John Willams giving a flawless performance of his classic interpretation of Stanley Myer's Cavatina in 1979. Is it just me, or does JW look like the late great Peter Cook?
Such a beautiful song🎵 Can't stop listening to it!! My cousin past away from agent orange after coming home from Vietnam. Listening to this song keeps the memory of him alive! 💜😥🙏
I'm compiling a list of all of the music which intimately affects me the most. This is one of those. I have listened to it for years. I'll go months without hearing it and then for no particular reason it will pop into my head, and won't go away until I have O D'd on it (or until I have drank my fill). Hard to explain the sense of beauty and pain. It does not depress me but makes me feel pain or loss mixed up with beauty and serenity.
To all the dislikes, I feel quite sad that you don't get this, this is music in its purest form, it really doesn't get any more chilled out than this, beautiful, relax, let it soak into you, sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The most melancholy story-song of longing ever written; every note a word composing chapters of regrets - yet so full of hopeful inspiration that there will be a better chapter ahead. Such a gorgeous song and performance.
I dont know why everytime i hear this piece of music it makes me more sad when i'm sad, and makes me happier when i'm happy! Strange, i'm being carried away by this wonderful music!
Legend!! This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of the reasons The Deer Hunter is one of the most unforgettable movies ever, as well as an early glimpse of the brilliance of Meryl Streep, DeNiro, and Christopher Walken. Thank you!!
So true. A classic.. The young actors and their outstanding performances. I still remember the scene when Fe Niro returns from Nam and the horror and he's alone in the hotel room.. He palms his eyes because he's crying and just sinks to the floor in helplessness. So many unforgettable moments in that movie. A real masterpiece. De Niro giving us flashes of his great acting ability and improvisation. Not to mention the young charming Christopher Walken..
@blueduck5589 The original is amazing but I am not sure if you know that Stanley Myers was having dinner with John who suggested that he arrange that specific section for him to play on the guitar which he did hence the name which means a short song.
Everytime I hear this piece the hairs on the back of the neck prickle and gooseflesh appears. Such an emotive, haunting, beautiful composition. Gets me everytime.
My darling husband was Airborne Special Forces in Vietnam and southeast Asia. Came back, went to college and then medical school. Now an ER doctor for the past 35 years. He still cannot watch any movie of those times, but I have watched this movie many times. So very sad. The Cavatina tells this story so well.
I don't know how many times I've listened to this, but every time the lump in my throat gets bigger and the the tears heavier, but I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought this album years ago just for John Williams' performance of Cavatina. After seeing the Deer Hunter, this piece stayed with me long after and I was so excited Williams arranged it as a solo piece. It took some time, but I eventually learned it myself and actually played it for the funeral mass of Grandmother back in '84. For me, Cavatina feels like a deep, heart felt love toward family, friends, and when I'm totally immersed into it, everyone else as well.
Congratulations on learning this piece. It is one of my life ambitions to learn this, but it seems quite difficult for one guitar. I must start to dedicate some time to it, or it will be a regret to not have achieved it. It is a beautiful piece.
he doesn't just play the guitar, he talks to it and it responds. When he is playing this piece he looks as if he is talking to an old friend of his...just his expression.....beautiful music....really.
My favorite music, my favorite piece, played by a favorite one. Cavatina is really a great thing which has impacted me!!!!! Whenever I feel sad or weak I listen to it and really it changes my mood! Its something can't be explained in words. I am listening to it over years and years and its still keeps its own value, MAGIC.
The Oud of your people has a similar sound and many of us love it as you do, brother. When the world grows tired, shabby and a bit dark we are moved by such music that such strings give us because they're part of the theme of God.
Playing this complicated piece at ease. True talent! No frills or attention on himself. He lets the music speak and the composer be the star of the show. This is not to be compared to a highly visual stage production, where the musicians need to amp up the show for the audience. A whole different intention. Here, he share his gift and let us in on it!
To learn this and master it took me around a total of 8weeks. Its so unorthodox that it changes your perception of music and time. Worth entangling yourself into with zero distractions.
Beautiful my favourite song, I learned to play after many months of blisters and each bar and each note was incredible to achieve. Well worth every minute hour day and months.✝️✝️✝️🕊🕊🕊🙏❤❤❤
My mother loved this piece and used to play it on the piano. It is very melodic and beautiful - and played with feeling by John Williams. Thanks for posting!
Myer composed this Cavatina (Italian for small song) for Williams. Cimino then selected it for the main theme of the movie The Deer Hunter because it is so haunting. Great piece. Great interpreter.
I remember thiis piece when my friend used to played this piece way back in college years.. most of the engineering students were jaw dropped... hahahaha those were the days..
thanks tvparty1974 for this video....i start play a gitar with this song..and i practice everyday...this song keeps so much memories in me..i cry everytime i listen to this song.....-NORZAMRI(world class guitarist)
Not to sound morbid. But I keep thinking what song I want played at my funeral... and this has to be it. What few people will attend will hopefully enjoy this old song.
heard this guitarist Cavatina in the morning in London underground on way to N.Z. Embassy over twenty years ago . . . only had a 5 pound note - he got it. Thousands of commuters later at the end of the day - he spotted me -interrupted what he was playing for Cavatina . . . . telling me I made his day - he got a ten pound note with those words for his lovely retention of Cavatina!
this piece is timeless. the music is so laconic, sad at times, others not. i find it accessible, you can learn this piece, yet to really master it, its a challenge, but one i hope to do one day. in the meantime i shall continue to enjoy johns awesome virtuosity
People are saying the guitar is out of tune. It's the videotape that is distorted. I have the recording of that night on an album and its perfectly in tune.
Watching his hands, this looks like it takes real talent and skill to play. I bet it's one of those pieces that it's easy to sound awful on. What a great job and what a lovely piece of music. Reminds me of the movie so much. Gentle, sweet and loving. It has a yearning quality to it that keeps drawing me back to listen to it over and over.
Memories of a trip in a corporate jet I did many, many years ago when I fell in love with one of the passengers at L'Bar Izbah. Trashville in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast. A Frenchman was playing Cavatina in the heat of the night when this blonde, handsome coffee grower put his arms round me whist we listened. A wonderful, wonderul peice of music to pull the heat strings and stir the memories.
+donb My boss in New York at Columbia Records, way back in 1968, produced John Williams. Up until then I wasn't really into classical music. I was very young during my year in NY, but the sound of this is just brilliant. Wonderful.
Thank you Rosemary. I remember seeing the film in the late '60s and being overwhelmed by its subject and this wonderful music. Then, years later, I heard Cleo Laine's interpretation of her husband's music on the BBC World Service one evening on Mykonos. It has been with me ever since and I cherish this beautiful music as always. He is no Narcisso Ypes or Laurindo Almeida, but he is still a wonderful artist.. All power to John Williams!
+Traumerei Yap So how are you getting along with this? Its actually easier than you think. It took me longer than any usual string picking tune or any guitar tune at all for that matter. But thats because this uses single to dual picking fingering and also fretting that I havent used before. Theres also some chords I have never came across which feel like he made them up just for this tune. BUT Because its a masterpiece, it doesnt make it hard to learn. Im playing it on an old metal string semi acoustic and it sounds great. Its the pace that changes all the time. I love this and Moonlight Sonata. BTW Cavatina is so much easier to play on Piano than Guitar, thats if theres any Pianists here. PS Doesnt John Williams Look like Rik Mayall from the BBC series Bottom?
My, my...a lot of criticism for maestro Williams "lack of feeling" in his performance. Please let me add that all of the critics out there can upload their more passionate performance of Cavatina at any time for FREE on TH-cam. Feel free to show Mr. Williams just how to do it. But if you can't or won't show us then please keep your amateur opinions private and enjoy the performance of a man who can play this piece so competently. Thank you.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've been an amateur classical guitarist since I was 14 (I'm 33 now). It was John Williams's recording of Asturias that made me want to play the classical guitar. I have every CD and album he has ever made as well as every recording ever made by Julian Bream. Thankyou, moonfeet, for saying what absolutely needed to be said.
Or just take it on over to an out of town, out of state music hall on a given evening, they happen to be filming too, and show us all how YOU would have done that night.
I cannot play this piece as it is way beyond my skill level. That being said, I will NEVER criticize an artist whose dedication to music and skill greatly surpass that of my own. I have not earned that priviledge.
Just started learning this after so many years of wanting to. For me, this is the defining piece of classical guitar, more than Bach, Sor, or even the entire genre of Flamenco. Absolute perfection, few pieces make me want to cry. This is one.
Nice upload, I fell in love with this piece of music and this interpretation when I first saw the Deer Hunter as a 12 year old lad (1983). Brilliant film with a score worthy of such an epic film.
My god, you watched that movie when you were 12. I saw it the same year, when I was 19, and if fucked me up for a year and a half...in a good way. I couldn't get it out of my head.
Tim Basham I was actually 11 and saw it the theater with my father & grandfather. When it first came out on video on the 80's my cousin and I would watch it on friday nights in my basement for months. Cavatina was my wedding song.
salcavaliere In the theater!? My first roommate in college saw it when it first came out--I'm guessing he was 18/19--and he said he came out of the theater shaking. I always wanted to see it on the big screen.
Tim Basham I just turned 48 a few weeks again, seems like yesterday we saw it at the Marlboro theater in Brooklyn. I will never get the mount top scene when he let the buck go, my dad was a big hunter in those days.
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! YET VERY BITTERSWEET. .. I ALWAYS LOVED THAT MOVIE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MY MOTHER NAY-SAYED IT. YES, EXTREMELY SAD, & TRAGIC, ...BUT A BRUTALLY HONEST REALITY FOR SO MANY. I MISS MY BROTHER ANIMAL.
the deer hunter is the first fillm where i sat for the entire end credits, simply due to this song playing. when this song was played after all of the drama, the emotional turmoil from the film this song came out in such a haunting way
So my sister asked that I play some music for her wedding; in particular she asked that I play for her as she walks down the isle. I've been leaning on this piece or Barrios' Julia Florida. What do you folks on the internet listening to this think about that idea of mine?
IDK if you're paying any mind to months old comments, but I figured I'd follow up JIC. I went with Cavatina and I'm very glad I took your advice Filbert. It was an emotional, once in a lifetime, experience. I'm not a professional who regularly plays at venues; I just play because I love it. So being able to use it in this context was more of a gift to me than it was me giving to her and my now brother in law. It made them happy, which is ofc the point, but the reception from the 300 something guests was incredibly gratifying if I may be self-indulgent. There isn't anything better I could have given of myself. If this isn't a phrase already coined then let it be mine: there is no greater gift than giving. You can't put a price on the gratitude of a little sister.
I have always loved his sensibility with music. It's just always the right balance of intellect and emotion. Never too much of one or the other. Even his Aranjuez recordings are my favorite to listen to. He just plays the music and lets the composer speak. To me he is the greatest of all time for so many reasons.
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Anytime I feel any sort of pain I just listen to Cavatina with John Williams playing, and the pain magically goes away. This is true music therapy.
I thought it was just me going back to the same song for the same reason…
Might be one of the most beautiful songs of all time.
John's arrangement of this is a work of genius it has become standard for the guitar performance. Say no more. Much thanks.
Such a beautiful song🎵 Can't stop listening to it!! My cousin past away from agent orange after coming home from Vietnam. Listening to this song keeps the memory of him alive! 💜😥🙏
I'm compiling a list of all of the music which intimately affects me the most. This is one of those. I have listened to it for years. I'll go months without hearing it and then for no particular reason it will pop into my head, and won't go away until I have O D'd on it (or until I have drank my fill). Hard to explain the sense of beauty and pain. It does not depress me but makes me feel pain or loss mixed up with beauty and serenity.
The most beautiful instrumental guitar pieces of all time. Tears my heart out everytime.
To all the dislikes, I feel quite sad that you don't get this, this is music in its purest form, it really doesn't get any more chilled out than this, beautiful, relax, let it soak into you, sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The most melancholy story-song of longing ever written; every note a word composing chapters of regrets - yet so full of hopeful inspiration that there will be a better chapter ahead. Such a gorgeous song and performance.
I had this played at my father in laws funeral.
He survived the battle of the Atlantic and was twice torpedoed. A very moving piece of music.
This song makes the movie Deer Hunter perfect!
His masterful presentation of this classic melody brings tears to my eyes. There is such a beauty in sadness, and this goes straight to the soul.
I dont know why everytime i hear this piece of music it makes me more sad when i'm sad, and makes me happier when i'm happy! Strange, i'm being carried away by this wonderful music!
Gerry S. Razon. . . .I feel the same way about this song . . .one of the greatest songs ever.
So Do I. I love this song but I cry everytime I listen to this song
Legend!! This hauntingly beautiful piece is one of the reasons The Deer Hunter is one of the most unforgettable movies ever, as well as an early glimpse of the brilliance of Meryl Streep, DeNiro, and Christopher Walken. Thank you!!
You gotta hear the original theme from the film "The Walking Stick."
So true. A classic.. The young actors and their outstanding performances. I still remember the scene when Fe Niro returns from Nam and the horror and he's alone in the hotel room.. He palms his eyes because he's crying and just sinks to the floor in helplessness. So many unforgettable moments in that movie. A real masterpiece. De Niro giving us flashes of his great acting ability and improvisation. Not to mention the young charming Christopher Walken..
@blueduck5589 The original is amazing but I am not sure if you know that Stanley Myers was having dinner with John who suggested that he arrange that specific section for him to play on the guitar which he did hence the name which means a short song.
Everytime I hear this piece the hairs on the back of the neck prickle and gooseflesh appears. Such an emotive, haunting, beautiful composition. Gets me everytime.
Beautiful.. Thank you so much for your post x
10 free points and a gold card x
My darling husband was Airborne Special Forces in Vietnam and southeast Asia. Came back, went to college and then medical school. Now an ER doctor for the past 35 years. He still cannot watch any movie of those times, but I have watched this movie many times. So very sad. The Cavatina tells this story so well.
Raw, unvarnished and timeless. A powerful and moving performance, carrying the entire melody and harmonic rhythm in a manner intense with feeling.
I had tears 😭 watching the movie "The Deer Hunter" with this beautiful music in the background.
@RHECHWLYB1 -- never never never give up -- It is my new year resolution to learn to play this to impress my father Roy Clark who passed away in 2003
I don't know how many times I've listened to this, but every time the lump in my throat gets bigger and the the tears heavier, but I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you heard Hank Marvin's version? It'll have you choking and losing half your body weight in tears. Even the great Hank looks deadly serious.
Hank Marvin
I bought this album years ago just for John Williams' performance of Cavatina. After seeing the Deer Hunter, this piece stayed with me long after and I was so excited Williams arranged it as a solo piece. It took some time, but I eventually learned it myself and actually played it for the funeral mass of Grandmother back in '84. For me, Cavatina feels like a deep, heart felt love toward family, friends, and when I'm totally immersed into it, everyone else as well.
Congratulations on learning this piece. It is one of my life ambitions to learn this, but it seems quite difficult for one guitar. I must start to dedicate some time to it, or it will be a regret to not have achieved it. It is a beautiful piece.
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The most beautiful acoustic version ever!
he doesn't just play the guitar, he talks to it and it responds. When he is playing this piece he looks as if he is talking to an old friend of his...just his expression.....beautiful music....really.
If you can listen to this and not be brought to tears, you have no soul. John Williams is the best there is!
My favorite music, my favorite piece, played by a favorite one. Cavatina is really a great thing which has impacted me!!!!! Whenever I feel sad or weak I listen to it and really it changes my mood! Its something can't be explained in words. I am listening to it over years and years and its still keeps its own value, MAGIC.
The Oud of your people has a similar sound and many of us love it as you do, brother. When the world grows tired, shabby and a bit dark we are moved by such music that such strings give us because they're part of the theme of God.
@@RobertLocksley385 Adam trust me I am still listening to it over and over all the years. My favorite piece for all the times... 😍
Outstanding performance of a beautiful song
Playing this complicated piece at ease. True talent! No frills or attention on himself. He lets the music speak and the composer be the star of the show.
This is not to be compared to a highly visual stage production, where the musicians need to amp up the show for the audience. A whole different intention. Here, he share his gift and let us in on it!
A superb performance! Brings the tears to my sore eyes ...
An amazing piece of music!
Bravo!
One of the most beautiful bits of music ever. Coupled with one of the best films ever
To learn this and master it took me around a total of 8weeks. Its so unorthodox that it changes your perception of music and time. Worth entangling yourself into with zero distractions.
@Amish deviant with Herpes I will actually upload my version for Xmas day. Guaranteed
i didnt need the movie to feel the song. cried like a baby to it
Beautiful song, ❤ I have loved since first hearing it, many years ago. Thank you John Williams.
John Williams plays Cavatina absolutely brilliantly. This piece is extremely difficult to play.
Cavatina = The Deer Hunter = Nostalgia of my 20's
Beautiful my favourite song, I learned to play after many months of blisters and each bar and each note was incredible to achieve. Well worth every minute hour day and months.✝️✝️✝️🕊🕊🕊🙏❤❤❤
Get chills every time I hear this masterful piece. Thank you.
Beautiful piece for a beautiful film.
My mother loved this piece and used to play it on the piano. It is very melodic and beautiful - and played with feeling by John Williams. Thanks for posting!
Myer composed this Cavatina (Italian for small song) for Williams. Cimino then selected it for the main theme of the movie The Deer Hunter because it is so haunting. Great piece. Great interpreter.
his dynamics are more perfect than perfect
I remember thiis piece when my friend used to played this piece way back in college years.. most of the engineering students were jaw dropped... hahahaha those were the days..
Music like this can save life.
thanks tvparty1974 for this video....i start play a gitar with this song..and i practice everyday...this song keeps so much memories in me..i cry everytime i listen to this song.....-NORZAMRI(world class guitarist)
As beautiful as the song is, I wonder if could spend enough time learning this song without getting depressed...
Heart warming every time I hear it. Excellent !!!!!
I have already told my sister to have this playing when my ashes are sprinkled.❤❤❤❤
Not to sound morbid. But I keep thinking what song I want played at my funeral... and this has to be it. What few people will attend will hopefully enjoy this old song.
this is that old thing known as pure talent
heard this guitarist Cavatina in the morning in London underground on way to N.Z. Embassy over twenty years ago . . . only had a 5 pound note - he got it. Thousands of commuters later at the end of the day - he spotted me -interrupted what he was playing for Cavatina . . . . telling me I made his day - he got a ten pound note with those words for his lovely retention of Cavatina!
I think you mean rendition, don't you?
Costas Cleater Lol
Beautiful memory thankyou 🌹
this piece is timeless. the music is so laconic, sad at times, others not. i find it accessible, you can learn this piece, yet to really master it, its a challenge, but one i hope to do one day. in the meantime i shall continue to enjoy johns awesome virtuosity
no one can touch this song like John Williams..........what an awesome guitarist.
+Susan Long I TOTALLY disagree with you here. The sound is thin and wooden and the playing lacks warmth, in my opinion.
Masterful rubato. Best interpretation I've ever heard by far. Breathtaking.
People are saying the guitar is out of tune. It's the videotape that is distorted. I have the recording of that night on an album and its perfectly in tune.
+Crunkboy415
those aren't people, they're zombies ;-)
Only an idiot would think John Williams of all people can't tune a guitar
Exactly..
Idiots
Only an idiot would think John Williams can't make a mistake once in a while..
A song for the brave, the willing , brotherhood and last .. Love .. To be Human
I have listened to 12 versions of beautiful music on TH-cam and this is my favorite.
It's just as though this was written for John Williams and his unique style. Love it.
Thanks
I love a soothing acoustic song. Relaxing and warm.
Williams does kind of 'own' this piece
John William's interpretation of the "Cavatina" is the best-imho.
For a young Irish lad in '79... this ( and Pete's "Pinball Wizard" ) was an Epiphany.
There is no finer moment in modern music.
Happy year to everyone from Argentina. I love playing on guitar this melody ever since i heard John. Thank you
What a beautiful tune. Makes me quite emotional thinking of the film
This music is good for listening at midnight
to me this will always be one of the most perfectly written pieces of music perfectly performed
Watching his hands, this looks like it takes real talent and skill to play. I bet it's one of those pieces that it's easy to sound awful on. What a great job and what a lovely piece of music. Reminds me of the movie so much. Gentle, sweet and loving. It has a yearning quality to it that keeps drawing me back to listen to it over and over.
Sounds amazing, is amazing.
The most touching piece of music. I can't forget the scene where Walken said, "One shot."
Memories of a trip in a corporate jet I did many, many years ago when I fell in love with one of the passengers at L'Bar Izbah. Trashville in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast. A Frenchman was playing Cavatina in the heat of the night when this blonde, handsome coffee grower put his arms round me whist we listened. A wonderful, wonderul peice of music to pull the heat strings and stir the memories.
I've listened to Cavatina so often it is now part of my DNA. - ENJOY
If You're Listening in 2014!
Thumbs Up. :D
No.
Last year, Yes! Now this 2015.
Im watching in 2035
We're now in 2558 here!
Sawa haha
I remember this from Take Hart The Gallery
Very good very very good. I love this song.
Brings a lump to ya throat,a true master at work
wonderful, simply wonderful.
+donb My boss in New York at Columbia Records, way back in 1968, produced John Williams. Up until then I wasn't really into classical music. I was very young during my year in NY, but the sound of this is just brilliant. Wonderful.
Thank you Rosemary. I remember seeing the film in the late '60s and being overwhelmed by its subject and this wonderful music. Then, years later, I heard Cleo Laine's interpretation of her husband's music on the BBC World Service one evening on Mykonos. It has been with me ever since and I cherish this beautiful music as always. He is no Narcisso Ypes or Laurindo Almeida, but he is still a wonderful artist.. All power to John Williams!
+donb uh...the movie was made in 1977...not in the 1960's...
i listen to this piece whenever i feel sad n missing...
I have been looking for this music for so long ,it hv been so heartening
Amazing. Full of feeling. Timeless.
I tried to play this, but I butchered it so badly. This song is great. One day, one day, I'll get it.
***** just keep on practicing everyday and you'll get it before you know it!! :)
+Traumerei Yap So how are you getting along with this? Its actually easier than you think. It took me longer than any usual string picking tune or any guitar tune at all for that matter. But thats because this uses single to dual picking fingering and also fretting that I havent used before. Theres also some chords I have never came across which feel like he made them up just for this tune.
BUT Because its a masterpiece, it doesnt make it hard to learn. Im playing it on an old metal string semi acoustic and it sounds great. Its the pace that changes all the time. I love this and Moonlight Sonata.
BTW Cavatina is so much easier to play on Piano than Guitar, thats if theres any Pianists here.
PS Doesnt John Williams Look like Rik Mayall from the BBC series Bottom?
i wish he would post a video playing or trying to play, would be very nice!
Ricky ♫ Guitarman ♪ I may actually string up and hope he gets motivated. I will upload within 5 days from now.
good idea! pls do :)
beautiful song
This is so moving.......................
god put his hands on his head what a song many people can play this but not like him he is special
Beautiful
My, my...a lot of criticism for maestro Williams "lack of feeling" in his performance. Please let me add that all of the critics out there can upload their more passionate performance of Cavatina at any time for FREE on TH-cam. Feel free to show Mr. Williams just how to do it. But if you can't or won't show us then please keep your amateur opinions private and enjoy the performance of a man who can play this piece so competently. Thank you.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've been an amateur classical guitarist since I was 14 (I'm 33 now). It was John Williams's recording of Asturias that made me want to play the classical guitar. I have every CD and album he has ever made as well as every recording ever made by Julian Bream. Thankyou, moonfeet, for saying what absolutely needed to be said.
Or just take it on over to an out of town, out of state music hall on a given evening, they happen to be filming too, and show us all how YOU would have done that night.
I cannot play this piece as it is way beyond my skill level. That being said, I will NEVER criticize an artist whose dedication to music and skill greatly surpass that of my own. I have not earned that priviledge.
Yeah, I don't mean you, I speak in reference to the would be critic of John Williams playing on this particular instance.
....got it....thanks
Just started learning this after so many years of wanting to. For me, this is the defining piece of classical guitar, more than Bach, Sor, or even the entire genre of Flamenco. Absolute perfection, few pieces make me want to cry. This is one.
Can you now play it after 10 years?
Man everytime I heard this song...brings back so many memories. I think this really is the saddest song I've ever known
It seems to me that no one can play this with as much feeling as John williams,
Damien Davis watch the version with 2cellos
There were Roland Dyens alive some years ago. He could do that. Maybe much better. Peace and love :)
Nice upload, I fell in love with this piece of music and this interpretation when I first saw the Deer Hunter as a 12 year old lad (1983). Brilliant film with a score worthy of such an epic film.
same here.
My god, you watched that movie when you were 12. I saw it the same year, when I was 19, and if fucked me up for a year and a half...in a good way. I couldn't get it out of my head.
Tim Basham I was actually 11 and saw it the theater with my father & grandfather. When it first came out on video on the 80's my cousin and I would watch it on friday nights in my basement for months. Cavatina was my wedding song.
salcavaliere In the theater!? My first roommate in college saw it when it first came out--I'm guessing he was 18/19--and he said he came out of the theater shaking. I always wanted to see it on the big screen.
Tim Basham I just turned 48 a few weeks again, seems like yesterday we saw it at the Marlboro theater in Brooklyn. I will never get the mount top scene when he let the buck go, my dad was a big hunter in those days.
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! YET VERY BITTERSWEET. .. I ALWAYS LOVED THAT MOVIE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MY MOTHER NAY-SAYED IT. YES, EXTREMELY SAD, & TRAGIC, ...BUT A BRUTALLY HONEST REALITY FOR SO MANY. I MISS MY BROTHER ANIMAL.
This is a song.
Talent personified
Genius!
"Here's to Nick"
What a great performance. I love it.
the deer hunter is the first fillm where i sat for the entire end credits, simply due to this song playing. when this song was played after all of the drama, the emotional turmoil from the film this song came out in such a haunting way
So my sister asked that I play some music for her wedding; in particular she asked that I play for her as she walks down the isle. I've been leaning on this piece or Barrios' Julia Florida. What do you folks on the internet listening to this think about that idea of mine?
playing this song on that special day will be a great idea! go ahead! i personally think cavatina would suit more that julia florida. best regards-
Thanks!
IDK if you're paying any mind to months old comments, but I figured I'd follow up JIC. I went with Cavatina and I'm very glad I took your advice Filbert. It was an emotional, once in a lifetime, experience. I'm not a professional who regularly plays at venues; I just play because I love it. So being able to use it in this context was more of a gift to me than it was me giving to her and my now brother in law. It made them happy, which is ofc the point, but the reception from the 300 something guests was incredibly gratifying if I may be self-indulgent. There isn't anything better I could have given of myself. If this isn't a phrase already coined then let it be mine: there is no greater gift than giving. You can't put a price on the gratitude of a little sister.
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John Williams is Rik Mayals long lost twin. If not hes his stunt double
I have always loved his sensibility with music. It's just always the right balance of intellect and emotion. Never too much of one or the other. Even his Aranjuez recordings are my favorite to listen to. He just plays the music and lets the composer speak. To me he is the greatest of all time for so many reasons.
Merci pour ce beau moment qui m'apaise dans une période très douloureuse.
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Here's to Nick...
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Just beautiful.
Hairs on the back of my neck are standing. Bravo. Sheer magnificence.