Recorded in May 2021 @ Singapore Esplanade Recital Studio Chloe Chua (violin) Lim Yan (Piano) Violin : Petrus Guarnerius, Venice, 1729 on generous loan from Rin Collection
Chloe of course is always magnificent, but kudos also to the accompanist, who is often forgotten. They provide a very important base for the soloist, and have to support, but not override the soloist. Almost like in ballet where the male is almost not seen.
I just notice he was also the pianist in Chloe's Mozart adagio piece when she was just a little girl. They have a good chemistry performing together. He is also very expressive and plays with a lot of emotions.
Yes indeed! An amazing pianist! Sometimes he has a violin sound on piano .. So soft, clear and powerful sound!His sound is matching perfectly with Chloe's magic sound! Beyond words this Chausson..
I am 65 and I have listened to classical music almost every day of my adult life. Having started my collection of classical cds three decades ago, I have amassed 10k+. This is my favourite performance of anything, by anyone, ever.
Not to take away anything from Chloe, but I suspect your perception has something to do with the recording quality as well. Recording tech has been slowly but steadily improving in the past decades (e.g. an average youtube live classical performance in 2020 sounds better than one from 2015, which sounds better than one from 2010 etc.) and the audio part of this video recording is very well done.
@@stewartsiu1960 I agree that the audio quality on this video is excellent (and I also think that the visual production is excellent too). But my admiration for and evaluation of Chloe's performance is not contingent upon the excellence of the production: what counts when judging a performance is the worth of a composition and the degrees of musicality and technical excellence that are manifested in the performance of it. Chausson is perhaps a matter of taste, but be this as it may I think highly of his compositions (especially his chamber works); and that Chloe's performance of Poeme clicks the other two boxes to a superlative degree would have been obvious even if the recording had been made many decades ago. (Of course in this regard Lim Yan plays his part too.) By way of evidence, no performances by anyone other than Chloe since 2018 are among my favourites but very many _historic_ performances by the great and the good going as far back as 100+ years ago are among my favourites (such as e.g. Caruso's 1904 recording here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t936rzOt3Zc.html ) Really, it is hard to overestimate how extraordinary and wonderful a violinist Chloe is; and so far this performance of Poeme is her greatest achievement.
Chloe is very charismatic and fascinating to watch. However, if you haven't listened to this audio-only, you haven't lived. Only by ignoring everything else and focusing exclusively on the sound can one appreciate the subtleties and nuances by which the wondrous depth of her understanding and sensibility is made manifest in this magnificent performance.
Hi Chloe! Thanks for your sound, musicality and feeling that brought tears to my eyes in some pieces I heard here on RU-vid. I was also in love with your presence, at the same time reserved, shy, but very natural and spontaneous. I love your smile and laugh (in the funny video with the TwoSetViolin channel). I wish you all the happiness in the world, whatever you do in the future. The world of classical music, especially for soloists, is very restricted and harsh, and it is not always possible to succeed in that environment. I say this because stress and extreme demands can bring feelings of frustration that can be destructive. Nothing in the world is worth our emotional and mental health. The most important thing is to feel happy and, preferably, loved. All the luck in your life and may music always be with you!
Thank you, Chloe. Great collaboration with Lim Yan! Your deep timbre resonates with my soul. And that makes me feel the eternal. For some reason my eyes are filled with tears. When covid calms down, please come to Japan.
Chloe plays this slow movements so moving, the double-stops so self-understandable, she is so modest besides her great gifts and her much work that she had with this program. Beautiful music, and, surely, she is also a nice girl.
I have listened to orchestrated version many times, and love this piece to bits. However, the ensemble here has surpassed all these experiences, despite just 2 instruments. Speechless!! Wow.
Thank you for sharing your talents and hard work with all of your fans. I am constantly astonished at your ability. Looking forward to what comes next!!
This is THE MOST beautiful music I have ever heard and listened to. Finally someone who gave Poème the right interpretation as well as to all of the other pieces (Ysaÿe sonata, Albumblatt..).
This performance is such an unbelievable, fantastic piece of art, that any words, which I can find, will sound vulgarly. Still. I am not a believer, but I feel as if God was talking with my soul.
Your spirit is perceiving what words cannot express. Music has a way of stirring up feelings & emotions that have long been hidden, even to ones’s self. God gifts certain people with extraordinary talent. Chloe Chua is one of those special people that God has gifted. Her performance is The Lark Ascending is one of those pieces for me. Heed the call that God is making so evident in your life right. It is no accident you ran across this video. He uses many different avenues to reach us. He is reaching for you, just hold out your hand. Bless you.
I find myself listening almost exclusively to Chloe and Hilary Hahn for solo violin, these days. Great, unique interpretation of the Chausson, Chloe, love it! More recordings, pleeeease.
Also do yourself a favor a listen to SoHyun Ko, Clara Juma Kang Zia Shin, A I Takcamotsu, So Jin Hun. These are all incredible violinist. By the SoHyun Ko is only a year older Chloe Chua and every bit as flawless . SoHyun Ko has Never lost a competition in her life. Even if you don't listen to the others on this list. Do not deny yourself of watching the only prodigy that I believe is as good as Chloe.
@@michelledavies3476 There is simply no comparison. These past two and a half years, Chloe has out-performed every violinist in the world bar none (including Hilary Hahn).
I have listened to So Hyun Ko and Juma Kang and there is no doubt they are talented young violinists, but their tone and touch are just not the same as Chloe. Chloe is also very charismatic and has a certain sweetness in her expression. One can get lost watching her play. @@michelledavies3476
I completely understand. Apart from Chloe and Hilary I also like Ray Chen and Kerson Leong. But Chloe is the best, she brings the greatest amount of pleasure from her playing than anyone and I don't think it is just me who feels this way.
Most musicians I know have the ability to transpose the notes as they are written. Grade 6 Conservatory students should have the skill to play what is written and obviously get progressively better until graduating and beyond. Very few have the ability to transpose the feeling that is written above, below and in between five lines. I hear Chloe has that ability along with mastering the notation as it is written. She is really excellent.
I agree Don, she has the rare gift of translating the emotion in the piece. Still a bit too young to do Piazolla, which she also played some time ago and I wish her to avoid the necessary heartache, but I really expect her to come up with her own music as well at some point that will probably blow our minds away. Her choice of music to play certainly makes me hopeful on that accord. Already such a wide variety of music in her ouvre, it's amazing. She is 14 now? And always gives me the feeling she really enjoys doing it, whereas surely it must be difficult at times to practice all those pieces.
@@chubbymoth5810 I can't agree with you on the "too young to do Piazzola" statement. The version at the the Menuhin 2018 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IUxy2eGuAgo.html), perhaps, but the version with Kevin Loh just a mere couple of months later (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z1_6EnZoSro.html) is incredibly mature. This young lady has undergone some incredible musical growth and still is. To wit, this recent performance of Chausson's Poème and, as I have written elsewhere, the Ysaÿe No. 3 at the same event, which makes my hair rise straight up on my head. Bouleversant (utterly overwhelming).
@@LouFerl I agree that the brilliance of the performances of Piazzolla that Chloe gave in 2018 and 2019 (don't forget the far more sultry Otono Porteno with the China Philharmonic!) undermine any suggestion that she was too young to perform him then (to say nothing of her incredible complete Histoire just seven months or so after the conversation to which I now contribute). The point can't be made your way, however, because her 2018 performance of Cafe 1930 with Kevin Loh actually pre-dated her Menuhin semi-final performance: they gave it on 28 March 2018, and so three weeks before the 17 April 2018 Menuhin semi final. (Her mother explained in the December 2021 Cafe 1930 thread that at that pre- Menuhin recital Chloe performed not just Cafe but also "most" of the Menuhin pieces.) I think too that in keeping with this temporal order, it is actually the Menuhin performance that is more mature. In the light of the run-through (in effect) with Kevin, she slows the tempo down to deeper emotional effect. She is much more confident too, both in herself and with the piece. (Hello again and happy new year!)
Gosh, just thank you so much Master Chloe for blessing us with this amazing recording. So beautiful, and you gave it to us for free during such a hard time for our whole world T.T what a beautiful, generous human being you are
The dress and staging fit the mood of this piece perfectly, and depart from the usual "little girl vibe" typical of her videos. Perhaps SSO is realizing that Chloe Chua is far more than the "little darling" of classical violinists, but has a musical maturity that is truly world-class. I can't help but think that Petrus Guarnerius is watching from the next world, delighted to have Chloe give his violin its true voice. Kudos as well to Lim Yan on the piano!
I think you cannot have watched SSO's video-documentary "A new season of Chloe," which shows very clearly that SSO fully appreciates the extraordinary depth and maturity of her genius. The SSO has appointed her Artist in Residence for the 2022-23 season and is recording with her a complete set of Mozart's works for orchestra and solo violin (including the Sinfonia Concertante). The CDs will be released in 2023 and 2024, as will a further CD comprising the complete Four Seasons + Locatelli's "Harmonic Labyrinth" violin concerto (being a concert programme she had performed with them earlier this year). She was given star billing in Hans' recent inaugural concert, where she performed Mozart #5. Moreover, in the first four months of next year she will perform Mozart #3 and #4, and also Bruch #1, with the SSO too!
PS It is her mother who is responsible for her stage outfits; and this performance was sponsored by Poco Productions and given as part of Chloe's "Richmond" recital for the 2021 Menuhin Competition. I'm pretty sure the SSO played no role in any of it!
@@jackburgess274 You're right...I missed that documentary! I'm very happy that SSO recognizes her rare genius, and I'm looking forward to watching the documentary and listening to a lot of magnificent music! Thank you for the information!
@@anilujah7795 You are most welcome! It is a very beautiful documentary. If you missed it, then you probably missed Chloe's wonderful performance of Mozart #5 in Hans's inaugural concert too. The concert was broadcast live on YT and the documentary was shown in the interval. The whole concert is still posted on SSO's channel, as is the "New Season of Chloe" documentary separately.
Chloe is magnificent, this "Poeme by Chauson" is extremely difficult to interpret, and Chloe demostrates great interpretative maturity for her age. Congratulations!!
Gahh just her a few seconds in from the beginning, I kid you not my heart felt something from that 😭 I think violion is going to become a second favorite instrument to listen to after piano 🥹 both are beautiful instruments
Some other RU-vid channel has a Patron option to contribute to each video made. I (and many others, I'm sure) would love to be a patron of this channel.
@@jackburgess8579 That's a stupid remark. One can't even compare the two. One is a composition, the other an interpretation. The piece by Chausson is in reality a genial piece. Chloe Chua does justice to it; but of course, it is an interpretation, meaning a fortiori that there is less creativity involved in the process.
For all those who complain about the mask, it is not about the mask preventing infection or providing protection for the wearer of said mask! The wearer could conceivably be having a slight sniffle but is kind enough to not pass on said sniffles. If he was so incapacited that he couldn't play I'm sure he wouldn't have played. If the mask could have prevented him from playing he wouldn't have played. If the mask prevents the complainers from enjoying the music they should leave. The mask doesn't interfere with the production and/or the subsequent enjoyment of the piece. Complaints are a manifestation of the biases present in the complainer and nothing else!
