Saint-Saens violin concerto - 3rd movement
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really good very demanding concerto
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She draws bow with such a force and uses 100% capacity. sound generating is unparallel. look at how she uses her bow.!
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0:38 that G is orgasmic. damn she can play
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Best ending to anything. Ever.
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@gotrapid74 Or the first cello concerto. Saint-Saens has his faults, but he surely is a genius.
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3:20 ???
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The answer is simple - her strings have metal cores. This obligates the use of FTs. As a pianist you know that our G,D & E are diffferent to yours (albeit by centiHz). This is why Joachim always "argued" with Brahms that the piano is "out of tune". Piano notes are 12 equal semitones apart. With strings there is an infinite number of notes per octave (hence no frets), so we don't need tricks of tuning to achieve whatever interspatial notes we want, & all these are rooted by our firm G,D,A,E.
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Fine tuners are meant for use with metal strings, as they change pitch very quickly on being tuned: we are talking nanometers not mm. Non metal, including synthetic, strings (Vengerov & Josh Bell et al use them) can be tuned manageably by pegs. If you need 4 FTs, better have a tailpiece where FTs are inbuilt, as even the minicule weigth and measure differences (especially the shortening of all 4 strings with accessory FTs) can have massive undesirable acoutical and response-to-player effects.
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I see "violinpluspiano" is at it again. Leaving negative comments instead of enjoying the beautiful music and amazing talent this lady is sharing with those of us who can truly appreciate it. Shame on you sir. Your ignorance is showing yet again.
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To: pjz2007: Regarding "using 4 fine tuners", maybe this says more about her violin than it does about her ability to tune. Sometimes very old (& I mean 'difficult') instruments just are too tricky to 'get it right' with only the pegs; either that or "she" is sooo talented that those super-fine nuances in tone "do" make a difference [at least for her] while for the rest of us 'mere mortals' we're simply satisfied with G, D, A & E.
Why is this in black and white? In 1985 we had colour televisions.
GeorgeMaxwellDuPre 2 years ago 10
I'm terribly sorry- anyone who has ever said that Saint-Saens is not a genius has never heard this concerto for violin. It is incredibly fiery and commands mastery from the performer. The adagio melody is as well divine....
gotrapid74 4 years ago 7