 2
Woohoo... you go girl... GIRLS POWER :-)
Polydactyl13 2 years ago 2
TROLL! lol. Dude, seriously let a guy get into the music a little. So what if he's a bit of a showman?
ErktheEngineer 2 years ago
You made me cry with your violin... you must marry me Joshua...
Polydactyl13 2 years ago
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Polydactyl13: Pull yourself together dear.
I also wept when I watched this video, but they tears of bitterness, tears of hatred. How can Bell dare to gut a beautiful work like this and turn it into something fit only for mockery.
Bell's 'musicianship' is nothing but second-rate showmanship, nothing more.
VicicousCallousness 2 years ago
people criticise him for the faces he makes and although they dont make a good violinist it shows that he is totally lost in the music or just doesnt care what people think, probably both!
thementalfiddler 2 years ago
I dare say he doesn't care what people think, all the while there are enough of them who give him their attention and money.
His melodramatic, second-rate showmanship is utterly tedious to watch. It's purpose is to attempt to convince you that he has some clue as to what the piece he is playing is meant to be about. If you just listen to him playing you will see that he hasn't actually got a clue.
God-awful, this was god-awful.
VicicousCallousness 2 years ago
this is one of my top ten favourites on the violin repetoire!!
08sondre91 3 years ago
Both Joshua Bell and Midori Goto made good performances of this piece. But the thing is, each has his/her own interpretation. So you can't really say who's the better player.
Oniknarf 3 years ago
joshua bell is my favourite violinist if you type in joshua bell hungarian dance on youtube all the people who criticise him further down will have to eat their words he does have a wierd bowing action but it obviously works for him
thementalfiddler 3 years ago
Yup
many people think that technique is everything
It's the music that they should better listen, not the technique
IdiotViolinist 2 years ago 2
You must play so so excellent and perfect... I think he do a good job. He's not having sex, he's doing something better, loving the music. He has a contract. If u just be in his place, do u'll reject the contract? omg.. i don't think so. He do a excellent job and msic. Don't kill hm. Is a human, not a musical alien.
ltovarperez 3 years ago
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here is a joke: joshua bell plays the devil's trill while hilary hahn plays vivaldi. LOL! bell needs to quit playing....the worst violinist i ever heard....
VanessaMaeFan18 3 years ago
hahahah...u shud watch Goto Midori's rendition of this piece...ull be stunned and amazed that a piece like this could be played so beautiful and fragile....
vlhere 3 years ago
you're talking about when she played chopin right? if so, i heard it and it was pretty good.
VanessaMaeFan18 3 years ago
I don't understand what's funny about that joke. Bell played Vivaldi beautifully live here in New York about a year and a half ago. Your entitled to your opinion, but just get your facts straight. Bell also released a Vivaldi CD.
airplanelova93 3 years ago 2
yea, i know he has a cd out. i just cannot get w/ him....i tried listening to all his cd's...didnt like them at all...the only song i like by him is tizgane. he owns that hands down.
VanessaMaeFan18 3 years ago
@airplanelova93 And who the **** is VanessaMaeFan18 to post critiques on anything? Guess the name says it all...whoever adores Vanessa Mae's frequent if not recurrent crimes against classical music should have no say about Joshua Bell or classical music in general.
mcmc1981 1 year ago
Im amazed he can keep the bow on the strings with all the bldy contortions he goes through. Gingold didn't teach him to do that! If I close my eyes I think he is decent to listen to - he is no Leonid Kogan, though, that is for certain.
calloffthedogs 3 years ago
lol i know right! he like sweats and makes that face like its so painful. lol lol!! yea, i agree w/ you about hes decent when u close ur eyes. as for kogan, i only heard him play part of the violin concerto in a minor by shoshti. im like, WOW!!! i do not know nothing about him at all. is he fantastic like heifetz, perlman or oistrakh?
VanessaMaeFan18 3 years ago
get on youtube and type in "kogan paganini" - frigging unbelievable! Enjoy!
calloffthedogs 3 years ago
@VanessaMaeFan18 Your ears may be busted. Were you high when you wrote this?
BeyondxDescription 1 year ago
@VanessaMaeFan18 Get off the drugs...it's damaging your brain.
mcmc1981 1 year ago
@VanessaMaeFan18
Hear yourself play. You will then hear the worst ever violinist.
00kashyap00 1 year ago
the day joshua bell plays something like elgar violin concerto thats the day the whole world is gonna be in shock and ppl. will start to see the piece as something "not so hard"but then again i doubt he'll ever play the elgar.
carloslaran 3 years ago
he's probably already done it. He probably hasn't recorded or performed it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but its not the most performed concerto. As you said, I am more than sure he can handle it.
battleblades 3 years ago
Are you saying he does not have a good technique?
violinmusicfan 3 years ago
he has a good technique. it just so happens that a lot of his contempories r better in terms of ability,interpretation intellect and basically he sounds an average conservatory grad compared to a lot of those virtuosos out there.
carloslaran 3 years ago
i dont know why so many ppl bash on bell. i think its because his sound is so thin that some believe it comes from a student.
carloslaran 3 years ago 2
well...is "this" really a great violinist? I think no. Up to you.
elcid22 3 years ago
Pretentious nick, pretentious man.
1TheSorrow 3 years ago
Sorrowful nick, sorrowful mind.
elcid22 3 years ago
Nice one, very creative and clever. Wait... No. What do you study?
1TheSorrow 3 years ago
Oh, thank you. I study the pussy of women. It's an endless field of investigation. And you?
elcid22 3 years ago
I think is unnecessary to keep proving your ignorance. Thanks!
1TheSorrow 3 years ago