Joshua Bell - BACH & friends - Michael Lawrence Films

http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/bach_project/joshua_bell - BACH & friends - A New two-hour Documentary with Joshua Bell, Bobby McFerrin, Béla Fleck, Philip Glass, Chris Thile, Hilary Hahn, Edgar Meyer, Simone Dinnerstein, Emerson String Quartet, Manuel Barrueco, Swingle Singers, Glenn Gould http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/bach_project/purchase

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[MiloArc]

Oh, I know! Let's see a video of YOU playing it better!

Put up or shut up, critic.

[BenMcCormack91]

His comment about people being moved by Bach vs. being moved by the player - that made me happy.  Good musicians are never playing for themselves, but for the composers.

Say what you will about his interpretation. I, personally, like it, I like him, and I like Bach, so I have no problems with this video whatsoever, and feel no need to rank the musicians of the world in order from best to worst. Keep judging and quibbling over opinions if you must, but I'm satisfied.

[ambercatgoddess]

I am trying not to cry but here I am..eyes filling up..wow so beautiful.

[Misterhenriques]

Lol have people actually said that Josh Bell mucked this Bach piece? LOL Joshua Bell is a world renown violin virtuoso, he couldn't possibly fuck any solo violin piece up. The Chaconne was written for a solo violin; and Joshua Bell is better than the violinist who first played the Chaconne. By the way this is one of the most complex violin pieces ever written, so to all you nay sayers: I'd love to see you even play a violin, let alone be at the level of greatness required to play this piece.

[ncethngs]

I don't know how flawed his technical playing is but I can tell he is passionate about music and it resonates with his playing. I can still hear Bach in the music. His instrument sounds incredible as well. That's enough for me. Thanks to the channel that shared the video.

[MrJohmart]

@MiloArc the lack of ability to play as well as Joshua Bell does not prevent one from finding people who play better than him.

[ProgressiveEccentric]

@clumpofdirt77 Hopefully you're not generalizing all liberals with that comment. I have no clue who said this was emotionless (Joshua Bell most certainly never is), but I just hope you don't use that one example of a "pseudo-intellectual" to rag on a whole group of people, to which this person might not even belong

[inthemood1939]

the silence that Joshua takes in the beginning is time used to gather himself for the giant undertaking he was about to perform. even though bell was a prodigy, no one is always fully prepared to play bach. wish I could play it half as good as he can on the guitar! XD

[persephone307]

Wow.

[mynamesjimmyg]

@clumpofdirt77 great comment

[TheRonjameson]

I don't know about best performances, but the Chaconne is surely among the greatest music ever written. Brahms said of it, "... the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind."