i like it slower so you hear all the nuances. if you want virtuosic Bartok listen to the Violin Concerto. Menhuin made an excellent recording if it.

I think its lovely too. But. Bartok intended the piece to take 4 minutes played piano solo. I love this piece partly because of its roots in folk music. I think played this slow it only distances the music from its roots.

Pretty heavy Jewish playing

well if u live here and passed through one of the time locked vilages u can better understand how this music hits :).

And thank you, Kitty! One can't say better.

Kitty Scherbatskaya The most important greeting should also be paid to the Menuhin's valuable tutor, the notable Romanian composer Georghe Enescu (both of them can be seen together in a picture on 4:11 in the video). In my opinion, being taught by such a great composer led Menuhin not only perform (such a composition which is culturally related to his tutor) technically perfect but also empathatetical as well. It is also worth mentioning that both Béla Bartok and Georghe Enescu are contemporaries and their immortal compositions of "Romanian Folk Dances" and "Romanian Rhapsodies No.1&2" had been composed and met with the audiences approximately in the same years of the early 20th century. When listened together, all these immortal works enable listeners to get a "Big picture" as all of them had been inspired from the melodies of the different regions that make up the current Romania. So, thanks for Béla Bartok for the composition; thanks for Georghe Enescu for presenting us a notable virtuoso and thanks to Yehudi Menuhin for his unique, emphatic and soul-catching performance. I am sure that both Bartok and Enescu would applause Menuhin after listened to this recording. Deep respects to all of them...

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@@navigator0634 beautiful!thanck you for your words.it brought me tears in my eyes.laura,romania

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To what would you attribute "the old Roumanian style", Menuhin's time with Enescu?

Menuhin was an incredible human being in addition to artist. Collaborations with Wilhelm Furtwangler and with Glenn Gould were not for the faint of heart.

Вэтом человеке все прекрасно:и талант,и душа,и его тонкое благородное лицо,даже в старости он прекрасен!

Wow, you said it. That's great! Music is vast, our minds are tiny. Open up, if you can. This is not how I would play it -- but I'm not Yehudi Menuhin!

The true big brain

creo que te has equivocado de vídeo

Yes.

Yes It is Gould! I wonder which Schoenbergs piece it is?

@@sysRq76 it's the Phantasy Op.47 for violin and piano

If you do, you will kill the spirit of Menuhin so please don't

What is lost in this more moderate tempo compared to a faster one? I think nothing.

He gives you nuances in this tempo to make it worthwhile

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr5di62V09uVeWg.html I recommend watching this video, presented by Zoltán Kocsis and Kelemn Baranbás.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bN-UjLSZsp3PmKM.html This is an authentic performance by Bartók and József Szigeti

IDK, I find his tempo refreshing (kind of). But I guess this is more in line with what you have in mind: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9N4hcRz16uae4U.html

Maybe you need to work on your dancing.

@kinor Spielman I don't know what you're agreeing with. I really don't care about 'most modern performances', what I care about is artistry. I've heard excellent performances of the Roumanian Dances that vary in tempo considerably one from another. I hear Yehudi Menuhin's heart and soul in this performance, and that's worth a lot, don't you think?

@@commontater8630 holyshit !!! Iknowwwww!!!

lisag6 why its good

OK. I will re-think this...

Way too slow. Here is one of the best examples kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5-RjbhkmtnTaXU.html

There you go, thanks! It's dances (not a dirge)

@@lisag6 I don't think it suffers at at a slower tempo

Yeah, right -- what did Menuhin know about the Romanian aesthetic anyway? He just studied with the great Enescu and lived & breathed that music/culture for years....

Sorry but it doesn't matter what he studied. What matters is the recording. And that's terrible. It's a surfacial steven spielberg / walt disney kind of sentimentalism which it was never supposed to be. Bartok's music has always been radical. Listen to Bartok's own interpretation, or Kocsis's. It's powerful and decadent - the exact opposite of what Menuhin does here.

MetalMinded2011 yah if only he had your advice...funny. the tempo works wonderfully. extra pesante. The thing about music is that there are many ways to interpret the same piece, the same phrase.

MetalMinded2011 this style of playing is now considered tasteless by some,,, but who am i to say? i mean what do i know?

The price sounds good at a variety of speeds.