Mendelssohn：String Octet／Young Uck Kim ,Yo-Yo Ma and Japanese Soloists（1989） 

Wonderful. Wonderful. Japanese, Korean and Chinese playing music together. All top-rated performers. No war, no war please. Work to get along. Please.

I have never heard or seen more passionate playing and doing such a distinctive enormous honour to Felix Mendelssohn's most celebrated composition, in which he often participated at viola or violin.

Wow.. What an All-Star of Asian Strings!

How Mendelssohn would’ve loved this! Wonderful. Japanese and Chinese musicians playing together with expertise and joy. Thank you so, so much.

The first violinist is fantastic here.

Wow! Just incredible. They are all virtuosos playing in unison with such perfect timing. To see the joy of the music is YoYo Ma’s face. He is beyond gifted.

YoYo Ma looks so natural playing, you can't tell he's playing from the rear, or just sitting naturally.

That's my dearest mentor Maestro Young Uck Kim!

I love the little slight smiles that come. on the faces of the players at various times as the music unfolds its joyous message. "Felix", indeed.

멘델스존 8중주 거의 모든 버전 다 들어 봤는데요 이게 최고인 듯 합니다. 영욱씨 자랑 스럽습니다. 영욱씨와 요요마를 끌어안을 정도로 일본은 1989년엔 여유가 있었네요. 돌아보면 그러하지만 국적을 떠나 음악은아름답고 16세의 맨델스존은 불가사의 합니다. 히토 슈타이얼의 전시를 보고 다시 이곡에 빠져 듭니다.

This is a very nice recording with great artists. I love it!

Maestro Young Uck Kim wow you've come a long way since we played in National Orchestral association with Leon Barzin

If only all teenage angst was so beautifully expressed! (RM was 16 when he composed this octet.)

Incredibile, così bello che non riesco a smettere di ascoltarli. Non si dovrebbe mai dire , ma credo proprio che sia la più bella interpretazione che ho mai sentito.

"Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, was composed in the autumn of 1825 and completed on October 15, when the composer was 16. He wrote it as a birthday gift for his friend and violin teacher Eduard Ritz (1802-1832); it was slightly revised in 1832 before the first public performance on 30 January 1836 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus."

😮Thank you for sharing this wonderful performance ! Bravo to Maestro Kim and everyone !

wow what an amazing rare footage! Thank you so much!

This is insane. Thanks for uploading.

Man. Great performance. and great shoulders.

I wonder if Yo-Yo Ma was the organizer and inspiration of this tremendous performance? He looks very pleased in places, for excellent reasons, and greatly admiring the composer's gifts along the way!

堤さんの50才前の動画は貴重ですよ。

Great! Every performer is playing more than best!

Nice to see/hear Yo-Yo and Tsutsumi together. So awesome

Wonderful. and besides,, this recording is from 89 and no one applauses after that(!) 1st mov. Really impressive and thumbs up for the Japanese audience!!

Third mvt 23:21

yoyoma being giant even playing the Cello two❤️

WONDERFUL.

What a bead of awesomeommity on this master stroke of sheer whatever....I don't think we'll ever know. Thinking that young felix composed this at what...16?, 18?

excellent stereo balance, great sound.

First mvt. 14:30 beautiful~

すごいメンバー！

Woohoo!

Seems played to perfection. Sound and image not so great however. What a shame! In JAPAN !!!???? Congratulation to all musicians, and thank you for posting, anyway.

Good show!

27:02 I'm just here comparing viola solos. Lol theirs is a more reserved balanced performance but this octet needs flair. Modern ones now do it complete justice specially under brostvyn with bpo but to think 2 centuries pass to get to that point. Still great.

Oh my god ive played this before adn i didnt even know, except i played the cello 2 part not the one Yo Yo Ma plays

桐朋学園　万歳！！

27:55

Answer the telephone. This one for me is, "I got a hemorrhoid". You know. Sing the first 24 bars. It will hit you like a truck.

I can't find another version that the 1st violin player was women for Mendelssohn：String Octet Op.20, please open that video. I really want to see that version

Extremely beautiful. Are there any one who can read Japanese Kanji in alphabet?? I want to see their performances. They are very impressive.

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