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  • i love her passion! this is one of my my three faverite violin concertos.thanks for sharing!

  • Such poise and passion for a young lass!!! What a joy to watch her so freely express herself. :) Pura vida!!!!!

  • The best recording of Bruch ever!!!!!!!!! BRAVO, MS. CHUNG!!!!!

  • the audio and video don't match up, but nice job.

  • 34 people like Hilary Hahn.

  • 한귝인의 졍이 느껴지네요 !!

  • The best recording of Bruch's concerto. Bravo, Ms. Chung!

  • @sonoscian False, sir.

  • 막스 부르흐는 정경화를 위해 이 곡을 작곡한 듯 열정적이고 파워플하며, 예리한 지성이 연주자의 음악적 감성을 자극하여 웅장함과 거대함으로 이곡을 해석하고 연출하여 지휘자와 심포니단원들을 리더해 가는군요. 언제들어도 가슴이 터질듯이 뭉클한 감동이있어 좋고요, 달리는 차안에서 시디로만 감상하다 직접 연주하는 모습을 보니 감동이 헤아릴 수 없이 더 밀려 오네요. 동영상 올려 주신분에게도 감사....그리고 몇년전 필라델피아 오케스트라와 협연하던 정경화님의 모습도 보기 좋았지만 젊은 연주자의 모습은 더 더욱 아름답습니다. 브라보!

  • Una exquisitez de Kyung Wha Chung !!!!!

  • @frankcisyarmi es impresionante, gracias por el nombre de la violinista.

  • 情感たっぷりでいいですね。

  • Such emotion! The first time I watched this version last year I really didn't like it...I thought it was a little overdone. But today I watched it again it is so wonderful and brilliant. She definitely put her heart into it!!

  • 33 Rebecca Black fans

  • In what year was this filmed? She is much younger here. And I agree with everyone else; this recording of the Bruch is AMAZING. I'm learning this. :)

  • @FeliciaMirage Do you have a video of yourself playing through this movement? I played through it all myself and recorded myself...the video is at mystudio.net. But I made several mistakes, maybe you can play it better than I can. I'm confused on some parts of it...:-/

  • @zucchini2007 Hey zucchini2007, I do not have a recording yet, but if you're taking lessons, be sure to tell your teacher that you have need help, and your teacher will always help you (that's what they're there for, right?). I'll try and find your video on mystudio.net.

    Hope this helps!

    -Felicia Mirage

  • Su papada me da miedo :"(

  • oh my god. she's fantastic! the best ive ever heard in my opinion (on bruch). wow!

  • God, I love watching her play! Such power, such majesty! The music ain't half bad, either!

    ;0)

  • I think i like the one where she played it with another orchestra when she was older.... i guess more experience made it better... XD

    go check it out! sth about prom 2002...? ;p

  • Her reaction to the music is so weird! She moves too much!

  • @tlcooper93 agreed. Chung has a lot to say in her interpretation of this piece, and I enjoyed listening. and @SuperZingala, in the video of Perlman I watched on YouTube, he was actually a little sharp. Perfection is a tall order. Why not just enjoy the music? After all, this iS music, not purely an intonation contest. Music goes far beyond the technicalities.

  • I apologise if I have made people a little feisty. I just am merely stating the fact she is out of tune. For example, 1:30 - 1:32 and even more so 1:47- 1:50. The runs are so as to speak, run over, brushed over like it just don' matter - or like a steam train (which i have noted squeals at an A). If you listen to Perlman do it, he nails EVERY single note. She is just simply not the best. And the best should be reserved for this kind of calibre of music

  • @SuperZingala u'd better check your ear. may filed with wax.

    or ur computer probably off tuned, upgrade it.

    k chung is one of the top violinist in history. you dear evaluate her? come on!!

  • @SuperZingala Ok I can see where you are coming from but if you listen close she has a rather wide vibrato which in my opinion fits it well. I imagine Pablo de sarasate (for who it was written for) playing this. I don't think you can sit there and try to judge her when you probably are not at her level.

  • @SuperZingala Ok I can see where you are coming from but if you listen close she has a rather wide vibrato which in my opinion fits it well. I imagine Pablo de sarasate (for who it was written for) playing this. I don't think you can sit there and try to judge her when you probably are not at her level. Just saying and I am not saying you are not a great musician perhaps she does alot of these things on purpose I hear alot of things I have heard her do in her other recordings of this piece.

  • @YNGVIRTUOSOVIOLIST

    This concerto was not written for Sarasate.

  • @SuperZingala Surely, intonation is not the only thing one looks out for in violin playing?

  • @violinmusicfan I agree. However, intonation is merely the first step, and I think out of tune notes can easily ruin a performance. If I was listening to a performance with BAD intonation, I wouldn't bother listening any more.

    That said, this is performance was certainly not ruined by a few out of tune notes. On the contrary, it has a fire that is unmatched.

  • she is awesome

  • ...I don't understant why JJ, Kyung Wha Chung, Joshua Bell move so much. And this performance is not exceptional ><

  • Virtuoso!

  • You can hear all her arpeggio's are out of tune *cringe*. Tuning is fundemantal to all music, she obviously shouldn't be playing this music!!! Although i do admit her interpretaion is quite good. (by the way i think this would be better as a bagpipe solo without the drone)

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  • @SuperZingala Her arpeggios are not out of tune. She performed this piece accurately and authentically. And bagpipes? Really? You're talking about butchering one of the greatest violin concertos ever written... Leave violin concertos to violinists please.

  • @SuperZingala LOL. Bruch to bagpipes...and LOL @ she shouldn't be playing this music. You know nothing!

  • @SuperZingala You are out of tune

  • @fusa1290 can you do it better ?

  • @YNGVIRTUOSOVIOLIST Me? "SuperZingala" says she's out of tune not me.

  • @YNGVIRTUOSOVIOLIST sorry fusa

  • This is the BEST rendition of this Bruch concerto I've ever heard! Other violinists rush through it, but she respects the time signature and plays it at the exact tempo in which it was written. And unlike Hahn, she puts so much FEELING into every single note she plays! Bruch wrote this piece for her, she OWNS this concerto!

  • Absolutely gorgeous and pure perfection! I'm crying

  • One of my favorite violinists!! I played this couple of months ago and I failed but this video inspired me to try again. I decided to pay close attention and copy her phrasing. Helped me out so much!!! Thank you for posting this!!

  • What was the year?

  • Her right hand is interesting to watch especially with her 4th finger remaining off the frog much of the time.  I think it is a good idea to watch her elbow because there is an economy of movement which moves allows for a lot of precision in her bowng and then her right hand grip balances it out to allow for total freedom of movement.

  • @gutlover33uk Stfu, racist asshole! If she is so mechanical, then why is she considered an aritistic genius by those who know about vilolin hellavu lot more than you, idiot!

  • @gutlover33uk Who the hell do you think you are.

  • @gutlover33uk It's just her.

  • 31 people can't play the violin.

  • Why is this moron refusing to put up the second movement?????? Someone should send a posy out after him.

  • One fine day somebody is going to post the second movement of this and become a youtube hero.

  • Whoever doesn't like this is just jealous. lol

  • hmm used to be synched before but seems like it's not synched anymore.. amazing violinist... but the video is hundred years old... lol..

  • Where's the second movement of this performance?

  • my greatest disapointment is that this beautiful video ends before the magic is over

  • Kyung is the only virtuoso that I have heard, that aims to capture what she thinks is the true meaning of any given piece, and changes her sounds accordingly. If you listen to her recording of the Mendelssohn concerto, you hear the deep emotion that she is communicating. But if listen to this concerto, you hear her intense virtuosity. To completely different sounds

  • Bruch superb piece of music you wrote .  Kyung Wha Chung is beautiful violinist. I appreciate fine human endeavor , knowing that it takes talent and

    needless to say superlative effort to rise above mediocrity to be the virtuoso violinist for which this piece is written.

  • she is beautiful!!

    but her music is, well, okay,..not amazing....she has a very personal style~

    how old is she she looks like she has wrinkles:) lol...where is this?

  • @CalebsFans If you want to know abt her just google her name and you will know who is this gr8 person.

  • @CalebsFans ..."well, okay,...not amazing...". She is one of the world's premier players. And who are you? And it's not her music. It's her rendition.

  • she does look scary omg! but i still love her sooo much! and she is sooo fuckig great (sorry for saying FUCKING) ahahaha

  • Such conviction and passion!!!! Such a wonderful tone and such a touching, sensitive musicality to go along with all that emotion....... this performance by a truly great violinist is completely thrilling and VERY satisfying. Thanks for posting it: you've made my day :-+).

  • My favourite recording of this piece ^

    ASDFGHJKL I'M LEARNING IT RIGHT NOW IT'S SOOOO MUCH FUN THANK YOU Kyung Wha Chung for inspiring me :D

  • I'm playing this for a high school orchestra audition. Thank god you can choose a part you want to play. The last solo part is the only part that's been killing me... and Thank you for the video! It helped me a lot with intonation!

  • her physical movements are scary... O.o

  • wow! 6:00 has to be one of my favourite 'moments' in music :)

  • My dear friend, Margot Davis, introduced me to Bruch's wonderful music many years ago. She was tragically lost to us, with many others, aboard an Air Rhodesia airliner in 1979. But whenever I hear this glorious concerto she's as alive and sparkling in my mind as she was the very last time I saw her. Margot would have loved Miss Chung's superb rendition. May I thank you, seungtaik, for taking the time to bring us such an inspiring version of Bruch's masterpiece? I'll come back to it often.

  • Holy Mackrel !

  • Lezare I would just go for it, paganini is great used as an etude, I guess you could use that to help you with the tchaik, and if it's to tough youll know cuz you will probably just give up on it..lol but if you really like what your playing then it should not be a problem just know it wont happen over night, with enough time anythings possible.

  • Excellent performance!

    I could tell that she was really feeling the music, which is often hard to find in young performers... or any performers.

    Esp. on the violin. ;)

  • i love watching her little finger :D it always goes up. beautiful performance!

  • If I have just performed lalo symphonie espagnole, how long to play this? Just to scale, I ve beenplaying 4 4 years. That's my progress. How long till bazzini elf dance and Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Paganini concertos?please answer

  • @lezare2012

    for 1st movement, it is not hard in technical means. If you can play the whole Lalo, bruch 1st mvt is a piece of cake for you. Yet the 3rd movement will be a bit challenging.

  • It depends upon how quickly you progress.

    But I'd guess that your next piece would be either this or Mendelssohn.

    Unless you haven't done Mozart yet.

    Tchaikovsky and Dvorak come later, and then Paganini concertos.

  • People! Let's appreciate bruchs music! No matter what you think, this is still my favorite concerto and favorite representation of it! I think she did great.

  • this is a great performance, but i felt that it was way too edgy for my taste.

  • too stilted a performance

  • i like the way she plays, because she's pretty. i know...what a stupid thing to say. but her intonation is sloppy in sections

  • People, stop saying synthetic. It's sympathetic.

    4:53 Tiny mess up. That's the hardest part.

  • Oohh yeah i noticed that. do you know how old she was when she performed this?

  • @violin12395 She would have been in her 20's at the time of this performance.

  • @violin12395 : It must be recorded in 70's. She was the 2nd place at Tchaikovsky Competition without 1st place then. The thing was, back then, USSR had not given 1st, 2nd or 3rd place to any Asian or American due to political reason. It was a cold war time. I remember that's why her news was such a big thing to Koreans then. Her bother and sister are all well-known musicians as well. Personally, my favorite piece of hers is this one.

  • @grimsarang

    she won leventritt with zukerman

    jennifer koh won 2nd tchaikvsky with anastasis

  • Ugly is subjective.

  • @7410n0 Thank you for that. The person above you is not likely a cultured person or open-minded. (I like how you did not smack him in the face for it though, so to speak.)

  • @Tempestflare04 You're welcome. ^_^

  • freeqwerqwer isn't very attractive either, why don't you change it?

  • why are u guys arguing over a g string. for pete's sake

  • I think that Bruch composed this movement with the open G string in mind and is meant to be played without a "synthetic vibratto".

  • I can feel it...I just...and totally, love it!!!

  • amazing. how young is she here? ms chung has remained one of the all time soloists displaying great consistency and incr matuirity in her playing over the decades

  • You vibrate open strings by vibrating the note an octave above it.

  • she is vibrating on the D string to make it sound like she is vibrating the open G. Since its such a long note you don't want it to be just a plain G.

  • Can someone please explain why she does a vibrato motion with her left hand on the first note which an open G string?

  • That's how you actually vibrate the open G; through resonance.

  • I think that's because she wants to make it vibrate... o.o

  • Obviously it's not possible to use vibrato on an open string. However, it's quite normal to produce a similar effect applying the vibrato to a note that is an octave higher than the open string, in this case the higher G on the D string.

  • you can vibrato on an open string by using your 3rd finger and doing the vibrato on the string next to it (D string)

  • by fingering a G on the D- string and vibrating, you produce a vibrato on the G- string

  • Sympathetic vibrato on the G on the D string allows the open G string to play with a vibrato tone as well.

  • she is using synthetic vibrato. by placing her third finger on the d string (making that note a g one octave higher than the g string), playing an open g will then vibrate the d string for the note g. vibrating that third finger on the d will generate a similar effect to vibrato.

  • as i understand it is that ... if you do a wide vibrato on the g note on the d string ,first position while bowing on the open g it will catch the undertone and make a vibrato effect

  • It's called ghost vibrato. You put your finger on the d-string where the 3rd finger g and vibrato while playing the open g. it actually gives it a more resonant tone!

  • no surprise. harmonics resonate.

  • If you have your finger on the d string where the octave of g is, it creates a more resonant sound and has some vibrato as well.

  • well, she isn't vibrating on the g string because its an open string.

    However, she vibrates on the D string to still make the open G string vibrate with it. Try it :)

    I vibrate the G string to, and it sounds much better than just a plain old G string. If you add vibration to the D string (don't play it though!), the G string will vibrate with it :)

  • It allows for some vibration on the open string. That way that open G is not so static. I know, it seems weird. She is essentially playing the open G string while vibrating the G on the D string.....I've been told to do it in the past too...I hope this helps. :)

  • because it gets the instrument to vibrate, which makes the illusion that she is able to vibrate on an open g

  • well, she does that to make the g string vibrate. It actually works! because the g string is an open string, it does not vibrate itself. but if you vibrate silently on the d string without playing it, then the g string will vibrate too, which makes it sound better :)

    p.s. i already wrote a reply, but i dont think it got posted... since i don't see it xD

  • @musicdevotee4life I'm not a string musician, but this seems an interesting technique. =)

  • Awesome!

    So passionate and beautiful.

  • I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!! pleasepleasepleasepleasePLEEAA­SSE post the second movement!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this concerto is the best concerto of all time!! especially when Kyung Wha Chung plays it!!!!!!

  • This is one of my favorite violin concertos to listen to. Such an emotional piece!

  • 1st rate

  • A little bit of intonation discrepancies but i think this is one of the best renditions of Bruch's concerto. So passionate and beautful.

  • she really captures the razor sharpness of this concerto, and what a perfect instinct in timing!!

  • she really captures the razor sharpness of this concerto.

  • ¡Qué pasada! Quizá sea más perfecta o más clásica la interpretación de Itzhak Perlman, pero me gusta mucho más la pasión que le pone la coreana. Una interpretación más nerviosa, más caliente. La locura.

  • Awesome! That orchestral fanfair at 5:10- 6:30 is the high-light of the piece for me. Just WOW!

  • I dont think I have ever heard a better bruch

  • Made me cry, so passionate, so painfully edgy.

  • She play very well. This lady should be one of the Greatest violinist's.

  • she is

  • you got it.

  • amazingly beautiful even though at 4 .53 theres a little gasp..

  • Her interpretations are always perfect within her limitation given that she never could complete her record on Bach's Unaccompanied Violin Suites.

    Could be described as 'torrid passion' in comparison with Jascha Heifetz's 'frosty passion'.

  • She wanted to but she had a finger injury.

  • anyone notice that Bjork's "5 Years" seems to reference this piece? watch?v=l6aB_BcnJNA

    both are beautiful..

  • she seems to enjoy it so much! by looking at her playing, I feel so happy too..

  • exactly.

  • wow...her playing is like penetrating razor sharp...

  • Very nice playig! Bravo! and Thanks for sharing this video. :D

  • She's a godess! How can one play this well? Precise and passionate!

  • took the words out of my mouth!

  • 5:10 - 5:29 wow intense stuff...

  • zdecydowanie kawałek od 5:09! mój ulubiony moment! jest cudowny! a później orkiestra tak nieziemsko gra :)

  • i love her playing..

  • 5:25 - 6:30 is my favorite! even though its not much of the solo i think the orchestra does a fantastic job at playing that section

  • very nice, i wish i had a violin like this one... coz this violin seems expensive..awesome music sweetheart....

  • wow....one of my favorite performances of hers. quite amazing. very powerful

  • amazing just amazing. her face expressions are just epic. shows such rapture..!

  • bravo, tiene energía, sensibilidad, se me ponen los pelos de punta, magistral.

  • i love the song but sometimes i hear her play but i didnt see her bow on the string... must just b the orchestra...

  • hi flori; that is audio-video unsychronized, means video data is not quite fast enough to transmit becasuse of huge data bites.

  • Undoubtedly some lack of synchronism between video and audio, which is so common in tv, dvd, video etc. The performance is pretty fine, and such a thing (the orchestra "filling" or "hiding" lacks or mistakes of a virtuoso) is almost impossible to happen. At least "live" they wouldn´t do this!!! Cool. She´s pretty good.

  • for me the best and great concert for violin. incredible amazing and another adjectives of excellence!

  • I love the performance and all the musicians are sound great... but does anyone think the accompainment Bruch composed is a little dull???

  • absolutely not

  • So this is a different style of violin concerto. Some call this style more appropriately a violin sonatina which is indeed a recitative recital of the violin and therefore to those who expect a more coherent movement this would sound very "dull".

  • yeah. but i didn't really notice it. i noticed the soloist. i think that's what he intended personally.

  • no, its my Favorite interlude of all at 5:29!!!

  • Does "dull" for you mean "melancholic" or "monotonous"? The whole concert has much of melancholy and Bruch had himself perhaps a bit, just a little of silly or joking. Just this. He maybe "played the fool", but was great, in my opinion.

  • Did I send my answer to you? Sometimes I lose writings here, due to problems in sites or in the pc. I couldn´t really listen to this performance above, for example, due to many stops, certainly a trouble in the video or in the pc.

    Anyway your question doesn´t have connection with these troubles. I can see NOTHING of dull in Bruch´s concert. BTW, what does "dull" really mean to you? Bruch was just different, made it different, played it different. So his concert is a must, but different. OK?

  • 01:02 to 02:41 was my fave!

  • I grew up listening to her 30+ years ago. What a legend she is! I've listened to tons of Bruch violin concerto #1 recordings by different violinists, to me, this concerto is kind of like it was written for her. It doesn't matter at all to me, if there is any flaws when she plays Bruch, because she is the only person I felt "just right" for Bruch and have the most desire to listen and watch how she interprets it. i.e. the same situation to me for Elgar's cello concerto interpreted by Du Pre.

  • there are some moments kyung wha chung's violin and the orchestra don't match. Kyung wha's violin is awesome, but I think the orchestra lack conpetence to follow her in harmony.

  • awesome!

    i like this song :]

  • To me there are moments when she makes the violin sing, and it sings with such clarity, and intense emotion that I feel as though I want to cry, then there are the passages where she makes the violin scream and shout, with such frustration and angst...all of which she expresses on her face....This is (in my own opinion) my absolute favourite recording of this piece...

    Thank you for posting it...

  • i totally agree! :D

  • Yes thanks for posting, this is my 2nd favourite violin concerto after the 2nd Violin Concerto of Bruch, which in my opinion is a sadly neglected work.

    This certainly is a fabulous version, I seem to remember that Andre Previn helped Kyung Wha Chung become well known. He is a very talented guy who is equally at home playing jazz or Gershwin on the piano.

    Can someone please download the Bruch 2nd Violin Concerto onto You Tube?

  • yeah...none of the other violinists who have done this can match her =)

  • something about this sounds so much more urgent and passionate...

    wow =)

  • amazing!

  • How good is it you are playing Bruch now at 14 when six months ago you were playing La Follia by Corelli?

  • I mean, Kyung Wha Chung!

  • Amazing!

  • 와우~~ 멋져요!

  • the Bruch's birth is wrong. not 1883 but 1838. Kyung wha chang who is professor of Juliard is my one of the most proud person who are korean.

  • !exelente!

  • wow! It will take a while till I can play it this well....if ever

  • What year was this? She is so petite it is hard to judge how old she might have been. Wonderful presentation of Bruch!

  • You can see her passion for the music in her expression at 2:26!

    Bravo, Kyung Wha Chung!! You still remain as my favorite violinist through all these years :D

  • really amazing!

  • That is played with amazing interpretation and expressivity!!!!!!!!!! from an 8-year od pianist