Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvmt. 1 - Vengerov, VFCO

[urtismcdona13c]

This is one "classy" video. =p

[SomeAnimeOtaku]

Maxim Vengerov makes me smile = D

[youngchampagne]

This video is a favorite on Turkmenistan

[musashiblade1]

0:46-1:02 look like guys....-_-



[clasicgypsy]

It is much easier and more genuine music making if it's possible without the conductor ( intermediare ) ! In Mozart it's possible because the orquestra is smaller so the texture of sound serves better the style of Mozart and also it is quite square from tempos point of view so easier for the orquestra to play together. I hope I answered your question johnlobinstown.

[johnlobinstown]

why do soloists feel that they have to conduct as well ?

[ensignlilyjavert]

AND he's conducting?

[g0dsaves]

By looking at Vengerov's expressions throughout the concert he seems like a totally charming and charismatic man (besides being a genius)... bravo!!!

[huwrj]

Maxim Vengerov. The most manly name in history?

[dadnapt24]

1:35 Show off...

[SilenceTheQuiet]

@dadnapt24 If you had this great of a talent, why wouldn't you want to show it off?

[dadnapt24]

@SilenceTheQuiet -_-

[SilenceTheQuiet]

@dadnapt24 Thats what i thought:) lol

[dadnapt24]

@SilenceTheQuiet you think?

[SilenceTheQuiet]

@dadnapt24 ?

[jcfbell3001]

armand assante?

[jorgecabrales]

me encanta esa cadenza!!

[MrConvivator]

Danke, habe Link gesetzt

[TheSingingCello]

Mozart had a way with words didn't he....

[amanjahaha]

His playing is fabulous! His cadenza reminds me a bit of the Tchaik violin concerto. Anyone else?

[StradAmatiViolin]

@amanjahaha I have never really focused on tchaikovskys concertos do have any suggestions?

[amanjahaha]

@StradAmatiViolin Tchaikovsky only wrote one violin concerto! You should definitely look it up! This cadenza sounds like the first movement :) Try Heifetz or Perlman, they're amazing!

[StradAmatiViolin]

@amanjahaha Reall? I I will follow your your suggestion. Thank You if I may I will tell you what I think I have no negative things to say about a instrumentalist like them so I assure you I will love them I love perlman as well as him does Janine jansen have the concerto recorded? I think I seen it I will look again! Much Thanked.

[animeimport]

0:26 Bill Gates we love you XD

[jettviolin]

Did he write the cadenza?

[Sviolinist]

Wow, I really like his cadenza. Brilliant and modern yet still Mozartean. Genius.

[ktrulz13]

He's good•• But was a bit show off at the kadenza, and was a bit too much romantical-

But still wish I cud play like him•••

[Sviolinist]

@ktrulz13 Aye. We criticize this guy endlessly for his weirdo expressions, but at the end of the day - we all just want to play like him.

[TheGeekface99]

mozart has surely grown to new highs here. He has really matured as a composer. He lets the violinest ripe with melody after melody here with no pattern to follow as were in his day. He is starting to change his music struture .

[lovesGenet]

why have # 1&2 been so ignored.This is even better than #1where r 6&7.amazing that a genius has 4 violin concerti ignored since this was his instrument also.Teh divertimento are always fantastic writing why wouldnt the concerti be.4& #5 is perfection . 67 7cant be so bad look at the 27 pf concerto at least 23 are remarkable !

[freddy639]

his technique is beyond believe... awesome...

[helouz]

maximmm vengerov is good

[wat870]

lol at the chinese woman in the background to the left at 8:50 is just in awe of him

[cwxzeng]

i dont see it.... 0.o

[GLXLR]

Isn't she the head violist? Isn't she looking up to see when to start? -.-

[SoHoIoT]

@GLXLR You dont have to look up, even if you read the notes you see when he waves his hand or something. Havent you played in a symfoni orchestra? ^^

[GLXLR]

@SoHoIoT for the most part yes, you position yourself to where you see your music/conductor (solist/conductor in this case) but this is just peripheral vision and you don't divert your full attention to the conductor this way.

but besides the point, this is an excellent performance and that's all that matters.

[wat870]

effortless. he makes mozart look way too easy. love the facial expressions as always with vengerov

[farzadvengerov]

What a great cadenza!! which one is that??

[EmperorMato]

wow, can you see that impossible bow work in 4:44 ?

[switchfgirl]

no. i've been playing for nine years and i can do that! it's not so hard when you practice slow bow correctly.

[EmperorMato]

don't believe her :) i play violin for 11 years and can't play it with such a sound he has!

[switchfgirl]

well, i'm sorry you had a bad teacher then, cause i can play it like that.

[EmperorMato]

haha

[wat870]

its unlikely that you're going to be able to play like vengerov after 11 years, dontcha think?

[carrottoponcrak]

just mvoe your bow closer to the bridge to get a larger sound with less bow movement

[themusicdr]

the master mozert, performed by a master violinist vengerov. just look at how he interacts w the orchestra and look how thyre in awe of him

[megan2fantac]

莫札特第二號小提琴協奏曲

[theviolinmaster99]

Hey, can someone PLEASE PLEASE tell me what Cadeza this is, because I'm playing this piece and absolutely LOVE his Cadenza. Please just reply to this message if you know, please please please reply if you know.

[ViolinistAlex]

he wrote, because great violinists write their own cadenzas and if you read in the description, it also says, but i knew that before i read it , lol

[rlinmt]

Thank you, thank you for posting this. I idolize Max and this helps me so much in learning to play this piece when you hear it from an absolute master.

[mufty1qwer33]

The drummer is little bit behind the beat.........and also the banjo is annoying to me (particularly from bar 15 till 27).......however - briliant performance!!!!!!!!!

[battleblades]

Banjo? Do you know what you're talking about?

[danielwowman]

i never heard this one

he is favorit violinist my idol my god

[vlhere]

he is such a sweet player when he nneeds to and a harsh player when he needs to..Perfect balanced unlike Sarah Chang the everytime scratchy and aggressive player. She never should do Mozart or Barouque.

The violinist next to the Principal violinist is cute!!!! :P

[sicnarf25]

the only emotion vengerov plays with is in his facial experssions not through music. hes technical but brilliant.

[Kylebob74]

watch his bow... it slides onto the fingerboard and back

[gymbob0]

He does so many technically bad things...bow everywhere, fingers raised too high... so why is he so damn good??

[Kylebob74]

no idea haha

[eudoxas]

I know...my teacher is always telling me to bow in a straight line and put my fingers around the stick, to keep your head still on the chinrest, keep my fingers close to the string...AND THEN I SEE THIS!!!! He is a genius though...shame he isn't playing anymore.

[vickiviolini]

i know exactly what you mean!

i personally think that even though a musician can be technically perfect, it won't make him a great artist. i think it's necessary to have a certain 'star-power'... Vengerov definitely has that.

[violonistchris]

when you start you must realy do all these technical things in order to play well......but then by growing up as a musician and knowing what are you doing and why you are doing these things then you look at other things you have to learn how to hide your technique beyond your emotion ,and that is something that few people can do......but without loosing your technique

[xXLeafXNinjaXx]

ZOMFGZZZZ!

i loved his cadenza

[th3xcaus3]

find your place on your insrument and rest your head fool

[xXLeafXNinjaXx]

what?

[gymbob0]

You know why violinists do that? You want to hear the sound direct and from a distance. You can only do that if you move your head...

[xiaoxiayu]

are you stupid.... noone watching a classical video will go to that site, wrong place to advertise

[plot000000]

lmao

[firebreathone]

Isn't it amazing that he knows the entire score by heart?

[kaibasaid]

Absolutely amazing.

[Leesa100]

The sunniest, warmest sound any 21st violinist has been able to produce.

[Horror1986kirsche]

FUCK AMAZING..

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[noideawhatimdoin]

Does anybody know what hes playing on?

[Cobanlar2008]

Ich finde das Stück ein rießen Erfolg !!!

ihr habt doch alle kein Geschmack .

Schaut euch doch an wie die alle spielen , am besten ist der mit der Violine.

[hnk777]

Tone is a bit weedy, maybe needs to put more rosin on the bow.

[freeyourcrt]

It looks like Maxim's got the hots for the violinist in the red shirt.

[plemax]

And one more thing is sound recording here. Sound is way too sensitive for violin performance, I can almost hear rosin from his bow. Timbre of strings are not even. This is not the way people hear violin in the concert hall.

[ddviolinist]

Hey dumbass, that "rosin" you hear from his bow is called surface sound, and it is on most GREAT ARTISTS' RECORDINGS!!!! God, you are ignorant. Get an education, would you? You are pathetic.

[plemax]

What a dumbest thing I ever heard. "Surface sound" is your stupid suzuki teachers excuse for non performance. What I am talking about is sound engineer who couldn't set mic right. Because of he deaf as all of you.

[ddviolinist]

never took suzuki and studied with a romanian, a russian, and an American. All of whom could obvious play rings around you. You are obvioulsy a nothing. Surface noise is a basic word used in the recording industry, DUMB ASS!! You just showed not only are you ignorant of what we can do here in the usa, but you don't even know basic terminology of the very thing you are criticizing. I am now going to block you, because you are too foul and stupid for me to bother with you again. Grow up.

[plemax]

This is what is terminology in Russian - rosin sound. Who the fuck cares what it called in english. Anything else you can say beside terminology? You didn't answer to me on my question jerk.

[rosobobya]

How do the orchestra stay together when maxim plays the violin?

[xXLeafXNinjaXx]

excellent sense of rythm? i mean thats how mozart did it back in the day

[plemax]

I am surprised too, in USA nobody teach chamber music. It must be non US orchestra?!

[baabroma]

um not true...I do chamber music all the time and I live in the USA. Ever heard of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, based in Lincoln Center, New York City. Definitely an american chamber orchestra. The orchestra in the video is most definitely European, they know how to listen well, but there are many American ones that do as well. The chamber music scene in America is very alive and well!

[plemax]

Relax. This is probably some interment show with talented kids. Maybe some festival. I don't think this is European orchestra. They looks North American to me and play like NA.

And it is true that classical music is suck big time in NA. I the same time US has numbers of very good professional musicians. Too bad they all poor and dream to be a doctors or lawyers. You have no system, how can you play in ensemble if any teachers teach what ever they think is right?

[ddviolinist]

What the hell are you rambling on about? Every single thing you have said thus far is 100% crap. How old are you, 10? Seriously, shut the hell up and learn facts before you speak. You are a completely ignorant idiot.

[plemax]

What facts? That NA musicians dream to be a doctors and poor like rats? Ha-ha. Dream on jerk that you have music education in US or Canada. Maybe in New York you have couple immigrants from Europe who educate you, that's true. But they wasting they time anyway.

[theViolinDreamer]

I think you are aware of the fact that names among the greatest music schools -Juilliard, Curtis are in USA? You can't just generalize this way. It is true that in some places musical education is less expensive and more accessible than in USA , but this is far from proving your point.

[plemax]

I don't think that Julliard is one of the greatest schools, second one I haven't even heard. There is no school, there just a place that can afford to hire greatest musician in the world, that's all. Look at the faculty of Julliard, more then half of them are immigrants. Have you ever heard of American violin school?

[theViolinDreamer]

To my knowledge ,Juilliard is ranked as a top music school. Then the same with the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia;about this one, take a few moments and watch their website,admissions,and you won't deny that it is pretty hard to get in there.

[plemax]

Ranked by who? Can I see that rank somewhere? Simple question. Have you heard about American violin, cello, whatever school? I know about American Jazz school.

[theViolinDreamer]

And well, I could reply to you that a lot of people in America are imigrants,not just good musicians.I live here and I see with my own eyes that America is the country of all countries.Then ,that's not really an argument.Also ,you have great names of composers and performers who are Americans.

[plemax]

For example?

[plemax]

That's right. So don't tell me that Americans have great school of music. It's not in your culture and there is no any system of education for that. No system means no standards, no standards means no school. Just occasionally talented people.

[omfgyo12]

There are many great performers/composers who are alumni/teachers from Juilliard: including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Nigel Kennedy, Ivan Galamian, John Williams, Philip Glass

It's still a very prestigious school mostly due to name recognition. I'm sorry your bias can't see that.

[plemax]

I know that Julliard is very prestigious school. We just have different definitions for word "school". Read below.

[ddviolinist]

This person has been brainwashed and has zero understanding of what is or isn't in the usa. Obviously his/her teacher or someone in Russia has been feeding them a lot of lies. Hard to understand how someone could be so ignorant in the days and times of the internet. My God, it is so ridiculous.

[plemax]

Who cares of what is or isn't in USA? I hear NA musicians and that's enough to say. Just tell me at what age your kids start learning solfedgio for example? Do you even know what it is non brain washed proud sucker?

[baabroma]

actually I'm from South Carolina, in the UNITED STATES....so kiss my as.

[ddviolinist]

why did you send me this? I wasn't talking to you.

[baabroma]

sorry...I jumped the gun...I just realized you were talking to plemax

[bdbrown3889]

His cadenza was brilliant.

[CavalazziViolinist]

i dance to this..

[vcij]

sublime

[jojo0106]

i'm playing this now

[TheBowIsMightier]

Awesome! Me too =D awesome piece huh?

Well actually you're probably not playing it any more...oh well. All of Mozart's violin concertos are awesome so you'll end up playing a dozen more of the regardless. =D

[MOZARTasaWARcrime]

I award this 3 Dresdens.

[Guppywarlord]

I'm playing this now...not the hardest piece ever, but definitely one of the most fun.

[freakgrl]

This is fabulous! Thanks so much for posting this. See, I'm just about to start learning it, and when I started sight reading I went all 'wtf' at the difficult rhythm but listening to this has really given me a heads up about what the final product is supposed to sound like, and trust me, now I'm DEFINITELY going to continue playing. :]

[mrojar]

@freakgrl 

[JohnSuChristine]

thanks alot for posting!

[andreiviolin]

wonderfull. I love Maxim's playing and style He plays with taste, and very expressive. I admire him so much.