Absolutely brilliant and I am a retired professional cellist. This young lad will be the Yo yo Ma of tomorrow. He exudes such maturity. Close your eyes and you are listening to a mature man. Isaac Stern would have fostered and mentored, such a talent.
Hah, don't forget Chloe Chua, they are both wtih Li of the same age, talent, discipline and they play both violin on the same level. But they play it totally different way :). Li plays mainly for outer effect meanwhile Chloe plays according to composer's intention. Don't take it bad but some people can't stand playing just for effect.
Your comparison of two brilliant children, 9 months apart in age, is inappropriate and inconsequential. Their families and teachers don't indulge in such petty schoolyard ranking. Neither did the judges at the prestigious Menuhin Competition in 2018. Watch, listen, admire, and enjoy.
@@rofo2107 : to claim, Christian plays for "effect" only, is ridiculous. Listening to his Bruch, Vivaldi etc. opens musical worlds. I love Chloe too, but all these likes are a matter of opinion, taste, and prejudice.
Each piece I watch Christian play I just don’t know which words to use as he leaves me speechless with his skill and total control of the violin. It is not only a joy to listen to he is a joy to watch as well. He is one with the instrument and you can see how much he loves playing. Another outstanding performance.
Christian Li, you never disappoint! It always brings me so much joy to listen to you and watch you perform. Goodness, you have matured musically so much in just one year! I am always so impressed by your ability to collaborate with other musicians. You and your accompanist, Laurence Matheson, worked so well together. BRAVO!
Superlative in every way, both violin and piano. To Christian Li and Laurance Matheson: when your incomparable duo performs your first recital in Carnegie Hall, and I know you will, please play this piece. You are a peerless duo, perfectly synchronized, thinking and feeling together like twins. This video deserves to be immortalized in a time capsule. To all my fellow listeners: we are lucky to be alive in a world where these two maestros bring the genius of Dvorak to life in this brilliant, glistening Sonatina. To the parents and teachers of these two perfect musicians: unadulterated praise and thanks. Lilian Duval, U.S.
lilianwriter Thank you for your good comments Lilian. Laurance and Christian has played music together for 2 years, there is already a great understanding between the two good buddies.
Yes, their rapport is fantastic, and they are equals onstage. There is nothing childish about Christian's violin playing. Every note and nuance from that gorgeous Amati is just absolutely right. That lucky violin has landed in very deserving hands!
Estoy maravillado con CRISTIAN LI...por dios es un angel dandonos la paz y velleza de la musica con tan solo 8 años...no puedo dejar de admirarlo...UNICO
Every night, I listen to him. Seeing his passionate playing motivates me to take up the violin, and add it to my piano career. Thank you so much for bringing joy to my life. Of course, thank you to your parent's for giving him encouragement every day. What method do you use to practice? As an advanced pianist, practice is extremely important to achieve a stellar performance, such as the one above. Thank you, and keep giving us extraordinary music.
What a darling of a little man who will someday be famous. We are lucky to see him as he grows through his stages into the full adult famous violinist world wide. He is very strong guy to take on so much learning and discipline and conduct himself in such a mature manner that is uncommon in most of the population of unruly kids these days with no real goals. His work will be rewarded. I pray he get the nurturing and off time needed to have a well rounded life. Am anxious to see him blossom once he reaches manhood.. He is another of Gods gifts of prodigies that we are so fortunate to see on RUclips. Thanks YT.
Same as I thought. I heard Gil Shaham, one of the greatest of all time, just prior to Christian Li, and truly I think I preferred the latter. I too thought the same thing- close your eyes and anyone wouldn’t have an idea this is a child. Praising God for such beautiful music and the amazing performances thereof, amongst the best IMO being this one.
You keep treating us with great performances... Such a wholesome and emotional interpretation - Thank You, Christian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Greetings from Finland !
my kids my husband and I have a playlist just with you which we play at home quite often. You are an inspiration for my 2 kids (4 and 9) to play, study and enjoy music
This is not just another 11yr kid playing the violin. Many can do that. This is an 11yr old who plays with the insight and understanding of a true artist. That is what makes him so extraordinary. He also has a wonderful pianist accompanying him . Great team
Très belle sonatine, pleine de charme, ici très bien jouée par les deux musiciens. Que l'un des deux soit très jeune, personnellement, je m'en fiche. La plupart des "zenfan prodiges" ne deviennent pas des professionnels, et c'est tant mieux. Vive la musique libre !
This is beautifully played and accompanied, thank you. I really love how you’ve transitioned to this massive 3/4. Great sound. Fantastic tempos. You really went for it in that 4th movement 😂
As wonderful and enjoyable as always. This perfectly illustrates what a talented person is like. 祝快乐成长，快乐练琴，终成音乐大家🎵 And, the Vivaldi summer you played during the Menuhin competition(Junior final) is the best version I've ever seen on the internet. It's just full of unreplaceable and unique 灵性和夏天的热情--The priceless feeling I can not even find a word in English to express...
Great duo. Love me some Christian especially playing some of my very faves. Looks like a different violin...full size? I wonder. Keep chasing your passion, I’m quite sure you’ll be famous for a long time...I hope so, because I love hearing you!
Dear Parents, 1stThank you for this gift! Christian is going to be the best violinist from all sides (musically he is really good and, of course, technically) Please, ask him for me (as a violinist) what is in his mind during his playing? Does he think about notes, about accuracy or how to shift and get right note? Or something else? It will be really helpful for us - common persons. Regards
Edward Onischenko I asked him, he said in practice, he will consider the accuracy of what you say, but in performance, he will only consider the cooperation with the orchestra or the piano, and try to show the right character of any movement to the audience.
Is this violin made by the Nicolo Amati predecessor of Antonio Stradivari? That Nicolo Amati died in 1684. Anyway, violins need violinists, and your playing is wonderful. I hope to listen you playing Mazurek, also by Dvorak!
Two wonderful, sensitive musicians. A brief comment would be Mr Matheson might do well to consider using less una corda - it devalues the range of colour and control which I am sure he has, and it does Mr Li no favours in listening to and blending with a wider tonal colour range around him because his violin will always be "on top" even when it needn't (or shouldn't) be. Nevertheless, a distinct pleasure to see two young performers at this stage of their journey enjoying themselves with honest music making without the histrionics and artificial "expressions" that seem to have become the norm with too many up-and-coming instrumentalists. Well done, guys!
Christian! You are a great musician! Would you mind telling what size instrument and bow you use here? Bow looks short, violin big. Whatever it is sounds great!
He's been practicing 40 hours a day since he was 36 months old. No, seriously it's amazing to watch his progress from only five years old and how he's developed. Even at seven he was shockingly good; sounding wonderful on a smaller violin. In a few years when the violin is no longer bigger than his entire upper body....well he already sounds awesome now, can't imagine what we'll be hearing when he's 16.
I would recommend him to play short pieces (to 6 min.) on stage. His brain like supercomputer and it will be not healthy to force him to do this mega performance during such long period of time. Nose Bleeding is effect from such big pressure on his brain. Parents, you should know, that during performance, artist uses almost every part of his brain. Like engine overheating during fast driving. I'm worrying about his health, He is a really nice boy. Please, tell him that he is already popular in Ukraine) My best wishes !
This kid is incredible. The technique, the musicality and confidence is stunning. An actual prodigy.
Absolutely brilliant and I am a retired professional cellist. This young lad will be the Yo yo Ma of tomorrow. He exudes such maturity. Close your eyes and you are listening to a mature man. Isaac Stern would have fostered and mentored, such a talent.
Christian never ceases to amaze.
Christian Li, you are the best junior violinist in the world. Even under extreme pressure, you handle the music maturely. Keep being amazing!
Hah, don't forget Chloe Chua, they are both wtih Li of the same age, talent, discipline and they play both violin on the same level. But they play it totally different way :).
Li plays mainly for outer effect meanwhile Chloe plays according to composer's intention.
Don't take it bad but some people can't stand playing just for effect.
Your comparison of two brilliant children, 9 months apart in age, is inappropriate and inconsequential. Their families and teachers don't indulge in such petty schoolyard ranking. Neither did the judges at the prestigious Menuhin Competition in 2018. Watch, listen, admire, and enjoy.
@@rofo2107 : to claim, Christian plays for "effect" only, is ridiculous. Listening to his Bruch, Vivaldi etc. opens musical worlds. I love Chloe too, but all these likes are a matter of opinion, taste, and prejudice.
Love his expression ...his personality shows through!
Wow, the kid is so cute and the music sweetable...!! I love it
Each piece I watch Christian play I just don’t know which words to use as he leaves me speechless with his skill and total control of the violin. It is not only a joy to listen to he is a joy to watch as well. He is one with the instrument and you can see how much he loves playing. Another outstanding performance.
Talent of the century.
So good! Your the level of my teacher when he was young, you maybe better than my teacher!!!🎉❤😮
Christian Li, you never disappoint! It always brings me so much joy to listen to you and watch you perform. Goodness, you have matured musically so much in just one year! I am always so impressed by your ability to collaborate with other musicians. You and your accompanist, Laurence Matheson, worked so well together. BRAVO!
Leigh Yafa Thank you, I am very happy to hear that you think he has improved a lot.
Superlative in every way, both violin and piano.
To Christian Li and Laurance Matheson: when your incomparable duo performs your first recital in Carnegie Hall, and I know you will, please play this piece. You are a peerless duo, perfectly synchronized, thinking and feeling together like twins. This video deserves to be immortalized in a time capsule.
To all my fellow listeners: we are lucky to be alive in a world where these two maestros bring the genius of Dvorak to life in this brilliant, glistening Sonatina.
To the parents and teachers of these two perfect musicians: unadulterated praise and thanks.
Lilian Duval, U.S.
lilianwriter Thank you for your good comments Lilian. Laurance and Christian has played music together for 2 years, there is already a great understanding between the two good buddies.
Yes, their rapport is fantastic, and they are equals onstage. There is nothing childish about Christian's violin playing. Every note and nuance from that gorgeous Amati is just absolutely right. That lucky violin has landed in very deserving hands!
0:04 1st, 5:40 2nd, 9:28 3rd, 12:13 4th
Estoy maravillado con CRISTIAN LI...por dios es un angel dandonos la paz y velleza de la musica con tan solo 8 años...no puedo dejar de admirarlo...UNICO
Thank you for bringing such beautiful music to this world. We love you Christian!
Every night, I listen to him. Seeing his passionate playing motivates me to take up the violin, and add it to my piano career. Thank you so much for bringing joy to my life. Of course, thank you to your parent's for giving him encouragement every day. What method do you use to practice? As an advanced pianist, practice is extremely important to achieve a stellar performance, such as the one above. Thank you, and keep giving us extraordinary music.
Oh Christian grew up and he is taller now•ᴗ•But the song he plays is still so "Christian" I love it soooooooo much!
What a darling of a little man who will someday be famous. We are lucky to see him as he grows through his stages into the full adult famous violinist world wide. He is very strong guy to take on so much learning and discipline and conduct himself in such a mature manner that is uncommon in most of the population of unruly kids these days with no real goals. His work will be rewarded. I pray he get the nurturing and off time needed to have a well rounded life. Am anxious to see him blossom once he reaches manhood.. He is another of Gods gifts of prodigies that we are so fortunate to see on RUclips. Thanks YT.
An actual prodigy. Great performance
ABSOLUTELY , THE BEST IN THE WORLD .
Your interpretation of music is so adorable. Thank you for sharing your talent xxx
Beautiful. Thank you for your music.
He is just adorable and amazing!!!!!!!!!!😘🙌🎻🎶🎵🎼✌🏆🎇🎆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Close my eyes, I couldn't believe this is a performance by an eleven year old boy !!!
Same as I thought. I heard Gil Shaham, one of the greatest of all time, just prior to Christian Li, and truly I think I preferred the latter. I too thought the same thing- close your eyes and anyone wouldn’t have an idea this is a child. Praising God for such beautiful music and the amazing performances thereof, amongst the best IMO being this one.
Wow. Amazing
You keep treating us with great performances...
Such a wholesome and emotional interpretation - Thank You, Christian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Greetings from Finland !
Wonderful! I’m always impressed by your performance on RUclips. I’d like to listen to your live performance. I hope I can have chances for it.
my kids my husband and I have a playlist just with you which we play at home quite often. You are an inspiration for my 2 kids (4 and 9) to play, study and enjoy music
amrs292 😄Thank you!
Such an amazingly talented kid!
Bravo! Fr. Manila, Philippines
Out of 9,036 views 329 Likes????
There should be 9,037 likes and 0 dislikes.
This was fantastic!
well, you can like only once but view several times…..
It's very inspiring to see such passion, almost exploding from such a young person. Loved the humour in the scherzo. Nicely played by Mr Matheson too.
This is not just another 11yr kid playing the violin. Many can do that. This is an 11yr old who plays with the insight and understanding of a true artist. That is what makes him so extraordinary. He also has a wonderful pianist accompanying him . Great team
Keep up the great work
Absolutely exactly perfectly true.
You have such artistic maturity
You are so good! I'm just amazed!
nothing to say . you are a miracle and I think that all people know that,i hope to see you at the top ...😍😍😍
When I play this song, it just sounds boring😂😅😳🥲
Need to practice more obviously.... anyway Christian plays this piece really magnificent
amazing, wonderful, beautiful Christian, xoxo from Southamerica Paraguay
Respects to the pianist!
incredibly mature and sophisticated music-making....
Wow, you are so talented, you are the person I look up to. Keep up the amazing work! ❤️
Wonderfull, very nice interpretation....
WELL DONE FROM EGYPT
So beautiful!
Très belle sonatine, pleine de charme, ici très bien jouée par les deux musiciens. Que l'un des deux soit très jeune, personnellement, je m'en fiche. La plupart des "zenfan prodiges" ne deviennent pas des professionnels, et c'est tant mieux. Vive la musique libre !
Very inspirational to me as always
😊😊😊😊👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is beautifully played and accompanied, thank you. I really love how you’ve transitioned to this massive 3/4. Great sound. Fantastic tempos. You really went for it in that 4th movement 😂
Nie mam słów. To geniusz dar boski
wow... this is awesome...
Wunderbar! Wunderbar!
Tour simplement magnifique... Merci.
Was just thinking of You n here You are!! What an improvement... You're playing beautifully!!
Wendy Myers Thank you!
As wonderful and enjoyable as always. This perfectly illustrates what a talented person is like. 祝快乐成长，快乐练琴，终成音乐大家🎵
And, the Vivaldi summer you played during the Menuhin competition(Junior final) is the best version I've ever seen on the internet. It's just full of unreplaceable and unique 灵性和夏天的热情--The priceless feeling I can not even find a word in English to express...
Wow....no wonder he won the national competition of Australia
Christian eres precioso 💕
👏👏👏👏👏👏 최고~~!!!👍👍👍👍
superbe!💐💐
To hear you it's a privilege!
Great duo. Love me some Christian especially playing some of my very faves. Looks like a different violin...full size? I wonder. Keep chasing your passion, I’m quite sure you’ll be famous for a long time...I hope so, because I love hearing you!
3/4 size
So motivational, thank you
Dear Parents, 1stThank you for this gift! Christian is going to be the best violinist from all sides (musically he is really good and, of course, technically) Please, ask him for me (as a violinist) what is in his mind during his playing? Does he think about notes, about accuracy or how to shift and get right note? Or something else? It will be really helpful for us - common persons. Regards
Edward Onischenko I asked him, he said in practice, he will consider the accuracy of what you say, but in performance, he will only consider the cooperation with the orchestra or the piano, and try to show the right character of any movement to the audience.
@@ChristianLiViolin thank you))
Wow //I am 11 year old I feeling shy now this is beautiful. amazing
Same here. I can't even do fake vibrato
Beautiful! Your vibrato is almost like Janine Jansen’s!
TheNamelessWarrior thank you!
If only I could play this well.
12:13 last movement
Hi I’m Alexander I love that you played the first part and you didn’t do anything rige
Is this violin made by the Nicolo Amati predecessor of Antonio Stradivari? That Nicolo Amati died in 1684. Anyway, violins need violinists, and your playing is wonderful. I hope to listen you playing Mazurek, also by Dvorak!
😍😍😍
I love youuu
真的好厲害喔~繼續加油喔^^
拉得真好 尤其中斷的結構 這麼小年紀就把握得這麼好!!
Two wonderful, sensitive musicians. A brief comment would be Mr Matheson might do well to consider using less una corda - it devalues the range of colour and control which I am sure he has, and it does Mr Li no favours in listening to and blending with a wider tonal colour range around him because his violin will always be "on top" even when it needn't (or shouldn't) be. Nevertheless, a distinct pleasure to see two young performers at this stage of their journey enjoying themselves with honest music making without the histrionics and artificial "expressions" that seem to have become the norm with too many up-and-coming instrumentalists. Well done, guys!
Çok güzel👍👍
Christian! You are a great musician! Would you mind telling what size instrument and bow you use here? Bow looks short, violin big. Whatever it is sounds great!
Piotr markiewicz 😀, he is using a big 3/4 size violin and a slightly shorter 3/4 size bow.
I don’t get how his arm playing the notes aren’t tired! When I play the violin and I play for 2 minutes straight my arm hurts soooo bad,... how tho!!
He's been practicing 40 hours a day since he was 36 months old. No, seriously it's amazing to watch his progress from only five years old and how he's developed. Even at seven he was shockingly good; sounding wonderful on a smaller violin. In a few years when the violin is no longer bigger than his entire upper body....well he already sounds awesome now, can't imagine what we'll be hearing when he's 16.
What kind of shoulder rest does Christian use? 他真的很好👍我也拉小提请但是我没有他好！
I am the same age, and play in a violin concert
What violin do you play Christian?
I wish Yehudi Menuhin could see you.
加油鸭
👍👍👍👍👍
twoset needs to do a collab
He seems very emotional boy! Is he a libra horoscopicaly?
Edward Onischenko He is Scorpio😄
@@ChristianLiViolin like Paganini😜
A kid holding an antique violin SaCriLEgiOuS
😊😡😍😋
Chinese?
Kind of... But they moved to Australia.
He must be Ling Ling
no nooo noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Olivia lo lmao ikr
I would love to see him do something together with TwoSetViolin. They all live in Australia, so it shouldn’t be to difficult to arrange.
i wonder if he knows twosetviolin or watch twosetviolin
孩子再大些最好来欧洲发展，学习或演出合作机会都更多
I would recommend him to play short pieces (to 6 min.) on stage. His brain like supercomputer and it will be not healthy to force him to do this mega performance during such long period of time. Nose Bleeding is effect from such big pressure on his brain. Parents, you should know, that during performance, artist uses almost every part of his brain. Like engine overheating during fast driving. I'm worrying about his health, He is a really nice boy. Please, tell him that he is already popular in Ukraine) My best wishes !
闭上眼睛哪能相信是一个11岁的小孩拉的呀。
ling ling could play it at age 3
I thought this was Ling Ling?
@@eriknystrom5839 you thought wrong
Haha @@eriknystrom5839 you joker! Ling Ling, practicing, that's his thing, gone to Sing Sing!
Something odd there
If you just want to practice that piece DON'T watch asian kid videos!
American Idiot yeah my dreams are shattered
I’m also Asian as well 🤫
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I don’t get how his arm playing the notes aren’t tired! When I play the violin and I play for 2 minutes straight my arm hurts soooo bad,... how tho!!