Kitchen Concert: Violin Virtuoso Performs After Cooking Borscht!
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- The fabulous laureate of the Reine Elisabeth prize, Alena Baeva, shares insights into her musical process, a fascinating look at her childhood in Kyrgystan and Khazahkstan, and her journey to becoming one of the most in demand violin soloists of our times. With her New York Philharmonic debut in 2023 and her chamber album, Fantasy, released in February 2024, Alena's career is sweeping ever higher and having her spend some moments with me, helping me decide how best to make the perfect Ukrainian borscht, was a delight beyond words. Come peek into this window of Alena's life, it is charming and beautiful...
0:00 - Series Introduction
0:25 - Alena Introduction
0:42 - Interview begins
2:07 - Performance of 10 year old Alena
5:31 - Garden visit
7:09 - Developing personal musicianship
9:04 - Discussing Strauss Violin Concerto, Opus 8, Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi
10:40 - Perfectionism and living in the moment in food and music
15:10 - Memories of a cold cellar and post-conservatory opportunities
18:50 - Reine Elisabeth and the path to Luxembourg
21:06 - Memories of food and tour
25:09 - Upcoming projects including Fantasy chamber album
28:07 - Eating and performance of Grażyna Bacewicz's Polish Caprice
30:22 - Outro with Ni Ensemble
Thank you to Alena for your beautiful insights!
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The Estonian Festival Orchestra with Paavo Järvi
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The Reine Elisabeth Competition
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Fantasy with Vadym Kholodenko
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Please check out the award winning Luxembrass who performed the theme music.
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Pieter Seyffert and What is Adventure Films, filming and editing
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Hannah Ni and Weeping Studios, graphic design and branding
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Borscht recipe based on Olia Hercules recipe from Mamushka
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Heather, Wonderful episode.. Alena seems to have lived ( and still seems to be living) such an interesting and eventful life and enthusiasum is so palpable..which makes her a great story teller.. and you are so good at guiding the conversation... But hardly got to see the food 😂
Hope you got to have a good time in Istanbul!
You are so right- what a wonderful story teller!! But also, we realised that we need much more food in the episodes! 😅 By episode 3 I think we’re getting a better balance, but let me know what you think if you get to watch! I appreciate the feedback! 🙏 Istanbul was BRILLIANT!! And it was so fun to meet you!
Wow, well done! Really interesting interview, beautiful images, amazing music. Congratulations!!
Thank you so much for watching! Alena was such an interesting person to chat with!! 😄
Oh wow…. Amazing video
Thank you so much! What a great musician, right??
At last I got to watch this episode! Thank you Heather for putting this together, and thank you Alena for your amazing stories and insights!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! And I can’t wait to edit your episode, we had such a fantastic time with you!! ❤️😍❤️
Very interesting concept! It was fascinating to hear the story, watch the wonderful images and hear the beautiful music. Looking forward to the next episodes too!
Thank you so much! I think the next one will be very interesting as well…! Vadym is just a superb pianist with a fascinating life- and since he was briefly introduced in this video, we wanted to go straight to his story after! 😊
I love concept of this channel. first ep of first season turns out to be one of my fav musicans. I love watching this ep she telling us a lot of her stories that we couldnt find on musical album jacket or concert venue interview.
🙏 that was exactly my thought! I really want to know the people behind the stage presence and see how they got there- Alena is such a beautiful philosopher of music and life, she was wonderful to have as the first guest! ❤️
Yes a really refreshing episode, you a have a great narrating voice. Good food and music what's not to like. Looking forward to the next episode
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind comments, we worked very hard to create a nice concept- it makes me very happy you feel we’re on the right path!
Bravo Alena and Heather !!!!!! Fantastic show 👏 👌
Thank you so much!! So happy to see the interview online and the positive feedback! 🙏❤️
Great! Splendid voice for narration. Next stop syndicated TV!
Ah, that would be amazing!! 😄❤️
Ma che bello !
Perfect conversation and ending!
Thank you for watching!! 😄🙏
Bravo Heather, I had a great time watching your video 💖
😊🙏 Thank you!! 🥳
Looks amazing! Cant wait for the next episode xx
Yay, thank you for watching!! 🙏😊
Lovely!!!
Bravo
🙏🥳 waiting for the last episode in the series with you in it! 😄
Absolutely beautiful! I loved every second.
Thank you so much! 😍
I really enjoyed your video. Alona is amazingly talented, musician, and cook) With her husband Vadim they created perfect duet on the stage end in a life!
I totally agree! 😍 and look for the next episode which focuses on Vadym, as you saw he is just a fantastic musician as well!
@@cookingmusicianthank you, for suggestion, I’ll. And you are 100% right!
Never met Vadim, but I was listening he’s playing.
Hello, great show! Is that Bach in the Intro? Anyone?
It’s the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Haendel 😊 thanks so much for watching- the next episode comes out on Friday this week!
Kumys is the name of fermented mare milk.
Ah cool! Thanks for that 😊👍
Beautiful! Only one comment--the piece that Alena plays at 9:10 is not the Strauss concerto but the Schumann. I'm also a cooking musician, so I've subscribed to your channel. :)
Much better show than the Fishin' Musician! Enjoyable hearing you and her talking. Happy to see she is playing some in the U.S. these days; hopefully I'll be able to hear her sometime in a good (acoustic!) environment. You all should come down to Austin for some barbecue, and forget about all that other stuff you're calling food!
I’d love to try some good Texas barbecue!! That has to be on my list 🥳 thanks for watching 😄
Whats the name of the piece she plays when she was 10 years old
Alena say ‘This was Sonata by Tartini "Didona Abandonata", 2nd movement’ Fabulous piece, right?
Yes, that’s Pinky in the nutshell…🙄🙄🙄
😂 took me a minute to understand your comment, but yes- sounds like that’s the deal!! Thanks for watching!