Itzhak Perlman | Sarasate : Zigeunerweisen Gypsy Airs | Israeli-American violin virtuoso | 1990

[annajeehee]

He's only 45

[annajeehee]

This is the best version ever

[shadowassassin71]

he has a bow-tie

[Hwee101]

@shadowassassin71 Bow ties are cool.

[pete2872]

you know truthfully I don't think Perlan was playing with 100% of his heart and focus, this sounds mediocre compared to his recording. he's still the best though...

[DHRDM]

9:25 hahahahahahaha he got nervous, look his bow jajaja, anyway he still being one of the best!!!

[ToddandApril]

Fantastic! A true gypsy violinist!

[luscinialuscinia]

Amazing! Mk&mK

[leadcat]

I remember watching this concert over and over again on my father's Betamax. Perlman's playing completely blew me away. When VHS won, I mourned because I lost the video-up until now! Thanks for posting!

[MrDavidyuan]

Perlman is one of the best violinist. Please watch the version of Kerson Leong, a 13 year-old boy who win the Menuhin competetion last year.

[Lorenzo56AP]

Ten people haven't understood which one is which.

[batchava]

@Lorenzo56AP Are you kidding?

[flaviooliveira851]

perfect.

[mcnlenovo]

ten people did not like!

maybe they wrong they though to learn rap or ever

[DezparE]

10 people really got confused

[Gordontrek]

Best violinist of all time

[brokenheartrepair]

He is great.

[maxim1991350]

very very well, love him so much hes so sympatic :)

[shadowassassin71]

8 people caught 'bieber fever'

[MrGer2295]

ITZHAK PERLMAN (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן‎; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century.

Molto Bello!!! Thank you for sharing this video.

[MrGer2295]

The year 1859 saw the beginning of Sarasate's triumphant concert tours through the countries of Europe and Asia, which lasted for more than forty years (he died on September 20, 1908). Pablo Sarasate repeatedly visited Russia where he became acquainted with Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein, Auer, Wieniawski and Davydov. Incidentally Tchaikovsky's “Serenade melancolique” became one of his favourite pieces.

Molto Bello!!! Thank you for sharing this video.

[MrGer2295]

Nevertheless he also included in his programmes such classical works as Bach's “Chaconne", Beethoven's Concertos (Sarasate also played his rarely performed Youth Concerto), pieces of Mendelssohn, Wieniawski, Naschez. With Sarasate in mind, Saint-Saens composed his “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso”, “Havanaise” and his Third Concerto. Lalo wrote for him his “Symphonie Espagnole” and Bruch his Concerto No. 2 and “Schotische Phantasie”.

Molto Bello!!! Thank you for sharing this video.

[HighROCOCOlings]

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[HighROCOCOlings]

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Devils ,fashizm come directly to citizens as very very dangerous.

I worry about quick wider damages wih making higher pressuers.

Must keep away those damagemakers.

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[HighROCOCOlings]

America & Israel !? Pan universal art stage make us forgotten nations.

Parlman's passion and brave heartful warmy with correct playing his note sound are giving us upper big pure safty emotions with good harmony.

He is a big passionate star of geaniously ,his play is victory against this diffeicult full grand emotional music .

His serious autitude is energysh smar gentle stage,we must give him a

top medal great efforts to achiving the great & a leader,too

[aminaahmadl]

Fantastic!

[Zeflik84]

His technique is incredible. His intonation....well...not so incredible

[f4c3d3sk]

He messed up. 2:05 .

on that high C.

he played it too low.

[FroggerbobT]

@f4c3d3sk Itzhak Perlman, one of the world's best violinists, vs. some random guy on the internet. That note sounds the same in several of the videos on here.

[unclejuniorsoprano]

@f4c3d3sk I'm not sure what not it was, but there were 2 high notes in the beginning that sounded flat. 2:06 Regardless, Perlman excels in such showpieces as this. They seem fun for him & he plays them with very little effort. He could have played this piece & carried off a conversation with Levine at the same time. As for James Levine, he's one of the greatest opera conductors of all time. Beverly Sills adored him.

[f4c3d3sk]

@unclejuniorsoprano

I agree, it was a very good performance, I did enjoy it.

[PowerofTrueInsight]

Perfection, indeed.

[dogcat126]

perlman is overall my favorite violinist!! there are others that are really great but itzhak is just special to me! all the string instruments are very difficult to play! i played classical violin until college and now i sound like a first grader(i am now 63). i wish i had had the discipline to keep up with it. thanks soso much for posting this!!!!!

[nunziatinaable]

I love these fellows, Perlman is SUPERB!! the best of Sarasate, I would pay any price ticket if he came to Miami Beach.

[nunziatinaable]

I love these fellows, Perlman is SUPERB!! the best of Sarasate

[craziux]

Itzhak Perlman + Violin= Perfection

[TimeStrider]

That does it, time to practice again!!!

[ConquistadorAlfred]

his left hand pizzicato is so good!

[ikertznus]

7 dislikes are of people that can't play violin even without having polio.

He is such a genius.

[shostalove]

hey which 7 idiots disliked this :(

[harrietamidala1691]

I saw Itzhak perform live once.

[DSOproto]

I'm not saying he isn't mindblowingly awesome, but only in sound. it seems a shame that he never seemed to have a social life to teach him humility. Without the volume, he seems like he's making moves on his D&D foes. He's outstanding but I believe his emotion in the music should be more truthful to what the music should portray

[cryofthefaithlessman]

6 people doesn't know anything about music!

[JillyTanner]

Seeing him play live is #1 on my bucket list. Breathtaking!

[teamneville21]

I'm trying to play this right now, and this version is miraculous, the piece is a technical nightmare and I give huge props to any violinist who can get through it, but he makes it seem effortless.

[zucchini2007]

7:55-9:57 Sounds so cartoon-ish to me! It conjures thoughts of Tom and Jerry, Tom is chasing Jerry, and catches him at the very end. :-)

[zucchini2007]

Unbelievable. He makes it look too easy! But I've seen the sheet music for this piece, it's a technical nightmare. I've tried playing through it myself, but I have a lot of work ahead of me to play it like this.

[musicalmilacube]

This is definitely the best interpretation of Zigeunerweisen!

[PiroozAzDirooz]

This is pure Classic. Great stuff. Two Masters side by side.

[Peterlinkdark11]

hmmm how big is Itzhak's violin, looks quite small on him.

[h6360808]

OMG



[karinj1965]

I'm in the prosses of learning this piece. The sounds are a mix between plucking the string with the left hand as opposed to the right and many many harmonics and slides. All in all, fabulous.

[Baconisdelicous]

@karinj1965 I know this may seem rude, but don't you mean process? not prosses?

[ufmets33]

@Baconisdelicous wow that sounds rude. 

[Baconisdelicous]

@ufmets33 lol

[ufmets33]

@Baconisdelicous :)

[the22violinplayer]

im learning this piece now......

[9100joker]

didnt know that james levine plays the violin so well^^

[delphineaz]

I love his music and James Levine is an incredible conductor.

[callethathegreat]

The guy behind him playing the cello with only half a head of hair is scaring me.

[Snake7Plissken]

There's so much evil around the planet, and many ask themeself and put out the statement that there's no God around if so how he can allow all misery that we humans do to each other. Well, I tell U all one thing for shure: THIS SHOWS THE VERY EXISTENS OF GOD!!!

[JMHW303]

@Snake7Plissken and of the existence of practice too.

[henrykkingdom]

his prime

[JohnMC894]

I think I'd be in my own little world if I could play like this. I can see the strings on my mandolin are going into meltdown having a go at this.

[vlncrzy]

His hands make the bow look like a pencil.

[musicgirl2318]

I LOVE GYPSY AIRS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUCHH!!!! IT IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! ESP. WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN!!!!!!!!

[ignatei]

wonderful but i still think Sarasate himself plays this one better.

[RepertMousik]

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[iwatchedyourvideo101]

WHO CAN DISLIKE THIS AMAZING VID?

[elwinredpath]

I'd like someone could play movement 3 on my funeral.

[Eacida]

BRAVISIMO POR DIOSS!!!!!

[GEEZUS98]

Did anyone see his suspender in the end of the piece ?

[jUiCyLoVeR08]

Soo I'm learning to play this for a solo audition andddd I wish I could play this piece as well as he does. It's gonna take a lot of work lol

He's amazing

[sarvareteabee]

great song , i love it

[Musikkjenta]

Perfect! Love how he plays this song!<3<3 he really plays it with feelings!

[DEad3ee]

O.O how can u dislike this!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Scharvrina]

B++ I can't give it to you anymore. It' sounds like U.V student level........

[joshdajedi]

Sounds good but whenever I watch this I get the feeling he is about to eat his violin :S

[wkfung108]

Ah, back when Perlman didn't just mail it in. Nice.

[andreasamati]

Ouch 2:05

[17antreas]

this is awsome....i have to play this on ATCL exams.....i just start learning it.....but im only 16......i dont think i can play it.....=/

[punchaloo]

gosh playing music is so wonderful and satisfying!

[Atheena1]

Oooo gooood!! :-O Perlman is big violinist and man. So perfekt sound!!! Lov it...so feeling...my idol.

[AnarchyIsNotChaos319]

This guy is my idol and my all time favorite violinist.

[jccaballo]

@9:00 - 9:07

i think that he is using spacatto(bouncing the bow on the string) really fast, and then plucking the string with his left hand.

[omoshiroidayo]

whats the black thing he putd on the violin at the third arrangement?

[minidude09]

@omoshiroidayo It's called a violin mute, which dampens the sound and gives the violin a softer and more mellow tone quality. Here, to me, it makes the music sound a little sadder.

[omoshiroidayo]

@minidude09 thanks ;-)

[AnarchyIsNotChaos319]

@omoshiroidayo his mute

[moskitomagnet]

I can not stop watching this video. Blows my mind every time!!!!

AND HE'S PERFORMING AT MY SCHOOL AND I DIDN'T GET TICKETS GRRRAAWWWRRRRRRR

I'll just have to be content with the fact that such awesome skill be within a 2-mile radius of me.

[Sylvain894]

There's so much confusion; we just don't know what's gonna happen and we miss the show : too short and too fast performance; i just begin to assimilate that Sarasate tune !

[crazynugget8]

i wish he could stand :(

[canterburybell]

never seen anyone playing this so effortlessly.....simply amazing.

[bigsis314]

if u want to get the shhet music for free for this song,go to imslp.org and go to composers and then click on sarasate and it will come up :)

[bckm54]

the dude is magic. simply magic. this is WAY better than sex... :)

[cclementi6]

@bckm54 How about listening to this while having sex? score.

[edmundjacobs]

Although it is true that Perlman plays a wrong note in an early run this is not big whoop.....the fact is he has played the most right notes and the fewest wrong notes (for over a half century) of any concert violinist since Heifetz. What you are seeing here is the 2nd greatest violinist of the 20th century and the best bow arm since Paganini...enjoy it. At 65 he is still concertizing and better than ever.

[spade124]

ive been playing violin for 10 years....i thought i was good. lol

[taurosground]

god, the plucking thing is so hard...

[jmastaflash1000]

the arpeggio part is my favorite part because it's very flashy and it just sounds amazing.

[lasaran]

Itzhak Perlman is so cute!!

And a real master too...

[lasaran]

Itzhak Perlman is so cute!!

And a master too...

[jmastaflash1000]

that left hand pizz on the fast part is very ,no, extremely difficult.

[saintmichael104]

@jmastaflash1000 not really. its the artificial harmonics that do most violinist in

[jmastaflash1000]

@saintmichael104 yes that's also true. ive have this song in my short but existant repitoir(i dont know how to spell it) and the artificial harmonics in the fast part are really agrivating. it sucks that i can play everything but that part.

[jmastaflash1000]

im not hatin or any thing but perlman make a HUGE mistake on the second to last note of that first run. but he still made the song sound awesome.

[chadKatsenbein]

Perlman is great, but look at all the jewish people in the audience. Here we see who truely dominates the US. We are the blessed people.

[IlEtaitUneForet]

is it me or at 8:08, the orchestra is late?

[hjtam33]

some how I feel that anne sophie mutters interpretation is better than his, but the guy sits in a wheelchair, plus this clip probably came from VHS quality.

I love Perlmans 24 paganinis though!

[davidsaputo]

The music plays Perlman. It is beautiful to feel the spirit of Perlman bring a magnificent piece to life...awesome! Thanks Raphael...smile

Len

[sidwong123]

People say IDA HAENDEL or Sarah Cheng are living up to pearlmans standards but you kno what? Bull shit. COmapre the way Itzhak plays this peice compared to them. Their is NO COMPARISON.

[classicvinylbiz]

Ruggiero Ricci - Zigeunerweisen, 1959:

watch?v=xKQxnVIkvow

Thanks and regards

[firestartertwistedfi]

wow perlman doing stand-up :)

[amanjahaha]

@firestartertwistedfi or sit-down ;) hahaha

[Nodame2006]

Please do not upload my video on your channel.

[salrubz]

@Nodame2006 yea i saw this vid on ur account a long time ago!!!

[flipflopalot99]

Perlman and Joo Young are the only two I've found so far that can play the left-handed pizzicato relatively well (he plays it perfectly on CD though).

I always wondered what advantages there are to having thicker fingers on a violin. It's a problem when you're near the bridge, yet he seems to be an exception. How is that possible?!?!

[zucchini2007]

He is a FABULOUS violinist!! His playing is so graceful, fluid, and effortless. And he makes it look so easy, almost like it was a toy violin.

[holyknight234]

holy crap he's pizzicatoing and using the bow pretty much at same time!

that's... that's... that's... awesomeorgasm!

[galexwong]

its very hard to play fast stuff when u are sitting. Hes awesome!

[StringChannel]

fantastic ..

[2007wesman]

LMFAO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING! +1 This song is a masterpiece.

[killiy1]

Its not like hes playing, but creating!

[Smashkid78]

fabulous performance

[agropokemons]

Man...

9:00 - 9:07

That is the coolest sound that comes out of the violin and I'm baffled as to how its done.

ohh such an awesome piece.

[susieecool]

It's left hand pizzacato, it's done by the left hand plucking the strings.

[fishpig20]

@agropokemons its called Left Hand pizzicato

[SophiaVonHelgastein]

@agropokemons ....every other note; he is plucking then bowing...very diffifcult

[rapter9800]

@agropokemons Left-hand pizzicato

[InfiniteHunter]

@agropokemons The technique is called Spiccato (i.e. bounce the bow on and off the string; "ricochet bowing", if you will).

[lilrascal1999]

@agropokemons its just bowing and plucking with your left hand really fast alternating

[haiz369]

@agropokemons left hand pizz

[taurosground]

@agropokemons he's just plucking with his left hand while he's playing... rele hard

[earthenvessels]

@agropokemons I love that part too! I think he intersperses plucking with his left hand with bowing.

[haydo143]

@agropokemons Its just richochet bowing with left hand pizz

[agropokemons]

@haydo143 so is it a tough technique?...I have no idea

[Killer390]

@agropokemons it's left hand pizzicato and right hand bowing at the same time.

[ydobon95]

@agropokemons He have the Soil Stradivari

[TheRealrocker74]

@agropokemons seriously? The coolest sound to come out of a violin? It's just pizzicato, except he is using his left hand which makes it a little more difficult but allows you to mix it with arco(bowed) notes. I would say 8:50-8:55 because he gets SUPER high harmonics. Left hand pizzicato is just nothing more than pizzicato though.

[agropokemons]

@TheRealrocker74 haha, I think thats my "not so classically trained ear" speaking.

That one part always stood out to me when I used to hear it on the radio and it was what made me seek out the piece in the first place. I guess in my opinion, its still one of the coolest sounds to come out of the violin...to you, its nothing more than pizzicato, to me its different and funky...I have a violin and can't even tune it, that shows how much I know on the subject...

[TheRealrocker74]

@agropokemons HAHAHAHA I gotchya. The reason it sounds so cool, is because, using the left hand to pizz allows it to be mixed in with notes that are bowed, so you get a great contrast of sound.

[StephaneGrappelli]

@agropokemons It's left-hand Pizzicato (plucking - no bow), the sign on the notes is a +

[zoe2908]

@StephaneGrappelli depends which part ur actually talking about.....coz the song has both hands doing some plucking

[StephaneGrappelli]

@zoe2908 The OP (@agropokemons) talked about 9:00 - 9:07, which is combined from bow and left hand pizzicatto - no right hand pizzicato in that part at all.

[SteveKane33399]

@agropokemons i think they're like pull-offs on a guitar

[AnarchyIsNotChaos319]

@agropokemons Violinst of 8 years here. I don't know if you've had your question answered yet but here it is: left hand pizzacatos (plucking) and bowing notes at the same time. Incredibly difficult to do. My college orchestra played this last fall with Wolfgang David from Vienna. Incredible to hear live.

[agropokemons]

@AnarchyIsNotChaos319 thanks, a lot of people seem to write it off as simple pizzacato of the left hand...as if its like, something you learn the second week of violin practice...what a great piece... the lead violin has such a personality; you can almost see the poppy quirkiness of a real gypsy dancing around a fire...

[AnarchyIsNotChaos319]

@agropokemons Agreed. This is the piece that got me into Sarasate. You should check out some of his other pieces. You'd like 'em. He mostly wrote for solo violin. See if you can find Jota Navarra, Noctorno, Introduction and Tarantella (theres a live recording of Perlman playing it on youtube), and The Fantasy on Carmen. You should be able to find them all on youtube. Enjoy!

[agropokemons]

@AnarchyIsNotChaos319 woo! will do. I'm sure I've heard all his stuff at some point before but just didn't know who I was listening to..haha

[the22violinplayer]

@agropokemons its wen he plucks & bows all together

[zirwoods]

hhhazzzm un hijo itzhak.........

[XJ12lover]

sooooo beautiful!

[canttopit]

i love the way he moves and his faccial expressions when he is playing. its like hes in his own little world being as happy as can be i love this

[antoniojarf]

=( no entendi lo que dijo.

[arknekokun]

por idiota =(

[narutofangirls]

amazing performance! i'll never be able to play like that!!

[Imamummy2]

God he makes it all look so damn easy! thank heavens he is in this world.

[wolfmoon30101504]

i love this man with his weird violin so damn much...esp in this performance!

[Oistrakh3]

From what country is he from?

[DennisL82]

@Oistrakh3

i believe he is from Israel and lives in the United States

[Lupe0824]

I love this piece. He's one of my favorite violinist.

[almeronfilms]

Splendid!