Indiana University Virtuosi - Concerto for Four Violins (Vivaldi)

The IU Virtuosi performing in the send-off concert for their 2013 tour of Argentina and Brazil!
Violins:
Ariel Horowitz, Amy Lidell, Gregorio Lopes, Nathan Meltzer
Violas:
Zoie Hightower, Rose Brown
Celli:
Braden McConnell, Gabe Martins
Piano:
Ilya Friedberg

[@frankgaertner9021]

I have heard everybody and his brother, including the very best doing Bach’s version, many times. Why? I am mesmerized by this one Vivaldi concerto beyond any other musical work. I’ve even listened and watched it performed more often than I have The Rite of Spring. What is incredible to me is that this performance tops them all. Minimal instrumentation, top musicianship and done by disarmingly talented young musicians?! Wow! To say nothing of the work done to make the recording of the magical sounds coming from each instrument blend perfectly. I am in awe.

[@gcecam7801]

I Accord even the 3th violon is on perfect sound.This youn team is beautiful ❤️ the 4th violon is an extraordinary violon palyer like the first lady.

[@carlciulla6546]

The girl in the white dress. Her bowing technique is so sophisticated and elegant. Everyone did amazing

[@derpymcderpell]

The awkward smiling really shows how well they understand the piece (and is entertaining to watch). Such talented players, though. And Vivaldi was a genius!

[@McRomR]

Never thought this score can be played this smoothly and well connected by a group of less than 10 people until I see this, bravo!!

[@Musicasa2ndlanguage]

they're amazing...loving nathan meltzer's eye contact :)

[@JonAhlquist]

Estimates as of May 2023, compiled from searches: Ariel Horowitz is a professional violinist, having studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School and then with Ani Kavafian at the Yale School of Music. Amy Lidell Weil is a professional violinist, having earned a Bachelor's degree in violin performance from the Jacobs School of Music at the University of Indiana. Gregorio Lopes is an electrical engineer at Zipline International in San Francisco, having earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University. (Zipline International designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones.) Nathan Melzer is a professional violinist, having studied with Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard.

[@chesslerbooks]

Awesome. The playing, the smiles, knowing it by heart. I hope these beautiful people are having as much joy today (2020) as they had that day seven years ago.

[@kaylapeckham6755]

1:48 you can see how much they love making music together

[@alexeileonardovianadelgado9344]

..Seem also proud of a demanding job

[@lydiaparker824]

I know the girl in the green dress you should go subscribe to her KZbin channel she’s amazing

[@jimboli9400]

the perfect squad doesn't exi....

[@jthai6149]

It's great to see them really enjoying themselves. Thank God Vivaldi is in good hands.

[@valencaaa]

Yes

[@mymind7508]

This performance is full of such convincing, compelling and pure joy. Bravo !!!!!!

[@3earl773]

The second Violin in green sounds talented and perfect. All of them are, of course, of high performance.

[@lydiaparker824]

I know her personally she’s so nice and soooo talented on violin

[@tonysalmons7594]

They were loving every minute of it and so was I. Wonderful Vivaldi.

[@gerdmichaelkleinert9416]

Das ist eine wahrhaftige Offenbarung, ein Genuss, diese herrlichen Kläge. Wie hingebungsvoll ohne Noten gespielt und einstudiert. Grandios, bravo.... L.G. aus Deutschland

[@luizsette-olhovivofarofino1736]

So wonderful as the musical performance, is the touching and extremely expressive changes of glances among them up to the point when Ariel Horowitz literally bursts into an explosive smile of pure joy and fulfillment.

[@at2mango]

Magnificent! I just love to listen to these players, every note sounds so beautiful. Thank you.

[@nancychef1]

amazing talented youth!

[@gaborkovacs]

brilliant performance, one of the best out there - the university's marketing manager who put the advertisement right in the middle of the performance should be imprisoned for life without parole lol - thanks for sharing

[@fredhainen]

IU, what else could you expect other than excellence. The IU school of music is known all over the world as one of the very best.

[@glorytofathersonandholyspirit]

Fred Hainen I live right by it

[@DenniseStyles0]

I love Ariel so much! This is glorious, beautiful performance all of you!!

[@jcb3user]

Brilliant playing and having fun doing it. I loved it

[@Gijreb]

Lovely performance. The contrast between the solo or duet violins and then the whole ensemble coming in are my favorite sections.

[@g7108]

This is one of favorite pieces to play. So much fun. I’ve performed the 1st and 4th solo part and I want to do them all! They really nailed it. Great job!

[@tonysalmons7594]

Just found this on KZbin and will certainly play this again many more times in the future. Thankyou

[@D...921]

Wonderful presentation ...Indiana University Virtuosi - Concerto for Four Violins (Vivaldi) Thank you!!!

[@herculesraphaelolimpio3569]

The first violinist, in white, is SUPER amazing ! Great sound !

[@emmaaxelson7821]

She also is using her talent to do amazing things, you should look her up!

[@justinchow7062]

Thx for this recording!

[@Averychanviolin]

Omg I really wish I could study there in the future !

[@zukor2969]

By far the prettiest sounding quartet I have ever heard.

[@wendymyers3182]

Very good!!! Very talented young people!!!! IU distributes top rate musicians....Bravi

[@seisty]

I love it! I can listen to it all day!

[@JJ-zk1dq]

Beautiful

[@viofloryn]

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tere_aja]

Clean & clear

[@carolhayes7750]

I SO love this Vivaldi piece! And I loved the enthusiasm they had and the smiles and eye contact! This was lovely!

[@riverwildcat1]

Gorgeous and luscious tonal qualities! Charming performers of great talent! Thank you!

[@oscargonzalez81]

no me canso de ver maestros sin partitura todos elegantes precisos vivaldi donde este se deve sentir orgulloso.

[@Zozazeo]

Very good use of contrast between piano and forte!

[@fodorcsongor3605]

Zozazeo lllpl

[@2listening1]

I really love this. Thank you so much.

[@mralston2650]

I remember playing this in chamber orchestra in high school.

[@conrantanchau53]

Thank You for the great performance .These are very talent musicians !

[@reaganb6013]

the way they keep smiling at each other is so wholesome

[@IbisSanchezSerrano]

Just beautiful! Congratulations!

[@banaders-gv3en]

Great rendition

[@kristijangrdjan6031]

They are so good!

[@billy7951]

Absolutely Amazing!! 😉

[@user-cl4yc5ef6u]

Wow~ amazing!

[@brettt777]

Amazing!!!

[@luisenriquemendoza442]

Congrats! Lovely work!

[@oscargonzalez81]

QUE GRANDES SON TOCAN UNA DE LAS MAS GRANDES OBRAS DE VIVALDI SIN PARTITURAS SE DIRIGEN CON LA MIRADA SON VERDADEROS GENIOS.

[@1cleandude]

Absolutely brilliant sweet children thank you all Bravo!🙏🙏🙏

[@johnrickert5572]

Excellent.

[@linacustini1557]

Meravigliosa esecuzione 😍

[@chesslerbooks]

This is so perfect. And those kids! That's who Vivaldi wrote this for! He was the music instructor for a Girls school in ITaly. ''Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi had worked as a Catholic priest for 18 months and was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740.'' [Wiki] I think ''abandoned children'' is a 1700's euphemism for unmarried pregnant girls.

[@dr.atlantis2194]

No no. Abandoned children stands for those children abandoned by poorest parents on specific door, actually a window, called "la ruota" (the wheel), made of two bays separated by a wooden wall. When a parent put a baby in the road faced bay, they pull a rope ringing a bell. At the inside, someone turned the wheel a get the baby, exposing the other bay to the road, ready for another child. This kind of wheels were very common in all medieval towns. Venice Republic government gave some money to whom would adopt one of them. To avoid scams (someone could adopt a baby and then abandon they again to get the money), babies were tattooed on a shoulder with the name of the adoptant. A variant is that the babies were put on display to anyone would get them. This was called exposition, and is the origin of the very common Italian surname "Esposti".

[@bobsteiner9209]

I believe that many of the girls in these schools were the children of noblemen and various members of the aristocracy who had brief affairs with chambermaids, etc. Such immorality (amorality?) was commonplace in those days, and numerous children were abandoned to such "homes," which were well supported by the upper classes. They could afford musical instruments, the best teachers, and other things associated with a fine education.

[@teodorotorres4133]

Gracias por compartir. Estupenda interpretación. Habilidad y mucha sensibilidad.

[@genehuangviolin]

Wonderful performance!

[@fuadjada4155]

Five Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I enjoyed. Happy New Year!

[@mariuszbolimowski8517]

Piękne

[@evavomusica]

5:20 ist ja süß! You're a lovely string group and show the bond among each other while playing music :-)! Great job!

[@ralphcanfield9555]

Bravo loved it

[@camillebryner8510]

Shout out to the violists...you did great. There's lots of talent all around:)

[@danielrodriguez9630]

Estos muchachos. Merecen un bravo...

[@francescoosto2864]

Good young talent

[@heidrunsa1167]

Exzellente Musiker, die sehr einfühlsam spielen. Bravo!!!!

[@freetime2006]

great work: i hope we hear from you after university..

[@antoniomoura9347]

Bravo!

[@giuseppeieropoli5144]

Vivaldi strikes again!

[@Robin_0011]

Daaaamn ya’ll are fire

[@bobsteiner9209]

Some credit goes to the audio engineers. Balance, clarity, no excessive reverb, everything we could want in a chamber performance....

[@cesarnascimento4792]

Great job guys! :-)

[@stephenkormanyos766]

That was fabulous. Steve K.

[@Bowl_of_roses]

Just brill

[@elettratogni3659]

a well done play. Bravi!

[@11Artash]

BRAVISSIMO!

[@ismaelsoto9680]

Certificate intergalactic! Molto Bravo!

[@fourstrings48]

It's startling how, despite the presence of the piano, this fine performance manages to sound (for the most part, anyway) so satisfyingly appropriate. I think that it must be owing to the fact that the keyboard instrument is outnumbered by so many string instruments...!

[@crediama]

Fantastici

[@klausal007]

Good performace, indeed. But listen to the same masterpiece played by the Karol Szymanowski Musik School Orchestra/Poland. Thats the best version you've ever heard!

[@oscargonzalez81]

que juventud que perfeccion para tocar sin partituras escritas con sus miradas se dirigen se que hoy dia son maestros que ejemplo para perfeccionar la música obra de arte de nuestros compositores época de los sabios nunca habran mas que lastima

[@hevalan]

Wow. Biji. In Kurdish means great. I went it IU long time ago. Thanks.

[@alainrobynsds5735]

la jeunesse dans Vivaldi quelle merveille

[@CruelLion7]

I hope I could play there someday

[@christinebrown1652]

Brava!

[@chesslerbooks]

This settles it. America has a great future. These young people are fabulous.

[@petermaglev4785]

good job

[@mariopolito1318]

These young musicians are a magnificent joy for my soul... believe in human beings...? Now a bit more...

[@andreaferioli7734]

Molto bene bravi ragazzi

[@azrielisrael8505]

awesome!!! i rock the violin :D

[@cello2987]

One of the best violin concerto in terms of virtuosity by Vivaldi: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHW1gYR-gJuIm8k

[@BaarnVictor]

I love the sound of the first violinist. Whats that black accessoire on the 2th and 3th violin!????

[@emmaaxelson7821]

BaarnVictor it's a c bout protector

[@lizliz8583]

53 sordos?? Qué tristeza que no puedan apreciar tan excelsa interpretación!!!

[@user-jw9eb2gf1u]

좋다

[@damianopiras7341]

Bravi

[@Dogaradodia]

Certifié intergalactique!

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

Bravi!

[@albertoruvalcaba4003]

I coincide with Oscar G about this young musicians playing this great concert without a partiture...congratulations! How long are they now?

[@renutonaip]

Beautiful performance! My question is this... is the University in the state of Indiana, or is it Indiana University in Pennsylvania? I live in Southwest Pennsylvania, and our university is well known for its music program.

[@emmaaxelson7821]

Joe Romesberg at the pipe organ the Jacobs school of music in Indiana.

[@Mzozozobi]

와~!! 제1바이올리스트 굿

[@user-yu6zt2bh3y]

Супер

[@vanessawyndham5744]

The cello continuo on this piece is a bitch. Bravo to the young cellist.

[@aldenvines5881]

Also, basso continuo on piano?? That's amazing.