Bartok violin concerto - 1st movement - 1st part

Silvia Marcovici plays Bartok violin concerto
Conductor E.BERGEL

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Music

Tags:

• Violin
• concerto

[rumbato]

When i drink fine congac, this is my favorite piece.

[Violinfanatic]

I said she hardly looks at it, not she doesn't look at it. Just one mess up, and the whole piece could be ruined. Just think if she didn't have the sheet music in those rare moments when she did look to it for guidance. I think the sheet music is good actually. It's a reminder that the performance is about the music and the composer's message, not the performer.

[almeronfilms]

Spectacular opening! The sound is great!

[DoctaDualist]

Kool Keith sent me

[jdemeulenaer123]

enjoy in this music. Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelsson's violin concerto and even Vivaldi makes a big "come back" thanks to Carmignola's approach of the Red Priest maestro who is still, today, a music reference....

[jdemeulenaer123]

All this is very interesting and inspiring but this music does not gather as wide an audience as rock music or pop music does today...because this is the music of today. Bartok stays, in my humble view, more intricate and more complicated than the great Beethoven who stays with a wider audience even after more than 300 years....It is just like Paganini who is listened to by a small gathering of "specialists" or violinists who want to improve their violinistic skills....what is left to really .//

[7777Scion]

@jdemeulenaer123 Bartok is virtually unanimously looked at as one of the most important 20th century composers ... his string quartets are generally viewed as the most important since Beethoven's ... so, no, he didn't just "toss something in" for the trumpets. He was a master craftsman and worked over his compositions very carefully. I suggest a scholarly biography would be good reading for you.

[jdemeulenaer123]

It does sound bleak and morose....Bartok must have seen ghosts while writing this piece....The etheral and ungraspable by most of us and Beethoven is still the master looking on...and judging these crazy sounds of ours: unconsistency...Big trumpets in this first movement sound much like Bartok had to write somthing for them on the spur......

[mshakhz]

@jdemeulenaer123 uhm have you analyzed this concerto? it has a melody and how... xD Dutilleux is good too.

[jdemeulenaer123]

.../..can express such joy... Even hearing Amadeus Rihm who wrote really crazy violin sonati, is just impossible to grasp... It looks like Vivaldi was the only "joyful violinist with Paganini who have played to surprise their audience...Is the human heart that bleak and mosose...? Dvorak's ninth could also be a "positive" composition...Do you think so..?

[jdemeulenaer123]

Fair enough, this is true that we hear differently. I have never been so crazy about this concerto.. I'll probably need more time to understand. Shoenberg is also impossible to listen to and enjoy. Although I can enjoy Henri Dutilleux' violin concerto and somtime, Shostakovitch...(although very deppressing music written under an oppressive régime... I do not know why in Vivaldi's concerti we find so much energy and joy and as we advance toward modern times, practically no one..../..

[Violinfanatic]

@jdemeulenaer123 Maybe you just had a hard time remembering it... I loved this piece, and find it musically pleasing. My first time hearing it was when I was 12 years old. I thought it was the greatest piece on Earth. I guess everyone listens to and interprets music differently.