Hilary Hahn: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert 

dracopalidine LingLing is the best 😂😂😂😍

Katherine Everman Hilary is ling ling

It's so lovely meeting other TwoSet fans around RU-vid. Have all of you heard her new album "Paris"? Just purchased it and gave it a listen today. Blew me away! Long live Ling Ling! (Huge smile) And y'all take care and stay healthy, too.

@@katherineeverman7693 Hilary is Ling Ling.

Looked this up because of you. Best ever.

@GKeeper316 that's her 1864 Vuillaume

@GKeeper316 how dare

With a professional even a bad violin can sound very beautiful.

Her essence is impeccable

Great point!

very well put.....

Nah, they already had Heifetz and Paganini

This is fantastic, very much agreed! But if you think she is the first great violinist, I am happy to report to you that you have much to celebrate as you discover recordings of many, MANY very special violinists of the past 100+ years.

What brings tears to my eyes is that some people don't get you weren't being 100% serious and missed the lightheartedness of your statement. Or maybe the fact that I'm commenting on a 2 year old comment.

+Sergio Bonfiglio I agree.

+Larry Saltzman I'm glad to hear it. ;-)

+Sergio Bonfiglio Yes. She is a superb Artist.

Sergio Bonfiglio may I ask who are the other 3 ?

Salvatore Accardo, Anne Sophie Mutter and Shlomo Mintz.

Really? Where? How? What was the situation? I'm very interested in this and hope that you reply to my query. Thanks in advance.

@@Skinny_Karlos I met her backstage after a rehearsal in Montréal... I was just telling her the usual stuff all musicians hear, "I love how you play, I loved this or that recording" and she asked me if I was a musician, and I said that I'd love to learn the double bass. So we started a conversation about how important is female representation in the bass, and this and that... I mean she's just like you see her in her videos, an extremely talented but very approachable person, like anybody else :) she's very inspiring

@@sunsetschaser7749 Really?? That truly makes me happy to hear that there is a degree of normalcy amongst the supremely talented and she is certainly that. That seems to be a very different mind to those that come from the modern music scene where their image is seemingly more important than any music they may make. Thank you for your very prompt reply sunsetchaser77. I do appreciate it and am happy to hear of her down to earth nature going with such a high standard of musical ability.

@@sunsetschaser7749 Btw - You should jump in the deep end (if you can afford it as the DB can be expensive to buy a decent one) and learn the double bass. You won't regret taking up the challenge and the sooner you begin the better.

Yeah, but better not, it was beginning to be a little bit... unbearable...

@Bloody Hetza - The first one *I* read was tsv-related, though! ;-))

You just made one 😄

shhhh you'll jinx it

Well, that's how the score is written so...

It’s unaccompanied you dumb dumb, Bach did that not her

@@romeovashishthviolin9384 I meant it as praise for her playing. She said "I'm going to accompany myself," and I think that's very impressive. That's all.

@@romeovashishthviolin9384 Bach was long gone before any of this piece was written, you dumb dumb. Accompanying herself, referred to her simultaneously playing multiple parts. Something that Bach included in his solo violin pieces.

+Juan Acevedo I don't know why people always talk about a musician's talent. Talent has little to do with musicianship in the grand scheme of things. For every one piece that sounds amazing there's hundreds of hours of practice.

+Fritz Kirchhoff Vienna (Wien) Wiener Zeitung Kultur 09.06.2006 Pausenfoyer Von Christoph Irrgeher und Edwin Baumgartner (eb) Vorbei die Zeiten des Jugendwahns, in denen Vierzehnjährige als die Superstars von morgen angepriesen wurden, um mit sechzehn zugunsten eines Dreizehnjährigen fallen gelassen zu werden. Der Klassik-Superstar von heute ist jung, weiblich und hat Model-Maße. Sex sells. Mit Können allein läuft gar nichts mehr. Julia Fischer etwa. Eben ist sie von einer Blinddarmentzündung genesen, und schon tritt sie heute, Freitag, und am Samstag im Konzerthaus auf. Aber den ehrenwerten Tempel der Hochkultur könnte sie mühelos mit dem Catwalk verttauschen. Ja, natürlich kann sie spielen - und wie! Keine Ohren hat, wer das bezweifelt. Aber blind ist, wer nicht merkt, wie toll Julia Fischer aussieht. Das weiß auch ihr Management: Mehr als 10 Fotos gibts auf ihrer Home page (.....) zu bewundern. Und nur sechs Hörbeispiele. Aber Julia Fischer ist nicht einmal die Spitze des Eisbergs! Allein diese Violinistinnen. . . Lidia Baich, Leila Josefowicz und natürlich Hilary Hahn sind nicht nur Top-Geigerinnen, sie wären auch Top-Models. Natürlich hat das ganze geigende Fräuleinwunder mit Vanessa Mae begonnen. Aber selbst sie ist nichts gegen die Finnin Linda Lampenius, die sich mit Künstlernamen Linda Brava nennt. Die gar nicht brave Brava also hat einen Gastauftritt in der TV-Serie "Baywatch" gehabt - und danach den Bikini für den "Playboy" ganz ausgezogen. Vielleicht sucht sie ja eine neue Hauptbeschäftigung.

Listening to this, it's ridiculous to think that there can possibly be detractors, isn't it?

Nathaniel Cance The only thing that I'm ticked off with more is when people talk of "God" giving us "Such and Such". Talent has little to do with it and god, nothing at all.

Talent is a very real thing. Natural god-given ability is real. But the difference between a talented person who works hard and one who doesn't is greatness. Plenty of talented people don't put in the work and plenty of hard-working people lack the talent to 'make it'. The world is not one of unlimited opportunity for everyone. That is what makes greatness like this so breathtaking and special. How rare are such gifts, and how difficult to make them soar.

lol

I use my dirty underwear.

Stinky Pinky bruh😂🤦‍♂️

Stinky Pinky what the heck 😂

Don’t forget a matching fedora hat.

lol i just figured it out after 8 years😅

I know! I was just as surprised myself! :-)

I'm very pleasantly surprised! (huge smile)

@@raihanz4617 well, i'm 11 years late to the party, but at least i'm at the party!!! :)

She definitely sees those passages coming and is ready to bring out all the musicality that she can muster, seems like she pulls it off nine times out of 10

When I hear 'Shall We Gather...', I always think of the end of 'Three Godfathers' . My favorite Christmas movie.

As a "recovering fundamentalist," I am reminded by the 3 hymns of growing up in a Baptist church. Would rather hear Bach.

I thought it was wonderful to hear

@@davehshs651 What on earth is a "recovering fundamentalist"? People throw that word around in reference to Christianity constantly without knowing at all what it means. Bach wrote some of the most glorious chorales and professions of God's glory in history, as I'm sure you're aware.

@@RohannvanRensburg Please reread my original comment. I contrasted the 3 hymns performed here with Bach, whose music I love and stated that I would rather hear (than the hymns). A "recovering fundamentalist" is simply a person who was emotionally scarred by being raised in a bigoted religious environment and is still *recovering* from that upbringing. What is so hard to understand about that? Of course, I'm aware that Bach was a Christian, but his music was not generally played in the church where I was raised, so, fortunately, I don't associate his music with my upbringing. I'm grateful that the great Masses are in Latin, because the meaning of many of the words is horrendous, generally referring to a vindictive God who condemns people to eternal torment simply for not holding the *proper* belief.

Or from people who prefer a different styling. I didn't vote this down because of course nobody playing this well deserves a bleedin' thumbs down on youtube but...I personally prefer a more emotional, individualistic playing.

19 violists

Aw, get over yourself!

Me too. I got that CD when it came out. Been right there every since. Fan since first hearing. My ears grew up with her.

'her'

Yes, she does. And actually she can feel how the instrument vibes trough her body. I'm a violinist. It's beautiful. It's our live

Btw, it's loud asf lol

Al Waxman What's funny is that dealers call them all fiddles. Everything from a Strad down to something grandpa built out of barn wood, they're all called fiddles. Hers is by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume I believe.

Ciaran Hedderman Haha that's fantastic. Thanks for the information about the nomenclature and the beautiful 'fiddle' Ms Hahn so exquisitely plays.

+Ciaran Hedderman It is a copy of the Stradivarius that Paganini played and a worthy violin in it's own right.

+Al Waxman Indeed, the violin (or "fiddle" if you prefer) is a copy of the instrument that Paganini called "The Cannon," but Paganini's violin was actually a Guarneri del Gésu, not a Strad. The duplicate was made in 1864 by the famous French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

Chris Ginish Copy of Il Cannone, no?

Agreed¡¡¡

I have heard the violin for many years and still think most of the music on it is whiny (not screechy; that's just bad playing), as well as overrated, and that the viola da gamba and the modern cello are superior string instruments. My favorite note on the violin is literally the lowest it can play. Whenever I hear it in a piece, I'm home, right before the sound is ruined again. The Bach partitas and sonatas, as well as the Beethoven concerto and later sonatas (9 and 10), are some of the best virtuosic yet still serious pieces written for the instrument before Paganini and Mendelssohn ruined it and turned it into a circusy, sappy mess for the next 100 years. (I am mostly joking about this generalisation, though I dislike most of Paganini and Mendelssohn's music... they feel so childish/immature.) Go listen to Frank Martin's "Polyptique." Wonderful concerto, considering it was written in 1973. Rarely played. All that being said, I'm a pianist, so I probably have no idea what I'm talking about and most likely prefer the cello because it doesn't blow out my eardrum when I accompany it in an enclosed room.

@@ulengrau6357 Given that Mendelssohn has been, BY FAR, the one musician that matured earlier than any other in the history of our planet, your disrespectful comment could not have been more wrong. How can the 14 year old composer of the octet be considered "childish/immature"? How can the musician that single handedly brought the St Matthew Passion back to life from total oblivion and in the process, also, single handedly created the interest for the first time, in "classical" music (i.e. music written a few generations ago), the unselfish promoter of composers that did not enjoy his fame (e.g. Schubert)? Are the 'songs without words' "childish and immature"? Is it childish and immature to depict the waves in the cave as he so masterfully did I in his Hebrides overture or are you insulting his reputation because of the popularity of his music? And as for his violin concerto, which was so admired by such "immature" composers as Tchaikovsky and Sibelius and praised by no less a master as Joachim as the jewel in the crown, when compared to Beethoven's, Brahms' and Bruch's: are you serious that Mendelsohn "ruined" the violin? How insulting your comments are to the composer who in his service to music has done more for our enjoyment of music than almost every person in the history of the planet. A great musician would have the modesty not to reach the extreme views you have and find appreciation in every instrument. That is why Vaughan Williams, who found beauty in the diatonic harmonica and the base tuba (wrote concertos for these instruments) was a true musician and you, in your ridiculous comments about the violin, are a "pianist" but not a musician.

It might be your ears?

amen!!!

What an amazing comment. So complimentary to Hilary and all women. Such a gentleman!

She fills that small space with the appropriate length of notes considering the 'dryness' of the acoustics. Can't use 'reverb decay' to lean on in a place like that. Some of the resonance of the instrument is handy but of course limited on the Vn.

In fact ( if im not wrong ) the acoustic of those instruments was made thinking in the reverb of places like churches, so the real sound of the instrument appears with the right amount of reverb. The violín played in a dry place is like playing a guitar without the body. Or like a woman without skin haha.

Willie Martinez she is perfect!!

libreg Me too! I think her baby is due this Summer so it may be awhile.

Same

RU-vidExplorer LOOOOOOL RIGHT???

i know right. i think this is my new song to work with

Gigue*

whoda thunk it's Gigue

had no idea she was from virginia

Because her vibrato is not very pronounced, she doesn't make faces like perlman or so when she plays and because her technique is absolutely perfect

She is very athletic, she moves very idiosyncratically as she plays, and as another comment here states, she communicates more in her playing than via facial expression

"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"