[Vienna, 1964] Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins & Cello in d, RV 565

[@Mercer1012]

4) Most importantly, there are actual contemporary accounts from the time period that survive to document Vivaldi's playing technique. He was described as having a "rough and edgy" playing style. One German nobleman commented on a visit to Venice that "Don Vivaldi improvised his own cadenza. He played so high that his fingers came within a grass blade's width of the edge of the fingerboard and he played with such rapidity that it startled everyone in the room."

[@jeremy8473]

That makes sense.

[@MrCamzeys]

i like how both violins mock each others parts in the beginning

[@inn3720]

I played it (on the lute) and the impression we wanted to give is that there's a lute that's doing only a bass and the other is repeating itself, that was really hard

[@espressogirl68able]

It's called a "canon".

[@ignaciocaballerohuespe805]

​@@espressogirl68able I have a doubt, what would be the difference between a canon and a fugue?

[@CloudySunrise]

This is pretty good quality for something recorded 50 years ago.

[@dragosgheorghe9350]

Wow, just when I thought I heard them all, my head is torn apart with mesmerizing once again. Thank you Antonio !

[@tnsnamesoralong]

​0:00 Allegro ​1:02 Andante e spiccato ​1:30 Allegro ​4:46 Largo e spiccato ​8:19​ Allegro PS: 10:35 My favorite part in the 3rd movement

[@BerrikoAndonik]

Vivaldi surprises everyone with a huge capability to tell wonderful themes and melodies. The third movement is as pretty as I can reckon into a perfect world inside it.

[@potatohuevos2269]

2:02 "YOU'RE GOD"

[@Michi-el-gato]

What does that mean?

[@Izom91]

@@Michi-el-gato it is a quote from the anime "death note"

[@siggmadelta4132]

Five pages on november 26th, i dont get it what do you mean?

[@Izom91]

@@siggmadelta4132 whats the thing you dont understand

[@siggmadelta4132]

@@Izom91 its what light said to mikami before he said your god

[@ChefNemesis]

The slow tempo makes jt like 20 times more intense and beautiful

[@Mercer1012]

To quote a French nobleman regarding the speed of music in Italy: "When in Italy, the allegro must be played faster than normal, and the largo must be played slower than normal. Such is the importance of contrast to the Italians."

[@mariksebastianishtar207]

«Five pages on november 26?» «I don’t get it.» «What do you mean??»

[@Koretached]

"YOU'RE GOD"

[@guzzalzo9974]

Mikami: "You're God!"

[@sailingforde04]

There's a tendency to power through Baroque music, as a demonstration of virtuosic prowess. I think that this leads to the desensitization of beautiful music quite regularly.

[@tnsnamesoralong]

@Mercer1012 I don't agree with you. This is the correct tempo with full and perfect sounding in my opinion Other hand, in opposite view, I don't like modern Vivaldi-band (e.g.:Venice Baroque Orchestra /Andrea Marcon/, Il Giardino Armonico, Europa Galante /Fabio Biondi/). They are playing hurry-scurry therefore their interpretation usually adsorb important details..

[@MrLewis-lk8us]

This tempo is perfect.

[@klop4228]

While I can see it working at this tempo, I feel the style of playing is much harsher than it needs to be. Lighter playing at this tempo could absolutely work

[@janecappy]

I love where the cello comes in!

[@Efe_e]

"you're doing well Mikami"

[@marinaimperatore]

Ogni volta che l'ascolto è una nuova emozione.. davvero speciale!

[@classicforever1]

Perfect version ever...

[@ofirh5072]

I love this version a lot ... This is great, I played it on my 3rd year and I just found the notes and decided to try it again. Of course it sounded a lot better and it made me fall in love with the music, I had to search it and this version is great in my opinion :)

[@vivaldifromjapan5853]

I like "the old I Musici style". Thank you very much.

[@fuadjada4155]

Historic Recordings are great! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@SaBiNuKi]

[@michaelrobertson7397]

No wonder J.S. Bach always plagiarized Vivaldi.

[@_Senjumommy]

Deathnote brought me here

[@hiokiryuuhei4714]

Same here to be honest

[@hash55b73]

Lol same

[@yeah8598]

Not same i just like vivaldi

[@fitnessbrotherade2959]

👏👏👏👏👌🎵🎵🎶🎶🎻🎼i like this concerto grosso, is one of my favorites.😉

[@vladtheglad2145]

I was supposed to play this but the cellist wanted to play another piece where he had another solo so we didnt play it and I am sad because I love this piece so much

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

Perhaps Vivaldi's greatest work

[@idefixthecat]

awesome! hi from Ankara/ Turkey

[@Mercer1012]

Finally, I have provided video responses as examples of Vivaldi's playing technique. I suggest you listen to them. Because the performers have gone through years and years of research and study of actual Vivaldi scores in the Turin and Dresden library's to play properly in Vivaldi's style. I suggest you read Geminani's Art of Playing the Violin, and Quantz's several treatises. I have. They are very informative as regards to tempo.

[@Mercer1012]

Use several contemporary accounts for comparison. Nearly all said something along the lines of "The Italians play slow pieces much slower than others, and fast pieces much faster than others would perform such a piece." The Venetians were even more dramatic than most Italians. So its safe to say, Vivaldi would have preferred faster vs. slower as a way of magnifying the contrast.

[@radudodoc6376]

Antonio Vivaldi Concert for Two Violins§Cello in d,RV 565 says every think about his opera!

[@irina5479]

Прекрасное произведение

[@victornoagbodji]

😊 🙏 😊 thank you so much for sharing this!

[@MrRafaelamadeumilani]

excelent work!!! very good the music and the sheets together!

[@byrusmx]

Directo a mi lista!

[@anthonylu1910]

the string sound is very lush in this recording. I wish that there were more decay for each note and shaping as the lines went up and down and so on...

[@MrReggar]

Kami!

[@Doom-sn2gq]

Kami

[@lucreziaborgia5798]

This presentation is a really good idea! Thank you for this video&all the best for you!

[@garyleung142857]

Wow, very POWERFUL and very very ROMANTIC!

[@OrlandoAponte]

I agree with you. I actually thought this was a midi at first until I started reading the comments

[@DressedForDrowning]

what a wonderful concerto! thanks for uploading with the score.

[@classicforever1]

The most amazing moment of my life begins from 00:00

[@felixheiss]

Fantastic piece .

[@kalashnikov2471]

It's such a shame that we always have to see an ad in the beginning and in the middle of this masterpiece which completely ruin the thrill of this piece . I mean come on please have some respect for this 300 year old masterpiece hmmm I'm so disappointed 😠😠

[@unastellamihaparlato]

Masterpice! Vivaldi transforming the past into new .... Interpretation that does not follow the "mode", I like it video 5*****, the score, great work

[@LegoUniverseUNSC]

GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@siggmadelta4132]

"You're GOD"

[@Mercer1012]

Well, I try to refrain from eating alot of fatty foods and I keep in as fit a state I can for my age. I take many daily doses of vitamins and make sure my diet has lots of protein. It can be done. Its called "contemporary accounts". His playing has been documented by several important noblemen. Vivaldi's letters also reveal much about his personality and his footnotes on his actual scores (I have seen many) reveal how it is supposed to be played. Modern scores omit these footnotes often.

[@LCilOliveira]

Great for my class of Harmony! :) From Brazil!!!

[@guyboy625]

Love this interpretation. The modern ones think expression has no place in baroque. Might as well be a computer playing.

[@mikitavi]

While I can see where you're coming from - I don't exactly agree it's too slow, but I do agree that it lacks zest and fire - there are some compositions that would sound wonderful even if they were played slow on tissue paper and comb. This one, Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Concerto No. 11 in D minor for two violins cello and strings, is one of them. That also goes for the entire works of Bach.

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@toormood]

I love this song

[@obitomcoc2475]

Eres DIOS !!

[@argentina283]

Maravilloso!!!!!!

[@LoboMendez1]

thank you so much for the sheet music!!!!

[@jufegom]

Bello, gracias por compartirlo.

[@ellen132]

Wonderful.

[@nicodemusfarias6673]

Agradecido por compartir la obra

[@vanboaconstrictor]

@Mercer1012 I don't think that today they play too slow. Mostly its too fast because the soloist want too show us how "good" they are. But that's not the real soul of the music. this recording is brilliant. The energy and the fire of vivaldi is great-. But when you play too fast you destroy the tension in the music

[@excalibutterycake]

when continuo and cello come it at 00:38 , the harspsichord sounds like a hi-hat :D 1700's version of heavy metal :D

[@toormood]

Den sangen spiller jeg i orkesteret 🎻

[@blondjames2002]

i fully agree with you.

[@robertgift]

I like Bach's organ transcription of this work better! It also reveals the mean-tone tuning/playing of the ochestra.

[@composer318]

9:01 I like that part if it's not melodic but if it's harmonic like for Bach, I would have listened very nice

[@law9544]

Mikami... Will you bring me luck?

[@iosifvissarionovich4552]

Art work

[@Mercer1012]

No, I like listening to the baroque bands of today who do actual research and pay attention to Vivaldi's own words and those of contemporaries like Quantz on how the songs are supposed to be played. And thanks for the wishes of luck! I find plenty of good modern recordings. I meant BIG orchestras like the London Philharmonic or the other big ones. They have the mindset of the Romantic Era ingrained upon them.

[@palomorat]

Fantastico:-÷

[@M_SC]

I’ve played a Bach allegro that clearly took from some bits of this.

[@eloideazevedo8998]

Maravilha!!!!

[@zombies4evadude24]

1:31 “God!!!”

[@KingKong_78]

Belíssimo.

[@tnsnamesoralong]

See the video-description to the thanks! ;)

[@mariapiazza-od8ib]

Very very very nice !!! 😮😮😮 It's only a shame, and mostly not even worth reporting , that some uneducated person gives credit to Bach for a ( however genial ) transcription 😢

[@hesuchia]

Were there any tempo annotations in any non subjective unit, like beats per minute? Because concepts like "very fast" may change a lot over time. The fastest music my grandparents used do hear in their teens is much slower than nowadays fast music.

[@OpalFur]

i played this in my orchestra last year :D

[@OpalFur]

well, up until the largo, not the whole thing

[@OpalFur]

and were playing this again this year :P

[@valeriabarcaa]

OpalFur me too. But this year

[@mprz052]

nice

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Vivaldi is the world‘s lingua franca

[@HelenHfrk-kc4rs]

Ich bin 13 und spiele dieses Stück mit einem 8 jährigen 😱😍

[@always4pets338]

Helen H. Ich spiele es auch😂⭐

[@ninascrew]

So awsome,I always loved this concerto.

[@toormood]

Wow

[@denislrn]

Great concerto!!!! the 3rd movement is incredible. On start its normal to want hear a perfidia like really it be.

[@EpigeneticAlteration]

Please go on and tell me how you actually listened to "pre1900s" performances of Vivaldi. I'd love to know how you managed to live for well over 110 years.

[@q1fs353]

Guys, I recommend to use 1.5x speed, it really sound amazing!

[@andrewohler3198]

In some spots, I strongly hear the Bach double!

[@OmegaYkaros]

Very nice the first intrepretation, but first movement's fugue has a problem: you can't listen to all voices properly: The continuo players are encovering the violas. But it's a very interesting interpretation. But I still prefer this. I know that one is the "historically correct", but i still think it's to fast, but this is my personal taste.

[@markusboyd3]

Was this not one of J.S.Bach's organ concerto's?

[@hq2344]

This fact is a blow to me。。。

[@kuzey2791]

Which one

[@yes-fq6jd]

The shortest Adagio I've ever heard.

[@Okamoto691]

Haha I look at the "Arguments" on these videos and the arguments on other different types of music, and they are so different.

[@arnaudbiyao3332]

Where is the harpsichord ?! ! !

[@ofirh5072]

Who's the cellist?

[@2000VIOLINO]

Richard Harad cello.

[@mariksebastianishtar207]

(+Gustavo Diaz) No. It’s Mikami Harad Cello.

[@rastajayzee]

aló. teneis las partitas de este inigualable opus??

[@DakotaDuncancheerwine01]

@Mercer1012 It would be great if you knew the meaning of "Allegro" and "Adagio" I think someone in an orchestra could read music, doesn't the general public?

[@sameerjohnson7100]

Its interesting how Vivaldi's music always seems as if a story is being told.

[@fredericchopin6445]

why they only use string orchestra but never use full orchestra

[@othmanhassanmajid8192]

The timpani always have a problem with reading viola clef and brass just don't cut it when it comes to the treble clef high notes..... but bassoon can play the violin double stops using harmonics...... in this music there are no double stops so usually they take a break for coffee.

[@rickestsot]

Im agree with you ;)

[@thelonearchitect]

I love how at 3:44 and 10:14 we can hear Beethoven's 5th theme :D

[@musik350]

no, we don't

[@macanudo1808]

esto es de cuando antonio lucio vivaldi aprendio a componer como j.s. bach.

[@robertopisano6582]

So far far and away ahead of its time.

[@PokemonGo_Gamer]

0:37

[@Cerlancism]

most people who listened to the faster ones of this would get bored

[@othmanhassanmajid8192]

Yes....diminshing concentration spans are well catered for these days. There is just so much to listen to and do before tomorrow. 😏