I remember being on the Rail at the Proms for this performance with the BBCSO and thinking how can a man with such chubby fingers coax such magic out of a violin.
Chubby fingers make for big beautiful vibraton and solid bow hold. The most amazing thing is how insanely in tune he has always been given how hard is it to be in tune with normal fingers when you get too high on the fingerboard
@@HenJack-vl5cb I was there too. We got to the front but queueing for most of the day - and night too. It helps to live in London ! Sadly the queue is no more, well, it exists but is far shorter and sleeping out is no longer allowed.
Concerto che non ha nulla da invidiare a quello di Beethoven o Brahms, ma tecnicamente molto più difficile. . Perlman è semplicemente il più grande violinista al mondo. Straordinario!
Superb performance when the Proms was really a festival of Classical Music, not the Instagrammable fiasco it has become. Some of us cherish theese moments. They are now long gone.
I was there - i try to still attend. The Proms aims to attract a young audience these days and yet it is mostly middle aged or older ( we still attend you see ). Back then there was no attempt to cater for the youth and yet we came - for decades.
This video is cropped down at the top and squashed in sideways - but is still brilliant ! I was also on the rail with Sue, Dov and Helen - and many others. Gosh, we are well represented on youtube. I remember thinking, it's is incredible that a man who can hardly walk can play so wonderfully. Great sense of humour too ! RIP Noddy :-)
The LP recording by Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim with the London Philharmonic orchestra in 1976 is the one of the best paradigm performance...Sir Edward Elgar is a good devout Roman Catholic Christian, Barenboim is also a Western Judeo Christian together with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman who are the American Jewish genuine Israelites... The concert hall atmposhere and acoustics are like the "Holy temple of God".
This video is cropped down at the top and squashed in sideways - but is still brilliant ! I was also on the rail with Sue, Dov and Helen - and many others. Gosh, we are well represented on youtube. I remember thinking, it's is incredible that a man who can hardly walk can play so wonderfully. Great sense of humour too ! RIP Noddy :-)
I saw an interview with Perlman and his wife, Toby, and she said that from childhood onward he purposely developed a sense of humor-especially directed at himself-bc even as a child he understood that “the talented cripple” made adults uneasy, so he was forever trying to put people at ease by making fun of himself. It also tended to keep other children from making fun of him. Very sad, really....and poignant. It would be enough if he was “only” an immensely intelligent and tremendously musical as a violinist, but he’s also a man of immense sensitivity, humility, and courage.
