Alma Deutscher, Violin concerto in G minor (2017) 

Is it possible to purchase the score and parts?

Alma's violin concerto is absolute genius and bliss. May she blossom into her realm of magnificence for years to come !☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

IMO This is the piece that really put her on the map; and still her crowning achievement. This is the piece that demanded the world take her seriously.

Something for a Q andA soon, howe do you compose your work for symphonies without a special app?

Amazing

Leilani Lu came here to say exactly this. Her music takes my breath away but to see her enjoy it... HEAVEN!

Its true

Yes she does enjoy it. You can see her eyes rollowing back. You can literally see her excitement and her body language. I am not an expert but I can say she writes and plays music by the pure love of it...

Exactly, music just flows through her. I think of her skipping rope every time. Just a playful little girl who is anything but little when she composes.

Not to forget her violin technics and skills. It is not an easy piecy lemen squeeze.

An honor. I would be humble.

And she plays her instrument better than you.

You can tell she genuinely loves it and is jus living her best life 💖 But yes soul crushing is the phrase

They're thrilled. It's the closest they'll ever get to playing with Mozart.

Might as well burn my violin tbh

This is WAY more than talent. It is a gift!

@@pickngrin73 It's a mix of both.

Guys you must remember that she worked hard too

@@me3251 True. There is a lot of innate ability, whatever you want to call it, bit she has had to turn potential into reality, and then exercise that reality into skill.

Crazy!!

I totally agree with you.

Well, I'm 85 yrs OLD, and I'm also glad to be still here! This music style may be old, but it's more refreshing than some of the "contemporary" and dissonant trash that's out there.

97 here :)

I'm the same age and I agree with you! Alma IS music! Her piano and violin Concerti are remarkable. They are simple for her age, and yet complicated enough to make an accomplished older pianist or violinist work very hard to rehearse! Since music is beauty to her, her music IS beautiful!

A true gift !

Well at least there are many older people, some who are musicians, but most, ordinary folk who love classical music and who wholeheartedly agree with your estimation. Our sympathy to your sad friend and hope he recovers soon.

This is my first time listening to a classical composer that is still alive and I’m am really amazed at what I see. I was thinking it would sound very sweet, like Elgar or Britten, or energetic like Kabalevsky, but I’m really shock to hear influences from Bach as well as a little Romantic influence(it definitely doesn’t sound classical period to me).

@@TheAsianTree listen to Max Richter ,Hans Zimmer and Olafur Arnold's.All a great all are modern

As Alma once said in an interview, people don‘t take her seriously because she’s not a dead old man with a beard

It sounds like your friend is a CHAV. I think their mental state is probably incurable! Don’t waste your time on them. Hopefully you’ll focus on the things you love in life and come into contact with more people who are on your wavelength and appreciate life on a deeper level.

You describe what would be a quite normal young human. Why do I still feel she isn't?

@@empanadasfritas7142 Well she is insanely talented at music so that's not common (I believe talent is relevant here even if I'm sure she worked really hard)

@@nathanbegel4505 Musical talent does not replace but requires and deserves the hard work required to acquire the skills without which the talent will never be realized and expressed in a form that can be shared with others.

I'm hesitant by the word "normal". Too often, what is normal is unhealthy, domineering and cruel. Alma seems to have been in a healthy, well-balanced, nurturing environment. Neither cloying nor destroying. It's what should be normal. When you consider 50% of mental ability is environmental, only 59% is genetic, then you realize just how healthy her childhood was and is. But you also realize how inhibited many folk are. They'd never reach Alma's level, but they could be so much better than they are.

couldn't agree more!

@@jonathanday6692 ‘8

THE prodigy of the 21st century has arrived!!!

lel

HaHa .. When Alma plays her music only Beautiful Seizures for the listener!

So much modern "classical" music reminds me of the Empire's New Cloths, nonexistent musically and totally tuneless, worse than white noise, if most modern "classical" composers have day job my advice is don't give it up .... Not so with Alma.......

There's also Leo Purich

Agree! So refreshing. . . and vital!

i much rather a classical/romantic concerto composed in XXI century than if she followed the pop path, or the hyper atonalistic way of this century its good to have some composers who do it old fashioned, as important as having people trying new aproaches to make music evolve

"it truly sounds at the same level of the greatest classical music composers of all time" Dude, I agree she's fantastic, but let's not get carried away now lol... Not even Mozart himself wrote "great" music as a child. His masterpieces were written as an adult (age 25+). Same with Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, etc.

Yes she is remarkable.

You don’t think that Symphony 29 is a master piece ? He was 18 he wrote 29 symphonies by the time he was 18 let that sink in !! Also his violin concerto number 5 is a masterpiece IMO ! m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ETXPKHPPov8.html

@@oldsocrates The real child genius in history was Mendelssohn

“What are you learning right now?” “Oh me? I’m doing Deutscher!”

+. @@laura8700 Above all, the world's music lovers should thank you tube for letting us even know she exists, let alone hear and watch her.

@@jessicayang2172 Magnifique!!

YES! "Let us deserve it." So well said.

So well said! She is astounding and her music helps me to remember that God exists in such a world full of pain. Her music brings tears of joy😙😊

THE GIRL IS Amasing!My heart is melting when I see and listen her.

You nailed it. She’s a true genius, and even more so a channeler of the music of angels !

Was “development” supposed to be a pun because if it was, it was genius.

But I have to say she is not like Mozart or Beethoven at all … she is gloriously herself

It is!!

So well written and realistic

It’s so amazing

I agree. She excels as a composer and as a musician. She truly is a musical genius. And she is just starting her musical trajectory!

such an amazing comment!^^

Sadly, i share that assessment, why else would someone so talented, so young, so popular and loved, be so shabberly treated by her homeland ?? but then , we are so good at overlooking our best people.

I don't live in the UK so I rely completely on youtube!! I absolutely share your complaint haha

The BBC only plays/performs young composers music if it is modern/avant-garde and sounds horrible, nothing like this masterpiece is ever played on the BBC. It’s awful in my opinion

I would suggest let her enjoy being a kid... she has exceeded what many have done in a whole lifetime.

myexitolaboral , and others. I don’t live in the UK and those issues are not what I was talking about. I can’t help but believe that every time Alma performs, someone is recording it. What I wish is that something like Medici or VEVO had access to those recording and could share them sooner (this recording is a year old already) and more often. I don’t know what the strategy is, and whether it concerns monetizing her performances, or if there is some other reason. I just would like to be able to enjoy her talent. As for Alma just being able to enjoy being a kid, I think you need to go back and watch her from the beginning. She clearly enjoys what she is doing, and it is to her parents credit that they have worked hard to let her be who she is, and any way you look at it she is not average, and to not acknowledge that would be a travesty to her talent and her spoken desires.

@Marianne some composer that got his reputation ruined due to a historically inaccurate film

@@salvat3735 Though it was that portrayal in Amadeus that led to a revival of his music, which probably wouldn't have happened if he had been portrayed as a less envious rival composer.

I was thinking the same thing :D

@@salvat3735 It wasn't Forman, actually, it Wash Pushkin who started this. Or even Konstanza with her second husband. And later this myth was simply perfect for picturing eternal fight between divine and mortal. I love it and I hate it at the same time :)

😀😀😀

Lovely evocations of expressed emotions, a reaction to rare glimpses of the beauty which can be nurtured in Humans in the right environment. In a World characterised by selfishness and competition Alma stands out as a loving and generous soul. As Humans were originally in the image of God she too brings forth beautiful creations.

Actually, there was one true classical composer in the XXI century, but he remained almost unknown, maybe because he was from the Philippines, namely Nicanor Abelardo. Just listen to his piano concerto. It's exhilarating! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NEmkTs12Sdg.html

@@marianmatei1138 correction: abelardo lived and died in the early 20th century, so he's not a 21st century composer. will definitely admit though, his concerto and kundiman pieces are amazing, and its a shame he isn't so well known

Confidence isn’t rare, especially if you start performing from a young age. You can tell that Alma has been playing for over at least 7 years.

None of them could have done it on their own. It is refreshing to see people appreciate each other.

I strongly believe - as has been said by others too - that it's possible to understand Alma's music by not only watching her hands, but also by watching her face, as her expressions somehow tell more about her compositions than those of many other violinists or pianists. One certainly gets the impression that when she plays, Alma is doing far more than concentrate on playing the right notes, and judging by the sheer joy on her face when she plays, those patterns you mention must be mightily beautiful.

Beautifully described! Agree!!

She is definitely hearing something the rest of us can't imagine.

Well, first of all, Alma, like a lot of musical whizzes, including Mozart, has clearly got "perfect pitch" which is something very few humans have (it has been guesstimated 0.01%) and is a different kind of audio perception. Some of them, e.g. allegedly Richard Wagner (I have no idea whether Alma is one of them) have had "synesthesia" which is even weirder. It is somewhat puzzling how somebody with different audio perception, can write music that sounds good to the rest of us. I think that (and, e.g. deaf Beethoven still writing good music) proves it is not about the perception, it is about universal mental musical principles. When she talks, she sounds a bit oddly prissy and precise, which might be related to her perfect pitch, or might merely be somehow related to her being tri-lingual. Far as I can tell, she's got the same level of talent as Mozart, plus has the advantages of living in the modern era, so she ought to be able to rise to greater levels.

I think she sees the music and the story behind

RU-vid is good for something!

And she's still a child. Many, if not most, of Beethoven's, Mozart's, et al, compositions from childhood pale in comparison with their more mature works. We are in for a treat if this thick vein of talent continues to mature as it appears it will.

Bruh, Im so jealous of her piano skills and now she plays the VIOLIN like so gracefully!!! Wow shes a genius!

I fully agree.

Not all more modern music is ugly. Composers like Prokofjev or Shostakovich composed great music. The concertos by Prokofjev are masterpieces. Of course he did not write them at age 12.

Masters like this are actually born very often. Sadly, in 99 percent of cases kids never had a chance to grow into such a pro... All ingredients for such an extraordinary outcome have to be nurtured since the earliest childhood. It's mainly for parents, and their direct parental supervision, plus immediate positive environment, that produce such result. Very often parents of such kids are musicians themselves, or they are intellectuals in other areas to a very high degree and standards. If they are not professional musicians themselves, than such talent must be recognized by a local teacher-Master, that nurtures such kid into what Alma became. Combination of elements... And of course ; no video games 🙂

Same

Yeah! I know the feeling. I am laughing like an idiot, bursting with pride, when the crowd brake the rule by applauding her after every movement. The rest of the time I'm to busy crying of pure joy and happiness.

REAL music. :)

I know exactly what you mean. Ditto.

Bob you are so right in what you say, and I as I am sure you are feel very lucky to be alive to witness it.

Yep. She's totally off-the-chart.

IMO the other two movements are also something really special.

Iove The Star of Hope. It is so beautifully written and composed.

les cox Your so right!

I do agree- reminds me Cecilia Bartolli- they manifest happiness in every performance and project they are involved.

...a minha esperança é que criaturas como ela...de Almas grandes...possam ajudar determinantemente na evolução, na sensível melhoria do nosso orbe! ...

100 years from now, she'll be remembered like Mozart...

BEAUTIFULLY PUT.

she is a very young soul, younger than Schönberg for sure...

Alma is living proof that beauty exists, nothing to do with God let alone with Jesus imo morer with a set of wonderful and intelligent parents

As a Jew who sings in a synagogue choir, I'm right there with you on the Yiddishkeit. She probably gets it from her father's side of the family and has also spent plenty of time in Israel possibly hearing popular songs that subconsciously have imported the Ashkenazi soul.

Your life just got better since Alma has been prolific in composing, performing on violin and piano and now, conducting!

And now, next month, [Nov. 2022] she is taking the baton for CINDERELLA in San Jose. I wonder whether Helen will play her musical parts.

One of the real touchstones of how genuine is her genius is that she also excels in the slow movements. Typical children, meaning even muscially gifted kids, just don't get into the slow movements; they're "boring". Not so with this off-the-chart prodigy: in both this concerto, and her piano concerto, the middle movements are nothing short of masterpieces.

@Pip rose If you live in the New Jersey, USA area, you can attend one of her concerts next May (2021) with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at either Red Bank or Newark. www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/alma-deutscher-debuts-with-the-njso

And musician!

I'm retired so have time to spend as I wish. No idea how many times I've listened to this but I guess 200 plus, as well as the piano concerto at a similar ammount. Still find it uplifting and never boring. No other composer has captivated me like Alma, not even close.

I agree w/ you, but urge you to listen to the 2nd movement again (and for that matter, the 1rst). Each time i listened to it I found things I hadn't noticed before. It is compositionally quite rich.

amen!

Pratham S Hegde will be. He wrote a piano cadenza for this Concerto. Alma Deutscher got almost a hundred fans from India because he performed the entire orchestra on one piano. I think the RU-vid video of it is deleted

I was going to leave a comment virtually a verbatim copy of yours - except I began way back in the 2nd movement!

Her father said in an interview how incredibly difficult it was to find a composition teacher for Alma. It’s hardly ever mentioned, but she had lessons in composing from age 4 or 5 and more lessons in orchestration. Everybody is underestimating children’s creativity in terms of composing!

With a bonus

Acute observation, "She may not end up playing in the concert repertoire and trekking round the world like a slave, but she will play her concertos and chamber music to enthralled audiences in a different manner from the rather tired soloists we're used to." I think it's stronger than that. The concert soloists are masters of their instuments, they play the music expertly. Deutscher is the other way round, the music plays her.