Was a mandolin prodigy before he was a teenager, a platinum artist at 20, and in his early 30's, awarded the MacArthur genius grant. All of that said, Chris Thile never ceases to impress
Exactly, exactly. Bad Bach is like bad pizza, it's still pizza. But Bach in the hands of an special musician is everything that is holy and magical about music. This chap is the Glenn Gould of fretted instruments.
@ipmala I just came from a RUclips video of Sierra Hull playing this precise piece. By the way it’s “disagree ABOUT that”. “On” is not an all-purpose preposition.
This is played waaaay faster than many other professional mandolin players I've seen making videos on RUclips. Chris Thile is an absolute monster on that fretboard.
Agreed! I started working on the Bach solo pieces for violin (also some of the cello suites, on 5-string violin) this year and it's the hardest stuff I've ever played. And the greatest. Thile's got the feel down just right, where it becomes a spell he's casting that stops time while it's being played...rather than just a string of notes.
Oh man! I love how he killed at the end!! Thanks for this!! Bach is my hero. I had surgery on both hands in the last 12 months and have not been able to play much. He just inspired me to get my sheets out and get back to the solos. As for Thile, he's a brat. He makes it look sooooo easy. It is not!
Weird... I severely fractured dislocated and tore tendons, ligaments in both thumbs in a car accident a year ago and just a month ago started playing mandolin and the bach partitas with some seriousness again.. Thile is just superhuman though.... wow...
@@christopherhanna5754 He is. I'm sure you know he's recorded three of the Solos. I wish he'd do he other three. No one else has done them, at leadt not as good as he has. He's a spectacular player and musician. Another guy you should check out is Evan Marshall. Classical violinist who loves and makes love to the mandolin. He is phenomenal. I once took lessons from him. I love this particular piece. Sorry to hear about your injuries! Damn! Sounds REALLY painful! Playing will help. Good PT! Plus there is nothing like Bach for motivation.
Miraculous, The most beautiful, sublime, sophisticated music ever written. The mandolin has such a harpsichord, baroque sound it is perfect for music of that period. When Bach died he ended the baroque period. Fugues where so difficult to write that even Beethoven and Mozart hated writing them. Bach could improvise fugues for up to two hours and then go back and score everything he had played!
i LOVE when people come on here and talk shit about him. like "yeah thats nice but i can play bach just as well cause i graduated blah blah blah" well where is your genius grant? how come people are mesmerized by his play and not yours? hear the hush fall over the crowd when he starts. A REAL MUSICIAN WITH REAL MUSIC FANS! I cant get enough.
He played this on the PBR Praire Home Companion show a while back-I was recording the show but interference had distorted portions of the audio-glad to have found this version-a fantastic piece of music on the mandolin!!! Somehow I am going to learn this on my mando but will likely die before completing my quest...LoL!
0:08 The way he says "D minor partita" and smirks? Does anybody else find this reminds them exactly of that actor from Billy Madison and West Wing - Bradley Whitford is it?
As a musician, this has to be way more satisfying of a response for Chris, than a stuffy crowd in penguin suits and ball gowns all golf clapping.lol The only thing worse than concert golf clappers are shooshers.
"I'll try..." With Chris, there is no "try." Meanwhile, at various points, he had a look on his face like, "oh, shit, did I feed the cat this morning", "I really like the shade of that girl's hair", and "Did Democrates really believe the Spaniards thought invading innocent Native American tribes were acts of patriarchal protectionism?"
Technically pretty amazing. However, I prefer Sierra Hull's interpretation for the phrasing, subtle rubato and dynamic contrasts. She brings out the counterpoint between the voices so that you can hear the 'conversation'.
He's a great mandolin player, who is completely full of himself. His playing lacks soul and emotion. He tries to compensate by acting like he's making love to his mando - thanks but no thanks, I don't want to look at your 'O' face while you play, buddy. People call him a musical genius which is a joke - he's well practiced and has some natural talent but genius he is not. To those who say 'no one else can play like this', you are wrong. You could do it to. There are covers of this song done by little kids here on youtube, on the violin (a much harder instrument to play than the mando in many ways - harder for both left and right hand techniques, and for good tone production) - and they perform in with much more musical savvy than Thile will ever have. Never ceases to impress? He never ceases to make me want to vomit in my mouth. I can't watch his videos (only listen) because his stage presence portrays every last drop of oozing ego. That said, I hope to play as well as or better than him some day ( maybe less technical, but with more feeling).
A big LOL to every word of that. Not a single true word in it.... well apart from the first five, and you probably should seek assistance for those gastric issues.
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Was a mandolin prodigy before he was a teenager, a platinum artist at 20, and in his early 30's, awarded the MacArthur genius grant. All of that said, Chris Thile never ceases to impress
Exactly, exactly. Bad Bach is like bad pizza, it's still pizza. But Bach in the hands of an special musician is everything that is holy and magical about music. This chap is the Glenn Gould of fretted instruments.
@ipmala I just came from a RUclips video of Sierra Hull playing this precise piece. By the way it’s “disagree ABOUT that”. “On” is not an all-purpose preposition.
Preach it... he is that rare true virtuoso.
This is played waaaay faster than many other professional mandolin players I've seen making videos on RUclips. Chris Thile is an absolute monster on that fretboard.
This is way more than incredible technique, it is sublime interpretation.
i love how he stomps it at the end. a couple bars left and he nailed it all the way, so he really digs in- awesome. also shows how much he wanted it
A big bluegrass crowd just gave a standing ovation to Bach on mandolin. ...all is not lost.
bluegrass people are often very capable musicians themselves
His technique is far beyond great!!! It's perfect....
Agreed! I started working on the Bach solo pieces for violin (also some of the cello suites, on 5-string violin) this year and it's the hardest stuff I've ever played. And the greatest. Thile's got the feel down just right, where it becomes a spell he's casting that stops time while it's being played...rather than just a string of notes.
Bach would love this playing. Glenn Gould would LOVE this playing. Magnificent!
It's too perfect! Thank you Chris, for this immaculate preformance.
Thile gets Bach - one long, huge arch.
Amazingly smooth ....seamless ....effortless.....!!!!
BRAVO
Oh man! I love how he killed at the end!! Thanks for this!! Bach is my hero. I had surgery on both hands in the last 12 months and have not been able to play much. He just inspired me to get my sheets out and get back to the solos. As for Thile, he's a brat. He makes it look sooooo easy. It is not!
Weird... I severely fractured dislocated and tore tendons, ligaments in both thumbs in a car accident a year ago and just a month ago started playing mandolin and the bach partitas with some seriousness again.. Thile is just superhuman though.... wow...
@@christopherhanna5754 He is. I'm sure you know he's recorded three of the Solos. I wish he'd do he other three. No one else has done them, at leadt not as good as he has. He's a spectacular player and musician. Another guy you should check out is Evan Marshall. Classical violinist who loves and makes love to the mandolin. He is phenomenal. I once took lessons from him.
I love this particular piece.
Sorry to hear about your injuries! Damn! Sounds REALLY painful! Playing will help. Good PT! Plus there is nothing like Bach for motivation.
Bach great genious music and his boys...❤
What excellence!!!!! Beautiful!!!
Miraculous, The most beautiful, sublime, sophisticated music ever written. The mandolin has such a harpsichord, baroque sound it is perfect for music of that period. When Bach died he ended the baroque period. Fugues where so difficult to write that even Beethoven and Mozart hated writing them. Bach could improvise fugues for up to two hours and then go back and score everything he had played!
I can't stop listening to this!
Fantastically fluid flying fingers.
I am in awe... his finger picking reminds me of a spider spinning a delicate web, another beautiful and awesome feat!
Clearly the best mandolinist of the entire world.
that was trance inducing!!
about as flawless as any human can achieve, wow. right on chris1 very badass
Great !!!!!!
This is unbelievably awesome!!!
Unbeliveble play!
i LOVE when people come on here and talk shit about him. like "yeah thats nice but i can play bach just as well cause i graduated blah blah blah" well where is your genius grant? how come people are mesmerized by his play and not yours? hear the hush fall over the crowd when he starts. A REAL MUSICIAN WITH REAL MUSIC FANS! I cant get enough.
F'n Beautiful !
He played this on the PBR Praire Home Companion show a while back-I was recording the show but interference had distorted portions of the audio-glad to have found this version-a fantastic piece of music on the mandolin!!! Somehow I am going to learn this on my mando but will likely die before completing my quest...LoL!
All the PHCs are online
Now that you mention it, yep. Makes sense, I love both of them.
Simplesmente MARAVILHOSO!
Chris Thile is best of mandlin player in the world! His tequnique is amazing!
plays the repeats!
"Check out his neural kinetics. They're way above normal."
Thanks to you water came out my nose! lol hilarious Jack!
@ipmala Actually, Sierra Hull does it justice, although she only played one section.
Mindblowing....
Very nice.
Fabulous!
Bravissimo !!!!
voce é muito bom !!!
Hell yea, beautiful....
Chris cannot be topped
For sale... 1 soul. Price - to be able to play like that.
0:08 The way he says "D minor partita" and smirks? Does anybody else find this reminds them exactly of that actor from Billy Madison and West Wing - Bradley Whitford is it?
could not agree more
that's how it's supposed to sound...was my first thought. I have my grand-uncle's mandolin and hope to take it up someday.
Only today counts. Today is real tomorrow is uncertain.
thanks now I have to go listen to glenn gould again. so good.
For sale.....one used mandolin, owner quitting playing after listening to this exquisite playing......
How does he remember this whole thing? I'd need sheet music...
Why does no one cough when Chris Thile plays bluegrass?
holy fuck that was clean! amazing!
Loved this guy in Sherlock Holmes.
As a musician, this has to be way more satisfying of a response for Chris, than a stuffy crowd in penguin suits and ball gowns all golf clapping.lol
The only thing worse than concert golf clappers are shooshers.
he is king on mandolin to me
"try" to play? if I could play a G scale this clean I'd die a happy mandolin player.
wow
Isn't he just magnificent?
4:05 why was that guy smacking the pole?
Yes, THIS IS SPARTA!!!
"I'll try..." With Chris, there is no "try."
Meanwhile, at various points, he had a look on his face like, "oh, shit, did I feed the cat this morning", "I really like the shade of that girl's hair", and "Did Democrates really believe the Spaniards thought invading innocent Native American tribes were acts of patriarchal protectionism?"
And just think: Chris Thile actually knows how to spell “Democrats”!
@@herbertwells8757 Greek philosopher fail
Superhuman....
no one will ever play this again
How does he do that? Mandolin takes small fingertips.
Impressive sir...but do you know Skynard?
Great performance! To bad that some people are fooled by the relative crudeness of the recording (clearly a smartphone or something)
Agree! Whose the puppy-hater that disliked this?
Listen to Amilton de Holanda and you'll be surprised.
Technically pretty amazing. However, I prefer Sierra Hull's interpretation for the phrasing, subtle rubato and dynamic contrasts. She brings out the counterpoint between the voices so that you can hear the 'conversation'.
If you want a laugh, mute it and hold your hand over the screen so you can only see his head, and watch it without context.
How is he not even looking
Yes... Your comment does...
oh sure, but if Yngwie plays like this he "has no feel". lol. Just kidding around, sounds great!
please slow down for my pause button !
You make me sad.
devia ter comentado quando achei esse video da primeira vez, pra ficar marcado, mas....
fudido hein
uhmmmm........wow
Gigue economy
lol
You must be a troll.
geeze.. don't make it look easy or anything.. =)
He’s the greatest instrumentalist alive. I sometimes wish he played violin or guitar. Mandolin sound lacks the richness.
He's a great mandolin player, who is completely full of himself. His playing lacks soul and emotion. He tries to compensate by acting like he's making love to his mando - thanks but no thanks, I don't want to look at your 'O' face while you play, buddy. People call him a musical genius which is a joke - he's well practiced and has some natural talent but genius he is not. To those who say 'no one else can play like this', you are wrong. You could do it to. There are covers of this song done by little kids here on youtube, on the violin (a much harder instrument to play than the mando in many ways - harder for both left and right hand techniques, and for good tone production) - and they perform in with much more musical savvy than Thile will ever have. Never ceases to impress? He never ceases to make me want to vomit in my mouth. I can't watch his videos (only listen) because his stage presence portrays every last drop of oozing ego. That said, I hope to play as well as or better than him some day ( maybe less technical, but with more feeling).
Jason Volk Jesus Christ someone's jealous
Petter Forsberg there's not much point talking to people like that
Someone's salty lol
you should be ashamed of yourself.
A big LOL to every word of that. Not a single true word in it.... well apart from the first five, and you probably should seek assistance for those gastric issues.
Simplesmente MARAVILHOSO.
Wow