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  • Fucking retarded that they rarely give out 1st. I think its cus they are cheap with the prize fund rather then anything else

  • I think Jennifer Koh had a more brilliant sound... idk :DD I love her!!!! <3

  • technically, I think they're both extremely well,but Jennifer Koh stands out more because she's really focused into the music and plays for real(in my opinion of course)

  • Certified Intergalactic!

  • They are both amazing, but I have to say that Jennifer Koh is more impressive to watch. Thank for uploading this!

  • *******5********!

  • Jennifer Koh's Tchaikovsky is truly outstanding. Saw her perform it two years ago, and you could tell that there was no hint of boredom with the piece...she still has the same passion now as she had during the competition. Outstanding musician!

  • Two girls are different but excellent !

  • I think the Russian girl was way better especially tone-wise and overall musicality. Notice how Jennifer's sound is reduced to chicken scratch towards the end.

  • Does Jennifer regret having worn that green dress back in the day?

  • Jennifer was jammin'....yeah baby! you burned that stuff up!

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  • Omg, that girl in the green dress was also performing some kind of crazy hair flipping, head banging...

  • Jennifer Koh really gets into the music... I saw her perform last night, it was absolutely terrific.

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  • Jennifer Koh is great here and I heard her this year and she sounds even more amazing now. She has passion and technique and understands the soul of the music she plays. I wish I could play like her!!!!

  • wow this video is kind of unfair lol it gave jennifer koh the exciting part and all the applause!

  • um well they put anastasia first. plus they give anastasia all the close-ups and camera emphasis.

    so it's not really unfair.

  • The other girl sucked

  • who won the first prize in this????

  • the last one, Jennifer Coh

  • they tied for second.... no one got first

  • MY GOD!!! That was really fast. Really awesome though.

  • The outcome of this competition was a draw that year. Jennifer and Anastasia shared the second prize. Perhaps neither performance was quite deserving of a Gold Medal to the judges.

  • Jennifer Koh had so much inaccuracy in those notes...unfortunate.

  • Jennifer Koh here in PERU in Nov.!! yeah!!!

  • It was too fast for Jennifer Koh. She was trying to outdo Suwanai (obviously everyone heard her great version on the PBS documentary that was aired in the US in 1990, I was only about 9 or 10 years old and I heard that myself and was amazed). Trying too hard to win, and sounded like that instead of playing music. She obviously had Suwanai's version in her mind, and was trying too hard to beat that.

  • akiko Suwanai is better

  • Agree :)

  • You cant hear the notes that Jennifer Koh plays at the beginning of this part. she played way to fast for her skill level here. Anastasia would have won if this performance was the decider.

  • Jennifer ROCKS!!!!

  • I could't understand any note.

    It was too fast.

    Fantastic altough.

  • My orchestra played the Sibelius concerto with Jennifer Koh today! It was insanely good. Her sense of phrasing is near the level of the famous soloists who are twice her age.

  • are u in sfyo?

  • Jennifer Koh deserved to win Gold medal. If she was Japanese, I'm sure they would have handed her the gold medal without a problem. Mayuko's playing wasn't as exciting as Jennifer's. Notice how this japanese coverage of the competition only mentions Jennifer as American and not Korean-American.

  • I completely agree! Jennifer Koh's performance was so exciting...

  • I disagree. The judges were chosen from different countries so they had to make an unbiased decision. Jennifer's playing, although full of energy, actually sounds quite sloppy. And why put Mayuko in the equation? She was in the 2007 competition.

  • just saying, Mayuko's playing isn't as good as Jennifer's but she got the Gold medal no prob... Mayuko's a fine vioinist, but in my humble opinion, I much more prefer Jennifer's.

  • I agree... I don't find Mayuko's performance really great to deserve the gold medal.

  • cool! good to know i'm not alone in my opinion!

  • Mayuko is just OK. Too much teacher manipulation I think in the violin competition this year. It does not make sense they gave first prize to Mayuko in the violin but withheld first prize from Miroslav Kultishev in the piano competition. I was very impressed with Kultishev's videos here, and he is a great musician. In 1998, the teacher manipulation happened in the piano division when Kempf ended up getting third prize instead of a tie for first with Matsuyev.

  • I think this "injustice" in the music world goes to show that we live in an imperfect world and life really is not fair!

  • the hair is a big distraction

  • who* ... Sorry... Ah!

  • Oh, I´m sorry... I confuse the date... A. Suwanai wons in 1990... So I don´t know now how win this one... Anyway, she (A. Suwanai) has a better tecnique, my opinion...

  • That´s why they both don´t win... The winner of this competition was A. Suwanai.

    The second girl was to rush and use the whole forearm (in fact, A. Suwanai don´t)for the last part... And the first one, if I´m no wronge, I think she was not well stand... She was going to fall down if she moves more... (look her foot at 1:20) and sorry for my bad english...

  • o my gawd, I never realized that.

    That's so funny.

  • does everyone break a hair on the bow while playing this?!

  • Very difficult piece- I know from firsthand experience! But definitely well-worth the experience and she played very well. I wasn't as big a fan of the second violinist because she seemed to rush through the ending... but that's just my opinion as a fellow violinist who's played this. Thanks for posting the video!

  • I had the chance to hear Jennifer Koh live playing the Ravel sonata. She is AMAZING!!

  • The second girl wasn't that clean...meh

  • i agree.

  • I don't.

  • i dont get it.. every time i see people play the last movement, they use their whole forearm for the semiquaver passages... why? they only need their wrist for a clean sautille. Wow if their gonna use regular forearm strokes at like 100mph on nervous energy alone, its no wonder if they end up feeling faint after that!

  • you could be right but mind that violinists need to have a sound as strong as the orchestra's one in those passages: they have to be heard by the audience and the only way to do that is to use their whole forearm

  • yeah, like oistrakh

  • Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!

  • The violin of russian girl is Stradivarious?

  • This is violin competition. Why all the comments

    talking about is dress and hair...This is not a fashion show.

  • blame their clothes!

  • i wasn't insulting her playing... just her dress... sry. SHE WAS AMAZING THOUGH!!

  • this vid makes me sad. because i will probably never be as good as they are.

  • jennifer koh is such an amazing player. Saw her play the tchaikovsky in Aprial 2007 and it was even better than her silver-medal performance here.

  • That's the way young prodigies should be playing music! Nicely done.

  • Jenny Koh rox my sox. Yay for Vamos students!

    That dress is revolting, though.

  • she is a vamos student?! wow i feel so honored knowing the vamos's... gosh... and i have to agree with u on that dress haha!

  • better than sweater though. she was suffering cold.

  • YAY VAMOSES!!!!!!!!!

  • Rapunzel and Snow White on acid.

    Great, great music, though.

  • Intonation at the ending was painful;

  • Russian violonist played so bad,but her teacher was a judge and she took a 2 place

  • ru an idiot , she did an amazing job too.

  • who care her hair! we care her almost crazy music, excellent!! best tchaikovsky i ever heard!

  • What was she thinking wearing that dress? Either of them? Did they want to look 8 years old? lol

  • malif;

    anouncer said jennifer cought cold, instead of sweater....

  • Rumor has it that Jennifer wore the same dress she had worn in her school version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" - can anyone verify?

  • ....and thusly, why I play viola...not to say viola music is a piece of cake...but yeah...um, I'm gonna go practice some more...

  • Is it just me or did the first girl skip a measure or a couple beats at the beginning? And is her bow a bit too tight? Or is that me too? Wow...crazy hair! I think I like the Asian girl's style better. Oh...but out of tune at the end...sad panda...

  • yeah, that's some crazy hair

  • WOW THAT'S CRAZY

    VERY GOOD

  • haha

    I was just gonna say that about the asian violinist's hair going crazy. Wow, they're amazing players!

  • right what the hell was with the girl and the flying hair but she was very good on violin :)

  • Is it just me, or does the ending two notes of the Asian seem out of tune...?

  • Yeah ive been playing the violin 4 like 5 years or 6 years now and let me tell you sumthin....THATS REALLY HARD!! especially the asians part. BUT the other chicks part was ALSO very hard because it has many shifts in positions and she plays in tune as well XD

  • Just so you know,

    they are playing the same concerto

  • oh...sorry....BUT ITS HARD AS!!

  • I competed in that competition as well. I learned how to play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the violin a week before. I thought it would be enough but I was so wrong. I'm glad they didn't show the footage of me trying to play and the awkard silence that ensued.

  • I thought the asian lady's head was going to explode at the end. But she was very good.

  • thats insane xD

  • she's hot.

  • surely u dont mean the asian....do u?

  • seems that everything I watch nowadays is Japan related..!:P hehe yeeah Go Japan !

  • that was siiickk

  • Thank you-jonnyviolinist12-for the info. While watching,I keep wondering:Wow, they are so good alreay, I couldn't imagine how good that would be for the first prize. Philosophically,I'm an atheist,now I believe God exists necessarily.

  • Sorry, please read "alreay" as "already".

  • Playing is great... but you guys are right.. those dresses... disgusting. Clearly the Asian girl is getting so involved in the music that it starts to change her tone production. The Russian girl has the piece down but she's so overconfident...

  • there is no first prize.

  • T_T ... DUH. I should have known that. >< Sorry...

  • I would love to see the first prize winners. =P

  • many conductors hold batoninmiddle .nineteenth cent thing perhaps .

  • Holi..

  • i need to listen fastest violen show pls send me link or search name :C

  • whoa, who ever said that the condoctor is holding the baton is in the middle is right

    how weird!

    but totally cool

  • I've played this concerto with my orchestra before. Our soloist was awsome, such like these competitors.

  • the 2nd player looks funny

  • Personaly, I think the second performer is a little too harsh with her bow...but still a magnificent player.

  • it reminds me of that movie <together>.

  • now thats talent!

  • Why is the conductor holding the baton in the middle?

  • If they only won second who the heck won First?

  • they tied for first place so they both took second

  • no First prize that year.

  • That must take loads and loads of practice.

  • OMG It's in Japanese!!!

  • lol amazing playing, and hair hehe

  • I agree with carl0s123 o.o....

  • they may look hideous but they're actually dolce gabana and armani

  • you dont know that. give me proof that j. kohs hideous outfit was made my some famous designer.

  • LOL, I thought that asian chick was just going to drop dead after that last note the way she was playing with so much intensity. And I do agree with the rest of you guys, those outfits look like they came outta a nightmare I had.

  • i want koh's bow...

  • maybe the costume was fashionable back then. mshakhz, actually I went to a concert in which the soloist showed her middle finger many many times, to compensate for the weird stretches.

  • david oistrakh is better (obviously lol), but these girls are both quite stunning in their technique. their musicality/phrasing is somewhat lacking though

  • y was that...

  • Everything was either forte or fortissimo. In the 16th note passages they played eveyrthing the same volume. Just little subtleties that oistrakh included but they did not. one of the girls was somewhat weaker in the upper range than the lower range. Just little things that make a big difference

  • haha.. Anastasia showed her middle finger to the whole audience and judjes..

    Anyway, Chebotaeva played much better than Koh!

  • Awsome performancee of both Anastacia and Jenny, but really awful outfits! I mean, those dresses are like to go to Halloween parties or something...

  • OMG tell "Koh" to get a life!! O.O

    so... who won?

  • Neither of them won the competition. Chebotareva from Russia and Koh form the USA both won the 2nd prize, and nobody was awarded the 1st prize in this year (1994).

  • The asian one... her playing is great and all but lol her hair is just atrocious... the way it shakes when she plays LOL and her dress is ridiculous... Black and... some kind of dark froggy green maybe??

  • Just letting you know, the guy thats talking is talking in Japanese...and Jennifer was WAY better! You could tell the orchestra was more active and hyper when she played!

  • I dunno, I think they were just trying to keep up with her insanely fast skillz.

  • Jennifer Koh plays the movement too fast - you can't appreciate the music when it is played that fast.

  • Koh doesn't need to slow down. As for not being able to appreciate it when it's faster, tell that to Heifetz! He took everything considerably faster than normal tempo, and he's absolutely incredible and is as close to violin perfection as you can get.

  • This totally knocked my socks off. They're both so amazing!

    Thanks for posting this!

  • meh I never really liked the original version of the 3rd movement...it always initially sounds like the player messed up and repeated the same passage another 3 times lol

  • WTH! Fucking Special

  • WOW,INCREDIBLE,I Sooooooooooooo much love this style of violin,

  • Koh does not need to play it any cleaner, clean playing is neutered she is truly incredibly passionate.

  • is this asian girl zakhar brons student? a bit slower and cleaner will be better... but they are playing great, both of them... gotta go practise....

  • Haha - I was expecting this to be in russian and it caught me by suprise - I couldn't understand anything! Both of these girls are fantastic! Wow!

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  • lamo - too good

  • I think in order to compare both young girls, they had been shown the same pasage from the piece. Well anyway they are terrific!

  • I am sorry for the above comments. That's from my 2 years old trouble boy. Sorry!

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  • I like to watch the 1st place play.

  • That asian girl pwned her violin! KilTacular! She can probably like jerk off elephants with those fast ass hands. Well done asain!

  • jennifer koh pwns.

  • i prefered the russisan was more ellegant but damn the asian was crazy.

  • maybe if you were paying attention to the music, you would find that the asian was actually playing it a bit BETTER.

  • What do u MEAN?

  • Koh plays faster but not necessarily as clean.

  • i think jennifer koh was sexy. i loved her hair.

    no sarcasm here. seriously

  • Damn, that asian chick needs to get laid bad, maybe then she'd stop raping her violin. Where did these two disappear to?

  • maybe if you were paying attention to the music, you would find that the asian was actually playing it a bit BETTER.

  • Just a question: what violin concertos are they playing??

  • Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major of course! The grand-daddy of all Violin Concerto of all time

  • Damn!!!!! Those two were phenomenal!!!

  • MAN! BOth of those botches can play!

  • her technique is not the style of the japanese....japanese usually play really clean and clear...

  • No one got the first prize that year. By the way, I don't think the clip shows really how good Chebotareva is (not even her look). Check this out:

    http://www.classicalarchives.c­om/artists/chebotareva.html

    Technically she's not that great, but her musical interpretation truly stands out among younger players if you listen to the archive clips. I think it more than makes up for her technique.

  • The asian girl kicked the crap out of the russian one. ANd if they shared the SECOND prize, who the hell got first????

  • No first prize was awarded

  • Jennifer Koh, holy shit, you're AWESOME. Must find recording now

  • they look like men...

  • the world of classical music is not as superficial as pop

  • yeeeaaahh!!! LOL

  • O...and that last part, that is the most frightful part...ooooo she pushed it to the extreme! raising the tempo like that! WOAH! I'm still in total awe after seeing it a second time. Although, the first messed up and I think that's what caused her to tie for 2nd. It was in the higher position on the E-string.

  • Freaking BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP I am in total awe. I want to say the F word so bad...that was amazing. I was totally enthralled, the passion, intensity in their playing...o my god, it was so beautiful! *standing ovation!* I want to hear the one who received first.

  • ok... so maybe i'm going a little bit slow

  • I think russian player better than japanese, she is russian after all, right?

  • Jeninifer is an American of Korean extraction

  • that conductor guy needs to straighten his hair and get rid of that fro.

  • Holey crap! Jeninifer's skills definately outdo her fashion sense.. but dang.. they're seriously good!

  • Holy smokes. Now the "younger" generation knows what they need to keep up with. ;)

  • wow....

    thanks for uploading that.