Amazing performance from two world class musicians for this most difficult violin sonata out of 10 violin sonatas Beethoven has written. They played with great "harmony" with each other, great dynamics too.
L'une des plus belles sonates pour violon. Magnifique, quand la confiance se fait la partenaire de la musique de chambre, et les larmes de tristesse se transforment en larmes de joie pour la musique confidente, d'un Beethoven victorieux de ses adversaires.
Exhilarating performance. I wish live classical performances of great artists were still withing reach of the middle and lower classes, but at least we have the next best thing -- for free! Thank you.
This was the best rendition I have ever heard of this challenging sonata. Thanks to all concerned. That 3rd movement is definitely testament to Beethoven's sense of humour.
This shows once more what a great Beethoven-player she is. After all piano concertos (no.1 and 2 as a pianist/conductor), op.106, op.31,3 it's another fantastic interpretation.
I strongly agree! It's a wonderful performance, but violin took over. I really love the pianist's listened so well and followed violin. I wish to Himari to play violin part....
Both must know each others parts thoroughly. When playing sonatas like this I had to feel the finger movements of the pianist, there's no other way to be in-tune with each other, that's what makes chamber music so wonderful to play!
Je ne m’attendais pas à entendre Yuja Wang en musique de chambre, c’est une découverte exceptionnelle, qu’elle poursuive dans ce répertoire immense, musicalement exceptionnelle et son partenaire Joshua Bell a une puissance du son renversante, une référence parmi les enregistrements historiques que tout le monde connaît.Deux artistes dignes de tous les éloges, cum laude.
Merci pour votre commentaire avisé. Permettez-moi d’ajouter que Yuja Wang joue beaucoup, et même énormément de musique de chambre, et qu’elle a depuis longtemps poursuivi « dans ce répertoire immense ». De Schumann, elle a joué avec Joshua Bell les trois Romances pour piano et violon. De Brahms, elle a joué et enregistré avec Leonidas Kavakos les trois Sonates pour violon et piano. Il faut y ajouter le Trio opus 8, une Sonate pour clarinette et piano, le Quintette opus 34. De Schubert, la Sonate Arpeggione et la Fantaisie pour violon et piano. Des trios de Mendelssohn ; la Sonate de Franck pour violon(celle) et piano ; celles de Debussy, de Ravel, de Janáček, de Respighi. La Sonate pour piano et violoncelle de Chopin, celle de Rachmaninov ; les Contrastes de Bartók ; la Rhapsodie pour clarinette et piano de Debussy. Et j’en oublie. Vous trouverez plusieurs de ces œuvres sur ma chaîne, avec partition. Bien cordialement.
Belle version. Pour moi la plus grande de l’histoire, Yehudy Menuhin au violon et Pierre Barbizet au piano. Une version qui supporte le temps et va bien au delà. Du génie pur déployé. De quoi pleurer de beauté…
its good to find this jewel. You can apreciate musicality level of joshua who is pulling Yuya to the musical guideline. it is very refreshing the virtuosity of Yuya. Two of them make a good mix, musicality and technique. Yuya goes following Yoshua which is not the musical guideline of Yoshua, is the music guideline that Beethoven has written and the music itsefl says. Yoshua express this musical flow with the maximum clarity and exptression. I think Yuya had good musical learning coming from yoshua. Anucase even we see that Yuya is following Yoshua, the virtuosism of Yuya is excelent and there is no other pianist who can make sound the piano like that. Once again Yuya makes piano sound like a toy and the mix between the extreme musicality of Yoshua and Yuya´s playing way create this extraotdinary Beethoven who also is both, a mix between deep and joke. Bravo!
"...joshua who is pulling Yuya to the musical guideline..." I know your 1st language isn't English. But in any language this is complete nonsense, and deeply insulting to Yuja Wang.
Une interprétation parfaite, *bien sûr !* Joshua Bell est un immense artiste ; mais pourquoi cette gestuelle, - maniérée plus qu'inspirée - parfaitement superflue ?😉
Yes, two really phenomenal musicians, but the balance favored the piano… it made Josh’s beautiful playing the accompaniment at times. The mixing leaves a lot to be desired…. And least we forget, this was a Live performance. Acoustics of the Hall? Perhaps, in the sound check, it could have been noted, a microphone would,very lightly, have given the violin, more presence…to match the percussiveness of the pianos range. That being said, the performers and performance are second to none… 💞🤩💐
I thought the violin was very much prominent and full of presence. I even have hearing loss. Not only did he sound on par with Yuja, he seemed to be leading at times, too.
@@cornelmicut1093 The absurdity of this comment is outrageous. He is one of the best to ever hold a violin and easily her peer as a virtuoso. It can well be argued that he is her superior in terms of expressiveness and overall musicianship.
Why does Mr. Bell move around so much? I asked this question below, and slightly re-phrasing it: A given pianist when they're playing a solo recital, a concerto performance, or chamber music always seem to move their bodies (torso, not the hands obviously) the same - quite moderate - amount. But Mr. Bell seems to be moving his body much more than if he were playing in a string quartet, as if he's "adding some dance moves" to the performance. Is this accidental, him just being absorbed in the music (a quartet is just as absorbing, and I never see physicality like that in a string quartet performance), or he doing it deliberately?
@@alexanderknoll9293 what the heck does that mean????? They DO after all play string quartets in concert halls; and the violin writing in a string quartet is just as difficult and taxing as in this sonata. So why would there be all this over the top physical motion? What’s your point about the difference between playing a violin sonata versus a quartet?
Экзальтированный мальчик,,,,к Музыке , правда, ни какого отношения не имеет. Пианистка , как всегда, в ,,мини,, впечатляет.😊 До чего всё дошло ,,,,,, интересно, сколько осталось жить музыкальному Искусству ? Помрем ли мы раньше или оно ? Интересно, правда?
The video is really made not so well. It looks that the videographer does not know Beethoven. The cuts are often late, like you miss the beginning of the pizzicati.
It's probably the best we can have today. The Kogan-Gillels interpretation challenges all Kreutzer performers. IMHO, this is close and, of course, of perfect recording quality. Unfortunately, both in the Kogan-Gillels recording and (much more less) in the current, the audience noise is annoying.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 We need to get rid of the custom of not applauding in between movements. How does one contain oneself after witnessing something of this caliber?
Maybe I've heard the Kreutzer sonata so many times, I just couldn't get into this performance. The piano was too loud, they should have mic'ed Jojshua better. A performance of great bravado, but I couldn't help thinking something was missing, perhaps a chemistry, all the details felt extremely precisly worked out (overworked?), a perfect performance, but I was disappointed.
I heard Sitkovetsky and his mom play this around 1990. Bella banged the hell out of the piano part while Dimitri scraped out an unpleasant loud sound. The playing here is much more refined
R last somone who noticed that this is really not very good A lot of note ad a lot of "expression" laid on with a trowel. But really superficial , I could not make it to the end
@@robertgreene2684 Do you know the story from some years ago where Bell went into the subway and pretended to busk, playing the Bach Chaconne? Nobody stopped to listen! The moral of the story was that people rushing through the subway couldn't appreciate great music. My friend, who studied with Galamian, had a different, cattier explanation more in line with your comment....
@@Geoplanetjane Goes perhaps with Wang's hammer out every note approach to piano playing(except for interlude of artificially contrived "expression". Piano playing in AI style . I like Bell ok but Wang not so much.
A great performance of this work and well worth the listen, but it did not take long before I had to stop watching the video and listen only because Joshua Bell’s histrionic manner of playing was too much of an annoying sideshow.
Great performance, but visually it's a bit annoying to see: a violinist doing all these physical contortions, a bit of an undignified look; but it's exacerbated by him not even wearing a suit, in what look like pajamas. Shouldn't the performer dress more formally?
Today the musicians play with great physical exhibitions which give me distraction. I find it useless because what is important is the music. He plays well but he produces too much physical activity. Thank you ❤❤❤
@@francobonanni3499 do you think it’s deliberate, or a pretty much involuntary aspect of being absorbed into the music and a side-effect of pouring all he can into the instrument? I’m an amateur classical piano player, and I find that my body sways and bends in different ways as I get into the flow of the music and especially where real exertion is involved. It seems easier to play by keeping the body loose to transfer physical energy in different ways.
@@SantoLuzbel If we close our eyes, we can't see lovely yuja wang! Mr. Bells gymnastics are a bit too much, but he is a great violinist. I have seen him many times. Once in the Beethoven concerto. He did it without any vibrato at all.
Amazing performance from two world class musicians for this most difficult violin sonata out of 10 violin sonatas Beethoven has written. They played with great "harmony" with each other, great dynamics too.
L'une des plus belles sonates pour violon. Magnifique, quand la confiance se fait la partenaire de la musique de chambre, et les larmes de tristesse se transforment en larmes de joie pour la musique confidente, d'un Beethoven victorieux de ses adversaires.
What a lovely comment--Thanks
Exhilarating performance. I wish live classical performances of great artists were still withing reach of the middle and lower classes, but at least we have the next best thing -- for free! Thank you.
Who are you calling lower class? - bloody snob!🤣🤣
I mean I’m poor, i go to concerts
It's great to see two still young prodigies play together. What talent on that stage!
Bell? he's in mid 50s....
@@fatdoi003 I know. Sorry I wasn't clear. They were both amazing prodigies at a young age.
@@nickk8416 right i see.... prodigy around his gen for me is Hilary
Wang is reaching 40 in a few years...
@@cdq68jgr This was 14 years ago
A masterpiece from two world class musicians!
Two ?! No , just one , Yuja Wang !
This was the best rendition I have ever heard of this challenging sonata. Thanks to all concerned. That 3rd movement is definitely testament to Beethoven's sense of humour.
This shows once more what a great Beethoven-player she is. After all piano concertos (no.1 and 2 as a pianist/conductor), op.106, op.31,3 it's another fantastic interpretation.
Saw her play the Beethoven 4th masterfully in Detroit USA this last March. She IS amazing...
Thank you for breathtaking, brilliant performance.❤
I agree Semra.
Do not forget that this is a sonata for piano and violin, not a sonata for violin accompanied by a piano. That’s how these Beethoven duo sonatas are.
Good. We won't forget. Then what?
I strongly agree! It's a wonderful performance, but violin took over. I really love the pianist's listened so well and followed violin. I wish to Himari to play violin part....
thank you❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Both must know each others parts thoroughly. When playing sonatas like this I had to feel the finger movements of the pianist, there's no other way to be in-tune with each other, that's what makes chamber music so wonderful to play!
Wrong. Usually piano overpowers violin - but not with Joshua, they are equal.
Thank you so much, help so many classical music lovers.
MAGNIFIQUE ! Ces deux artistes se sont surpassés ! C'est bouleversant, cette sonate à Kreutzer ! BRAVO I MILLE FOIS BRAVO !!! ET MERCI
Bravo for both of you❤❤
Bravo Ms. Wang🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
It’s a beautiful performance. Let the man play the violin the way he likes. Yuja is exceptional as always.
Je ne m’attendais pas à entendre Yuja Wang en musique de chambre, c’est une découverte exceptionnelle, qu’elle poursuive dans ce répertoire immense, musicalement exceptionnelle et son partenaire Joshua Bell a une puissance du son renversante, une référence parmi les enregistrements historiques que tout le monde connaît.Deux artistes dignes de tous les éloges, cum laude.
Merci pour votre commentaire avisé. Permettez-moi d’ajouter que Yuja Wang joue beaucoup, et même énormément de musique de chambre, et qu’elle a depuis longtemps poursuivi « dans ce répertoire immense ». De Schumann, elle a joué avec Joshua Bell les trois Romances pour piano et violon. De Brahms, elle a joué et enregistré avec Leonidas Kavakos les trois Sonates pour violon et piano. Il faut y ajouter le Trio opus 8, une Sonate pour clarinette et piano, le Quintette opus 34. De Schubert, la Sonate Arpeggione et la Fantaisie pour violon et piano. Des trios de Mendelssohn ; la Sonate de Franck pour violon(celle) et piano ; celles de Debussy, de Ravel, de Janáček, de Respighi. La Sonate pour piano et violoncelle de Chopin, celle de Rachmaninov ; les Contrastes de Bartók ; la Rhapsodie pour clarinette et piano de Debussy. Et j’en oublie.
Vous trouverez plusieurs de ces œuvres sur ma chaîne, avec partition. Bien cordialement.
@@eusebiusetflorestan2532
Merci infiniment pour ces précisions qui m’intéressent et m’agréent beaucoup 👍
@@dommauricecouvert3983 C'était un plaisir!
The emotions on their face is amazing !
Bravo Miss Wang!!!
a joy to be present in this magnificent rendition
A monumental work and musical giants treating us to such a fine execution. Bravo!
Dos músicos talentosos, magnífica interpretación..
Beautiful and wonderful !
Una obra colosal, de un autor colosa en manos de dos músicos excelentes
GREAT MASTER PIECE !!!
Wow! What fun! Unforgettable performance.
Two beautiful talents made one supper beautiful music!
Impeccable interpretation !! Amazing !!
Great performance! Thanks for sharing.
Damn, this will be playing in my head for a month. Great Performance!
The best ever, I believe.
Not the most typical piece to repeat in one’s head
Belle version.
Pour moi la plus grande de l’histoire, Yehudy Menuhin au violon et Pierre Barbizet au piano.
Une version qui supporte le temps et va bien au delà. Du génie pur déployé. De quoi pleurer de beauté…
Fabulous performance of an extremely virtuosic work.
Excellent performance!
JUSTE WOW !!!
Exceptionnel !
I've heard this before....but perhaps not
So expressive!!!
Check Perlman and Ashkenazy. This is the best classical music record ever.
超越技巧ピアニスト白黒鍵盤に真心込め超越技巧バイオリニスト四弦に真心込め共に特技の手法で❤ベイト一ベン名曲演奏お届け有り難う御座いました共に美しく素晴らしくワンダフルでした🌄🈷️❤へ
An intelligent observation by this above observer of Beauty !
Masterpiece
Fabulous ❤❤
Yuja Wang prend son pied! Joshua
its good to find this jewel. You can apreciate musicality level of joshua who is pulling Yuya to the musical guideline. it is very refreshing the virtuosity of Yuya. Two of them make a good mix, musicality and technique. Yuya goes following Yoshua which is not the musical guideline of Yoshua, is the music guideline that Beethoven has written and the music itsefl says. Yoshua express this musical flow with the maximum clarity and exptression. I think Yuya had good musical learning coming from yoshua. Anucase even we see that Yuya is following Yoshua, the virtuosism of Yuya is excelent and there is no other pianist who can make sound the piano like that. Once again Yuya makes piano sound like a toy and the mix between the extreme musicality of Yoshua and Yuya´s playing way create this extraotdinary Beethoven who also is both, a mix between deep and joke. Bravo!
Has your keyboard stopped supporting the letter J?
@@BrianCuthbertsonha?
"...joshua who is pulling Yuya to the musical guideline..."
I know your 1st language isn't English. But in any language this is complete nonsense, and deeply insulting to Yuja Wang.
Verbier, 28 Jul. 2010... Fantastic performance...!!!
Thank you so much, I was here wondering the date of this performance! ❤
Une interprétation parfaite, *bien sûr !*
Joshua Bell est un immense artiste ; mais pourquoi cette gestuelle, - maniérée plus qu'inspirée - parfaitement superflue ?😉
Concordo . Excessivos gestos . Não são necessários nem bonitos...
Great performance. Recording is flawed .... But I stayed till the end. Bravo!!!
Yuja sight reading like a boss. Haha
I hardly think so
If you know anything about Yuja Wang’s work ethic, you would not have made that comment!
Great performance by Yuja & Joshua. It was wonderful watching both of you play.
Yes, two really phenomenal musicians, but the balance favored the piano… it made Josh’s beautiful playing the accompaniment at times. The mixing leaves a lot to be desired…. And least we forget, this was a Live performance. Acoustics of the Hall? Perhaps, in the sound check, it could have been noted, a microphone would,very lightly, have given the violin, more presence…to match the percussiveness of the pianos range. That being said, the performers and performance are second to none… 💞🤩💐
Just ONE phenomenal musician ! Yuja Wang ! Joshua Bell is just mediocre ! Its a long way to Yuja Wang's level ...
I thought the violin was very much prominent and full of presence. I even have hearing loss. Not only did he sound on par with Yuja, he seemed to be leading at times, too.
@@cornelmicut1093 The absurdity of this comment is outrageous. He is one of the best to ever hold a violin and easily her peer as a virtuoso. It can well be argued that he is her superior in terms of expressiveness and overall musicianship.
Utterly superb!! 🙏❤
Top!
Thank you, but this is from 2014 not 2024.
Neither of them, but 2010, as indicated at the beginning of the video!
Excellent. Grazie mille. Merci.
Exquisite and exciting! Thank you for also posting the score!
my pleasure!
When was this recorded? The players appear to be several years younger in this video. Just the same, it's a treasure, and thanks so very much!
This is indicated at the beginning of the videos! 28 July 2010.
Músicos excepcionais! Bravo! Viva a Música erudita! Obrigado, à genialidade de Beethoven! Ganhei meu dia. Estou feliz! ❤
Estos genios hacen avanzar nuestro planeta
すごい！
Sublime and terrifying. A terrible beauty is born.
congratulazioni
Tolstoy!
Formidable performance…bravo….are you married to that gorgeous and talented pianist, Joshua? You guys are wonderful..CH
Awesome!!!
Tolstoy would have found his story about this sonata fully justified by this impassoned interpretation!
DUO MAESTRO AT WORK LOVELY
Why does Mr. Bell move around so much? I asked this question below, and slightly re-phrasing it: A given pianist when they're playing a solo recital, a concerto performance, or chamber music always seem to move their bodies (torso, not the hands obviously) the same - quite moderate - amount. But Mr. Bell seems to be moving his body much more than if he were playing in a string quartet, as if he's "adding some dance moves" to the performance. Is this accidental, him just being absorbed in the music (a quartet is just as absorbing, and I never see physicality like that in a string quartet performance), or he doing it deliberately?
The reason: he has nowthing els,,,,,,,😅😅
maybe because this is no string quartett, but a sonata for violin and piano in a concert hall?
@@alexanderknoll9293 what the heck does that mean????? They DO after all play string quartets in concert halls; and the violin writing in a string quartet is just as difficult and taxing as in this sonata. So why would there be all this over the top physical motion? What’s your point about the difference between playing a violin sonata versus a quartet?
Экзальтированный мальчик,,,,к Музыке , правда, ни какого отношения не имеет.
Пианистка , как всегда, в ,,мини,, впечатляет.😊
До чего всё дошло ,,,,,, интересно, сколько осталось жить музыкальному Искусству ?
Помрем ли мы раньше или оно ? Интересно, правда?
Cheer up
Critics are like eunuchs in a hareem. They know how to do it but can't themselves.
@@martinforrester8249 why?
,, yes,, wie cai ,, 😄😄😄
Marvelous
What year is this?
2010, see beginning of the video...
Wunderbar, soll das verloren sein nur weil wir Menschen uns nicht unterorten können der Natur?
The video is really made not so well. It looks that the videographer does not know Beethoven. The cuts are often late, like you miss the beginning of the pizzicati.
It's probably the best we can have today. The Kogan-Gillels interpretation challenges all Kreutzer performers. IMHO, this is close and, of course, of perfect recording quality. Unfortunately, both in the Kogan-Gillels recording and (much more less) in the current, the audience noise is annoying.
BRAVISSIMI...!!!!! IMMENSO LUDWIG..!!!❤❤
Whenever Yuja bows I am always worried she might snap her back in half 😅
Yuja, come sempre, scollata nel vestire: ma, questa volta, bene incollata al pianoforte. Joshua, istrionico, quasi paganiniano.
Bravissimo!
But it’s Beethoven or Brahms?
Beethoven
Amazing interpretation.
This is an old clip - they are no longer young!
Eh? It’s always a matter of degree.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
We need to get rid of the custom of not applauding in between movements. How does one contain oneself after witnessing something of this caliber?
Maybe I've heard the Kreutzer sonata so many times, I just couldn't get into this performance. The piano was too loud, they should have mic'ed Jojshua better. A performance of great bravado, but I couldn't help thinking something was missing, perhaps a chemistry, all the details felt extremely precisly worked out (overworked?), a perfect performance, but I was disappointed.
I heard Sitkovetsky and his mom play this around 1990. Bella banged the hell out of the piano part while Dimitri scraped out an unpleasant loud sound. The playing here is much more refined
R last somone who noticed that this is really not very good
A lot of note ad a lot of "expression" laid on with a trowel. But really superficial , I could not make it to the end
@@robertgreene2684 Do you know the story from some years ago where Bell went into the subway and pretended to busk, playing the Bach Chaconne? Nobody stopped to listen! The moral of the story was that people rushing through the subway couldn't appreciate great music. My friend, who studied with Galamian, had a different, cattier explanation more in line with your comment....
@@robertgreene2684joshua’s playing is on the dry side, not so much vibrato, which makes for a very interesting performance.
@@Geoplanetjane Goes perhaps with Wang's hammer out every note approach to piano playing(except for interlude of artificially contrived "expression". Piano playing in AI style . I like Bell ok but Wang not so much.
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A great performance of this work and well
worth the listen, but it did not take long before I had to stop watching the video and listen only because Joshua Bell’s histrionic manner of playing was too much of an annoying sideshow.
Critic are like eunuchs in a hareem, they know how to do it but can't themselves. 😂
Molto buono il violino , troppo secco e martellato il piano , accompagna male il violino . Peccato. Comunque grazie. Ciao. Mario.
Great performance, but visually it's a bit annoying to see: a violinist doing all these physical contortions, a bit of an undignified look; but it's exacerbated by him not even wearing a suit, in what look like pajamas. Shouldn't the performer dress more formally?
Musik ist immer auch Tanz.......
Today the musicians play with great physical exhibitions which give me distraction. I find it useless because what is important is the music. He plays well but he produces too much physical activity. Thank you ❤❤❤
@@francobonanni3499 do you think it’s deliberate, or a pretty much involuntary aspect of being absorbed into the music and a side-effect of pouring all he can into the instrument? I’m an amateur classical piano player, and I find that my body sways and bends in different ways as I get into the flow of the music and especially where real exertion is involved. It seems easier to play by keeping the body loose to transfer physical energy in different ways.
If it bothers you, just close your eyes and enjoy the music
@@SantoLuzbel If we close our eyes, we can't see lovely yuja wang! Mr. Bells gymnastics are a bit too much, but he is a great violinist. I have seen him many times. Once in the Beethoven concerto. He did it without any vibrato at all.
Мне не нравится. Как то не в стиле, На Бетховена не похожа. Попса какая то. Темпы, фразировка странная.
😢
Oh for God's sake. CLAP after that dramatic first movement already! Enough with this unnatural, stiff silence after rousing music!
Thank you!! I was sitting like a loony in my chair clapping and cheering to ABSOLUTE SILENCE
This is not a Musik, this is Mc, Donalds
Joshua hört nicht Yuja !
Es fehlt etwas,...ein Flow.
Compared to the greats, I stopped listening almost immediately.