Brilliant performance using Baroque violin and tuned to 415 Hz. This video was very beautifully made and represented a very evocative and poetic music by Heinrich Biber during Baroque.
My heart literally dropped out! I randomly heard this on radio, immediately found it on RU-vid, totally obsessing. This is The World of emotion. Thank you Ms Silverstein for pure magic
I'm listening to this since 9 years every week. Madame Silverstein's interpretation inspires me. I wrote my first book thanks to her, whenever I felt blocked I gave 10 mins of break. Now I'm writing my second book and nothing has changed, oh let's put also love pain :)
If ever a statement of defense for art was needed, I would think of this. If ever a redemptive quality of humanity was required, I''d point to same. This makes me recall everything that is beautiful, wondrous and worthwhile in the world. This is WHY! Thank you!
That's a wonderful feature of ciaccone and passacaglias that I often feel, too-somehow they bring to mind, as you say, all the beauty, wonder and worth of the world.
I particularly like this piece and this specific interpretation. Read some of the comments and not everyone is on board but I think the artist is just about as close to perfection as one can get but never achieved, of course. I come here to listen to this from time to time usually when I feel the need for a suave pickup. This performance surely does that. Thanks Elicia.
I think Biber's music should be considered the equal or superior to that of Bach. Biber wrote to the emotions while Bach composed for the intellect, and I like especially this piece and Silverstein's interpretation of it. Her technique is outstanding and doesn't quicken the tempo allowing then piece's emotions full play. Bravo!
@@robertschober930 This is a beautiful piece and a beautiful interpretation. 💯% respect for the composer and performer. Zero shade coming! Bach's sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin are IMHO similarly emotional compositions. Not to "set the record straight" - he's just got more range than his funky musical labyrinths and fugue puzzles. Definitely check them out if you enjoy this piece! You won't be disappointed.
Obviously 17 people are completely deaf or absolutely tasteless... This work is a masterpiece written from a not very well-known (but still magnificent) composer and performed by a passionate violinist... Thank you, senior Biber... And again thank you SO much, Mrs Silverstein... For you have both offered us a piece of musical perfection!!!
i agree with all.. the 17 persons are deaf and tasteless, and i thank Mrs Silverstein for her magic playing this treasure piece of music of the master BIBER..i love it ..
I can understand someone who enjoy another kind of musics, but come on! how could someone dislike this masterpiece very well done by an excellent musician like her? At least I don't find any mistakes.
This video is the first recording I ever came across of the Passacaglia and it has spoiled me for all other renditions. I started learning to play it myself a couple of years ago, and during my research, I listened to as many recordings as I could find. I keep coming back for Ms Silverstein's incredible range of expression and emotion. Your playing is truly beautiful.
Hello! Not related to the video (though I also adore this version of the Passacaglia), but would you mind telling me what media is your profile picture from? Thanks!
When the manuscript of Biber's Mystery Sonatas was being laid out, an engraving was placed at the beginning of each sonata. The one for the Passacaglia depicts a guardian angel leading a child by the hand. That same engraving appears in this video at 0:08
Using the term ''Sonatas'' is not very accurate. I know that the great majority of musicians do this. But Biber didn't use this term for these 16 pieces. He didn't leave us any title. And some of these works start with a "Sonata" then, dances follow. How can a Mystery can be called "Sonata" if it starts with an introductional "Sonata" ?
The baroque period in my opinion has given us the most simple but yet most beautiful music ever created, my heart sings whenever I listen to Bach, Haydn, Bieber, Couperin ❤️😍
@@bedarielllll The bow is definitely a baroque bow, as you can see from looking at the tip, and she is holding it in the baroque style way. The violin has no shoulder or chin rest, ergo it's a baroque violin (whatever that may mean since basically every violin is a baroque violin, but using a chin and shoulder rest means you're not playing it in a baroque style way). As for the description, wouldn't your kind of reasoning make more (or any) sense if it specifically said: "Elicia Silverstein, baroque violin (but playing on a modern instrument in this video)"?
This is beautifully rendered by this lovely violinist. In growing up I never had the privilege of hearing this great composer. There is great romanticism and an "other worldly" quality to his work. Beauty is manifested in and portrayed by beauty.
La Beauté de la Musique, de son Interprète et de son instrument magnifiquement joué. Grandeur du dépouillement, sur quatre cordes. En un superbe enregistrement.
Una melodía de solo cuatro notas que descienden, una reflexión calma que retorna mil veces, variada, adornada, repetida hasta exigir una resolución... Perfecta intérprete, sobria y delicada.
Liked this video years ago and wasn't able to find it! I heard someone else play this and remembered Elicia's was so much more powerful!! Searched for a while until I finally found this! Now i can show my kids what real music sounds like. Best performance of this song!
Very interesting piece, and very modern-sounding in spite of being written before Vivaldi or Bach were even born, or Corelli had composed anything yet. I had never heard of Biber ... and maybe I am going to get the Biber fever ...
Dear Alicia! Your play is marvellous! I have learned this sonata too with not a little help from my friend but a big one. You with your play helped to do it.!
Such beautiful posture, so light, free and soft yet full of presence, cannot but result in music of the same qualities. Filmed excellently with superb lighting.
Elicia...listening to you perform this piece was pure joy. What an incredible piece of music. Your talent brings so much rich emotion to all who listen. Miss you !!! oxoxo
Four notes. Four simple notes in a scale. Yet such incredible beauty. One of my absolute favorite pieces! Incredibly well played! You need to tell us when your solo album is released! I will buy it day one!
Adam Loseman, the passacaglia is based on a basso ostinato, which is a short melody (in this case, the theme of the bass is composed of four notes) that is constantly repeated and always modified with variations.
My solo album is released! :) The Dreams & Fables I Fashion. It was released on Rubicon Classics in October 2018. Enjoy and thanks for your nice words.
@@eliciasilversteinviolinist7082 I have been listening to the other videos that you have posted on YT (It's a pity that you do not accept comments on them) I am glad to enjoy them and find in all of them some special moments of very high musicality and deep emotions. Thank you, Elicia!
Utterly wonderful despite the background traffic noise. The baroque period produced so much variety and creativity and Elicia Silverstein is wonderfully crisp and expressive
Oh, so it's traffic? It sounds like wind to me, especially at 6:55-7:05. I'll continue to hear it as wind, because it really adds to the beauty of the music to me. :D
What a beautiful video. It is said architecture is the mother of the arts. What better use of that beautiful space than Elicia’s skill with a violin, and Bieber’s musical message? Thank you for a beatific experience.
So beautiful, lithe, harmonious, spellbinding, both the music and the musician. This is one of my favorite pieces and I’ve never seen it played with so much feeling. Thank you.
