Yehudi Menuhin is with out question one of the greatest educational minds - not only in music but in practical psychology and philosophy - He sees - feels and expresses associative relativity with and within all factors of form and function - Wisdom emanates within his thinking and in his practice !
Yes, but listen to how Menuhin, with his own questions, steers the conversation and elicits some wonderful thoughts about how Karajan's orchestra surprises and inspires him in unexpected ways.
In this short extract is encapsulated the entirely different way in which Karajan and Menuhin approached their music! Fascinating to hear Karajan speaking outside of an orchestral rehearsal.
In a video that Karajan himself once produced with the help of French film director Clouzot, he advocated the ideals of professionalism in an orchestra. Karajan invited one of the rare genius violinists, Menuhin, as an interview guest and said that the autonomous collective activity ``like a flock of birds in flight'' and the achievement of that level of cruising could not be established. He was keeping that in mind. This talking is very much important about their ideal thoughts not musical phylogenetic but their each musical crystal eternal philosophy.🎉 This is also what makes it different from the musical education TV program that Bernstein hosted on CBS.
The video is probably slightly sped up, as the audio is pitched about a semitone sharp, making them sound a bit different. When they play The Blue Danube in the beginning of the video, it sounds like it's played the key of Eb-major, when really the waltz is in D-major, which is the key they appear to be playing it in. (One can, for instance, see Karajan playing a D-major chord)
HvK has a rather typical Austrian accent. Not too high brow, which contrasts with Menuhin whose accent exudes culture and sophistication, not typical of anywhere. No regional dialect, no particular place. His own invention, or variation of mid Atlantic. Uniquely his own . A perfect extension of his playing and personality.
When deeds speak louder than words (!) Great Lesson!... R.I.P. for both... 🌟🌟 Always good to know that some people really do make a difference in this world...
So funny because this is exactly the way I would always chat with my pianist, who is much older than me 😂 me standing on the left hand side of him, holding my violin! We would talk like this for hours.
John Culshaw called Karajan, along with Benjamin Britten, his most intelligent studio artists. I wonder if this discussion had anything to do with Glenn Gould's encounters with Menuhin? Years later Karajan would say that after all the study and rehearsal when the orchestra finally performs and he hears a sound that he never imagined prior, that this was his reward. Now I know he got that verbal formulation from Menuhin.
This is a role model about how to transfer idea but preserving the concept. Actually, Yehudi Menuhin is a violinist. Herbert von Karajan is a conductor. However，Both of them are Artist and Music. Like Bandari，they will get inspiration from Nature (采风). Or they know how to communicate with nature. This is why they are the general music director of Europe and Prodigy.
Karajan was an arrogant rude man. Only kind to those he deemed "worthy". I have no love for him, despite his musical genius. When my fathers manager wrote a letter to Karajan on my incredibly talented fathers behalf (he was a young violinist, concertmaster in NJ at the time, who went on to play as concertmaster in a number of orchestras both in the US and Europe and was invited to play at Marlboro festival at only 19 years old where he recorded the Brahms Sextet with Pina Carmirelli, and met my mother, a talented young cellist) asking about playing for him, Karajan wrote back extremely rudely saying "Don't ever write to me again". Wouldn't even consider hearing him. Who the hell did he think he was? Arrogant SOB. Although many of his performances, and especially recordings with Anne Sohphie Mutter, are some of my favorites, I cannot forgive him for his rudeness to my talented and humble father. How humiliating to be spoken to that way. My father was brought to meet Kreisler as a young boy, and played for him. He went to Curtis, and became professional at 16! He was an incredible talent. He died in at 52 years old, never having been truly appreciated by the classical world of snobbery in the major leagues. He played some of the most beautiful violin performances I've ever heard, premiered the Khachaturian violin concerto in Hawaii, was the first American ever to perform it with the composer himself conducting, he performed Barber concerto, Brahms concerto, Beethoven. He taught for decades. He should have had respect in the same way, an equal to Perlman, Stern, Zuckerman. Some people enjoy power, and wielding it. As a young violinist myself, the elitist and snobby world of classical music made me ashamed to participate. I heard the horror stories growing up. My mother told me endless stories of women having to sleep their way to positions in orchestras, the sexual exploitation, the favoritism that was rampant among conductors and players. It's not a pretty world. I wouldn't say there is a high degree of morality in the running of the classical music machine from a historical perspective. Racism, sexism, nepotism. You can keep it. I'll play music by myself thanks.
what do you mean " was"? it seems it's still like this today...Sorry to hear about your father's premature death, but please dont let any of the '[..isms' stop you from playing and sharing your music.
"The space between the notes" would be a great title for this brief, somewhat stilted, but clearly thoughtful dialogue. A lot was communicated here, not all of it clearly articulated.
Well, I didn't expect them to talk about soccer! Just amused by the title. HvK 's voice, in English, always strikes me as a bit creepy- a little like Peter Lorre! Not the voice you would expect from the music director of Europe! Menuhin, on the other hand, has the most beautiful speech! Elegant, sophisticated, from nowhere in particular.
@@dlhuo2340 Yes. Back in the 1980s, there was in Salzburg during the winter a kind of mini Salzburger Festshpiele organized by Pascale Montauban. Opportunities were given to lesser-known and aspiring musicians to present themselves to talent scouts and audiences. These were very intimate events taking place in beautiful Baroque style houses and palaces.HVK and his wife Eliette were always guests of honour. I met them many times in my capacity as an impresario/pianist. Also their best friend Klaus Landesman, at that time the big boss of Deutsche Grammophon. Sir Yehudi Menuhin was a friend of my father. Both studied with George Enescu. Sir Menuhin's favourite accompanist was Marcel Gazelle, a Belgian pianist who also worked with my father in chamber-music settings, albeit on a more modest level. I have personally prepared a number of student/pianists for auditions at the Menuhin School in London during the early '90s. Sir Menuhin was the most extraordinary human being I ever met. I hope this answers your question.
German fluently? Isn't that a contradictio in terminis, or something? The only fluent things in Germany are the Rhine, the Elbe, beer and gewurtzstraminer, if you ask me!
This is totally my thought: could it be that Von Karajan had some kind form of autism? He seldom takes good eye contact. He speaks and jokes, but somehow he seems to be in his own world. Or was he just shy? He is the best conductor I know. Love his skills and charisma.
Menuhin having recorded the Bruch concerto in 1931, Elgar conducted by the composer in 1932, Dvořak conducted by Enescu in 1936, Schumann conducted by Barbirolli in 1938, it's faintly ridiculous to hear him being quizzed on his feelings about orchestras ...
Karajan inward, groping and surprisingly was quite shy. Karajan when concentrating and interacting one on one would often avert his eyes.. Menuhin stance and eye contact mostly pinpoint steady only occasionally will avert when perfecting his point .. --A contrast..
@@browniniobrowni2074 He held a Nazi membership for career advancement. Nothing more. It's been proven time and time again that he didn't buy into Nazi's business.
Karajan almost seems autistic here. Just observe how he almost never makes eye-contact with Menuhin. At least not when he talks. When he listens he does.
Perhaps Asperger - communicative on the one hand, permanentaly loosing eye-contact and a bit shy on the other... nobody can surely say because during Karajan´s time, psychology hasn´t been so well developed like today - and today we could say indeed that Karajan´s behavior [look above] could be created by certain symptoms of Asperger Syndrome.
Just because you avoid eye-contact doesn't mean you're autistic or have Asperger's. Some people just find eye-contact uncomfortable. There's nothing strange about that unless you want to make it strange like many people of today do.
Nocturnal Birdy ...That´s why I used neutral words like "perhaps" or "could" [Tense of the second word: Conditional II Simple, in contrast to indicative tenses] - just read precisely...
@@SVG4ever Karajan was enrolled in the Nazi party when he was young ... so all it's possible , probably to continue the career he tried to be politically correct .
BS. Karajan married a half jew and also appointed the jewish sabine meyer the 1st woman in his orchestra and the orchestra hated him for years because of this. Moreover, his most unrivaled recordings are with works by Jewish composers
