Nathan Milstein plays Bach Chaconne (Part 1)

I have the video of Milstein playing the entire chaconne on my DVD but I can't figure out how to rip it (lpcm format??). In the meantime, here is the CD recording.

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• classical
• violin
• music
• Nathan
• Milstein
• Bach
• Chaconne

[muserik]

2934703, I'm sorry, but I have to say your'e a genuine idiot calling Bach"s chaconne an etude.

Besides, Milstein"s intonation has flaws, and is too romantic for my taste, with glissandos and smaultz like manners.

Check out Miss Mullova, the best I've heard.

[aimson]

Yes, Mullova, the greatest violinist of our time. Seriously though, never heard of her in my 22 years of playing. And Bach wrote the chaconne as an etude - it was not considered the "holy grail of solo violin" back then at all. Only now is it considered blasphemy to call it an etude.

[aimson]

@muserik Anyways, my point was that the music we call great in our time was not necessarily so when it was written. I may have exaggerated the Chaconne being an etude, but it certainly was not held in as high esteem. Why, you know about the story of the Goldberg Variations? They were written as part of a job application (some court or church probably) and Bach was REJECTED. Art sometimes takes centuries to be appreciated fully.

[hmac2222]

Am I the only one that prefers this recording to Heifetz?

[LEOPARDTWO]

Bach seizes your soul and won't let go.

[calebcoker]

Really...he said Mullova was better than this?! I saw her and I have a measure of respect for anyone who can play this very difficult piece. However, Milstein is on another level. Also, many (including myself) would say Mullova played this very out of the character of Bach! This however, is a very nice recording!

[Cedericoco]

@hmac2222 Not at all... ;-)

[felixdevilliers1]

@muserik Your comment was made 3 years ago - but really! Milstein's intonation is perfect and if he goesslghtly out this is a prerogative of singers, violinists and others, especially as the datonic scale is out of tune anyway, due to being doctored with. I have noticed in the past that that when strings play in pefect pitch with a piano they sound out of tune, but it is the piano that is out of tune. Maybe you lack the subtleties of pitch. Glissandi tasteful and not a trace of Smaltz.

[felixdevilliers1]

@aimson Remember that the Chopin wrote cycles of Etudes that belong to the some of the greatest music penned by human hands. If I remember rightly the Chacone is the movement of a Suite and Bach wrote much of his music for sublime didact purposes. I don't listen to it often as it terars the insides out of me, I think one art of the expression derives from something technical, the capacity of the violinist to draw his bow of all the strings to create his counerpoint.Nothong wrong with études.

[thislilfishinthesea]

I just love this.

[Sorcerer2k]

@hmac2222 NO!

[strongbadian4747]

@hmac2222 - To me, this one captures the emotion of the piece better than the Heifetz recording. You're not alone. :'D

[darkmice1]

It's funny how clueless people start comparing musicians when in reality, the musicians themselves never found themselves comparing themselves but rather found themselves appreciating each musicians' unique interpretations. So guys why not STOP FUCKING COMPARING AND JUST APPRECIATE EACH INTERPRETATIONS. That is all thank you.

[jazzpsalti]

this is one of the most stunning performances of the chaconne on record