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- Enesco is perhaps the most underrated violinist in all of history (probably because he was more famous as a teacher). When my teacher first heard this recording he became obssessed and made every one of his students listen to Enesco 5 times a day. Good advice :)
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Who says he is underrated? He is just forgotten in this new stream of media, arts and violinists, he has always been regarded as one of the most amazing violinists in history
This is one of the deepest and most beautiful things I've ever heard. I always come back to it when I've lost my way.
The phrasing Enescu had is one of the most icredible I have ever heard!
So elequent!Brilliant rendition!
simply wonderful...music overflows from his heart viva la Romania!!!
Incredible....GEORGE ENESCU!
To answer some of the questions here: This is an arrangement of Corelli's "Follia", the last piece in the 12 Sonatas of his opus 5. So the last "sonata" is actually a theme and variations. BUT.. this is not the original 1700 Corelli version. It was arranged by Ferdinand David, number 2 from his Die Hohe Schule des Violinspiels, published in 1876. There are fewer variations than in Corelli, and the writing is augmented, particularly in the accompaniment. David wrote a cadenza just before the double bar, but the cadenza Enescu plays here, while based on David's, is entirely different. You can also find recordings by Szeryng and Milstein of a different "romanticized" arrangement by Hubert Léonard on YT.
Thanks !
Multumesc frumos pentru acest cadou de suflet !
Thank you so much for posting this. I love George Enescu since I was a little child and this record reconfirms me that he was one of a kind and unrepeatable.
wonderful free playing with great feeling and sincerity
Heifetz thought Enesco the greatest violinist he ever heard. It was his aim to be able to play like Enesco. Thank you so much for this wonderful video, it's as close to a time machine as we can hope to get. To hear music really felt! before the cookie-cutter musicians. They may have the letter but not the spirit and have to fake it with facial grimaces and other tactics.
Dear Torrie, can you please tell me where did you find this extraordinary statement of Heifetz? Many thanks!
Torrie Madden Enescu not Enesco.
TM, could it be that you are thinking of Yehudi Menuhin?
I heard that Heifetz looked up to Kreisler most, idk where you heard that he looked up to Enescu.
@@violintegral He and Kreisler were friends and Heifetz's admiration of his playing style is well documented. In fact they often when together at parties loved to play the game 'guess who is the violinist' where they attempted to play in each other's style. I was referring to Heifetz public endorsement of Enescu and believe it was for the exact reason that Aimson gives. Enescu deserved more recognition and Heifetz knew any praise he gave would raise Enescu to that end. My best resources were Efrem Zimbalist "A LIFE" (great pictures of him, Heitez and Kreisler starting in the early days), and Etude Magazine excerpts of the Great Violinists.
As far as I know Yehudi Menuhin was not part of any Heifetz activities and in Yehudi's own book he tends to be a bit upset about Heifetz ignoring him. I am sorry I can't find the book but any autobiography he wrote will probably have Heifetz in it. Unfortunately where I read the Enesco info eludes me but I remember it very well as it made me love Heifetz all the more for giving praise where praise is due and I love Enescu. (Efrem Zimbalist spells it as Enesco)
Outstanding!!!
Beyond a perfect technique, it is Enescu's personality, intellect & spirit that makes all the difference
Enesscu: violinist,composer,conductor,teacher,pianist, a Romanian Mozart! (:
Simply wonderful and so very heartfelt
An original performance with cadenza in the style of a traditional sonata, unlike any others I've heard. Very sweet sound. Wish for a better quality recording. but I'm happy just to have heard it.
Thank you for uploading.
Enescu considered himself first and foremost as a composer. His compositions deserve playing and listening to more often.
oooooooooo.............si touchant ! cet homme exceptionnel savait vraiment transmettre de profondes émotions avec une subtilité de plus en plus rare à trouver de nos jours...vraiment un bijoux d'enregistrement on voudrait l'entendre encore et encore......c'est à donner des frissons d'un phrasé à l'autre !!!!!
I played violin for 15 years with my teacher and then stopped lessons. I still play but am definitely out of shape physically. Piano is just so much easier on the body... I'm glad you're enjoying Enesco - he was a personal hero of my teacher, who used to tell stories about Enesco's genius. For example, Yehudi Menuhin said of Enesco: "The greatest musical genius since Mozart."
GENIUSS!!!!!!GEORGE ENESCU AND DINU LIPATTI--THE BEST!!!!!
I feel this is not Lipatti, but Sanford Schlussel at the piano. Recording made by Columbia Japan.
@@xper2xper hi saed Enescu and Lipatti both are romaninians
@@adrianciobanu5856
Știu astă, dar cine cântă la pian nu este Lipatti.
Stop fighting about the ending letter of his name and just listen this magnific interpretation. It's rare to have such a "voice" on a violin and this is what we should care about!
Cu stima, Monsieur!
OH! ENESCU!!! Very intelligent and sensible
interpretation!
Truly amazing, beautiful to listen to and at times it felt so personal. Bravo.
en roumain:George Enescu...je suis en admiration et je suis fière d'etre roumaine...
This magnificent. Thank you for posting,
I recently listened the same Sonata played by Yehudi Menuhin from an old vinyl. It automatically brought my memory of this recording of Enescu, they are so similar that I initially thought they are the same - which in fact they aren't. But most probably the artists were just influencing each other a lot!
Amazing ...
Sure thing! To me, Enesco represents the true essence of how music should be played. Unfortunately, I can't help but feel depressed knowing that his style of playing is considered "outdated" today. It is a terrible shame that modern violinists will never truly appreciate or be inspired by his incredible musicianship.
i've played his violin sonatas (performed 3; read 1 and 2) and i can find no music that i love more. it is fortunate that even some of his recordings and manuscripts have survived for us all to enjoy.
Beautiful, indeed. Corelli is a fav. I love this version.
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing this Corelli La Folia.
Excelente !!!
Que bonito.
Feliz otoño.🌿
fantastic!!!
I love this melody
Lovely interpretation - so expressive.
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ÎnLîveni DOROHOIULUI S A NASCUT GENIUL ENESCÙ . !!!
Nebunia ,Geniului!!!
El PRESTIGÍOSO y Excelentísimo Violinista George Enescu ejecuta la Obra Maestra de manera brillante con un impresionante Nivel expresivo , con bellos glisados y portamento que lo hace ser un Violinista Magistral .
Well i'm very grateful for this and the kind person who put me onto it.
BRAVO!
I believe I read that in " A Life" by Efrem Zimbalist, I remembered being a little surprised but it was a very different world back then. i 'll try and find the book and give you the exact quote.
Roy Malan's biography of Zimbalist is an excellent read, but I think you must have found the Heifetz comment elsewhere. Anyway, it is what Heifetz should have said.
j'aime tellement cette pièce, elle me transporte...je ne l'avais pas entendu depuis longtemps...mourir sans avoir entendu cette pièce...aurait été très regrettable...thank you so much, i'm so happy!!!!
Good research! I will try to post my clips of Enescu and Menuhin playing the Bach Double Concerto when I get the chance.
Божественно!
To aimson...
My father is now 93 years old...played under Iturbi (who I had the pleasure of meeting several times...a great gentleman); my dad also got to hear Kreisler and although he was past his prime, (some students complained about him missing notes) his musicality was superb. Which, of course, is why we listen at all. I was lucky enough to inherit an Enescu autograph. I'd rather have heard him him person.
thank you it's wanderful
This version is very different than the other ones. Unique and impressing! I will try to play this piece in his way!
Gentlemen: With your kind permission, I don´t think the name Enescook is correct. I do
believe that the name Enescu is his correct name, even though the version Enesco is so
widely used, almost permanent. I like the sound of Enesco very much. It is easy to pro- nounce. Thank you for your attention..
Bravo
his style of playing makes the violin cry. menuhin referred to it as the "demonic" the ability to stretch from the funny wooden box a range of sounds that reflect the extremes of human emotion: terror, angst, sorrow, anger, etc.
i wish i could have a unique style such as this. one could say "perhaps one day", but nothing innate occurs "one day"; we're lucky to have recordings of this great violinist
wow ! !
My violin teacher worships Dinu Lipatti, particularly in his playing of Chopin Concertos. I also highly recommend listening to Lipatti - perhaps the greatest pianist to not record very much?
Semplicemente sublime
G. Enesco,maestro de grandes violinistas,recuerdo ahora a Y. Menuhin,Ivry Gitlis,pero hay muchos ma's!.-
Foarte frumos
I have never seen Enescu play but my teacher mentioned that he held the violin similarly to Vengerov with the sound box close to the right ear. Apparently this was a French style of playing. I don't know any more than that, it was just a passing comment he made once.
@guitarmusicislife It's a Sonata, written as theme and variations on the Folia. It's the 12th Sonata in Corelli's line of Sonatas for violin and harpsichord.
You're welcome, hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
... y agrego fabulosa interpretacio'n!!!!.-
I read elsewhere that Yehudi Menuhin was inspired at an early age to take up the violin as the result of hearing a peformance by (the legendary) Georges Enesco.
Sharp sounds better, unless you are a "baroque" nut. That's why A's are tuned higher than 440 most the time, at least by concert performers. Just a thought.
Haha, glad to make you happy! I only wish that I had video of it. Maybe I'll post Enesco playing the Poeme and Haendel in the future.
Corrente , I used to play, decades ago.
enesco goes so much deeper than any violist i know
,Martzy second, she is telling a story.
:)
Yeah, I have that one as well. Tremendous recording I think, particularly because of Enesco. Have any of you heard Heifetz playing the double with his student Eric Friedman? That's a very interesting recording to listen to again and again.
When was the recording done? Thanks for uploading
Très émouvant.
Is so poetry his playing!This wide vibrato at the beggining of the notes gives a deep sound and I like it,modern violinists -professors,ask to vibrate always the same,like some ..Idiots musiciens of Musicalp festival(of the organisation),where I have...unfortunatetly been last summer!!!
F-antastic. He was a 'triatholon' great - violin, piano and composing - adding to that, he was a great teacher, and a musician-humanist-romantic. Please read Menuhin's reminisences in his autobiography, 'Unfinished Journey' . He was also devoted to his wife, and missed her for years after she passed away.
The story about his phenomenal memory: someone asked him, why he does not know by memory the last 'volume' of Bach's compositions - and he said: I did not have that volume in possession!
Another story is: Maruice Ravel ran over to his apt one morning, to play through his new (and only) sonata for violin and piano. Enescu took the violin part and Ravel at the piano, and they both played from the manuscript. Then Enescu said: it is very beautiful, let's play it again! And Enescu closed his manuscript, and played the whole sonata from MEMORY!
There are messages on Life from such music and musicians and our emotional state/being during listening. It is a pity that in 'day to day' life, we never seem to operate from that standpoint of purity, love and adoration.
It might be the recording technology used at that time which also seems to be mono and no stereo.
@petrupatrar I was talking about Eugen Ionescu in a reply to Nekronn. I don't have to google Enescu to know who he was
Did you hear it also by joseph Szigeti?!!
Enesco's and Szigeti interpretations are so deep in expression!
poicpi
good example for that low bow pressure, and relaxation allows you to be careful to a violin like to a girl :) that makes that sweet sound (and Enescu, for sure)
Variations on La Folia
この曲の最高の演奏。絶対的。
i sincerely suggest on buying the "Enescu in inima mea" DVD, it's a great opportunity on finding more about Enescu through the eyes of Yehudi Menuhin. (srry for my second message)
mersi uploader, peste tot gasesc doar variatiuni , desi la mine scrie clar pe partitura chiar la inceput re - pauza- re, la variatiuni nu e pauza si sunt multe alte diferente... mersi din nou :D
@axpk makes me feel proud to be human
on the wavelength where soul meets body...
can u possibly post them again?
Eh, yeah I do. I can just post the link to my Enesco collectionj and put it on my channel profile if you want me to. Unfortunately, I don't have him playing the Bach sonatas and partitas but I have most of his other recordings.
how many of you have heard some of Enescu's compositions?
I think Enescu is underrated because he was very modest.
I uploaded the bach double w/ menuhin/enescu just yesterday
No i haven't found that recording, but I agree about Enesco, I thought Menuhin was amazing (second favorite violinist, sometimes tieing with heifetz) and in the recording of the bach double violin concerto I felt that Enescu overshadowed Menuhin, and it made me upset to think that someone so amazing who could've easily been my favorite violinist made such a small amount of recordings.
what is the name of this sonata?
Are you sure you're not mistaking the vibrato on the violin for modulation? It sounds in tune to me.
It does sound somewhat characteristic of Kreisler, but this is by A.Corelli unless the suzuki violin book in front of me is wrong.
@Nekronn Ionescu was half romanian and half french
I uploaded a recording of yehudi menuhin and george enescu playing the double violin concerto in d minor by Bach in case any of you guys want to listen toi it, it's quite the awesome recording
I'm not worried about overall pitch, but Enescu is sharp in relation to the piano
I usually dislike violin pieces as I find them too shrill, but Mr. Enesco's playing is delightful!
man what you don't understand , Enescu was born in Romania, i know that because I am romanian. Enescu was and is the best romanian violonist !
I just did a research:
Viotti- Baillot-Habeneck-Leonard-Marsick-Enescu-Menuhin
Marsick was the teacher of Flech
Elis , Enescu cântând Corelli - o rugăciune sub înalte bolți ogivale
The claim that he is perhaps the most underrated violinist is a bit of an exaggeration. I can think of others, e.g.Josef Hassid, but it is a shame that most of the comments here relate to the spelling of his name. The famous recording of the Bach Double Concerto with his pupil Yehudi Menuhin has been known for a long time. He is perhaps more underrated (and almost unknown) as a composer. He was an immensely talented musician!
This is La Folia right? This wasn't technically written by Corelli, the theme is based on old european tunes, the variations, however, are Corelli's work.
3:00-4:20 priceless
I often guide people to this performance. Again, thanks for this wonderful Enescu (o?) performance!
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This song reminds me for "The last of the mohicans" soundtrack..isn't it?
? I think I can hear ok - listen at 00.44 for instance, and that is happening all over the place
who cares ...i just love the way he plays...he's name...nevermind...open your ears...hihihi
My, you ARE charming, aren't you? Nonetheless, I will check out those violinists.
warum nicht Barok? ist das nicht Corelli?
My french teacher told me it's not decent to end words in cu. They are very prudish out there.
My name ends with escu so I protested. This conversation took place 25 years ago, so maybe things changed...
No he's well in tune with the piano