"On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." - Johannes Brahms about Bach's Chaconne
Really, am I being an fool just to say...this is the most spiritual, the most moving, version of Bach's Chaconne that has ever been done (on UA-cam). I wish I had been there.
I've playn violin all my life and never mastered the chaccone. When I listen to master such as you play, It makes me cry........... ~~~ it is the voice of God speaking to man and man speaking to God..... Both voices / one above / the other below , as if in a dance that celebrates all the emotions of life.
All the great violinists I’ve heard over the years playing the chaconne all had played that probably many times and many played wonderfully and all played it there one indevitual way. Victorias interprétation for me was like hearing it for my first time a New and wonderful experience in my ninetieth year. Many thanks for this Present
I love this. Mullova and Isabelle Faust might be the most interesting Bach violinists in the world right now. They bring so much color and kind of a quiet intensity to Bach and it sounds a little less like a techical showpiece than it did in the hands of the MIlstein, Heifetz and Perlman. I always found the Chaconne almost tiring to listen too when it was played with super-intensity for its entire length. I'd rather see it played less bombastically -- a little more like a poem or a story than a sermon.
Very beautiful version. Walks a fine line of sounding romantic without sounding "romantic". A sense of harmony bridging intensity and calmness, austerity and expressiveness.
This is for me, the best Chaconne ever. She is Coming to Bergen, Norway in April. She shall be a soloist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra aka Harmonien. Edward Gardner is the Conducter, The Orchestra are from 1765. One of the Oldest orchestra in the entire wold. Berge City have ca. 270 000 residents.
I have such respect for all of the world class violinists and while I don't think there is such a thing as a "wrong" interpretation, I do think that Viktoria Mullova's interpretation of Chaconne is the best. My favorite violinist is Julia Fischer, but even there I think Viktoria has her beat on this piece. Just absolutely amazing!
I have heard so many versions of this and I always get goozebumps. The best interpretation... I don't know, they are all so different, Perman, Heifetz, Milstein, Ray Chen, Maxim Vengerov, Hillery Hahn, Julia Fisher, Janie Janssen, etc etc..If I'm in the mode for a soft version, this one and julia Fishers version. For a more powerfull version; Heifetz or Perlman! Hillery Hahn is kind of in between, and that's what I like most of the time...
How wonderful it must be for her to play this in St Nicolas in Leipzig. In exactly one of those places where Bach himself must have been standing sometime in the night, playing his violin, alone after a long day, and imagining an entire eternal world of music.
Beautiful performance. Yet now that I found out the deeper meaning of this coposition it is even more beautiful then before. As a Mozart, Beethoven and Bach admirerer, I say, Thank you all for bringing us the heavenly music from above!
There is no one right interpretation, but some may just not work. This is not one of those - Viktoria magnificently sounds like crystal - pure and incisive, touching deeply. I cherish it.
There are so many hundreds of versions of this on UA-cam and in concert halls everywhere around the world and I haven't heard them all .... but this has got to be the best. it beats all the others..... its spiritual quality is overwhelming. Surely this was what Bach intended... it's just an inspired performance.
Then u didnt listen the cello version of Santiago canon valencia (one of the greatest cellist on earth) wich is just Perfect effortless .... enjoy! That one is yes very nice too!
I really do appreciate her interpretation... it is much different than Perlman's, and Heifetz, and Milsteins, and Stern's... She plays her notes so... gracefully, balanced with passion...her sound floating through that hall held me - full of awe.
Limpia interpretacion de una obra muy dificil, por sus dificultades tecnicas, por la variedad de formulas ritmicas que posee, por lo dificil que resulta mantener el ritmo en una pieza de larga duracion sin perder la velocidad y la fuerza por el cansancio. Una pieza que requiere de una memoria increible, la iinterprete penetra en la intencion del autor. Bach es grande, Bach es unico, Bach tiene una imaginación atribuible solo a una genialidad sin par. Gracias por Compartirlo, es una Opinion de Quito Ecuador, Sudamerica.
I know thousands of good violinists have played this piece, but really Mullovo just had a night out on this one ... it's an exceptional performance, just brilliant in its spiritual intensity . Better than all the great male violinists who loved to play on four strings at once.... and also a compostional day out for Bach who surely got out out of bed on the right side when he composed this. Must have been such a nifty violist to work this up. On top of his keyboard skills ..... what a genius, has anyone surpassed him? I know these comments are obvious, but I make them anyway ...
It is a magnificent performance and with lovely sound - effortless and almost nothing forced or over stated, but who can beat Gitlis on the Chaconne? Nobody, not even the great Heifetz.
Clean interpretation of a very hard work, for their technical difficulties , the variety of rhythmic formulas that have, by the difficulty of keeping up in a full-length piece without losing speed and strength fatigue. A piece that requires an incredible memory, iinterprete penetrates the intention of the author. Bach is great, Bach is unique, Bach has an imagination attributable only unparalleled genius . Thanks for sharing , is a view of Quito Ecuador , South America .
If I could choose one single thing to hear the moment I die, it would be specifically that fragment from 9:30 to 10:40, It shall remind me that some things were worth living for.
This is the first Bach interpretation which takes my breath away. I mean what Bach has written is absolutely, really unbelievable beautiful anyway, but people somehow ruin the pieces with the "wrong" interpretation. But she plays it with so much understanding, so soft and gentle, so wise. I love it. And I meen, you can see that the people listening there are just blown away of the beauty in this 14 minutes. Just amazing. :) Thank you.
listening to the piece played on the original instrument with this kind of interpretation makes it easier to adopt to classical guitar.. a good reference, this is!
So I watched a video that featured a clip from this video (from about 3:12-4:00). In a comment, someone said they weren't impressed with it because it was "just a simple pentatonic scale." I flat-lined immediately...I literally could not believe someone would say something so extremely stupid, false, and completely ignorant of anything that went on in that clip. The person who stated that must have literally no experience in playing anything other than a pentatonic scale!
This is the type of venue this piece was made for. RIP Maria Bach you have a tribute to you better then the women who was buried at the Taj Mahal. Forever entrenched in human history and time
I quite agree! Perlman is a bit too relentless in his tempo. I feel like I am sitting on the edge of my seat all the time w/o being able to immerse myself into the music.
First, let me say that I have the greatest respect for anyone who stands before an audience to perform such a prodigious piece for the solo violin.And though this performance is thoroughly satisfying, Heifitz will always be the great one for me with his confidence, command of the instrument, and his all encompassing talent. Bravo Viktoria Mullova who can say that you did not do very,very well!
I found Viktoria as I tracked the instrument - the 1723c ex-Jules Falk Stradivari violin #620 - which I believe we are hearing here. A beautiful complement to one another, the violin and its player . . .
NO NO NO it is the voice of man speaking to man, why do people always have to bring god into anything that is so beautiful. Mankind for all his faults, and there are many, is also capable of producing acts of extreme, beauty, courage and selflessness lets just acknowledge those good traits. God has committed acts of unspeakable cruelty and callousness, gods are not supposed to do that and yet we continually forgive god for acting like men but we don't forgive ourselves.
Здорово! Впервые услышал чакону на гитаре (в исполнении А.Сеговии). Есть моменты, которые на гитаре мне больше нравятся - это в основном аккордовые моменты, там где скрипка только за два раза может взять аккорд. А так, на скрипке свое очарование, конечно.
It seems so intimate, as it she is playing for herself, with the music on the stand in front of her, not like a grand performance.... despite the crowd packed into the church. It's just lucky I guess that a good sound recordist and so on were there to record it for us...
Let us not forget that this a video of music for listeners to observe, reflect, meditate. Cut your debates over God. This post is about music. 13:40 is a peaceful moment. Lose your egos. Listen to it again. Don't take away from a performer with meaningless ego boosting chatter and self importance.
Perturba-me esta combinação de um rosto russo impenetrável e frio, com a profundidade emocional da interpretação. Só eu sou responsável por 1‰ das visualizações.
I have always been listening to the guitar adaption with Georg gulyas playing it and was surprisingly shocked by the lack of emotion during the modulation. I have always found this a point of pure pain but this felt too rushed, without meaning or understanding to the true reason this chaconne was written - bachs wife had died a week before and this chaconne should SCREAM and CRY.
Interpretation of a piece is one selfs identity like a finger print, each has there way of interpreting and feeling towards a piece if everyone was the same it would be boring like a robot playing the piece so for me there is no best just what kind of mood l am in. To be able to play this for a start is an achievement. Wonder how many can play this from start to finish
Une chaconne de Bach jouée dans une si belle église ça invite à la méditation. Merci pour cette merveilleuse interprétation!
"On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." - Johannes Brahms about Bach's Chaconne
Really, am I being an fool just to say...this is the most spiritual, the most moving, version of Bach's Chaconne that has ever been done (on UA-cam). I wish I had been there.
I've playn violin all my life and never mastered the chaccone. When I listen to master such as you play, It makes me cry........... ~~~ it is the voice of God speaking to man and man speaking to God..... Both voices / one above / the other below , as if in a dance that celebrates all the emotions of life.
The most beatiful interpretation of this composition I've ever seen.
All the great violinists I’ve heard over the years playing the chaconne all had played that probably many times and many played wonderfully and all played it there one indevitual way. Victorias interprétation for me was like hearing it for my first time a New and wonderful experience in my ninetieth year. Many thanks for this Present
V. Mullova has technical proficiency, the spontaneous wealth of pure melody and rhythmic perfection in a long difficult Bach violin solo.
What a great musician. This chaconne is the best i've ever heard : musicality, technicity, Hearth...Thank You...
I love this. Mullova and Isabelle Faust might be the most interesting Bach violinists in the world right now. They bring so much color and kind of a quiet intensity to Bach and it sounds a little less like a techical showpiece than it did in the hands of the MIlstein, Heifetz and Perlman. I always found the Chaconne almost tiring to listen too when it was played with super-intensity for its entire length. I'd rather see it played less bombastically -- a little more like a poem or a story than a sermon.
One of my go-to recordings for the Chaconne. Have loved Mullova since her defection. Our gain, Russia's loss. Brava Maestra!!!
ESTA dama esta viviendo la música ,como le habría gustado a BACH escucharla,realmente maravillosa.la concentración y posesionada de la partita.
Very beautiful version. Walks a fine line of sounding romantic without sounding "romantic". A sense of harmony bridging intensity and calmness, austerity and expressiveness.
This is for me, the best Chaconne ever. She is Coming to Bergen, Norway in April. She shall be a soloist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra aka Harmonien. Edward Gardner is the Conducter, The Orchestra are from 1765. One of the Oldest orchestra in the entire wold. Berge City have ca. 270 000 residents.
I have such respect for all of the world class violinists and while I don't think there is such a thing as a "wrong" interpretation, I do think that Viktoria Mullova's interpretation of Chaconne is the best. My favorite violinist is Julia Fischer, but even there I think Viktoria has her beat on this piece. Just absolutely amazing!
I have heard so many versions of this and I always get goozebumps. The best interpretation... I don't know, they are all so different, Perman, Heifetz, Milstein, Ray Chen, Maxim Vengerov, Hillery Hahn, Julia Fisher, Janie Janssen, etc etc..If I'm in the mode for a soft version, this one and julia Fishers version. For a more powerfull version; Heifetz or Perlman! Hillery Hahn is kind of in between, and that's what I like most of the time...
And watch Ivry Gitlis!
Exactly
@@eriknystrom5839 My favourites are the ones by Isaac Stern and Salvatore Accardo :)
Fergus MacValley I have to check that guy Salvatore, never heard of him.
How wonderful it must be for her to play this in St Nicolas in Leipzig. In exactly one of those places where Bach himself must have been standing sometime in the night, playing his violin, alone after a long day, and imagining an entire eternal world of music.
Beautiful performance. Yet now that I found out the deeper meaning of this coposition it is even more beautiful then before. As a Mozart, Beethoven and Bach admirerer, I say, Thank you all for bringing us the heavenly music from above!
outstanding! by far the best rendition of this piece available on youtube.
There is no one right interpretation, but some may just not work. This is not one of those - Viktoria magnificently sounds like crystal - pure and incisive, touching deeply. I cherish it.
Dan West р
Beautiful….She brings tears to my eyes…🙏🥰
The quality of the sound is mind BLOWING!!!
That audience should have been standing, giving Viktoria a loud ovation for her most wonderful performance!
MERAVIGLIOSA, UNA DELLE PIÙ BELLE INTERPRETAZIONI 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Cordiali saluti, Anna e Luigi
...много скрипичных мастеров слушал...но Виктория это феноменальный мастер....люблю Вас маэстро....
I just listened again to this .... the 20th time maybe. It's just so good.
E' la migliore versione della ciaccona che io conosca.Una grande intensità e un rispetto stilistico di rara intensità
Straordinaria ! non è semplice virtuosismo, ma, un'altra dimensione musicale
+Fulvio Merola D'accordo
Here I go, watched/listened again, must have listened to this 20 times and I still find it so moving....
Пропускает мимо ушей эпоху ..причем не одну ...
There are so many hundreds of versions of this on UA-cam and in concert halls everywhere around the world and I haven't heard them all .... but this has got to be the best. it beats all the others..... its spiritual quality is overwhelming. Surely this was what Bach intended... it's just an inspired performance.
Then u didnt listen the cello version of Santiago canon valencia (one of the greatest cellist on earth) wich is just Perfect effortless .... enjoy! That one is yes very nice too!
I really do appreciate her interpretation... it is much different than Perlman's, and Heifetz, and Milsteins, and Stern's... She plays her notes so... gracefully, balanced with passion...her sound floating through that hall held me - full of awe.
Limpia interpretacion de una obra muy dificil, por sus dificultades tecnicas, por la variedad de formulas ritmicas que posee, por lo dificil que resulta mantener el ritmo en una pieza de larga duracion sin perder la velocidad y la fuerza por el cansancio. Una pieza que requiere de una memoria increible, la iinterprete penetra en la intencion del autor. Bach es grande, Bach es unico, Bach tiene una imaginación atribuible solo a una genialidad sin par. Gracias por Compartirlo, es una Opinion de Quito Ecuador, Sudamerica.
Her Brahms and Beethoven Concerti with the orchestra in which I play were impeccable
Sencillamente celestial y grandioso
I love this! I love how unique and fresh her interpretation is, making it truly sound like the dance the chaconne is (if I'm not mistaken ._.)
Never heard such an interpretation. Fantastic!
I know thousands of good violinists have played this piece, but really Mullovo just had a night out on this one ... it's an exceptional performance, just brilliant in its spiritual intensity . Better than all the great male violinists who loved to play on four strings at once.... and also a compostional day out for Bach who surely got out out of bed on the right side when he composed this. Must have been such a nifty violist to work this up. On top of his keyboard skills ..... what a genius, has anyone surpassed him? I know these comments are obvious, but I make them anyway ...
It is a magnificent performance and with lovely sound - effortless and almost nothing forced or over stated, but who can beat Gitlis on the Chaconne? Nobody, not even the great Heifetz.
Fantastisch-ganz Lebensvoll!!!!
Völlegefühl!!!
Vielen Dank.
this performance is just so good, it's hard to see how anyone could play it better. And the video camera work is excellent ...
指使いの見える良いアングルで、参考になる。無伴奏はこういう響くホールで聴くのが美しく、魅力がある。Thanks Victer Good job. l like violin souns.
Clean interpretation of a very hard work, for their technical difficulties , the variety of rhythmic formulas that have, by the difficulty of keeping up in a full-length piece without losing speed and strength fatigue. A piece that requires an incredible memory, iinterprete penetrates the intention of the author. Bach is great, Bach is unique, Bach has an imagination attributable only unparalleled genius . Thanks for sharing , is a view of Quito Ecuador , South America .
素晴らしい教会で、ビクトリア.ムローバの演奏、それもバッハのシャコンヌ、最高ですね。
If I could choose one single thing to hear the moment I die, it would be specifically that fragment from 9:30 to 10:40, It shall remind me that some things were worth living for.
Wow....cringey...but so true!
This is the first Bach interpretation which takes my breath away. I mean what Bach has written is absolutely, really unbelievable beautiful anyway, but people somehow ruin the pieces with the "wrong" interpretation. But she plays it with so much understanding, so soft and gentle, so wise. I love it. And I meen, you can see that the people listening there are just blown away of the beauty in this 14 minutes. Just amazing. :) Thank you.
listening to the piece played on the original instrument with this kind of interpretation makes it easier to adopt to classical guitar.. a good reference, this is!
VM is fantastic. The sensuality and dynamism of her playing is inspiring. To be blunt, I've had a crush on her for years :)
Низкий Вам поклон!
Bach solo violin without vibrato ..... just the best way to go
Very very good, what a beautiful interpretation. And the acoustic makes it even better!
0:15 - start without clapping noise
So I watched a video that featured a clip from this video (from about 3:12-4:00).
In a comment, someone said they weren't impressed with it because it was "just a simple pentatonic scale." I flat-lined immediately...I literally could not believe someone would say something so extremely stupid, false, and completely ignorant of anything that went on in that clip. The person who stated that must have literally no experience in playing anything other than a pentatonic scale!
This is the type of venue this piece was made for. RIP Maria Bach you have a tribute to you better then the women who was buried at the Taj Mahal. Forever entrenched in human history and time
Wowwww che meraviglia. Il lato femminile di Bach.
Impressive purity The result of introspection
MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE!!!!!
I think her performance is closer to Baroque style than Itzhak Perlman's playing to this Chaconne.
I quite agree! Perlman is a bit too relentless in his tempo. I feel like I am sitting on the edge of my seat all the time w/o being able to immerse myself into the music.
Interprétation intéressante et son magnifique !
Great performance by great artist...
Love this, shows you sometimes less is more. The opening for example, is free from that traditional crunching...
At the beginning I thought she was boring. But then I changed my mind. Quite a good interpretation
Magnifique, beaucoup de délicatesse et de puissance, une très grande justesse... dommage qu'elle ne se détache pas de la partition !
see this is so great about art, everybody hears and feels things different
I don’t particularly enjoy this version, it sounds romantic when it should express sorrow
Excellent performance. Thanks for posting!
First, let me say that I have the greatest respect for anyone who stands before an audience to perform such a prodigious piece for the solo violin.And though this performance is thoroughly satisfying, Heifitz will always be the great one for me with his confidence, command of the instrument, and his all encompassing talent. Bravo Viktoria Mullova who can say that you did not do very,very well!
i really like this interpretation. Really similar to Sigiswald
maravillosa!!
I believe she just has a small note on the stand. It reads "play magnificently" :)
this is so unusual but i still love it. beautiful!
I found Viktoria as I tracked the instrument - the 1723c ex-Jules Falk Stradivari violin #620 - which I believe we are hearing here. A beautiful complement to one another, the violin and its player . . .
NO NO NO it is the voice of man speaking to man, why do people always have to bring god into anything that is so beautiful. Mankind for all his faults, and there are many, is also capable of producing acts of extreme, beauty, courage and selflessness lets just acknowledge those good traits. God has committed acts of unspeakable cruelty and callousness, gods are not supposed to do that and yet we continually forgive god for acting like men but we don't forgive ourselves.
Здорово! Впервые услышал чакону на гитаре (в исполнении А.Сеговии). Есть моменты, которые на гитаре мне больше нравятся - это в основном аккордовые моменты, там где скрипка только за два раза может взять аккорд. А так, на скрипке свое очарование, конечно.
Maravillosa Mullova e increiblemente virtuoso J.S Bach
There is a purity I have never heard before...Bach of course is inexhaustible...
I was impressed deeply.
i want your CD.
wonderful bach！
Lovely. Thank you.
How to play in baroc style with modern bow : very beautiful.
Wow...dat chaconne acoustics.
Only 290,000 views. Add a nought or two and it still deserves even more ....
Impressionant!
It seems so intimate, as it she is playing for herself, with the music on the stand in front of her, not like a grand performance.... despite the crowd packed into the church. It's just lucky I guess that a good sound recordist and so on were there to record it for us...
i actually love this interpretation
Inspiring.
Outstanding performance anyone know the name of the cathedral or church where the performance is taking place the architect is absolutely fascinating
Let us not forget that this a video of music for listeners to observe, reflect, meditate. Cut your debates over God. This post is about music. 13:40 is a peaceful moment. Lose your egos. Listen to it again. Don't take away from a performer with meaningless ego boosting chatter and self importance.
Perturba-me esta combinação de um rosto russo impenetrável e frio, com a profundidade emocional da interpretação. Só eu sou responsável por 1‰ das visualizações.
Merci !
Mesmerising
bravoo
I have always been listening to the guitar adaption with Georg gulyas playing it and was surprisingly shocked by the lack of emotion during the modulation. I have always found this a point of pure pain but this felt too rushed, without meaning or understanding to the true reason this chaconne was written - bachs wife had died a week before and this chaconne should SCREAM and CRY.
très gentille chaconne
Yikes! I've watched this performance by Mullova again. I seem to need to watch/listen every week.
Interpretation of a piece is one selfs identity like a finger print, each has there way of interpreting and feeling towards a piece if everyone was the same it would be boring like a robot playing the piece so for me there is no best just what kind of mood l am in. To be able to play this for a start is an achievement. Wonder how many can play this from start to finish
tres belle interprétation qui préfère la douceur a l'agressivite
gidon krimer virsion still the best ever .!!
Una "Chacona" cristalina.
Superb ...
¡Bieeen..!
impressive!
que bueno!!!!!!!
Which interpretation would you have in mind as being more to you taste?