Bach BWV 1004 Chaconne Nathan Milstein Violin - Complete

[@musicola7371]

Reading some of the comments, I realize that I am perhaps lucky that I only know a little bit about music. I can enjoy listening to both Nathan Milstein and Hilary Hahn performing the same piece of music without a problem.

[@kevinGabriel-v9q]

I concur with the person below...this is one of the great performances of anything ever. These people should be on their feet! I saw him play it in Carnegie Hall in 1979 for his 50th anniversary recital. One of the great instrumental musicians of the last 100+ years. We are lucky to have this.

[@frankanderson7939]

I'll die totally contented that Bach , Nathan Millstein and this performance exist .

[@wutamamama]

That's all the applause he got?! That was like one of the greatest performances of this piece of all time! Man...I feel for him as I don't think he got the applause that he deserved here. What brilliance, what beauty, what glory. He knew how to bring out every morsel of magnificence of this master piece. Love you Milstein! Incredible. So inspirational.

[@gere7739]

In my opinion, when you have such skills and a life of practice you play only for reach the perfection you wish, doesnt matter who and how clap at you

[@wutamamama]

Sure, Milstein may or may not have cared, but my point is about the audience themselves. How could they not be moved?! Sublime playing. Still my favorite rendition of the piece.

[@fedegroxo]

@@gere7739 I agree with you. If I ever reach a good enough level, all that will matter is that I am pleased with my performances, not what others think of it

[@voraciousreader3341]

Who,_CARES_ about the applause??? You missed the whole point of Millstein’s gift….IT WAS FOR YOU.

[@walderrub2434]

@@gere7739 I think if u are appreciated or not matters a lot!

[@Boldstrummer]

He doesn't overplay or force anything. He really brings out the dialog between different voices. I love the lightness of the arpeggios section. My favorite violin interpretation..

[@julioklastornick3642]

"On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." - Johannes Brahms about Bach's Chaconne

[@skyfish1353]

for me i think this is my favourite performance of music in existence.

[@andrewwiseman3881]

I think the is the greatest piece ever composed, and have held that belief throughout my life. I've been listening since a teenager to Milstein's Solo Bach and have been in love with it. His is by far the most rewarding playing of it for me. I am an enormous Milstein fan, always in amazement of what he could create.

[@AussieSteveBoyle]

He slowly sways on his feet as if comforting a weeping child, his beloved violin.

[@JoeBlue415]

11 dislikes?! Seriously? Seriously? You may prefer another’s version, but how can you dislike this? Really?! Really?!

[@vvmaster2010]

15 now LOL

[@東雲奏太]

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[@JoeBlue415]

@@Oldman808 please explain

[@vinesthemonkey]

the audio of this video is much worse than released recordings which is a shame

[@gandalfstormcrow2486]

It's just Perlman, Heifetz, etc. They're jealous.😜

[@ktd9]

One of the greatest violin masters to ever walk the earth…🙏😇⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@AlexSmith-tr9hc]

The Chaconne can only be played by masters of the violin...and Milstein is one of the truly few masters that does it so well.

[@christophernguyen5437]

I am unimaginably thankful that this was caught on video. I'd seen his final performance which was great, but this surpasses even that. Phenomenal!

[@sayakah]

It would never be a music so perfect, in an intelectual point, and so emotional at the same time...and, in my opinion, Milstein plays the purest an deepest version ever done.

[@viocub]

He has been under estimated as one of the more brilliant musicians in recent memory. i am so grateful to see this incredible live performance. He was divinely connect at this moment. What a ride! Thank you for posting the video..

[@KingAeetes]

Beautiful rendition of the Chaconne.

[@deepdark795]

Such integrity in his playing. Milstein was born to play Bach.

[@jansnauwaert1785]

Well, I don't like it. For instance: the passage from 12:00 on (or a bit earlier), should sound "organ"-like, like notes coming from everywhere, but in Milstein's rendition, that impression is not successfully created. I certainly prefer at least a dozen other interpretations.

[@name_kidded]

@@jansnauwaert1785 **vibrato**

[@chuckgills580]

Cgilbert my comment on #173 I must Confer with the his statement totally Awesome this guy is !!!!

[@yyjones79]

Nice. But at least one fingering mistake (5:28). I stopped listening at 5:30, although I certainly like the way he plays. NB: To hear the mistake, start for example at 5:25.

[@KingAeetes]

@@yyjones79 Very good capture. You listen very closely!

[@suzannemckitterick2781]

Oh my, the true voice of God (JS Bach), played by an angel of angels (Nathan Milstein)...absolutely, none can compare. Thank you for broadcasting this video on Utube. I am greatly moved at this stellar performance.

[@obiessen]

Martzy

[@JeanFrancoisTellier]

Bach is composing for the instrument. He's the master to catch the essence of an instrument. Milstein is my preferred interpretation!!!

[@박수현-b4e8r]

The legend of legends. Always Nathan Milstein 's Bach 's Works just Amazing.

[@haotianyu6368]

I never realized how brilliant Milstein was until now...

[@kennethchen212]

This is how Bach supposed to be in my deep heart...

[@gawgul]

Really such an irresistable and great player--when Milstein plays, the music develops, moves, deepens as he goes along.

[@WLDFLWR101]

Of all the renditions of this magnificent piece, Milstein's moves me most. I feel as if through music Milstein himself is experiencing the very pain and sorrow that Bach suffered.

[@sullenfionaa]

I think this is Bach's best violin work and I never heard better interpretation than Milstein's.

[@daniel3231995]

not anymore with the advent of historically informed. hearing this again makes me stiff.

[@elianmiguelgonzalez7134]

May you should listening to "zimmer man"

[@jansnauwaert1785]

Disagree. Zimmerman, Shoji Sayaka, James Ehnes, ... A pity we don't have Ginette Neveu's recording anymore; I don't doubt I would have prefered it a lot to Milstein's.

[@walderrub2434]

Milstein was the best indeed!

[@Kchkchkch8415]

@@jansnauwaert1785 Ehnes plays everything like a robot. Ideal technique, but that’s all.

[@mmmoggmem2522]

I was lucky to see him perform this live at Carnegie Hall in 1985. At 80 years old, his performance was a mind-blowing experience.

[@paulcaswell2813]

I have two great 'fiddle' memories. Milstein at Birmingham Town Hall in the early '70s, and Ricci's Pag encores at the same location in 1966. Strange that modern players' performances just don't engrain themselves into the memory the same way.

[@GebEgB]

For me, the greatest work of art ever made.

[@kagasaki6]

I get shivers listening to his interpretation of, "Chaconne", I feel he plays it best. However, the version Milstein plays as an old man brings tears to my eyes, it is that profoundly beautiful...

[@CPMariner]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading this magnificent Milstein performance of the Chanconne. His flawless technique and profound passion make him my ATF choice for that lump-in-the-throat piece. Words are inadequate.

[@SchmidtCaspar]

I'm crying. So beautiful...

[@sigognac5327]

Modèle d'articulation, de phrasé, de chant et de connexion. La ligne va toujours quelque part ... L’œuvre est tellement réalisée dans l'unité qu'on en ressort ''libéré''. Bravo Maestro !

[@asilva781]

My favourite Chaconne version.

[@vorspiel1023]

His artistry is superb, and it does not hurt that he isplaying a wonderful Strad. I, sadly, heard him live, in Atlanta, in 1987. He performed with Atlanta Symphony Orhcestra, the Beethoven Concerto. He was then 83, and had a bad night; he forgot where he was mid-way through the first movement, and literally had to be sort of carried back into the piece by the able conducting of Robert Shaw. In defense, his playing of the larghetto was exquisite, as was his rondo. He was a God of Bach!

[@musicalwayshere4]

The violin always sounds so emotional to me, really beautiful

[@phatnitude]

i really enjoy the way this song sounds on violin. so beautiful

[@brandonbailey2779]

This rendition is one of my favorites!

[@NahaleGuitar]

there's no other interpretation better than this specific one alone.

[@marsvltor2]

Still the greatest performance of all. The master at work!

[@glowingdesire]

Just perfect. Gives me chills.

[@arnoldirwin9416]

Surely the MUSIC OF HEAVEN ! ! ! One of the greatest pieces of music of all time ... by one of the greatest violinists of all time.

[@SprayVomit]

Nothing is better than this

[@musicalme27]

That's an audience full of zombies. What a phenomenal marvelous performance. Brings me to tears. Rest in Shamayim, dearest Nathan. You're a marvel.

[@joypaulson6093]

Milstein is the consummate master of the violin and of Bach's violin Chaconne movements...there was no one like Milstein then and no one like him since.

[@IndelibleBeings]

Thank you for re-posting this complete.

[@frankcroson2143]

Bravissimo! I wonder if the Chaconne has ever been played better, with more depth, passion and technical mastery. Others doubtless have their favorites, but this is mine. Sadly, no excuses can be made for the tepidness of the audience's response. Perhaps, one day, some of them will look back on having been present for Milstein's incomparable performance. I hope so.

[@tetchypoo]

My lord, this is unbelievable. I typically prefer the chaconne at a slower pace, but the technical mastery combines beautifully with the emotional drive of the piece. Perlman was my favorite, but I think this may have just replaced that.

[@fantasticmusic20]

one of my favorite artist!

[@ciaconne]

thanks for uploading the one-piece complete version.

[@GabrielChiari]

Although many can say this is not a ortodox interpretation, or that the technics are not as accurate as in hilary hahn interpretation, I'd rather listen Milstein's. This os absolutely genius!

[@cigarnationwarriors3981]

I find Hahn’s Bach lacking musical maturity. She plays all the notes, not much else.

[@gevork2458]

@@cigarnationwarriors3981 exactly. Passion>Perfection

[@kenavo2103]

Divine interpretation by Nathan Milstein.

[@pbazant]

If anyone has tears in the eyes watching this, that one is not alone.

[@gijsphilip]

Because of Bach or Milstein?

[@pbazant]

@@gijsphilip I can't decide which one is worse (just kidding :-) ).

[@pbazant]

@@gijsphilip I just had to listen to this again. So much beauty!

[@monellerichmond7208]

I find Milstein's interpretation very masculine--almost severe--but very compelling. His intonation is excellent and his passion unmistakable. I do love many other versions, but his stands alone in conviction and authority, and stays with you long after you hear it. And why do I assume that anyone will care about what I think? Good question! :))

[@butsirrr]

Monelle Richmond if you like this interpretation you will love Ivry Gitlis's

[@monellerichmond7208]

Fred Well, thank you for the recommendation. I went looking for it, and unfortunately found it qjuite jerky.

[@butsirrr]

@@monellerichmond7208 I appreciated its masculine, raw and unfiltered rendition that Gitlis always brings to the table. It is so unique and wonderful that it is able to overcome its minor flaws in intonation at times. When you hear Gitlis, it is always unmistakable, Gitlis.

[@monelleny]

@@butsirrr I will listen again :)

[@everusD]

Magnifico! La magia del maestro Bach es eterna! BRAVO!!!

[@fydler7640]

Lo, the master meets the master, and all is well! It would be fascinating to contemplate what Bach would have thought about Milstein's playing. Think what towering things the old master would have composed had he had a violinist of Milstein's caliber to write for!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This splendor is undisputed

[@AlphaEra]

Thanks for uploading the complete version :D LOVE YOU!!!!!

[@stephaniemathiasmusic]

this is wonderful!!! he does really develop the music throughout the performance... just like the violin should always be played.

[@lydericmaes6278]

Genius in action !

[@butsirrr]

3:45-3:46 wow look at that dexterity shifting to third position and back in an instant just for that A

[@michelfournier5634]

puissant ! Expressif ! Virtuose ! Magnifique

[@rromano51]

I am speechless!

[@paulostroff99]

Awesome.TY for posting.

[@lucianrusu4037]

I love this too. Probably the most techical.

[@SprayVomit]

Thank you

[@johnnuness]

Algum(a) brasileiro(a) ouvindo essa obra espetacular, interpretada por Nathan Milstein?

[@minhanobreza]

Perfeição! Certos tipos de comparações realmente não cabem, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH é incomparável. Sem mais.

[@salvianojr]

Paris, France,1968

Totalmente hermoso... esta es mi favorita :')... si deseo apoyarme en alguna.... elijo esta pieza... imposible no llorarla... aunque en realidad esta es la que me ha dado mas valor :') Grande Milstein!!!!

[@joy1ess]

perfect interpretation !

[@grishaslutsky]

Гений!!!

[@izayoi10]

初めてマリア・カラスを聴いた時に似た、強い衝撃を受けました。

[@gnatural]

Soli Deo Gloria....

[@zicekanelo]

Uno de los grandes logros en el arte de la humanidad.

[@sebastianrc]

Happy Birthday "Maestrissimo" Bach!

[@jonasjonasmusic]

nigún violinista es mejor que otro, cada uno tiene su propio feeling, asi como también su propio violín, y en realidad, el crédito se lo merece el maestro de maestros johann sebastian bach!

[@genesis310788]

lo mejor que escuche en mi vida

[@jhonnytellez1644]

Esto me hizo llorar de felicidad

[@brighidclaire]

what a genius

[@bradfordrick1]

An unsurpassed expression of human pathos

[@JuanMartinexplacerez-mw3we]

Magistral interpretación del MAESTRO de Maestros .

[@TheMuston]

Maybe the only interpretation which could match Hahn's summit. He also quite knew how to phrase Bach.

[@musicfirst5020]

Fantastic. As a purely side note and of no significance I didn't realize what short height he was, as most of the great violinists were.

[@carlosgarcialeos3434]

En la chacona de Bach, Milstein para mi gusto el mejor.

[@leoncioviolin]

excelente

[@KARIBIKunderwater]

JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH: THE VOICE OF GOD.

[@Gamerlord93]

I find it interesting that Milstein is the only one who plays the chromatic section at 11:42 that way.

[@sneddley]

Milstein certainly had his own way and this gives me the feeling of increasing intensity from the preceding phrase, development. (listen for, if you didn't hear it before) the phrase starting at 00:58 he adds a note "D" with the upper "F". One may disagree with him making changes, but, I must say, they sound really fine when he does them!

[@marioguidoscappucci]

Sublime!

[@PaoloFrasca]

gli spettatori sono tutti così seri!

[@Calebless]

11:37 But he's still epic!!!!! I need to borrow that man's violin.

[@MistériosdaMeiaNoite7]

It's not the violin, it's Milstein! It's not the car that makes the driver better, it's the driver

[@regina8010]

Perfection…all played with a russian bow hold!

[@MrStrangeSensation]

That is one hell of a zoom-in.

[@KialraOfDeath]

*I like it better than any other instrument

[@sevenoctave88]

l'm in Heaven now!

[@marguslatt3503]

Perfectsionism

[@alnothere]

No.... But awesome performance...

[@belabohacs6483]

The ad in the middle almost killed me!

[@twotwothousand]

boy, the crowd's really feelin it, aren't they? :)

[@Hermeterec]

from Jose' Sepulveda, the Hermeterec...........there has never ay violinist greater than Milstein....not even paganini or Perlman. I guess you have to have been born in Odessa, the cradle of great violinists.

[@modernholyblues]

Thanks for that comment, Tom Schutte. But, anyway, I think this piece needs the female touch, specifically that of Hilary Hahn.

[@Nkiism]

I know exactly how you feel! :]

[@gauriblomeyer1835]

Mendelssohn once remarked that nobody can play this piece containing tragique emotions and happy ones. Heifetz and Milstein and Perlman did it and today all beginners who think themself as great as them.