Sarah Chang: Spring Violin Concerto (Antonio Vivaldi)

[@jhglobal1]

OK...I can't hold back anymore...I have played and conducted the 4 seasons...and this is the BEST interpretation I have ever heard. SC puts a unique humanity..life..into everything she plays. She comes from a place of love thats palpable.

[@facelikedog]

The only possible way for me to appreciate such beauty is to listen to your music. Sweet Jesus!

[@HappyLlamaDrama]

The photography is great! She looks so pretty in the pics, and her music is great!

[@jwjypark]

What a fine piece of art! Sarah you go girl!

[@cianetti1]

Non mi stancherei mai di ascoltarLa. Grazie!

[@happyface975]

sarah chang is amazing!!! i totally look up to her as a musician (even tho i don't play violin, but that's okay)!!!

[@alteasong8805]

It's amazing performance technically! And a very fresh tone and the renewd interpretaton, I think so!

[@fabiograssi670]

The top was the 1st mov. of winter, you felt phisically the ice under the fiddles...

[@yoojinkang4568]

Lovely music

[@nikki1120ful]

I love the 4 seasons :)

[@filosoforvg9168]

Muy buena interpretación de esta violinista bella también.

[@kezhangxiao6269]

Amazing, simply beautiful

[@SsteinwayS]

@daniel3231995 She is...and she started recording when she was 9, so she literally made her career from the ground up based on her music. She's so lucky she's grown into such a sophisticated and beautiful woman! :O

[@calvinknabee2074]

winter was gone! The spring will come near here! keep yoru health!!?

[@dianazhu2673]

I watch Sarah Chang play this at strathmore

[@SsteinwayS]

@egohst1996 Me too! :) Never gets old...

[@SsteinwayS]

@sunrea1 Yes it is! :)

[@fabiograssi670]

Anyway, a truly amazing performance was of the Akbank Chamber Orchestra conducted by Cem Mansur, what a pity it was live and not recorded...

[@khairilanuarothman3869]

Would be wonderful if, say, the Violin Channel were to compile all her performances from when she was 11 to 19 years old. Prodigies are so much more captivating when passion for the music is the only virtue their innocence recognises and demands.

[@SsteinwayS]

Yes indeed... :)

[@SsteinwayS]

@starmakeup13 Aww, good for you! Do it - the world needs more classical music :) What a lovely comment!

[@차민서-b6t]

Vivaldi, spring from four seasons op.8, no.1

[@filosoforvg9168]

Todo arte es valioso porque tiene el espíritu. La naturaleza es contingente (Hegel) y en ella domina el azar que carece de valor.

[@krishnaisindahouse]

I believe she had her debut with the New York Philarmonic Orchestra when she was 8

[@BlueMoonLightDreams]

I love love sarah Chang so much, if i was her type i would marry right on the spot haha. she is amazing! i just can describe, she has just passion for what she does, and she has told the public many times including on twitter. SARAH and Nigel Kennedy are on favorites when it comes to Vivaldi on violin.

[@SsteinwayS]

@nikki1120ful Me too. :)

[@신의-v8m]

👍

[@TIEDefender2nd]

i would, too.

[@徐彩珍-v3g]

she is a good violin player.

[@natalie6042]

@徐彩珍 She is an amazing violin player

[@r2sj]

check out Julia Fischer's Four Seasons and it's unbelievably perfect and moving in every aspect. It is my favorite.

[@leonie516]

Voorjaar daar wachten we op .......

[@dayan5402]

Amazing performances. Chinese girls rock!

[@ancienttekken]

She is a Korean American.

[@fabiograssi670]

In my opinion now it is useless to perform "correctly" such compositions like 4S. You have all the the excellent classical performance you want. Only a "strange" performance can revive our attention. We cannot any more listen to 4S, we can only think about 4S.

[@TheVerySpecialK]

Well if one is not going to perform it "correctly" then one ought to call it something else, like "Variations on The Four Seasons," for instance. The title of this is misleading, because although it's advertised as The Four Seasons it's actually something else entirely.

[@fabiograssi670]

The problem is: what is the correct performance? There is a correct performance?

[@TheVerySpecialK]

When you perform a piece "correctly" you play it note for note exactly as the composer intended it. You also do your best to emulate the style of the piece in accordance with the time period in which it was written. If you do anything other than this, you cannot say you are playing the said piece, because you are not.

[@centrostudieurasiaticibau837]

TheVerySpecialK You may be right, but then you have to label as uncorrect all the not philological performances. In other words, there would be only one correct performance all the others being wrong...

[@TheVerySpecialK]

I said you do your "best" to emulate. This leaves room for slight variations between performances. Obviously, when a piece is performed, different musicians, instruments, and rooms can all have an effect on how the piece comes together. In other words, no performance can be "perfect." But as long as the musicians are doing _their very best_ to play the piece correctly (i.e., note for note), then there is no issue. However, the same cannot be said for Chang's performance of this piece: she rewrote and rearranged parts of the piece without consulting the composer, and despite this, still had the nerve to call it "The Four Seasons." Thus, she has produced a mockery of a masterpiece and has insulted one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period.

[@BlueMoonLightDreams]

i think it was 9...but i could be wrong.

[@fmacdonald7557]

Trouble with classical music there are so many opinion and very aragent opinions, my friends I am a commoner. I love the violin and it should be for every one in this world after all it is 2018 so just listen to it And stop being pompous and aragent please. If you don't like it there is all ways the off button.

[@Frazinho76]

I would divorce Megan Fox to marry Sarah Chang if I could

[@정우진-q3d]

I don't no Im korea kids

[@chriskim3324]

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[@chriskim3324]

안녕하세요

[@filosoforvg9168]

Todas las interpretaciones de Spring son encomiables. Las comparaciones son como los acordes mal hechos.

[@ppjwe69]

Hasta que veo un comentario sensato.

[@helthuismartin]

Mari Samuelson did it better.

[@lovemetu]

Vivaldi ''Four Seasons'' is just about the only music that Mari Samuelsen has featured on KZbin whereas Sarah Chang has a far wider repertoire of Violin Music that she plays all over the world in concerts. Mari Samuelsen is an excellent Violinist whereas Sarah Chang is recognised world wide as one of the very best modern day Virtuoso Violinists

[@TheVerySpecialK]

This has got to be the worst interpretation of The Four Seasons I've ever heard. For one, the tempos are all off. She constantly slows down and speeds up, taking FAR too many liberties with the piece. Even the orchestra plays things wrong! For instance, what the hell are they doing at 1:46? Why are they staggering that run? Vivaldi didn't write that! This isn't the Four Seasons, it's an ego trip.

[@ilkayatil]

Calling this an ego trip might be a bit harsh but I agree with you. Sarah mentions that she takes risk and tries to give a different nuance everytime she plays a piece and this is a very good example of that. The performance almost sounds like a variation of Four Seasons. In fact, how about a new video title: "Four Seasons: A New Approach"?

[@dianazhu2673]

I understand your opinion but you stated it in a very very harsh way

[@TheVerySpecialK]

ilkay atil Diana Zhu In retrospect, I do agree that I could have worded my comment in a more eloquent manner. When I first heard this rendition, I didn't know Chang had taken such a drastically free-form approach to her interpretation, and was surprised (to say the least) by her stylistic departure from traditional baroque methodology. Perhaps if Chang had disclosed this fact in title of her interpretation (as ilkay atil suggests above) then I wouldn't have been caught so off-guard.

[@cherrytime22]

KZbinrs advising Sarah Chang, Virtuoso Violinist and child prodigy as to how she should be playing Spring Violin Concerto from the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. I am sure Sarah needs your tuition and advice .............As if !

[@TheVerySpecialK]

+cherrytime22 No one, no matter their skill or genius, is isolated from critique. Chang may very well be a technical genius, but in my personal opinion the hues and strokes of her rendition are too bold, to the point where they distract the listener from the music itself. Again, this is my opinion, which I felt compelled to share after listening.