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I spend a lot of time listening to classical music but I had never heard this piece before Benny demonstrated it in the TwoSet video. What an amazing piece this is!
I've started learning it just yesterday. I listened to this recording about 2 months ago for the first time and playing it just made me fall in love with it even more.
I am 69 and this is the first time I am listening to Glazunov! I wonder where I was all these years to miss out on this remarkable Violin Concerto! The playing of Hilary Hahn is super and well supported by the orchestra and conductor! What a wonderful Concerto to say the least!
I highly, highly encourage you to listen to the Glazunov Saxophone concerto! Glazunov's works are a standard in classical saxophone repertoire. Nikita Zimin's recording is an excellent one!
Glazunov's 'The Seasons' was one of the very few of my collection my mother allowed to accompany Sunday dinner. Strongly recommend if you're not familiar with it.
I think it's recommendations like yours that help him more than me. You seem to be lucky he is in the hands of 2021's technically foremost exponent of the violin concerto and Violin Goddess Hilary Hahn.
Hahn is fantastic. She plays so effortlessly, fully immersed in her instrument, powerfully yet tenderly, strong and gentle, and always with deep sentiment, feeling every note and phrasing, losing herself, and us thankfully, in the grandeur of music. There are certainly other great violinists, but there is something special about Hahn. Listeners recognize it, even though they can't always put it into words. She is captivating in her fluent virtuosity. And thank you Ms. Hahn for adding Glazunov to your oeuvre. He's one of my favorites, and certainly underappreciated today. Bravo!!!
YES!!!! I’m a soloist saxophone player. I used the glazunov as my audition piece to be a soloist with a symphony in my area. It’s amazing and so well written. It’s a great piece. I just wish it was of length comparable to this concerto.
Why ANY negatives.......?! Please enlighten me, thank you. SUBLIME!!! Yet ANOTHER tear gushing performance!!! The first time I've had the privilege of hearing this work! Such senority, vibrato and musicianship!!! My mother was a professional vocalist who toured Europe in the mid-50's and accompanied herself on the troubadour harp (even performed for Queen Elizabeth). My sister was the harp faculty at the University of Denver, first-call union harpist and played with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Her husband retired from the Denver Symphony Orchestra on cello after 34 yrs and from the Colorado Central City Opera Orchestra after 25yrs. I sang in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Chorus for 30yrs. Three times in the NYC Carnegie Hall to sold out performances, our chorus augmented the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus twice for the Ravinia summer season opening night concerts (14,000 each time) each time under the baton of James Levine. My point being I've been fortunate to have heard many great artists in performance over the years. I know "good stuff" when I hear it. THIS is "good stuff"!
Hahn recorded the Beethoven concerto at age 18 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under David Zinman, and the other piece on that CD was Bernstein's Serenade for violin and orchestra. Towering performances of both.
@@TheHappyCooker68 I also have the Baltimore Symphony Disc and was amazed by the beautiful tone of Hilary's playing, but you should check out the Detroit Symphony's recording of the Beethoven Concerto. I am from Baltimore and live just outside of Charleston, SC now. I also had Season Tickets to the BSO and now have them at the CSO.. I first heard Hilary play at the open air concert given by the BSO's 4th of July Picnic in the 1980's when she was in her teens. Did you know Hilary was raised in Baltimore?
My favorite violin concerto and I love her interpretation the most among those I've listened to so far. This is such a lovely concerto that it's wondering why many violinists don't play it as often as other major concertos.
What a pity that the concerto has not been popular as it deserves. The first time I listened to this marvelous masterpiece was when I was studying in the university, it's on air from VOV-voice of Vietnam. I fell in love with the concerto right at the beginning bars. 17 years passed and I am listening to it today. I miss it every time I wanna be in the deep and dark sound.
Fehlerlose Aufführung dieses romantischen Konzerts mit seidigem Ton der Solovioline sowie gut harmonisierten und perfekt synchronisierten Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo mit sorgfältig kontrollierter Dynamik. Einfach wunderschön!
Superb. And she plays it by heart! Krostof Barati-- who has an equally mesmerising performance of the Glazunov-- still used notes. Also his interpretation was different. More ethereal. But I like both. Civilisation is not lost yet.
Orchestra and conductor should be also mentioned here: WDR Symphonieorchester, Cologne, chief conductor at that time: Semyon Bychkov, recorded at Cologne Concert Hall (Philharmonie Köln)
Love the angle starting in 4:05 showing her fingers! So much there for me to learn, the way she keeps the first finger down as much as possible to maintain her hand frame and intonation, while getting some of the most beautiful vibrato in the business.
When Hillary plays... Seulment LIKE. SOLAMENTE like! She's such a great musician no matter which composer. Her ability and art with Unser Vater J. S. Bach is the basis has taken her so high. Thanks for posting.
I am lucky in that I first heard this in the 1960s and had a Nathan Milstein recording of it. This performance is rock-solid with wonderful tone variation and the accelerandi are never out of control. Wonderful playing! Brava!
What a wonderful Concerto beautifully played by Hilary Hahn. Surprisingly I had never heard of Glazunov. But certainly it won't be the last. The music is so serene!
He was a contemporary of another Alexander - Scriabin, the father of colour music, as well as the young Rachmaninoff. Glazunov also composed the Raymonda ballet where he wrote some exquisite melodies for the violin.
A wonderful performance of a magnificent concerto! The sections listed are only the first, second, and fourth. The third section, marked Piú animato, begins about 8:40.
One might ask ... why is Hilary the only violinist who has this in her repertoire? It's a marvellous concerto, so beautifully orchestrated and so very engaging and witty.
Heifetz, Milstein, and Oistrach all played this. Perhaps it is a difference in what is popular in one generation vs. another. It is in my top 10 violin concertos for sure. Witty is a good description.
Glorious woman playing glorious music One of the few things humans do right! Especially in light of what Americans endured the past four years under ….👺
I was looking to find a version of this piece with a heavier entrance side but Hilary plays so elegantly and maturely without having to force a loud sound
I am absolutely amazed at how she can memorize all of these extremely long and complex pieces. I'm doing well to remember an 8 bar phrase. Back in the 1990s, Soviet Premier Gorbachev started a revival of this composer's music. It was called "Glazanovsk" (see Glasnost). 🙂
H. Hahn,s interpretation of this very beautyful violin concert (one of my favourite violin concerts ) is excellent ...........so nice beautyful phrasing from the soloist !
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That third movement is INSANE. Not even a single note even slightly out of tune. Bouncing between left hand pizzicato and false harmonics like they're nothing, not to mention how developed the phrasing is and how nuanced her tone is. Total control of the bow. How is she real?
