1-2 Janine Jansen The Lark Ascending

[mrstinkabell123]

Beautiful - you can really feel the breeze flowing back and forth through the grasses as you lay on your back listening to the larks singing. I never get fed up with it and I never will.

[profu1010]

super!!!!

[nikwik2]

just brilliant....

[jamiebonline]

i love her. really i love her. she does something that nobody else does and i have listened to so much music, so many violinists and i can't explain it. affinity i guess, on the deepest level.

[RGSC48COOPER]

I'm crying and I don't care, enough said!!!

[palmbaymick]

Janine is simply amazing.



[EdofEngland]

So incredibly beautiful.

[JustJeebz]

I absolutely love this piece. Janine did an amazing job playing it!!

[dnrongo]

She's hot as fuck

[lonelycyclist]

This is one of my favourite pieces of classical music and this young lady plays it absolutely beautifully.

[TheCrazyunicornlady]

that one akaward person who coughs.... beautiful song tho :)

[Oxyster7]

@fedism (As of 06/06/11) 32 people would disagree with you. By the way, you only call me that because you don't understand what I'm saying. I think you've just ironically proven that you are the baboon, not I.

[LittleTouchOfFate]

This is simply beautiful. -Just amazing.

[eddysnet]

Just another question....: Is Jansen a typical Dutch name; or does she have Scandinavian relation...? Just curious....GREAT MUSIC, great playing...not many of those in the world..

[luciferrutjuh]

@eddysnet

It is a very typical Dutch name indeed! Tigether with the variants Janssen/ Jansens/ Janssens is the most common Dutch surname. And Janine is the best;-)

[rgsn4wts]

Lovely performance! I always liked this piece, and got it myself at SheetMusicX

[hamsandwich20]

David Crowder song! =)

[5deheld]

Brilliantly played! Great technique.

It is one thing being able to play all the notes properly,

but giving it this depth, soul and emotion is quite another;

It takes a great violinist to accomplish all that.

This lark actually takes to the skies!

[fa1983bio]

Meraviglioso!!!!...e lei ....meravigliosa!!!!

[inkreant]

this cuts off at the best part!!

[luciferrutjuh]

@inkreant yes but it continues in part 2-2!

[lonward]

This is the song of my heart.

[Judexy22]

I love ! Feeling that I am floating in the air !

Thanks for sharing.



[fred5399]

It's the sound of hope .

[ishikawaml]

29 people listen to fm radio.

[islan24]

ow vc é muito lindae toca muito bem falo xau

[jeffsummstl]

So heart-achingly beautiful!

[michbishee]

yer I agree Joe the sunni version is so much better

[joebstarsurfer]

corperate shiite version can anyone tell.

[bigbattenberg]

Not only beatiful to listen to, but also beatiful to watch.

[PadeyDaxx0r]

Listen to this piece every night before bed, Puts me to sleep in a good mood no matter what the day has thrown at me!

[chilck]

@PadeyDaxx0r I did the same for YEARS, every night!

[pradeeprajen]

Perfection... transcending time and space.. taking you to that special place

[micropuss1]

Is there a more beautiful piece of music than this?

Micropuss1

[roger55321]

what's this piece name????????

so beautiful!!!!

[chilck]

@roger55321 "The Lark Ascending" by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. If you ever intend to buy it, try the version by Iona Brown (violin) with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Neville Marriner (conductor). In fact, that entire CD is absolutely beautiful: it includes several other compositions of RVW as well.

[solidus927]

I like the way she moves when she plays it's funny lol but its probubly really hard to play so perfectly

[KrillLiberator]

That violin she has is one of the very sweetest-sounding I've heard. By quite some way in fact.

[zenoky2000]

What a wonderful musician! She really sings and puts so much feeling in this music.

[hamasburi]

Score and Orchestral parts at SheetMusicX [dot] com

[adzeuph5]

played this a while ago with the 4CYO of north wales... brings back good memories of such a great work!

[SameStars]

Makes me shed a tear every time I hear it......just beautiful.

[llessibm]

When God surveys the carnage rendered by Man on his cherished creation he will pause and shed a tear at such beauty as this

[efluengo]

29 people are deaf

[IanTorpedo1]

@efluengo It's not 29 deaf people. It's one spastic idiot who clicked the dislike button 29 times.

[TheSkepticalIdealist]

If you like this I reccomend Thomas Newman's soundtracks like The Shawshank Redeption and The Green Mile.

[cbcdesign001]

@TheSkepticalIdealist Thomas Newman is one of my favourite score composers working today. Good call!

[kinoglas]

Une musique sublime...

[basmouti]

OMG !! Just amazing musicians.... Love it <3



[Tricyklist]

A warmer, clearer rendition than Nigel Kennedy's rather "hollow" acoustic. Much as I love the Nigel Kennedy, the sweetness of his more intimate "bathroom" recording does not sit quite so well with open fields and hills drenched in birdsong. I enjoy many months of skylarks every year on my daily rides. Though no longer in traffic-bedevilled England. I have much the same scenery but with 1950s West Country traffic levels. Where one can hear the birdsong (and the music) quite uninterrupted. ;-)

[EtrofOnaip]

The real sound of a Lark :

Look for : Long and continuous song flight of a male skylark

[marvinc999]

I've never understood the sneering dismissiveness of certain jaded 'intellectuals' towards the work of Vaughan Williams.

Perhaps it's because - like all the best music - it doesn't need THEM to 'explain' it to the Ignorant Masses. It merely needs to be FELT - not 'understood'. And anyone with a soul can 'feel'.

[ishikawaml]

@marvinc999 Beautifully said my friend!

[200ariadne]

@marvinc999

Well said!

[IHaveSeenTheInternet]

@marvinc999 For me Vaughn shows the sheer joy of life, and everything within it, in is music, we would be less of a species without him

[The1066Al]

@marvinc999 Well said.

[TheBlackWhirlwind]

@marvinc999

Well said. Good music evokes emotion and powerful feelings and this certainly achieves that.

[ssprokofiev]

@marvinc999 You ponder a very interesting dilemma. There are many academics who treat Vaughan Williams, and for that matter Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, as if they wrote music that is too appealing, too tuneful and accessible to be intellectually satisfying. In their snobbery, they miss the true genius of these composers, preferring to extoll the supposedly more advanced styles of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and others. It's their loss, not ours.

[marvinc999]

@ssprokofiev

Quite !

Nothing quite so depressing in this life as an Idiot With A Brain, is there ?

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

@marvinc999 What a great comment.

[flossie5432]

when I'm lying on my back amogst the marram grass and wild sage of my local rabbit warren ,watching the skylarks rise into the sun as they sing, this is also playing in my head.It's a moment to cherish each spring .

[Hynes667]

Like waffen30 I served in Afghanistan and Iraq and would listen to this music on my headphones at night or sunset thinking of home and the green English countryside and get very sad, but made me stronger.

[SOUNDsculptures]

I can't believe this video cuts off before the end of the piece!!!! :0(

[minicolster]

@SOUNDsculptures there's a part 2 :)

[emeraldomusik]

starting from 4:23 i get a very strong feeling of what is called "romaharsha" in sanskrit and goosebumps in english . Excellent.!

[minicolster]

I really don't know how 29 people can dislike. Normally I'm one to say each to their own...but this??

[SOUNDsculptures]

@minicolster I put thumbs 'up', astounding performance. But, maybe the thumbs down came because the video cuts long before the piece ends!!

[DRONGOBILLY]

Try finding a Skylark in UK.. then realise what we have done to the land we love.

[gavpark]

Its listening to such a majesty as this. that to be human is truly the most wonderful gift of all.

[jdgrahamo]

It is over fifty years since I saw a lark. So sad.

[HonestMan395]

@jdgrahamo If you go to the lake district, you will see larks, but you will hear them first. I also heard a one just last week near Malven, but I could make out where it was. their song carries so far.

When you hear the call, just look for a black dot in the sky. it will be futher away than you would think by the sound.

[Oxyster7]

it's amazing what we mere monkeys can achieve with the right motivation.

[sebwirth]

@Oxyster7

Even more amazing considering it was inspired by a poem........about a bird. Everyone is stirred by a bird at one point or another

[holmesc25]

@Oxyster7 Humans are pretty cool too!



[2009Bolero]

@Oxyster7 What is the right motivation though?

[fedism]

@Oxyster7 speak for yourself baboon man. I am human,

[The1066Al]

@Oxyster7 "we mere monkeys" - speak for yourself!

[ayews]

@The1066Al we are, Janine isn't

[NoGoodWithUserNames]

FUCK JUSTIN BIEBER! This is music

[yiriprincess]

Beautiful piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlbertoAntonio6]

So much coughing in the beginning. Does England not have Ricola or something?

[McGrottomaster]

One of the finest classical music performances on YouTube. An outstanding clarinetist as well.

[M245475SH]

If "keyboard warriors" can start a cyber argument over one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written there really is no hope is there?

[hellogoodbye880]

Look at her fingers and then at the sound and you'll understand why the video has 1022 likes

[tgrman1]

why can't people just get along?

[MAFussell]

Does anyone know how to acquire this recording of this wonderful performance? It is even better than the version she recorded on CD.

[jamiebonline]

sublime - opening solo notes are breathtaking

[frankcisyarmi]

que belleza genial Janine Jansen

[braelef]

Whenever I hear this music, I think I must've gone to heaven, because I feel like I'm in the most beautiful place in the world.

[technocrash09]

NICE DRESS!

[juliefogs]

Thank you inikus! I shall listen to it. :o)

[juliefogs]

Beautiful, made me snuffle, as it reminds me of my dear late Dad, but what happened to the end????? :o(

[inikus]

@juliefogs - you will find part two also on youtube. It would be nice to hear it without interruption though!

[inikus]

she really embodies a lark... perfect, such a light touch. Shame every single member of the audience has a cold.

[makuletboy]

My heart melted....that was so beautiful. Tears came to my eyes. Truly a remarkable violinist with such emotion.

[ickerbod]

You cannot say anymore than the previous comments.

[SurreyViolinHero]

Absolutely woinderful playing. This really inspires me to up my playing ability to a level one day where I can play this.

I do wish the video quality was better though, imagine watching this is HD!

[ViolaWizardry]

Exquisite - the best interpretation of this I have heard so far...Janine really gets across the idea of birdsong that RVW was so obviously striving for.

[rogkeista]

divine

[ZF1000]

People shouldn't be allowed to cough at these things, if they do they should be chucked out because it ruins the experience for everyone else. If I felt the need to cough I would quietly exit rather than do so but most people are not so considerate.

[fatalfuss]

vaughan-williams transcend music

such tranquility

[trevmary46]

follow this with george butterworths THE BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW a half hour of lovely English music

[Drillface]

this has nothing on justin bieber

[symphonyofcolour]

@Drillface pretty lol

[nollat1]

Is it bad that my fav music is metal and I find this as an iridescent of music. along with the poem of the lark.

This is music :)

[kana90]

Her playing is so freaking balzy I LOVE IT!

[riveltc]

Can somebody upload this piece without breaking into parts?

[MAFussell]

Wow, this is the most evocative version I have ever heard. Incredible. This is even more nuanced and romantic than the version she had recorded previously. Does anyone know where you can find this performance? My IPod is calling...

[surfboy]

I always wondered what makes a violinist become a soloist and others are playing in symphony orchestras. Don't you think that the first chairs/ concertmasters of any symphony are just as good and could play all these pieces? Do they just not want to be soloists or be in the spotlight? You would think that any first chair could play this, or say, Tchaikovsky's violin concerto just as good as anyone like Chang, Hahn, Julia Fischer. Any comments to this?

[kklocket2]

@surfboy Soloists made a career out of being solo, and the concertmasters make a career out of being 1st violinists. It's just a career choice thing really. Technically, anyone of those players could play it because it's what they trained to do, but solists are praised for their characteristic playing abilities and interpretations, just like conductors are. But, really, it's a career choice.

[MrColfan]

@surfboy I happen to be a journalist for a belgian lifestyle mag and I recently interviewed Lorenzo Gatto and I asked him the same thing. "Why do you assume I choose to be a soloist? Maybe the solocarreer choose me", he answered. Then he agreed that a lot of orchestra violinists are technically capable of playing these masterpieces, but that it all comes down to personality, keeping your cool etc.

[Baruchyoseph8]

My personal favourite has PInchas Zuckerman as the soloist on a Deutsche Gramophone recording from the 1970's. There are many excellent interpretations - but his stands out.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

I think versions of this really vary & can affect how much you may love this piece but Hugh Bean's & Iona Brown's really stand out to the many I've heard. This is really good however, probaly the 3rd best version I've heard. To those below who question RVW's standing in music...well there aren't too many absolute music originals (maybe less than 5?) so if you take time to explore the quality, the quantity & the variety in this man's music, then he's right up there.

[Starcastle2009]

This was my mother's favorite piece of music. A recording of it was played at her funeral. I wrote my Master's Thesis on RVW and I consider him one of the musical giants of the 20th Century. (Sorry, but for my money you can stuff Berg and Webern).

[TomQuags93]

the way she phrases 1:21 ... my god! sublime. brings me to tears.

[cbandre]

this song was the background music for the 1987 Australian film, The Year My Voice Broke, with Noah Taylor and Loene Carmen. that's where I first heard it. beautiful music.

[waffen30]

Whilst serving out in Afghanistan I listen to this beautiful piece of music to remind me of home

[vriend1]

@waffen30

Quit the army.

[frogsoda]

@vriend1 moron

[vriend1]

@frogsoda

Why doesn't it suprise me that you are using foul language against people whom opinion you do not share?

[frogsoda]

@vriend1 Why does it not surprise me that you would get upset at someone who does not share your opinion? (Or simply has a low tolerance for ignorance) You should learn that not everyone is going to agree with you. (Or your Parroted statements)

And believe me. When I start using "foul language", you will know it.

[vriend1]

@frogsoda

your reply wpould have impressed me if you did not start with your barbaric atemp to silence me.

[frogsoda]

@vriend1 I merely expressed an opinion of your comment. How thin is your skin? You call me "barbaric"? What are you a duckling?

[vriend1]

@frogsoda

You called me a moron. Again, coming from someone like you it does not surprise me.

Good luck with your life .

[frogsoda]

@vriend1 "someone like you"? W/E. Keep flattering yourself.

[vriend1]

@frogsoda

Nope, it did not work,your barbaric attempt to elicit an ordinairy scolding.

Indeed, I kept my head cool and ended to be the more civilized of the two.

Good luck with your live and if you need help in expressing your opinion in a normal civilized way you can always email me. I am pretty sure that I have some good tips for you.

[frogsoda]

@vriend1 LOL haha I get it now this is a joke! You know "Lark Ascending", Don't look up because of what is DEscending! lol

Keep cool. hahaha

[vriend1]

@waffen30

Quit the army..stop the killing...you become a happier person!

[Arkelk2010]

@waffen30 Welcome back to you and Hynes667. Although this doesn't remind me of home--different country with different countryside, the music reminds me of the beauties in life.

[jlholmescello]

@waffen30 Thanks for your service! May I recommend Elgar Cello Concerto?

[davethegaffer]

I absolutely LOVE this music. English music at its absolute finest. Janine's playing is quite sublime and her playing at 1:45 onwards is just incredible.

I am an amateur tenor and I wish I has an ounce of the talent she has been given.

IMHO this is the best thing I have seen on youtube.

dave

[lispectorando]

sometimes her facial expressions annoy me, but she plays this very, very well. nice editing, too.

[onlyindreams001]

26 retards missed the like button. ^_^

[meteofan1x2]

@onlyindreams001 Perhaps they are retards, but they still have a chance to become geniuses, like you - "Retarded Genius ^_^ " : )

[hembetan]

Double concerto for coughs and violin.

[Pinin500]

@mikebrewerisamoron ; I am a big fan of classical music, and world culture...

You have the knowledge of arts, do you know of director Issaac fucks or actor

Harmon killacunt or maybe Thomas wanker the composer, adios Tit...

[RaiderEleven]

WOW! Janine is AWESOME!

[cearth]

Did anyone see Iona Brown play this piece??? In wish I had!!  R.I.P Iona.

[BrianBruise]

Thank goodness the philistines don't normally check such music out. All your comments speak honestly and emotionality to the music. Thanks for sharing.

[64f100bill]

im playing this peice now and it is so amazingly beautiful and this is the only recording on youtube i will watch, I hope I perform it as well as she does

[hughraphaeli]

There are so many composers whose music I love but Ralph Vaughan Williams has always been very special to me & Down Ampney a place of personal pilgrimage.

[Shmoofles]

this makes me think of misty English countryside..

[AdamAus85]

Very good. But I feel Dimity Hall and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra may of done it just a pinch better. Honest opinion with perhaps a dash of bias. :]

[1379852456]

Breathe in...... *sigh*

[Iustinification]

@randomnessgirl111 - 12?~!?! damn! I'm 50! How could I be so late in loving this piece?!?!

[WoolyPenguin]

I remember hearing this for the 1st time and I was completely struck by it. Instant love. That rarely happens. And I still get goosebumps every time I hear it.

[dorkfaceflutexo]

happy birthday vaughan williams!

[fahrenheit45one]

Why would you attend the concert with a bad cough? I don't get it.

[KellAnderson]

Janine Jansen is one of the greatest violinists alive.

[miasuky]

brings me to tears every time

[Luckyjack09]

If i had words to fit such genius... the fluttering of the violin intermingled with the layers of the orchestra. it moves, it rises, it cascades, and all with a level of detail that would astound a painter. the more that i listen to this piece, the more i find with in it.

[jorgealbertobaron2]

Obra de Ralph Vaughan Williams(1872-1958)

[xxcarlyxx]

ahh so pure, you can just imagine this music as the clear blue skies on a sunny day with white fluffy clouds drifting lightly with the subtle gentle breeze, with birds happily fluttering and tweeting sweet melodies above your head, walking with no wrries in the world...

[Vswchwrm]

Wauw, echt betoverend, prachtig, mooiste violist die ik ooit gehoord heb.

[welshbean3]

truely mesmeric

[Neuronaluniverse]

Beautiful work....take a walk on Youtube neuronaluniverse,thanks a lot for listening me.

[osztrositse]

thats great

[ammascoconut]

goosebumps!! What a tremendous, passionate, magnificent performance of this gorgeous work.

[kelly6739]

Thank god for these gifted ppl.So someone like me who cant play a single note on anything. Can listen to this magical sound coming through my p.c

[pentaquine]

@kelly6739 by "gifted ppl" you mean those who invented pc and internet, right? :)

[tonter1]

Janine Jansen, fantastisch, wat een drive en perfectie, krijg het koud van. bravo.

[douskara]

This violin "cries music"! She's absolutely beautiful in every aspect.

[trevmary46]

how could anyone compose such a masterpiece after the death of a child it takes some believing an absolute genius

[xyxerus]

@trevmary46 Absolutely! What passion! What bliss! The sound of angels in flight.

[mmmgalaxychoc]

can i ask what key is this in? its not A minor right - its a major key?

Its just I've composing a piece and someone said it reminds them of this. (and my piece is in a minor)

[skyerune]

@mmmgalaxychoc

Since it's Vaughan Williams, I'm going to assume it's a mode, not a key, and that makes it a much more mysterious sound.

I can't tell you which mode, though. I don't have perfect pitch or a score.

[AndrenSairr]

@skyerune It's based on a minor pentatonic scale, a lot of asian music is based on this scale. Harmonically it's more complex, but can't say much more without a score.

[kingcroak]

A great testimony and monument to the masterpiece by George Meredith.

[karpule]

Excuse me everybody! Excuse me Ozzpot!  I spoke about Janine Jansen and not Hillary Hahn.It was my mistakes.