1-Shumsky Devil's Trill

[LiliumCruorem]

I think the song is about, being interrupted in your ambitions to take something that you think is rightfully yours.

[sorrow413]

i love the song devils trill how many other ways of playin it are their tho i mean i heard it from an anime and thought hay i like this lets look it up and found their are a few different ways to play it what is the oldest way like  are their any records of devils trill i know records have better sound

[MsBlackParadox]

Shumsky and Tartini spent YEARS to learn to play the violin and what do you do? You thank gods that might not exist -_-

[genmaximus110]

@momocherry123 Just message me with your email address and I can forward it to you.

[GaleMatty]

This proves what Christianity knows! And no Satan wanted humanity alive when the others gods didn't( Christian gods) known as greys. Satan lost in the war and was curse along with many angels labeled as demons.

[VampireQueen33]

Lucifer was the Morning Star of Heaven. He was the prince of the angels and was the most beautiful of them all.

[archangel1092]

@VampireQueen33 I recently had a lucid dream. Entitys were attacking me in my house. I called upon his name to give me strength and to not fear. RIGHT AFTER THAT... I realized I was just dreaming.. Amazing god.

[nikiey100]

Lucifer is still an angel he simply has fallen. He was considered to be one God's most perfect creations, Lucifer got all cocky about it and thought he should be top dog (like most men do), so he was sent down to hell. But regardless he's still an angel.

[PUB1986]

the devil is brilliant :)

[DownerDuck]

who thinks this compisition has to do something wth the devil or satan has no idea...

tartini wrote this after he had a dream in which a little devil played these pieces for him. after getting up he immediately wrote this beautiful music down on sheets.

[bbaaaalll]

Jesus! is it wrong to say the devil's music is great?

[NewIndustrialAnarchi]

The most beautiful thing I've heard. I guess even the devil can create heavenly music..

[ZEROboarder00]

@NewIndustrialAnarchi well think about it, he was one of the greatest saints and he was God's right hand man and favorite angel. of course he'd make angelic music haha

[SpunkyLamb]

@NewIndustrialAnarchi They say that Lucifer was the Angel of Music.

[Doc90Pk]

everyday i listen this composition on utube, i hope devil will come....i have something to ask him...

[kittycat296]

@Doc90Pk what is it ^_^

[flcl59]

i love death metal but this is amazingly brutal

[XxRawrImAKittyxX]

i want to hear tartini's original version can oyu send it to me? :)

[Darmeck]

Bravo! Bravissimo, complimenti

[hazaropz]

Auzu billahi mina'shaytaan-irah-jeem

[hellomate639]

Everything the devil grants is corrupted somehow. Vanessa Mae and her popularity is the corruption of this gift...

[CaroSnow96]

Tartini, the guy who made this song.... it was a rumor that he sold his sould to the devil to be able to compose the song....... its amazing.....

[orochimarui2]

@CaroSnow96 Actually, the real story is that when he sold his soul to the devil, he decided before letting the devil leave to have him play a song for him on the violin. When the devil did, he played a sonata that was so beautiful, , that when Tartini woke, he immediately tried to copy the song on his own violin, unsuccessfully. So, in response to his dream, he composed this song.

[CaroSnow96]

@orochimarui2 hmm..... Ihard he sold his soul.... so the devil played the song for him when he slept, tried to compose it, but did not make it... so he aked the devil and then he sold his soul the devil so that he could make it...

[pianoonparade]

@orochimarui2 I think it was sort of like this.. except that when the devil played this piece for him he was still deciding whether or not to sell his soul. After hearing the piece he was so overwhelmed he felt it necessary to give his soul. The rest about the copying thing is right though. I think.

also, I believe Tartini said that had he been successful in notating down the piece correctly, he would have given up music because he would have had nothing to live for.

But whatever. He sold it.

[draoballa]

Heil Satan! He makes good music.

[Sezmonz]

Satan is beautiful unlike other stupid space Gods. He's an Artist.

[sweetyaoiluver]

do u mind sending me this?

[genmaximus110]

@sweetyaoiluver The score? Just message me with your email and I can forward you the score.

[Matsuilunar]

mm mind sending me too? :D

[dtjb10mj]

So beautiful! I felt as if my soul was crying when I first heard this. Shumsky is an amazing violinist :)

[xDisturbedXDWTSx]

Iff i wanted to go about doing a guitar cover of this song, would there be anything out there, or something someone may have tht will tell me all the notes? individually? I know there is sheet music on the web but i cant read it so its no use to me :/ Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[IndiraHime]

Ah, I LOVE it.

Thanks very much for uploading this. :)

Oh, you're tempting me there, with the sheets, but I'm no good with the violin and I doubt it'll sound good on piano only. Damn.

[Bobman4671]

To think that he says that Tartini said it isn't even close to what the devil had played. I'll send you my email.

[archangel1092]

Just a fraction of what enki played.

[vhfuong]

i did sent a message in your inbox, plz send those sheet for me, i'm very thankful

[iWyke2]

guys go to imslp.org.

EVERYTHing in sheet music is found there.

EVERYTHING!!!

free, pdf form, printable, FREE - im not kidding

[9digimon]

Loa ángeles tocan violín

[Schekas]

@9digimon Los ángeles caídos, más bien...

[BowBeneathMyFeet]

The first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. It does not want to get out of my brain

[robzkie69]

want the tartini's original...

[KhmerSerey1]

SONATA, work in three or four movements for one or two instruments-such as a violin or cello with major accompaniment by a piano....

[KhmerSerey1]

The Devil Trill,was he felt,only a shadow of the dream music.But violinist ever since have felt the sonata,with it intricate trill in the last of its four movements,deserves it's name-if only because it is fiendishy difficult to play...

[KhmerSerey1]

The Italian violinist Giuseppe Tartini ( 1692-1770 ),threatened with the arrest of eloping with a 15 years old girl,Elizabetta Premazore,sought shelter with the Franciscan friars at Assisi.One night in the monastary Tartini dreamed he sold his violin to the devil,who in return played a violin sonata of incredible beauty.Tartini later tried to recapture the sonata he had heard in hi dream,the result " The Ddevil Trill " sonata.

[leoncioviolin]

precioso

[naukarecorz]

amazing violinist  just perfect thanks for uploading the video

[hiimjee]

u have sheets for this?? hhmmm?? :]

[genmaximus110]

Yes, message me, including your email, and I will send you the sheet music.

[kittycat296]

@genmaximus110 hey can i have the score to this ^_^ please

[mellonsunny]

I love this peice and I love the story behind it :)

Tartini V. Satan O.o wouldn't like to be T.

[Gothicer]

angeblich hat tartini seine seele für dieses musik stück bezahlt und ich muss sagen,der preis war es alle male wert bei dem schönen klang der violine.ich muss echt sagen,wow

[spadiu]

ma che diavolo!!!! questa è una musica celestiale

[bloodstone1445]

Thank you Satan.

[kamiloprideofjesus]

@bloodstone1445

satan no tiene nada q ver se trata de un sueño, quien la compuso tuvo un sueño en el que vio a un angel caido tacarla , cuando se desperto trato de imitar la perfecion de la misma pero le fue imposible a ello se debe su nombre.

[KiithaScheklerMuller]

@kamiloprideofjesus perdon mi intromision xD pero si te pones a pensar en ello (el sueño de un angel caido o tecnicamente un demonio) es como un toque diabolico :B al igual qeu obras en las qeu se dice que se soño con un angel o con dios y segun dios les mando el mensaje de composicion .... asi que se podria interpretar de esa manera :B como una obra de inspiracion diabolica :D .... en si dejando de lado eso es una melodia hermosa .... O///o espero no se tome a mal mi comentaro u////u

[madcat0479]

i dont see any diffrence.. look its the same as the others classical songs, only this one has a story, try putting this in a video game and you see its true

[carrottoponcrak]

que?

[Toiletcat27]

@madcat0479 Dude, this song is technically hugely difficult to play... it demands a lot techniques and swift movements of the hands!

[weedgrams]

Finally.Thank you for uploading this. I looked everywhere to find this version of the Devil's Trill.

[sagorevach]

I read once that Tartini had a dream of devil playing this on violin and when he woke up he succeeded to remember most of that but not all

[crazeskull69]

and also, he said he was never able to recreate the beauty of it...

[903harman]

satan.

[katnigan08]

the original is very difficult to play...

[genmaximus110]

Yes it is. Obviously Kreisler's added cadaneza is the hardest of it all, but the opening slow movement is much harder as Tartini originally wrote it. It's full of way many more 2-note chords.

[katnigan08]

I don't think anyone stuck to the original....

[genmaximus110]

Not too much. Kreisler's arrangement kind of took over. Andrew Manze plays a version based off of the original, but it in itself is its own arrangment.

[indioindioindio2137]

But I think that's the way A. Manze makes an original version. In Baroque period music wasn't suposed to be played exacly how it was written so this great violinist try (and I think he does it pretty well) to interpret using the kind of ornamets a musician would use in XVII and beginings of XVIII.

I really love Kreisler's version but Tartini's original is one of the greatest works written for solo violin.

[TheRecordead]

@katnigan08 No shit? The original was in a dream man, come on.

[TheRecordead]

@katnigan08 No one even knows the REAL original, and i think the real original would break the violin.

[saud080]

I raly love fine art like this significant piece of art

[patd10123]

Theres a VERY good chance I'll be able to see this on the Lipinski Stradivarius violin. The violin this song was written for :D

[genmaximus110]

That was Tartini's violin?

[indioindioindio2137]

Wow!! It still played by Frank Almond?

[patd10123]

yup!

He'll be playing it at the lutheran college in march i think.

I'M SO EXCITED!!

[maggini1]

A true master! The most under rated American violinist of all time!

[leftbrainrightmind]

magnifique! j'aime cette mélodie, et Shumsky est tout simplement admirable avec un violon entre les mains!

[parrotles]

You are very fortunate to have been able to meet such a legend bepop2193.

[jokezzzzXP]

well played!!!

sounds so good i could listen to it forever.

[bebop2193]

I know his son, Eric. And I unfortunately only got to meet Oscar for a brief time, but in that small amount of time, I found what a truly wonderful and irreplaceable man he was.

[genmaximus110]

Wow. What a memory to have!

[bebop2193]

Yeah, he was in the hospital, I was just a little girl, and he connected with me; it seems silly, but we spoke about ice cream and playing violin on an empty stomach.

[82224561]

These Great Artistes,like Shumsky, are giving inspiration to all violinist,even after go away...from us.I have had the chance to work for 5 years with such a Great Artiste:Denise Soriano Boucherit,

She recorded a lot of disques with magda Tagliaferro;the Mozart sonate in B flat M which is realised in cd.

That touches your hard her expresivness...she always inspires me.Are you violinist also?

poicpi

[gitprofnikat]

I also know Eric very well. I had the great honor of knowng and playing with Oscar both informally, and in concert, and he was without a doubt the finest instrumentalist and musician I have known in my lifetime. In fact, he and I played at least a dozen sonatas at my own wedding! I miss him deeply both as a great musician and wonderful friend.

[LoVeRocKsToHaRd]

this is so classical and i like it so much

[genmaximus110]

"One night I dreamt that I had made a pact with the devil: he was my servant, and anticipated every wish... I found myself handing him my violin to see if he might manage some pretty tunes; but imagine my astonishment when I heard a sonata so unusual and so beautiful, performed with such mastery and intelligence, on a level I had never before conceived was possible! I was so overcome that I stopped breathing and awoke gasping.

[genmaximus110]

Immediately I seized my violin, hoping to recall some shred of what I had just heard - but in vain. The piece I then composed is without doubt my best, and I still call it The Devil's Sonata, but it falls so short of the one that stunned me that I would have smashed my violin and given up music forever if I could but possess it."

--Tartini to J.J. de Lalande.

[MalvynB]

The story was that Giuseppe Tartini had a dream where the devil appeared to him and asked to be his servent. At the end of their lesson Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill. When the devil played he played with such virtuosity that he said it took his breath away. After Tartini awoke he tried to create what he heard in his dream. Although many loved the piece Tartini thought that is was way to inferior to what he heard. I forgot what he said about breaking his violin. :(

[levinstraus]

just one word MASTER!!!!!!

[kizame37]

wow this song is pretty but the story behind it is kinda scary

[azkeyz]

His bowing kinda sucks

[genmaximus110]

Your basis is what?

[FelixOcato]

The stupidity of your statement wouldn't be as immense if this was an actual video instead of a soundtrack with a picture being displayed where you would actually be able to observe his bowing. :/

[feax]

do you think he has no good vibrato? wrong. a brilliant interpretation with minimal vibrato and no expression overdose.

[12gerrit66612]

I agree - more vibrato would have taken away this special sound - it would have sounded more like an usual piece of art - but still art - with too much stress on the musician and not on the tunes ...

[Surprisebaby]

i thought the story was a man wanted to be a master violinist and he signed a contract with the devil and the devil composed a song which was the song the rebel angels listened to when they fell from heaven.

[peroslowned]

nope...tartini was dreaming and he was dreaming the devil sitting on his bed and playing the violin...when he woke up he tried to write what he heard :)

[Alynras]

Oh I thought it was the devil appeared in his dream and challenged him and if the violinist lost - forgot his name - then his soul will belong to the devil. The deviled played and what's his name was so blown away by it that he tried to recreate it when he woke up but came up with something like this and saying that it wasn't even close to what he heard?

[genmaximus110]

I'm not sure about all the details, but I know Tartini said that if could ever recreate in full what the devil had played, then he would break his violin across his knee for there'd be nothing else to top that work, that it would be futile to continue playing.

[p0t4t0ch1p5]

sounds like the legend of Faust playing chess with the devil..

[kizame37]

so he didn't sell his soul to the devil

[FatelessNights]

You're thinking of the story from the anime Descendants of Darkness.

[kizame37]

this song was in descendants of darkness

[xRS23x]

lol xD i saw that too. yami no matsuei...

[meowkylie]

ya they used it in the second arc ^^ but i like the original better

[racoda000]

I love the trill that gives it its name :)

[genmaximus110]

Do you mean the cadenza at the end? If so, that is actually Kreisler's addition to the piece. Tartini's "Devil's Trill" portion is actually less subtle, not that it's not impressive.

[racoda000]

Yes, I like Tartini's version better but Kreisler has made it more "Pretty" than Suductive as Tartini had made it.

[genmaximus110]

I have both scores, and I was surprised to see that Kreisler eliminates some chords in the first movement and eliminates some trills throughout the piece. With the exception of the terribly difficult cadenza that Kreisler added, Tartini's original version is actually tougher to play.

[poulha]

Just went to Tartini´s birthplace, the town of Piran (Pirano) on the Slovenian coast.

Tartini´s statue is on the beautifully renovated town square (refer Wiki) where I enjoyed performances by Balkan choirs and artists.

The visit made me rediscover Tartini and his music. And I am very grateful that this amazingly excellent recording is available. Thanks!

I would have loved, thou, to hear Shumsky play this piece in Piran. A fitting tribute to Tartini. So sad, that it shall never be...

[genmaximus110]

That is so cool. What an amazing visit that must've been! I'm glad to hear that someone has an official tribute to him. I love his compositions for violin (or flute and trumpet) and orchestra. He's totally underappreciated.

[thor4388]

balkan choir? which one.. i live in piran btw ;P

[poulha]

What a coincidence! An what an amazing place to live :)

The evening (late June 2008) was very Mediterranean, warm and magical, lovers strolling, children playing, people sitting around sipping wine and beer, eating italian ice cream.

I must confess that I did not get the names of all the performers. Had to take care of our children also, ages 8 and 3. But VAL Folkloric Dance Group was in one of the segments.

Other groups were vocal and/or instrumental. Quite professional.

[cutiochan]

This is very beautiful Makes me want to cry. Oh and why is this called the Devil's Trill??

[Delucafamily1]

Satan appeared to Tartini in a dream and he tried to copy what Satan played...

[gttr123]

I've always been fascinated by that story!

[GodessOfMoon]

that story was always confusing to me

but the music was so nice

[snowdropofthedawn]

listen this in rainy days is the best XD

[levapk]

Awesome!!!

[classic765]

wow

[jaschenski]

You lucky $%$^" ;-)

I wonder if Biddulph will reissue them? They did this for Toscha Seidel on request, I read.

[scottbos68]

wow where do you get this stuff

[genmaximus110]

There's this place near me that buys from estate sells and then re-sells the merchandise. Right when I first got interested in the violin and started playing, I found 2 volumes of Shumsky playing Kreisler works. I didn't know how lucky I was to find them. 5 CDs for $5!!! Thank goodness I picked them up. There are so many Kreisler works that just aren't recorded anymore, and all played by the great Shumsky.

[genmaximus110]

So I saw a vinyl record on Ebay of Shumsky playing just a handful of these Kreisler pieces and they wanted $50 for it!!! For like 6 pieces!

Maybe I really am lucky to have gotten 5 CDs for $5 or whatever I paid for them.