He’s playing on a baroque violin, tuned at A=415 (a ½ tone below modern pitch). Bach would have been familiar with a range of pitches, both higher & lower than ours. Although widely adopted by present-day “period” instrumentalists, A=415 is really a modern compromise which suits this piece (and much other German baroque music) perfectly well.
He used modern violin and modern violin bow in the video just tuned it to baroque pitch. (Maybe he actually recorded the audio with Baroque violin and bow Idk) Baroque violins have shorter neck+fingerboard and normally baroque specialists set their instrument with baroque tail piece and pure gut strings.
I remember Master Vengerov taking about the filming of this video (which took a VERY long time) and that he could barely move his fingers when playing outside. This is certainly a combination of video footage plus extra audio recordings - I don't doubt that the cold winds of nature would've almost drowned out his violin [had microphones been used alongside the cameras]. This is a very important video, it's beautiful, it's part of history.... I don't think it should ever be taken down from TH-cam.
I noticed that he skipped the D major part, overall making the performance more sorrowful, a very appropriate thing to do considering the setting where he's performing
@@Dy3dFish Same here. I often play the opening of the Chaconne for my students and then the major part to show the contrast in music, and not just in music, but by *one* composer and *also* within the same piece. I believe I read that the first part of the D major section was Bach's recall of the organ that was playing during his wife's funeral when he went to the church to say his goodbye. It's very deep and meaningful. The D major section reflects this small glimmer of hope he has in his life and then, this section is surrounded by the sorrowful D minor which he wrote based on his own dark thoughts.
I love this performance greatly, I know this piece is one of the most solemn and emotional pieces, held at very high stature. My only minor complaint (maybe praise) would be that Bach was indeed German, but he was a kind soul whose love lives through his music. That seems even better, to think that him himself a German is here to remember and respect and care for those who were lost and suffering.
He did the performance of his life! It's amazing! Eventhough I'm watching it through a screen I can feel the respect and power of being in that place. I'm sure many souls rest in peace after this moment.
The Chaconne of Bach, plays by Vengerov it's the Best piece of Music that could explain any kind of Tragedy, Profound and Highly Spiritual !!! BRAVO !!!
Maxim Vengerov always performs with his soul. He was asked to perform this piece to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in BBC film called Holocaust.
Really? I love the Chaconne and Bach is my favorite composer but I think the most tragic piece is Barber, Adagio for strings (or a version of Agnus Dei as it is also called (I know it is always overused in movies, but I loved it before I even realized it was in movies because I rarely watch them). I discovered it 40 years ago, and the first time I heard it, I thought, This is the sound of your heart breaking, when the person you loved best in the world dies in front of you. I first heard it by The London Philharmonic Orchestra, and I sobbed through it.
Many points to Vengerov playing this in such an awful place, surely; such a mournful, beautiful peace to reflect on the programme; paradox of beauty and evil from the same country; defiance of the Jewish people in the face of persecution and more. My violin teacher escaped the Nazis in Paris. Her trio partner suffered in Auschwitz and survived by playing the piano to the commandant (of Schindler's List infamy). They played for Schindler after the war. I find this footage incredibly poignant.
The dead are all spoken for here. Now let them all rest. But let the rest of humanity never ever forget them whenever Bach-Busoni sing this dirge on behalf of us all. There's nothing else to add. Cathy
The love, peace and passion of Bach to all humanity on this day. Viva Mala Zimetbaum, Edward Galiński and everyone else who resisted and resists in body and spirit !!!
Epic piece, epic performance...and the choice of location....omg I've got conflicting emotions. Chills, warmth, tears and something else I can't even identify.
If the violin had never been invented it would have to have been invented just to perform this impossibly beautiful work. I know that others consider the works of Chopin and Barber to be just as beautiful and I agree. But, for the Ciaconna, the violin alone had to be invented. I am weeping as I write these words and I hope that the horrors of the events that occurred in these places 80 years ago will not be repeated in the Ukraine knowing that some already have. When will we ever learn? God help us.
Such an excellent question? Especially during these perilous times we should listen think remember. Not just the holocaust, but all of man's inhumanity to man. It is hard to think of Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Afganistan, and many other places - the women, children, the people, pets, farm animals, architecture, institutions - very hard to think of this. What can we do? I live in the USA and feel helpless.
There has to be a movement perhaps internet based - huge across all nations, advocating for peace, distribution of resources, all weapons destroyed worldwide - at least nuclear disarmament. Once we talked of that what happened? We will have to unite to deal with climate change so nations can't be at war. Why can't the United Nations stop Putin, save the lives of Russian soliders sacrificial lambs - many are at least. Make the illegal war stop? The killing. So much suffering. I know what I propose is absurd but anyone else? It feels miserable doing nothing. Australia, a small population, was impressive when they did the gun buy back, changed gun laws - since that big mass shooting they have had one, suicide radically down etc. How was this accomplished? Many there were so against gun control. Maybe that could serve as a blue print for the world. Don't we, with the exception of the nutty evil, all want the same thing? We can overpower the nutty evil. This is like the dream of the boy in one of the comments here, but instead of being a nightmare it is a dreamlike fantasy.
I should add Vengerov as always is magnificent. Bach appropriately somber profound tugging at heart. Sorry I went on - this serves as overwhelming reminder....
This was. Just beautiful I find it heartbreaking that a great country and culture could descend into such evil . I love the Music of Bach. But is a little boy I had dreadful dreams I was born in 1943 and dreamt that I was in a steel chamber , we are all holding hands and some pretty blue flames came up at eye level Had this dream about three or four times. I am small so I can’t see the people that I am. Holding hands with but I liked the Pyjamas I was wearing everyone had them on they were Blue and white and Striped. no one would explain my dream to me. At the time. later on in life I realised the true significance. But as I say I play it most nights so that good can prevail. Good will eventually triumph !
He lives on the railroad track of all these prisoners of war in a concentration camp. The music is there to bring beauty in this awful place, not only beauty but freedom - out of the prison.
Il arrive a Maxim de se rendre en Pologne... Parfois cela donne lieu a des moments musicaux extraordinaires. Ici c est bien autre chose; exorciser ces lieux maudits si proche de notre merveilleuse Krakow ... Et s inscrire dans l éternité par un salut respectueux pour toutes les victimes de l Holocauste DÉNONCÉ LA PREMIÈRE FOIS PAR LES ESPIONS DE L ARMÉE SECRÈTE POLONAISE ET NON PRIS AU SÉRIEUX PAR LES ALLIES ! Cela me plait assez a titre de patriote de voir ici un Russe en Pologne pour cette performance extraordinaire....
Alemania nos dejó la máxima expresión del arte, la mayor belleza conseguida jamás por la raza humana a través de la música de Bach para que más tarde esa misma Alemania escribiera la etapa más negra y terrible de la historia de la humanidad. Es necesario que ambas sean recordadas por las generaciones venideras. Me causa muchísima impresión oír esta chacona en Auschwitz, tan vacío. Vengerov parece que toca caminando para limpiar a través de Bach tanto horror y muerte injusta que allí tuvo lulgar.
Sigo diciendo que soy suiza alemana, y te puedo asegurar que yo, y toda mi familia, somos el contrario de lo que fueron los nazis. Mis abuelos trabajaron en la resistencia, y ésa era muerte casi cierta. Es verdad, como dices tú, que Alemania dejó esa horrible herencia al mundo, pero es también verdad que lamentablemente no han sido los únicos...a lo mejor los más organizados, pero no únicos....Y lo que se olvida siempre al hablar del malo absoluto alemán es que más que un millón de opositores alemanes murieron en los campos juntos a judíos y otras etnías... No hablemos de 'los alemanes'....
Por qué dices que fue la etapa más "negra y terrible de la humanidad"? Te olvidas del comunismo en Rusia donde Stalin y Lenin asesinaron muchísimo más que Hitler? Como se nota que vives y sientes la historia según te la cuentan las películas de Hollywood y los libros escritos por los vencedores.
No greater music than Bach's ChaconneIn the setting of Auschwitz - nothing can explain the horrific time and scene of this place. Vengerov/Bach gives pathos to the setting
Actually it looks like he is playing a modern violin tuned to A=415hz pitch. Notice the modern bridge, chin rest, elongated fingerboard, and modern bow. He might be playing with gut strings though.
The triumph of light. Staggering beauty in a place of staggering brutality, a Jewish phenomenon paying homage to a German genius. Huge respect to Mr Vengerov for his massive gesture to us all.
Los llevo en mi alma..mi corazon...mis amados hermanos Judios........venguerov plasma en su violin todo los sentimientos de ellos...en este sufrimiento del holocausto..
Totally! By far is the most delightful musical ecstasy ever composed. For me it has to be played as a single, long, intense, orgasmic, breathless phrase. Glad to know you also like it.
Vengerov is one of the greates musician in this time, and this piece," all the piece" is really a masterpiece with his interpretation in the violin, like he said is "beuty"
Read Primo levi. Elie wisel Night. Look up Maus by Spielgelmen. Read victor Klemperer. All three of his diaries. Also read Ahron Appelfeld Badenhein 1939 . Do not forget what happened
belo estupendo musica belíssima complexa .... me sinto agraciado com tamanha grandeza em clareza sentida em notas expressada com tanto talento em um instrumento fino... realmente Deus foi bom ... compartilhando tanta grandeza com nossa humanidade obscura..
This song touches me so much, not just by the beauty but, also by the meaning and how Maxim plays it. Auschwitz and all the other concentration camps are just so cruel, why kill a person because they're different than you.
best chaconne out there - thx4sharin. wish the footage showed the swimming pool and the soccer fields too at the free labor camp. there were hundreds of free labor camps all across europe that time, would've been more honest to show reality.
Also, these shots did not show gas chambers, crematoria and millions of deaths in death camps. You are not alone - in Russia now millions are praying for Stalin's death camps. which were no better. Do something about your study of history and your conscience.
I don't think this was his idea; I have a theory that the director told him that the video would be matched to the studio audio, but it was done the other way around, to the detriment of the performance...
The violin is tuned to A = 415hz, lower than the standard A = 440hz, because violins of the Baroque era were tuned so. He is simply playing it as Bach might have heard it in his time.
Hmm. I don't rightly know. I think of the great contrast between humanity at its very finest and its absolute worst. Perhaps it is a chance for so many silenced voices to speak out to the universe. What do you think?
The chaconne is soothing and loving kindness for all the poor souls wich were lost through the misdeeds of these criminals atcAuschwitz and cinical enough Bach stands for the good Germans like Willy Brandt.
There.doesnt have to.be a.connnection as such. Yes its filmed on the grounds. There maybe a connection of loss between the.victims.of.the war & loss.of.Bachs.wife. but maybe the connection is for the listener to empathize with the what happened through the feelings the chaconne.evokes. those feelins are individual but definately spiritual
I read somewhere that survivors of the Holocaust (many of whom were musicians) said that they had played the Chaconne after their release. I don't know for sure if that was the connection.
Music performans at that horrible place where all nations have been imprisoned and tortured does not seem like a good idea to say at least. This comment goes to the organizer of this event. Auschwitz had two orkestra, women and men separated, containing some renowned musicians of world class. They had better chances to live and had to play to save their bare lives. Playing there again, wrong idea. Playing German composer, not the brilliant choice. Generally today when superriches (satanists, rulers from the shadows, deep state) have maintained and these days revamped neo-Nazis in Ukraine and soon in Europe too, it is no time to make such mistakes. If that is the accidental mistake at all.
otonanoC there is a scene in Schindler's list in which Bach's English suite 2 is played during the raid and massacre of Jews hiding in a building. The scene is meant to highlight the disparity between God and Devil, good and evil. I agree it is kind of strange to play chaconne at the camp but perhaps the same good vs evil one can relate to
Let's remember, because nobody ever does, that nearly a million resistance fighters and oppositors to nazi regime died in the concentration camps. All German. It's not easy to find, along human history, a dictatorship with so many oppisitors despite its cruelty. Human greatness and human evil are very close, just as Bach in Auschwitz.
He’s playing on a baroque violin, tuned at A=415 (a ½ tone below modern pitch). Bach would have been familiar with a range of pitches, both higher & lower than ours. Although widely adopted by present-day “period” instrumentalists, A=415 is really a modern compromise which suits this piece (and much other German baroque music) perfectly well.
🙏Thank you for sharing this piece of information.
He used modern violin and modern violin bow in the video just tuned it to baroque pitch. (Maybe he actually recorded the audio with Baroque violin and bow Idk) Baroque violins have shorter neck+fingerboard and normally baroque specialists set their instrument with baroque tail piece and pure gut strings.
Maybe in the recording, but he's certainly playing on his Kreutzer 1727 Strad in the video.
I remember Master Vengerov taking about the filming of this video (which took a VERY long time) and that he could barely move his fingers when playing outside.
This is certainly a combination of video footage plus extra audio recordings - I don't doubt that the cold winds of nature would've almost drowned out his violin [had microphones been used alongside the cameras].
This is a very important video, it's beautiful, it's part of history.... I don't think it should ever be taken down from TH-cam.
I noticed that he skipped the D major part, overall making the performance more sorrowful, a very appropriate thing to do considering the setting where he's performing
I like the d major part 😭
I love the d major part 😭
@@Dy3dFish Same here. I often play the opening of the Chaconne for my students and then the major part to show the contrast in music, and not just in music, but by *one* composer and *also* within the same piece. I believe I read that the first part of the D major section was Bach's recall of the organ that was playing during his wife's funeral when he went to the church to say his goodbye. It's very deep and meaningful. The D major section reflects this small glimmer of hope he has in his life and then, this section is surrounded by the sorrowful D minor which he wrote based on his own dark thoughts.
If this didn't give you chills, something inside is broken
My heart is broken and this still gave me chills.
I must have Cotard's syndrome
This really touches my soul and makes me cry. There is allways new hope for humanity.
Culture beats military any time!
Гипнотизирует! Проникает в каждую клеточку организма. Душа уходит в другой мир. Спасибо!
I love this performance greatly, I know this piece is one of the most solemn and emotional pieces, held at very high stature. My only minor complaint (maybe praise) would be that Bach was indeed German, but he was a kind soul whose love lives through his music. That seems even better, to think that him himself a German is here to remember and respect and care for those who were lost and suffering.
He did the performance of his life! It's amazing! Eventhough I'm watching it through a screen I can feel the respect and power of being in that place. I'm sure many souls rest in peace after this moment.
The Chaconne of Bach, plays by Vengerov it's the Best piece of Music that could explain any kind of Tragedy, Profound and Highly Spiritual !!! BRAVO !!!
Maxim Vengerov always performs with his soul. He was asked to perform this piece to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in BBC film called Holocaust.
what about chopin lament?
Really? I love the Chaconne and Bach is my favorite composer but I think the most tragic piece is Barber, Adagio for strings (or a version of Agnus Dei as it is also called (I know it is always overused in movies, but I loved it before I even realized it was in movies because I rarely watch them).
I discovered it 40 years ago, and the first time I heard it, I thought, This is the sound of your heart breaking, when the person you loved best in the world dies in front of you. I first heard it by The London Philharmonic Orchestra, and I sobbed through it.
The most respected piece for the violin played by a true master😔😔 and played with true emotion.
Many points to Vengerov playing this in such an awful place, surely; such a mournful, beautiful peace to reflect on the programme; paradox of beauty and evil from the same country; defiance of the Jewish people in the face of persecution and more. My violin teacher escaped the Nazis in Paris. Her trio partner suffered in Auschwitz and survived by playing the piano to the commandant (of Schindler's List infamy). They played for Schindler after the war. I find this footage incredibly poignant.
Vengerov is Jewish which you likely know. Imagine if we had lost him! I know he was not born and would have been in Siberia, Russia...just saying.
The dead are all spoken for here. Now let them all rest. But let the rest of humanity never ever forget them whenever Bach-Busoni sing this dirge on behalf of us all. There's nothing else to add. Cathy
Holy hell I'm at a loss for words. So so powerful!! Gorgeous this is absolutely sacred
The best that humankind has to offer against the worst! The best wins!
The love, peace and passion of Bach to all humanity on this day. Viva Mala Zimetbaum, Edward Galiński and everyone else who resisted and resists in body and spirit !!!
Chills down the spine indeed. Very powerful presentation and images 😓😭
Epic piece, epic performance...and the choice of location....omg I've got conflicting emotions. Chills, warmth, tears and something else I can't even identify.
This is the end of a whole film set in Auschwitz and all music.
If the violin had never been invented it would have to have been invented just to perform this impossibly beautiful work. I know that others consider the works of Chopin and Barber to be just as beautiful and I agree. But, for the Ciaconna, the violin alone had to be invented.
I am weeping as I write these words and I hope that the horrors of the events that occurred in these places 80 years ago will not be repeated in the Ukraine knowing that some already have. When will we ever learn? God help us.
Sadly they are being repeated in Gaza by people who should know better and shame their recent ancestors with a lust for violence and oppression.
невозможно остаться равнодушным великая музыка..превосходное исполнение...
Эти звуки возникли в моей голве 24.02.2022...
Why does this not have one million views??!
Such an excellent question? Especially during these perilous times we should listen think remember. Not just the holocaust, but all of man's inhumanity to man. It is hard to think of Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Afganistan, and many other places - the women, children, the people, pets, farm animals, architecture, institutions - very hard to think of this. What can we do? I live in the USA and feel helpless.
There has to be a movement perhaps internet based - huge across all nations, advocating for peace, distribution of resources, all weapons destroyed worldwide - at least nuclear disarmament. Once we talked of that what happened? We will have to unite to deal with climate change so nations can't be at war. Why can't the United Nations stop Putin, save the lives of Russian soliders sacrificial lambs - many are at least. Make the illegal war stop? The killing. So much suffering. I know what I propose is absurd but anyone else? It feels miserable doing nothing. Australia, a small population, was impressive when they did the gun buy back, changed gun laws - since that big mass shooting they have had one, suicide radically down etc. How was this accomplished? Many there were so against gun control. Maybe that could serve as a blue print for the world. Don't we, with the exception of the nutty evil, all want the same thing? We can overpower the nutty evil. This is like the dream of the boy in one of the comments here, but instead of being a nightmare it is a dreamlike fantasy.
I should add Vengerov as always is magnificent. Bach appropriately somber profound tugging at heart. Sorry I went on - this serves as overwhelming reminder....
I think it once had.. maybe the video was replaced due to copyright or something like that
This is the most human thing I've ever heard.
Perhaps only topped by humanness in gitlis’ interpretation
It must have been an honour and an ordeal to play on such hallowed ground, where the dust of the earth is mixed forever with the dust of the people.
this is like a massage directly to my brain
Exquisite beauty. I'm in tears.
Same
This was. Just beautiful I find it heartbreaking that a great country and culture could descend into such evil . I love the Music of Bach. But is a little boy I had dreadful dreams I was born in 1943 and dreamt that I was in a steel chamber , we are all holding hands and some pretty blue flames came up at eye level Had this dream about three or four times. I am small so I can’t see the people that I am. Holding hands with but I liked the Pyjamas I was wearing everyone had them on they were Blue and white and Striped. no one would explain my dream to me. At the time. later on in life I realised the true significance. But as I say I play it most nights so that good can prevail. Good will eventually triumph !
Sie glauben diese Geschichte ist wahr...
I find your dream incredibly touching. Children have incredible insight.
This is a statement. Let us hope this will never have to be repeated.
Visually beautiful. Fitting to the meaning and message of the music. Hope and faith intertwined with suffering and struggle.
A stunning statement that,"WE LIVE!"
'I liked it a lot, nobody had to explain it to me' Frank Zappa. When I saw this in 2005 it was like an exorcism and it still is. No words needed.
thank you very much for a better quality version
Baroque in 415 HZ is so beatiful
The very fabulous musician Mr. Maxim!
HERMOSO HOMENAJE PARA LAS VÍCTIMAS. EN PAZ DESCANSEN.
So beautiful and taunting performance and setting.
He lives on the railroad track of all these prisoners of war in a concentration camp. The music is there to bring beauty in this awful place, not only beauty but freedom - out of the prison.
Il arrive a Maxim de se rendre en Pologne... Parfois cela donne lieu a des moments musicaux extraordinaires. Ici c est bien autre chose; exorciser ces lieux maudits si proche de notre merveilleuse Krakow ... Et s inscrire dans l éternité par un salut respectueux pour toutes les victimes de l Holocauste DÉNONCÉ LA PREMIÈRE FOIS PAR LES ESPIONS DE L ARMÉE SECRÈTE POLONAISE ET NON PRIS AU SÉRIEUX PAR LES ALLIES ! Cela me plait assez a titre de patriote de voir ici un Russe en Pologne pour cette performance extraordinaire....
i listened to every Chaconne on youtube.. this is the best!!!
Almost agree. But having Sato’s (Netherlands Bach Society) now, I can’t make a decision.
Woah. You just blew my mind. Thanks for the info!
Бах--космос!!)))
Смотрю сейчас фильм "Шоа"..
Плачу....
Alemania nos dejó la máxima expresión del arte, la mayor belleza conseguida jamás por la raza humana a través de la música de Bach para que más tarde esa misma Alemania escribiera la etapa más negra y terrible de la historia de la humanidad. Es necesario que ambas sean recordadas por las generaciones venideras. Me causa muchísima impresión oír esta chacona en Auschwitz, tan vacío. Vengerov parece que toca caminando para limpiar a través de Bach tanto horror y muerte injusta que allí tuvo lulgar.
Sigo diciendo que soy suiza alemana, y te puedo asegurar que yo, y toda mi familia, somos el contrario de lo que fueron los nazis. Mis abuelos trabajaron en la resistencia, y ésa era muerte casi cierta. Es verdad, como dices tú, que Alemania dejó esa horrible herencia al mundo, pero es también verdad que lamentablemente no han sido los únicos...a lo mejor los más organizados, pero no únicos....Y lo que se olvida siempre al hablar del malo absoluto alemán es que más que un millón de opositores alemanes murieron en los campos juntos a judíos y otras etnías...
No hablemos de 'los alemanes'....
Por qué dices que fue la etapa más "negra y terrible de la humanidad"?
Te olvidas del comunismo en Rusia donde Stalin y Lenin asesinaron muchísimo más que Hitler? Como se nota que vives y sientes la historia según te la cuentan las películas de Hollywood y los libros escritos por los vencedores.
No greater music than Bach's ChaconneIn the setting of Auschwitz - nothing can explain the horrific time and scene of this place. Vengerov/Bach gives pathos to the setting
+operaman2078 I agree with your sensitivity to the historic tragedy. Great music ,great musician and and deep fitting to the tragedy.
i cant stop hearing this....
even maxim came back sooner then d rose after surgery
esta es una de mis favoritas versiones de la chacona
Actually it looks like he is playing a modern violin tuned to A=415hz pitch. Notice the modern bridge, chin rest, elongated fingerboard, and modern bow. He might be playing with gut strings though.
I'm pretty sure i see fine tuners on all strings in the video, indicating steel strings; I doubt that he used that in the recording...
Maxim hear a work of excellence and a Stradivarius is to enjoy in silence
The triumph of light. Staggering beauty in a place of staggering brutality, a Jewish phenomenon paying homage to a German genius. Huge respect to Mr Vengerov for his massive gesture to us all.
СПАСИБО!!!!
Meraviglioso!
magnifico MAXIM é um deus do violino!!
la plus belle musique de tous les temps
Sans aucun doute
Perfectly baroque!
A very beautful prayer with music to teh holoucaust victims!
Los llevo en mi alma..mi corazon...mis amados hermanos Judios........venguerov plasma en su violin todo los sentimientos de ellos...en este sufrimiento del holocausto..
I really like the piece from 5:00 to 6:30. anyone agree with me?
haha yeah ^^
Totally! By far is the most delightful musical ecstasy ever composed. For me it has to be played as a single, long, intense, orgasmic, breathless phrase. Glad to know you also like it.
Haha, TIME beats everyone, all are losers
Vengerov is one of the greates musician in this time, and this piece," all the piece" is really a masterpiece with his interpretation in the violin, like he said is "beuty"
perfect
he sounds so special
The best version
Genial!!!
Read Primo levi. Elie wisel Night. Look up Maus by Spielgelmen. Read victor Klemperer. All three of his diaries. Also read Ahron Appelfeld Badenhein 1939 . Do not forget what happened
Thanks! Iscadal, Iscadal, ....Shmay rabo.....
yess
belo estupendo musica belíssima complexa .... me sinto agraciado com tamanha grandeza em clareza sentida em notas expressada com tanto talento em um instrumento fino... realmente Deus foi bom ... compartilhando tanta grandeza com nossa humanidade obscura..
THIS is the eighth wonders of the world
Excellent según mi piano esta versión de Chaconne de bach en D Minor está en C# minor pero excellent versión
amen
I like the interpretation because it's nearly as good/same
as Ivry Gitlis interpretation (Japan 1990)
Yh, that's beautiful.
Loved this and gitlis interpretation
Hilary Hahn did beautifully as well 👏
:´) Hermoso¡¡
This song touches me so much, not just by the beauty but, also by the meaning and how Maxim plays it. Auschwitz and all the other concentration camps are just so cruel, why kill a person because they're different than you.
❤
❤️❤️❤️
em cada nota, em cada passo, mostrou a indignação e repúdio que houve neste local.
marcelo8010 bach escreveu a chaconne após perder sua mulher e filhos. E tbm ja estava velho, com desilusões sobre essa vida terrena.
about 425hz
anyone else notice this recording is down half a step...??
Yes - played in a very baroque style
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😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
best chaconne out there - thx4sharin. wish the footage showed the swimming pool and the soccer fields too at the free labor camp. there were hundreds of free labor camps all across europe that time, would've been more honest to show reality.
Also, these shots did not show gas chambers, crematoria and millions of deaths in death camps. You are not alone - in Russia now millions are praying for Stalin's death camps. which were no better. Do something about your study of history and your conscience.
On second thought, he might have recorded himself playing on a baroque violin and pasted it onto a video of him playing a modern violin.
I don't think this was his idea; I have a theory that the director told him that the video would be matched to the studio audio, but it was done the other way around, to the detriment of the performance...
No, there is a video where he explains...he really played there...look for it
The violin is tuned to A = 415hz, lower than the standard A = 440hz, because violins of the Baroque era were tuned so. He is simply playing it as Bach might have heard it in his time.
and it is a german composer. so the man is its education/culture
So sad D minor. 😭😭😭 different note.
solo is so nice. its like making love to one person at a time.
Wow, 666 thumbs up
Good explanation except for the fact that it's not a baroque violin. it's just a modern violin tuned to the modern standard of baroque tuning
grungy intonation, adds to the drama
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what is the relation that exist between "Chaconne" and "Auschwitz" ?
Hmm. I don't rightly know. I think of the great contrast between humanity at its very finest and its absolute worst. Perhaps it is a chance for so many silenced voices to speak out to the universe. What do you think?
Peasants cant get it.
The chaconne is soothing and loving kindness for all the poor souls wich were lost through the misdeeds of these criminals atcAuschwitz and cinical enough Bach stands for the good Germans like Willy Brandt.
There.doesnt have to.be a.connnection as such. Yes its filmed on the grounds. There maybe a connection of loss between the.victims.of.the war & loss.of.Bachs.wife. but maybe the connection is for the listener to empathize with the what happened through the feelings the chaconne.evokes. those feelins are individual but definately spiritual
I read somewhere that survivors of the Holocaust (many of whom were musicians) said that they had played the Chaconne after their release. I don't know for sure if that was the connection.
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Слушайте Ицхак Перльмана ...Алес ....
Sometimes the fingers didn’t match the sound? Is it dubbed?
possible. it's part of the holocaust, a music memorial film, so it's most likely recorded in a studio
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love much of this but some of the intonation seems off to my ear
it's because it's played on a baroque violin, with A string tuned to 415 hz
Get another ear.
it does seem inappropriate in context. Maybe Vengerov sought to connect the two through a theme of loss.
The Gminor Adagio or Aminor Grave might have been a better choice...
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Baroque style? Not bad 🤔
Music performans at that horrible place where all nations have been imprisoned and tortured does not seem like a good idea to say at least. This comment goes to the organizer of this event.
Auschwitz had two orkestra, women and men separated, containing some renowned musicians of world class. They had better chances to live and had to play to save their bare lives.
Playing there again, wrong idea. Playing German composer, not the brilliant choice.
Generally today when superriches (satanists, rulers from the shadows, deep state) have maintained and these days revamped neo-Nazis in Ukraine and soon in Europe too, it is no time to make such mistakes. If that is the accidental mistake at all.
soizic du vignoul please this man is the great Maxim Vengerov, mistakes? listen with more atention ok? you make a mistake saying this!
i back belive in the hamanity(sorry for my english motafocas :v )
How could anyone consider this version the best when he skipped a bunch of it?
Бах есть Бах. И скрипач хороший. Жаль не русский. Ну типа русский
Россия сгниет и исчезнет, а Бах останется.
I'm not sure I agree totally with playing German composers in a concentration camp.
otonanoC there is a scene in Schindler's list in which Bach's English suite 2 is played during the raid and massacre of Jews hiding in a building. The scene is meant to highlight the disparity between God and Devil, good and evil. I agree it is kind of strange to play chaconne at the camp but perhaps the same good vs evil one can relate to
Let's remember, because nobody ever does, that nearly a million resistance fighters and oppositors to nazi regime died in the concentration camps. All German. It's not easy to find, along human history, a dictatorship with so many oppisitors despite its cruelty. Human greatness and human evil are very close, just as Bach in Auschwitz.
lol start fail