She's just won a Grammy folks. Long overdue but congratulations ! www.itv.com/news/2020-01-27/who-is-nicola-benedetti-the-uk-s-newest-grammy-winner/
@johngialanellajr8650
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent! I have been listening to her for several years and she is Outstanding. Really happy The Grammys recognized her as a Talent.
@hennie9162
3 жыл бұрын
Powerful, Her channel has just few videos.
@vinnywa4 жыл бұрын
My Lord, this woman gives life and breath to her violin . She is in a class all by herself. When she performs, her heart is not in her chest, on the contrary, it resides in her wrists, her hands and her fingertips. Her magnificent violin weeps for us, remembering the millions of lives which were cast away , thrown into an abyss, like human debris, so incredibly sad. Nicola is a technically perfect magnificent violinist. She causes her violin to weep for those millions lost. I cannot quiet my appetite of her performances. Astounding vibrato! And, she is so beautiful, she has everything she needs. Thank you Nicola for your beautiful violin. In you, God created an incredibly rare artist.
@rebeccajohn96
3 жыл бұрын
This comment deserves more likes
@superinfinity8312
2 жыл бұрын
With even greater soul than Itzak.
@simonroyjonesuk Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see her do a talk at my daughters school a few years ago. It is rare to be around anyone with such a presence. When she talks about her journey to get to the level she has, it is really inspiring. Then to listen hear her play is truly beautiful.
@charlesmulchrone14847 жыл бұрын
Her violin weeps six million tears , what a player !
@peterfoster8428
5 жыл бұрын
Charles Mulchrone is 6
@TheeRoechelle4 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that she not only plays flawlessly but also the imagery, the red dress, the dancer in the background, it all lent to a truly moving performance. When I grow up and become a musician I hope I could move people like this.
@sylviaroberts2097 Жыл бұрын
First saw. Nicola on "young musician" so long ago she never ceases to enthrall me with her magical artistry , her violin speaks beautifully
@christianlewisphotography6910 Жыл бұрын
I remember when I first saw the movie. It was such an amazing piece of music and so emotional in the film.
@seasidefoto9 жыл бұрын
Because we know the story, the melody is more sad. Thanks for the beautiful music.
@hanoo86
6 жыл бұрын
what is the story?
@mashtali1
6 жыл бұрын
power of advertisement.
@DebbieWintle9678 жыл бұрын
Simply Stunning !! She plays so beautifully though how she can play without crying is beyond me, it gets me every time
@heidigold238
5 жыл бұрын
she is crying!!just through her violin instead,thats why its so extra beutifal and real.
@ee.5961
3 жыл бұрын
😔🔫🎼🎵🎶
@ajoymukherjee7092
2 жыл бұрын
Qejl7
@bobshortforkate23646 жыл бұрын
The final 2 notes....Beyond Beautiful,
@nisalourvanij11 жыл бұрын
This interpretation, execution, and performance is definitely together with Perlman`s. Absolutely beautiful.
@Chrismacleod7779 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful - what a wonderful player!
@bobmurdoch47193 ай бұрын
I am an 83 year old Scotsman who considers himself to be a pretty un-emotional guy, but that just about had me greetin. So beautiful.
@aquasphere19594 жыл бұрын
Each time I have the privilege of listening to Nicola play, it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you Nicky.
@TigeroL426 жыл бұрын
By far the best version in youtube. Absolutely perfect right from the first shift!
@TheDaffygluk
11 ай бұрын
You haven’t seen the Jewish boy in the Budapest synagogue
@TheDaffygluk
11 ай бұрын
But she did equally good
@CharlieAnteby3 жыл бұрын
Every time I hit a new video on you tube I say its my favorite. Well, it happens again. I can watch this 100 times easily. Her beautiful tasteful dress, so elegant and refined, her concentration throughout the song and the beautiful smile when its over, her split second look of shyness when the applause continues. This four minutes of audio and video is transformative, and can bring a new attitude and prospective to me no matter what kind of day I'm having or what kind of mood I'm already in. Thank you digitalmediafan for posting this, and thank you Nicola for all of your wonderful music.
@JRA732 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!! Beautiful.... lost for words.
@lynne1503513 жыл бұрын
in my humble opinion this is the best version of this beautiful piece well done Nicola
@brendabarlas11028 жыл бұрын
I get goosebumps whenever I hear Nicola play this beautiful piece.
@smitheree
8 жыл бұрын
I get goosebumps whenever I see Nicola lol
@mariomojica4934
Жыл бұрын
Sad and wonderful
@Braddington17 жыл бұрын
John Williams deserves more than I could possibly imagine, he is by far my favourite composer not just in the modern era but period.
@Sableagle
3 жыл бұрын
May I refer you to Leroy Anderson's _Forgotten Dreams_ from 1954?
@morikopall1137
Жыл бұрын
My favourite...! Thank You ! 🙏
@sunrisein2cities11 жыл бұрын
The sound goes so deep within my soul. Simply amazing!
@roystewart43862 жыл бұрын
A splendid performance of this classical masterpiece
@susannestechow65785 жыл бұрын
Die Filmmusik und besonders das Geigensolo aus dem Film "Schindlers Liste" ist sehr schön. Ist auch ein ausgezeichneter Film. Ich sah ihn, als er neu im Kino war. Ich wurde nur sehr traurig, und das werde ich immer, wenn ich an diese furchtbare Zeit denke, in welcher der Film spielt. Ich bin aus Deutschland und bin daher auch besonders traurig, weil die furchtbaren Dinge vor etwa 75 Jahren gerade hier passiert sind. NICHT NOCH EINMAL SO ETWAS!
@robby12218 жыл бұрын
I generally put on the headphones and listen to this when i feel melancholic.. Thinking about friends and family who are sadly missed , soft tears stream for a few minutes to this beautiful, haunting music. Followed by Mozart's violin concerto 3 , i feel invigorated and upbeat once more. Thank god for this stunningly sumptuous music.
@ciri151
4 жыл бұрын
Or.... you could thank the composer and the performer for the music instead of God?
@halfcycle78646 ай бұрын
I was needing a song like this. Great tempo and energy
@PezrulezHaakon4 жыл бұрын
One of the best songs ever made ❤
@Daveyboi198110 жыл бұрын
In my humble opinion it is really refreshing to hear this played at an amazing tempo that carries you along with it lifting you up and then down. The amount of people playing this so much quicker it just doesn't draw you in half as much when its too fast and doesn't send out the right message of the story which to me portrays deep love, pain, misery and lots of tiredness and exhaustion but still with an internal energy which shines through to the end.
@michiharuikawa76318 жыл бұрын
MY FAVORITE SONG. THANKS.BEAUTIFUL, EMOTIONAL.
@mariodisarli1022
8 жыл бұрын
+michiharu ikawa ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist Blogs > Alexander's blog > Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm The other day I listened to something or other on KZread, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.
@agustinhurtado83566 жыл бұрын
I am heavy metal fan.....but there's time to stop and listen to such beautiful music....wow... stunning Knowing more the story behind it...
@tamoanminh43466 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the beautiful music
@Edison610110 жыл бұрын
raises the hairs on my neck, such an emotional piece of music.
@dreamyblue447 жыл бұрын
A sensitive reading of this beautiful piece! :)
@morikopall113710 ай бұрын
Tears and emotion…😢 Thank you! 🙏
@fusspot579 жыл бұрын
On my bucket list to see and hear Nicola playing (please come and play with the BSO!). Such beautiful mastery of legato and vibrato....not a dry eye in the house stuff!
@dazzahoward710410 жыл бұрын
A great scot! A terrific performance and an inspiration.
@tizianomarcolini70885 жыл бұрын
Nicola Benedetti, la tua interpretazione è degna di un disco d’oro ! Emozionante, sublime e indimenticabile
@theobeever856210 жыл бұрын
Nicely played-amazing composition Mr John Williams
@Sableagle
3 жыл бұрын
May I refer you to Leroy Anderson's _Forgotten Dreams_ from 1954?
@DoctorSyn115 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tone - this is the best version.
@jennadollface7 жыл бұрын
This show's life in a different light . stunning music
@Ksenia36075 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the beautiful music. SUPER! Grazie!
@MariaM-hp3mo5 жыл бұрын
she`s exquisite! I saw her concert in Kölner Philharmonie. Phenomenal!
@clar52955 жыл бұрын
This is done so wonderfully. Violins cry . This song always brings tears ..Based on this movie, and what happened to millions of human beings how could it not .
@alisonlove27844 жыл бұрын
About time what a wonderful person. I met her in Glasgow and she is so incredibly talented and so down to earth.I wish her well what a credit to herself,her family and Scotland .
@heidigold2385 жыл бұрын
so beutifal can listen over and over to this played by Nicola Benedetti you bring out the true emotion to the peice of music and make me pull my violin out to cry it along so beutifal and calm are you, i will never stop listening to this as you bring the true meaning of a violin out.
@boblemmon80912 жыл бұрын
Every time I hear this piece, my eyes leak
@bedenerexhepaj2939 жыл бұрын
Amazing talented!! Bravo Nicola!!!
@brianreilly86615 жыл бұрын
really feel the emotion in her playing she is world class
@NestorAudinotviolins10 жыл бұрын
Her bowing at the frog is very very good.
@Welshfire5 жыл бұрын
Gets me every time, what a beautiful piece of music. Allied to the film it makes for an absolute masterpiece of cinematic achievement. The music mirrors the desperately sad situation those poor people found themselves in and I have no doubt this piece will be played for years to come. Simply wonderful, words just don’t do it justice!
@GJSsongsmith7 жыл бұрын
Always moves me when I hear this piece of music . Beautifully played x
@sheilamullard15356 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful.!!
@holgerkurz428010 жыл бұрын
It´s great! No more words...
@ottokarkibedi35757 жыл бұрын
Köszönöm ! Gyönyörű zene ......szivszoritó.......
@LouiseKtoris11 жыл бұрын
This lady not only produces a beautiful and inspiring sound ~ but she is beautiful to watch and look at too.... Stunning Nicola
@eneomaos6 жыл бұрын
Watching and crying right now. February 2018.
@alenapoliakova702510 жыл бұрын
mi piace da morire questa musica.bravo.le miei grande grande complimenti
@andrewnorth37617 жыл бұрын
Truly a classic piece of music.
@johnmason86836 жыл бұрын
Hauntingly beautiful.
@lovepinkdiamondz10 жыл бұрын
so good i had to watch it two times! Breathtaking!
@ghoshneh3 жыл бұрын
Hearts, gazes and sparks, Nicola! With much love xo
@historymanrg11 жыл бұрын
A true artist that puts her talent and hard work into her music, i hope to see her next year at the barbican.
@eattheearth1958 Жыл бұрын
she's a magician of sound
@luisdeleon98192 жыл бұрын
A haunting piece of music.
@crazymairnonaya837911 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@seasidefoto10 жыл бұрын
The violin is weeping and I am also weeping.
@vinnywa
4 жыл бұрын
Knowing the reason for this magnificent composition, how can one not weep?
Absolutely superb Nicola. This does things to my spine. She is such a nice person.
@waltergallacher33466 жыл бұрын
Music and musician, sublime.
@gingernut58808 жыл бұрын
tHIS IS A REAL ARTISTE WHO CAN MAKE THE VOLIN SING. lADY YOU ARE BRILLIANT THE VIOLIN LOVES YOU ALSO
@BassistPaul8 жыл бұрын
Fabulous.
@alanelesstravelled82182 жыл бұрын
When Steven Spielberg asked John Williams to write for Schindler's List John Williams said "you need a better composer than me". Spielberg replied "they are all dead".
@Sasipano10 жыл бұрын
This music captures the internal climate of my soul perfectly
@francescofilippi39648 жыл бұрын
non ti conoscevo ,ora rimango stupito dalla tua bravura ,,,complimenti
@ahmetakyel4744
8 жыл бұрын
Porno porno
@robertpayne44355 жыл бұрын
Pure emotional understanding of an evil crime told and played by by an expert in her field. The voices that can not speak anymore have a voice.
@nanundoable8 жыл бұрын
what a good sound.
@teresagdavila54429 жыл бұрын
Bravo Nicola!!!!!
@alexandru113110 жыл бұрын
Grazie Nicola
@sergiopapadopoli93498 жыл бұрын
Stupenda
@demigreco2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@FranciscoFerrerGaliana19308 жыл бұрын
Extraordinario
@bvldig256 жыл бұрын
Stunning!
@Alan-iu4hn10 жыл бұрын
I agree Floren. The background imagery is completely superfluous.
@charlesbenedetti86078 жыл бұрын
Nicola played the beautiful Piano Trio of Tchaikovsky at Ravinia 2 years ago, and this year of 2016 she's returning to play a new medley of songs. Her touch of the instrument is truly elegant.
@user-dp3iu3hz7u2 ай бұрын
Beautiful and poignant music which is very appropriate! The violin is weeping. May the 6 million rest in peace 😢
@andrewmackay13506 жыл бұрын
Stunning performance
@FranciscoFerrerGaliana19307 жыл бұрын
Sublime
@hebamadi2655 жыл бұрын
So touching she is fantastic
@lorenzohuamanchay73905 жыл бұрын
Emocionante melodía. Especialmente para todos los que estudian la historia humana. Gracias Nicola, su orquesta y al compositor John Williams.
@dantebordet76575 жыл бұрын
The indefinable"Italiano" that fascinates and always amazes.
@yergui8711 жыл бұрын
Muy bueno!, genial interpretación!.
@1155davy4 жыл бұрын
Lest we forget.
@jackkallemdjian39457 жыл бұрын
beautifully played.
@Klausvans5 жыл бұрын
Brava! Excellent! 👏👏👏👏❤️
@rev.stephena.cakouros9484 жыл бұрын
Wonderful finish bravo.
@user-dp4pb8kv8w2 жыл бұрын
Я играла вместе с Вами, дорогая!!!!! Божественно красиво. Шедеврально. Браво Маэстро. Умница. Мои аплодисменты стоя. 😢😢😢😢💞💞💞💞💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
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She's just won a Grammy folks. Long overdue but congratulations ! www.itv.com/news/2020-01-27/who-is-nicola-benedetti-the-uk-s-newest-grammy-winner/
@johngialanellajr8650
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent! I have been listening to her for several years and she is Outstanding. Really happy The Grammys recognized her as a Talent.
@hennie9162
3 жыл бұрын
Powerful, Her channel has just few videos.
My Lord, this woman gives life and breath to her violin . She is in a class all by herself. When she performs, her heart is not in her chest, on the contrary, it resides in her wrists, her hands and her fingertips. Her magnificent violin weeps for us, remembering the millions of lives which were cast away , thrown into an abyss, like human debris, so incredibly sad. Nicola is a technically perfect magnificent violinist. She causes her violin to weep for those millions lost. I cannot quiet my appetite of her performances. Astounding vibrato! And, she is so beautiful, she has everything she needs. Thank you Nicola for your beautiful violin. In you, God created an incredibly rare artist.
@rebeccajohn96
3 жыл бұрын
This comment deserves more likes
@superinfinity8312
2 жыл бұрын
With even greater soul than Itzak.
I was lucky enough to see her do a talk at my daughters school a few years ago. It is rare to be around anyone with such a presence. When she talks about her journey to get to the level she has, it is really inspiring. Then to listen hear her play is truly beautiful.
Her violin weeps six million tears , what a player !
@peterfoster8428
5 жыл бұрын
Charles Mulchrone is 6
I love the fact that she not only plays flawlessly but also the imagery, the red dress, the dancer in the background, it all lent to a truly moving performance. When I grow up and become a musician I hope I could move people like this.
First saw. Nicola on "young musician" so long ago she never ceases to enthrall me with her magical artistry , her violin speaks beautifully
I remember when I first saw the movie. It was such an amazing piece of music and so emotional in the film.
Because we know the story, the melody is more sad. Thanks for the beautiful music.
@hanoo86
6 жыл бұрын
what is the story?
@mashtali1
6 жыл бұрын
power of advertisement.
Simply Stunning !! She plays so beautifully though how she can play without crying is beyond me, it gets me every time
@heidigold238
5 жыл бұрын
she is crying!!just through her violin instead,thats why its so extra beutifal and real.
@ee.5961
3 жыл бұрын
😔🔫🎼🎵🎶
@ajoymukherjee7092
2 жыл бұрын
Qejl7
The final 2 notes....Beyond Beautiful,
This interpretation, execution, and performance is definitely together with Perlman`s. Absolutely beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful - what a wonderful player!
I am an 83 year old Scotsman who considers himself to be a pretty un-emotional guy, but that just about had me greetin. So beautiful.
Each time I have the privilege of listening to Nicola play, it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you Nicky.
By far the best version in youtube. Absolutely perfect right from the first shift!
@TheDaffygluk
11 ай бұрын
You haven’t seen the Jewish boy in the Budapest synagogue
@TheDaffygluk
11 ай бұрын
But she did equally good
Every time I hit a new video on you tube I say its my favorite. Well, it happens again. I can watch this 100 times easily. Her beautiful tasteful dress, so elegant and refined, her concentration throughout the song and the beautiful smile when its over, her split second look of shyness when the applause continues. This four minutes of audio and video is transformative, and can bring a new attitude and prospective to me no matter what kind of day I'm having or what kind of mood I'm already in. Thank you digitalmediafan for posting this, and thank you Nicola for all of your wonderful music.
Wow!!!! Beautiful.... lost for words.
in my humble opinion this is the best version of this beautiful piece well done Nicola
I get goosebumps whenever I hear Nicola play this beautiful piece.
@smitheree
8 жыл бұрын
I get goosebumps whenever I see Nicola lol
@mariomojica4934
Жыл бұрын
Sad and wonderful
John Williams deserves more than I could possibly imagine, he is by far my favourite composer not just in the modern era but period.
@Sableagle
3 жыл бұрын
May I refer you to Leroy Anderson's _Forgotten Dreams_ from 1954?
@morikopall1137
Жыл бұрын
My favourite...! Thank You ! 🙏
The sound goes so deep within my soul. Simply amazing!
A splendid performance of this classical masterpiece
Die Filmmusik und besonders das Geigensolo aus dem Film "Schindlers Liste" ist sehr schön. Ist auch ein ausgezeichneter Film. Ich sah ihn, als er neu im Kino war. Ich wurde nur sehr traurig, und das werde ich immer, wenn ich an diese furchtbare Zeit denke, in welcher der Film spielt. Ich bin aus Deutschland und bin daher auch besonders traurig, weil die furchtbaren Dinge vor etwa 75 Jahren gerade hier passiert sind. NICHT NOCH EINMAL SO ETWAS!
I generally put on the headphones and listen to this when i feel melancholic.. Thinking about friends and family who are sadly missed , soft tears stream for a few minutes to this beautiful, haunting music. Followed by Mozart's violin concerto 3 , i feel invigorated and upbeat once more. Thank god for this stunningly sumptuous music.
@ciri151
4 жыл бұрын
Or.... you could thank the composer and the performer for the music instead of God?
I was needing a song like this. Great tempo and energy
One of the best songs ever made ❤
In my humble opinion it is really refreshing to hear this played at an amazing tempo that carries you along with it lifting you up and then down. The amount of people playing this so much quicker it just doesn't draw you in half as much when its too fast and doesn't send out the right message of the story which to me portrays deep love, pain, misery and lots of tiredness and exhaustion but still with an internal energy which shines through to the end.
MY FAVORITE SONG. THANKS.BEAUTIFUL, EMOTIONAL.
@mariodisarli1022
8 жыл бұрын
+michiharu ikawa ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist Blogs > Alexander's blog > Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm The other day I listened to something or other on KZread, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.
I am heavy metal fan.....but there's time to stop and listen to such beautiful music....wow... stunning Knowing more the story behind it...
Thanks for the beautiful music
raises the hairs on my neck, such an emotional piece of music.
A sensitive reading of this beautiful piece! :)
Tears and emotion…😢 Thank you! 🙏
On my bucket list to see and hear Nicola playing (please come and play with the BSO!). Such beautiful mastery of legato and vibrato....not a dry eye in the house stuff!
A great scot! A terrific performance and an inspiration.
Nicola Benedetti, la tua interpretazione è degna di un disco d’oro ! Emozionante, sublime e indimenticabile
Nicely played-amazing composition Mr John Williams
@Sableagle
3 жыл бұрын
May I refer you to Leroy Anderson's _Forgotten Dreams_ from 1954?
Beautiful tone - this is the best version.
This show's life in a different light . stunning music
Thanks for the beautiful music. SUPER! Grazie!
she`s exquisite! I saw her concert in Kölner Philharmonie. Phenomenal!
This is done so wonderfully. Violins cry . This song always brings tears ..Based on this movie, and what happened to millions of human beings how could it not .
About time what a wonderful person. I met her in Glasgow and she is so incredibly talented and so down to earth.I wish her well what a credit to herself,her family and Scotland .
so beutifal can listen over and over to this played by Nicola Benedetti you bring out the true emotion to the peice of music and make me pull my violin out to cry it along so beutifal and calm are you, i will never stop listening to this as you bring the true meaning of a violin out.
Every time I hear this piece, my eyes leak
Amazing talented!! Bravo Nicola!!!
really feel the emotion in her playing she is world class
Her bowing at the frog is very very good.
Gets me every time, what a beautiful piece of music. Allied to the film it makes for an absolute masterpiece of cinematic achievement. The music mirrors the desperately sad situation those poor people found themselves in and I have no doubt this piece will be played for years to come. Simply wonderful, words just don’t do it justice!
Always moves me when I hear this piece of music . Beautifully played x
Absolutely beautiful.!!
It´s great! No more words...
Köszönöm ! Gyönyörű zene ......szivszoritó.......
This lady not only produces a beautiful and inspiring sound ~ but she is beautiful to watch and look at too.... Stunning Nicola
Watching and crying right now. February 2018.
mi piace da morire questa musica.bravo.le miei grande grande complimenti
Truly a classic piece of music.
Hauntingly beautiful.
so good i had to watch it two times! Breathtaking!
Hearts, gazes and sparks, Nicola! With much love xo
A true artist that puts her talent and hard work into her music, i hope to see her next year at the barbican.
she's a magician of sound
A haunting piece of music.
Beautiful
The violin is weeping and I am also weeping.
@vinnywa
4 жыл бұрын
Knowing the reason for this magnificent composition, how can one not weep?
洋楽ばかり、何十年も、聴いてきて なぜか、心境の変化なのか急に クラシックを聴きだしてます 以前から、運命、新世界、は好きで 交響曲を、聴いてた程度でしたが 最近、リスト、バッハ、ビバルディ 聴いて感動してます。ブラボー🙌
Absolutely brilliant performence.
Absolutely superb Nicola. This does things to my spine. She is such a nice person.
Music and musician, sublime.
tHIS IS A REAL ARTISTE WHO CAN MAKE THE VOLIN SING. lADY YOU ARE BRILLIANT THE VIOLIN LOVES YOU ALSO
Fabulous.
When Steven Spielberg asked John Williams to write for Schindler's List John Williams said "you need a better composer than me". Spielberg replied "they are all dead".
This music captures the internal climate of my soul perfectly
non ti conoscevo ,ora rimango stupito dalla tua bravura ,,,complimenti
@ahmetakyel4744
8 жыл бұрын
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Pure emotional understanding of an evil crime told and played by by an expert in her field. The voices that can not speak anymore have a voice.
what a good sound.
Bravo Nicola!!!!!
Grazie Nicola
Stupenda
Beautiful!
Extraordinario
Stunning!
I agree Floren. The background imagery is completely superfluous.
Nicola played the beautiful Piano Trio of Tchaikovsky at Ravinia 2 years ago, and this year of 2016 she's returning to play a new medley of songs. Her touch of the instrument is truly elegant.
Beautiful and poignant music which is very appropriate! The violin is weeping. May the 6 million rest in peace 😢
Stunning performance
Sublime
So touching she is fantastic
Emocionante melodía. Especialmente para todos los que estudian la historia humana. Gracias Nicola, su orquesta y al compositor John Williams.
The indefinable"Italiano" that fascinates and always amazes.
Muy bueno!, genial interpretación!.
Lest we forget.
beautifully played.
Brava! Excellent! 👏👏👏👏❤️
Wonderful finish bravo.
Я играла вместе с Вами, дорогая!!!!! Божественно красиво. Шедеврально. Браво Маэстро. Умница. Мои аплодисменты стоя. 😢😢😢😢💞💞💞💞💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
A sutileza do som, uma maravilha!!!!
出色演奏,完美表现,让人感动!!!
Beautiful ☼
Looks and talent a wonderful combo