Clayton Haslop: Saint Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso

[TheTucsonJeff]

Quite good!!

[KosteckiAdam]

Congratulation for yor playing and teaching. I am impressed!

[darvasvili]

very good.

[ForNowAndForeverMore]

1.his right hand grip...too weak

2.his violin vibrates with his vibrato...

3. 0:09 , 0:12, 0:13, 1:12, 1:58 (i know its great, but still...), 2:30, 3:25, 3:57 (almost there)

4.the video itself looks bad

and these made him an amateur...

but not bad though,

afterall, its a tough song.

(I wasnt trying to pick on him,

but I think he had somethingto improve.

and he could be a great voilinist)

[moldyoreo]

This coming from someone who doesn't know what the correct terminology for this sort of music is. He is playing a piece, not a song.

1. His right hand is flexible, not weak.

2. Who the hell cares? Many people do that.

3. WTF are you talking about?

4. Your comment makes you look like a jackass. Don't judge his playing by poor AV quality.

I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just saying you have no idea what you're talking about.

[ForNowAndForeverMore]

Thankyou for your comments,someone who doesn't know what the correct terminology for this sort of music ,

anyways, does it matters, what kind of terms i use to describe this piece of music? I dont have to study in the university of oxford before commenting a Youtube video.

(and world class is not the correct term)

1, 3:10, check it out if you think his right haand is flexible

2. these are the basics

3. listen it all over again and you will understand

4. This is a video of an amateur

[moldyoreo]

Again, it's clear that you're an idiot.

1. It'd help your case if he weren't intentionally stiffening for the staccato note.

2. Basics? Get a life.

3. I'm listening to it again and still find his playing fine.

4. This guy studied with Nathan Milstein. What the fuck have you done with your life besides make idiotic comments on youtube? You're a 46 year old person who can't even write properly.

[violonistchris]

@ForNowAndForeverMore let me ask you something lol you think that milstein did not make a good job with this student ! yeah maybe you are right so tell me again who are you ?? perlman ?? you must be better than his teachers cause you saw things that they didn't BRAVO!! juliard needs you lool XAXAXAXXAXAAXXAXA

[JawKid]

Seems that the audio and picture are out of sync in crucial places. Hmmmm?

[sijas]

He is very good.

But this just seems more like amateur playing.

His fingers can move FAST, i'll give him that, but overall, I was expecting a lot more from a "worldclass violinist".

[sijas]

@sijas I just watched this again. now that my ears are a bit more mature, I think this is absolutely gorgeous.

[PierangeloFevola]

TROPPO

[asiansarentnerdy]

wow, very musical.

[mayerlacika]

very good.

[dmc4player99]

"the advertising cheapens it" i endorse with you

a competent technical command and stylistic playing of the piece

the most interesting part that amazes me is he held the fiddle in such height without using a rest, must be Milstein's guideline for doing so

[OriginalMoonbeam]

One must consider--how much has this man spent getting his own musical education? I can't imagine! His talent, time spent in practice, dedication and expensive are reflected in his playing. I don't think marketing helpful tips bad thing-I would love to have his Kreutzer CDs. Many who don't have time to go to a teacher would appreciate having the CDs. If he hired an expensive, professional marketing company to promote it I imagine the price of the CD would only be higher

[lua1971]

Watch Alena Baeva - Camille Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso -- played with real understanding of the music,charm and incredible cleanliness and virtuosity. Truly remarkable performance

[jascha1978]

he plays very well but the advertising cheapens it in a way, sort of sad to market violin mastery, its not something that comes in a happy meal

[waxenwings89]

Agreed.

[waistoi]

I know.... he is a master at the violin, but I keep getting his marketing emails and his website is totally infommercial-like. And his marketing is pretty loud

[waistoi]

Do you know this guy's a student of Nathan Milstein?

[violaplayer1995]

wow great intonations.

[clasicgypsy]

You guys! If the bow hold is soo important, how come every violinist holds the bow different?

In my view,the good bow hold is the one that functions.

I see that no one comments about the fact that Haslop cut almost half of this piece?!

[Zvax]

notice the little change in the image and sound à 1:28, with the change on camera angle

there is the missing half

they removed it of the video, for I don't know why

still, it was skillful of the video maker to switch from one point to another without us noticing

[crankycaz]

But some of us did notice...o_O

Lol just kidding. It's just for a violin video so suppose they had to cut somewhere. Although the playing is amazing. Still not as good as Heifetz though.

[violinist102]

Superb =]

[OriginalMoonbeam]

This is one of my favorite pieces and it's also a killer--I thought he played it remarkably!

[Zhou9]

I feel like his vibrato is not wide enough; otherwise, it's not fast enough.

[bountyhanz]

LOLZ YEA HIS LIPS LOLZ!

[Mancuspia01]

a hahahaa ! Why he put his lips like that??!

He needs force, an spiritual strong force on his sound like Oistrakh´s.

[cenolbaj]

Why there is a sudden cut (missing part of the introduction) around 1:30 ??

[junevi2000]

The great American violinist. World Class.

[lemco7777]

Great player , superb performance

[ytpride]

yea, russian style isn't about speed. its just so fucking good it makes it easy to go fast. pwnt.

[lua1971]

Just to make sure you guys don't confuse Heifetz-Elman-Milstein, etc. bow hold with truly Russian bow hold - taught in Russia for the past 80 years. It's known in the US as the Galamian way.

[GrimReaperMort]

To me it doesn't matter how I hold a bow. I still get the same results. It might stop you from getting a wrist injury if you hold the bow in a certain way though, but that's all bull crap :)

[DarkLancerXIII]

you obviously don't know how important the bow hold is.

[msiu]

On the bow hold... compared to Milstein's , Haslop's bow hold seems to be a bit too pronated outward - if you watch the angle between the fingers and the bow, Haslop makes something like a 60 degree, while Milstein's is more like 75 degree. I think if Clayton rotates his lower arm a bit in a clockwise direction, his hand angle would be more like Milstein's. Right now his hand angle looks more like Heifetz's than Milstein's.

[sherom]

Great Playing!...This violinist in my opinion is underrated.

[Fiddlerfrank]

Beautifully played. Bravo.

[felixmendelssohn]

Yeah, definitely has the Russian bow grip. Badass.

[violinovic]

Great violinist! Milstein taught him the old Russian way of holding the bow. Very seldom among contemporary violinists - as well as the ring on a violinist's left hand! :)

Thanks for posting!

[lua1971]

Trust me, Milstein didn't "teach" anyone how to hold a bow. Those people-Auer, Heifetz, Milstein, etc.- never taught a single person any basics; they only accepted already well playing students. One can say Haslop modeled his bow arm Milstein, but he was not "taught" it. The Coda, however, IS played in the "new Russian way", which is, regretfully: the faster the better and fit in 30 seconds otherwise you are a "zero" as a violinist.

[TomBarrister]

As somebody who has spoken to many of Auer's students (members of various Los Angeles youth orchestras in the late 1930's and very eary 1940's), I can tell you for a fact that he did teach "basics" when necessary.

[lua1971]

Wow, that's interesting... good to know. However, I cannot fathom how Auer (who I myself 'come from', only via my teachers, of course) taught a functional bow-hand... His explanations are all good - in his books -- but if one looks at the pictures of his own bow arm/hand, one really wonders.

[Lupe0824]

Awesome video!