Paganini: Caprice No. 5 (Shlomo Mintz) 

I'd like to watch this in Shlomo so I could see what was happening

For those of you who don’t play violin: what’s absolutely breathtaking about this is not even how fast the left hand is moving, but maintaining that very crisp, clean sautille bouncing bow throughout the piece, despite all the string changes. That is some serious right hand bowing technique!

He should change his name from Shlomo to Fastmo.

Wouldn't it be funny if Paganini wrote this as a joke and he wasn't able to play it but said hey, I'll write this down and put a BPM so fast, no one can hope to play it! heheh

Paganini was crazy...

According to my calculations, in the Agitato part (from 0.32 to 1.46) Shlomo played 67 bars with 16 semiquavers each, i.e. a total o 67x16 = 1072 notes in 74 seconds. A speed of 14.49 notes per second. This about Paganini speed ( 12 to 15 nps ) when playing Presto movements... Phantastic !

He practices.

It gets faster every time I watch it

But can he play 'wonderwall"?

His gesture at the end: "I owned this bitch!"

his name is very misleading lol

Heavy Metal as it was done back in the day.

No one who never got so far to try to play the Paganini caprices himself can imagine how unbelievably difficult and at the same time musically demanding they are - and what a fantastic rendition this is by Shlomo Mintz. One of the outstanding recordings, no doubt.

Maestro Mintz, I keep as a treasure the autograph you gave me backstage after the concert in 2001 in Córdoba, Argentina. You were so kind and humble. I will never forget it. Thank you Maestro for the Music

Spectacular and gorgeous. It's not just the speed and virtuosity, but the rich fullness of his sound.

I tried to turn on subtitles and my device exploded

this is the best version

Wow... I'm not a classical music fan or a violin enthusiast but even I can tell this guy is incredible

This by far my favorite interpretation of this crazy piece. Every note is very clearly heard but blends so well!

Shlomo? more like Speedmo! XD Btw, his Caprice 5 is sick in the coolest way!

Omg... this is the best rendition of this piece I have ever heard.

Did anyone make it here to this wonderful performance after watching Steve Vai and Ralph Machio’s guitar duel in the movie the Crossroads?

Paganini rocks, no doubt.

To really get the most out of this video, play it at 0.25 speed and really listen and pay attention to all the shifts, look at all the fingerings, etc... It has really been carefully worked out. The shifts on the big scales at The beginning and the end: you will hear how he first slides down with his first finger before putting down the other four as he’s crawling back down the fingerboard. But when he is going fast, you don’t hear it at all. Amazing!

Very beautiful and accurate.Perfect staccato.

That fourth-finger vibrato, man. It might as well be his second or third finger-- it's that strong. And the two chords-- the A minor one at the end of the intro and the A major one at the very end-- are so full and gorgeous.

This is the best command of the violin that I have heard to date by quite a margin, especially the sheer projection, resonance, richness of harmonics, and completeness of the sound not to mention the warmth as well, and this is only the sound,technically, although not nearly so important to myself personally,one can forgive a lot if the sound is larger than life, but in this case the sound and the technique are evenly matched like everything else. I would love to see, Shlomo get as excited about

Around 1978° I guess. When he came in 1987 to play Mendelsohn concerto with Simón Bolívar symphony as Conductor and soloist and I played first oboe helooked much older already. Here I think he is aroun nineteen. Always fantastic!!!

I like to look at his individual fingers at work during this passage plus listen to the tension of this passage build up. 0:55 Seriously one of the most dynamic version I have ever heard!!! He sure practiced a lot.

mamma mia,la velocità' e' al limite dell'umano,bellissimo suono, panciuto e agilissimo, aderenza dell'arco al massimo della pressione!!!!!!!!!!!Che dire..........A quell'eta' mintz era un ira di dio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judging by the perfect technique that both zukerman and Mintz have Ilona Feher must have been one of the best teachers of all time. She said when shlomo first came to her she got so upset since everything was wrong with his playing. What a lady she was!

I seriously doubt that any human could ever play any instrument better then this recording.

That perfect continuous slur during those full scales... soooo smoooooooth

There are 60 that have serious problems of audience. He is stunning!

This dude is shitting himself while he is doing it. It's like he can't believe he is doing it haha. Love this stuff, this is a video that if you speed up, your mind *EXPLODES*

My left hand started cramping from watching this

Two words...DAMN GOOD

It is absolutely marvelous to hear this piece performed well for a change. That Misha Andreev boy plays like a drunken chicken.

Incredible. Never heard it played so well as to be so super-exciting. Jesus Christ what I would do to travel back in time to hear it played the the man himself.

Just... astonishing. Achieving that degree of skill in a human endeavor is a truly beautiful thing.

I love it when musicians transcend notes and become the music itself.

excellent playing

I think that is the most powerful version I've ever heard.

ty for uploading this! I share it with people all the time and they're always impressed. If I can ever get "Answers" produced, I'm going to see if I can arrange Shlomo to execute this at the Super Bowl halftime show.

This no 5 is my favorite. It's brilliant!!!!

Holly smokes! You can only comprehend how fast and spirited this is when playing this yourself and try hard to do anything close to this tempo! Wow!

Just when I thought Caprice No. 24 was hard enough

It follows a very specific pattern even though it’s so fast..I love it!

Tan hermoso, perfecto, maravilloso me encanta! ☺️👌🎻❤️🎼

My fav is 24, but this is a close second. Damn it is good!

holy shit no wrong note not even one he must listen to this song while he sleeps

I don’t know violin, and I’ve been watching and listening to different versions of this. And I’ve been looking at comments from people who apparently know violinists. I don’t see this guy in the conversation. From the different versions of this I’ve heard this to me is the most well-played. The only one I’ve heard that comes close is a recording of Izhtak Perlman.

Bravo!! virtuoso!! ,, like yngwie malmsteen! but I prefer the violin!

his fingers move so smoothly.

Incredibile...Assolutamente fantastico

0:29~0:32 이부분 계속돌려봄 진심 너무.. 깔끔하고 소리 울리는거 미쳤.. 소름돋는다

BRAVOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Freakin looks like he’s falling asleep when he’s playing this. Wouldn’t be surprised if he actually did. What a legend.

Held my breath for 2:15

Perfect For Fandom-Defending.

From far the best version

mother of god

This is one of my favorite videos ever! His playing is perfect! The energy is right, my soul dances when I hear it. He was pretty young then. One question though: Can he do it twice?

Me pregunto quien son los 56 idiotas que dan un "no me gusta"a ese video... seguramente son violinistas que tocan mejor que Shlomo Mintz, pero no suben sus videos por pura modestia...

I have a friend who is 16 years old he has been playing violin since he was 5 he has almost learned this song if you see this live man its really awesome PS i listen to metal so for me to like this thing it is something great

2019??

Incredible!!!

Amazing! Sweep picking? xD

Una delle piu' belle esecuzioni dell capriccio n.5 mai eseguite,ma non con l'arcata originale. Bravissimo!!!

He should change his name from shlomo to fastmo

This is the best pure performance of this piece I've found, as the piece was originally written. Shlomo is beyond outstanding. His #24 is equally impressive.

... metal !

That was beyond beautiful!

devil worship!!! lol

This guy is blessed.

He reminds me of Donald Trump

i love watching Leonidas Kavakos in slow motion ....its great learning

i love how the camera is too slow to pick up all of his hand movements.

The video is in shlomo, the actual speed it's x2, so you can hear the real speed of this video

Virtuose. Toca magistralmente bem, vive com tecnica e talento um outro genio: Paganini. MAZAL TOV Shlomo.

the look on his face almost seems like he can't believe he's actually playing this piece. haha. brilliant performance. I prefer his over a lot of other contemporary artists. he brings such a great amount of feeling to the phrasing. it gets me every time

never heard something better! i would give my soul for playing like that.

Wonderful, man and violin united as one.

Arpeggios like butter, OH.MY.DAYS!

O cara é fera e ainda tem uma bela postura!

thank you uploader ..... i occasionally listen to this since 5 years

This is the definitive best version of Paganini's Caprice No 5 there is in all youtube.

schlomo Mintz's 24. Finest next to Hahn's intrepetation in existance the man is a machine

@JosephEaorle Absolutely true. And the intervals are much closer on the violin I think because the first string is tuned basically an octave and a minor third higher then the first string on guitar, so you don't have to strech your hand horizontally so much. It's like you cut the guitar from the 15th fret below. From a playing point of view maybe the violin is little harder to play, but from other points it's definitely not.

My brain: I can play this! My fingers: Forget it dude !!

happy and proud this is over 1m views. deserves 100m at least.

Sunday I had the pleasure of watching Augustin Hadelich perform this as his encore after Beethoven's violin concerto. Absolutely beautiful!

@ccalkaneo its a tick, i cant control it either u.u

I'm always amazed by Shlomo.

The inimitable King of Violin! I love very much his violin sound.

Paganini played his caprices just as studies, never intended to be performed at concerts, with the notable exception of Caprice 24

Hoy está en Chile.... es un genio, que rápido! 05 de Julio 2012.

Beautiful..Beautiful...Very beautiful...

If he keeps practicing....he'll get good at that fiddle.

Bravissimo ! Grazie!