Hilary Hahn - Adagio from Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach

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Жыл бұрын

Coming out of obscurity just to share this unbelievably tear-jerking performance.
Hilary Hahn performs Adagio from Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach.
Enjoy!

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@interrestrial9815 2 ай бұрын

That was achingly beautiful. Bravo! I think if J.S. Bach were alive to hear this performance he would cried.

@jazzizm Ай бұрын

I'm a simple man. I hear Ms. Hahn play this, I weep.

@tabbywarrior 27 күн бұрын

Me as well

@markd3250 4 ай бұрын

When she plays the violin becomes part of her. Her bow control is incredible. Even when she's playing loud notes, there's never a harsh sound. You can hear her personality in her playing, the softness and gentleness at work as she plays. She speaks the same way, with the same inner quality. She's expressing sound with the instrument rather than just playing it. It's very difficult to describe actually. It's just simply, breathtakingly beautiful.

@lunagrace8717 2 ай бұрын

She's amazing, some play an instrument and perform, and a few intimately talk to you when they do it

@LZKS Жыл бұрын

I feel like she is at a level of understanding Bach that far surpasses most others musicians.

@peteroh9319 9 ай бұрын

Thanks to KZfaq, past, present and many promising future superstar violinists are accessible for us to enjoy. Among them, I enjoy Hahn the most for Bach. In the first videos I enjoyed her virtuosity, she was but a precocious kid with extraordinary talent. Now the greys are starting to fill in and she seems to me have attained the level of mastery that only a select few of the very best will attain. Hahn also seems more graceful and elegant than ever. We’re all so lucky to be her contemporaries. I hope to one day see her live performing Bach.

@ionvasile12 8 ай бұрын

Try Andras Schiff!

@klausschumacher8673 Жыл бұрын

I was in that concert in Frankfurt and heard those unbelievably concentrated and dense three Bach movements after the Prokofieff violin concerto. People forgot to breathe, I guess. We were all in another world for those encores.

@JulianKeniryGreen Жыл бұрын

So fortunate.

@Dadaxxv Жыл бұрын

I was there too. It was breathtaking!

@irenalevin647 Жыл бұрын

מתה עליה

@kennielsen8554 11 ай бұрын

I need to practise after that

@altongrimes 8 ай бұрын

😊wow

@sammysobhany9616 3 ай бұрын

Bach's pieces are the most hardest pieces to understand and play with full accuracy.And ofcourse she nails at it.

@kingnothing4898 Ай бұрын

How lucky are we? J.S. Bach, played by Hann. This one could break the fabric of space-time...

@elizabethgeoghegan5167 Жыл бұрын

Ever feel like you are witnessing history?

@francescodefendi3201 Жыл бұрын

😂 come on! Why can’t we just be…real? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ ..of course.. HH is amazing…but… history??!?

@morozowvlad6363 Жыл бұрын

We witnessing eternity, sry I’m drunk

@guilhermeb.freling4380 Жыл бұрын

@@francescodefendi3201 but history is real tho

@francescodefendi3201 Жыл бұрын

@@guilhermeb.freling4380 Rostropovich playing his cello in front of the wall in Berlin in 1989 is history… I think it’s a very simple argument…

@beau1207 Жыл бұрын

@@francescodefendi3201 this is history, stop being a hater.

@rawlivingwithdisabilities 3 ай бұрын

Nobody will play Bach like Hilary Han ❤

@jimtomasko3838 10 ай бұрын

This composition by JS Bach and a musician like Hillary Hahn really highlight what the greatest achievements of the human race are. Absolutely stunning, time and space stopped during this triumph of emotion. Also love the gray hair that Hillary is rocking.

@aufbrechen Жыл бұрын

Never in the history of this instrument has a violin been played more beautifully and profoundly than - here!- Bach: Smiling....

@elizabethgeoghegan5167 Жыл бұрын

A violin has rarely been played with this much adoration.

@BO-kh1iz Жыл бұрын

Really? And you know this because you have heard and compared all virtuosos in the history of the violin playing AND you can see J.S. Bach smiling? How is the old man doing these days?

@aufbrechen Жыл бұрын

@@BO-kh1iz He is not an old man now ! And yes, remember we live a lot of lifes in divese times.

@sansangaga8560 Жыл бұрын

Such clarity and purity of sound. Listening to her playing, time and space don’t exist anymore. We stay as if hung still in between two spaces. Her playing is such a grace to Bach music. Thank you

@AlamoCityCello Жыл бұрын

Hilary is like a fine bottle of wine. She keeps getting better with age. Bravo!

@donsurlylyte Жыл бұрын

such is the way with great artists

@randomoneforstuff3696 Жыл бұрын

Indeed! I much prefer this interpretation to her old one (when she was quite young).

@izuminishi6376 Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@carloshumphrey1 Жыл бұрын

It not about aging is bottle of wone - if you do not know some wine get bad as they age -it is about the virtude you have in your inner soul, and the way you think and handle your instrument. Excuse me but your statement is a very naïve comment - but this site is about expressing freely, so I'll respect that . Can you tell me how old was Jacqueline du Pre when she was already playing under Barenboim? She must had been not older that 30 and already was better than him. Hillary doesn't get better with age, she is the top violinist today

@gongzhengchuan2609 11 ай бұрын

@@carloshumphrey1 even if you're the best, you can still improve, what exactly are you getting at?

@arvopart3783 Жыл бұрын

Her playing is unbelievable. How can play with such perfection? The color of sound, technology, style of sound execution on string, every note is played with such perfection... If I can be vulgarly shameless until other interpreters, Bach would be satisfied only with her from all others. And equal applies to her interpretation of Bach's Chaconne. Astonishingly unbelievable. For me is the best violinist of all time. Thank you, Hilary.

@JohnTravena 4 ай бұрын

She looks lovely. I was first aware of her when she was only a teenager and now she has grey hair - that makes me feel old! She always had a natural affinity for Bach but her playing is even better now I think.

@cosmlayla 7 ай бұрын

This really hits all the right notes especially listening to it in this time in history - October 2023. So much yearning and longing and uncertainty.

@unchistejaja Жыл бұрын

Exquisite playing. I love watching the grey dance around her face, reminding me of how long I’ve admired her.

@mahlonrhoades4509 Жыл бұрын

She's become so much more expressive both in her playing and her facial expressions. As a younger woman she almost never showed anything on her face except every once in a while a slight lift of her left eyebrow while perfectly navigating a mindbogglingly difficult passage. (I love watching that) The frown of concentration and even grimace almost of agony (4:11) is telling, I think, of an even deeper connection to the music. Listening to her earlier recordings I would think, "how could this possibly be played better". Question answered.

@randomoneforstuff3696 Жыл бұрын

@@mahlonrhoades4509 There are plenty of great recordings of this Adagio from the Netherlands Bach Society, Rachel Barton Pine, Rachel Podger, just to name a few. Here are some links if you need them: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7h7rJacvZ68hYE.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hq1getCh0JqUeIU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpiVZsigtL7Jfqc.html

@onenten77 Жыл бұрын

She is a goddess to the violin. Two things stand out to me in this performance, the fact that her violin's sound filled that concert hall for such an intimate piece, and I loved loved loved her finger vibrato, which seemed to make the notes quaver in the legato phrases, which added this haunting quality I had not heard before.

@HG23456 Жыл бұрын

How impressive to see that not only the audience but also her fellow orchestra members are completely intrigued by her playing or even hypnotised 😅😊

@peterburandt4586 11 ай бұрын

Right, all the violinists are thinking: "Just how long is her bow exactly?"

@marcel7748 11 ай бұрын

Exactly. She dominated the whole hall completely. It's a marvelous moment.

@JoePalau Жыл бұрын

I have listen to these sonatas and partitas since the late 50s, to Hilary for as long as she’s been recording. Even so, I couldn’t breathe, my throat closed and I welled up with tears I was so taken by Hilary’s performance of this adagio. Sublime, transcendent beauty, deep passionate playing are but starters. There are no substitutes for listening to this clip again. Like a exquisite wine, I sip, savor and save it for only the finest occasions. Not to waste it. Savor it. Magnificent ❤

@arkamukhopadhyay9111 2 ай бұрын

It is indeed! I was pleasantly surprised. She used to be cold and robotic. But now she has achieved a great human depth. Almost reaching Milstein or Menuhin levels.

@leahhe3528 11 ай бұрын

Every note is singing. So pure and clean.

@user-hl3pc5ts6m Жыл бұрын

Long tone,double stop and grace note just in time are so beautiful and clear.I would feel as if I listen to some valuable and important story through your waving graceful articulation, especially in the sequence of 32 notes! I hear that's "Agony?" splendid,splendid,splendid. occasionally I would love to listen to Heifetz Adagio.his long note which is concerned with 32 　note articulation is so grace and beautiful. (90yrs.Japanese)sorry strange English.

@kengyu0830 Жыл бұрын

When I occasionally heard of this playing, I feel that I am touched. I heard Hilary since 20 years ago, and today I think I met her again in music.

@carolnoelle2468 Жыл бұрын

I’m so grateful I was able to witness this masterpiece in person✨

@rawnin8821 Жыл бұрын

After all, Johann Sebastian Bach and Hilary Hahn together, might be the single reason that mankind should survive.

@arvopart3783 Жыл бұрын

And Johann Sebastian Bach is at all sole reason, that humankind at all exists, it lives.

@kieselsteinchen9795 Жыл бұрын

The beauty of her play drove tears to my eyes.

@albertmachaj7540 8 ай бұрын

I So Love Hilary Hahn's playing!

@wiltonpt1 Жыл бұрын

I am transfixed.....wow. I have always had a great curiosity to know all the bowings, position changes, and fingering used by HH on this. It is so impressive to watch the mastery she has over the violin and the seamless interpretations of these suites and partitas that's unique absolutely a soulful expression of Bach's voice through the solo violin. He couldn't play them like that. But He knew someone, someday would.

@JoePalau Жыл бұрын

The old man pretty good on the fiddle. He knew a thing or two.

@wiltonpt1 Жыл бұрын

@@JoePalau she

@ferranaymerichribas1045 Жыл бұрын

@@wiltonpt1 ?

@wiltonpt1 Жыл бұрын

I think she knows quite a bit more than the old man

@commontater8630 Жыл бұрын

@@wiltonpt1 Hilary Hahn is wonderful, but that she knew more than Bach? Hah!

@forlifewelearn 3 ай бұрын

It's just the way she eases out that octave D at 1:44 to finish the section and you can feel the orchestra exhale with her as she goes into the next section - the violin leader's face says it all. It's sublime playing. I could listen to this all day..

@davidjoseph3403 2 ай бұрын

I knuh. Powerful, coordinated, enthusing. Freakin' Slayer. ❤

@ReflechissonsUnPeu Ай бұрын

Probablement la perfection humaine de la sensibilité musicale, vive la musique comme ça !

@paulchampion2183 11 ай бұрын

I remember first being taught this piece with the instructor Emily Austin describing how important the value of the 16th note was to be kept as evenly as possible to keep the beat as honest as possible; with that in mind the interpretation of the piece would be close to honoring the composer. To hear Hillary Hahn so masterfully play this is breath taking! Thank you Hillary!

@drtmuir Жыл бұрын

I've always been in awe of her trills-- so powerful. 🔥 And the diminuendos, like on the very last note! She is extraordinary.

@tfh5575 Жыл бұрын

she is one of the best to ever do it, and my personal favourite.

@AndySaenz Жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought she’s beautiful, and she plays violin like a queen. Love you, Hilary Hahn. 😍❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🎼🎻🎵🎶

@mahlonrhoades4509 Жыл бұрын

Reading the comments, I have nothing to add. I didn't think she could get better but this performance was quite literally stunning. I had tears running down my face from the first notes. The emotional depth of her playing is now beyond anything I've heard in the 60 or so years I've been listening to music.

@caroleem1319 Жыл бұрын

Not hundreds, but thousands of hrs of practice made this flawless performance happen!!!❤

@estranged12 6 ай бұрын

She played it perfect but she was putting her front row (highest paying audience) to sleep. Few of them was about to walk out near the end. At end end it's about playing to your audience as a musician.

@mahlonrhoades4509 6 ай бұрын

Anyone who could fall asleep or walk out during a performance like that has ZERO appreciation of music. They should spend their money on an Andre Rieu concert. @@estranged12

@fautdemieux 6 ай бұрын

@@estranged12 What do you mean by this? Why would this performance put anyone, much less someone observing it from the front row, to sleep?

@wippok42 5 ай бұрын

@@estranged12these are people who payed the most to see the classical music, there's no way they were bored

@Xingqiwu387 Жыл бұрын

Perfection! This is THE BEST rendition of this incredible piece I have ever heard. Simply superb! BRAVA, Hilary Hahn, and thank you for giving the world this stunningly beautiful interpretation.

@therealzilch 8 ай бұрын

Hilary Hahn is a gift to humanity.

@davidlevan6906 Жыл бұрын

This is probably the most exquisite piece of solo violin I've ever heard. Totally captivating and involving. Even the orchestra members seemed to be mesmerised. So lucky to be able to experience this. Hilary Hahn is a gift from the Gods.

@rubenmatos9806 Жыл бұрын

That brought tears to my eyes and I cant explain it

@jcloewe8692 11 ай бұрын

Hilary Hahn...such an exceptional artist. The art of the bow, I wish I could still play. I'm grateful to her.

@franklarge1663 7 ай бұрын

Wow... what at amazing rendition. The tone, the expressiveness, the musicality, the just intonation, the polyphonies... humanity at its best. Thank you so much.

@ringonoka Жыл бұрын

This is awesome. I like her playing Bach. And I think this is one beautiful interpretation. Bach's music is profound.

@margarettelillie7813 8 ай бұрын

So majestic I am honored to have known you Hillary,god bless❤❤❤

@ineffable9567 8 ай бұрын

… her performance : no name , no speech , no time , simply pure existence …

@jmbechtel Жыл бұрын

One word: TIMELESS

@hgshehan Жыл бұрын

Sir Colin Davis said it in his interview piece in Hilary's 4 part documentary, "she is as gifted as anyone". For me she is the greatest violinist that has ever lived!!!

@flutepilot Жыл бұрын

No matter how high she gets, her tone is rich and dark all the way up. Nobody like her!

@euclidallglorytotheloglady5500 Жыл бұрын

You know those special moments that are so powerful and so beautiful you get that lump in your chest that feels like it's going to explode with emotion... Emotion that is impossible to translate...

@jh1812 Жыл бұрын

Everything Hillary plays becomes a masterpiece! Her playing is simply sublime! I look forward to the day when she returns to Toronto for a performance. The only time I’ve seen her performance was several years ago. I had a brief chat with her while she was signing my program for that night. I told her I had just taken up learning violin as an adult and she was truly an inspiration to all musicians. She encouraged me to keep playing and not to get fixated on the bad days. I took that to heart and I’m playing again five years after a major shoulder injury. She is truly a once in a generation caliber of musician. 😀

@vitocortesi9389 Жыл бұрын

Sembra di stare in Paradiso musica sublime e che meraviglia Hilary Hahn!

@randyfrederick1060 5 ай бұрын

Best thing I have ever seen on my TV screen

@alexnewson6013 Жыл бұрын

Came across these awe-inspiring works 40 years ago. The music still transfixes; how lovely is her playing

@velvetsound Жыл бұрын

Magical as always.

@1967davidsrebrnik Жыл бұрын

Those Bach violin concerti are soooo great. I wish to have it played for my funeral (especially the chacone)

@Fidi987 Жыл бұрын

Sonatas... the chaconne is from Partita 2. The concertos by Bach are more lively/ cheerful than most of his sonatas/ partitas.

@markelgar8763 Ай бұрын

Just brilliant. Nothing else to say. A masterpiece of creation and performance

@lauraleggett5509 10 ай бұрын

I feel like I’m watching and listening as a magician weaves a magical spell🎉 pure awe

@kelleyforeman Жыл бұрын

Every time she plays it differently, yet it’s still always just right.

@paulnugent9937 Жыл бұрын

Standing ovation to Hilary, but on one’s knees to Johann…

@vincehammond4081 Жыл бұрын

Always amazing! She just keeps getting better!

@susanhoffmann6304 8 ай бұрын

Stunning

@jaycayuca9866 Жыл бұрын

Greatest violinist ever❤️

@anahitghazaryan3857 6 ай бұрын

Magnificent performance Hilary, thanks for such a wonderful playing

@IgorVasquesBarata 8 ай бұрын

Sublime ❤

@5566693 Жыл бұрын

Best interpretation for one of the best works from Bach

@DobroSC2 9 ай бұрын

This is so amazing. Very emotional for me. Hilary Hahn is one of the best!

@jameshood1928 11 ай бұрын

Superb. Flawless. She is the best!

@lmcognitio2049 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Hilary for always interpreting the greatest of all masters. That was glorious, brava! 🌹

@Arepas7 4 ай бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾Magnificently played 🎻 Simply AMAZING 💓👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@Fellfloete 4 ай бұрын

that is perfection - perfect composing and perfect interpretation

@manuelprz344 Жыл бұрын

What we are witnessing is the brilliance of a man and his soul traverse time and allowing us to share the passion that he had for music with humanity.Yes we are the fortunate ones...hoping that we understand to some degree what important role music plays in our lives...cherish his music and learn from it.I believe that's what he wanted...don't you agree....

@katerinadimitrakaki6983 4 ай бұрын

Sublime Hilary Hahn!! Thank you so much for your always magic and so touching performance!! Such perfection!!

@rudolfboukal1538 Жыл бұрын

Wow .... such beauty. And every millimeter of her bow not only has a purpose, but is fulfilled. She is a lion hiding in the flowerbed.

@cmw9876 11 ай бұрын

"A Lion in the Flower Bed!" 👍

@deserticus18 4 ай бұрын

only 370k views...Am I the only one obsessed with this performance?

@user-pu7yl5py1u 6 ай бұрын

This violinist is excellent!

@antonioromera8880 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful. A gem in its own. Thanks for sharing!

@truenature Жыл бұрын

The best in the world, probably the best ever or at least top 5. Top 1 when it comes to Bach.

@paulzotos1628 Жыл бұрын

I saw her do her Bach program at Lincoln Center just last week. Moving and flawless!

@cmw9876 11 ай бұрын

I am overcome with jealousy! May your partner eat crumbly, itchy biscuits in bed! 🤣

@paulzotos1628 11 ай бұрын

@@cmw9876 LOL!🤣🤣

@Reismiilch Жыл бұрын

i can‘t wait to see and hear her live in Berlin!!!! I am so excited!!

@Ira108 Жыл бұрын

Bravo! I can't imagine it being played better.

@Eli-yu1tv 2 ай бұрын

The b flat at 4:10 is the best singular note I have ever heard in a piece of music

@lucianotamanini671 7 ай бұрын

Amanzing!

@Love-Is-Kind Жыл бұрын

Always a soul stirring, mind blowing, awe inspiring, and breath taking performance by Queen Hilary Hahn! Brilliant! Tysm for sharing. 🥰

@conradmadden9107 Жыл бұрын

Truly amazing she plays Bach beautiful ❤️

@ikbent262 5 ай бұрын

beautiful

@SMTDDR 7 ай бұрын

I just started taking violin classes and I'm assuming this video is the result of decades of dedication!

@chindy28 Жыл бұрын

Que maravilla!! Su sonido es increíble y musicalidad! Gracias

@ricardotoledo8834 8 ай бұрын

Eu tento estudar ou trabalhar quando Hilary começa a tocar os primeiros acordes, mas é impossível não parar tudo o que se está fazendo e prestar atenção em cada nota. Simplesmente perfeita.

@IgorVasquesBarata 8 ай бұрын

Concordo ❤

@terrorterror6196 8 ай бұрын

Love you Hilary Hahn.

@fluteastana8707 6 ай бұрын

Безупречное владение своим инструментом и понимание этого величайшего произведения! Восторг, мурашки по коже, скрипка звучит как нечто неземное, приближенное к богу… огромное спасибо миссис Хилари за бесподобную атмосферу единения человека и бога!🙏🙏🙏

@JuanMartinexplacerez-mw3we Жыл бұрын

Excelente interpretación , ejecuta con un sonido puro , con una pureza y claridad en cada frase .

@patchin1 4 ай бұрын

Wow!

@timewithdada-music2717 Жыл бұрын

It is very hard to find words. It is just fantastic, magic. If there is anything that could be more than perfect it is Hilary Hahn's violin performance. Striking, charming, bezaubernd