Wonderful! My favorite rendition. As all kind of pure artistry, incomparable. Note: If you want to read old comments from this video, please go to • Bach BWV 1004 Chaconn...
That's all the applause he got?! That was like one of the greatest performances of this piece of all time! Man...I feel for him as I don't think he got the applause that he deserved here. What brilliance, what beauty, what glory. He knew how to bring out every morsel of magnificence of this master piece. Love you Milstein! Incredible. So inspirational.
Sure, Milstein may or may not have cared, but my point is about the audience themselves. How could they not be moved?! Sublime playing. Still my favorite rendition of the piece.
I think the is the greatest piece ever composed, and have held that belief throughout my life. I've been listening since a teenager to Milstein's Solo Bach and have been in love with it. His is by far the most rewarding playing of it for me. I am an enormous Milstein fan, always in amazement of what he could create.
"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
Bravissimo! I wonder if the Chaconne has ever been played better, with more depth, passion and technical mastery. Others doubtless have their favorites, but this is mine. Sadly, no excuses can be made for the tepidness of the audience's response. Perhaps, one day, some of them will look back on having been present for Milstein's incomparable performance. I hope so.
He doesn't overplay or force anything. He really brings out the dialog between different voices. I love the lightness of the arpeggios section. My favorite violin interpretation..
I'm a pianist. I think it is superior to every other instrument bar none. However Milstein proves irrefutably that what is important is the music and the performer not the instrument in question. Busoni really just should not have even tried to transcribe this piece, it's utter crap compared to this even in the hands of the finest pianists.
Reading some of the comments, I realize that I am perhaps lucky that I only know a little bit about music. I can enjoy listening to both Nathan Milstein and Hilary Hahn performing the same piece of music without a problem.
Although many can say this is not a ortodox interpretation, or that the technics are not as accurate as in hilary hahn interpretation, I'd rather listen Milstein's. This os absolutely genius!
I find Milstein's interpretation very masculine--almost severe--but very compelling. His intonation is excellent and his passion unmistakable. I do love many other versions, but his stands alone in conviction and authority, and stays with you long after you hear it. And why do I assume that anyone will care about what I think? Good question! :))
@@monellerichmond7208 I appreciated its masculine, raw and unfiltered rendition that Gitlis always brings to the table. It is so unique and wonderful that it is able to overcome its minor flaws in intonation at times. When you hear Gitlis, it is always unmistakable, Gitlis.
Lo, the master meets the master, and all is well! It would be fascinating to contemplate what Bach would have thought about Milstein's playing. Think what towering things the old master would have composed had he had a violinist of Milstein's caliber to write for!
Well, I don't like it. For instance: the passage from 12:00 on (or a bit earlier), should sound "organ"-like, like notes coming from everywhere, but in Milstein's rendition, that impression is not successfully created. I certainly prefer at least a dozen other interpretations.
Nice. But at least one fingering mistake (5:28). I stopped listening at 5:30, although I certainly like the way he plays. NB: To hear the mistake, start for example at 5:25.
Of all the renditions of this magnificent piece, Milstein's moves me most. I feel as if through music Milstein himself is experiencing the very pain and sorrow that Bach suffered.
Disagree. Zimmerman, Shoji Sayaka, James Ehnes, ... A pity we don't have Ginette Neveu's recording anymore; I don't doubt I would have prefered it a lot to Milstein's.
He has been under estimated as one of the more brilliant musicians in recent memory. i am so grateful to see this incredible live performance. He was divinely connect at this moment. What a ride! Thank you for posting the video..
Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading this magnificent Milstein performance of the Chanconne. His flawless technique and profound passion make him my ATF choice for that lump-in-the-throat piece. Words are inadequate.
I get shivers listening to his interpretation of, "Chaconne", I feel he plays it best. However, the version Milstein plays as an old man brings tears to my eyes, it is that profoundly beautiful...
It would never be a music so perfect, in an intelectual point, and so emotional at the same time...and, in my opinion, Milstein plays the purest an deepest version ever done.
Modèle d'articulation, de phrasé, de chant et de connexion. La ligne va toujours quelque part ... L’œuvre est tellement réalisée dans l'unité qu'on en ressort ''libéré''. Bravo Maestro !
I have two great 'fiddle' memories. Milstein at Birmingham Town Hall in the early '70s, and Ricci's Pag encores at the same location in 1966. Strange that modern players' performances just don't engrain themselves into the memory the same way.
My lord, this is unbelievable. I typically prefer the chaconne at a slower pace, but the technical mastery combines beautifully with the emotional drive of the piece. Perlman was my favorite, but I think this may have just replaced that.
I concur with the person below...this is one of the great performances of anything ever. These people should be on their feet! I saw him play it in Carnegie Hall in 1979 for his 50th anniversary recital. One of the great instrumental musicians of the last 100+ years. We are lucky to have this.
His artistry is superb, and it does not hurt that he isplaying a wonderful Strad. I, sadly, heard him live, in Atlanta, in 1987. He performed with Atlanta Symphony Orhcestra, the Beethoven Concerto. He was then 83, and had a bad night; he forgot where he was mid-way through the first movement, and literally had to be sort of carried back into the piece by the able conducting of Robert Shaw. In defense, his playing of the larghetto was exquisite, as was his rondo. He was a God of Bach!
Tellement d'agressivité dans l'archet et de dureté dans le son ou est la souplesse féline d'un Szeryng ou d'un Grumiaux !!!et ce dernier ré poussé tres désagréable !!!! Je n'aime pas du tout pourtant Milstein fut un grand violoniste, , mais ici quel manque de musicalité !!!!
May I know the source of the Video? I'm interested in it's background like what occasion it was, Where this recording took place , when and if there is more to this video. Thanks!
Hello community! I would like as well more info on the source of the video. I am currently directing a documentary film on a violonist based on this interpretation of Nathan Milsein... would like to be in contact with SALVIANOJR and source eventually the label to manage rights to use that footage in my film... THANKS FOR HELP!!!!
I just bought the Hilary Hahn CD, but I'm looking for other performances. Hahn is too reserved, and there isn't much personality, soul, or grit to her interpretations. I realize she was very young at the time.
I think the whole argument about Hilary not being emotional enough has become a cliché by now and I also think it's based more on her lack of facial expressions when performing than on anything in her actual play. I find her interpretation of the Chaconne incredibly emotional and moving, same with her Sibelius performance.
I completely agree, I struggle to find anything I like about her interpretation. I’d go so far as to call it completely soulless and a butchery of a clearly emotional piece, but horses for courses I guess.
@corax176 No discuten que violinista es mejor, el primero dijo que esta version es genail, y el segundo dice que el que interpreta esto es mejor que Haifetz
Why is 11:55 to 12:18 unique from other violinists? His arpeggios at 4:54 are unique too. Heifetz's chaconne is like this too. Is it that the students of Auer play this interpretation?
it might be Blasphemy but, isn't it that , Maestro Nathan Milstein had some loose part on the inside his instrument core?! Of course this is an independent observation besides from his pristine and brilliant performance.
What edition uses this interpretation of the arpeggios? I hear some where all the arpeggios are broken and some (like this one) where they are sometimes double stops.
Hi, I think you will have no problem as long as you give credits to Nathan Milstein and do not monetize your particular video...
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Totalmente hermoso... esta es mi favorita :')... si deseo apoyarme en alguna.... elijo esta pieza... imposible no llorarla... aunque en realidad esta es la que me ha dado mas valor :') Grande Milstein!!!!
Milstein certainly had his own way and this gives me the feeling of increasing intensity from the preceding phrase, development. (listen for, if you didn't hear it before) the phrase starting at 00:58 he adds a note "D" with the upper "F". One may disagree with him making changes, but, I must say, they sound really fine when he does them!
Milstein is the consummate master of the violin and of Bach's violin Chaconne movements...there was no one like Milstein then and no one like him since.
from Jose' Sepulveda, the Hermeterec...........there has never ay violinist greater than Milstein....not even paganini or Perlman. I guess you have to have been born in Odessa, the cradle of great violinists.
