Bartok is in my mind theese days.Playing all 6 books of microcosmos. Relearning music and it is fun. It is a game.I don't feel good I go to this. Feel good after 2 minutes.
Been looking for a performance of this that seems to to do it justice (have at least 3 recordings); this is the best! Long been giant Bartok, since age 14, & this is most recent of his masterpieces new to me (only 1 other, opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, since Pno Cto 1 when I was 18). To me, this ranks w/ Britten's cello suites, and almost up there w/ Bach's cello suites and violin partitas. Wow! Gitlis: double wow! And folks, tastes differ. Let's at least be polite--maybe even respectful.
All you guys are missing the point: Classical music is a rich palette of beauty, vulgarity, romance, hate, love, fear, exhalation, spirituality, oblivion...you name it. It's not about greatness, it's about expressing our humanity. That's art. As far as criticizing, it is always healthy to criticize music. Every single composer has had their detractors especially Beethoven. Criticism is a part of music history. Greatness is ALWAYS subjective-historically, contextually and especially artistically.
@Carthsgtr You are sooooooooo ignorant. He was the only 20th century composer looking to PRESERVE tonality. He hated atonality. It's not just notes on a page, it's in modes, and the phrasing is FAR from romantic....
@scottydscottd Bartok is not a tonal composer. he is far from being tonal. though he started as tonal composer. but you are right when you say his phrasing are far from romantic.
@Carthsgtr You are an idiot...... plain and simple. scotty is soooooo correct. Bartok was the logical and artistic evolution to tonal music. He did not take the path of the 12 tone composers. He simply took his quaint folk melodies and brought them to the 20th century. If you listen carefully, you will be able to hear the gypsies in there and with loads of emotion...... Maybe you should go back and put on a Captain and Tennille album on and boogie down....
@Carthsgtr: You simply know not of what you speak; Bartok is the towering genius of the 20th century and Mr. Gitlis is one of the great masters of the violin. Study the 6 String Quartets before deciding to talk out of your ass again. Just a suggestion.
@Carthsgtr: Your attempts to justify your ignorance are self serving and pathetic; you simply know not of what you speak. Music is a discipline which demands deep and serious study to even beging to fathom its depths. You don't even know the proper usage of its vs. it's. Maybe you should study language and puncuation before conntinuing to pontificate like a pompous prick.
@Fiddlerfrank With your answer I assume that you are just a frustrated person who has no idea of how difficult is to wright music and with this achieving to be one of the greatest composers ever. his six string quartets are regarded as the best since Beethoven.Whithout counting any other of his works. So this tells you of what kind of composer you are critising. But you didn't answers my question: are you one of the greatest composers alive?
@Carthsgtr Bartok is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century you stupid ignorant. don't even try to judge Bartok! if you don't know shit about him. how dare people like you criticise one of the greatest composers ever! who do you think you are? Schoenberg? are you one of the greatest composers alive? if not, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
@fabianidhesona oh, how I just love that kind of arguments.. "how dare you judge Bieber? he is one of the greatest singers alive! what have you sang that gave you right to judge him? who do you think you are? Lady Gaga?" I can asure you that one does not have to film his own movie to tell Uwe Boll's production from Kubrik's. Not saying that one should not be interested in critic's qualification, but do you rly think one has to be worlds greatest composer to have any oppinion on music? well, r u?
Gitlis's LP turned me on to Berg's Vln Cto (IMO Berg's only competition in that genre in 20th century are Bartok's 2nd, Britten's, & Shostakovich's 2; maybe Prokoviev 2nd). Is this recording that old? Sound quality bad. I've yet to find a playing of this I can really get behind; but piece fairly new to me--the most recent masterpiece by Bartok I've encountered (before this, Bluebeard's Castle). Been hearing Bartok 55 years, since 14, starting w/ quartets & Music for Strings, Percussion, etc.
...as one crying with maddened emotions and drama, turns to trust and then still. I needed and wanted to listen but couldn't follow along. Like a truth I did not want to hear but rejoicing with applause. Extortion is lost joyful noise is in my head.
While I'm not a huge fan of this solo violin sonata, Bartok is, without a doubt, one of the greatest composers of the early 20th century and he deserves a seat right besides Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Brahms. Truly so original, so passionate, so sincere, so dreamy, so chaotic, so melodious, so harsh, it's a perfect combination of greatness. I only am amazed I didn't "get" him when I first heard his music.
What a remarkable melody! Also brilliantly performed by Gitlis. Such tone! Great harmonics and sul ponticello sections( theramin-like). One can really hear the framework for the monumental middle string quartets in these melodies. The use of whole tone fragments as well as the motive built on C, C#, F, F# which are chords of repose in #2-6 (see Antanovic''s (sp) book. Also the theme from piano sonata 1 3rd.mov. right hand. Scary good!
Is 2 and 4 anywhere? I'd love to see them. I like his recording from what I hear so far. The only other recording I have is Leila Josephowitz. The interpretation is totally different from hers.
I want to hear more like this, but I get hopelessly lost navigating the world of classical music. Other Bartok videos on YT are too cheery - this, especially the first 2/3, is what I truly like. The shrill sound really suits the violin. On piano, my favourite is Rachmaninov's Prelude in C#m. Anyone have specific suggestions? Thanks =)
@kwrkrlz ECCO playing Penderecki; Nigun by Bloch, then search for other music of Bloch for solo cello, viola/violin and piano; Ligeti's or Hindemith's solo viola sonatas; Bartok's Fourth String Quartet, Violin Concertos...hope this helps! :)
@justin10292000 Will check them all out! Thanks for that! YT didn't let me know that I got a reply for some reason, so I only saw your comment now when I checked this page just now =( Thanks again!
i never heard a composition of this magnitude in terms of feeling of melody in any terms its so amazing i wish i could speak with bartok and meet the man can express this kind of fellings its really from another world you goota love him if you don t you dont have soul enough
There is a terrific performance of this by Robert Mann, former 1st violinist of the Julliard String Quartet. Recorded when he was rather young. Do not know if it's still available.
That guy that the camera shifts to around 1:34 is so creepy... I don't like it. I like the piece a lot, and it's a great interpretation... just not that creepy man.
I think that Ivri Gitlis was a former student of C. Flesh... Thank you for posting this rare document.
Does any one out there have his version of the Franck and Debussy sonata with M.Argerich??? If ever, please post it, it is one of the best versions I have ever heard...
Yeah, what was Bartok thinking? As a violist, I like the Bartok viola concerto, but a lot of Bartok's other stuff just leaves me scratching my head. In fact I once wrote, "heck even I can write music as well as Bartok" ( ha ha).
lol if I'm not mistaken, that creepy guy at 1:34 might be the violinist who Bartok wrote this sonata for. I could be wrong though. He does look pretty weird in this setting!
At the beginning I liked the Melodia much more than the first movement. But after rather 20 times oft hearing the first, I love it now more than the melodia, but only a little little bit :-) it's so powerful, but perfectly contruated! I can't figure out how to construct a thing like that...
All these pieces feel like dreamscapes or something. Not really nice dreams, haunting in some kind of way. Yet you want to explore more of the dream despite it's feeling of unease. I don't know maybe I'm just rambling.
I love the 3rd movement. It is very delicate and transcendent to the ear. Bartok is a great violinist. Also, see the 2nd Piano Concerto, and the Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion, it is all insanely structural.
Comparingly, the pace is a bit fast but Melodia gains in strength and richness, in my opinion, thanks to that together with the outstanding talent of Gitlis.
It sounds so eerie. This is the difference b/w just playing out of tune and playing microtonal music. This guys playing music. I respect it even if I don't always get it.
So sad that hardly anyone can actually play well anymore. These days, even most so-called "pros" sound weak. The creative arts have become so completely irrelevant that reasonable standards have become, likewise, completely irrelevant.
Listen to the REAL musicians of previous generations, and the degree to which the modern "creative professions" have been dummied-down (usurped by ignorant wealth, more often than not) becomes self-evident.
This piece is pretty cool. This is my first time listening to Bartok, who I've heard was great. I'm a piano and saxophone player, so forgive me for asking but, what is the maximum amount of notes a violinist play at the same time?
If you mean by evil "good", as the English say "wicked", I agree. He was very evil. If you mean it in the literal sense, well no. He had very deep knowledge of other modes and and harmonies that may sound atonal too some, but believe me, he was tonal, a bit edgy, nevertheless tonal and still followed the classical pattern of composing. Check out his Romanian Folk Dances. They might be a little easier to digest. Cheers, Szx.
my heart jumped when his violin started shrieking. he treats the notes like another instrument, almost like a voice instead of a violin. that might be the most fucked up violinst I've heard, but the most artistic, and would you want it any differently? it's beautiful, and terrifying, all at once. kinda like life...
At .48 and 1 min. and following it sounds like a saw being bowed/played. How many of you have heard a saw played? Probably one played here on youtube.
Please listen to Some of jossef hassids recordings he was highly compared to heifetz by fritz kreisler himself saying that a heifetz only comes 100 years and a hassid 200 years
Yes..some of the finest violinist ever..and please don't forget Ossy Renardy, a world class player though untaught by a Master--who also fought in WW II
What a piece. I am always eager to hear a new Bartok piece that i haven't heard. This one just get under my skin. Very delicate. Trancendant. I love this. Great violinist too, obviously.
Ulvi Cemal'i tanımayan insanlar Bartok dinliyor.Güzel sanatlar liselerinde imam hatipliler müdürlük yapıyor.cıldırmamak mümkün değil bu ülkede..
06dara59 3 days ago
Bartok is in my mind theese days.Playing all 6 books of microcosmos. Relearning music and it is fun. It is a game.I don't feel good I go to this. Feel good after 2 minutes.
sdegrace 6 days ago
i enjoy hering this one play he has a lot of soul but one of my favorite is Stephane Grappelli
rootbeer1957 1 month ago
the melody is so beautiful, Bartok transverses musical convention; what he creates is the music of the mind
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Been looking for a performance of this that seems to to do it justice (have at least 3 recordings); this is the best! Long been giant Bartok, since age 14, & this is most recent of his masterpieces new to me (only 1 other, opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, since Pno Cto 1 when I was 18). To me, this ranks w/ Britten's cello suites, and almost up there w/ Bach's cello suites and violin partitas. Wow! Gitlis: double wow! And folks, tastes differ. Let's at least be polite--maybe even respectful.
RichardASalisbury1 3 months ago
All you guys are missing the point: Classical music is a rich palette of beauty, vulgarity, romance, hate, love, fear, exhalation, spirituality, oblivion...you name it. It's not about greatness, it's about expressing our humanity. That's art. As far as criticizing, it is always healthy to criticize music. Every single composer has had their detractors especially Beethoven. Criticism is a part of music history. Greatness is ALWAYS subjective-historically, contextually and especially artistically.
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Carthsgtr 4 months ago
@Carthsgtr You are sooooooooo ignorant. He was the only 20th century composer looking to PRESERVE tonality. He hated atonality. It's not just notes on a page, it's in modes, and the phrasing is FAR from romantic....
scottydscottd 4 months ago
@scottydscottd Bartok is not a tonal composer. he is far from being tonal. though he started as tonal composer. but you are right when you say his phrasing are far from romantic.
fabianidhesona 4 months ago
@Carthsgtr You are an idiot...... plain and simple. scotty is soooooo correct. Bartok was the logical and artistic evolution to tonal music. He did not take the path of the 12 tone composers. He simply took his quaint folk melodies and brought them to the 20th century. If you listen carefully, you will be able to hear the gypsies in there and with loads of emotion...... Maybe you should go back and put on a Captain and Tennille album on and boogie down....
twcal 4 months ago
@Carthsgtr: You simply know not of what you speak; Bartok is the towering genius of the 20th century and Mr. Gitlis is one of the great masters of the violin. Study the 6 String Quartets before deciding to talk out of your ass again. Just a suggestion.
Fiddlerfrank 4 months ago
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Carthsgtr 4 months ago
@Carthsgtr: Your attempts to justify your ignorance are self serving and pathetic; you simply know not of what you speak. Music is a discipline which demands deep and serious study to even beging to fathom its depths. You don't even know the proper usage of its vs. it's. Maybe you should study language and puncuation before conntinuing to pontificate like a pompous prick.
Fiddlerfrank 4 months ago
@Fiddlerfrank With your answer I assume that you are just a frustrated person who has no idea of how difficult is to wright music and with this achieving to be one of the greatest composers ever. his six string quartets are regarded as the best since Beethoven.Whithout counting any other of his works. So this tells you of what kind of composer you are critising. But you didn't answers my question: are you one of the greatest composers alive?
fabianidhesona 4 months ago
@Carthsgtr Bartok is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century you stupid ignorant. don't even try to judge Bartok! if you don't know shit about him. how dare people like you criticise one of the greatest composers ever! who do you think you are? Schoenberg? are you one of the greatest composers alive? if not, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
fabianidhesona 4 months ago
@fabianidhesona oh, how I just love that kind of arguments.. "how dare you judge Bieber? he is one of the greatest singers alive! what have you sang that gave you right to judge him? who do you think you are? Lady Gaga?" I can asure you that one does not have to film his own movie to tell Uwe Boll's production from Kubrik's. Not saying that one should not be interested in critic's qualification, but do you rly think one has to be worlds greatest composer to have any oppinion on music? well, r u?
erghtrfgh 2 weeks ago
@Carthsgtr you're someone who has no balls to compose your own music and you're even criticising someone like Bartok?!!
GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
Youtube is not a punctuation contest.
fabianidhesona 4 months ago
@fabianidhesona Neither is it AN ALL CAPS CONTEST.
TheReligionkills 4 months ago
Most played tune in the Grim Reaper's playlist.
rorschachstiffocate 8 months ago 5
Gitlis's LP turned me on to Berg's Vln Cto (IMO Berg's only competition in that genre in 20th century are Bartok's 2nd, Britten's, & Shostakovich's 2; maybe Prokoviev 2nd). Is this recording that old? Sound quality bad. I've yet to find a playing of this I can really get behind; but piece fairly new to me--the most recent masterpiece by Bartok I've encountered (before this, Bluebeard's Castle). Been hearing Bartok 55 years, since 14, starting w/ quartets & Music for Strings, Percussion, etc.
RichardASalisbury1 9 months ago
...as one crying with maddened emotions and drama, turns to trust and then still. I needed and wanted to listen but couldn't follow along. Like a truth I did not want to hear but rejoicing with applause. Extortion is lost joyful noise is in my head.
SuperRubicon5 9 months ago
Is reminds me of those Fifel goes west haha
LADYxxLUNATIK 9 months ago
It's a wonderful piece of music, and an exceptionally beautiful performance. I loved it.
BruceH123 9 months ago
Does anyone know where I can find/buy the music for this song/other Bartok compositions. So amazing, would love to play it.
belbird 10 months ago
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Sounds like shit
Gargantupimp 10 months ago
@Gargantupimp I agree, that would be a perfect words to describe you.
Bagas 10 months ago
@Gargantupimp no, but what you said does.
deandusk 8 months ago
very deep sadness, It's like mixture of hopelessness, confusion, worrying, stressfull and sadness. It's just for me. lol
funkeemon 10 months ago
While I'm not a huge fan of this solo violin sonata, Bartok is, without a doubt, one of the greatest composers of the early 20th century and he deserves a seat right besides Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Brahms. Truly so original, so passionate, so sincere, so dreamy, so chaotic, so melodious, so harsh, it's a perfect combination of greatness. I only am amazed I didn't "get" him when I first heard his music.
dalecampbl9 11 months ago
This is simply perfection.
gavrilo2007 11 months ago 2
King Crimson violin
jcast18k 1 year ago 13
Musical catpiss.
Pugophile 1 year ago
Spledida interpretare!
19420130 1 year ago
What a remarkable melody! Also brilliantly performed by Gitlis. Such tone! Great harmonics and sul ponticello sections( theramin-like). One can really hear the framework for the monumental middle string quartets in these melodies. The use of whole tone fragments as well as the motive built on C, C#, F, F# which are chords of repose in #2-6 (see Antanovic''s (sp) book. Also the theme from piano sonata 1 3rd.mov. right hand. Scary good!
hotplate85 1 year ago
if you could have the possibility to play this piece in the romantic era, peoble would sue you right away, or probably kill you.
fabianidhesona 1 year ago 7
Excelentt!
schutzstaffelSS88 1 year ago
imperfect unbalanced dark melody of death!
fukitol1000mg 1 year ago 3
beyond amazing.
shavepate 1 year ago
Is 2 and 4 anywhere? I'd love to see them. I like his recording from what I hear so far. The only other recording I have is Leila Josephowitz. The interpretation is totally different from hers.
sbeallvln 1 year ago
4 SUZ
amipliin 1 year ago
wow *.*
VogelfreierVagabund 1 year ago
ugly beautiful
ninjalikesweapons 1 year ago 28
hermosa ejecucion, que vibracion
07septimo 1 year ago
I love his posture angle...... like 45 degrees... take no prisoners....
NatoViolin 1 year ago
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NatoViolin 1 year ago
best recording ever made ! i nerver heard a sound like this, only ivry can can get this intensity, i could cry juste thinking about his sound...
the best !
COBRASPACE 1 year ago
This leaves you so uneasy, but in a good way. It's beautifully haunting.
yami0204 1 year ago
1:34 Kill meeeeeeeeeee
accionmigrania 1 year ago
I want to hear more like this, but I get hopelessly lost navigating the world of classical music. Other Bartok videos on YT are too cheery - this, especially the first 2/3, is what I truly like. The shrill sound really suits the violin. On piano, my favourite is Rachmaninov's Prelude in C#m. Anyone have specific suggestions? Thanks =)
kwrkrlz 1 year ago
@kwrkrlz ECCO playing Penderecki; Nigun by Bloch, then search for other music of Bloch for solo cello, viola/violin and piano; Ligeti's or Hindemith's solo viola sonatas; Bartok's Fourth String Quartet, Violin Concertos...hope this helps! :)
justin10292000 1 year ago
@justin10292000 Will check them all out! Thanks for that! YT didn't let me know that I got a reply for some reason, so I only saw your comment now when I checked this page just now =( Thanks again!
kwrkrlz 1 year ago
to the unopened mind this music may seem jarring, but its a talent to see the true beauty of it.
DavidTaylorRocks 1 year ago
@DavidTaylorRocks Yeah just like how only the wise could see the emperors beautiful new clothing.
Gargantupimp 10 months ago
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madlovba2 1 year ago
genius
lordhenrywotton69 1 year ago
i never heard a composition of this magnitude in terms of feeling of melody in any terms its so amazing i wish i could speak with bartok and meet the man can express this kind of fellings its really from another world you goota love him if you don t you dont have soul enough
andre3236 1 year ago
listen to the beautifull ring modulation at 1:00 due to the old pseudo distorted tape recording
bartok is my hero
fuckingharpsichord 1 year ago
this is perfect
edcerc 1 year ago
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Bagas 1 year ago 2
I can undertand why people wouldn't like this at fist listening...... you have to absorb this piece!
hollymollyize 1 year ago 2
increadable and frightful
5619762 1 year ago
amazing !!!!
pcma1970 2 years ago
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mmmm this music is nice, but i prefer GAnsta' RAp
yeahyeahyaha2 2 years ago
@yeahyeahyaha2 Haha. Why?
claptonfan1000000 2 years ago
orale q espectacular m dja sin palabras
rodrigoojx 2 years ago 2
Such art!
pviola314 2 years ago 2
I don't think Bela would like the word art music applied to him haha
alexbericheath 1 year ago
Well i think i know what my cat would say because i have to feed it every morning. But even then i was referreing to Gitlis' class.
pviola314 1 year ago
absulata sleepitah! :)
nea3ivory 2 years ago
great. - shut up sosohahaQQ, you gypsy.
Morisin02 2 years ago
played with such emotion! it's just really beautiful.
alexpcah 2 years ago 2
se escucha realmente lindo... es muy nostalgica... me gusto mucho.
haruwodaiteita17 2 years ago 3
wow! sin palabras...que hermosa melodía!
inquisidor31 2 years ago
me encanta!
no hay nada mejor que la musica echa con el alma
pedersen9989 2 years ago 2
Absolutely magic version!!!!!!
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poor magyars are nothing. we punish every hungarian. hahaha, kick kick
sosohahaQQ 2 years ago
What? Why are we poor?
hangya10 2 years ago
csak irigykedik, mert szegény románoknak nincs mire büszkének lenniük :)
PiciLali 2 years ago 5
who is the guy sitting behind Ivry? Bartok?!
gulisha520 2 years ago
I think it's Henny Youngman
keeftaylor 2 years ago
No, Beethoven¡¡¡¡
MUSICOSO58 2 years ago
this is so creepy, it sounds perfect for theremin.
YiftachCarmeli 2 years ago
There is a terrific performance of this by Robert Mann, former 1st violinist of the Julliard String Quartet. Recorded when he was rather young. Do not know if it's still available.
ipmoic 2 years ago
it is intresting koments my ground father is realy good thats why i like piano but ime modern artist and i like freestyle in clasick instruments
sebstpl 2 years ago
koments, roundfather, clasick yea....
Donluggy 2 years ago
dude dont be such a dick. you figured it out right? lay off the bro he's clearly foreign.
unclejunglebass 2 years ago
ahh scary ghost song!
was my first reaction
DBOGJOHNSON 2 years ago
That guy that the camera shifts to around 1:34 is so creepy... I don't like it. I like the piece a lot, and it's a great interpretation... just not that creepy man.
ENsaxist 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for these precisions ;)
drunkskater27 2 years ago
Its really haunting... makes me feel uncomfortable!
musicgeek15 2 years ago 2
I think that Ivri Gitlis was a former student of C. Flesh... Thank you for posting this rare document.
Does any one out there have his version of the Franck and Debussy sonata with M.Argerich??? If ever, please post it, it is one of the best versions I have ever heard...
108BR 2 years ago
This is incredibly beautiful and excellently played.
crazy6425 2 years ago 3
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I dont feel anything when i listen to it...
JadF31 2 years ago
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Yeah, what was Bartok thinking? As a violist, I like the Bartok viola concerto, but a lot of Bartok's other stuff just leaves me scratching my head. In fact I once wrote, "heck even I can write music as well as Bartok" ( ha ha).
BeammeupSpotty 2 years ago
me neither! lol
socsol 2 years ago
lol if I'm not mistaken, that creepy guy at 1:34 might be the violinist who Bartok wrote this sonata for. I could be wrong though. He does look pretty weird in this setting!
eringobragh91 2 years ago
I think your wrong, Bartok wrote this for Yehudi Menuhin, and this isn't Menuhin.
drunkskater27 2 years ago
Not the guy performing, but the person you see at 1:34. =]
eringobragh91 2 years ago
Yep, that's what I said, the guy at 1:34 isn't Menuhin (I've no idea who he is though) :)
drunkskater27 2 years ago
i cant belive hi have same face like i lol
sebstpl 2 years ago
my ground father hi is best like i
sebstpl 2 years ago
Does anyone else here like spiraling frequencies under some of the notes? like hypnotic waves of sound.
Sandrito702 2 years ago
Ya, I hear that as well. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm quite sure its not coming from the violin, so its not supposed to be part of the sonata.
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crazy6425 2 years ago
At the beginning I liked the Melodia much more than the first movement. But after rather 20 times oft hearing the first, I love it now more than the melodia, but only a little little bit :-) it's so powerful, but perfectly contruated! I can't figure out how to construct a thing like that...
kletterkajo 2 years ago
Mr. Gitlis did it so well...both Bartok's and Ysaye's sonata are not to be played by anybody, 'cause they just sound anoying!
Ok at 1:34 that guy if he has anything to do with the video at all, it's just to make the video scaryer!
AJDM10 2 years ago 4
ROFL
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omg I'm going to have nightmares! :(
Gretaleine 2 years ago
All these pieces feel like dreamscapes or something. Not really nice dreams, haunting in some kind of way. Yet you want to explore more of the dream despite it's feeling of unease. I don't know maybe I'm just rambling.
ProfessorHuggins 3 years ago 54
I agree. Bartok was a troubled man. Seems fitting.
PalomaNegra321 3 years ago
WOW how did you get this video
CHOCSAVEPROB 3 years ago
I love the 3rd movement. It is very delicate and transcendent to the ear. Bartok is a great violinist. Also, see the 2nd Piano Concerto, and the Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion, it is all insanely structural.
peanutbabe83 3 years ago
Amazing! Never heard a Bartok peice before, but its great stuff!
Just one thing, whats up with that dude at 1:34?
HillbillyJ 3 years ago 2
LOL I just noticed that. xD
LuminousPalmTree 3 years ago
the music is scary enough without that grinning nutter. he freaks me out.
wilhelmowicz 3 years ago 2
i LOLED at that comment about the dude.
talonboy5432 3 years ago
Comparingly, the pace is a bit fast but Melodia gains in strength and richness, in my opinion, thanks to that together with the outstanding talent of Gitlis.
chillisnake 3 years ago
It sounds so eerie. This is the difference b/w just playing out of tune and playing microtonal music. This guys playing music. I respect it even if I don't always get it.
HuggumsMcgehee 3 years ago
fit my mood to a t today. i feel like i'm in the twilite zone.
bibs5 3 years ago
this music calms me down.
ampallang7 3 years ago
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME
where are your EARS people?
wiggling your hand does not constitute artfullness if you can't find the proper spot on the fretboard to make a proper note, eh
OUT OF TUNE!
yoosh52 3 years ago
Hahaha( about "out of tune") say it to Bartok.
And by the way, there are no frets on violin
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haha oh wow
seikei 3 years ago
ignorant, try reading something about microtonal music.
JU88UJ 3 years ago
have you ever heard about microtonal music? narrow-ear ignorant.
JU88UJ 3 years ago
it's called vibrato.. soo stupid. u think ur an expert..
lilsumtin1234 3 years ago
Many of Bartok's pieces were dischordant. It's not out of tune.......................and I think it's quite eerie and spooky lol
bomberchicken 3 years ago
i've noticed the soundtrack is behind like half a second.. is it suppose to be like that?
oOddkillerOo 3 years ago
I love this sonnnng !!
dlfqhs123 3 years ago
Bartok makes me drift away into space and smile as I go.
alexvollrathsmith 3 years ago
Now THAT'S well done. Artfully intense.
So sad that hardly anyone can actually play well anymore. These days, even most so-called "pros" sound weak. The creative arts have become so completely irrelevant that reasonable standards have become, likewise, completely irrelevant.
Listen to the REAL musicians of previous generations, and the degree to which the modern "creative professions" have been dummied-down (usurped by ignorant wealth, more often than not) becomes self-evident.
DoctorLexus 3 years ago
While there are many so-called ''pros'' around today, there are also excellent musicians around too.
bomberchicken 3 years ago
02:11 - 02:21 -> hammer
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portuSC1029 3 years ago
ok, donte?
fana406 3 years ago
you are a fool and a child.
gorillabuilder 3 years ago
This is brilliant stuff. Incredibly emotional, and yet still unconventional.
altron2095 3 years ago 2
Everyone listen 1.00-1.10 in background. Yes this is alien soprano.
Bela BARTOK belalı amcadır adamı armonisiyle yola getirir.
osruk 3 years ago
Very nice interpretation.
SierraNeef 3 years ago
nossa éh d++++++++ essa musica,simplismente eu viajo,quando esculto^^
karinelias666 3 years ago
so damn wonderful
thebigsuperman 3 years ago 2
One of the most beautiful and chilling pieces i have ever heard.
Gotta love Bartok.
mrgrinch14 3 years ago 8
Haunting and beautifull! I want this played on my funeral!
septiemakkoord 3 years ago 2
*drool* god what brand violin was that?? it's so powerful i must have it
ViolinistCaenis 3 years ago
I do believe it's a Stradivarius, the "Swan Song" to be specific.
turbostrat 3 years ago
GOD = BARTOK...well, almost...
DrSatanMortos 3 years ago 4
not almost, don't regret, be brave! lol
leinad345 3 years ago 3
ok ok...Bartok Was GOD!
DrSatanMortos 3 years ago 4
Bartok was a real genius
DrSatanMortos 3 years ago 2
at the same time in chords we have 4 notes (4 strings), in brokenchords like in ysaye sometimes 5 or 6...
egonsky 3 years ago
bartok is god, if you have listen to Jonny Greenwood : there be will blood, he have a similar songs...so fucking great!!!
DrSatanMortos 3 years ago
Its kinda scary, spine tingling.
But wonderful!
The first three notes sound like Sibelus hehe.
musicgeek15 3 years ago
This piece is pretty cool. This is my first time listening to Bartok, who I've heard was great. I'm a piano and saxophone player, so forgive me for asking but, what is the maximum amount of notes a violinist play at the same time?
TheIzzoGuy 3 years ago
Violinists can play 2 notes at a time.
But chords if they are spread, this is because the bow can only touch 2 strings at a time.
musicgeek15 3 years ago
uh, no, we can play three strings.
QueenBobetta 1 year ago
mysterious
greenowl2 3 years ago 8
very nice thank u
stupidfukinshithead 3 years ago 2
Truly impressive perfomance!!!
chillisnake 3 years ago 4
Bartok is like the Frank Zappa of Violin. I love it.
leech 3 years ago
You should listen to some Lutoslawski. :p
Lesolin 3 years ago
his compositions are scary
Cocecala 3 years ago
Bartok was evil. Still is when you play his stuff. Amazing though. Just evil.
Violaelf 3 years ago 3
If you mean by evil "good", as the English say "wicked", I agree. He was very evil. If you mean it in the literal sense, well no. He had very deep knowledge of other modes and and harmonies that may sound atonal too some, but believe me, he was tonal, a bit edgy, nevertheless tonal and still followed the classical pattern of composing. Check out his Romanian Folk Dances. They might be a little easier to digest. Cheers, Szx.
szaszigeti 3 years ago
my heart jumped when his violin started shrieking. he treats the notes like another instrument, almost like a voice instead of a violin. that might be the most fucked up violinst I've heard, but the most artistic, and would you want it any differently? it's beautiful, and terrifying, all at once. kinda like life...
conceptionblues 3 years ago 10
wonderfully put, i'm glad to see some positive comments on youtube once in a while
airplanekenny 3 years ago 4
Bartok is funky..I don't think he is the easiest composer to play because the only thing to expect from Bartok is the unexpected
OriginalMoonbeam 3 years ago 2
Remekmű
dinoszaurusz 3 years ago
At .48 and 1 min. and following it sounds like a saw being bowed/played. How many of you have heard a saw played? Probably one played here on youtube.
BluStogie 3 years ago
Wild, where are all the weird harmonic over- and undertones coming from? Is there some ancient reverb/sound effect added? Sounds like a sci-fi movie?
BluStogie 3 years ago
It reminds me of someone...
Its weird.. when i first heard it i didnt like it.. but when you have listened a few times.. it grows on you...
musicgeek15 3 years ago
UMMM... DEMON´S INSPIRATION?
AcantiladoM 3 years ago 2
Please listen to Some of jossef hassids recordings he was highly compared to heifetz by fritz kreisler himself saying that a heifetz only comes 100 years and a hassid 200 years
martian067 3 years ago
I love this music, me remembers my times, My infancy.
manakajumpei 3 years ago
Gitlis was a great artist!!! Words cannot do him justice.
mexindian1 4 years ago
jews rock!: perlman, stern, szigeti, szeryng, milstein, kogan, haendel, heifetz, elman, menuhin, kreisler, oistrakh, mintz, shaham, gitlis, wieniawsi, zuckerman, bell, joachim, auer, vengerov, rabin,...
schilippe 4 years ago
Yes..some of the finest violinist ever..and please don't forget Ossy Renardy, a world class player though untaught by a Master--who also fought in WW II
OriginalMoonbeam 3 years ago
What a piece. I am always eager to hear a new Bartok piece that i haven't heard. This one just get under my skin. Very delicate. Trancendant. I love this. Great violinist too, obviously.
OsvaldoPaese 4 years ago 4