Most well-known theme from a violin concerto? Butterfly Lovers 梁祝
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Discovering a new sound world in the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. Includes some multiple-Kerson viola orchestral backing track action as well.
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To most Chinese, the Butterfly Lovers is a classic and most well known love story. Before this violin concerto was composed, there are already many interpretations ( through operas, dramas, music, dance, etc) of the touching story of the 梁山伯 and 祝英台. Hence, the composers who understood the deep emotions and psychic of the Chinese and its culture did an excellent job to bring the legend alive. Well, you may say that it’s 梁山伯 and 祝英台 who help to promote the popularity of the violin to the Chinese world 😀
我是你的粉丝。你这段对于梁祝小提琴协奏曲的分析，我认为讲的非常好。特别适合生长在西方社会的华人小提琴琴童们。我们都是龙的传人，梁祝协奏曲是必学的保留曲目。
你對音樂背景的探求與解說引人入勝，你對音樂的深層理解總能使你的演奏讓人印象深刻。期待聽到你整部《梁祝》的表演。
concordo!!!
the tone out of that Guarneri is mind blowing
This video is a hidden gem. From the subtle humour past beautiful violin playing to the epiphanies of Kerson's insight and warm personality. I was already a fan, but wow!! Thank you!!
Never heard of it, but it sounds wonderful. Thank you for the insight :)
Love your dark humor in a very humble way.
I really enjoyed this, Kerson! You are such a great teacher. Thank you!❤️👏🏼🎻
this is one of my favorite concertos, i hope i'm able to learn it one day
As someone who was born/raised in Hangzhou (where the school that Zhu Yingtai and Liangshan Bo allegedlly went to locates), this concerto has a special place in my heart. And ofc, I think it is fair to claim that if you are a violinist in China, people who are not well-versed in classical music tend to treat this piece as a standard to measure your skill. If you can play Liang Zhu, then they think you are good (and I think it's a reasonable judgement. This concerto is not easy in any means hahaha). Hope one day Kerson you can give us your full interpretation of this piece. The glimpses that you gave us in this video sounds so righteous (in a cultural sense) compared to many other violinists' interpretations and it is full of musicality and very alluring loll
and I need to praise your slides!!! They are so good and emotional, and good slides definitely set people apart playing this piece!
Very well said. Here is an example of this opera: ua-cam.com/video/6KtJN5gGvZ0/v-deo.html
Oh I really hope you can make a recording of the famous Violin Concerto of Chinese romantic and tragic story of all time. Your interpretation of the story is so accurate and your playing is so amazingly sound with soul and emotion.
Absolutely one of the most familiar melodies, if not the most famous one in China. I remember learning this on the piano as a kid, really enjoyed it.
Interesting! It's easy to forget sometimes just how many people live in China and that pieces or melodies you've never heard of in Europe for example can reach such a huge audience. Also thank you for adding subtitles!
I love performing the butterfly lovers. Such a beautiful and emotional concerto!
So beautiful discovery, I didn't know this concerto!
Excellent analysis, thank you! I love this concerto.
This video enlightens my day. Exciting!
love your explanations as well! there's a really cool video of a violinist performing it and going through the folk legend and what specific parts of the concerto mean
FYI, this concerto was composed under great pressure of the 'queen' , the wife of Chairman Mao, who she was directing over all art and performance in that era.
Excited for this new video!
The beginning of the video is soooo good 😍and all the excerpts you played are breathtaking. Looking forward to a full rendition of this concerto from you. That would be amazing! All the meanings of the different slides and motifs remind me a bit of the baroque rhetorical figures in European music. Love the red shirt!
High appreciated your passion of music and the analysis on this lovely concerto.
Wonderful human being ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A good breakdown of how and why it was played. Thank you!
Amazing video!!!, i have always been fascinated with 梁祝 hope to see you do a full interpretation :’D
your playing is so expressive! also I like watching your bow arm
Admire your deep knowledge! Thank you so much for sharing!
Best interpretation by far. Love it Kerson!!!
I played this piece before.. your in depth analysis and demonstration shed a great light to all violin lovers...thank you so much
I love when you play this concerto.
😍Wow! Love it! Thanks for sharing!
You are amazing and really interesting. I love that Chinese concerto, very musical... never heard of it before !
Kerson, thank you for this thoughtful video on this piece. I can't believe I had forgotten about the BL concerto. I am not Chinese, but I have had a long running interest in Chinese culture (I studied some Wu-Shu during part of college now more recently I have studied some basic Mandarin) and I think back around 2010 was when I was first exposed to this amazing piece from if memory serves, a live Chicago Symphony recording with Aina (SP?) Kavafian as soloist on NPR. This video has convinced me I want to finally learn it.
Great video, wonderful play and thank you for share this great work to your audience.
Thank you for this video! Your insights are amazing. This piece means a lot to me because as a Chinese Filipino, it represents a piece of my heritage, although here we're exposed to very little traditional Chinese culture and I've only just recently learned about this piece and the legend of 梁祝. I remember my interest in Chinese music started when I had the opportunity to learn a little bit of guzheng. Although I've always been into other kinds of music, there will always be a special place in my heart for classical and traditional Chinese music because of those experiences, and it's an absolute joy for me to learn more about the Butterfly Lovers concerto. I wish I could hear it performed live one day ❤
also, 4:25 I see what you did there 😂
Thank you for this explanation. It is just wonderful to learn about this beautiful composition. You are a wonderful player. (And your voice is so deep... you could also do radio!)
Can’t wait for your version! Please play the immortal piece!
Complete 梁祝 plz🤣🤣🤣
I second this!
Kerson, first, wow your mandarin is perfect! You obviously have great understanding of 梁祝。 超讚！
Although 梁祝 is based on 越劇/紹興戲，grew up in Shanghai one can hear various 越劇 coming out of people’s houses everywhere in Shanghai, as the city is full of people originally came from 浙江 area.
Also, it’s worth mentioning that 祝英台 came from a relative liberal-minded family because she was send to school to study with boys and men by hiding her female gender.
Beautiful!
Thanks for this educational lesson.
I always love hearing soloists talk about the pieces they perform! Excited to see more of these kinds of videos in the future!
ps: laughed at that exit 😄
For me: Paganini La Campanella (No 2) and also Paganini No 1. Perhaps because they were played more often on the radio when I was a kid. Then Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
But I'm an old timer lol lol
This is a GREAT video. Well done.
If I understand correctly, the Japanese violinist Takako Nishizaki is much associated with The Butterfly Lovers violin concerto. Maybe you, Kerson, can become the next champion of this work in your generation!
Gil Shaham played also
@@wqr0805 Joshua Bell also...his world ranking is even higher than that of Gil Shaham's, but he played with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in 2018, unlike Gil Shaham who played with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
How fascinating!!!!!
👍👍👍
This, this right here is good content
Not very familiar with Butterfly Lovers probably since I'm not Chinese, lol. Got introduced to this concerto by TwoSetViolin but only listened to it once after reading up on it a little. Thanks for the break down.
Que bien tocas el violin, enhorabuena ! Me encanta està pieza , soy violinista , la tendre en cuenta ! 👏👏👏💖🥰🎻
Great, nice video
中秋节快乐！
Me encanta.
I'm off-topic here, but Kerson, I love your shirt! Does it have a brand/ can you remember where you got it? Heh :)
Great information on this video - I'm playing it now and also a student is learning it too. We're learning together I suppose!
How and where can I get or buy a copy of the accompaniment.?
Hey Kerson, thanks for the great analysis! I just have a quick question: do you know where I can find the orchestra accompaniment of this piece?
原来你会讲中文！
can you upload more stuff to spotify as well
可以来B站玩玩啊
You think the theme from Butterfly Lover's Concerto is more famous than Vivaldi's Four Seasons? Because those are by far the most recognizable by the general public.
Yes. The butterfly theme is played in almost every Chinese restaurant in the US, all the time.
@@xiaoguangzhang3145 and Vivaldi's Four Seasons is played all over the world, in every way imaginable, ads, ringtones, etc.
4:25 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼
Im truly amazed by your multi languages ability. I wonder do you speak some chinese dialects too?
hey, I was just wearing that same shirt yesterday! 0:10
easiest concerto in the violin repertoire
Never heard
梁祝的艺术成就很低，很多段落甚至称不上为乐曲，只能称为响声。
见人见智，当然每一种事物都有人喜欢或厌恶的。像李小龙，也有人说他是假功夫，但是只要你去看对于李小龙功夫视频的评论几乎有90％以上的留言都称李小龙是最伟大的（很多还都是世界各地不同肤色，不同种族的人），只有小猫三两只说他的坏话。。。还有像新加坡的前总理李光耀先生，虽然他把新加坡打造成世界级的国家，但是在他任期内的大选，也没有100％ 的人民支持他，拿个80几巴仙已经很好了。。。世界上总有一些像阁下一样的异类怪胎甚么的，喜欢跟人家唱反调，以显得出他的与众不同，大多数人都不会在意这些人的胡说八道，尤其是同宗同种，来这样糟蹋自己文化的杂种。
know by the most of ppl, chinese win hahaha !