Gil Shaham - Stravinsky Violin Concerto - 1st Movement

1st Movement

When Stravinsky wrote this concerto he must've had YouTube in mind for making each movement less than 10 minutes!!!

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[Oxy151268]

Glad you liked it!

Gil Shaham is one of my favourites too!

[nathan87]

damn, after that I just want to run outside and scribble STRAVINSKY WAS A GOD DAMN GENIUS all over the fronts of other peoples houses

[Korsair777]

good job igor, one of the best violin concertos ive ever heard =]

[MrClasicstar]

Asombrosa interpretación muy buena me encanta ^_^

[musoderelict]

@MuseDuCafe H'm. Just one point - I may have preconceptions, but certainly NOT that there is no emotion in 20th century music - Bartok, for instance, I know has intense emotion. Whatever my problem is, it's not that. But thank you for trying though.

[MuseDuCafe]

Composer and performers, Bravo! Shaham, you are a great musician, and a generous and astute chamber player, watching you work eyeball to eyeball with the other players when it gets down to chamber ensemble size is a lesson for all who think of soloists as 'stars.' Bravissississimo.

[MuseDuCafe]

@musoderelict Yep: joy; exhuberance; an irrepressible sense of the dance; humor; deep and expressive pathos (were you brave enought to make it through the middle two arias and abandon your preconceptions? They are as wrenchingly beautiful as some Haendel arias.). Yep Just because it seems you have Those Emotions tied to something else (let me guess, great but patently obvious late romantic fare?) Does NOT mean they aren't present in later music - and especially here.

[musoderelict]

@MaestroTJS That is interesting. - And all the more seeing that he later became one himself!

[MaestroTJS]

@Hamporkcheese It is kind of a stupid tradition, especially when you have a movement that really gets people's adrenaline pumping.

[MaestroTJS]

@musoderelict He did, but he pretended that he didn't and tried to suppress it.

"Composers combine notes. That is all." Despite him saying that, that would seem to apply to the serialists more than him in my mind, however.

[dmitrislepovitch]

@awsomedrummer100 It is a regular rotary valve trumpet, a standard for the German and Austrian orchestras.

[Mustrad]

i am so glad i saw gil shaham live playing this masterpiece of strawinsky =D

i even got an autograph!!