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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Elektra / Wea |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Music Video - Classical, Music Videos - Classical, V/a Compilations |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 685738580132 |
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The Art of Violin This DVD will bring tears to your eyes. My father was a professional violist for over 40 years and got much pleasure from this video. My mother enjoys watching this video at least once a week. It will inspire any young violinst to play with more feeling and overall satisfaction. Just seeing the old footage of the great masters of long ago is worth your purchase. If you are a lover of music, you must have this in your collection. <
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Art of the Violin
This DVD is exceptional in every respect. It is technically well done, covers all the leading violin artists of the 20th century and has solid interpretive inteviews with recognized virtuosi such as Hilary Hahn and Itzhak Perlmanand Isa Haendel. The actual playing will take your breath away.
Captivating and Unique
As a confirmed violin junky, this was the documentary I had waited my whole life to see. It never could have lived up to my expectations, but it came close. My only real complaints are:
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>*The emphasis on Menhuin. He was great, sure, but hardly the epoch-maker he is played up to be in this. This is even more annoying considering how little consideration is given to Stern.
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>*The way Kreisler and Ysaye are glossed over simply because there is less archival footage of them. Surely the director could have cobbled together some still footage and some of their recordings and had a more fair and balanced discussion of their remarkable contributions to violin-playing and literature. Or, for that matter, the fact that it was they, among others, who pivoted the instrument from the 19th to the 20th century.
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>*No mention of Leopold Auer at all seems inconceivable, but somehow he is omitted from this film!
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>In short, "The Art of Violin" is more a rhapsody than a sonata-allegro, but it still charms.