Arthur Grumiaux - Bach Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (V. Ciaccona p1-2)

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Arthur Grumiaux plays Bach's Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004.

5. Ciaccona

March, 1961.

HQ Audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kl2bWItlc&fmt=18

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  • I am partial to Milstein on the Chaconne but this is magnificent

  • Before we had recording devices, I think you would hear someone play the mvmnt and applaud. The recording machine caused the dissatisfaction not the musician. For example someone hears a recording of his voice for the first time and says I don't sound like that. A talented musician hears someone else play a familiar piece and is no longer content with his sound. Before you know it we all want to sound like so and so. If you can play this music congratulations. Do not listen to the negatives.

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  • For my senses... his version is the non plus ultra of his time... No words can discribe it. He took perfection (Bach's) beyond its limits... INCREDIBLE!

  • best violinist ever

  • Music from outer space :) simply brilliant ^^

  • 2.29 - 3.13 = The most breathtaking and heartbreaking moment in music

  • He is not of this Earth

  • This version more than all others and I know some leaves the most of an impression of satisfaction- I love Rachel Podgers reading as well but probably no other creates this overall effect like Grumiaux. Reference.

  • @cableaddict

    you might try to listen to more older generation players, such as heifetz and grumiaux... you will learn things that you won't learn from players today.. it is untimately not about intonation. let the tuner do the job, it is more intune than anybody. yet it is only a tuner.....

  • @cableaddict

    it that all you can hear is intonation? how about his sound, vibrato and pesonality? I think intonation is a expressive tool for him. just like all the great ones, they all have diffrent intonations. that is one tech is getting lost this days. everybody play like they have been tune to tuners. Grumiaux is one of the best in the last two centuries of violin playing.

  • The most undervalued violinist of xx century

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