Yehudi Menuhin plays the dance of the goblins by bazzini

[cetnikz]

This was the heavy metal of the age. At least it had the same intensity.

[NONAROSSA]

his trills sound almost like the strings of a guitar... so beautiful!

[NONAROSSA]

D. Garret starts playing the same part at minute 2:24 while Pearlman starts it at 2:19 and Yehudi at 2:14.

[MultiBono2010]

THAT'S THE BEST RECORDING NOBODY ELSE CAN SING LIKE THIS ESPECIALLY AT 0:32

[1995areg]

bravooooooooooo

[squareff255]

Alright, who's the idiot who accidentally hit the dislike button!?

[ahpedrami]

a rational man would say that everyone is entitled to an opinion, and taste in arts such as music is completely subjective. unfortunately i am not a rational man, so i tell the bastard who disliked this to shove his fiddle up himself. if he even plays one.

[100nemesis100]

@ahpedrami Well said! and I do run the risk of playing the violin.Such a shame there is no video of Yehudi like the one of Zino.

[ahpedrami]

@100nemesis100 yes zino plays well too, and a video of menuhin would be great. i just hate how people backhandedly dismiss certain interpretations as inferior and not worth listening to( @DrMontague). the fact that someone can actually play such a show piece is absolutely remarkable, and as a violinist i admire them.

[Shaojian]

Holy head-fuck!!!

[logodaedally]

lol 127 likes, 0 dislikes! Unbeatable

[saintmichael104]

the TENTHS WERE PERFECT!!! just like mine!!! hahaha

[mrwasbesonders]

At his best, no one greater!!

[cetnikz]

Amazing.

[MrLindenson]

What a beast

[MrUggamugga]

Perlman himself said there was nobody better in this piece.

[8hotchocolate8]

lovely

[lovesGenet]

this is difeent from Perlman.More scratchy tone but very very musical.I can't believe all the jewish virtuoso who didn't escape Hitler can u believe it the hebrews are tops in everything except sports.My black bros beat everone there. I wish we had more than Andre Watts and a few women time forgot.

[politicopol]

@lovesGenet ...your bros rock...Wynton Marsalis...Art Tatum...Duke Ellington...etc...

[maxreger100]

My father studied this at The Paris Conservatory--all the advanced students had to master it--Neveu, Menuhin, Ciompi, Szeryng. My father had devised a fake fingering for the 4 repeated note figure where the player repeats the same pitch on all 4 strings--1:56 on. He taught everyone to play the D string twice and slyly cover the G with one's hand position so it "seemed" as if it were being played.

Consequently they all played it perfectly and the professors were all shocked and confused!

[harino45]

Doesn't Perlman play on the same violin as Menhuin did?

[MrUggamugga]

@harino45 yes sometimes, when it's the "Soil" Stradivari.

[Rephrat]

2'17 second to nobody !!

[HeifetzRanew]

noprodigyboy I would really appreciate a recording date for this and Menuhin's Hora Staccato which you also posted!

Love this rendition!The best performance of Bazzini ever recorded!

Amazing was the young Menuhin!

[Mozart99900]

@HeifetzRanew

Hello, Please listen to my upload of this piece with Menuhin too, the Sound is much more better

[zhaydhee]

this is the first i've heard of this recording - amazing bow technique. it might be my favorite recording of this - i Do like Perlman's recording too, though. when Menuhin got older his bowing was imprecise. he loved music but he cared more about Living - which isn't a bad thing - after all the pressure and attention on his playing that he endured as a child..

[lovesGenet]

Menuhin was magic and beautiful to look at as a young man.He was always clever .Did he try to do to much or did he lose some of the fire.This is electric and exciting because he pushes himself to the utmost.Deadly spiccato! Longevity is difficult even with a advertising machine behind you!

[ipmoic]

The best thing about this is that he seems to be having so much fun. What a wonder--what a talent. Unsurpassed in my opinion.

As flawless as it is possible to play this fiendishly difficult piece--and what a tempo.

Makes me smile every time I come back to it.

[nzmft85]

@ipmoic what did his playing degenerate so dramatically?

[NoStringsAttached08]

@nzmft85 from what i understand, when Menuhin was in his 30's or 40's, he spent a while trying to completely re-analyze and re-structure his technique and musicality, and it screwed him over

[shiveringflower]

@nzmft85 Three reasons ( that i know of) Firstly, his early studies were quite unstructured, which meant that later in life he had to apply himself and 're-learn' the techniques needed.

 Secondly, He suffered a lack of confidence due to the negative comparisons to Heifetz that some of the press were making.( Menuhin talks about this in one of his books) Thirdly he suffered from an ( undiagnosed i think) shaking disease.Late in life you could see him shaking visibly. Still my favourite :)

[politicopol]

quoting ...Izzy Perlman..."Menuhin...the original wunderkind...his lutein...nobody better..."

[shiveringflower]

Great playing,as always.Vasa Prihoda's audio only version is also superb.(his filmed version is strangely slow)

[wexinger159quemier]

ya dejen de hincharme las pelotas comparando a menuhin con heifetz solo escuchen y comenten por cada uno tiene su estilo y tocan diferente

[246trinitrotoluene]

excellent, but perlman's russia recording is still my all time fav

[gibsonpaddy]

Although i myself prefer Heifetz i have to admit that iv yet to hear a better version of this being played by Menuhin. Sure Perlman is de best today he still never managed to get the sound off the fiddle that Heifetz and Menuhin got off there fiddles

[rawautube]

Menuhin and Perlman were great at playing this piece,I love it

[marloesCComm]

He's the best, beyond comparison!!!

Can never decide:

Should this make me play now or give it up for ever?! ;oD xxxxx

[MissCartoonist]

Play now! Don't give up!! :)

[alonline]

i say never give up for somthing you think is worthy enough.

i play violin myself and this melody made me start playing..

gool luck! =]

[jaschenski]

Wow ! - I listened extensively to all renditions of this some time ago, before this was uploaded, but this knocks spots off them all for pure brilliance. He doesn't quite achieve Franscescatti's gorgeous lyricism though. I think people tend to neglect the fact that Menuhin's left hand was, IMO, as good if not better than anyone else's, perhaps because he often played things too fast and because other aspects of his playing let him down.

[calloffthedogs]

I'm speechless. That was truly marvelous. Never heard better.

[ak47andawp]

Wow, this is beyond perfection.

[DarthChuckster]

Menuhin is my favorite of all violinists. His control and precision were unmatched and yet his pure-spirited musicality, especially in later years, simply soared. His talent was matched with the best of instruments, a Guarnerius, I believe, with a tone as pure as any I have heard. One of my favorite recordings is his Bach sonatas and partitas in stereo, which I have on LP and cannot find on CD or elsewhere. His Beethoven concerto recording with Furtwängler is also the best I've heard.

[goroundit123]

my thoughts entirely...thank you noprodigyboy for bringing this to our attention

[Itachi1846]

i agree but if i'm not wrong his violin was the stradivarius "soil". His beethoven is fantastic!!!!

[DarthChuckster]

He did own the soil, but I think he sold it to Itzhak Perlman in 1986. He also owned the Lord Wilton Guarneri del Gesù.

[HKOverlord117]

2:14 Absolutely beautiful.

[chocoluckystar]

Wow......Amazing!!!!!

[pedrodot]

3:46 OMG!!! Can't sound sweeter than that! I don't know if he is the best, but he would be surely tied with Paganini.

[kwastormayt]

yehudi is the best violinist

[sirshungo]

You're Sure about that?

[gibsonpaddy]

Heifetz is de best

[rawautube]

What are you ? you treat the matter as it's an ideology!! every body know's that ! man

[elitetrooper4]

My favorite interpretation of this piece.

[daividrick]

perfect!!!

[vioano]

When I saw Perlman's, I thought it was untouchable. lawlaw122 is right. Menuhin rises the bar in clarity and trills.

[ipmoic]

You're right cjh37878--only a precious few years for Ginette Neveu who died at 30 in a plane crash. This must be, I think, a very early recording of Menuhin. Do you know the date noprodigyboy? I'm thinking maybe he's 16?? The pianist??

Great, freewheeling, endearing playing by the boy wonder!

[ipmoic]

This piece was learned by all the advanced students of Jules Boucherit at The Paris Conservatory. Menuhin, Neveu, Ciompi & Bobesco all played it as encores for many years thereafter.

[cjh37878]

Not really many years for poor Neveu... she had so much talent...

At least Yehudi can lighten the tone for us with his recordings.

[canxbuster12]

amazing...Yehudi...you brought us happiness...by your music and humanity...thank you...Rest in Peace

[elenagon1001]

i like how he plays!

[themusicdr]

somehow i find this interpretation too fast even though it seems perfectly executed

[25842685]

he's no sense of rthym. watch perlman and then see how truly it can be played

[Neilhoven]

is y'r thinking post-recording?

[25842685]

what d u mean by post-recording? maybe u like him, i dunno, if so i like him too. but the problem is that he just made the same mistake, tried to play fast and ruined the originality of this masterpiece while trying to show how fast his fingers are. in terms of rthym, perlman plays it better than any other players

[Neilhoven]

Recording technology changed the way artists played. In the same way that the invention of the camera changed the way painters painted. Yes, I love his playing too.

[hildagrim]

1:09 ?????!! awesome

[Neilhoven]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nzmft85]

how good are the tenths around 2:20.

[geoslav]

they are all gods...

[cjh37878]

Yes, but of the 3, Menuhin was the greatest at fast stuff, Perlman was all-around (not surpassing the others in their specialties), and Heifetz was vibrato and left hand pizzicato.

[takamori400]

True master of the violin!

[puccinifan]

Perlman had discussed this recording in the 'Art of Violin' documentary, and I'd been looking for it ever since. Thank you so very much for this upload!

[Diamondmineboy]

perlman said in the "Art of Violin..." interview..."nobody better..."

[lawlaw122]

excellent recording, i love how he maintains a high tempo in combination with a clear and precise tonality, something that vengerov and perlman lack especially with this piece, if you honestly think they are good compare it with this, they play it too fast and yet can't manage their trills properly as Menuhin can

[zhujun516]

you are right. this is played so precisely and clean for both notes and tempo

[Tristius]

@lawlaw122 lol did u just say perlman can't manage his trills properly?

[aweitzer1]

@lawlaw122 this is a fantastic recording. i fully agree with everything u said about it. but i also LOVE Perlman's version. don't u like it as well? for me thats definitely one of the best performances of this piece.

Menuhin is a true master - AMAZING! :)

[DrMontague]

@lawlaw122 Personally In think they all play this piece too fast. It always sound as they are playing twenty to the dozen. If the tempo had have been just a touch slower then this would for me have been a perfect interpretation. Mind you with the free VLC player you can now actually slow the music down and not lose the pitch.

[Screwdriver2000]

@DrMontague Dr Montage you’re a hypocrite!

Look at all the people who have flagged your comments as spam and voted you down,

You have complained about people voting you down…..

Yet “YOU” block people from commenting as soon as you don’t like what they are saying when pointing out your wrongs, and you then “Nah Nah Nah Nah” and block your ears by tapping the block user button.

There is a God and our God is “Good”

He is not evil , The evil one here is “YOU” Bad doctor.

[Telecom2222]

@DrMontague Oh well all your comments from now on will be flagged as spam

[TheKrAzyViolinist]

@lawlaw122 I completely agree. Although, u have to admit that anyone that can play this like the 3 of them deserve some credit.

[inbisvontu]

flawless.

[tennisballer17]

ive never been a fan of menuhin, but i must say this recording blows me away...brilliant

[emre010203]

good

[farzadvengerov]

what a colourful sound!! the best recording of this piece in my opinion,i like perlman's and vengerov's too.thanks alot for sharing.