SummerFest 2007: Brahms' Sextet No. 2 in G Major

[VespasianMusic]

What a marvelous performance!  Thank-you.

[noahfranz]

Bravo Jimmy Lin and friends!! Great performance

[aykhwang]

Performance at 4:22

[safiresafire1]

This is spectacular.

[xultradragonslayerx]

VIOLAS ARE HUUUUUUUGE!!!!!

[xultradragonslayerx]

4:22

[HBerlioz007]

Très belle interprétation, très vivante.

[rockboy482]

Good on you for deleting all the abusive comments, it's a brilliant performance that few people could replicate, nice work!

[shosshos]

Great performance! We can find a lot of enjoyments of chamber music from this performance.

[violabrain]

It's a good performance that has past. Just enjoy it and keep your disputes about aesthetics to yourself. It's not going to affect the performance, is it?

[Esmeraldaviolin]

Intensive performance! Love, Esmeralda.

[maxreger100]

Very sad to see the ugly, inexcusable comments about Alisa Weilerstein. Many may not realize that her father is Donald, famed violinist and one of the founders of the greatly missed Cleveland Quartet. He too "emotes" when he plays but, just like his equally talented daughter, it all translates into great music making.

Hope she never sees such trash being tossed around so cavalierly.

[1brewski2]

@maxreger100

Just for me, the younger the performer, the more they seem to move. It's especially noticeable in European orchestras below the highest level. Styles, tastes change.

[ipmoic]

@1brewski2 There is truth in what you say, but almost all truly musical artists move with the music in a kind of dance of expression. Young artists often overly do so--sometimes to the detriment of what is coming through their instruments. But so much the better for their enthusiasm! In time, the movements will decrease, but not to the point of woodenness or static positioning.

[1brewski2]

@ipmoic I'm not being serious, but when I listen to a Heifetz recording, he seems to move just fine. (He was stiff as a board during performances, for you youngsters) When I see an entire string section swaying wildly, I have to keep from chuckling. It just didn't happen, way back when.

[ipmoic]

@1brewski2 But even Heifetz, who some think of as being stiff, cold or uninvolved, moves to the music as well. This is especially true in his chamber music playing. Listen to the 3rd movement of the Mendelssohn e minor Trio (Here on YouTube as presented by @Johnnyangel) There is charming physical involvement and interplay between all 3, joined by masters Piatigorsky and Rubinstein.

[ulyssesjj]

Great performance!!



[cellolove7]

hey, is that alisa weilerstein?

[somaliayaswan]

one of my favourite piece. Thanks for the entire program.

[dtchowhk]

Great, I love it.

[chillidahwg]

amazing!

[rgxb2807]

I may have watched this 30 times at this point. Thanks.

[Rocket7910]

This piece is amazing!! There are passages that are so delicate and pensive, and others more Brahmsian. Very different in character from most of what else I've heard of the composer in a refreshing way. Very skillful performance! Love the scherzo!

[julianobedient]

how nasty, vulgar, and incivil a comment. perhaps you ought to pay more attention to your own faults right now than to the purported faults of others.

do you like the music?

[violinguy123]

Wow. What an amazing commenter you are! I am wowed by your skill in spelling, vocabulary, and deep musical insights into Brahms. I'm sure you are a wonderful, even brilliant cellist as well. When I make comments in the future, I will be sure to follow this model: Insult, swear, use terrible terrible grammar, have no idea how to listen to music, use too many exclamation points, ignore other comments asking you questions, and generally be a complete asshole. Rinse and repeat.

Dick.

[svejelka]

oh please, correct my grammar, i want to learn saint language of english because it's above all others on the world.

[Epmonito]

@julianobedient Who are you referring to?

[woof3x]

@julianobedient "uncivil" is the word. don't be so self-righteous that you forget to use english words correctly.

[nidame14]

I think, you're stupid. She is one of the great cellist of today. You can see her on youtube in the kodaly sonata.You will understand your mistake!

[zuzzita]

beautiful

[inavla]

Mostly comments about interpreters. How they move, how they are looking "positive" or not, how they express or not their feelings, etc... What about Brahms ?

[bagradian]

Sehr schöne Darbietung: Ausgeglichen, atmend und an den richtigen Stellen zupackend.

Vielen Dank für den upload!!! Mehr davon?

[Blacktony86]

Oh that man in a black suit, he is very positive)

[grandeodalisque]

Jim Dunham without a beard - I can't handle it!!

[Segis84]

"The music has to possess you" - one way of putting it, I'd say you have to be one with the music - but if you by "possess" mean people acting like they were going to explode, then I can't agree. Some people just concentrate so hard they don't realise what they're doing when they play, but some people actually move and act so much the audience can't concentrate on the music.

[charith]

ali's pizzes almost make me cry

[scythe1082]

Inspirational performance

[Soulill0quy]

James Dunham's viola is ginormous!

[amarinswierdsma]

I really love this piece!!!

I'm so glad i'm going to play it this summer!

[sebgereda]

Increíble, esta es una de las mejores obras que he escuchado para mùsica de cámara.

[krneel128]

I love the mellifluous euphony that is the 3rd movement.

[bach16]

I really enjoyed this.I have played the first movement and seeing others play it can really help me evaluate how I play it.

[funnyviolist]

This was an extraordinarily beautiful performance.

...and James Dunham's viola is amazing.

[sarsTOTHEmax]

i thought this was reaaaally good...

i would have put the cellos on the outside though, because i think viola 1 needs to sit beside the violins, and viola 2 needs to be beside cello 2... and does 2nd cello realise she's second cello and she's not actually playing a cello concerto?

other than that i loooooved it! :)

[bach16]

I think that is just the way that she plays with energy. She is very musical. Her other videos on youtube are like that too. Alisa Weilerstein.

[Alpauber]

come on. That´s not "energy", but useless and annoying overacting in the typical female style. I myself am a woman cellist and hate that. watch disgusting Jaqueline Du Pre, she is well known only for that and being totally nuts!!

[Segis84]

I'd have to agree. You can play without moving around like crazy. I go insane in concerts when I see that kind of players...

[ingwis]

On the other side of things, if someone doesn't move at all, it seems like they're not into it..I'd rather watch someone who looks really engaged.

[AXESHREDDER21]

o u mean the kind of players that put every inch of their soul into the music? the music has to posses you or else how is it to impact your audience

[charith]

forget the faces and "overacting". just listen to the sound.

[bastianloewe]

what is wron with you?? any musiscian wuld be remember as jaqueline du pre is just becasue of moving!,you can talk about vengerv maybe, and repeat it maybe, but jaqueline du pre is just a genius and probably one of the ebst cellist of the past century

[kgskaug]

We played Brahms' sextet #1 with the seating arrangement Vln1 - Vla1 - Vcl1 - Vcl2 - Vla2 - Vln2. Worked very well for us.