Carmen Fantasie by George Gao,Chinese violin-Erhu

[SirDruhHu]

I have this DVD! Woot!

[nikosenna]

音色和技巧自然是炉火纯青，更欣赏的是表演，恰恰好

[efiddle]

This is young George, not too passionate , but very skillful, have not heard anyone play this good rendition on erhu. Our class was in one of his US clinic in Alabama few years back, he is very passionate about teaching the children, he is a great educator.

[loskar777]

que lejanas parecen las "lecciones" que dió Isaac Stern a los chinos en "De Mao a Mozart" no?

[YKC005]

Erhu is originally not a Chinese intrument!

[gariadara]

@YKC005 Almost none of the Chinese instruments were indigenous to the Chinese civilization. Erhu came from central asia. Pipa is brought from Persia, dulcimer is also persian. the shakuhachi type flutes that the japanese copied were supposedly from the Hmong minority. Pretty much only the zither type intruments, the dizi, and the vertical end-blown flute, and the taiko-type (introduced to japan from china) drums were invented by Chinese.

[Amarynthine]

WHAT@!@@@ o its difficult enough on the violin, and now this .... this

[kczapper]

Erhu is probably the most expressive instument ever created. By the Chinese of course.

[StarAll4life]

yes

[SweetClara99]

I saw him play the Galloping Horses in Bowfire show in Reno last weekend.... believe me he is NOT robotic! Full of passion, humor, skill.... truely amazinK my dears!

[Violinvillian]

there are some pretty crazy humans on this planet ^^

[DrTanawat]

Wow. What an incredible sound unexpected to come from just one instrument one man!!!

[olipippocinque]

fantastic !!!!!!!!! bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sandrofon]

Awesome!!!

The only thing I don't like very much is that midi sound in the accompaniment... anyway, Bravo!

[cyberac]

Holy crap!! It's hard enough to play this piece on 4 strings (violin), he's only got 2!! Simply amazing!

[Henriettaness]

he looks almost robotic.lol. amazing

[kristy2301]

amazing :D

[yuanyi1993]

二胡拉的卡门的确别有一番滋味。真是太不可思议了！

[ThR3742]

Absolument fantastique !

[guddobala]

WOW Great and perfect sound

[serene06]

is there any full version of Carmen fantasy played by George Gao on youtube?really wanna listen to the full one especially the first part which is my favourite part of all but couldnt find it!

[serene06]

Oh God that is fantastic!

[axavba]

OMG

[iMeshug]

omg.

[Alosnup]

Extraordinary and perfect sound, I supose tht tha blame in on the player.

This fidle is still unknown to the rest of the world people

[Loryos]

wow!!! I"'m so much impressed!! exeptional intonation for an ehru! :O

[conanhide]

Great!!!!!!!!!

[WeeWyllie]

Wow, Ferdia! What set this off? I have re-read my inflammatory(???) posting but failed to locate the fuse. What would you have written if I hadn't liked Mr. Gao?

BTW, your invective would be more devastating if more of it were spelled correctly. Get your friends (if you haven't alienated them all) to help you. And after vomiting up this vitriol from God knows where, why offer up the apologies? But they are accepted; after all, you may have had a hellova day!

Happy Christmas.

[fuckapotomis]

Allow me to apologise for my previous harsh and uneccisary comments. I was briefly possesed by the Taliban and lost control of my motor nerves. Hence the brash comment. Your description of Mr.Gao was both informative and descriptive and above all, relevant and neccisary to this video. I'm so glad that an obviously cultured music Connoisseur such as yourself sir, was able to provide me and the wider youtube community with a description of Mr.Gao's character.

[fuckapotomis]

Needless to say despite not knowing your address i've sent you a medal in the post.

[WeeWyllie]

A couple of years ago I saw a George Gao concert in a small theatre just north of Toronto. Besides being an obvious virtuoso on the erhu, George is a delightful and unassuming man ... and a first-class entertainer.

[fuckapotomis]

Delightful and unasusuming? There was room for you in the holocaust.

Regretfully i see you didn't attend. You seem to be a pretencious cock. I hate you

Apologies

Ferdia

[Scrorpio]

lol troll

[killergirls]

He makes me wanna give up erhu! LOL!

[wilsontt88]

BRAVO!!!

[pikachoi2007]

superb. 5 stars here

[OopleMyFruit]

Lol so many notes are missing. :P

But whatever, that's really cool!  I've never seen that instrument before :)

[lunaticbiaatch]

off course man!!! he only has 2 strings~~ ... its really a good one!!

[vlnmusic]

chinese music has thousands years of history while european has only hundreds

[musicmatt09]

Lol. That's an ignorant comment.

[evanmk]

Oh, really? What about the Greeks? Romans? Fail.

[vlnmusic]

how about u do some research before u make  comment? google "bianzhong" its a chinese instrument invented hundreds of years before piano

[evanmk]

No, how about you do some research before you comment? Google "Seikilos epitaph." Fail.

[optimusito]

So what? doest it make the bianzhog superior than the piano?...vlnstupid

[FCUKunited]

well, actually, it was invented not only hundreds of years before the piano, nut also a couple hundred years before the Europeans knew good music, if any.

[georgioclooney]

Well to be fair, the Greeks and Romans have always had a different culture than the germanics and norse in the north, as well as a different racial composition. The romans had to force civilisation on them. And for some reason nowadays you will see the fair haired north europeans thinking they are superior south europeans.

However, vln's comment, I wont call ignorant, but very incindiary and provocative. Tactless. Instead of comparing the two wonderful cultures we should appreciate both.

[optimusito]

Shut up, snob! You are a one of thouse youtube-genius. Pfffffffffffffffff

[georgioclooney]

go sell some cocaine ;D

[pandaman0529]

no youre just one of those youtube dumbasses

[jasonmathias]

@georgioclooney What the hell? Northern Europeans and Southern Europeans. That's sounds far fetching. The Germanic tribes had their own civilization.

[jasonmathias]

@vlnmusic that is a false statement. Europe has thousands of years of musical history as well. Did you think that the monks just invited music for Europe? Cause European culture Stretches back thousands of years.

[kcvm16]

No way!  That's awesome!

[mimikucel]

he only need 2 strings to play it.

[dulcimoo]

And some of the notes are missing because of that. But that can be ignored ]:8)

[ScottMagnum357]

kid got mad skillz.

[youxieshi]

He is so cutem the player, he can profit this quality for his musique, :)

[Frogshirt]

Absolutely outstanding, quite the stamina I would say

[dulcimoo]

I don't understand the cowment about stamina.

[WeeWyllie]

This man is quite remarkable; I was fortunate enough to see him playing in concert.