Joshua Bell: Bruch Violin Concerto No.1

[@eleonoreclochard9741]

It was my father's favorite song, I took him to see this concert on Radio France and he left us two months later. he was so happy to have lived this magical moment before leaving. It's one of my best memories and every listening makes me cry ...

[@rlwang6882]

So touching and heartbreaking story about you and your father. But he was lucky to have you as his child with whom he could share beautiful things. Btw, this piece is one of my favorites too.

[@lighthousecollector]

It was my late fathers favourite as well. When I was young he played the record amoung others ,while we are our Sunday lunch. It became my favourite too . We had the Wolfgang Schneiderhan version which to me tops everyone else though some others are almost as good .

[@풉-r9c]

You are a wonderful daughter … I hope he rest in peace . I still remember and feel my last grandfather’s love . I am sure you dear father must have loved you . Thats one of reasons why music is magical . It flies with many memories and moments we cant forget. Time flies however love and music last forever .

[@ashtree8898]

This is my favourite piece of classical music too. I am moved by the image of a daughter sharing such pleasure in this piece with her father, Eleonore, especially so soon before your very sad loss. I am also touched by this because my own father was one of these rare people for whom music was of no interest and brought no enjoyment.

[@jessielin79]

I listened to him this past weekend play Bruch at the Kennedy center. When I tell you I WEPT. 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻👏🏻

[@GG-bo8jg]

I just cried watching him play on youtube! Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major (my favorite). 🙂

[@Danidge19]

This was my Mothers favorite piece of classical music she used to sit crossed legged in her chair and conduct the piece while listening at the time it was Isaac Stern playing . So I love this one just because . :-)

[@Danidge19]

@@iviolin6211 Thank you it was many years ago but I was very close to my mother xx

[@songsongsingasong]

Every time I watch this performance I cry, the beauty and energy of the performance is unmatched, pls don't remove this ever!

[@katemcenery3654]

Download it and you'll ALWAYS have it ❤️

[@Lindabird1948]

My twin brother played this in the 1960s with the Spokane symphony at age 16. My favorite memorie of him forever.

[@magnus22001]

he is absolutely amazing, conducting and playing......

[@kherynnw8603]

The acoustics in the hall they're in is quite something. I could hear every section of the orchestra clearly. Joshua's playing is beyond.

[@l.fsader6021]

Eh. The part at 1:20 where the tempo picks up and the cellos and bass start plucking is hardly heard and that's my favorite part;(

[@garfreed]

Beyond what . . . ?

[@garfreed]

@@l.fsader6021 Get a different favorite part.

[@l.fsader6021]

Gary Freedman I’m saying this orchestra did not emphasize the shift correctly

[@NICKRL13]

Beyond what? Beyond subpar? Beyond mediocre? I doubt it. Go hear Zukerman

[@jacquelinehartvelt]

Fantastic! One of the most outstanding violinists ever. Joshua Bell plays with so much felling and with his whole spirit. Thank you for bringing so much joy to my life.

[@rodneyjones1541]

I have always loved this concerto dearly, Joshua Bell oozes musicality here - it's a sublime performance on many levels. His playing really enables his instrument to "sing" quite beautifully, especially in the higher passages. Such beauty and emotion in the 2nd movement contrast perfectly with the energy and exuberance of the final movement; a true tour-de-force. Great work from the orchestra too, not easy when being conducted by the soloist and having to keep one eye on him and the other on the 1st violin player. All in all a truly great performance which greatly moved me.

[@violinist1294]

Rodney Jones he really is one of my favorite violinists. I think his musicality and technique are some of the highest among well-known prodigal violinists

[@Mateo-et3wl]

this reminds me of the time I served joshua bell a footlong sandwich while working at subway in bloomington. he's much less passionate when he orders food

[@simonwong2738]

Mateo what did he order, were you passionate enough to give him extra?

[@legamature]

Did you tell him that you know who he is?

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

Fenomenal concert 🙏🙏🙏🙏 🎻 Joshua Bell, orchestra , digest 🙏👏👏👏👏💐💞👋🇸🇪

[@gregebert5544]

This performance is absolutely incredible. Far fewer musicians than other performances I've seen, yet they have have the power to pull it off, even in the more dramatic sections. Kudos to Joshua for nailing it as a conductor at the same time.

[@gregebert5544]

I also love the double-stops that Bruch added to this superb and dramatic creation.

[@JavierBonillaC]

3:53 does it for me. I find it like the most romantic moment in classical music. There is a longing for earth, for mankind, for life…. As if the human race was about to come extinct and we were remembering all of its highest moments with nostalgia

[@alsaiz]

Always a powerful performance is to be expected from Mr. Bell. Beautiful rendition of a beautiful masterpiece.

[@christophernaze]

Shocking how few views of this masterpiece performance.

[@paulgreen1117]

After listening to this performance I thought how I recently shared with a certain sister at church, when she commented on my singing voice, that my late mother(Mary Anna Green) taught me “purity of tone and expression” by her crystalline, sincere example. Our souls have the innate power to transmit to others that “fair breeze from a purer region” Plato alluded to back in antiquity. Why else did the LORD JESUS equate the worth of one soul to the entire world? This particular piece has a crystalline concept, I feel, that touches upon this capacity uniquely musically. Joshua Bells’ interpretation radiates this transcendent aspect very admirably. My eyes welled with tears because I was moved to such a lovely estate of soul while being swept along by this resplendent collaboration! As a spiritual man I am confident that “unto the pure all things are pure.” In that music is one of the prominent heavenly expressions that John recorded in the book of Revelations. It is quite apparent that the congregate spheres are attuned and upheld by the eternal symphony at which Jesus is centered and is the creator. His sons are his “workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works.” This gorgeous concerto reminds me,again,how God placed man over the works of His hand that we might be to the praise of the glory of his grace! My love of classical music from a child is my personal guarantee of my own journey of discovery to grow and be the full statured man I have and am yet to become. At sixty-eight years old I regularly tell people I have my best years ahead of me. I am thrilled that this concerto is a part of my experience as I consider Paul the Apostles exhortation to “think on those things that are lovely.” Sincerely, Paul W. Green

[@acr08807]

What are congregate spheres? And why does Jesus bother with them? Doesn't he have real work to do?

[@RobertGreenberry]

one of my al time favs. how many music lovers havent heard this as well as schwanda the bagpiper

[@norbertodelcp]

¡¡¡Magnífica interpretación de este bello concierto para violín y orquesta!!!

[@sylviafarese9546]

Director de orquesta y solista. Fantástico Siempre haciendo música con el alma logrando estremecer "el alma colectivo" Muchas gracias por difundir este concierto de Joshua Bell

[@bergonzzi100]

Абсолютно ШЕДЕВРАЛЬНОЕ исполнение, наделённое какой- то магией!!!🎻🎻🎻🎻 👍👍👍👍👍👍Слушаю уже не первый день и не могу оторваться!

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

Beautiful❤🎻🎼‼️ This coming from hearts ♥️ ❣️🙏🇸🇪

[@HEALInformatics]

Love that Joshua is conducting this he really puts his personality into it. Reminds me of the way PatKop interacts with the orchestra the soloist-conductor thing epitomizes that synergy that we strive for in chamber music and is a sharp contrast to the common scenario in which musicians pay in their silos eyes on the iPad/part, oblivious to the rich human matrix around them.

[@johnrondeau8500]

His playing is so straightforward what a talent.

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

🙏 Tank you Joshua Bell 🙏 Beautiful concert ! 💐👋🇸🇪

[@nelidaruthmonsalvemomberg2764]

Gracias por entregarnos tsn bellas interpretaciones.

[@katiavonaltrock1584]

conducting and playing simultaneously, this is inflaming the whole rendition, how incandescent the music, Bruch would surely approve and we, all over the world may enjoy this pure marvel, Bravo to all musicians and thanks for the JOY you bring to us

[@jacquelinehartvelt9782]

I think Joshua Bell was conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, his current orchestra as a conductor, and playing as a violinist solo at the same time. That is not out of the ordinary. Mozart did it all the time. Pianist Barenboim sometimes conducts and plays a piano concerto too. There may be others.

[@katiavonaltrock1584]

@@jacquelinehartvelt9782 you are right. It is so

[@wolasjean669]

gorgeous is the word. I love Bruch

[@BeammeupSpotty]

well i'm officially in love with joshua bell. I admit i hadn't been a fan in the past, but i listened to the tchaikovsky the other day and it was WOW. then i decided to listen to the Sibelius and again WOW. so i thought i;d see what he could do with the Bruch and for the third time, WOW!!! I love his sense of music and of course he's got the chops to pull it off. Nice!!!! Joshua is the bomb!!!!

[@TheSparshofMusic-wn7de]

Amazing!👍👍👍

[@mariatartini1146]

Passion!!! Energy!!! He shows his soul playing!!!

[@noramendez9035]

Divino concierto! Y Joshua... lo más!!!

[@rachelelfman2769]

I am 14 and I am playing the third movement. His playing is just amazing. The 3rd movement is literally my favorite concerto. 😄❤️🎶🎵

[@user-zc5dz2gc3l]

I am playing the Bruch violin Concerto too and I’m 11! Do you mean that the 3rd movement is your favourite movement out of the Concerto or what???

[@ethanschubkegel1627]

Hey hey me too!😁

[@debenmen]

@@user-zc5dz2gc3l hey im playing this too exept im 7!!

[@W_Manzz21]

Lol playing dis at 10

[@ninecatsmagee8384]

Interesting to see it conducted this way, extremely energetic and the audience was ecstatic. We all have our favourites of course. I've seen this performed by Vilde Frang and couldn't get over it for months. Different dynamics and emphasis and will always be my standard.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The comfort and wonderfulness of Joshua Bell‘s violin are far superior splendor amazing ,

[@helenholmes3530]

I have listened to Joshua Bell since he was a lad. My goodness he is sublime ! !

[@iwataty]

Amazing to play this concerto without conductor. Joshua Bell is of course great, and also the concertmaster is great to 'conduct' the orchestra.

[@Alekos-Maniatis]

no, the concertmaster is not conducting, wrong, Bell is "conducting", but it is very easy for the orchesta and there has not to be a conductur like in a schoolbus.

[@alicealfons9023]

Bell was the conductor there

[@saltag]

Feels like chamber music...awesome

[@emmegy27]

Joshua Bell, suona assoluta armonia, infinita bellezza, pura arte. È un violinista grandioso e lo ammiro all'infinito. Ho avuto la fortuna di sentirlo dal vivo ,ha eseguito il concerto di Brahms ,è stata una emozione indimenticabile. Grandioso!!!

[@MashedTubers]

Please speak English.

[@filipjandus4537]

Magnificent performance!

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

🙏 Beautiful concert❣️ 👏👏👏 🤩 👋 🇸🇪 💐💐💐

[@spiritualatheist1]

I heard Bell play this on my car radio and wondered who was attacking it with so much energy and clarity. I looked it up and it was Bell - made perfect sense. I suppose it was the recording he made with Neville Marriner and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Be interesting to make a comparison. Both the Marriner performance and a smooth Gatti, 2006 Proms performance are on KZbin. The Verbier orchestra is very good though.

[@lanamargreritamariawaldren6988]

joshua love you forever . kisses new york

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

Beautiful 💐💐💐 concert 👏👏👏 🤩👋🇸🇪

[@gilmerlopezaguilar0119]

No puedo encontrar las palabras para describir este performance tan excepcional. Que ya lo vi en vivo y no me canso de verlo.

[@johnchenmusic3706]

You should check out Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy. It’s just as beautiful and exciting, if not more!

[@spiritualatheist1]

So far as I know, the Verbier orchestra is put together for the Festival and is not used to playing with each other. They do a pretty good job of playing together here without a conductor - but it is hard on an orchestra to make them do so. They have to watch the first violinist in addition to Bell and their music.

[@louiserobinson410]

I love his phrasing

[@wendylouisehall19]

Wondrously exciting and passionate interpretation! Joshua is an exceptionally talented musician of the highest caliber. Thank you Joshua for this lovely performance. Love Wendy Louise (Hall) fellow musician

[@violeta-kristinajanoniene8412]

THANKYOU JOSHUA F.☀️

[@zsuzannakvist7330]

💐💐💐Fenomenal‼️‼️‼️Wunderbare 💐💐💐👋🇸🇪👵🏻

[@MrViola1234]

Very good! Doesn't sound like all the other recordings, thanks for the slide in 1/22, only heard Odnoposoff and Kogan do it!!!

[@YangWangPhD]

3:17 is the most magical moment of the entire concerto

[@JavierBonillaC]

3:53 does it for me. I find it like the most romantic moment in classical music. There is a longing for earth, for mankind, for life…. As if the human race was about to come extinct and we were remembering all of its highest moments with nostalgia.

[@klaraerikalabanc2603]

Csodálatos! ❤✨️💚

[@BaGlePoCkEt]

this is my like, daily vitality lol i love it to death

[@Karpple]

Brillante!!!

[@robertcohn8858]

Mr. Bell's playing is gorgeous (as always). Wish they'd sprung for a music director to keep down the conducting theatrics. Press the start arrow and minimize; enjoy...

[@susanmoore9745]

why let a conductor have all the fun...Bell doubles up and delivers

[@arjun12ist]

Haha, this made my day :)

[@keitho9508]

Spot on Robert. Solo conducting diminishes the real conductor. They didn't go to pot when he wasn't conducting so what use was he!

[@oldenweery7510]

I found his gymnastics distracting; didn't want to close my eyes because I was interested in in the other musicians, particularly the tympanist. I think a lot of people miss the importance of tympanic emphasis.

[@donald01ish]

Robert Cohn 4

[@hanitaeshtai2454]

magnificent bell

[@anonimo-bc5sx]

8:24 2nd mvt 16:50 3rd mvt like to pin

[@soniag1475]

Joshua Bell suena ese violín con el alma

[@cmmitchellmitchell6882]

he's magical!!

[@pebo8306]

If this is magical,I wonder how you rate Julia Fischer and Hilary Hahn??????(Divine,"out-of -this-world"?????)

[@wolasjean669]

overwhelming At last i can know his name.Frankly i think he needs no conductor.He speaks from the heart and he has a lot to say

[@convergency1068]

Lang Lang should accompany him playing some violin sonatas. It would be so good, oh the theatrics and dramas lol

[@RobertGreenberry]

svanda dudak the tempo is better than any other interpretation

[@susannestechow1009]

I wonder and that is very interesting how many ways there are to interprete this concerto. Ray Shen plays the slow parts of the 1st movement of this concerto a little bit too sweet at the sound. oshua Bell plays it just right, but his many body-movings during his playing are a thing who I have to learn to stand it.

[@christophermcquaid6256]

Poetry!

[@marciarijfkogelrijfkogel4587]

Outstanding

[@timblock3483]

Excellent.

[@jacquelinehartvelt9782]

Magnificent!!!!

[@susannestechow1009]

So beautiful, the non-pretentious way to play the 2nd movement.

[@drania76]

I find Joshua Bell pretty vilent. If I played with Academy of St Martin's I would freak out! I saw them twice, unfortunately I missed Nevil Mariner so I have no comparison.

[@MrNachocml13]

you can really hear the breathe of joshua bell or is just my idea?

[@rudiwalter8674]

Ignacio Javier Mödinger León und

[@raskolnikov6347]

he's breathing to cue the orchestra

[@Ivander85]

@@raskolnikov6347 I'd say he's beathing to survive but ok

[@Jerusalemcorporacoes]

magnifico.

[@MauricioTawil]

Great

[@mbloucao]

6:05 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@christophernaze]

On point!

[@runningmiracles3874]

Bravo!

[@МаріяБоднар-ж4о]

BRAVO!

[@roystewart663]

Give him a Bells (A really good blend of Scottish Whisky)

[@MashedTubers]

Scotch

[@samuelcole9385]

6:02 is my favourite

[@garfreed]

8:30 second movement

[@leacamillo-coura8054]

Maravilhoso

[@水戸満子]

素晴らしい音色。一音もズレない演奏、指揮も素晴らしい。さすがジョシュアベルさん!

[@MashedTubers]

Please speak English, you will be understood.

[@adamlodge491]

THE CELLOS!!! 6:12

[@violeta-kristinajanoniene8412]

💜.......

[@carlang4793]

7:44 i screamed

[@jxssma]

OMG me too!!!!!!!!! 😧

[@creamsoda6427]

Not me lol. It's really impressive, but since i already know how to play this part already, i dont need to scream.

[@juhunkim5244]

Glam Msp ok and?

[@creamsoda6427]

@@juhunkim5244 "ok and?" What are you trying to apply? What you just said is fatuous.

[@pebo8306]

I did too!But from pain!Horrible!

[@leonmoralesjosejoavf7819]

6:03

[@natalialaponova2376]

Belissimo)))

[@ranieflute]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕bravo

[@НинаГубина-в9э]

Браво чудесно изумительно муз мышление

[@cynthiawalson129]

HOLY SHIT! IS THIS THE SON GRANDSON OR RELATIVE OF THAT FABULOUS GREY HEADED CELLIST OMG

[@christophermcquaid6256]

He should hire a conductor !

[@emmegy27]

Chi scegliere tra lui e David Garrett?? Difficili rispondere , sono entrambi perfettamente all' apice!!!. Ma il suono del violino di Bell mi pervade l'anima, è un emozione profonda e assoluta!!

[@susannestechow1009]

And then the 3rd movement...vital...

[@arusyakhovhannisyan8024]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@ddownbond]

He plays a mean fiddle!

[@Yves_Ka]

What is he playing @7:43 ?? The scale in octaves????

[@acacia-bloom]

Some added improvisations

[@robotnik77]

Yeah, that was weird. It wasn't even fingered.

[@dannyboy2267]

1:26 is when it gets cool

[@sooderam1]

16:50 3mov

[@innayo]

6:02 ... wow...

[@vstoussaint]

Magnificent Orch not so

[@rtepz123]

Mazec !!!!