Bruch's Scottish Fantasy - Rachel Barton Pine

[zucchini2007]

Bruch must have been feeling SO depressed when he composed this music! It sounds very sad, very mournful...almost feels like you're at somebody's funeral and you hear this being played there. And then gradually it sounds more cheerful towards the end...:-)

[piketormenter]

Every time I hear a new recording of Rachel's I am struck by the emotion and warmth in the playing.

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

You are amazing. I love your passion and technique! Hopefully, I'll get to see you perform live one day! :D

[ainefidileir]

You'd be bloody brilliant at playing traditional Scottish tunes.

[123violinfreakify]

i've noticed that in a lot of your videos you sit down while you play! why do sit? i like your playing!

[FangirlN1]

Just great... There is nothing to say...

[violinmusicfan]

very beautiful playing

[OriginalMoonbeam]

If Rachel reads this I would like to encourage her to post her Haendel Passcaglia recording (I have it, but I don't want to take that liberty) it is by far the best recording of that piece in my opinion, and I cherish my "Storming the Citadel" CD...but that piece by far trancends any recording I have every heard and is the most artistically done, I just HAD to learn the piece after hearing it even though I found it to be challenging.

[shortyviolinista]

i just love the way you play. I saw you when u played it here in Puerto Rico last year, since then i fell in love with the piece. My friend Valeria took some lessons with you this summer and i would love to take some lessons too. You are a great violinist and God bless your talent!!!! Ana from Puerto Rico

[RachelBartonPine]

Hi, Ana, good luck with your violin playing and thanks for writing! :)

[SskyFive]

I would like to have coffee with her sometime.

[RachelBartonPine]

I never drank caffeine in my life (have to keep those violin-playing reflexes clean!), but I hope we get to meet some day after a concert. :)

[iamachickenwing]

where are her concerts?

[jordaniac89]

I love this woman

[robotnik77]

My introduction to this piece was a

recording by David Oistrakh from about

1962. It grabbed me then; and it still

holds me. Thanks, Ms. Pine; hope to see

you in concert sometime.

[Fr3derick]

Her playing on the lower strings are so intensely beautiful.

[dunepar]

me gusta esta pieza....:)

[iambananananananana]

Great Musician. Great Artist

[zucchini2007]

She's so BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED, especially in person!!

[missviolin0614]

it sounds so beautiful! u make it seem like a person's voice singing.

[Darbkin]

What a beautiful tribute to Robbie Burns day! I'd compare her playing to that of Hilary Hahn...very expressive

[zucchini2007]

I think Rachel is ABOVE Hilary Hahn, Hilary's playing lacks emotion, it lacks that ORIGINAL PHRASING. I saw and heard Rachel in person, and she FEELS the music, I think she's a better violinist than Hahn.

[mosita101010101]

jascha heifetz was emotionless but he was better than most violinist :P 1 of the greats

[xXLeafXNinjaXx]

WHAT!

jascha heifetz was full of emotion! just because he didnt move around and make faces doesnt mean his music was empty and had no soul!

[IsaacDelarge]

Beautiful.

[zucchini2007]

Philosophers have said that music is the highest form of art, well this video definitely proves that it is!!

[zucchini2007]

I met her in person when she came to perform at our University concert hall with our state's symphony...she's very beautiful, and she's a very gracious person as well! She has some IMPRESSIVE violin-playing skills, she has such a crisp, clean, and precise technique, that I'm certain that she has to be one of the greatest violinists ever!!

[abburidotakaria]

much better than heifetz's rendition

[bckm54]

I think Rachel's technique is more personable and personal than Heifitz. Obviously, the great Jascha was considered one of the world's best violinists with good reason, but Rachel is up there as one of the best today, judging from what I've heard thus far.

[LadyMoralqua]

lovely..

Great artist

[babygirlll9]

absolutely gorgeous.

[ViolinCyndee]

Rachel also reminds me of Heifitz!!

[greenmonkey125]

you're a very talented violinist. This rendition reminds me a lot of a recording I have by Heifetz!

[funnyviolist]

Wow! I loved your rendition...I'm just wondering how this would sound on viola...

[ellegin88]

Ahh Scottish fantasy is where you can truely play it out! I'm going to be going to school in chicago next year, I hope to catch as many of your concerts that I come across! you're a real inspiration to look up to