Perlman play's Rachmaninoff 's vocalise

[MudgeColeman]

YO YO WAT IS DIS SH!T. AINT NO LIL JOHN OR PRHESH RHYMES. WHAT WHAT!?

[LiteraryWriter]

It's not a problem, really, merely a simple observation.

[nile012]

@apdoshi70

Late Romantic.

[MissIndependent324]

this is the most beautiful melody i have ever heard in my life....

[oakleylj]

i hear that the trololol thing was this song. WOW

[multiyuukicross]

i always use to listen this video when i wanna rest

...it's an emotional and deep feelings of sound

[nile012]

The violin was intended to stretch the ear and play with the fabric of the human soul. Rachmaninoff displays a heart wrenched melody, simple and piercing. It 's simply a pure sensation: when music shrouds the soul with emotion.

[Escapethefate4567]

im 15 and i just recently realized the i am in love with violins and classical music.. this piece is just amazing <3

[apdoshi70]

@Escapethefate4567

Romantic, not classical music

[rayfan9876]

@apdoshi70 Give the guy a break, he just started getting into it. ;)

[TheRestlesswind1]

Perfection...

[IGladiston]

I've never heard about Rachmaninoff.It's delightful, though.

The music is brilliant!

[superpicklequeen]

this really does remind you of the Holocaust

[ResoundingMusic]

I love this piece...

[leoncioviolin]

hermosa música

[KooHooP]

Sorry to say, but I only know of this piece from watching Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. But I still appreciate the beauty of the music.

[toniaznar]

Magistral.............

[LivK135]

does someone recognize this piece? v=7PyDc8JnOfs

[altongrimes]

Yes. I believe that the true creative spirit can manifest in a great spectrum of music. I would submit that pop music is a very different "gear" and sometimes we all just want to "cut loose" and "get our groove thing on". I don't want to be a stodgy old guy grumbling like some troll under the bridge....after all, no one can touch the classics...they need no defense.....

[ThesimpleSoldier]

Pure!

[demarezmichel]

Belle interprétation

[masayo47jp]

beautiful light of hope in the darkness. i thank god for letting us share this joy.

[Chriskkboongg]

Who are the 15 people who dislike this piece? They must be Lady Ga-Ga fans.

[thereez93]

@Chriskkboongg and your reasons for thinking that are...? Personally, I like Lady Gaga and I love Rachmaninoff. Not all popular music is necessarily bad, you know.

[hughaanderson]

@thereez93 I fully agree. Those of us lovers of "unpopular music" don't necessarily dislike popular music at all. I can enjoy Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Song and the Pointer Sisters during the same evening!

[hughaanderson]

@thereez93 I fully agree. Liking "unpopular music" doesn't stop us enjoying Pop. For example one evening I went from Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Song to the Pointer Sisters!

[privetmedvedik]

It's unnerving to hear the violin performance. Cello is beautiful, but not that shattering!

[manifold0606]

Pelman's rendition is elegant. But Ricci's rendition is moving!

[bronxboy47]

Exquisite!

[diadia415]

This is the sing that made me like classical music... who knew....

[deborahd74]

Bellissima



[feenix00]

so beautiful.. truly emotional piece/playing !

[bright48]

Maravilloso! Acordes para despertar de su sueño profundo la divinidad que reside en el sagrado templo en el lugar más secreto de nuestro corazon.

[SusieLee09]

I just love this version, remember the good times with those who now are no longer with you. There is a fine, bittersweet grief in this music that Perlman expresses well.

[MehrunesDaagon]

if this doesn't make you hate yourself, and cry in the pit of your soul, then... you never had one to begin with. :)

[Ananasinka100]

supper

[LiteraryWriter]

This work is devastating. No man can be unmoved by the brilliance and unsurpassed beauty of this classical piece, and the genius playing it. The accompaniment is subtle and soft, and Perlman is allowed to travel off into the cosmos, flying into the innermost depths of the human condition, seeking and finding that vein of emotion buried within us all. This piece is sad, like the Holocaust, yet gloriously divine, as though the angels descended from on high and gave voice to perfection.

[kalitheamare]

@LiteraryWriter to user LiteraryWriter...the world is stricken with pain, yet i feel like quoting the great poet : " 'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"....and be able to say at the end of this journey: "it was worth it". This one piece alone would suffice, it's beauty and inner strength are simply beyond words, and all efforts on my part could not match the eloquence and the profoundness of your statement.

[LiteraryWriter]

@kalitheamare  What a nice thing to say. You are a very deep person.

[On3ndOnly]

@LiteraryWriter calm down chap



[Chickenkeeper24]

@LiteraryWriter LiteraryWriter by name, LiteraryWriter by nature :)

[LiteraryWriter]

@Chickenkeeper24 Chickenkeeper by name, animator and gamer by nature.

[Chickenkeeper24]

@LiteraryWriter :D

[what567]

@LiteraryWriter I wasn't.

[LiteraryWriter]

@what567 You wasn't what?

[what567]

@LiteraryWriter moved.

[LiteraryWriter]

@what567 Fair enough. But, really, this work did not make you feel anything, did not conjure up any emotions, or memories, or sadness for things that could have been? Just...nothing?

[what567]

@LiteraryWriter Unfortunately no. However, as an ex-classical musician so I am quite possibly just being a bitter contrarian.

[LiteraryWriter]

@what567 Change "possibly" to probably and perhaps we will find agreement. As a classical musician, I am stunned that you are unmoved by this piece of brilliant Art. You shock me, to be perfectly frank.

[what567]

@LiteraryWriter well, that's your problem, not mine.

[pyco2010]

สุดยอด !!

[schneidersiemssen1]

fantastic, listen also the piano versin by giles!!!!

[Mutedwordz]

Hey! Someone make a video of what amrosik said and put up a download link! I'd do buy this! I'd do it myself but I don't have the programs or the know-how

[mfgknu84]

15 people are deaf

[amrosik]

Follow this Short Guidance:

1. Open a new Tab and go to youtube

2.search for "Rainy Mood" and start the video

3. play both videos, this one and Rainy Mood simultaneously

Congratulations, you have reached the Relaxation.



[WeskerHUNK]

@amrosik Relaxation? No...this...is...zzzzz...

[amrosik]

@WeskerHUNK haha

[MarieLG1S]

Splendide..

La reprise de cette musique par Slash et Les Paul & Friends est superbe aussi!

[19721949ful]

Один гений сочинил, а другой исполнил.

[Imbetterthanmost]

I imagine a bird in the winter, wings covered in ice, as it tries to soar through the clouds hail impedes its assent. Despite ever interference it climbs above the black clouds and a ray of sun envelopes the bird, feeling content, the bird then descends into blackness, and dies in the snow.

[oficiu23]

Powerfull music, it can lift you spirit .

[Writtenjustice]

Good shit

[SalMessina1]

@Writtenjustice eccellente autodefinizione!

[Writtenjustice]

@SalMessina1 Heh heh

[SalMessina1]

@Writtenjustice bla bla bla...;o)

[chjeterblows]

This song makes me think of the Holocaust. Maybe because it is in the way Perlman plays it. I just can't get the imagery out of my head. Haunting

[jamiebyrne77]

i don't think the music is tragic but more melancholic - certainly crying but not total doom - it is very beautiful too

[lilytoka]

Music!!!

[jayanwalter15031957]

This music strikes the heart and takes out the strongest feelings of love and lost in our lover. This music is a poem in notes.

[theraviolicat]

Heaven sent.

[ninaN3235]

OMG Mr Perlman plays this beautiful. The most beautiful piece of Rachmaninoff. I do not what to say but very enjoy it eveery note.

[PresidentGrasshopper]

This is a lovely song.... I've heard it a couple of times and I finally know the name of it so I'm happy, lol... they also played this song at the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov.

[Klara358]

Oh, how beautiful!

[chuhangchun]

it is a very beautiful piece in the world

[mrpiano37]

*speechless*

[ImpossibleSweetLove]

I absolutely LOVES this song !

[anakreon78]

elinize sağlık..çok teşekkürler

[vickiehill1]

Oh I so agree with PsychoQter...Rachmaninoff was an amazing genius & still lives on in his music. I saw Itzhak Perlman in Philadelphia at the Mann Music Theatre in 1987 with the Philadelphia Orchestra & he is the best violinist in the world!! I just sat in the outdoor theatre on a hill overlooking the skyline of Philadelphia, drinking wine & listening to him & it was one of the best nights of my life!!

[seaklingon57]

I cried too.... too deep feelings....

Thank You !

[hughaanderson]

As long as I can ever remember this piece moves me nearly to tears. Thw sheer "wistfullness" is wonderful.

[Crysalla]

My congratulation to Ithzak Perlman to his birthday (65.) - adoring his work with the violin- his ideas, f.i. playing klezmers from here to now and his interpretations

[carlinhos596]

Amo Metallica e Ratos De Porão, mas como não sonhar com um uma música tão bela como essa??!!!!

GO RAÇA UNIP!!!!

CARPE DIEM!!!

[blink8002]

The emotions are transmitted throughout each cord of the violin by the magical touch of the violinist!!

[TheAgeorge]

i cried :|

[aceto1900]

amazing

[SuperAaron895]

this piece for me conjures an image of an elderly man looking back through his childhood and lamenting the things that he didn't get to do or say.

[NuovoCurioso]

Grande Perlman, grande l'orchestra...ma più grande di tutti è Rachmaninoff.

[TheMariaInesS]

Rachamaninov <3

[happygolucky2000]

too fast for my liking. sorry perlman

[classicvinylbiz]

Vishnevskaya / Rostropovich: Vocalise (Вокализ), 1976:

watch?v=F5Sj7QpUXNk

Thanks and regards

[simcha181818]

Can one imagine there were 11 people who didn't like Perlman's interpretation of Rachmaninoff 's vocalise?

[petehernandez100]

The perfection of the piece, and the heart breaking way Perlman draws it forth from his instrument, makes me hate myself for thinking myself worthy to hear such beauty.

[MandyLoren]

Most beautiful piece of music ever..... i can't find any words....

[kenavo2103]

That Rachmaninoff's music is wonderful is something, but interpreted by Itzhak Perlman brings it to another level.

[symbolist666]

how can the people push " don't like" button ?? he's perfect...perfect.....!!

[piiixelle1]

I love it....

[TheKeenanBoy]

I accidentally clicked "dislike" and panicked.

[badminton30]

I want to get back to my violin playing after watching this.I promise

[mekuchika]

@badminton30 so do that faster as you can..

[josealvesparafita]

i'm playng this with alto-sax and beeing accompained by piano... This one is by far the most inspiring interpretation!

[SchmunzelAntje]

*seufz* ich vermiss dich so

[mbkmh]

Beautiful!!! Perfect!!!

[TotalMusician88]

It's so beautiful! I could only wish to play this piece as passionately as he does!

[SchmunzelAntje]

*seufz* wunderschön.. an dieser Stelle, bedanke ich mich bei meinem Süßen *küsschen*

[Phailin]

The only song in orchestra I memorized...and I tear up every time I play.

[injamaven]

The coda is brilliant, one voice climbs while the other falls -- heartbreaking

[violaman4]

absoulutly beautiful, it brings me to tears!

im playing this for my gr.9 viola exam

words cant even begin to describe the passion and power that pearlman plays with

[HAlghamdi]

Rachmaninoff must have been really depressed when he composed "vocalise". One can hear his suffering in every note.

[sillychad18]

@HAlghamdi, he was very depressed within a few years but the result of his therapy was a strong sense of self-confidence and freedom so then he created very successful symphonies and concertos =)

[Svechka]

@HAlghamdi Talented people are very sensitive... To me it seems that he must have felt the coming big tragedy of 1917 and all the horrors it would bring, including him losing his home forever. Just think about it - Rachmaninoff couldnt compose for 10 years after he left Russia!!... :(

[p1an0hands]

@HAlghamdi LOL nah he was just Russian.

[hughaanderson]

@HAlghamdi Not depressed. Sad. Depressed is sad without the enthusiasm. To avoid becoming depressed Rachmaninoff expressed his sadness with passion.

[TheYogiBunnie]

@hughaanderson Couldn't have said it better

[SentaiKoboru]

@HAlghamdi thats the way to write the best pieces, just write your emotion down.

[lanotablanca]

@HAlghamdi he was not, the pasion is in fact devastating, but is simple pasion from a man, pasion for the live, and when someone like rach can express it, this is the result.

[7elish]

It really makes me cry.....

im playing it on the sax.............not as good as this violinist though....

[maggieWONGER]

ME TOO!!!! i have to learn it for my RCM exam!!!!

[samuelkim0814]

Genius!!!

[avrilbabe360]

oh im learning this piece now, it's so beautiful. for some reason i'm reminded of a cold winter night during the depression.

[ricciantoni]

Nie znam niemieckego ale popieram nelefantin. Ciao

[nelefantin]

Vocalise... ein "Lied ohne Worte"... und doch so viel sagend. Jeder Ton berührt zutiefst die Seele...

[SweetZombiJesus]

The jumpy images are distracting, I had to scroll down to avoid seeing it. The music is, well, amazing obviously :)

[ricciantoni]

Geniale...........Grande Maestro Perlman e..... Rachmaninov

[sillychad18]

this version seems to be in e minor, no biggie ^^

love this and love him!

[SasukeCaitie]

I'm playing this as my exam piece today, and I'm a bass clarinet

[SweetZombiJesus]

How did your exam go?

[zimmercj]

this is my solo this year for orchestra ( i play the double bass)

[dh88615]

do you think this would sound good on the trumpet??

[Silvershade255]

I've heard it played pretty well with a trumpet

[lonemeditaterxghost]

yes

[dalferr]

Wonderful!

[JSAntares]

What's the matter with all you people? It's in C-Sharp Minor...

[nihil1]

Because they see the original score which is in e minor and not the transposed which is being played here. ;)

[dh88615]

no it is not i have the score in front of me and it is in the key of E flat

[JSAntares]

@dh88615 I guess it's transposed into a variety of keys, but 99% of the time it's in c-sharp minor it seems at least to me.

[cello0522]

Perlman's vibrato & bow arm are smooth as silk. This is absolutely the hardest & the most sophisticated part of violin playing.

[redbutterfly456]

really beautiful...

[aguuu13]

wtf??

y does everyone think its in a major key??

clearly e minor!!

[awayx]

@aguuu13 well, it changes a lot.

[32kellygirl]

absolutely a gorgeous song.

[gdsumter]

Don't you mean G Major....A Major has three sharps (F C and G), G Major has one sharp (F).

[irishhgirl16]

this is in e major, right? four sharps? i've been playing the violin for a while but i'm not too great at key signatures :)

[emicrombie]

actually this is in A major, with one sharp. good try though! the only reason i know is because i have the original sheet music, and i compared it to this and it matched ;)

[anainantonio]

e minor

[Vlaqq]

too much sugar, sorry.

[4theLoveOfMuzikk]

Amazingly Beautiful

[Vocalise (Brian Asawa, c.tenor)]

[violistaluis]

nunca os habeis fijado en el tamaño del arco de perlman? es mayor qu eun arco 4/4 con creces

[543693The]

Merveilleux violoniste russe pour cette si belle mélodie de Rachmaninov. Mélodie écrite je crois pour une voix et violon ou alto?? Elle a bercé mon âme toute ma vie...belle sous toute interprétation et intéressante par l'accent nostalgique slave envoutante.Bel enregistrement MERCI

[losserelli666]

have you guys heard the version that Slash made?? its pretty sweet! but if course theres nothing like Originals

=] GREAT SONG!

[cephalicus]

This is not an original though. The piece, like the 'title' says, is originally for voice and piano :) In my opinion the interpretation by YoYo Ma and what's his name is an interesting one too. Did you hear that one?

[losserelli666]

oh its not? lol i thought it was lol...

no i have not. ima look it up rightnow!

=]

[codeblue8910]

brilliant and haunting, thanks

[codeblue8910]

stfu

[Webarton]

It's not about "playing."  It's about making MUSIC.

[iLaurenicious]

@1laurrenlopez

post a video of yourself playing this and I'll comply....wait, you aren't six are you????

[bopkick5]

absolutely fantastic

[Reroush]

thanks.

[powers987]

WOW

[yellowAnna27]

uaaau!!!

[Padrevich1]

Maravilloso! Gracias"

Padrevich 1

[CardwellProductions1]

Breathtaking.

[munchcrisps]

he makes it sound so easy!

[jazzecca2007]

absolutely beautiful. no words to describe

[raybanseyes]

apt, since vocalise is a song without words

[lobster272]

actually it does have words

[raybanseyes]

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in 1912 as the last of his Fourteen Songs, Op. 34. Written for voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel (of the singer's choosing). It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova

[kcostell]

Even if it's just Wikipedia you're copying word for word from, it's polite to actually cite the source.

[raybanseyes]

You are quite correct, I should have quoted the source. I intended it only for informational purposes, but still, I should have attributed it..

[rlstevenson1886]

@raybanseyes : I was impressed by your understanding of the song, until I realized you copied the whole thing from Wikipedia, without quoting your source.

[Kaggypants]

@rlstevenson1886 He didn't post his 'understanding' of the song: he posted the facts surrounding the song. Of course if you typed this into google you'd' come across the same thing.

[Tolkki333]

@raybanseyes wikipedia much?