Hey Augustin, my 2021 resolution is to finally get to hear your playing. I am a deaf violinist and I am 10 weeks from getting my cochlear implant. I can't wait to hear you your playing. I play violin by vibrations.
There has been a definite upside to CV-19 with several top violinist being stuck at home and deciding to share their knowledge freely here on YT. Somehow,it still is a beautiful world.
Okay but like... I get when yall say nothing is free, but like, he could've put ads on these videos. He totally could've. And none of us would question it cause it's just a thing you do on youtube. But he DIDN'T. No ads. Nada. He's just that generous.
Thank you so much for breaking this down and sharing your thoughts. Thank you as well for playing with such force and soul. Brought tears to my eyes, so much was said in those little passages.
What a amazing world that we live in. I am amatuer violin player who truly loves bach chaconne and I can listen to this lesson for free... this is mind blowing and thank you so much Augustin. Among all different versions of chaconne, your interpretation is my favorite ❤
You should publish a recording of the Bach chaccone please! your sound is so heavenly I'd love to see a home video of it!! Thanks for the great content
Extremely helpful. It makes that long Chaconne passage seem less like just a progressive building of drama with more and more sawing away, and more of an improvisatory feeling that has lots of internal structure. Thanks so much for posting
Your "second" arpeggio version is beautiful and reminds me of Manuel Barrueco's. I had never heard it this way on the violin. Thank you for being so generous, sharing your mastery in these great videos!
You have just lifted a heavy sense of guilt from my shoulders. I skip a few G string notes to improve the voicing in the second arpeggios, but I have always thought that it was wrong. You are just a wizard, good luck.
This was extremely helpful! When I studied this in the past, I, too, tried to bring out the voices more appropriately, but you’ve given me some good ideas for bringing out the middle voices that would otherwise stay hidden under the arpeggios. Keep it up with the Bach!
The way you explain the concept and then give a perfect example helps me so much! I always feel like I’m learning something new or at least understanding it in a deeper way
Absolutely brilliant insights into the mind of Bach giving understanding of the fundamental underlying musicality of this piece which is widely applicable. Thank you so much for your analysis and brilliant interpretation. I hope to improve my playing with your kind assistance. Steve K.
Thank you soooo much for that input! Especially the chaconne's second arpeggio - when I play it with doublestops, I sound violent and the lines of melody are not enough differentiated. Now I know how to work on that. Love your videos 💕
Thank you so much, maestro! Your videos are always so important to me and I've hoped for this video for so long time😭😍 I wish I could see you live someday 😭😍
Thank you so much for all of your videos! 😀 Your explanations are really mostly beyond me, but it is so calming to listen to you talking and explaining. You really have a way of making us feel like a welcome part of a community, no matter the level we are playing on. ❤️
Augustin you always make the bow look like it weighs as much as a feather. I just started working on this passage of the Ciaccona so the timing of the video couldn't be better thank you!
Wow! Thank you very much! You are helping a lot with Ask Augustin! Can I suggest an episode about breathing while playing and in particular in performance? You mentioned it several times and I recently started to be more aware of that, but I feel like I have to learn how to do it properly. Thank you for everything, you are a true Artist! I wish you the best ☺️
Rewatched your video because I’m learning the Prelude from the 3rd Cello Suite on Viola and struggling a bit with the arpeggio part :D your Masterclasses are so helpful!! 😀
Very good explanation. My theory is that Bach was always writing for the human voice, the greatest of all instruments. Of course, mechanical instruments are interesting like the violin and keyboard. But the breathing voice is what Bach based his music on, in my opinion. For me, that's Bach's greatest contribution to humanity. Partitas, fuges, cantatas, everything, they depend on human breathing. The most exciting being 6/4, but Bach went beyond that. Only Wagner came near this genious, changing pitch mid-bar.
For the second arpeggio passage in the Chaconne, I particularly like a different way to break the chords. It's very simply just rolling the chords as sixteenth notes from bottom to top as they are written, playing each voice separately (no double stops). I start downbow on the bottom voices and slur the remaining three upper voices on an upbow, but my bowings change depending on which voices are moving. For the moving 8th note voices, I play normal chords broken in half. It gives an effect in between that of Hadelich's method and the more traditional double stop method. I feel that the slower, smoother, and less intense manner of arpeggiating links better with the previous and following section and has a nicer flow. It has this feeling of sweet triumph with humility that suits the passage very well.
the way that i'm literally 28 and have never played an instrument in my entire life and multiple people have warned me that the violin is hella hard to play but your videos make me want to learn... your power
It's complex, but as long as you take the time to learn and consistently practice, you will be fine. Join an all levels community orchestra if you have that option and you'll be surprised what can happen within even a year. There are newcomers from 20 to 50 years old learning for the first time in my community orchestra and they have progressed amazingly.
I love you Augustin Hadelich ! I love the musician that you are ! Have you already recorded this Bach Chaconne ? If not, could you do so to our great joy ? The joy of hearing YOU, who have a great sensitivity, a wonderful "sound" and a wunderbar talent ! Bravo and danke schön fur alle ! 💐 🎻 🌹 Johann Sebastian Bach est mon compositeur préféré...✌
Thank you Augustin, for another really fine video. A small remark: I have always thought of the theme in the Chaconne as being eight measures. Somehow I don't feel the first four measures (of the theme, or any of the variations) give a sense of completion. There are, however, what I see as two half variations and the theme comes three times (the second and third transformed). So, I see it like this: Theme - 14.5 variations - Theme (transformed) - 2.5 - 7 var. - 5 var. - Theme (transformed). Somehow this makes sense to me. Thank you again!
Another incredible video. Please post a reccording of this incredible work! Can you please do an ask augustine vido on the baroque bow please? I am considering getting one and would love some advice on how to get most out of it. Thanks
Guitarists have come up with many of their own solutions and have some aspects of these sections easier perhaps. Thanks for the video! I have heard you play in Spokane twice and really enjoyed everything!
Thank you! One question: How do you know which voice to make dominant in a passage? I’m thinking specifically of Gavotte en Rondeau in the third partita, and about the Fugue in Sonata 2. Also, should the different voices have different “moods” and demeanors, or just different voicings?
Would you consider making a video about how to get fifths in tune? I'm practicing some Bach right now and i don't quite know what to do if i put my finger down on two strings and one note is in tune but the other one isn't. How do i adjust? Splitting my finger in half is obviously not an option... I am very much enjoying your Bach album by the way!
Thank you very much for your great videos and of course for your incredible playing! Could you tell about breathing during playing a little more please? It's very intersting how you work on that. For example, I found that I play better if I breath by my diaphragm not the chest because then I lift my shoulders. Also I try to understand how to include inhale and exhale into music process. Thank you very very much, you really inspire me!
Hi mr Hadelich, I wanted to ask which strategy would you use to practice this fragment, first intonation, 2+2, the shifting movement, then move the blocks as separated chords?
Do you think at some point you (or another subscriber) could talk a little bit about the different types of bows you use and why? For an intermediate to professional flutist it can be finding the right head joint to fit our embouchure as well as compliment the flute body. Is it the same process in finding the right bow for a string player? I’m curious.
Augustine, I really LOVE your videos, your playing, your musicianship, literally everything that you do and play. Being a violin professor myself I have become a huge fan of you in the past year. But I have to admit here that there is NO arpeggio written in the 1st Sonata by Bach. Most everybody plays that part of the Fugue with arpeggios but it is NOT indicated in the manuscript (unlike in the Ciaccona, where Bach wrote out "arpeggio" at both passages). If people would play what is written in the G minor Fugue, that would be better, I think. There is a good reason musically for not playing arpeggios, but violinists only think instrumentally and follow the instrumental tradition. If you would like to know what I mean by this I'd be happy to write in details but I don't want to behave as a troll here ;) Sincerely yours, Tamás Ittzés (ittzes.tamas@music.unideb.hu)
It's true Bach doesn't write it in the g minor fugue - actually that is why I focused on the Chaconne for this video. It can certainly be played without arpeggios, in several ways. It is commonly done in the fugue only because it's thought to have been customary in that era, and because it seems to lie rather well on the violin for doing arpeggios. Arpeggi were frequently not written out or even indicated at all (just like many ornamentations - a lot of trills are missing too, and most composers left out all the optional decorative ornaments). The fact that there are all these held pedal notes makes me think, at the very least, that many of Bach's contemporaries would have started to arpeggiate there. I think the whole technique of arpeggio emerged originally from the breaking of chords, when you break them back and forth trying to show all the voices.
During the baroque period, most decisions surrounding the manner of performance of a piece were left up to the musician. Matters of dynamics, articulation, and timing, were rarely specified, so the musician could really do whatever they wanted, within reason. So if someone wants to arpeggiate that passage, they can!
Can you tell more about your left hand position, please? For me it is quite unusual, because even in lower positions your only point of contact with the neck of the violin is the thumb (besides your fingers touching the strings), while I am used to hold the neck between the thumb and the base of the first finger, so I don't understand, how do you play this way, and I'm really interested in it)
Just do whatever feels natural to you. In another installment of Ask Augustin with James Ehnes, Ehnes mentions how he holds the violin how you (and most other violinists) do.
that is because the arpeggio passage is not written by Bach -- he only wrote the chords/harmonies and wrote "arpeggio" over it, but for the first passage he wrote how it should start. So the exact realization is up to each performer, and different violinists have decided on different solutions on how to execute these passages.
Hey Augustin, my 2021 resolution is to finally get to hear your playing. I am a deaf violinist and I am 10 weeks from getting my cochlear implant. I can't wait to hear you your playing. I play violin by vibrations.
wow- wishing you all the best for the procedure!
@@AugustinHadelichViolin thank you! Can't wait to hear you perfrom.
Did you hear him?
Hope all worked out and you are now able to hear such beautiful music again
You are in for a treat!
Good luck 🤞
I don't play the violin but is really incredible that we can see this video from someone so amazing for free.
There has been a definite upside to CV-19 with several top violinist being stuck at home and deciding to share their knowledge freely here on YT.
Somehow,it still is a beautiful world.
not really free
Oh yeaaaah d4mn righttt!!! 😍😍😍😍
Believe me, nothing in life is really free. 😉
Okay but like... I get when yall say nothing is free, but like, he could've put ads on these videos. He totally could've. And none of us would question it cause it's just a thing you do on youtube. But he DIDN'T. No ads. Nada. He's just that generous.
The great king of violin demonstrating and teaching us the nuances of playing the most exciting part of the great Chaconne.
❤👌👍
@@maiteflores7876 ❤🙏😁
❤️
Brilliant phrasing- He makes these arpeggios sound so easy. My favorite part of the Chaconne.
I'd love to hear a recording of the whole chaconne. It's just my favourite piece.
It’s not difficult to find recordings... 😂
Same here, it's by far my favorite classical piece of decades of listening... Have you heard this?
ua-cam.com/video/_eQd95VFpI8/v-deo.html
Is there a recording of Augustin Hadelich of the whole chaconne?
the hillary hahn one is really good,you should try to listen to it
Check out Augustin’s you tube, Chaconne at Home for 14 Violinists
Thank you so much for breaking this down and sharing your thoughts. Thank you as well for playing with such force and soul. Brought tears to my eyes, so much was said in those little passages.
What a amazing world that we live in. I am amatuer violin player who truly loves bach chaconne and I can listen to this lesson for free... this is mind blowing and thank you so much Augustin. Among all different versions of chaconne, your interpretation is my favorite ❤
You should publish a recording of the Bach chaccone please! your sound is so heavenly I'd love to see a home video of it!! Thanks for the great content
There is live recording of him playing Chaconne on UA-cam
Once again you share with us the most precious kinds of insights that clarify the essence of these pieces. Thanks again, Augustin! Keep them coming!
cannot agree more
Extremely helpful. It makes that long Chaconne passage seem less like just a progressive building of drama with more and more sawing away, and more of an improvisatory feeling that has lots of internal structure. Thanks so much for posting
Your "second" arpeggio version is beautiful and reminds me of Manuel Barrueco's. I had never heard it this way on the violin. Thank you for being so generous, sharing your mastery in these great videos!
You have just lifted a heavy sense of guilt from my shoulders. I skip a few G string notes to improve the voicing in the second arpeggios, but I have always thought that it was wrong. You are just a wizard, good luck.
Your solution for the d major section makes so much sense! Thank you for breaking this down. Always struggled with arpeggios in Bach.
This was extremely helpful! When I studied this in the past, I, too, tried to bring out the voices more appropriately, but you’ve given me some good ideas for bringing out the middle voices that would otherwise stay hidden under the arpeggios. Keep it up with the Bach!
The way you explain the concept and then give a perfect example helps me so much! I always feel like I’m learning something new or at least understanding it in a deeper way
Absolutely brilliant insights into the mind of Bach giving understanding of the fundamental underlying musicality of this piece which is widely applicable. Thank you so much for your analysis and brilliant interpretation. I hope to improve my playing with your kind assistance.
Steve K.
We love you Augustin! ❣❣❣❣
This actually helps me a lot with the learning process of chaconne.
Hola Augustin, eres mi violinista favorito, admiro mucho tu forma de tocar el violin. Saludos desde Republica Dominicana.
happy to see every your video, Mr. Hadelich.! Thank you
Wow. Thank you for your insight on this and perfect pedagogy as always!
I love that baroque bow😍
Beside Jacha Heifetz impressed me with his playing, ur play impressed me as well, both of u, really play with the HEART N SOUL.
Thank you soooo much for that input! Especially the chaconne's second arpeggio - when I play it with doublestops, I sound violent and the lines of melody are not enough differentiated. Now I know how to work on that.
Love your videos 💕
Thank you so much, maestro! Your videos are always so important to me and I've hoped for this video for so long time😭😍 I wish I could see you live someday 😭😍
Very interesting dear Hadelich! You are fantastic! Thank you so much for your great videos.❤🎶🎻🎶❤
Chaconne de Bach é simplesmente uma peça fenomenal, e essas passagens de arpeggios são espetaculares!...
Thank you so much for all of your videos! 😀 Your explanations are really mostly beyond me, but it is so calming to listen to you talking and explaining. You really have a way of making us feel like a welcome part of a community, no matter the level we are playing on. ❤️
Augustin,
thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge and making our days better with your music. You are magician
Thank you so much for uploading this practice video Augustin ! It really helps me a lot !
This is very helpful, a different way of approaching arpeggios. Thank you, Augustin!
Very good explanation.... Most intersing point of view on this theme.... Thank you for sharing....
☮️&🎶
Thank you Augustin, I always wanted to learn about pieces broken down like this
Augustin you always make the bow look like it weighs as much as a feather. I just started working on this passage of the Ciaccona so the timing of the video couldn't be better thank you!
was so intent watching I almost missed hitting the like button. Look forward to your next insightful video!
Explicación y demostración genial!!! Gracias!!!
Awesome advice! Thank you so much!
Wow! Thank you very much! You are helping a lot with Ask Augustin!
Can I suggest an episode about breathing while playing and in particular in performance? You mentioned it several times and I recently started to be more aware of that, but I feel like I have to learn how to do it properly.
Thank you for everything, you are a true Artist! I wish you the best ☺️
Very ispiring for my own violin playing. I am very happy and grateful with your posts.
Always helpful, always a pleasure listening to you, you're amazing. A great master!
Rewatched your video because I’m learning the Prelude from the 3rd Cello Suite on Viola and struggling a bit with the arpeggio part :D your Masterclasses are so helpful!! 😀
such an interesting presentation and great playing!
Thanks Augustin! Amazing play!
Hello from Ukraine
very helpful, thank you for these insights
It’s breathtakingly interesting and helpful！Thank you Augustin！
Very good explanation. My theory is that Bach was always writing for the human voice, the greatest of all instruments. Of course, mechanical instruments are interesting like the violin and keyboard. But the breathing voice is what Bach based his music on, in my opinion. For me, that's Bach's greatest contribution to humanity. Partitas, fuges, cantatas, everything, they depend on human breathing. The most exciting being 6/4, but Bach went beyond that. Only Wagner came near this genious, changing pitch mid-bar.
For the second arpeggio passage in the Chaconne, I particularly like a different way to break the chords. It's very simply just rolling the chords as sixteenth notes from bottom to top as they are written, playing each voice separately (no double stops). I start downbow on the bottom voices and slur the remaining three upper voices on an upbow, but my bowings change depending on which voices are moving. For the moving 8th note voices, I play normal chords broken in half. It gives an effect in between that of Hadelich's method and the more traditional double stop method. I feel that the slower, smoother, and less intense manner of arpeggiating links better with the previous and following section and has a nicer flow. It has this feeling of sweet triumph with humility that suits the passage very well.
Beautiful in every way.
Awesome, hope I’ll be able to play these one day
the way that i'm literally 28 and have never played an instrument in my entire life and multiple people have warned me that the violin is hella hard to play but your videos make me want to learn... your power
It islike in Harry Potter: The Instrument chooses you.
It's complex, but as long as you take the time to learn and consistently practice, you will be fine. Join an all levels community orchestra if you have that option and you'll be surprised what can happen within even a year. There are newcomers from 20 to 50 years old learning for the first time in my community orchestra and they have progressed amazingly.
Love that sheet music collection behind you - would love to see a video where you go through your collection.
I was just practicing this the other day :) thanks for the insight... what a coincident :))
Excellent lesson, thanks!
Amazing polyphony!
Thanks a lot for these videos Augustin!
those videos are amazing, thanks
I love you Augustin Hadelich ! I love the musician that you are ! Have you already recorded this Bach Chaconne ? If not, could you do so to our great joy ? The joy of hearing YOU, who have a great sensitivity, a wonderful "sound" and a wunderbar talent ! Bravo and danke schön fur alle ! 💐 🎻 🌹
Johann Sebastian Bach est mon compositeur préféré...✌
There is a live Chaconne that he plays on UA-cam. ❣️
Thank you Augustin, for another really fine video. A small remark: I have always thought of the theme in the Chaconne as being eight measures. Somehow I don't feel the first four measures (of the theme, or any of the variations) give a sense of completion. There are, however, what I see as two half variations and the theme comes three times (the second and third transformed). So, I see it like this: Theme - 14.5 variations - Theme (transformed) - 2.5 - 7 var. - 5 var. - Theme (transformed). Somehow this makes sense to me. Thank you again!
Another incredible video. Please post a reccording of this incredible work!
Can you please do an ask augustine vido on the baroque bow please? I am considering getting one and would love some advice on how to get most out of it.
Thanks
Keep coming!
That’s one helluva fiddle! Terrific playing too. 😯
Augustin THANK YOU 💜💜💜🙏
Dankeschön, Frohes neues Jahr, viel Glück, Gesundheit und Freude!! Interessante Afro-Frisur. 🎵😉🌲☃️⛷⛷⚘
Love your vids, but how about a video on the Bach Concerto in A Minor, 1sr Mvmt. Lots of issues there, at least for this 74 year old Czech🎻😬
It was helpful. Thank you.
Augustin is INSANE. So good.
Guitarists have come up with many of their own solutions and have some aspects of these sections easier perhaps. Thanks for the video! I have heard you play in Spokane twice and really enjoyed everything!
Another helpful video! Could you do a behind-the-scenes video please? So we can see the setup you use and what mics you think are good...?
Thank you so much!🤗
I love chaconne so much
I listen to it and Sarasate Carmen fantasy on loop
I noticed that you are using a baroque bow
Grazie mille maestro!!!
Thank you! One question: How do you know which voice to make dominant in a passage? I’m thinking specifically of Gavotte en Rondeau in the third partita, and about the Fugue in Sonata 2. Also, should the different voices have different “moods” and demeanors, or just different voicings?
I think you don't have to work on editing the videos. Everything that comes out of you is valuable
Very useful video!!!
This is marvelous
Insane mastery damn
My favorite❤
Oh my What a pleasant surprise
Insight and open heart surgery at the same time. In floods! No it's not a problem. It's wonderful. Thanks 😊
Thank you 💜 very helpful
Would you consider making a video about how to get fifths in tune? I'm practicing some Bach right now and i don't quite know what to do if i put my finger down on two strings and one note is in tune but the other one isn't. How do i adjust? Splitting my finger in half is obviously not an option...
I am very much enjoying your Bach album by the way!
Daniel Kurganov sent me and I'm very glad he did🤩.
Wow a Baoque bow!
Baroque
Thank you very much for your great videos and of course for your incredible playing!
Could you tell about breathing during playing a little more please? It's very intersting how you work on that. For example, I found that I play better if I breath by my diaphragm not the chest because then I lift my shoulders. Also I try to understand how to include inhale and exhale into music process.
Thank you very very much, you really inspire me!
Thanks, Excellent
5:25 i thought you were gonna start playing despacito xd happy new year augustin !
thanks man 🥺🥺❤
Hi mr Hadelich,
I wanted to ask which strategy would you use to practice this fragment, first intonation, 2+2, the shifting movement, then move the blocks as separated chords?
thank you master
you deserve way more subscribers
Do you think at some point you (or another subscriber) could talk a little bit about the different types of bows you use and why? For an intermediate to professional flutist it can be finding the right head joint to fit our embouchure as well as compliment the flute body. Is it the same process in finding the right bow for a string player? I’m curious.
I have a question about your bow technique, When you use a bow, which do you often use your wrist or arm?
Awesome. Would be great if can provide the notation at the bottom
Augustine, I really LOVE your videos, your playing, your musicianship, literally everything that you do and play. Being a violin professor myself I have become a huge fan of you in the past year. But I have to admit here that there is NO arpeggio written in the 1st Sonata by Bach. Most everybody plays that part of the Fugue with arpeggios but it is NOT indicated in the manuscript (unlike in the Ciaccona, where Bach wrote out "arpeggio" at both passages). If people would play what is written in the G minor Fugue, that would be better, I think. There is a good reason musically for not playing arpeggios, but violinists only think instrumentally and follow the instrumental tradition. If you would like to know what I mean by this I'd be happy to write in details but I don't want to behave as a troll here ;) Sincerely yours, Tamás Ittzés (ittzes.tamas@music.unideb.hu)
It's true Bach doesn't write it in the g minor fugue - actually that is why I focused on the Chaconne for this video. It can certainly be played without arpeggios, in several ways. It is commonly done in the fugue only because it's thought to have been customary in that era, and because it seems to lie rather well on the violin for doing arpeggios. Arpeggi were frequently not written out or even indicated at all (just like many ornamentations - a lot of trills are missing too, and most composers left out all the optional decorative ornaments). The fact that there are all these held pedal notes makes me think, at the very least, that many of Bach's contemporaries would have started to arpeggiate there.
I think the whole technique of arpeggio emerged originally from the breaking of chords, when you break them back and forth trying to show all the voices.
During the baroque period, most decisions surrounding the manner of performance of a piece were left up to the musician. Matters of dynamics, articulation, and timing, were rarely specified, so the musician could really do whatever they wanted, within reason. So if someone wants to arpeggiate that passage, they can!
Ｈi, may I know what is the microphone you're using?
Sorry I haven’t been keeping up with your videos!
Agustín, what's the difference between baroque and the tradicional bow? Talking the sound that you can achieve with them. Thank you so much
Baroque bow is lighter.
Thahk you Augustin🐈
My question is, would you consider performing the Prokoviev Violin concerto 1?
Can you tell more about your left hand position, please? For me it is quite unusual, because even in lower positions your only point of contact with the neck of the violin is the thumb (besides your fingers touching the strings), while I am used to hold the neck between the thumb and the base of the first finger, so I don't understand, how do you play this way, and I'm really interested in it)
Just do whatever feels natural to you. In another installment of Ask Augustin with James Ehnes, Ehnes mentions how he holds the violin how you (and most other violinists) do.
Hi Maestro. Can You tell the reason of a different solfeggio of the cited passages by some performers as for example Szeryng? Thanks.
that is because the arpeggio passage is not written by Bach -- he only wrote the chords/harmonies and wrote "arpeggio" over it, but for the first passage he wrote how it should start. So the exact realization is up to each performer, and different violinists have decided on different solutions on how to execute these passages.
@@AugustinHadelichViolin it makes sense! Thank you so much.