The Best Paganini Cadenza - Philippe Hirschhorn [Live, 1967] 

You are right. He did not receive the international recognition (for his amazing talent) which he deserved. Unfortunately, after winning the Queen Elizabeth competition, he was forced by the bureaucrats in the Soviet Union to compete in 1970 in the George Enescu violin competition in Bucharest, where he was awarded only the third prize. The first prize was awarded to my childhood friend and phenomenal violinist Silvia Marcovici, whose videos are available on this site.

Approved by Kogan ?!

Bruh i was about to reply "lol yesh" to my own comment lol ! 😆😆😆😆😂😂

Kogan has been my violin hero since age 6, but Hirschhorn ... noting short of amazing 😳🤗 I can see how this man received the highest praise from Kogan, chapeau!

@@sorinsviolin4114 Thank you for posting.

Dang I didn't know he was Janine's teacher 😲. No wonder Janine is now one of the best living violinists.

How did the truffled turkey fall into the water?! I would have cried too.

rich people problems

Incredible! Finally got more video of this legendary moment, thank you!!

Thaank you for this! Impressive….and i must admit i never heard about him. Such an excellent technique.

The first thing I noticed was his violin being so stable. I’m thinking “how on earth does he do that?!” Is it natural head weight or is he subtlety combining it with some lifting from the left hand as well? Any insights? To me it was like a suspended table but an ‘immovable cloud’ is a much better analogy. I tried to replicate this technique after watching this ... and failed.

Damn, this is the first time I see so much virtuosity 😵 thanks a lot for the video! 👌😊

He appears to have been gifted with a short neck too. 😁

I grew up with the same and also oistrach and Anne Sophie Mutter.. then I found heifetz and some others...but have never heard of this violinist.

He first and foremost is an incredible musician. Listen to his Brahms concerto to understand his capacity. His perfect technique is just a side dish.

@@serafin1719 Agreed! The technique is impeccable, amongst the finest I have ever seen at such speeds. But notice his sound. It’s so warm and rich, and soft…it’s just gorgeous, he plays as if the Summer season were captured into sound on a violin!

Have u heard of kogan ?

Maybe in that era USSR, jews where more promoted for political reasons...

Exactly

Yeah !

Many of the top Dutch and Belgian violinists and other European violinists studied with him in Utrecht. Master violinist and teacher

i was thinking the same thing. Really!!

My reaction exactly! Why wasn’t he as well-known as Heifetz? I now have to re-order my “greatest violinists” list.

Совсем правда.

>> he doesn’t feel the need to sway @Oudtshoornify We cannot be sure that he doesn't feel that need. We only know that even if he does feel that need, he doesn't submit to it. But, of course, I am only playing with words. I completely agree with the point itself that you have made.

@@ts13579_texas_usa : Enjoyed your play with words! Thank you.

@@quaver1239 I am glad.

T. Shandelman, as a poet, writer, Founding Editor-in-Chief and lifelong player-with-words, I rejoice at your gift ... for gift it is. To parse without quibbling is to pursue truth. To some this critical faculty appears prolix. Done with the desire to convey a deep awareness of the "governing dynamics" in life, however, it can be (to borrow the title of Matthew Arnold's essay) "Sweetness and Light." The late John Nash made understanding governing dynamics the standard for his ethics, professional brilliance, and doing his all to give love to his wife and honor God who gave him the awesome gift of Life. Whether unraveling a mystery of astrophysics, or his determination to overcome his schizophrenia and"be there" for his beloved wife, he sought to learn the governing dynamics needed to master life's challenges/opportunities. C. S. Lewis applied earnest "wordplay" in the user of the English language with a depth that astounds. Read his prologue to THE FOUR LOVES, then the entire book - then THE PROBLEM OF PAIN, then his essay "The Weight of Glory" - and we see what riches reside in real mastery of words. Or have some fun with it (we all need to "unstring the bow" from time to time, said Saint John the Divine). Few did so with more eloquence than Sir Winston Churchill. Take his quip in protest against the grammar rule never to end a sentence with a preposition: "That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!" Way to go, Winnie, that's telling 'em! So the adroit precision in playing with words that you employed was indeed "well played." John Nash made it his core goal in mathematics, quantum physics, in game theory,and in his heroic personal life by triumphing over schizophrenia through force of will to be true to reality and never illusion ... which saved his love life and family life. (Read his biography, skip the film, "A Beautiful Mind"). One of my daughters, working part-time during college, waited table at John Nash's favorite local diner, serving him the frequent lunches he'd enjoy there with his wife and son. He always tipped precisely 15% -😮 no calculator used, of course! A casual brush with a man of singular destiny, to be sure ... but it is instructive to encounter one who is indeed "The Man, The Myth, The Legend," to know that the one next to you on the subway is "just" another child of God and hence royal, deserving of our admiration, respect, and awareness of what faculties and wisdom they have received from God. We might even give an ear to what they have to say. Anything might come of it! I regard John Nash as a real life hero for our times. Same goes for Messrs Lewis, Churchill, and the stranger who saved me from leaving home prematurely, and demonstrated he was my angel. To "Wordplay" then ... may it always be used with sincerity, not its counterfeits, Nitpicking or Showing Off. Done right, it pleases God who bestows "talents" on us to be used well and so glorify Him alone.

I agree 100%! I find all the dramatic swaying and grimacing *so* distracting. I understand the impulse to move but why not divert it into the sound?

Look at his expression, it is not easy

Why broken heart?

i think he was born with it@@atanasdimitrov4651

It looks like a very genuine personality that is totally devoted to his music. He was probably not an ambitions carrera marker. On this profession besides talent,you should have luck and some commercial mind. It is better to be russian or american or these days, chinese.

WOW ! MULTUMESC PT INF. 👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏻‍♀️🇷🇴

Wat is uw naam? Ik woon in NL en ben celliste.

@@RhondaBranneky Kamlung cheng .ik woont in Rotterdam

@@RhondaBranneky I was Philippe hirshhorn s assistant at Utrecht conservatory for one year .

Wat leuk! Was u in Utrecht toe Janine studeerde met hem?

@@RhondaBranneky I was earlier than Janine Jansen in Utrecht.

Relax my man, more than 99% of violinists, even the greats wouldn't handle this cadenza.

don’t worry, only a select handful of people around the world can actually pull this cadenza off

I didn't know you also watch others. I watch your vids. Keep it up your doing great. You can't compare a beginner with a master. He's been playing his entire life while you played for maybe 1 year(im guessing). So do you think it's a fair comparison? If you played for as long as him and you are still worse, then so? That man has practiced A LOT and analyzed himself A LOT and plus you would still win something even though you losed as you gain experience and skill in violin.

@@LucaTrinh1234 thank you for the kind words! I’ve been playing for around 5 months and see a lot of great performances pop up in my feed. There are so many talented violinists out there, I thought about switching to the viola a couple of months ago. Nope, I’ll stick with the violin and my goal is to become an intermediate player in the next couple of years.

Don't give up 😊 Watch also the Himari Yoshimura's performances.

Писали, что Л. Коган сыграл её первым... По мне: этот играет чище и аккуратнее. Хотя Гварнери Когана, конечно, громче. Кстати, Кавакос играет весьма убедительно.

@@thefiddler7931 Чище и аккуратнее Когана?🤣🤣🤣 В ушки балуетесь, батенька)?

@@10Ronaldinho80best В ушки баловались твои родоки, когда тебя делали, ущербный.

​@@thefiddler7931i agree

He died early😣

Yes a great violinist indeed. However why bring politics into Art. This playing would have been banned in the Soviet Union, as lacking Soviet 'realism'.