Professional Violinist Rates Musicians in Movies [Part 1]

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Жыл бұрын

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@RayChenViolinist Жыл бұрын

Download my app Tonic today tonicmusic.app/join-in if you'd like join a community of musicians practicing together! + Please like & subscribe if you enjoyed watching this video, & comment below if you have other clips you'd like me to react to! 🎵

@momot3488 Жыл бұрын

How about the 4mil concert by TwoSet? Would love to hear your opinion. Especially about the part where you gave Brett the tips for improving his fingerings. And maybe also the cadenza! 😊 And any other part you'd like to comment on, honestly.

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is the guy in the gray suit in the first movie, Richard Southgate, is actually a trained violinist!

@chrisma3256 Жыл бұрын

Chinese drama Love scenery when the student plays Tschaikowsky violin concierto in D (I know it's fake, but I like the drama and the soundtrack). I will look for the episode and time if you want to review it. Also The Piano because I love the soundtrack.

@charlieb001 Жыл бұрын

Nodame Cantabile please, either the live action or the anime! 😊

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

Amadeus movie where he corrects Saleri!

@hunterstanch7109 Жыл бұрын

Ray isn’t quite as ruthless as Brett and Eddy when he rated violin scenes.

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

I agree! Brett and Eddy will always crank the roasting knob when talking about violin in movies!

@zazazebee Жыл бұрын

It's because he doesn't have Ling Ling Insurance yet!

@dpet7756 Жыл бұрын

@@zazazebee petition to get ray lingling insurance

@jimmywu6471 Жыл бұрын

actually Ray gave a much lower score to the violinist in Le Concert than Brett & Eddy

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

@@jimmywu6471 I agree!!!

@vistastructions Жыл бұрын

Ray is picking up where Brett and Eddy left off with their roasts

@brookev2371 Жыл бұрын

picking off

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

True!!!

@vistastructions Жыл бұрын

@@brookev2371 picking up*

@Cookie_Comment Жыл бұрын

…and im ALL HERE FOR IT

@AndySaenz Жыл бұрын

Brett and Eddy did a rotisserie of these movie musicians! That’s how bad they roasted them.

@reepicheepsfriend Жыл бұрын

I remember when TwoSet made a recording of 'what it would have actually sounded like on set' for the first movie. I almost died

@LizzyStewart14 6 ай бұрын

What’s the video called?

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is the guy in the gray suit in the first movie, Richard Southgate, is actually a trained violinist!

@Lindraella Жыл бұрын

"Le concert" is actually a really good movie, I'd recommend it. This violin soloist gets asked to play Tchaikovsky with an orchestra that was disbanded years ago because they stood up to the political regime in Russia. They've all gone their own way, and haven't practised in years. But the conductor gets them all back together, however they dont rehearse begore the big opening and thats why it's absolutely horrific at the beginning, but once the soloist starts to play, they all slowly come together. The movie is about the magic of coming together through music, putting aside any differences, and reaching for perfection. Absolutely recommend it, well worth the watch, and the main actress (Mélanie Laurent) is amazing. Granted, violin skills aren't great but the acting is top notch otherwise :)

@RayChenViolinist Жыл бұрын

Wow this is super insightful! Ok but what about the super annoying guy? What’s his role?

@Lindraella Жыл бұрын

@@RayChenViolinist so basically he used to be in the orchestra that was disbanded, but then he kind of went back to his family and didn't play professionally anymore. Many of these musicians are quite poor and end up playing on the street or with groups of Gypsies. This guy in question is definitely annoying, and the context is that the orchestra members have been basically partying in Paris instead of rehearsing (because they get a chance to travel there for the first time in their life). The soloist (the woman) is annoyed that they think they don't need to rehearse and questions their competence. The guy starts to show off to prove they can still play. Obviously at the end, on he day of the concert, it starts off awful because they haven't played in 30 years lol. But they all come together and deliver an incredible performance in the end. I don't know who scored it but it was awesome! Except they had to cut part of the concerto to make it a bit shorter. But they still left a long 15-20min scene of the actual concert at the end.

@kw3560 Жыл бұрын

@@Lindraella Thank you for your well explained summary! I also love this movie and in fact, I LOVE the "super annoying guy" hahahaha! He is a very respected gypsy violinist, Anghel Gheorghe. Menuhin only allowed gypsy musicians when he was eating out in restaurants, and I am sure he would approve Mr Gheorghe!

@Lindraella Жыл бұрын

@@kw3560 awesome, I didn't know that! I'm going to look him up now :)

@Lindraella Жыл бұрын

@@RayChenViolinist by the way, I just realized this movie is available for free on KZfaq (in the US), in case you ever want to check it out or have time to kill!

@caraira1909 Жыл бұрын

David Garrett played Paganini in the Devil's Violinist and he made the musical arrengements too. In Le concert, the guy playing the Paganini No. 24 is an actual violinist. His name is Gheorghe „Caliu“ Anghel , comes from Romania , he belongs to the Romani people and is the director of the band "Taraf de Caliu" which was founded as replacement of "Taraf de Haïdouks" (fun fact: Menuhin was fan of them) .

@meyerbeer13 Жыл бұрын

The historic Paganini mostly toured with a guitarist not an orchestra

@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын

David Garrett is a horrible violinist! I would never hire him to play anything, LOL!

@Visitkarte Жыл бұрын

@@ondinehd6889 OK, who are you?

@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын

@@Visitkarte You want me to tell you who I am, on the internet??? LOL! I hope you know well that we are not supposed to do that for the safety of all of us. But I'll just say this: both my parents have had long, and successful international performing careers , my father is a concert-violinist, and my mother is a concert-pianist. They also taught respectively at two of the most prestigious music conservatories in the the world, and my step-father was principal cellist of one of the most important orchestras in the world for many years. So, I do know what I am talking about.

@andreashabeck1155 Жыл бұрын

@@ondinehd6889 the question was who are YOU, not who are your relatives.

@the.violin.noobie Жыл бұрын

How this man can do so many entertaining things yet with so much quality. First soloist, not bad, then Tonic and now (along with others) getting active again on a youtube channel. Giving free masterclasses on Tonic and still being so classy, brilliant, kind, polite, funny. Is this man for real?

@strigoi_guhlqueen8355 Жыл бұрын

To illuminate the spotlight in the 18 hundreds. That was actually possible at the time, not in that modern color tone but it could be done. You would reflect a strong lamp through a lens and mirror contraption. Loui the 14 used this in some of his stage plays even earlier when depicting the sun god. Though it was a heavy, cumbersome and expensive apparatus. Unlikely to be in a place like the one in the movie and it’s light would have been less focused and very jellow.

@RayChenViolinist Жыл бұрын

Again - learning from you history buffs

@NiiloPaasivirta Жыл бұрын

I think that's supposed to be limelight. It was discovered in 1820s, was used at Covent Garden Theatre from 1837 and became widespread in 1860s at theatres. So it couldn't have been used at that concert but it's not that far off either.

@maroonkitty Жыл бұрын

I’ll definitely watch a movie where Ray plays a violinist 🎉

@paucajtro Жыл бұрын

I've already added to my list in Netflix 😄😄

@martinsinger3561 8 ай бұрын

Me too

@dadrillplayssmallcello Жыл бұрын

i love the editors for Ray's and Twoset's videos. they're so...

@electric7487 Жыл бұрын

A M AAAAAAAAAAAA Z I N G

@lottelilo1 Жыл бұрын

We saw you yesterday in concert in Wiesbaden. It was amazing! Our 11 years old son was so sad when you sad you need to save energy for A Dur later. He wanted to see more of you. But we had to leave during the break. Too late for our son Yunis. Thank you for a wonderful performance ❤

@RayChenViolinist Жыл бұрын

Ah! Next time!! 🫠

@Y3llow_Submarin3 Жыл бұрын

@@RayChenViolinist Going to Singapore anytime soon? I know it's not going to happen for Malaysia. 🥲

@vulcan9125 Жыл бұрын

@@Y3llow_Submarin3 Ray Chen came to Malaysia in 2018, I was there, it was Symphonie Espagnole, truly beautiful piece played by him. I don't know when will Ray come to Malaysia or Singapore anytime soon tho, he also went to Singapore for prokofiev violin concerto no 2 in 2019, I was also there lol.

@twilightshadow1795 Жыл бұрын

I like that Ray seemed to rate the actors on how well they could make him suspend disbelief and enjoy the show.

@nancyjfs Жыл бұрын

I'm happy to see "Hank" again. He's so easygoing despite the fact that you got all the music talent in the family. Maybe Hank is a math whizz?!

@acactus2190 Жыл бұрын

We need ray to have ling ling insurance so he can be more ruthless with the roasts! 😈😈😈

@AndySaenz Жыл бұрын

I wish Hollywood would make a movie starring Ray Chen! It would be amazing to watch him rock out on his violin on the big screen.

@nancyjfs Жыл бұрын

Any video you create with Brett and Eddy is sure to be a winner! But I know they are busy getting ready for their tour.

@mathewwade4619 Жыл бұрын

I love his humble titles "professional violinist" instead of the more accurate "world class soloist." That's why he's the kind of guy we all want to be friends with. Haha.

@sarathomas8499 Ай бұрын

Is no one going to talk about Ray composing the music for the movie.. you are amazing!

@tomacroitoru8594 Жыл бұрын

From the movie "Le Concert", the violinist playing in a circle and than switching to paganini is Caliu, a very talented violinist from Romania and I would love if you would react to his music and band called "Taraf de Caliu" because he trully is a master!

@tomacroitoru8594 Жыл бұрын

And if you search the internet you find Johnny Depp talking about their music, they got to know each other during the filming of the movie "The man who cried"

@tomacroitoru8594 Жыл бұрын

Also search for "Taraf de Haidouks"

@ptseng123 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see Hank again.

@gabir.b.5077 Жыл бұрын

Eagerly waiting for the regular uploads! 😊

@maryann2385 Жыл бұрын

Fun video! Glad to see you're back regularly. :D

@Katieredsworth Жыл бұрын

Ray replicating the music is too wonderful

@TinyDream88 Жыл бұрын

😂 More please! Always happy to get notifications from your channel Ray! 🎉

@hamwhacker Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ray Chen. You are one of the great violin stars of this world. Full movie list: High Strung (2016) 0:58 The Violin Teacher (2012) 5:40 The Song Of Names (2019) 7:19 The Concert (2009) 9:10 The Devils Violinist (2019) 13:31

@laurabaikokshinova3070 Жыл бұрын

Ray, you' re doing great.😊

@angelabell7254 21 күн бұрын

Lol your so much fun Ray! I love it!

@zecalimazeca Жыл бұрын

So good to see a musician of your level with this happy sense of humor. Greetings from Brazil

@AMMandrea123 6 ай бұрын

I love your violin even over KZfaq, the beautiful sound comes through.

@ronny12tech Жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible scenes... Very enjoying this fresh approach to spread classical music knowledge through entertainment

@gabrielaconstantin4303 Жыл бұрын

The guy from the "The concert" film is a Romanian violonist he's from my country and he is very popular aroud here 😁

@AndyZach Жыл бұрын

Liked and subscribed. I love your analysis. I haven't seen these films either.

@JennieTele Жыл бұрын

🤣haha Ray let Hank out. He must be practicing on Tonic🎻

@zamadeapio9 Жыл бұрын

How did I miss the notification for this? Thanks for the fun video!

@rufusdrumknottvgc Жыл бұрын

Ray is hilarious and the movie review was fun and insightful! Looking forward to more vids from Ray

@MarcusAgricola Жыл бұрын

I think you should really watch "Le Concert" the scene makes absolute sense if you know the story line. And in addition, it is hilarious. Of course, the actor of the conductor was not really conducting, but the musicians got trainers to be able to act realistically.

@BlackHermit Жыл бұрын

Very good ratings overall! It was enjoyable to watch.

@stevenzhang4761 Жыл бұрын

Did Ray just play flight of the bumblebee in less than a MINUTE? Holy macaroni

@khajiitkitten5679 Жыл бұрын

Wunderbar! More more more!

@dianal.1279 Жыл бұрын

Super! Loved the video! I've seen you on the Queen Elisabeth Compétition! I've been a fan ever since. Greetings from Belgium!

@TheJensenInterceptor Жыл бұрын

Really brilliant , cheers

@kwcnasa Жыл бұрын

Thanks you for introducing The Song of Names to us @7:19, and a short clip, Violin Teacher scene, from Parental Guidance (2012) @5:45. In addition, the full Violin Teacher scene clip can be found on KZfaq 20th Century Studios UK.

@antine1279 5 ай бұрын

Very interesting, thanks :)

@CookyOfficial Жыл бұрын

I love these videos and need MORE PLEASE AND THANK YOU!

@nb7524 Жыл бұрын

Hey Ray, you performed the score for that movie, NICE!🔥😁 Also, I am with you regarding that bow hitting scene. Whether a hobbyist or professional, people sacrificially spend (what is for them) a lot of money for their violin and bow so you don’t play around with either. When you showed the pic from the movie of the violinist and the dancer, I knew that I was already done. I would not hold my violin like that around anyone, including my husband!😂

@adamschaafsma5839 Жыл бұрын

I have listened to your music but never seen a video. You're great, certainly am going to watch more of them. This is a lot of fun!

@carrie0702 Жыл бұрын

I really like ray’s cute response 😊😊😊😊 and you really answer my questions when I am watching those movie. I always wonder r they really playing 😂

@lilac3683 Жыл бұрын

Ray's reviews are so cute and polite 🌞

@yukitamura9228 5 ай бұрын

This is a great episode. If you haven't done another review. For the red violin, I would love to see it.

@DenisPuscaOfficial Жыл бұрын

I like such videos a lot. You should definatly do more of those.😊

@shuhuadu92 Жыл бұрын

LMAO Can imagine the whole video just by the cover Feeling super excited as a Twoset&Ray's fan😻

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

Same! TwoSet/Ray Boi fan here!

@mada_mada_ Жыл бұрын

This was pretty entertaining! You should do more- Lestat scene form Queen of the Damned is a grate place to start!

@JohnSpawn1 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you react to "Tár", the Todd Field film with Cate Blanchett.

@user-dd4kt2vb5y Жыл бұрын

I want to see you play the violin in a movie soon.

@dreamfield92 Жыл бұрын

Would recommend Chinese film 和你在一起 which has very very realistic violining and a joy to watch as a musician (:

@carrie0702 Жыл бұрын

Ray 你真的太帥太可愛了每次看你的視頻我都感覺我好愛你怎麼有人可以這麼完美

@mitchnew3037 Жыл бұрын

You’re great 😊

@otajonh Жыл бұрын

Kudos for editor-chaaan❤

@humblesparrow Жыл бұрын

What about Arcane? That guy seemed to know what he was doing. And the syncing was flawless.

@jamie6293 Жыл бұрын

Ray great video, by the way was your T-shirt specially made for you or is it available as I would love one.🙂

@CLJL Жыл бұрын

I would love to see Ray review the Chinese movie “Together” 😊

@KADCR Жыл бұрын

That perfect pitch

@Exayevie Жыл бұрын

"Violin's Ray Chen" He belongs to the the violin now 😂 Honestly, not trying tease, it just struck my funny bone! ("How do I introduce myself again?")

@Ron-F 4 ай бұрын

In the last clip, from Legends of Tomorrow, it seems like the actress, Tala Ashe really played the violin, as she has practiced since young age.

@farzadhozouri5365 5 ай бұрын

I was waiting for "Red Violin"

@davefried Жыл бұрын

for the devil's violinist scene, paganini was supposed to be on stage and the piece they were supposed to be playing was concerto 1. that's why the orchestra is there and they looked befuddled. paganini walks in late and decides to do caprice 24 instead. that's why it looks odd unless you watch the previous couple of scenes.

@yournameissogood175 Жыл бұрын

The moment when the violin bow became the fencing sword😂😂😂🎉

@EleazarOctavioRuizSpreafico 10 ай бұрын

You need to watch The Concert in full. That ending scene is spectacular, the rest of the concerto sounds completely diffrent just after the opening. The guy playing Paganini is actually a famous Romani Gypsy music player, part of a famous band called Taraf de Haidouks

@lienlee7654 Жыл бұрын

I think we would love to see that you actually roasted them. You are too nice 🙂.

@spikesandcurles961 Жыл бұрын

Ray, i play three instruments and I'm in middle school but I cannot play trumpet on tonic. why are their limited instruments? I'm just curious. love your vids by the way!

@blegh8753 Жыл бұрын

interesting because the clip from le concert that twoset reviewed seemed fine in terms of syncing... maybe it was your editor?

@mukilnarayanan Жыл бұрын

As a Ling Ling wannabe/TwoSet fan/Ray Boi fan, one word describes this - iNTreSTing!

@DA-er2fr Жыл бұрын

“Rank” duo is the best!😂

@eddominates Жыл бұрын

I heard "I'm Violin's Ray Chen" and i gotta say it has a nice ring to it 😆

@CheyenneSedai Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if he was going to bring up Song of Names. Because I already knew he was in it.

@mango6404 Жыл бұрын

THE RETURN OF HANK CHANG

@ChrisPractices Жыл бұрын

9:52 Is the supposed editor of that video, who is sliding in from the left, actually Taran Van Hemert @TaranVH from LMG?

@eszldevois1549 Жыл бұрын

that's Gheorghe Anghel from Taraf de Haïdouks he's great!

@vismaykedilaya1318 Жыл бұрын

first found Ray through his work on Arcane, and if it's anything to go by, he's the most qualified person EVER for this job

@editionprimavista4937 Жыл бұрын

Here is a challenge for Ray: the movie "Un Couer en Hiver", a French movie from 1992. Beautiful soundtrack with music by Ravel!

@Frostbiteartedits Жыл бұрын

You should do one of these with twoset and get the trio back together

@PiergiorgioWilson Жыл бұрын

2:35 is gold 😂

@dianal.1279 Жыл бұрын

Even though my bow is really cheap, I cringed!

@sabrinai Жыл бұрын

Ray-ting system 🤣

@robotnik77 Жыл бұрын

Now do “Humoresque” from 1946, and Stewart Granger in “The Magic Bow”; but you must not only critique his violin chops, but also his sword fighting acumen.

@rolinlu Жыл бұрын

Ray please review Brett's Mendelssohn! Please!!

@ctrlesc1 Жыл бұрын

Hey Ray, huge fan of yours from the UK here. Long story short to save your time: what's your favourite VIOLIN rendition of Bach's Chaconne in D (apart of yours😊)? Thank you so much. R.