The lark ascending (Hilary Hahn)

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  • @MrIbgrant
    @MrIbgrant 7 років тому +37

    I think this is the subtlest, most musically-conscious version of this beautiful piece on You Tube - but then I find that everything HH does is up there with the very best.

    • @tamvionsr3999
      @tamvionsr3999 6 років тому +3

      That's totally true, who listened to her more than 10000hours knows it💜

    • @alexv3357
      @alexv3357 5 років тому +2

      Hilary has an unparalleled capacity for making every note count, for never wasting or passing thoughtlessly over any detail no matter how small or trivial

  • @michaelzurkinden116
    @michaelzurkinden116 9 років тому +25

    There are these unique moments where poet - composer - conductor - orchestra and the soloist melt into one - over a hundred year time span
    Pure artistry

  • @skyboswell
    @skyboswell 8 років тому +18

    Ralph Vaughan Williams is my favourite composer, and TLA is one of my favorite pieces of music. I discovered Hilary through her exquisite work on James Newton Howard's soundtrack for the film 'The Village', and immediately thought how well she would interpret this particular piece of music. What a gift this violinist has.

  • @elisha6770
    @elisha6770 2 роки тому +1

    This piece makes people warm at heart but running tear on the face after hearing it you will love England its a paradise on earth her people Angels

  • @noriemeha
    @noriemeha 7 років тому +14

    Just extraordinary how gifted she is. I am very old & thought I'd heard everything but this ability she has is something else. Wonderful.

  • @joostweijers6471
    @joostweijers6471 2 роки тому +2

    My favorit sad classic music forever

  • @listenmusic9811
    @listenmusic9811 7 років тому +12

    Yea, I almost cried when the lark flies away in the end. What beauty!

  • @camugi100
    @camugi100 7 років тому +3

    By far the best rendition of this stunning music out of all the great violinists. Hilary is faultless in every detail. A real JOY!

  • @nellwackwitz
    @nellwackwitz 6 років тому +6

    Hilary plays, IMO, the most moving The Lark Ascending of anyone I have heard. I cannot stop listening to her and her lark!

  • @klaro1967
    @klaro1967 8 років тому +7

    thanks for disappearing so completely and just leaving us with this heavenly composed music. thanks so much Hilary

    • @alexv3357
      @alexv3357 8 років тому

      Disappearing? She's touring still. I saw her last night in front of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She's not disappeared, and she's bringing more music into the world all the time.

  • @dbn52
    @dbn52 7 років тому +18

    Don't laugh but my 2 birds think she is another bird singing to them. They dance and bob up and down when I put this version on. They sing back. They love this. I love this only when I wear headphones so they can't hear. Beautiful

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 6 років тому +1

    Hilary,s performance
    is never boring .
    I was impressed with the delicacy and ingenuity that I can not express every much in words .
    Sadness and anxiety disappear .
    This performance and music
    have the tremendous power to act on the human soul .
    Hilary is a genius fiddler .
    My heart wavered with emotion .

  • @blathermore
    @blathermore 9 років тому +36

    So beautiful, sublime, and enchanting. Hilary Hahn paints the visions of Vaughn Williams tone poem with a masterful charm. She transports us to every forest, glade and meadow, giving us a birds-eye view. The orchestral accompaniment is wonderful, and the interplay of the soloist and the instruments adds so much to the quiet excitement. I would love to know that Marie Hall, for whom the piece was written, could hear this recording. She, and Hilary Hahn, must surely be kindred spirits.

    • @BradBrassman
      @BradBrassman 9 років тому +2

      blathermore Well put. I always see visions of the English midland-farmlands on early spring mornings when indeed the larks first begin to rise.

    • @blathermore
      @blathermore 9 років тому +1

      Brad Brassman Thanks. It must be a wonderful experience. I would love to visit there someday. Ken Russell, in his brilliant documentary on the life of Elgar, portrays the beauty of the midlands so memorably.

    • @salgoudsamoht
      @salgoudsamoht 9 років тому

      Brad Brassman . . . . whilst pearly dewdrops glimmer faintly as the sun plays hide and seek with tumescent clouds of slate and cream blowing hither and yon above a gate where a heifer ponders deeply about the sad life and untimely demise of Philip Heseltine. . . .

    • @bmille2121
      @bmille2121 7 років тому

      blathermore I totally agree

  • @setonix850
    @setonix850 6 років тому +5

    Bravo Hilary ! I love this recording about as much as the Iona Brown recording which set a standard for many years and certainly still does. Many say this piece evokes a picture of the country side from all sorts of locations which it certainly does. Though Vaughan Williams' music was very English you can't go past listening to this piece atop a high hill in the Australian Bush as the sun is setting with plains dotted with gum trees stretching for miles in front of you. As with so many of Vaughan William's compositions, they have true meaning. Just magical !

  • @aco1007
    @aco1007 8 років тому +15

    In my honest opinion, this is one of the best, if not the best, version of this piece.

    • @brambleq1236
      @brambleq1236 8 років тому +1

      One of, not the. I forget the "the" one, but I'll find it and post a link.

    • @tamvionsr3999
      @tamvionsr3999 6 років тому +2

      No, I'm a violinist and it's "the", hilary hahn is totally "the" best

  • @denysmcnair302
    @denysmcnair302 7 років тому +18

    As a violinist I am in awe of Hilary Hahn's talent. It is inappropriate to compare her with other great virtuoso violinists such as Perlman, Heifitz, Milstein etc as each contributes their own unique style of playing and interpretation of their repertoire.
    From a purely technical point of view I most admire her mastery of the violin bow which is the secret of beautiful tone on the violin.
    Any violinist who watches her performances will learn much from her just from observing and listening.
    Whether she is playing The Lark Ascending, Bruch, Sibelius, Paganini, or Bach Partitas, she demonstrates mastery of bowing technique. Only a violinist who has attempted to play the music of her repertoire can truly appreciate her technical expertise and how effortlessly and flawlessly she plays the most complex music ever written for the violi
    Her skill and musical interpretation is an inspiration to me as I continue to develop my own skill as a violinist who has been playing for 52 years. Having said that I have also learned much from other acclaimed virtuoso violinists. We are so blessed to have access to UA-cam recordings of great violinists, old and new.

    • @Rembrandt96
      @Rembrandt96 6 років тому +2

      Denys McNair this is surely the most beautiful comment I've read on UA-cam about any violinist. Everyone else will either be putting down HH or the other violinists instead of just praising one. you sir, are a humble soul and I'm glad to have found this comment.

    • @setonix850
      @setonix850 6 років тому

      Wonderfully put Denys. And being in total awe of Hilary Hahn's talent is exactly how I feel. Would you believe Hilary Hahn and only Hilary has inspired one 65 year old to learn the violin after never learning to play a musical instrument. Its a long hard slog, however if you want to truly understand our great violinists what better way to 'try' and play the violin.

    • @mdp8022
      @mdp8022 6 років тому

      Thank you

  • @Paul49Giloi
    @Paul49Giloi 8 років тому +9

    So beautiful - chokes me up every time.

  • @andrewhudson3568
    @andrewhudson3568 10 років тому +8

    The lark ascending y father loved this tune you can picture the beautiful countryside & you see a lark hovering in the sky always brings a tear to my eyes so peaceful & tranquil

  • @alexv3357
    @alexv3357 3 роки тому +3

    No one makes every note count the way Hilary Hahn does. Every little detail of her playing is always so clear and distinct, nothing is ever skipped or wasted or passed over thoughtlessly

  • @dbn52
    @dbn52 7 років тому +3

    This is my birds favorite song. They love it singing occasionally back to it.

  • @novocain13
    @novocain13 7 років тому +2

    Absolutely sublime in the true sense of the word. This, and Janine Jansen's interpretation are my personal favourite renditions of this musical masterpiece. Thanks for sharing.

  • @cristinachen8856
    @cristinachen8856 8 років тому +5

    So touching, like a spirit, like a soul.

  • @jsnphotodesign
    @jsnphotodesign 7 років тому +2

    My favorite music ever and a truly gifted musician taking the reins. I am one step closer to nirvana.

  • @aswaldschrattbbg2570
    @aswaldschrattbbg2570 7 років тому +1

    The melancolic mood has a real reason: As a child I lay in the meadow and watched the singing larks. Today: Nothing, quiet. Thank glyphosate.

  • @李樹人-x2z
    @李樹人-x2z 10 років тому +8

    This is my favorite piece.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 3 роки тому +2

    My ears are discerning ,
    so I know how wonderful her exquisite performance is .
    Since I listen to and compare many performances ,
    I can understand her breathtaking talent , wonderful ability , incomparable skill and beautiful attire .
    Her performance is overwhelmingly outstanding .
    From
    Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

  • @stolenlaptop
    @stolenlaptop 6 років тому +2

    I've heard this song so many times and never have I heard a version where the violin doesn't border on too bright. This is the most etherial version I've heard. I was able to turn it way up and I was envolped in the musical viel of a swaying songbird never before so occampanied yet lost at the same time.

  • @nestlinggirl
    @nestlinggirl 8 років тому +1

    this is my favorite piece of music. So stunning

  • @petergreen2552
    @petergreen2552 4 роки тому

    Oh that little part at 2_33 when the orchestra gently rejoins the piece to blend with the violin. Exquisite. A composition as close as you could wish to be perfection. This is the best version of many I've heard. Absolutely gorgeous

  • @christianguignard9980
    @christianguignard9980 8 років тому +5

    Any composers suit very well to Hilary hahn, so blessed and gifted she is; however, Ralf Vaugan Williams brings such an enigmatic and sensitive feeling through his scores. Much humanity into this music, a deep heart and old soul. i am totaly moved when i hear hilary' s violin, more than anyone before.... and from far. All is clean and delicate, true and luminous, everything at the right place, where not a human being could have thought. She plays violin only in the footsteps of each composer's soul. Hilary must have a direct line with heaven, obviously she belongs to another world, she lives on earth but seems not to come from a similar area. Hilary is always on the right spot we could not only imagine. Walking, or flying along with her means sharing an important and precious way of love, she honours every thing she approaches and everything she touches. She must be an angel, and the best, she is absolutely humble and ....as we use to say about our beloved Kathleen Ferrier, in an other expression, an Ordinary Diva.
    Every morning, i climb into my car to go to my workshop, where i make chandeliers for the entire world, churchs and castles, brass and gold, and begining my day, i often listen to Hilary Hahn. Such a prodigy, such treasure a woman.
    Because of my filiation, i should have prefered Yehudi Menuhin, or Jascha Heifetz, but even though i love them, i prefer Hilary han...she has offered freedom to music, she has given to music a pure reading and listening, on hearth as it is in heaven...not only a human rendition through each way of life...no, a precious, unique and absolute awareness of music and far above...
    From France, Christian Guignard 15-09-2016

    • @christianguignard9980
      @christianguignard9980 8 років тому

      Thanck you so much, sir...I am not a sepcialist as you could expect for, but during all my life, i was close to many different actors of fine arts and also singers and Instrumentists...i often comment on facebook about young prodigies arround the world whose i am their parent' s friend... and in any area or religion...for exemple i am so close to Nouhaila El Kali in Morocco...and i appreciate "Melhoun" ...then, in each méditerranan country; i mean, that opens our ears and brain, the best school is ethnomusiclology....also my son is a cousin of masters of viola and violin in France... he owns that particular sensitivity because of his "precocious childhood".....at the begining, i spent six years deep included in the best family of National paris orchestra, the choir....I am just an humble man who have the marvelous oportunity to live with the good persons. My english is only basic, but with my little abilities, i try to expres the most important feelings that exhale from arts and people....I can developpe a better expression in my native Language, and i became a writer, especialy about artistic kinship, also "precocious children"... and the relations between them... The kinship can exhale from natural filiation, but also through times and places, from spiritual kins, a sensitive conection...

  • @bmille2121
    @bmille2121 7 років тому +2

    Angelic girl Such an amazing and beautiful talented interpretation what a beautiful girl

  • @Nullifidian
    @Nullifidian 6 років тому +3

    Thank goodness you have this up. I heard this piece yesterday - or rather, as much of it as I could stand - in a version for violin and harp with a violinist who simply could _not_ play in tune. I wonder that Symphony Hall thought it worthy of subjecting its listeners to it. I'm listening to this now to drive that other performance out of my mind. It gives me a headache just remembering it.

  • @ritarawson5862
    @ritarawson5862 9 років тому +3

    lifts your spirit every time

  • @beeconnolly5436
    @beeconnolly5436 2 роки тому

    Just BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️

  • @MsMieva
    @MsMieva 7 років тому +5

    Increíble, perfecta, maravillosas manos...

  • @karolrybczyk3619
    @karolrybczyk3619 8 років тому +5

    pure simple a masterpiece performance

  • @socksandrobbie
    @socksandrobbie 9 років тому +5

    breathtaking.......

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 6 років тому +1

    Fabulous good❗
    Hilary is a genius fiddler .
    This is the hall - marked performance .

  • @kathrynmcmorrow7170
    @kathrynmcmorrow7170 7 років тому +4

    Utter brilliance.

  • @tamvionsr3999
    @tamvionsr3999 6 років тому

    The best as usual... No words to say ❤️❤️❤️

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 6 років тому

    It is surprisingly wonderful performance .
    I am amazed and delighted
    that woman with such talent
    and skill .
    Without 「You Tube 」she would not have known her
    existence .

  • @raphaelklayman6054
    @raphaelklayman6054 10 років тому +4

    Exquisite!

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 3 роки тому +1

    Without Vaughan Williams and his work's great performer such as Hilary with exquisite skill and incomparable technique ,
    the classical music world would have been very lonely and insipid ,
    and the enjoyment and pleasures and impression of the classical music would have been less .
    Without this masterpiece and her specutacular performance , I would feel that the classical music is like the taste of vapid beer
    From
    Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

  • @davidutube52
    @davidutube52 6 років тому +2

    I grew up with the Mendelssohn played by Kreisler (on 78 rpm discs!) and he defined what virtuoso violin playing should be - none compared. Then I heard Hilary Hahn play the Barber and the Mendelssohn, and now the Vaughan Williams. She ranks with Kreisler.

    • @davidutube52
      @davidutube52 6 років тому

      I will reply to myself: compare Hilary Hahn to Glenn Gould playing Bach The Art of Fugue: both are lost in the music and its creation. There is no room for smiles and expression.

  • @rickfernandez60
    @rickfernandez60 8 років тому +1

    love this

  • @MAFussell
    @MAFussell 8 років тому +2

    Hilary Hahn has matchless tone and control, it is just amazing to hear her interpretation! Her play is reverent and respectful. Janine Jansen interprets this with more passion, and she takes more chances with the piece, but is equally stunning. Some of the debate regarding Hahn and Jansen reminds me of the debate regarding guitarist John Williams and, well almost any other classical guitarist.

  • @michaelpall937
    @michaelpall937 7 років тому +1

    i love her

  • @aswaldschratt6799
    @aswaldschratt6799 9 років тому +1

    As Jackie Evancho sings so Hillary Hahn plays the violin. Enchanted simplicity with a wonderful soft low sound. I love much more then a great show. To play slow and low is more difficulty than loud and fast. I look forward to hear her Elgar-concerto soon. She must be a fortunate wife playing this pieces in this way.

    • @vp4744
      @vp4744 7 років тому +3

      Hilary Hahn (one el not two) gets to play like that because she has over 30 years of experience playing every day of her life. She practices six to eight hours each day. More when preparing for concerts. All this after she's been identified as a prodigy.
      You reduced all of Hilary's talent and hard work to a singer like Evancho who sounds like a choking chicken. It would have been more apt had you at least compared her to a proper operatic singer with enough range and talent.
      Hilary's been playing at the highest levels ever since she was a teenager giving concerts in the great concert halls of the world -- long before she became a wife and a mother. She's now an international star with her own itinerary, businesses, compositions, and collaborations -- all which have nothing to do with her being a wife.
      In fact one can safely say that she's achieved all the artistic successes despite living a normal life.
      You say "she must be a fortunate wife...". I'd rather say her husband is fortunate.

    • @maxabbey3913
      @maxabbey3913 7 років тому +2

      Well said, Hilary is one of the greatest violinists ever and deserves no comparison

  • @PhilipVAllen
    @PhilipVAllen 8 років тому +4

    Her tone is in her fingertips! That's where my tone is.

  • @norronlee3157
    @norronlee3157 8 років тому +3

    Devine...

    • @perusally
      @perusally 8 років тому +2

      That's "divine" but your intention was certainly right about Hillary's rendition of this piece.

  • @blackforestghost1
    @blackforestghost1 8 років тому +2

    I love Her . My name is Christian. Christian Agricola. Come back, my dear!

  • @ellyelverse8456
    @ellyelverse8456 9 років тому +2

    Når der ikke er nogen lærke i år, her hvor vi bor (i dette rædselsfulde klima) er det godt at kunne trøste sig med dette dejlige stk. musik af Haydn spillet af Hillary Hahn

  • @THEJET52
    @THEJET52 6 років тому

    Beauty!

  • @isabelduc1046
    @isabelduc1046 9 років тому +2

    Bellisimo

  • @franciscofernandez5356
    @franciscofernandez5356 10 років тому +2

    Wow

  • @JLBardamu78
    @JLBardamu78 7 років тому +1

    Une mélancolie heureuse...

  • @이봉수-z2g
    @이봉수-z2g 2 роки тому

    Yuna Kim had performed figure with this and became the queen of lark.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 6 років тому

    Is any more performance possible ?
    It isn't possible to wish for any more performance !
    The best music which quivers
    the soul of the person .
    What is the influence by which this music gave it to you ?

  • @2ndviolinist
    @2ndviolinist 7 років тому +1

    I usually like pre-50s performances, but there are no great versions from that time period. The only better recording than this that I know of is Iona Brown in 1972 with Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin and the Fields.

  • @VicenteMReyes-vs9nh
    @VicenteMReyes-vs9nh 8 років тому +2

    I am sure she is playing on a $10M Strad or Guarneri. Do you guys think she would sound the same on a much cheaper violin?

    • @wiemelen
      @wiemelen 8 років тому +5

      Yes she would ... she would sound different, but not better or worse ... just different.
      Being a musician myself, I can assure you, it's + 95% the musican's skills you hear.
      Only a small part is caused by the instrument. And even then only causing a different in sound colour and projection. So I would love to witness a test where she plays her Strad against a decent amateur model of "only" several thousands of dollars. I'm guessing only a handful of real experts could tell the differents when blindfolded.

    • @phillipaburgess6562
      @phillipaburgess6562 8 років тому +5

      Her violin is an 1864 copy of Paganini's "Cannone" (a Guaneri) made by Vuillaume.

    • @AlexandraLynch1
      @AlexandraLynch1 7 років тому

      I've heard a Strad (Joshua Bell) live, and beyond giving his midrange a really amazing lushness, it was the playing, not the instrument that stands out. (Former woodwind musician)

  • @stuartwagner3513
    @stuartwagner3513 9 років тому +8

    I truly love to read the comments of the musically esoteric on here. Those who might barely represent .01% of the listening audience out there. You are making comments for each other and it is really making you look like idiots. The other 99.99% of us find all music inspirational.

  • @zanny151
    @zanny151 6 років тому

    This lady can do no wrong

  • @420olof2
    @420olof2 7 років тому +2

    yuna kim brought me here

  • @ellyelverse8456
    @ellyelverse8456 9 років тому +1

    Ja musikken er dejlig - men det er altså ikke Haydn der har komponeret det stykke (jeg forvekslede det) men Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending - Romance for violin and orchestra ..... et meget skønt stykke musik