Hilary Hahn - Shostakovich Violin Concerto (part 2)

I was surprised this wasn't posted cos it's on Sky all the time. The sound is very quiet but it's like that on the recording.
Once again, I'm really sorry about the way I've had to split this, there wasn't an obvious place so it was quite frustrating trying to find one. I just don't feel like I have the authorization to do this! Hope it was worth it anyway???

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• Hilary
• Hahn
• Shostakovich
• Violin
• Concerto

[kellbellwon]

her vibrato, her stability, her subtle intensity makes it almost eerie to listen to. world class, for sure.

[trtnx]

if you try hard enough you could see tremendous wings coming out of her back and floating on the ghastly murmurs of second world war being whispered in your left ear...

[thebloads]

@trtnx lol that was an almost passable attempt at dry humor.

[hbomb2579]

@Tonerows Best reply yet to my criticism. Pleasure reading from you!

[hbomb2579]

@outoftunefiddler 1. Define "old, like me" please. 2. No, I'm not a page turner, I'm a performer, and living from it too.

[outoftunefiddler]

@hbomb2579 Why would you think that? but isn't it the truth? There was always one a bit better than you, a bit more technically proficient with whom one had to compete to avoid turning pages...)Were YOU the one turning pages, hbomb? That's keeping it real...

[hbomb2579]

@fed9931 I have to disagree with your comment. Schostakowitsch wrote this piece for Oistrakh, not Hahn. This piece is to be played with the understanding of living under oppression. You know, the soviet cold war kind? The kind that both Schostakowitch and Oistrakh lived under. The kind that Hahn NEVER experienced, let alone any other life long hardship. The only thing this girl does right is play mathematically correct, and that's not what music is about. Where's the pain, where's the sorrow?

[hbomb2579]

@outoftunefiddler 3. I know a bit about the Oistrakh school of playing, I played with one of his students for quite a while. So, no need to try and impress me, let's just keep it real

[hbomb2579]

@outoftunefiddler 1. Define "old, like me" please. 2. Greatness defies age, greatness works in any "school", greatness is David Oistrakh. Oistrakh's playing is like gold, it doesn't tarnish. If one were to drop a bar of gold in the ocean, and let it sit there for hundreds of years on the floor of the ocean, it wouldn't matter. When that bar of gold is brought back to the surface above the ocean it will shine just as it did when it was first lost and forgotten about, truly defying age or decay.

[outoftunefiddler]

@hbomb2579 You must be old, like me. David was good for his time.His time is gone and now is Hilary's. David was of the Russian school, you know. My teacher, Boris Schwarz,wrote a book about them (and David) called :Great Masters of the Violin". This,sir or madame, is new school!

[davidleemente]

This interpretation works well for me. I love Jansons way with Shostakovich and Hilary Hahn brings an austere intensity to the piece. Reminds me of the late string quartets, more amazing Shostakovich there. There are many great interpretations of this piece, this one is up there for me.

[davidleemente]

This interpretation works well for me. I love Jansons way with Shostakovich and Hilary Hahn brings an austere intensity to the piece. Reminds me of the late string quartets, more amazing Shostakovich there.