Everyone is Different!

I love listening to the Four Seasons! One of my favorite movements is movement 3 (presto) from the summer concerto! Why? Because it is so fast, and it requires a ton of effort to be able to play it! I love listening to my favorite virtuosos play this movement because they all play how they see a summer storm (that's another name for that movement!) in their perspective!

I have picked 5 of my favorite virtuosos! All of them are playing the same movement! I can't decided which one I like best! Enjoy!

You can tell that Janine Jansen told the orchestral accompaniment to play strong and make sure this movement would suck out the energy of every string player! Janine Jansen has added double stops to her solo! That is genius! Janine Jansen is an extremely hardcore virtuoso violinist!

There are 2 movements shown in the video, it's the first one that's the 3rd movement that we are focusing on! Anne-Sophie Mutter hates blending in! She wants everyone to know of her existence! Anne-Sophie Mutter has extended the notes! She uses more bow! She makes her violin sing in the extremely rapid parts of the movement! This is music!

This is the first video that I listened to of a virtuoso playing the 3rd movement. I love all of these virtuosos to death, but I love Sarah Chang the most of them all! I am most inspired by Sarah Chang! Unlike Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sarah usually blends in rather than standing out (another good example of this is her performance of the winter concerto!). I love that!

Like Janine Jansen, Joshua Bell has added double stops to his performance of the 3rd movement!  Like Anne-Sophie Mutter, he makes his violin sing in the first solo after the first tutti! Look at him go!

Itzak Perlman has slowed down the tempo a little bit! I love this because it allows the audience to absorb the pure beauty of the notes even more than if the 3rd movement is being played at it's normal quick tempo! Slowing down the tempo has allowed Perlman to add in a little more variation to his solo parts!

NEXT EXAMPLE: CARMEN'S FANTASY!

CARMEN'S FANTASY! I LOVE THIS! I want to learn to play this so badly!

Anyway, Sarah Chang! This is her version of Carmen's Fantasy! You may notice that Sarah Chang had to mash up this 12 minute violin concerto into a 5 minute music video! I love this music video! Obviously, she blended in!

Notice the contrast between the two virtuosos! Anne-Sophie Mutter is performing the full concerto! Notice how she has slowed down the tempo in order to add her own variation to the concerto!

EXAMPLE 3: THAIS MEDITATION!

Joshua Bell's performance.

Sarah Chang's performance. I cried when I first heard this. No joke!

Janine Jansen's performance. One of the best out there! 

Itzak Perlman's performance!

Anne Sophie Mutter's performance!