Nicola Benedetti performs Meditation from Massenet’s Thaïs

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Nicola Benedetti performs Meditation from Massenet’s Thaïs

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5 жыл бұрын

Award-winning Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti stopped by The Greene Space in New York City to discuss a new artistic and educational collaboration with legendary American trumpeter, composer and educationalist Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. As an encore she performed Meditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, accompanied by pianist Alexei Grynyuk. Recorded on January 16, 2019.

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@yevaabd2985 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 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!

@shackfighter Жыл бұрын

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.

@vernonsmart 7 ай бұрын

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.

@larrydunn5556 2 жыл бұрын

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

@timblock3483 2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@ronaldmiller5451 5 жыл бұрын

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

@vedanshvedansh844 3 жыл бұрын

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..🤗☺

@TheLoneHaranger 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@MiguelFerreyraGuitar 5 жыл бұрын

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

@TINAROBERTS7 4 жыл бұрын

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

@maxinejacobson4006 4 жыл бұрын

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

@Sabine-lu1rm 5 жыл бұрын

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

@maryknight4823 3 жыл бұрын

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

@galasw6 2 жыл бұрын

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

@veronicahislop8363 3 жыл бұрын

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

@dunki-dunki-dawg 4 ай бұрын

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

@dianeallen9039 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite pieces of music

@mariadavis8745 5 жыл бұрын

That was so beautiful it hurt!

@Michajeru 2 жыл бұрын

That was divine. It brought tears to my eyes.

@laureleroch35 4 жыл бұрын

What a lovely interpretation 👏🙏

@nikoletaallkanjari6289 4 жыл бұрын

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

@winrx 5 жыл бұрын

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

@metatron1980 2 жыл бұрын

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

@cigarnationwarriors3981 3 жыл бұрын

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

@linpearson9350 4 ай бұрын

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

@drock6310 Жыл бұрын

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

@jasonbarnett8911 3 жыл бұрын

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

@stevethomas5849 3 жыл бұрын

Nicola simply doing what she does best 💗

@tysondacosta7802 5 жыл бұрын

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.......................

@josephtitus7395 5 жыл бұрын

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

@netimage10s 2 жыл бұрын

Nicky has the perfect balance of technique and emotion.

@piotrminor7054 2 жыл бұрын

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

@adrienjf3854 4 жыл бұрын

For me Celtic spirit in meditation of Thais: Wonderful

@CarlosSilva-dm2qj 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@shin-i-chikozima 3 жыл бұрын

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 🇯🇵

@CallumRickard 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, astounding.

@georgesimon6955 2 жыл бұрын

A beautiful woman playing beautiful music on a beautiful violin.

@annettenelson5321 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@chrisebbesen5798 Жыл бұрын

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

@paulwaring3871 11 ай бұрын

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

@kamihi Жыл бұрын

utterly sublime.

@darrenreynolds1596 2 жыл бұрын

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

@davereid-daly2205 Жыл бұрын

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

@gerard.mourier_harmonica 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Anonimo-tb2uh 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect sound!

@discomachine9155 3 күн бұрын

very , very , very good , thank you , thank you , thank you . life is wonderfull ...

@jorgeald77 5 жыл бұрын

Maravillosa 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@chrisebbesen5798 Жыл бұрын

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

@nevilletoor4079 Жыл бұрын

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.

@sergeygvozdev7858 4 жыл бұрын

Good sound, good playing!👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂

@johnfrancis2215 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, thank you

@JenniferJones-bt4bf 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely...

@benh5048 3 жыл бұрын

I am whatching vilon videos for homework.

@MARCOVIEIRAMA 5 жыл бұрын

Das interpretações que mais amo

@tabascocat5102 8 ай бұрын

Tears

@user-qp8ei8lc3d 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@noeleenmceneaney8842 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome, perfection.

@gracedaniel8216 3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️💕 Beautiful!

@user-do5hd7zb4x Ай бұрын

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

@RachelHipp 3 жыл бұрын

Just gorgeous!

@jaymecaetano6697 Жыл бұрын

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

@tara8762 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo !

@samueljakobgreter4921 2 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@NicoloP3419 5 жыл бұрын

Bravo

@shawnchristopherwhite3271 4 жыл бұрын

Exquisite!

@user-do5hd7zb4x Ай бұрын

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

@hansdekorver7365 5 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful ( although starting a little bit late )

@dermivalpereira3430 2 жыл бұрын

very beautiful

@serenamariotti2919 10 ай бұрын

brava, bellissima interpretazione ❤!!

@patricetrn7613 2 жыл бұрын

Somptueux. Délicat et très émotionnel.

@catdarcy2546 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@paulpedersen1329 3 жыл бұрын

Brava!!

@josephvaes6987 2 жыл бұрын

Its beautiful 👍👍

@eddiephantocon5726 2 жыл бұрын

Magical

@damianodami7582 4 жыл бұрын

Spettacolo x l anima....

@andersoncarvalho4617 Жыл бұрын

BRAVA!!!!! 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆

@MarcoVieira-gp9fp Жыл бұрын

violino chega a sussurrar

@hubertW100 Жыл бұрын

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

@ericwertheim9101 3 жыл бұрын

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

@rocketcabbage 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dorismartir316 Жыл бұрын

One must not wear boots playing violin.

@sharonmurray1645 Жыл бұрын

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