Comparing famous violinists - Legato series PART 2

Legato PART 2 is here! We will be comparing some well known (and some up and coming) violinists to sharpen our ear for Legato, and learn a special lesson from a great pianist. Check out the PART 1 video to get the most of this: VIDEO CHAPTERS ===================== 00:00 Intro 01:00 Have we lost Legato? ==BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO== 02:02 Arabella Steinbacher 02:57 Stefan Jackiw 05:11 Anne-Sophie Mutter 07:58 Christina Bouey 08:42 Hilary Hahn 09:58 Itzhak Perlman ==TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO== 11:57 Christian Ferras 13:29 Ji Won Song 14:13 Ilya Kaler 14:55 Joshua Bell ==MENDELSSOHN CONCERTO== 16:46 Ray Chen 17:29 Noah Bendix-Balgley 18:20 Yehudi Menuhin 19:20 Joshua Bell 19:53 David Oistrakh 21:07 Michael Rabin ==SCHINDLER’S LIST THEME== 22:29 Simone Porter 23:10 Patrick Rafter ==PROKOFIEV VIOLIN CONCERTO NO.2== 25:09 Janine Jansen 25:47 Stefan Jackiw 26:10 Vadim Gluzman 27:25 Learning from piano — unique method! 33:44 Special Bonus ! ================== Check out my Patreon for exclusive videos and to support this series ► Accompanying article in The Strad: Links/recordings mentioned in the video: Michael Rabin’s Mendelssohn: Leonid Kogan’s Paganini Sonata: FREE pdfs as well as my ebook “64 Practice Hacks“ ► Check out my NEW ALBUM for the Orchid Classics label: Rhythm & The Borrowed Past ► Support the channel through crypto: ETH: 0x3880842448b74D306F5154b4B71181E0E03F9795 🎻 VIOLIN LESSONS ► theviolin@ 🎭 RECENT PERFORMANCE ► 💿 PREVIOUS ALBUM ► 🌐 OFFICIAL WEBSITE ► 🤵 FACEBOOK ► 🎥 MY VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANY ► #violin #technique #classicalmusic #violintechnique #violinlessons #paganini #practicing #100daysofpractice #violinist #violintechnique #concerto #virtuoso #practicing #howtoplayviolin Arguably more important than the quality of the notes themselves is how we bind them together. The concept of legato therefore hinges on an acute sensitivity to what is between the notes. I find this to be a universal quality in musical traditions around the world. Take, for example, Indian Classical music: entire emotional and narrative concepts are embedded into the journey one takes between notes. It’s actually formalized into techniques called kampitam, and various gestures such as meend, gamak, and jaaru represent a shared need to weave something sublime into the fabric of notation. The genre-hopping western classical violinist Gilles Apap spent years studying this art form and explores this very concept here: Can we draw some parallels between these sonic values and the emblematic portamenti of Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, George Enescu, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh and other greats? To this day, these techniques and aesthetic principles remain a sort of idiosyncrasy in the violin world. I imagine a day when they are much more than that – perhaps even formalized and widespread modes of expression, as their counterparts are in the Indian Classical tradition.
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