Kyung Wha Chung plays Bach violin sonata No.1 BWV1001 (Fuga)

Kyung-Wha Chung plays 'Fuga' from Bach's unaccompanied violin sonata No.1. Filmed in 2002.
Poor sound quality due to the limit of the original streaming file.

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• Kyung
• Wha
• Chung
• bach
• sonata

[poseuresque]

this is pretty unfocused, dirty playing. and tacky interpretation..."i'm a play these notes faster....then jerk these around...then speed up...then, for no apparent reason, play these two REALLY slow...and all at pretty much the same volume!" pretty bad performance. szeryng's is the finest, in my opinion. obviously the talent discrepancy is huge here, but one might expect a pro to study the greats. not fart out bach

[twofinedays]

"talent discrepacy is huge"... I just laugh at your recklessly assured tone. Szeryng's a great violinist, and I often listen to his Bach in particular, but Ms Chung is an artist of her own class. I don't even need to argue about it because her years of career and achivement proves itself. Just my little word for you is 'do not jump into judgement about an artist just because you liked or disliked a certain performance of his or hers'; it's often misleading.

[twofinedays]

And by the way, over the time I cannot but notice Bach is the one composer about whom people tend to have huge conception of their own; they would think Bach should be this or that, and feel offended when it's not. Personally I think music should never be like that (or any form of art for that matter). I even admire Kennedy though I dislike his Bach interpretation; he seems to say "Fuck you people, Bach is music not a scripture!".

[milstein91]

Keep playing paganini and wieniawsky but not bach!

[twofinedays]

Funny, Ms Chung rarely played both Paganini and Wieniawsky. Actually she has never quite been a showing off type of violinist through out her career.

And please, I love Bach very very much myself, but don't make him sound like some saint living in unreachable distance.

[klaverfar]

Music began and ended with Bach.

[Fr3derick]

It is mentioned in the description of this video that the sound quality is poor due to the "limit of the original streaming file" and I am saying that this might have caused her playing to sound even more rough than her usual as I know what her tone normally sounds like. However, I am not saying that Kyung Wha Chung does not have a tendency to bow harder on the strings.

[MyWinterFireflyLove1]

@poseuresque your the one that stupid ... thats the beauty of music

[Twinkleh]

it's often performances like this, which interpret music beyond the sheet music, that get the purist, snobby classical music fan leaving snide comments about how it doesn't match up to some other great violinist's interpretation. i agree with you on nigel kennedy - though i don't, people love his music and his style. and if they love it more than heifetz, whose to say that's wrong?

[iloveholidayss87]

I liked it! I think she played with a lot of character! Why do some people say it's not up to standard?? :O

[leoncioviolin]

Bravo.

[liosama]

@klaverfar whatever.

[liosama]

@klaverfar whatever.

[cozmocon]

@twofinedays I absolutely love that you defend the videos even though they are not of you =] It really gives me hope that more people care about classical music

[kamijo89]

I guess most of the commentators here have never heard the expression, " Nothing can substitute for a live performance." The quality of the audio doesn't do Miss Kyung-Wha Chung justice. If you play the violin and you play Bach, you will come to understand that between your private teacher, your professors and your colleagues, you have to interpret the music the way that is most true to yourself. I think this violinist does just that. Thank you for posting, twofinedays.

[pipebillys]

the bitrate killed it. 

[XeroK00L]

Beautifully played. Too bad it's marred by the horribly compressed audio. She deserves better a much better bitrate.