BACH - Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor
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- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor
Bella Hristova, violin
Performed on Monday, June 17, 2013
Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Bach’s Chaconne is among the first great virtuosic works for solo violin. Though it is often performed as a stand-alone piece, it was conceived as the last movement of his second violin partita. Bach’s solo violin music is at the core of every violinist’s repertoire, and the Chaconne is the crowning achievement among these works.
Before proceeding, a bit of Baroque-era vocabulary: A “Chaconne” is a slow, stately dance in triple meter (counted in three, like a waltz), featuring a repeating bass line over which a composer writes variations. That bass line loops constantly, never stopping, as varying musical events occur above it. The “Partita,” a favored large-scale form at the time, was a collection of dance movements gathered together into an instrumental suite.
Bach’s second partita offers four dance movements of a usual length and character, but the fifth and final movement-the Chaconne-surpasses them all. Longer than all of the others combined, it encompasses some of the most earnest and intense music ever written, as the composer repeats the bass line 64 times. Midway through, Bach turns from the darker and serious minor mode of the opening to a hopeful major mode, giving the violinist the opportunity to sing out. But the music’s original character returns, bringing us full circle toward its somber, reflective conclusion.
Some 150 years later, Johannes Brahms summed up the Chaconne in a concise and elegant way: “On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings.”
(For more on the Chaconne with Curtis violin faculty Arnold Steinhardt: www.npr.org/te...)
-David Serkin Ludwig
Learn more about this work: • Intro: BACH - Chaconne...
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Bach wrote this to commemorate his wife's death; she died at the age of just 35. You can hear his soul being poured out. Stunning rendition.
I hadn't heard this attribution before and it could be true, but, in my opinion, attaching a biographical story to music in this way diminishes the experience since music, unlike most of the other arts, is essentially not representational, but abstract even when it is also emotional, as here.
@@haroldbridges515 Wikipedia: "Professor Helga Thoene suggests that this partita, and especially its last movement, was a tombeau written in memory of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (who died in 1720),[2] though this theory is controversial."
@@costiqueR I don't dispute the historical theory, but I do dispute its relevance. Music of this type is not "about" anything other than itself. If you want music that is about real events you're going to be listening to the 1812 Overture a lot.
@@haroldbridges515 Correct! I just highlighted the available info. About how the manipulation is... we see it all around us in any domain about any subject or person.
Disputed.
Mígala, siempre recomendado buen arte
The fact that this piece, written over 300 years ago, is able to be heard in high quality from the comfort of my own home. It's astonishing. Very lucky to have access to these works thanks to the people who continue to keep them alive.
Well sure, but something is lost in the technology of recording music, i.e. the ephemerality of music, which is the source of its greater aesthetic power compared to the plastic arts. Recording music transforms an event into mere information, which is something less. Listening to a recording never commands our attention as much as a live performance. All the most memorable experiences of music that I have had were in live performances shared with an audience whose shared concentration affected not only all of us, but sometimes the performer as well.
Yes but…. No performance space can hold hundreds of thousands on 7 continents! The magic is no longer restricted to those able by luck or fortune to witness live performances such these💥💥
@@richardjx5442 The whole concept of classical music is that it is written down and subsequently recreated live at each performance by musicians on as many continents as audiences prefer.
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Yo tambieeeeen
Yo igual compañero
Yo también y esto está hermoso:)
Viva la economía del amor
i dont understand what you have commented may i know which language is it?
I've been listening to this excellent bit of artistry for years and never thought to comment on it. Probably pretty meaningless to do so, but it is just too wonderful and has added so much joy to so many of my days that it now feels like the very least I could do to express my gratitude: For the artist, for all the teachers and fellow musicians who helped to refine their talent, to the makers of the instrument, of the recording equipment and those who operated it to capture this … and finally to the long dead composer, who's brilliance reached forward through time to enrich my life. The combined genius and effort of so many, packaged up into 13 minutes of human perfection and shared with my undeserving butt for free. Amazing!
Finally... a violin piece on RUclips that is just violin. I love it.
this piece has so much feeling, and Bella played it with so much emotion, and she played it like she owned it. I love that
Speechless here... I am shocked at how good this rendition is. It's an honor to hear it. Grateful for uploading this.
I never knew Bach wrote it as a memorial for his wife,so beautiful,my favourite of the set,Bye for now love Alan
Migala me enseño a apreciar la música clásica cuando solo la consideraba eso,
Música clásica.
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Era mi sueño tocar algún día esta obra. Ya para intentarlo he escuchado esta grabación todos los días durante 5 meses para aprender de ella por que su interpretación me ha gustado más entre todo lo que había encontrado en RUclips. Este video ha sido mi profe durante todo este tiempo para interpretar yo también esta hermosa obra de Bach aunque no se parece nada la mía y la de ella claro,,, Muchas gracias a Bella Hiristova y a este canal.
It was my dream to play this piece one day. Now to try it I have listened to this recording every day for 5 months to learn from it because I liked her interpretation more among all that I had found on RUclips. This video has been my teacher during all this time to interpret this beautiful work by Bach, although mine and hers are not at all similar, of course,,, Thank you very much to Bella Hiristova and this channel.
Good luck
Your technique is spectacular to show Bach's immense sorrow and the sweetness of his memories of the Life that had together, though short. We all have our breaking points when remembering and memories stir up our emotion from being calm working up to a frenzy and the crying and nearly going out of our mind.
Do you know who the performer is ? I'm trying to find out. 😊
OMG what a Beautiful rendition. Pouring the soul of Bach out of her violin. ❤️❤️❤️
I have never heard such an interpretation. She played it better than Mehunin and as well as Heifetz. What a great surprise to hear these cross-overs.
I wonder whether she would feel the same. Emotional interpretation is a key factor. ❤️
An epic , historic performance . The Chaconne has never been played so well . Just perfect .
Magnificent! I don’t understand why this doesn’t have at least a million likes.
Exactly right . Just breathtaking .
Too often we are offered neat, tidy, dry exercises. Hristova treats this as the great musical drama that Bach created. Wonderful and thanks to Curtis Institute of Music.
The most satisfying performance I have heard.
My god! She is amazing! What a fantastic performance!
Of the various renditions I've listened to up on RUclips, this is my favorite. It combines the precision and clarity of Hahn with the powerful sound and emotion of Perlman. BRAVO!!
Eblouissant ! Cette Chaconne a véritablement émerveillé l'esprit humain en profondeur !
Bravo bravo. What a perfect and beautiful interpretation.
thanks
There is so much beauty added to my life whenever I listen to this piece. Thank you for inspiring me through all my years playing violin.
Thanks for an amazing experience. I had a blast.
C'était une belle performance. Merci,
Como hace Migala para encontrar tanta belleza en este mar aleatorio llamado RUclips?
Simple: lee e investiga
Buscando
En realidad al final del video le agradece a otra persona por recomendarle música chida para sus videos, chécalo en al final y por abajito lo dice
Her performance never leaves me for a day . Magnificent
“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”
Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran
Like Bach wrote at the end of every piece, ALL glory goes to GOD!!! After all, the very talent Bach had was FROM God!!
@@blocksandtulips8436 Yes, but mind that Cioran was a terrific jester: he meant always the opposite of what he said.
Amen!
Bravo, be! Chudesno izpalnenie. Precrasen zvuk. Chisti noti. Mnogo, mnogo hubavo svirish. Pozdraviavam te ot Canada!
Brava. Passion and verve!
increíble!!
Great performance! she brought all voices alive!
Magic, musical artistic magic that has far transcended technique‼️👍💥
Это гениально!!!!! Браво!!!!
This hauntingly beautiful performance expresses what one feels who, after spending months at his wife's side during hospice, she passes away while he is called away to handle urgent business for two weeks.
Powerful; and compelling.
Великолепное исполнение произведения Великого композитора
É simplesmente transcendental esse solo de violino.
What is thiz wonderful young ladies name ? This is the piece I want at my funeral. I decided many years ago . A funeral should be about the passing; not about those attending ❤
Perfection.
Maravilloso
Brava!! Great performance!!
Absolutely wonderful.
I feel like Hemingway's quote about writing being simple, you just sit at a typewriter and bleed, can be generalized to any creative process that your put your very being into. I then always think of this piece as a prime example.
'any old shit'
Paso a dejar mi huella; yo también vine por Migala.
Just beautiful ❤️
Genial... bravo! 🌹🌹🌹🌹
BRAAAAAAVOOOOOOOO!!!!
Por todos los valedores que vienen de migala: ¡reunanse dioses!
MIGALAA
También estoy aquí por Migala
Llore
This young lady reminds me of how Yudi Menuhin played this piece. 🤗
Brava ❤!
Offering this heart-rending performance of Bach's breathlessly beautiful Chaconne for Aunt Elizabeth, to ease her through her surgery and honor her life of violin magic
this chune is unreal boy!
🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏Wonderful spiritual!!💕
Gracias ❤🍺🍷🍷🍺❤
Muy buena Interpretación y Excelente apoyo
Bella eres hermosa y talentosa
Bella Histova. 🎉
10:31 omg wow. until now, hilary hahn was the only one who played this particular part in a way that "satisfied" me. this may have just topped hilary for me omg
I know what you mean, it was Henryk Szeryng, then Hilary came along. Now this. Wow.
I think all the other superlatives have been used up, so I'll just add: Damn, that was great!
As a classically trained violinist, this work is considered the epitome of a highly-trained musician. I've heard the Heifitz version as well as many others, and this version is not that bad. But, until you have felt the PAIN of the death of loved one, the violinist will miss the nuances in phrasing and beauty that is truely needed to transcribe what the composer is feeling. That's why this performance, while admirable, it doesn't quite do it for me...but it's reasonably good.
yo vengo por la parte final del concierto del tri sinfonico - triste cancion de amor min: 8:41
apenas me di cuenta que era una variacion del principio de esta sinfonia lol
Migala
5:40 powerfull
😳💖💖💖💖
3:00 😄
Performer / Artist ? Name? 🤗❤ Year of performance?
no shoulder rest, look so nice
Wow.
Buenas buenas, puedo pasar? vengo de parte del Hobbit
Vine por el HOBBIT
Migala y paganini se burla de esto :v
I like Perlman's the best, but this one is right up there.
The first time I heard this was by Yudi Menuhin.
Cormac McCarthy brought me here.
Yo tambien.
Arriba Migala
It can't be just me that came here from Nationstates right?
Performer anyone?
Chechar hates this one (at least, performed with a violin) because it reminds him of the Christian Zeitgeist (see his article "Wagner vs. Bach, 2"). I for one like Bach overall, but this piece sounds like disjointed noise to me, as with 95% of classical music.
- Adûnâi