Normally you dont cheer when the artist is playing. But in this case the people couldnt resist and had to show how much they like her playing. Thats why she is smiling.
During mozart's era passages that were hard or beautiful were met with this type of reaction. Dvorak's 9th symphony during it's premiere was met with roaring applause and cheering after each movement.
@@rzno3414 It was a recital, not a concert. The occasion was her Carnegie Hall recital debut in October 1990, a few days before her 19th birthday. It is a very famous recital. The whole of it is available on YT but perhaps the best known part of it is her remarkable performance of Ernst's Last Rose of Summer, which is available on YT in a separate video.
I vividly remember one afternoon, while I was waiting for my lesson with the legendary Dorothy Delay, a very young Midori was preparing for her lesson by warming up on Paganini Caprices and nailing every single note; not because she was showing off, but because she was and is like crazy brilliant. At that moment, I thought to myself, “What the heck am I doing here?” LOL
0:47 I love hearing that cheering. Yes I know its etiquette to wait until the end. But a hard ass passage deserves cheering. During the classical period a hard or beautiful sounding passage was met with applause. Hell the premiere of dvorak's 9th symphony was met with roaring applause after each movement. The crowds were insane then.
Honestly, I think the rule of no applause (outside of some special circumstances) serves well to highlight truly special moments like this. Ideally throughout history there probably are 50-100 such incredible moments where an exception should, or NEED to, be made.
Yggdrasil_Sama I am not sure if we mean the same lady in blue, i was not talking about Midori, who is out of this world kind of violinist, but miss mississipi
Midori Goto is not just an amazing violinist but a brilliant person as well who does so much for children...this is the type of person the world needs...
No kidding. One clear and distinct memory I have from my childhood is when she came to play at my elementary school ... when I was in the second grade ... in my shitty hometown of Staten Island. Although her remarkable talent was undeniable, none of us truly understood how lucky we were to have her play a show for us. And even though music has was always been my weakest "skill", I hope I'm not the only one who remembers how inspirational she was all.
A little anecdote - In 1986 came her now legendary performance at Tanglewood, during which she broke two E strings, first her own and then the concertmaster's after she borrowed his instrument. She finished playing the associate concertmaster's violin. Leonard Bernstein, the conductor, knelt before her in awe. The next day the New York Times front page carried this headline: "Girl, 14, Conquers Tanglewood with 3 Violins."
+Jed Durand Many years ago when she was about 16, I heard her play a show piece that consists of only harmonics. Not only every note was ringing perfectly, the vibrato, dynamics, phrasing, were all there, as if she was playing normal notes. You'd never know the violin can sound like that, almost like a piccolo.There was a roar in the house after it ended. Unfortunately I forgot the name of that piece.
I first heard this piece played by Miss Missippi and my God, this is such a wonderful contrast. The amount of skill this woman has is phenomenal! A real violin virtuoso. Just watching how invested she is in the music is exciting.
It makes me happy that instead of giving the audience the "Vengerov death stare" for clapping during the middle of the song, Midori smiles when people clap and whoop :)
One of the finest violinist of our generation. Technically perfect and with the ability to do whatever she wants with the instrument and with a sound that is so natural.
I don't play, so a friend who is a music teacher had to explain how the harmonics work and I thought "how in the world can that be done?" I've been binge watching TwoSet since I found them and that led me here! Just HAD to see the whole performance!
Midori is simply amazing! She has small hand and said she uses slightly undersize violin. The speed,accuracy,clarity,feelings are all inspiring.Her routine practice includes Carl Flesch scales she said.
I just suddenly thought, not only can she play the most beautiful pieces, but she doesn't need music sheets either. She has memorised everything! She must have played all of this a million times over.
chaque fois que j'y reviens, c'est toujours la même émotion; quel chance pour un auteur que son oeuvre ait été interprétée par une musicienne de ce calibre et de ce tempérament !
WOW!!!! INCREDIBLE!!! MIDORI!!! BRAVA!!! You are number ONE - Mistress of all Violin Maestros!!! No one else is even CLOSE!!! You are peerless!!! You have my undying devotion!!! Thank you so very much for sharing your great gift with the world!!!!
I don't remember many pieces with something that sounds like an ending, right on the start (00:50) but this surprising piece has it, and the extra bonus reward for this is the audience clapping, and this child-looking amazing player is giving her beautiful Japanese smile. That's superb!
I have never seen any better performance than her. How wold was she in the video? I heard it was 17 or 18 years old at the time. Really impressive, she dedicated her entire life, childhood, adolescence, teenagehood and more for studying the violin to please herself more than us. That's a fact. Thank you, Midori.
Her phenomenal talent don't shaken any authority any more . I was impressed with the deticacy and ingenuity that I can not express every much in words . Sadness and anxiety disappear . Her performance has a tremendous power to act the human soul . My heart wavered with emotion .
Funny that youtube has suggested this. I had this concert on VHS cassette when I was growing up, there's a great Ravel Tzigane in the program, too. I loved that tape, great recital.
She can litteraly sight read this on the day of the performance and still nail it this woman is a legend. Twoset: (self estime is gone) Community: finally someone Did their 40hrs.
This is more than incredible - it's really intergalactic! Only a superhuman being can play like this! It is a revelation! I can hardly believe my eyes! It's a miracle!!
I've listened to many other versions of Zapateado but this is the only performance with harmonics I can stand to listen to. They sound almost bird-like.
agreed lol... she was having fun..they were having fun, and she knew it... all was good and right in that moment... very beautiful video..must have been a great thing to experience.
She came to Singapore. I went to her concert. She played and Tchikovsky Violin Concerto played a Bach piece for an encore. Got her autograph. Best concert of my life.
I loved her smile half way through the piece when the audience just couldn't help cheering her fantastic line on the zappateato! What a stupendous talent!!!
