I love the way he slowes down at the end, from 13:08 to 13:35 he rests four times a tiny bit longer than other artists, paying tribute to this extraordinary piece of music. Thank you Gidon Kremer, thank you Johann Sebastian Bach - this is a milestone in music!
Many years ago, I watched this French movie called the Violinist and that's how I was introduced to this masterpiece. That afternoon I didn't want to leave the cinema so sat there for re-run of the movie just to hear this again. And Gidon Kremer played it. Still best rendition. No one matches Gidon. He is really grabbing my entire soul in this piece. Of course, Bach existed before him. Thank you, maestro
La mia storia è simile alla tua...Ho visto lo stesso film, dopo aver ascoltato la versione di BACH-BUSONI da Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli su vinile...e quasi miracolosamente ho trovato lo spartito per chitarra, trascrizione di Segovia, solo pochi giorni dopo. Lo spartito era in casa, tra altre migliaia di musiche...All'inizio la leggevo solo con lo sguardo, senza strumento, non mi permettevo nemmeno di suonarla...Poi ho iniziato a suonare le prime battute e....sono arrivato alla fine, tra lacrime e sudore...Non smetto di studiarla da oltre 20 anni...La mia vita è nella ciaccona, e questa interpretazione è una delle mie preferite. My story is similar to yours ... I saw the same film, after listening to the version of BACH-BUSONI by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli on vinyl ... and almost miraculously I found the score for guitar, transcription of Segovia, only a few days later. The score was at home, among thousands of other pieces of music ... At first I read it only with my eyes, without an instrument, I didn't even allow myself to play it ... Then I started playing the first bars and ... arrived at the end, between tears and sweat ... I have not stopped studying it for over 20 years ... My life is in the chaconne, and this interpretation is one of my favorites.
First of all, I am a violin TEACHER. But I am curious how You will like my performance of Ciaccone: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XMCK690Dy-c.html .
I watched the movie and was introduced this music and Gidin Kremer too. I was young when I knew the song and it added to my bucket list. I am so hapoy to know someone who remember the movie and this music. Thank you.
Alleluiah! Entendre "ça" un jour de pluie à Paris, en juin, la pluie dans les tilleuls du jardin. Ressentir , vibrer, et simplement être en état de grâce, tout simplement.... Ce violon, coeur vibrant.
The emotion in Gidon’s interpretation is unparalleled. Given the backstory of this piece, you can literally hear the grief and feel the music lashing out especially at 0:25. Amazing
Oh yes, the *back story.* Bach, leaving his 35 yr old wife and seven children behind, had accompanied his employer Prince in one of his multi-month trips to a health spar. When he returned he found that his beloved wife, Maria Barbara, had died and was already _buried_ in the ground. Bach's Chaconne is a crying out to God. IMHO it should be performed in this spirit and Gidon Kremer does it masterfully.
This is no ordinary performance. Gidon Kremer has brought vibrant life to Bach's music in a way I have not heard before. Technically the performance is excellent, but more importantly it seems that not only Bach's deepest feelings are being expressed but also much of Gidon Kremer's own emotions. Overall this is the the most outstanding recorded violin performance I have experienced.
My father back in the 70's took me to see Gidon playing somewhere in Wiesbaden. I think his wife was there too. It was an Afternoon, and i feel i remember it being in a Salon and he practiced. My father a violinist himself always knew where the 'Cats' are hanging out or having Soundchecks or in this case with Gidon , his practice time . Thank you Papa!!! thank you Gidon for the immense Inspiration.
I'm a violinist. This is by far the most beautiful rendition of Bach's chaccone that I have ever heard. Gidon has an uncanny ability to express the spiritual in a way that the rest of us can grasp.
Wow ...in Awe of his performance . The first time I have experienced his playing . I am not a musician, but I feel . 😦👏👏👏👏👏🤗. I have requested that rather showing pictures and people talking at my funeral. ...they listen to 14 + mins of Bachs finest 💛
I have heard many different versions of this piece, but nothing touches me more than Kremer's interpretation. Each note he makes rings. As if he tries to speak to Bach in heaven. I am not a spiritual person, but his performance made me one, at least while I listen to it.
I'm in complete agreement with the comments made by the listener/emailer below. This is Bach with passion and drive; superb and heartwarming. Let the 'academics' chew their shoes...this is Bach - they are not.
So inspired and inspiring, so full of drama, so meaningful, and above all so heavenly beautiful! One of the most stunning performances, i ever listened to. It changed my life to the better, and i will never be the same. I will practise.
Problem is almost everyone thinks they know how Bach should be played or Bach played. No one knows for sure. The point is to play the music rather than fret over what is should have sounded like that you will never know. Probably why I am a Gould fan also. I do not like Bach played as if it were a dead man. Bach is alive and this performance is amazing. Every note in tune and beautiful sounding. Bach is not weak or quiet. I love the different colors he gives to passages. and his pacing. I love his recording of the Ysaye Sonatas, just amazing. This reminds me I need to collect every recording he has made. Thanks for this!!
When you say: "Probably why I am a Gould fan also" you mean Glenn Gould right? because I have listened to his recordings of the Goldberg Variations lately and I find them a masterpiece
I take it that you're new to Bach? Gould's recordings are excellent but I would highly recommend Gustav Leonhardt's rendition of it on the harpsichord if you want an exquisite baroque experience of one of the most beautiful and singular pieces of classical music.
14 minutes of "hell" for the player and 14 minutes of "heaven" for the listener. This is one of the most difficult of all violin solos to perform at this level. What a performance; he must have felt both elated and drained after giving it
Bach has expressed his deepest desperation and religious faith in this famous piece. Gidon Kremer has fully understood and I adore his performance. Thank you.
"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
It is a funny thing. I have come across that quote a number of times now on this Bach path, and I love it. Each and every time I read it, I well up. I don’t want to question myself as to why or reflect on it too much. I just hope it keeps on happening. Thanks again for the tears.
niemand außer Gidon Kremer bekommt den großen Gesamt-Spannungsbogen über die ganze Chaconne so hin. Schon in seiner Philips-Aufnahme hat er das sehr überzeugend unter Beweis gestellt. Diese neue Einspielung ist gereift und in meinen Ohren nocheinmal besser. Die einzelnan Stimmen so deutlich herauszuarbeiten, zeugt von Kremers außerordentlicher Technik, aber auch von seinem intellektuellen Zugang zu Bachs Werk. Bravissimo, Maestro!
Simply outstanding! The way he brings out each voice and his huge varity of colours shows deepest understanding of the piece. Every single note is played 100% consciously.
Kremer plays as though he's discovering the score for the first time. An absorbing adventure, told with majesty, fear, forensic detail and with the deepest voice of love. At times the violin speaks with dark gravity, and at other times with a glimmering golden thread.
What few seem to note is that this is a very "different" Chaconne than what we usually hear. In many places it is light and dance-like, whereas most artists play these sections with every bit of intensity they can bring to bear. He doesn't always stick to the light dance, however. In some places he shows he can have as much power as anyone. In any event his interpretation is quite unique, and a real pleasure to hear - a very different Chaconne!
An incredible performance, the best I have heard. To check that statement I listened to other versions, including those by my old favourite players. The other performances served to make me appreciate Mr Kremer's version even more. Somehow he has brought Bach to life for me and I appreciate the composer more than I did previously.
I do not know much about Gidon. But I can tell you this. No one plays Chaconne of Bach better than him in my style. I am not talking about the tremendous techniques he has, or the ability of performance.. but every single sound he makes, every breath he breathes is just incredible.
Violinist Gidon Kremer executes an extraordinary powerful 'CHACONNE' melodic resonance. One can enjoy the exquisite beauty, grace and emotion in each note. He is totally absorbed in the spirit of Bach. A brilliant solo performance by G. Kremer. A MAJESTIC RENDITION!
G. Kremer is one of my favourites. I admire the individual's profound poetic style when performing. I have a few of my favourite violinists. Hillary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perman, Joshua Bell, and David, can not remember his last name, usually, he has a pig tail. He is American-German.
@@HelenaWilliams8696 Sounds we both have same taste of music. I love G. Kremer a lot for who he is and how well he reaches my heart with his sounds. I feel so blessed listening to him🦋☺️ 🙏❤️
When Brahms learned of this chaconne, he wrote to Clara Schumann, "If I could have made the piece, been inspired to compose it, I know for sure that I would have gone mad with the extreme excitement and convulsions".
Es increíble, cuando un músico llega a este nivel de ejecución, se permite ciertas libertades plenamente permitidas por la obra, no necesita metrónomo, èsa es la forma en que Kremer, "lee" el abecedario de la música clásica de alto performance, esta es una obra virtuosa, la he tocado, y les puedo decir que cada interprete musical profesional le añade su toque personal, todos somos, como un frasquito pequeño, de perfume con aroma distinto; sin dejar de ser perfume.
I'm shure that the 104 dislikes of this genial interpretation are all from frustrated violinists that will never play any variation of the Chaconne at the same level of Mr. Kremer or are all incarnations of Paganini who play only for themselves. This is an amazing interpretation, Heifetz lives at this musical hemisphere also. Fantastic.
+Murillo Moreira Murillo, I would not dare granting a negative feedback, I admirate Kremer so much, but have a look at Gitlis Chaconne video, maybe this can explain that...
Absolutely awesome- The very fact that it is recorded in the presence of a church adds to the majestic nature of this work- there is something mystical about it.
Oh-MY-GOD! This guy is a GENIUS! The volume variations... the tender passages... . The purity and cleanness of his sound is like Anne Sophie Mutter's! (But I don't know if she's ever recorded Bach's Chaconne, so I was very happy to learn that Gidon Kremer sounds as MARVELOUS! [or better?]).
Beyond words....🙏 I can't find words of awe and praise enough with my poor language to express what my soul would like to express. Only the one who can see my tears of HEALING and GRATEFULNESS and inexpressible Respekt would know my deep respect for the three: 1. The Master who created this piece of highest art... 2. Music itself as heaven's gift to humanity... 3. And this SUPER - human - being who is giving birth to this unsurpassable masterpiece like a woman in labour... May the Angels in heaven once receive you accordingly to what you have given to us, Venerable master of the Violin ❤❤❤ thank you ALWAYS 🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐
Realmente esta música trasciende más alla de tiempo y del espacio; seguramente esa fue la intención de su compositor en un mensaje cifrado hacia la esposa que murio sin poder despedirse de ella. La mejor despedida para aquellas personas que nos dejan en ese viaje hacia la trascendencia que todos tendremos que hacer antes o despues.
This is the BEST! Rarely do you hear such beautifully controlled dynamic range. Totally transported by the playing. Such musicianship! One of my favourite pieces of music, which I've heard umpteen times. This is so fresh.
Voices...the issue in Bach, voices. And here you find voices, multiple, all colours, mizex, paralleled, speeding, whistling, caressing, dying, all voices ...thanks!
I think I have found a new favourite interpretation of the chaconne. There is power, heavy, pointed and edgy; there is lightness - distant and ethereal; there is rhythm but rubatos; there is flawless technique and sparse use of vibrato. It is dynamic and intense - in short excellent!
Nessuno ha saputo dare come lui dal minuto 1.00 i timbri delle canne di un organo. Provate ad ascoltarla su un organo di una cattedrale e poi Kremer. È incredibile quello che ha fatto!
Totally agree, Sometimes I think that nobody plays it well, as it should be played. All the interpreters have their mistakes - in rythm, in accents, in mood... Then I realize, that this feeling just means that this music is too personal for me, it lives inside my mind, my soul, and nobody's execution can correspond it.
this is probably my favorite performance so far due to the technical execution of all of the notes. In many other performances you can hear technical degradation in the difficult sections, but this one seems uniform so there is less distraction from the music that sometimes occurs as we wonder if this note or that has been snubbed.
