My Dad was a violinist and taught me and my siblings from a young age and I am the only one who didn't pursue it coz I felt forced and didn't really like playing a violin. He used to play this piece whenever a loved one dies, locked up in his room, and I used to dislike this. He recently passed away at the age of 87 and I am playing my violin after 30 years, and this is now the only piece I want to perfect.😢 Very well played by Nicola, pretty similar to my Dad's rendition.💔 Breaks my heart with mountains of regrets. 😢😢💔💔💔💔💔💔 💔

@angelicaluce3230

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you don't REALIZE what they MEAN TO YOU until they're gone. In particular I'm remembering my Dad, who was very strict with me - and I was PERFECT - coz I didn't want any TROUBLE. Even tho I was always GOOD it really annoyed me, coz I was just being good to please HIM. Now, I have the rest of my 'LIFE" to think about him - my heart is healed now I think - but now we meet in my early morning DREAMS -we have REAL conversations!

She's playing the "Gariel" Stradivarius, made in 1717 and one of the most important (and valuable) instruments in existence. The owner loans it to her, having paid 6.3 million pounds for it. How awesome he enables such a superb artist let it sing like that.

@chrisebbesen5798

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for background information,wow what pressure she must be under to maintain and protect that thing.

Absolutely beautiful. Nicola performs with such emotion and passion I'm literally welling up. Lovely gentle and sympathetic piano accompaniment too. Well done both.

I was surfing here there. Clicked on it. And she held me with her music and I sat and listend to the music with rapt attention like a 5 year old child..🤗☺

This may be the most beautiful rendition of this piece that I have ever heard!

@dunki-dunki-dawg

4 ай бұрын

Isn't it so wonderful. I find the piece difficult to listen too because as a piece of music, it is beguilingly beautiful in everyway I can think of. Here Nicola plays it flawlessly and with such a natural sound flowing out especially the thick lower registers. Speechless as always with Nicola.

Nicola Benedetti just blows me away! She is a gift!

@timblock3483

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

She's just amazing!!! Beautiful piano accompaniment as well

Magnificent! How wonderful to be able to give so much pleasure to everyone.

Dang it. Doing it again. Don't know what it is about the Meditation, it resonates with the deepest chords of loss, grief and longing The right interpretation pulls up all those memories and my eyes well up uncontrollably. She is an incredible violinist. Many years ago I was wandering around the Tuilleries in Paris, no other soul in sight or earshot. Then a haunting violin from a hidden alcove lilts across the stillness, the opening notes transfixed me. The power of its simplicity held sway then and it grips me equally to this day.

@MICKEYISLOWD

3 жыл бұрын

I think this piece is the most beautiful music I ever heard, also Air and some Beatles melodies like Here There And Everywhere.

@waynem2352

3 жыл бұрын

Love this. Can't stop listening to it. It reaches into your soul but I am not sure whether it makes me happy or sad it's just beautiful.

@swanofusk9314

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine the music describes perfectly what Thais was like. I didn’t know until recently she was real, her life was spent by the side of Alexander the Great and then Ptolemy. To have captivated the heart and mind of these two men later marrying Ptolemy after Alexander’s death and becoming queen of Egypt she must have been as beautiful and extraordinary as she has been described and I like to think this intermezzo captures her beauty and her spirit in every note.

@scottwallace1

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my God, what an incredible gift that experience was. That’s like a scene straight out of a really, really good movie. I am envious. I dream of such experiences. I have a handful of what I call “heaven fantasies”, which are experiences that I’d like to have once I pass on and am granted such a gift by a benign and loving Creator with the grace to grant such an earthly gift before transitioning into ethereal oneness with the universe. And you lived one of them. Wow. Wonderful.

@kamihi

2 жыл бұрын

You are not alone my friend.

Nicola Benedetti is amazing! She has the tone of her Maestro, Yehudi Menuhin. And that vibrato! Wow!

This is the most wonderful rendition of all!!! Even as an amateur violinist one can learn so much from this astonishing young artist. I also appreciate her charming and most natural way of communicating in her "With Niki" workshops which are really helpful and motivating! Thank you so much!

@juliejones717

3 жыл бұрын

Nicola Bendetti is an incredible violinist , who has the ability to play this with ultimate control which is very difficult (;I know ! ) she’s amazing x

What a lovely interpretation 👏🙏

That was so beautiful it hurt!

Of all the Classics this has always been my favorite, and beautifully played too..

clear pure tone and phrasing-one of the best interpretations of this song - exquisite

One of my favourite composers and sublime violinist: perfect accompaniment, bravo!

GOD! How much peace of mind it gives you! Exellent interpretation!

That was divine. It brought tears to my eyes.

The figure, rounding and vibrato are just so perfect here not to mention the violin playing by Nicola herself. Very, very nice indeed.

One of my favourite pieces of music

very well thought out interpretation and shining-of-clarity tones----impeccable technique...love it Nicola

Beautiful piece. Beautiful tone. Beautiful lady. 🎻👏👏👏

Wonderful performance by Nicola, and tender, sensitive accompaniment by Alexei Grynyuk. What a stunning team they make!

Such wonderful expressions used.... lovely vibrato... smooth flow of the bow too... i wish I could be personally tutored by Nicola the great 😊

@AH-V8

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, I play the violin but I’m nowhere as good as that Yet.......................

Played to perfection like an old master of the violin.......😢

5 minutes and 30 seconds of sheer bliss.....

What a lovely piece. Massenet came into the limelight for this score just as Hoffmeister for his beautiful "Serenade" from his String Quartet Op. 3 No.5 :Andante Cantabile(the slow Movement) incorrectly ascribed to Haydn. Joseph Titus

I couldn't imagine a more perfect interpretation. Beautiful! Brava!!!

Just watching how Nicola's right arm moves is enough for me. What a natural performer, no sheet music 🤯

Nicola simply doing what she does best 💗

Outstanding and so enigmatic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolument extraordinaire interprétation, peut-être la meilleure de toutes.

For me Celtic spirit in meditation of Thais: Wonderful

Nicky has the perfect balance of technique and emotion.

This masterpiece she plays with incomparable skill and exquisite technique is the human fabulous lullaby and the cradle gently cradled by the mother From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

Wow, astounding.

BRILLIANT,NURTURUNG WARM, COMFORTING SENSUTIVE. GENIUS! BEAVO! I CANT PRAISE YOU ENOUGH NICOLA BENEDETTI! SCRUMPTIOUS!

Nicola you have me reason tO live inside 'trouble waters'.thanks.your sensibility tô play an instrument is like a Magic when we are inside problemsband deep distress.

I want a sweet sounding violin like hers!!!!!!!! Talk about talent and so nice to wake up to with my morning coffee. Life is good.

@lizziex7117

4 жыл бұрын

Annette Nelson - I think to pay for her violin you'd need a fair few million 😂

@musik102

4 жыл бұрын

I guarantee you that Nicola would make your violin sound just as sweet.

@lizziex7117

4 жыл бұрын

musik102 - yeah that's true

@voiceofreason8606

Жыл бұрын

I was very lucky to be be at the right place at the right time when this violin was being sold by the Spencer family. I got to play it for about an hour as the salesperson (who was incredibly kind) put me in a back practice room. I think they forgot about me, as I think I played on it for about an hour. I'm an advanced amateur and this violin could do no wrong no matter how hard I tried (!). One of the great highlights of my life that I will never forget. At the time it was selling for $1.3.

That is so unbelievably good. I'm speechless.....

Perfect sound!

A beautiful woman playing beautiful music on a beautiful violin.

Maravillosa 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

utterly sublime.

Wonderful, thank you

Das interpretações que mais amo

Good sound, good playing!👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂

Amazing how smooth she is. I almost drift off into atrance.

Very buttery reassuring. OH if only I could play that well. I like the drowsy quality of this piece.❤

Just listened to this piece played as a cornet solo. It was lovely but it doesnt beat the violin playing it. Who else too but Nicola

Lovely...

Realmente é algo maravilhoso,sublime ouvir está melodia.parabens Arabela

Absolutely awesome, perfection.

❤️❤️💕 Beautiful!

Quite a revelation this piece and Nicola Benedetti an exceptional artist Thais was a famous hetaera in 5th Century Athens. Perhaps this piece and the feeling behind it reveals a way of life, an involuntary song.

@chrisebbesen5798

Жыл бұрын

FASTENATING IF TRUE, MAGICAL IF IT ISNT. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. WELL, SHE IS AGODDESS IN MY BOOK. I THINK SHE IS THE TOP FEMALE. VIOLINIST IN THE WORLD. CERTAINLY TESSA GIVES HER A RUN FOR THE MONEY, AND I LOVE TESSA AS WELL, BUT NICOLA NURTURES THAT STRAD SO DELICATLY ITS AS IF THE VIOLIN IS HER CHILD. SHE IS SO MUCH MORE SILKY THAN TESS. Im frankly torn. Between the two.😮 THE two of them have the violin world at their throats!, one day I like tessa better, the next day Nikki better. It's like a tennis match.

Just gorgeous!

Tears

Amazing

I am whatching vilon videos for homework.

Exquisite!

Bravo !

Bravo

Its beautiful 👍👍

❤❤❤

Wonderful!

brava, bellissima interpretazione ❤!!

Positively Heavenly Nicola! Stradivari must have made that violin for you. Bravo!😅

Somptueux. Délicat et très émotionnel.

Very beautiful ( although starting a little bit late )

very beautiful

Brava!!

Spettacolo x l anima....

Magical

BRAVA!!!!! 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆

violino chega a sussurrar

the challenge is the slur at 3:58, if speed up.

Her performance of this beautiful music is made even richer by her stunning appearance in yoga pants

I'm trying to learn this and it sounds like a hot mess rn 💀

One must not wear boots playing violin.

@sharonmurray1645

Жыл бұрын

Who cares what she wears when she can make music like this.