hello i've been rather stagnant, so.. shall try to post something.
i went on "schindler's list"-high after hearing both shimei playing it at strings concert and elizabeth (yes elizabeth yang one year our senior) playing it at VJ strings concert. hence i keyed it in at youtube and found 2 relatively nice videos. (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWVV_GnRIA
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1UvabfIbl8
the first is by itzhak perlman and the second is by some bing wang concertmistress of los angeles philharmonic.
surprisingly, i preferred the latter, instead of the usual "ITZHAK PERLMAN IS THE BEST!!!!111" (like all the comments in youtube)
personally i felt bingwang's one was more emotionally charged, she played with the sensitivity of a woman, and i liked the way she dwelled on certain notes. itzhak perlman's version was rendered too fast for my liking, it makes all the agony seem almost fleeting, although yes, his phrasing was brilliant.
of course the sound cant really be compared, since the 2nd video was recorded by an amateur.
hmm, what do you all think?
however, i'm sure of one thing. nothing beats shimei's rendition of the charged upward broken chordal passage that leads to the climax of the piece (the one with the D# to E), the speed, the delay, the tone control, or perhaps it's the impact of hearing it live.
p.s: how do you insert the video sample from youtube!
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Hi MH,
I have a recording of the perlman one in a jw cd and I used to grow up goo goo eyed listening to that..remembered re-playg that cd to death when i worked at towers :D
However, I find the Bing wang one more moving perhaps because of the speed taken and the great amount of care and breathing each time she phrases it.
Shimei's version was very very moving, I think it was perhaps the best one amongst all three!!
However the best perlman rendition of this was actually (being jewish I think?) when he played for the actual Schindler's List film, towards the end credits.
I remembered bawling my eyes out..and yes, I watched it during the time it was controversially up for a ban.. :
as for how to attach Youtube stuff, on the actual page itself, you'll see the url and the "embed". I guess if you highlight that and when you create an entry, you paste that code under "html" instead ;)
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