Yehudi Menuhin on Learning the Violin | Omnibus With Alistair Cooke
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Excerpt: Yehudi Menuhin gives advice to violin students, illustrated with slow-motion film.
Date aired - January 23, 1955, CBS - Yehudi Menuhin
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Yehudi was such a talented violinist. He was also a nice looking man.
“No one but a child would put up with those first years.”
I started in my 50s and still here after 3 years 😂
I started when I was 40, made money with it at 44.making a living playing violin still at 77. We are all different,and there are mire than one style of violin playing. 😂.I do have and read maestro menuhin books
2:58 His calluses on the finger tips look insane! Now I understand why I do not produce good sound, cause I did not practice enough to have that amount of calluses.
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what is he playing?
hahahahahhahaahaha Menuhin playin twinkle twinkle on a 1/4 instrument....MY LIFE IS COMPLETE! I CAN DIE IN PEACE NOW!
NAMASKAR GURUJI..🙏🙇♂️
But why did he have technical flaws with his technique?
Because he had NO idea about how violin playing works phisically. Thats why. He was just a genius and he could play marvelously until he was 28. But afterwards it never worked again.
@@leonardoiglesias2394 Oh, he had a pretty good idea of how it works. Also true that he felt he had hit a technique crisis along the way and felt he had to go back and re-focus on a lot of the basics.
He didn't receive rigorous technical training by his teachers Persinger and Enesco when he was young and mostly relied upon his natural abilities. He only studied technique after having an psychological breakdown in the 1940's. He also had physical issues, in particular trembling in both hands that compromised his technique.
Due to a neurological condition called Focal Distonia, that means that a group of neurons, in charge of specific muscle groups that work in specific movements, die.
He is not correct on the question of vibrato. Vibrato has been so often over-used. Menuhin gets away with it because his vibrato is very narrow. However, in Baroque music vibrato is today kept to a minimum and often not used at all.
Who are you to question Menuhin?
That's true. But I believe Menuhin would use vibrato in Baroque music if he found it to be more beautiful. Vibrato is what gives the tone life and warmth, and he was a master of controlling vibrato as an expressive tool.
Vibrato goes in and out of style. It's silly to talk about "correctness".
Yahoudi was really nice. ❤
try and play the Tchaikovsky violin concerto and dont use vibrato, see what it sounds like