@Xytopamenia The order goes: Stick Dance, Sash Dance, In One Spot, Horn Dance, Romanian Polka and finally Fast Dance. Though I've seen different names.
Variants of Romanian music, such as the hora lunga also made an impression on Bartók’s innate sense of irregular rhythm. Musicologists have shown many important comparisons between Bartok’s themes and the hora lunga. Bartok described the hora lunga and gave the following as an example (Ex. 95.9).
The movement and expression make her performance ten times more alive. Yes, it's about the music. But in the end, you go to a live performance for the personality as well as the sound. You don't close your eyes and listen at a rock concert, why would this be any different? She's done a beautiful job here, so much variation in tone.
@jfullerw I have known musicians who have given the most moving, beautiful performances whilst barely a change in their own facial expression, and other musicians who gurn and frown (and even grunt) in the most bizarre manners - it is about the music! not what someone is or isn't doing with their face/physical body... music is played with (and speaks to) the soul : )
Perfectly captured gypsy style and technique. A little too rubato but other than that tempo, intonation, harmonics and ryhtym were phenomenal. (good communication with the pianist as well)
@as0the0shadow0dance Not the same thing. The body and face should change with the feelings of the song. It should be a natural extension of the emotions she's playing, but her face and body are wild at static times melodically, meaning she is acting, not feeling.
She looks like she's about to rip someone's head off while she's playing this... I mean, I like that's she's really explosively involved in her music. But this seems excessive to me.
(...maybe it's because of having to play for a massive massive outdoor audience.)
this interpretation is far from the romanian spirit, bartok used to travel across eastern countries in order to save the music. Except music transcription can't transmit feelings nor spirit. this is tablature playing, not eastern music. so go to eat some SARMALE , drink 3 or 4 palinca's and then try again !
im currently playing the first of this folk dances on myself. and its suprising how my teacher told me to play it like idk and then on the internet everyone is playing it different. :)
@MrJackle7 Perhaps in another dialect of English or in another language. It's spelled Romanian in Standard American and in Standard Canadian English. I can't speak to Standard British though, that might be the source of the confusion.
I know anything about Bartok and I absolutely love his music, especially his Romanian Dances (check out his other 2 Romanian folk dances - not part of his 5 Romanian folk dances you hear here). But... I agree with people who ask themselves if she listened to her own music. Some parts are good, but at the first part it sounds to me as if she doesn't pay attention to the indications Bartok gave. Where is the staccato? I hear her play staccato at the second dance though. Overall, I don't like it.
amazing emotion and flow in here, it is amazing that Bartok can capture the essence of Romanian folk music and incorporate it into his own style and flavor. spectacularly done. props to the violinist also! she has this passion where I do not see in many. or perhaps it is the work of Bartok once again. maybe both :]
Respect for this compositor, a great MAN first of all, like Enescu, Porumbescu and other valors of humanity. I am Romanian and i hope to see more Hungarians like him in Romania! Thei have much to learn from this man about us...Romanians! Whe are ... this music and much more...!!! Respect and a Happy New Year!
you are so right .I'm a romanian too,but we must be friends and it's not need to generalise everytime :)
Hungarians are people as us and they have their opwn culture and their own great people exactly like us. As West Europe generalise romanians(I call it stupidity) we generalise with hungarians..It will be better and clever to see the good parts :)
Ayyy you guys I like Hilary Hahn's version better, at least here on youtube... I saw the English Chamber Orchestra do it once and it was awesome, this is such a cool piece of music
Soy Mèxicano y me parece una exelente ejecucion, he tenido el gusto por esta expresion artistica musical por la iniciativa de Mùsicos profesionales en la ciudad de Còrdoba, Veracruz...
Realizando punto de reunion para escucharles en el teatro Pedro Diaz de la ciudad donde hoy estoy.
Both Bartok and Ligeti were very Romanians. Remember, this is Bartok most famous piece. I´m not denying their roots. They were Hungarians, but with Romanian soul.
Romania in music , poetry and art is equally great as Germany and France. Just beacuse Romania is not famous, dosen´t mean it dosen´t justify it´s greatness.
@SteauaBucuresti Bartók arrenged a lot of folk songs. And not only romanain, but hungarians, slovac, rutén, and evern turk and arab.
And this case these tunes became worldfomous because of genius of Bartok. I you interpret them in the original style played in the villages, noboby would pay a panny to go to the concert. Batók could arrenge these tunes to be accepteble by the "european" people.
ok:!! she is may be good!! but this brahms rubati make me sick!!!! no, a great musician can perform very bad folkloric music!!! listen to turina by spanish singers!!!
It dosent matter where your from, where you play the piece, or who you are, A great violinist can understand and perform a piece in any style, and Janine Jansen is no question a great violinist and musician.
ah typical Janine, playing so beautifully and as soon as the fast mvts. come in she just goes for it and slams it, not afraid of breaking some bow hairs. I absolutely love her playing so much and her immense passion. I have to admit I play a majority of my pieces with her as inspiration. A world class violinist and performer.
If you know anything about Bartok, it's that he studied and used traditional folk music themes and elements in his own compositions. He would literally travel to the locations and observe the people and their music. So to anyone that says "this isn't true Romanian music" or any other insulting comments such as "I doubt Janine could keep up with the style of music," 1)You're wrong, it has very traditional elements, and 2)You try playing this the way she did or better. I hate trolling on the web.
@thatonemusickid Whereas if you knew anything about Romanian folklore you'd realize that Bartok has little if anything to do with it. Now I agree, Bartok is a fine composer but that isn't enough to pass his music as 'Romanian' as his titles suggest. As for Janine Jensen I maintain that she'd be lost if faced with the challenge of playing Hora Staccato, Hora Martisorului, Ciocirlia oe any of the many Real Romanian pieces.
@thatonemusickid ... as a means of educating yourself on what real Romanian music sounds like why not listen to the few pieces i recommended ? you'll find them on you tube. You'll also find that almost all Romanian music uses subtle micro-tones, very fast trills mashed into what can be defined as 'specifically Romanian'. Janine is trained in the west, true Romanian music is beyond her abilities, trust me. Its not an insult, its a fact.
you are right.This is a very refined music,it is wonderful and exprimes the most traditional romanian folklor (I'm a romanian ,ex folkroric dancer for a period of 5 years).
Lol, i thought i did a good job on the third part until hearing how she played it. I thought mine sounde dlike a whistle but hers...amazing...looks like i'm going back to practicing it;p
True Romanian music for the violin ? No problem. Search ' ion voicu ' then click on 'hora martisorului '. You'll hear pure virtusic Romanian music the way it should be played. Mind you it's very technically demanding I doubt that Janine Jensen could keep up - much easier to 'impress' with the likes of Bartok.
I remember whilst studying music at a conservatorium here in the West the lecturer brought a map of my country Romania with Hungarian names for the towns and villages to show the class where Bartok was born. Bartok is a fine composer but he does not write Romanian music any more than Bizet writes Spanish or Monti - Hungarian.
Seriously I too composed a piece for orchestra entitled Romanian Dance, if you could be bothered you can find it by searching 'dorin baragan' it will at least sound truly Romanian :-)
His compositions are heavely Hungarian flavoured, if anything they relate to Hungarian- Transilvania not main stream Romanian folklore (ie Wallahia, Moldova) To a Romanian born there are far better examples of good Romanian music like G. Enescu for instance with his Romanian Rhapsody in A op. 11 or see Grigoras Dinicu. Bartok has as much relevance to through Romanian music as Monti has to the Czardas.
Nicely played...a little exagerated at times but it'll pass especially for a non-Romanian audience. I wonder why people (music lovers) view Bartok as the primary figure responsible for bringing Romanian music to the West.
Dear octaviannatea, what makes you say this about Hungarians? Have you had bad experiences? I could list a few things that we have produced... And what did we steal, if I may ask you? From whom did we steal? Today Hungary's territory is 66% less than it used to be, so who steals?
@octaviannatea You are either a little fascist or know very little about history (or probably both given your comments). Even if it were true what you are saying, there was nothing like "taking back", it was "taken away", and there is a difference.
On the other note, pray tell us, have you ever read, listened to anything Hungarian? By the way, nomad ancestors? Well, I suppose, Huns and Skitas were all that, but just to remind you, the panties you are wearing at the moment are coming from them..
@octaviannatea everything you Hungarians have to boast about is taken from other peoples: Gipsy music, Romanian dances, Austrian glory,etc. Is there anything that you yourselves ever produced? I'm afraid there isn't... oh, one thing you have, the custom inherited from your nomad ancestors: to steal things from other people and declare them your own.
Bartók Béla was born in Hungary. When he was born, Transylvania and other parts belong to Hungary. In Hungary was lived by many nations. And the hungarian music was played mostly by gypsies, because they were the "musicians", and the music was mixed. But Bartók Béla was a hungarian man, and composer and his music based on hungarian!!!!!!! music.
I think Bartok Bela was a great Hungarian Musician and he made a great collection of Hungarian folk song and the minorities of Hungary. Romanians have to be grateful to Bartok'sand his work. Hungary is a great power of music and culture of Central Europe and for all Carpathian Basin.
Why do romanians must thank to all? Romanian have them own wonderful culture,folklore and folkloric music,their oun traditions. :) .As al balkanic countries and not at all.
@wh1r6h1l geographically talking ,my dear ,the regions are not including countries,but are including parts,lands .The borders of the countries are artificially created by us,people. Regions = exactly what you see influenced by a specific way.Balkanic regions not includes the whole Romania,but includes the Southern part of Romania.
@Corall17 Corall, "my dear", the Balkans end and are delimited by the Danube river ''regionally". Romania's southern border is the Danube. Of course that balkanic influences exist in the shole country but Romania is not a balkanic country not even the Southern part.
me encanta como ella toca!!! no hay cosa que haya escuchado de ella que no me guste! sus interpretaciones son fabulosas, y esta no es la excepcion!!! me encanta!!!!
There is a feeling like I have not taken the life .. and yet gives me the feeling of strength to take it ... thanks to this man for so great compositions, and this woman who plays with such passion .... thanks
transylvania was hungarian until TURKISH CONQUER OF HUNGARY after that was and independent state under turkish suzeranity or part of austro-mongolian empire,but much more of austrians because you were just a bunch of slaves and austrian lickers
El estilo de interpretacion es "occidental", distinto del estilo de interpretacion que uno ve y escucha en los violinistas gitanos. Pero ambos modos son validos,pues estan permeados por la cultura distinta ,que nae de una vision de mundo distinta. Por otra parte esta pieza no es gitana, es rumana.
I am a Hungarian music teacher, and I have a few comments to make. This performance is too sentimental and there is too much unnecessary movement. It has nothing to do with the concept of simple peasants
playing folk music. The way they play is kind of rigid and very simple fiddle playing. Less would be more in this case. Otherwise listening to her music is good. It would be perfect for the radio.
i think this is the only one piece composed by bartok that is possible to be listened ...
smlhgfaz 3 days ago
Nice video, great performance... by the way, on Jan 13 until June, PianoScales channel start
uploading every thursday a small piano piece by Bartók.
PianoScales 2 weeks ago
such an inspiration
violonvirus 1 month ago
learning this in 8th grade D:
lalalala2209 1 month ago
Divine I listen to it every day. I want to play violin like that.
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I personally prefer the E major triad at the end of the phrase at 1:28
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Rkmajora 2 months ago
The world could use a few more HARDCORE PIANISTS like this guy.
Thanks for the upload.
matrixhed 2 months ago
Is there a recording of Janine playing this? On one of her CDs?
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autumntree2011 3 months ago
unbelievable!
Apocalypticboy 3 months ago
which one is she playing?
Xytopamenia 3 months ago
@Xytopamenia The order goes: Stick Dance, Sash Dance, In One Spot, Horn Dance, Romanian Polka and finally Fast Dance. Though I've seen different names.
wungabunga 3 months ago 2
@Xytopamenia All of them
kestrel240 2 months ago
what a cool place
Gestobando 3 months ago
that pianist is really freaking out
keenanchris1 3 months ago
Classicism and Modernism had a threesome with Folk music and Bartok was the love child, we'll never know who the father is but who gives a fuck
brenonion 4 months ago 14
amazingggggggggggggggggggg
hudaagusta 4 months ago
fantastic..
shostakovich2406 4 months ago
I am amazed how she managed to butcher such an awesome piece of music.
skysando 5 months ago
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MUSCLEMEDSRX 6 months ago
the second is my favourite.
0casteloencantado0 6 months ago
@0casteloencantado0 Fourth one's haunting
kestrel240 2 months ago
I really liked it))) So much power!)))))))
Nick130294 6 months ago
This woman is divine. I've heard her Britten Concerto also. Top drawer.
WestbrookTommy 6 months ago
i love this! i actually prefer the way you play this better than hilary hahn does.. if thats any compliment :)
emilyisalsum 7 months ago
bravaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..i like this
taksa1628 7 months ago
lol @ someone going "woooooo!" at the beginning
KingCrimson776 7 months ago
Variants of Romanian music, such as the hora lunga also made an impression on Bartók’s innate sense of irregular rhythm. Musicologists have shown many important comparisons between Bartok’s themes and the hora lunga. Bartok described the hora lunga and gave the following as an example (Ex. 95.9).
DOINAdinMARAMURES 7 months ago
bravaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
taksa1628 7 months ago
Gotta love the sleeping woman at 4:55
AttemptingToBeBusy 7 months ago
The movement and expression make her performance ten times more alive. Yes, it's about the music. But in the end, you go to a live performance for the personality as well as the sound. You don't close your eyes and listen at a rock concert, why would this be any different? She's done a beautiful job here, so much variation in tone.
KabambamBoozle 7 months ago
@davidltzak compositor? do you mean composer? ;P
trampo1993 7 months ago
Romanian culture deserves all respect.
SteauaBucuresti 7 months ago
What does it matter what she's doing with her body? It's about what you as a listener can hear!
hannahbanana51 7 months ago
@jfullerw I have known musicians who have given the most moving, beautiful performances whilst barely a change in their own facial expression, and other musicians who gurn and frown (and even grunt) in the most bizarre manners - it is about the music! not what someone is or isn't doing with their face/physical body... music is played with (and speaks to) the soul : )
FreedomJunkie 7 months ago
Perfectly captured gypsy style and technique. A little too rubato but other than that tempo, intonation, harmonics and ryhtym were phenomenal. (good communication with the pianist as well)
himeeho 7 months ago 2
Perfectly captured gypsy style and technique. A little too rubato but other than that tempo, intonation, harmonics and ryhtym were phenomenal
himeeho 7 months ago
That violinist is horribly overacting, and over-exaggerating the piece
jfullerw 7 months ago
@jfullerw Do you know what that called? Feeling
as0the0shadow0dance 7 months ago 2
@as0the0shadow0dance Not the same thing. The body and face should change with the feelings of the song. It should be a natural extension of the emotions she's playing, but her face and body are wild at static times melodically, meaning she is acting, not feeling.
jfullerw 7 months ago 2
@jfullerw Ok, that´s how you think about it.. But when you close your eyes, do you feel the music? Or is it still static and acting?
as0the0shadow0dance 7 months ago
@jfullerw Do you know how that called? Feeling
as0the0shadow0dance 7 months ago
That violinist is horribly overacting, and over-playing
jfullerw 7 months ago
La 3e danse en harmoniques est juste sublime..
CRP11125 7 months ago
I love Janine, very goooooooooooooooooood, beautiful. :) sua musica é maravilhosa e ela também :)
romerito917 7 months ago
She looks like she's about to rip someone's head off while she's playing this... I mean, I like that's she's really explosively involved in her music. But this seems excessive to me.
(...maybe it's because of having to play for a massive massive outdoor audience.)
Pacmanite 8 months ago
@Pacmanite isn't it a bit weird though to perceive music with your eyes?
PawelWysocki 8 months ago
this interpretation is far from the romanian spirit, bartok used to travel across eastern countries in order to save the music. Except music transcription can't transmit feelings nor spirit. this is tablature playing, not eastern music. so go to eat some SARMALE , drink 3 or 4 palinca's and then try again !
PAULEFORIE 8 months ago
Jeez the last movement made me feel like spinning in my chair and cheering. Shame on you for making your performance that moving!
iCheesey 8 months ago
I like this. I like this a lot.
McSplat 8 months ago
im currently playing the first of this folk dances on myself. and its suprising how my teacher told me to play it like idk and then on the internet everyone is playing it different. :)
TheWorldWillDieSoon 8 months ago
@TheWorldWillDieSoon i agree
alexmeiklebriggs9 8 months ago
the best interpretation of this piece
akiaki9jade 8 months ago
im playing this right now.. nice performance!!
yoyoyo74140 9 months ago
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very nice music i like listen bartok it sound very nice
hrvatijebumuslimane 9 months ago
very nice music i like listen bartok very nice
hrvatijebumuslimane 9 months ago
dont you spell romanian like this (ROUMANIAN) thats what it ssayd on my book
MrJackle7 9 months ago
@MrJackle7 Perhaps in another dialect of English or in another language. It's spelled Romanian in Standard American and in Standard Canadian English. I can't speak to Standard British though, that might be the source of the confusion.
Mehtaphorical 8 months ago
Wow! how could anyone dislike this?
TheSoundDepo 9 months ago
Very nice interpretation. Certainly live performance add a lot of excitement particularly for this piece.
Although many players these days would play this faster, tempo is right where I feel comfortable.
indra252 10 months ago
stakovsky82 Please STOP!!!
rtomsc 10 months ago
1 : To long, a little répétitive; good interprétation, but the melody is not so great.
2 : Joyous, happy, a nice song, no more.
3 : A very tragic music. This is so dramatic, so intense, I love a lot the mélody, which looks like a real real Eastern song. Very good.
4 : EXCELLENT !! FABULOUS !! This song is brillant on all the points. With this music, we are in a real dream. The interprétation is splendid !
5 : The tempo is energetic, but the mélody is very repetitive and the rythm is to speed
stakovsky82 10 months ago
i know these well from Menuhin/Gazelle on HMV DB6178 -- they're good to whistle
fflap2 10 months ago
Amazing performance.
WestbrookTommy 10 months ago
foarte frumos da , din România :D:D:D
apilanca 11 months ago
Bartok is fucking nuts.
professor314 11 months ago 19
@professor314
meaning?
fringelihuepp 11 months ago
@professor314 His divertimento for strings is even crazier. haha go check it out!
MelloMorello 10 months ago
Spectacular!
MusicInvestigation 11 months ago
@Corall17 I thank you read my comments. I allways claim the truth and historical truth
vincereee 11 months ago
Bartok is on of the greatest compositors of ever existed !
DavidItzak 11 months ago 24
so from what I'm seeing, everyone's wearing long sleeve with blankets.
How did she managed to play in a dress?
misssakiasian 11 months ago
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getsuga97 11 months ago 7
Oh gosh, It was a HELL when i had to play when I was small, the famous "Mikrokosmos" for piano...
Now I play both instruments (piano and violin) and I'm loving a bit more this composer =P
I like this version, but Vadim Repin's one is better... Not so "rubatto" as this one is...
MIndependencePhoto 1 year ago
@MIndependencePhoto I wouldn't say better, just different. Everyone has their preference. =)
Fishies125 11 months ago
wow, beautiful violin. amazing dynamics outside.
was that woman at 0:16 showing her stash?
tomitstube 1 year ago
I know anything about Bartok and I absolutely love his music, especially his Romanian Dances (check out his other 2 Romanian folk dances - not part of his 5 Romanian folk dances you hear here). But... I agree with people who ask themselves if she listened to her own music. Some parts are good, but at the first part it sounds to me as if she doesn't pay attention to the indications Bartok gave. Where is the staccato? I hear her play staccato at the second dance though. Overall, I don't like it.
wastedlittleharpist 1 year ago
virtuoso
addyr100 1 year ago
Leéltem enélkül 26 évet! Pedig én is magyar vagyok... áááááááá.... :)))))
Matuszi16 1 year ago
That is young woman, who really knows, how to perfectly play violin.
egz10 1 year ago
amazing emotion and flow in here, it is amazing that Bartok can capture the essence of Romanian folk music and incorporate it into his own style and flavor. spectacularly done. props to the violinist also! she has this passion where I do not see in many. or perhaps it is the work of Bartok once again. maybe both :]
goodcommentguy 1 year ago
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you're right :) I agree
Corall17 11 months ago
The person sleeping in this video makes me mad.
iggyzhong16 1 year ago
@iggyzhong16 how can you tell she's not just listening with her eyes closed?
PawelWysocki 1 year ago
Respect for this compositor, a great MAN first of all, like Enescu, Porumbescu and other valors of humanity. I am Romanian and i hope to see more Hungarians like him in Romania! Thei have much to learn from this man about us...Romanians! Whe are ... this music and much more...!!! Respect and a Happy New Year!
Hungaroctonul 1 year ago
@Hungaroctonul
you are so right .I'm a romanian too,but we must be friends and it's not need to generalise everytime :)
Hungarians are people as us and they have their opwn culture and their own great people exactly like us. As West Europe generalise romanians(I call it stupidity) we generalise with hungarians..It will be better and clever to see the good parts :)
Generalization is not good ! :) have a great day
Corall17 11 months ago
this obsession with nationality! it's all an accident of birth and so superficial...
evelyneverettgreen 1 year ago
This could really use a cello.
Twilight788 1 year ago
hey isn't that Max....the painst???
kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo 1 year ago
im doin the last two for my violin exam, and its sooooo hard :(
SammyJ265 1 year ago
In compare with her, this dutch "mother-joker-fucker" Andre Rieu completely sucks... ;)
dusanholy 1 year ago
She's amazing....... I can't believe this!!!!!!!
EmpriCyrin 1 year ago
Ayyy you guys I like Hilary Hahn's version better, at least here on youtube... I saw the English Chamber Orchestra do it once and it was awesome, this is such a cool piece of music
NightShadeslayer 1 year ago
I love this music so much!
goodhoecakes 1 year ago
Béla Bartók no seu melhor!
CarlaAzevedojt 1 year ago
The woman is The maestro, but I also loved the pianist. He just feels her.
MaievZabuldizhnaya 1 year ago
Great song and great preformance, no wonder the video has been seen 332266 times.
calahara 1 year ago
Soy Mèxicano y me parece una exelente ejecucion, he tenido el gusto por esta expresion artistica musical por la iniciativa de Mùsicos profesionales en la ciudad de Còrdoba, Veracruz...
Realizando punto de reunion para escucharles en el teatro Pedro Diaz de la ciudad donde hoy estoy.
Me Gusta.
Saludos a todos.
LUISCARLOSBAEZPARDO2 1 year ago
@LUISCARLOSBAEZPARDO2 Saludos de la Romania ! Viva Mexico!
BukurDava 1 year ago
@BukurDava Saludos. Algo de recomendacion...
LUISCARLOSBAEZPARDO2 1 year ago
@BukurDava Muschisimas Gracias! creeme que estaria encantado por saber mas de Romania. Cuidate!
LUISCARLOSBAEZPARDO2 1 year ago
@LUISCARLOSBAEZPARDO2
che te gusta saber de Romania ? :)
Corall17 11 months ago
Hey...why isn't anyone dancing?
then00best 1 year ago
Bartok a romanian? Surely not!!
Pro4Net 1 year ago
@Pro4Net
Both Bartok and Ligeti were very Romanians. Remember, this is Bartok most famous piece. I´m not denying their roots. They were Hungarians, but with Romanian soul.
Romania in music , poetry and art is equally great as Germany and France. Just beacuse Romania is not famous, dosen´t mean it dosen´t justify it´s greatness.
SteauaBucuresti 1 year ago
@SteauaBucuresti Bartók arrenged a lot of folk songs. And not only romanain, but hungarians, slovac, rutén, and evern turk and arab.
And this case these tunes became worldfomous because of genius of Bartok. I you interpret them in the original style played in the villages, noboby would pay a panny to go to the concert. Batók could arrenge these tunes to be accepteble by the "european" people.
MrFefefofo 1 year ago
good
bitzd 1 year ago
ok:!! she is may be good!! but this brahms rubati make me sick!!!! no, a great musician can perform very bad folkloric music!!! listen to turina by spanish singers!!!
mascagny 1 year ago
amazing! as usual from her :)
dragonflygirl105 1 year ago
It dosent matter where your from, where you play the piece, or who you are, A great violinist can understand and perform a piece in any style, and Janine Jansen is no question a great violinist and musician.
nattybug338 1 year ago
ah typical Janine, playing so beautifully and as soon as the fast mvts. come in she just goes for it and slams it, not afraid of breaking some bow hairs. I absolutely love her playing so much and her immense passion. I have to admit I play a majority of my pieces with her as inspiration. A world class violinist and performer.
Bravo Mrs. Jansen :)
TomQuags93 1 year ago
wowiezowie1 beautiful!
opus120666 1 year ago
Beautiful interpretation!
guaild 1 year ago
this woman is just superb.
j.
djrbfm 1 year ago
If you know anything about Bartok, it's that he studied and used traditional folk music themes and elements in his own compositions. He would literally travel to the locations and observe the people and their music. So to anyone that says "this isn't true Romanian music" or any other insulting comments such as "I doubt Janine could keep up with the style of music," 1)You're wrong, it has very traditional elements, and 2)You try playing this the way she did or better. I hate trolling on the web.
thatonemusickid 1 year ago 37
@thatonemusickid Whereas if you knew anything about Romanian folklore you'd realize that Bartok has little if anything to do with it. Now I agree, Bartok is a fine composer but that isn't enough to pass his music as 'Romanian' as his titles suggest. As for Janine Jensen I maintain that she'd be lost if faced with the challenge of playing Hora Staccato, Hora Martisorului, Ciocirlia oe any of the many Real Romanian pieces.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
@oneoctavelow objective and perfect comment.
MrFefefofo 1 year ago
@thatonemusickid ... as a means of educating yourself on what real Romanian music sounds like why not listen to the few pieces i recommended ? you'll find them on you tube. You'll also find that almost all Romanian music uses subtle micro-tones, very fast trills mashed into what can be defined as 'specifically Romanian'. Janine is trained in the west, true Romanian music is beyond her abilities, trust me. Its not an insult, its a fact.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
@thatonemusickid
you are right.This is a very refined music,it is wonderful and exprimes the most traditional romanian folklor (I'm a romanian ,ex folkroric dancer for a period of 5 years).
Corall17 11 months ago
The best performance on the net!
onnoman 1 year ago
Lol, i thought i did a good job on the third part until hearing how she played it. I thought mine sounde dlike a whistle but hers...amazing...looks like i'm going back to practicing it;p
kelric6 1 year ago
I loved playing this on my viola and for orchestra <3
Koinuchan13 1 year ago
amazing!
thenaiverabbit 1 year ago
True Romanian music for the violin ? No problem. Search ' ion voicu ' then click on 'hora martisorului '. You'll hear pure virtusic Romanian music the way it should be played. Mind you it's very technically demanding I doubt that Janine Jensen could keep up - much easier to 'impress' with the likes of Bartok.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
I remember whilst studying music at a conservatorium here in the West the lecturer brought a map of my country Romania with Hungarian names for the towns and villages to show the class where Bartok was born. Bartok is a fine composer but he does not write Romanian music any more than Bizet writes Spanish or Monti - Hungarian.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
Seriously I too composed a piece for orchestra entitled Romanian Dance, if you could be bothered you can find it by searching 'dorin baragan' it will at least sound truly Romanian :-)
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
His compositions are heavely Hungarian flavoured, if anything they relate to Hungarian- Transilvania not main stream Romanian folklore (ie Wallahia, Moldova) To a Romanian born there are far better examples of good Romanian music like G. Enescu for instance with his Romanian Rhapsody in A op. 11 or see Grigoras Dinicu. Bartok has as much relevance to through Romanian music as Monti has to the Czardas.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
Nicely played...a little exagerated at times but it'll pass especially for a non-Romanian audience. I wonder why people (music lovers) view Bartok as the primary figure responsible for bringing Romanian music to the West.
oneoctavelow 1 year ago
Very nicely done!
ladynerva 1 year ago
Pure genius! She's all passion.
kastrapo 1 year ago
I used to play this live with band a long time ago...electric guitar, piano, drums and bass...that was wild !
splankhoon 1 year ago
gives me goosebumps. no. gives me serious goosebump-muscle-ache.
lnyitrai 1 year ago
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Bagas 1 year ago
I'm playing these dances at my lessons. They're beautiful, fun to play too. She's good.
spongeyruler 1 year ago
Dear octaviannatea, what makes you say this about Hungarians? Have you had bad experiences? I could list a few things that we have produced... And what did we steal, if I may ask you? From whom did we steal? Today Hungary's territory is 66% less than it used to be, so who steals?
robhighnam 1 year ago
@robhighnam just because people took back what was rightfully theirs
octaviannatea 1 year ago
@octaviannatea You are either a little fascist or know very little about history (or probably both given your comments). Even if it were true what you are saying, there was nothing like "taking back", it was "taken away", and there is a difference.
On the other note, pray tell us, have you ever read, listened to anything Hungarian? By the way, nomad ancestors? Well, I suppose, Huns and Skitas were all that, but just to remind you, the panties you are wearing at the moment are coming from them..
ladynerva 1 year ago
to routila1: you are an idiot, my dear friend!
octaviannatea 1 year ago
@octaviannatea everything you Hungarians have to boast about is taken from other peoples: Gipsy music, Romanian dances, Austrian glory,etc. Is there anything that you yourselves ever produced? I'm afraid there isn't... oh, one thing you have, the custom inherited from your nomad ancestors: to steal things from other people and declare them your own.
octaviannatea 1 year ago
Bartók Béla was born in Hungary. When he was born, Transylvania and other parts belong to Hungary. In Hungary was lived by many nations. And the hungarian music was played mostly by gypsies, because they were the "musicians", and the music was mixed. But Bartók Béla was a hungarian man, and composer and his music based on hungarian!!!!!!! music.
SzabadiBracsa 1 year ago
wow beautiful!
yscslim 1 year ago
This is so crazy and intense.
nicoeetsdolphins 1 year ago
Amazing. What an incredible setting to both hear and play this piece.
Her dress fluttering in the breeze during the third movement at around 1:50 matches the mood and the music perfectly.
chappinger12 1 year ago
appreciate your wisdom Sir,after you..the Demons,whatsoever,then your Country of..from here from Norway still as a misery!!!
routila1 1 year ago
Éljes sokáá Bélaaa !!!
drcsigusz 1 year ago
she is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo great! omg! i wish i could play like u! u go girl! :). im also playing this song!
gogobananas98 1 year ago
I think Bartok Bela was a great Hungarian Musician and he made a great collection of Hungarian folk song and the minorities of Hungary. Romanians have to be grateful to Bartok'sand his work. Hungary is a great power of music and culture of Central Europe and for all Carpathian Basin.
DavidItzak 1 year ago 2
@DavidItzak
you can't generalize,even it is true.
Why do romanians must thank to all? Romanian have them own wonderful culture,folklore and folkloric music,their oun traditions. :) .As al balkanic countries and not at all.
Corall17 11 months ago
@Corall17 Romania is not a balkanic country geographically only by some influences in culture and traditions
wh1r6h1l 7 months ago
@wh1r6h1l geographically talking ,my dear ,the regions are not including countries,but are including parts,lands .The borders of the countries are artificially created by us,people. Regions = exactly what you see influenced by a specific way.Balkanic regions not includes the whole Romania,but includes the Southern part of Romania.
Corall17 6 months ago
@Corall17
Not even that. Only Dobrudja is technically in the Balkans.
PsYychH0 6 months ago
@Corall17 Corall, "my dear", the Balkans end and are delimited by the Danube river ''regionally". Romania's southern border is the Danube. Of course that balkanic influences exist in the shole country but Romania is not a balkanic country not even the Southern part.
wh1r6h1l 5 months ago
Yowzah!
seattlegrrlie 1 year ago
me encanta como ella toca!!! no hay cosa que haya escuchado de ella que no me guste! sus interpretaciones son fabulosas, y esta no es la excepcion!!! me encanta!!!!
Sipuviolin 1 year ago
magnificant!
speechless...
LilGugz 1 year ago
There is a feeling like I have not taken the life .. and yet gives me the feeling of strength to take it ... thanks to this man for so great compositions, and this woman who plays with such passion .... thanks
darkchater 1 year ago 11
Cool!
TheJackaback 1 year ago
yep!
lomalinda77 1 year ago
Those violin players like this girl, and not least the compsers of such music are gifts from god, nothing more and nothing less..
onnoman 1 year ago
she plays so well. I am playing this piece too. i will never get it as good as her!
goraffles 1 year ago
I wish I was there
kryzang 1 year ago
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whatta coupl of dorks
oldlondononion 1 year ago
I think he meant, that most of romania's territory belonged to Hungary for a thousand year.
bferi 1 year ago
transylvania was hungarian until TURKISH CONQUER OF HUNGARY after that was and independent state under turkish suzeranity or part of austro-mongolian empire,but much more of austrians because you were just a bunch of slaves and austrian lickers
alegsandru 1 year ago
Congratulations on your very intelligent comment...
I hope some day you will see "this" detachedly and will admit that you were wrong.
bferi 1 year ago
occupied? what? are you that stupid? Oh my God!
Learn some history please! TRUE history... Not what they teach you in romania...
Ahh. Dögöljetek meg ti szőröstalpúak!
bferi 1 year ago
wow her harmonics are perfect
Sylfira 1 year ago
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Jarminaa 1 year ago
The third movement (Standing Still) is the most eery piece of music I have ever heard. For me it's a toss up between this movement and the fourth.
smartinnyc 1 year ago
Wow!!
atomicage0021 1 year ago
El estilo de interpretacion es "occidental", distinto del estilo de interpretacion que uno ve y escucha en los violinistas gitanos. Pero ambos modos son validos,pues estan permeados por la cultura distinta ,que nae de una vision de mundo distinta. Por otra parte esta pieza no es gitana, es rumana.
JorPove 1 year ago
2.50, I love this melody. Great music.
Simbi0tica 1 year ago
she's pretty good
musicstarlove 2 years ago
I think Katica Illenyi is much better.
777Jubilee153 2 years ago
I am a Hungarian music teacher, and I have a few comments to make. This performance is too sentimental and there is too much unnecessary movement. It has nothing to do with the concept of simple peasants
playing folk music. The way they play is kind of rigid and very simple fiddle playing. Less would be more in this case. Otherwise listening to her music is good. It would be perfect for the radio.
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