Philip Glass - Violin Concerto No.1 for Marimba & Vibes, Mvmt.1, performed by Roland Härdtner 2010

[@donrayjay]

Excellent 👍

[@ИгорьДымченко-к9л]

Absolutely GREAT PERFORMANCE! WELTKLASSE!

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Thanks a lot! :-)

[@jflow5601]

This is great. So profound.

[@normfreeman5336]

Bravo... love the piece and the performance! Thank you for sharing this movement.

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Norm Freeman Thank you Norm. It's wonderful to get feedback like this!

[@melisce4336]

Brilliant arrangement and magnificent performance! Bravo 👏

[@2eleven48]

Some people run for the trees when they hear the name Philip Glass, but I adore what others might call repetition but which I hear as subtle variations on a theme and a cumulative exhilarating sound. Mr Hardtner is clearly the nonpareil in his field.

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Thanks a lot for your description of this music. That means what I feel. :-)

[@2eleven48]

@@rolandhaerdtner ....I am deeply honoured by your reply. Thank you.

[@SilverHime]

This is beautiful!!

[@harrynking777]

The more I listen music to this the more I appreciate its power.

[@maddoxdraven8507]

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[@jamesondominik8662]

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[@morganmax3132]

@Maddox Draven I use FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)

[@2eleven48]

All of this is majestic, but that section at 5.53 utterly thrills me.

[@MoniNotton]

That´s just wonderful!

[@7528204]

beautiful version, thanks for the work put into this.

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Click here for the next movements of this fantastic concerto! Movement 2 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZbbmaeCgayDpas and Movement 3 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn29gGWgmMeDl9k

[@2eleven48]

The most extraordinary, the most magnificent, playing by Roland Hardtner.

[@marubaba]

BEAUTIFUL!! THANK YOU!!

[@jflow5601]

Briliant

[@MrDrummer409]

very nicely played

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Thanks! :)

[@marianocuevas363]

Impresionante🎶🥂

[@VeraVieira-Paz]

Love it

[@russellfane1546]

Great arrangement. Beautifully played. you have realized a piece much better suited to keyboards than violin for the solo, although as a percussionist I may be a little biased.

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Thank you very much Russell Fane for your feedback. Yes, the imagination to make this piece maybe not better but with a new sound and transparence of rhythmical structures was the motivation to this arrangement. Happy to get a confirmation like your comment! :-)

[@jacobbass6226]

Russell Fane this just shows how badly written this piece is for violin.

[@ИгорьДымченко-к9л]

What about Gubaidulina's "Glorious Percussion". What do You think about this Masterpiece???

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Yes, a very interesting and efectful piece! In the performance with the Berliner Philharmoniker, it was just a lot of fun to see nice colleagues again after many years.

[@ИгорьДымченко-к9л]

I really think that S. Gubaidulina found a NEW LANGUAGE OF MUSIC - the language of musical forms.

[@stevesalzano942]

But in addition, the version with Amy Dickson on soprano sax is amazing.

[@kneeman66]

How did he play this from memory?

[@rolandhaerdtner]

The explanation is simple, but the implementation needs some experience in the rehearsal. ;-) Frequent repetition automates the technical processes. Then the compositional approach of minimal music helps you to think in patterns and loops. At the end of the rehearsal you have to remember "only" the individual points for the next loop. The mental challenge is not to confuse the minimal changes and variations in the process. Concentration is a great help here, especially if you memorize the entire Philip Glass concert together with the Marimba Concerto by Ney Rosauro in one performance. (Looks here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipWwn2Cfi7yWapI) But some practice in the musical work without printed music notes helps, is a good mental workout and keeps you mentally young! ;-)All best, Roland Härdtner

[@kneeman66]

@@rolandhaerdtner well I can't tell you how much I enjoy listening to you play I just wish you would be able to play live over here at the Philadelphia Orchestra where I'm a subscriber. And my two cousins were principal oboist and bassoonist under Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic in the 60s.Best regsrds.

[@loesschuurs6296]

Seriously, modern art exists

[@Violettasheikh]

very good

[@johannesnicolaas]

I felt quite low on energy today but this helps!

[@Sail0rGooN]

I'll be able to do this some day.

[@2eleven48]

Hi there...you wrote five years ago. Hope you have achieved some of your dreams.

[@Sail0rGooN]

It’s been 9 years and I’m 26. Still can’t do it lol. Wow embarrassing yet interesting. This place is like a time capsule sometimes

[@crazyorganist1609]

This is the violin concerto

[@2eleven48]

Did you not read that this is the violin concerto as arranged for marimba and vibes?

[@janakunkel2261]

my neurons are dancing

[@chap666ish]

One person downvoted this??? WTF?

[@bunnybro5977]

When your dad tells you to join business school saying wasting time on the xylophone wont get you anywhere in life

[@andrewchambersmusic]

I wouldn't say better, I'd just say different. Very cool though

[@SPECIALASQ]

木琴と鉄琴の使う場所！逆なのでは？

[@rolandhaerdtner]

Yes, it's the other way around. Originally composed for violin and presented here in an arrangement for marimba and vibraphone. はい、その逆です。 もともとはヴァイオリンのために作曲され、マリンバとビブラフォンのための編曲でここに提示されました。 Hope, it's okay with Google-Translation. ;-)

[@SLOVENEMUSIC]

The chordal technique is not suitable for violin, so as far as technical situation is concerned, it's actually more idiomatic for marimba. The "violin concerto", as beautiful as it sounds, the violin solo part is awful.

[@2eleven48]

Well, Glass, the composer, may just disagree with that opinion.

[@bunnybro5977]

You just don't like how harsh strings sound,bro Admit it