Hilary Hahn answers Arnold Schoenberg's concerto questions

[@vaskenkantardshieff]

DEVINE! ALWAYS DEVINE! HILARY'S EXPLANATIONS COULD BE ENJOYED SO MUCH AS POSSIBLE! GODDESS HILARY!

[@dhoffheimerj]

Lovely light on one of the greatest works in all of music by one of today’s greatest violinists!

[@henrygingercat]

Love Schoenberg and love her.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Have you ever seen someone so revered and famous who seems so practical, down to Earth and grounded. Her courage is indubitable and so greatly needed. To pair it with my fave violin concerto the Sibelius might help me finally unlock this music. The Schonberg piano concerto op 45? Is even later and I don't know what it is ; while the violin concerto I someways makes conventional sense. Obviously, I'm reading and hearing it wrong!

[@TiqueO6]

This, again, is a dream come true! Fantastic! Thanks again.

[@jessticulatewildly]

Gosh I love these questions! Posting in composers' groups. Good to know he had the same "Ack - I need notes!" feeling as us mere mortals.

[@thomask1424]

This is such a beautiful work, my favorite violin concerto. I grew up with the Zeitlin/Kubelik recording.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Wow@ There must be at least ten recordings besides Amoyal I was not awsre of.

[@AndrewRudin]

I love that in her recording pairing the Schonberg and Sibelius concerti, she says, "I've always thought it was the SIBELIUS that was weird."

[@MrInterestingthings]

What sparked her interest in this concerto. Of course she plays the Berg but im not aware of any recs she has made of this period 1930s in particular besides the Barber or Menotti concerti.

[@svendronning1747]

I love Schoenberg and I'm a violinist, but this concerto has been slow to grow on me. Thanks to Hilary Hahn, I can say that I've learned to really love this piece, as she's done an incredible job bringing out the color and dialogue that's in Schoenberg's score. Fun also to see Randy Schoenberg in this context, who really does look like his grossvater!

[@MrInterestingthings]

She has phenomenal ear and verve and technique.This piece is more difficult than sibelius concerto.impossible intervals.She is really a smart cookie.Wow . He looks like his grandfather./i wonder if his daughter who married Nono had children too.

[@MeltingIcecapsDrawmybabyUps]

Hate on the age of youtube all you want, but this is too precious.

[@Nalijay]

Hilary please come to Australia!

[@Tolstoy111]

Congrats on the Grammy!

[@ali848trans]

It feels so different to look at the grandson of one of your favourite musicians.

[@MrInterestingthings]

He shares many charachteristics!

[@DerrickMims]

She. Is. Adorable.

[@urmorph]

Very interesting. Did S. really say, when told that a player would need 6 fingers on the left hand, "Very well, I can wait"?

[@mr.dalton9507]

He looks just like his grandfather!

[@orion5992]

This is my favorite of ALL Violin concertos! I think it was Zvi Zetlin remarked that you need 6 fingers to play this!

[@giridhargopinath9504]

if i'm not wrong,i think its Heifitz

[@xephyr417]

she speaks so well... *sigh* ^_^

[@paxwallacejazz]

Tonality is a bubble with definite parameters Arnold not only mapped exactly how and where tonal language ends but damned if he didn't build a Space Station out there where he lived out most of the rest of his life . Intrepid cartographer.