thelightisahead | Double Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd movement, Largo) - Johann Sebastian Bach @thelightisahead | Uploaded 16 years ago | Updated 38 minutes ago
The Largo ma non troppo movement of Bach's beautiful double violin concerto in D minor.
I decided to make this when I realised I couldn't easily find any really pleasing versions of the concerto here on Youtube. I am a huge Heifetz fan, but I even found the video of him and his student playing this piece rather hard on the ear - a needle thin note quality with little emotion in my unbiased, humble view, and of course, no accompaniment. Perhaps just the recording quality of the day.
This is only the Largo ma non troppo movement, as it is the only I have, performed by the renowned recording artist Takako Nishizaki and the less known but clearly excellent Alexander Jablokov.
There has fortunately been only a slight lessening of sound quality from when I had to convert the original 1.5 GB AVI video into a 29 MB WMV video for uploading. The very partial loss of quality is only noticeable in the higher notes.
I have set the music to some initial titles, followed by a famous portrait of Bach. A photograph of the key instrument, the violin, follows, and then a couple of pictures of the natural world I have taken (only 2 megapixels, believe it or not!), as Bach's music often makes me think of the beauty of nature. I would have used more of my pictures, but moviemaker kept freezing, so I settled with a prolonged return to the Bach portrait for the remainder.
I hope you enjoy this beautiful performance of a beautiful piece of music.
(In response to a comment, I also plan on creating similar videos of the first and third movements once I have the tracks).
Note (13/09/2009): Now I wish I hadn't given 'troppo' a capital 't' in the video! It's not correct!
The Largo ma non troppo movement of Bach's beautiful double violin concerto in D minor.
I decided to make this when I realised I couldn't easily find any really pleasing versions of the concerto here on Youtube. I am a huge Heifetz fan, but I even found the video of him and his student playing this piece rather hard on the ear - a needle thin note quality with little emotion in my unbiased, humble view, and of course, no accompaniment. Perhaps just the recording quality of the day.
This is only the Largo ma non troppo movement, as it is the only I have, performed by the renowned recording artist Takako Nishizaki and the less known but clearly excellent Alexander Jablokov.
There has fortunately been only a slight lessening of sound quality from when I had to convert the original 1.5 GB AVI video into a 29 MB WMV video for uploading. The very partial loss of quality is only noticeable in the higher notes.
I have set the music to some initial titles, followed by a famous portrait of Bach. A photograph of the key instrument, the violin, follows, and then a couple of pictures of the natural world I have taken (only 2 megapixels, believe it or not!), as Bach's music often makes me think of the beauty of nature. I would have used more of my pictures, but moviemaker kept freezing, so I settled with a prolonged return to the Bach portrait for the remainder.
I hope you enjoy this beautiful performance of a beautiful piece of music.
(In response to a comment, I also plan on creating similar videos of the first and third movements once I have the tracks).
Note (13/09/2009): Now I wish I hadn't given 'troppo' a capital 't' in the video! It's not correct!
