Maxim Vengerov - Masterclass

aged just 24 Maxim Van Gough is one of the most sought-after violinists in the world he was born in novice Abyss Siberia and started playing the violin aged for nothing without any gimmicks he has an ability to communicate directly and emotionally through his music in this masterclass he reveals his approach to visualizing music and performing we see him coaching for exceptional students in four very different pieces of violin music by Mozart si Tchaikovsky and saraswathi for you no problem no big deal the idea of a masterclass is to to give a violinist how to think about music i gossiped yeah first of all to have little scenario it always helped you if if she hears you you know I use these images to explain to students what to do with music express it no because you have to tell the latest news and it's so exciting but I'm trying just to to give them a chance to think about this music themselves to to create something that music will be so alive and so much vivid because the imagination is part of our part of our a human existing but world is yours don't rush like a ten or a single you and you can be like in a boxing match you know I also try to to help them to make a new interpretation that they created this you know muscular are not on we imagined something then we try to perform it we it's nice to live with the fantasy and with the music is so fascinating because music is music is fantasy I am 15 years old and I've been playing the violin since I was six I study at the UD Menuhin School of Music which is just outside of London in Cobham I've been studying there for seven years and I've been studying with Natasha Boyle sky I lived in Moscow until I was seven then I moved around plays just trying to find something new place to stay at and yahoodi came to our house and he invited Natasha we're sky over to the school and my mother to work there as well and we thought it would be the best thing for me to go out there and study with keep studying with my teacher this movement like most of mozart's third movements out is very light and very elegant and there's big contrast between the theme and it's developed sections for instance that all themes are light but some can be major some can be - some can be a little more serious some can be a little more funny the character is most important because once I was a genius and he was also young genius and it's very very difficult to reproduce the kind of character that he had at that time in the most that was always where we he wrote this movement sort of in the Opera style and I have had the imagination when you start this movement yeah boom boom boom bah it's sort of like a like a ball ballroom imagine everybody is in dresses and that wonderful time and everybody is dancing so the orchestra and suddenly say attention queen is coming queen is Comi cream she say continue everybody is bowing Oh Sal maybe Queen sits down yeah and everybody starting gossiping about latest news in the royal house yeah continue you can create from this third movement the Rondo you can create sort of even write a libretto because there are so many characters what happened and whatever you do you can't actually go wrong if you take the music first and according to that you create an atmosphere even a dialogue even question-and-answer this is so interesting to explore so please Dora Dora everything is so beautiful and that's my attention queen is coming no weenies continue yeah don't forget to bow you have to be polite like this like me yeah but if you if if she hears you you know but very expressive expressive because you have to tell the latest news oh yeah yeah invitation to dance yes yeah you have to be invited and completely indifferent what to do yeah yeah most of us do always fascinating for me because he's so expressive with a voice require no indifferent again sometimes practicing Mozart I find very interesting just singing firstly even the higher passages because what you can do with the voice all this coloratura this is incredible and then to go and can I do this on the violin here suddenly you see all the musicians around that are playing for the Queen the organ drag grind grind oh yeah here on boom you you ask for money yeah musicians I think Mozart is one of the hardest composers to really capture the style exactly boom the choir singing album it's not only very technically demanding but also phrasing and movement and style is very difficult a little bit dreamy it's complicated in terms of what he writes and yet it sounds on the surface is very very simple to play so I think the hardest thing about playing it is to make it sound simple by completely take control over everything that you do in it ground if it not been wiring and everybody said yeah conclusion the end of the story there's a song now must be something your toes oh yeah Capricia the Basques popular Sarasota is very an extraordinary piece in terms of violinist ik abilities also you can show oh where is the instrument and with the music and you can make it an incredible impact and impression on an audience but on the inside you must feel very cool and like you don't care what's happening I'm 11 years old and I started to play the violin when I was 2 because my sister who was then 19 when I was born as a pianist when I was a toddler I used to go up to the piano and sort of like pick out her sonatas with one finger but there were the basic tune of it and my mother didn't really want to have another pianist in the house as my sister was practicing six to seven hours a day on the Steinway grand piano so she said to me on the violin with Suzuki method my teachers professors are Braun and he teaches in Cologne Lubeck Madrid and lots of other places and he used to teach maxeen Bhangra what maybe you would like to take this chair because you look so good you practiced very hard how much you practice day 5 or 6 hours a day as they say view that the same torture I was giving a hope in Siberia so many much traffic this is your mom tells you to practice yes no no it started beginning practice you are talented never enough and this is you it's a dance and all around you know playful with the many variation and many virtools or things that you can do with the valley you are suddenly in the circus because your mom gives you as a present after wonderful concert you go to the circus and here you see the round and many things many clowns and you know many you know very very physical everything so wonderful this is the ballet this is ballet dancer goes on one rope the authority bond are Maria rata papaya and this is going in Basque in the area where the Basque is a nation north of Spain a very temperamental very beautiful and very rhythmical so they dance and it's very difficult because you're very easy and you can fold down so you make rounds you jump you jump and then you you come back there yeah yeah have you seen once on the photo the Sarasota how he looked yes here a very moustache very proud with dignity he goes sometimes he makes the doggie or rather the other four she's preparing for concert hello I love this piece because it's got a lot of character in it this one passage where you um do the gutter in the boat by hand with the melody and you pits at the same time here he comes already performs Sarasota the greatest violence in the world that's you continue with the course Reno to the same time and he can play also for you can also play pizzicato in principle it's a difficult piece but if you practice it a lot then it's not it becomes less difficult you can also whistle that's harmonics which is basically playing to putting two fingers on the string but letting one sound pressing one heart on the string and letting one just lightly on the string sort of ghostly foot some like ghosts but not really you know what I mean I'm incredible their toes are incredible nobody plays better than me yes that's the euro you have to smile like in the circus Lata Tata Tata yeah oh yeah yes Oh you I'm 23 years old I started playing the violin when I was six and I went to school in Timisoara in Romania where I was born I studied that until the age of sixteen when I came to the many middle school after which I moved on to the Royal College of Music I came to England to the Menuhin competition in 1991 and lordly hoody was on the panel and he heard me and he asked me if I wanted to come to his school I had a full scholarship from mini-me school which enabled me to have all my tuitions fees paid for and I just had to provide the money for travelling and since it's a boarding school everything was included in that after I finished college which was in July this year I've been mainly focusing on chamber music I have a quartet and we are doing quite a lot of concerts and this is basically the path that I'm taking at the moment and I'm very happy about it so hopefully we'll establish ourselves on the British quartet I think anything I would work with with Maxine would be wonderful but especially the Tchaikovsky it's a wonderful mixture of sweeping melodies combined with very difficult technical passages and close your eyes and just dream listen to the piano listen to them yeah I felt I felt a little bit early development I want you to sustain in this lane in this life as as long as possible you know really the world is not moving here that was him and therefore listen to the harmonies of the piano and it'll be clear for you but it's the D major you know the major is basic all the violin concertos are written in D major almost oh trying to meditate you know to the piano No and this is this is something killer this is a connection again hello harem the last time I saw Maxine perform was on television his concept from the Royal Albert Hall George Salty's memorial concert you know where to go suddenly you find a way out of this labyrinth I was really blown over by his performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto second level you sort of you climb you climb your energy and your emotions climb but slowly slowly take your time yeah it just always amazes me how wonderfully mature he is for such a tender age really 24 is he's just a year older than than myself I want you to try yourself to start building now that you have two pages of building so this us unit must be incredible architect to know where to put the stone and you know you make yourself everything the strategy is important same please more the Tchaikovsky concerto is probably the most important in judging very sick repertoire because Tchaikovsky never cared how difficult it should be no you don't go yeah yeah the music was just pouring out of him and he just wrote it down he was the instrument of higher powers of god-given talent and that is a danger to to become really sort of small in just enjoying yourself playing on the violin you must be here like a train you know you can't stop you arrived to one place now the man Tchaikovsky wrote the violin concerto at the very difficult time when he had problems in his personal life he suffered so much and when I play his music I suffer like I will be suffering in this place he cries in his music the music was an escape for him the music was expression of his heart where I am I in the paradise you you're again you know climbing climbing you know you don't know where and it there is no limit plan you know so please try from never know it's so tender more more motion jennipher every north Oh world in your garage like a ten or a single you come to the next phase find your way out it's the most difficult phrases of Tchaikovsky when he starts repeating everything it's never enough for him to say you know it's very virtual piece a very lyrical piece but in the same time the danger of playing this concerto is becoming very sort of limited in just playing the violin that's what I find the most dangerous in this wonderful piece the most important thing to get out of their piece is to get the demos they're the greatest spirituality in this simple endless simplicity very tired and then the virtuoso passages become vivid music with a vivid imagination why did you stop here because I think you need it still continue it's like you know it's like a train don't a part that untie and you continue young everything is that you have you have to look forward to the next step YUM lalalala so this connection and the strategy you know in music especially like this this concept I would like you to watch thank you hey Johnny si he was a violinist he was a celebrity and he could do impossible things on the violin you can see once you start learning the piece it is so difficult that sometimes even impossible to play but assuming he was a violent he knew so much the instrument he wrote for himself and it's so when you get when you get into the material when you really start breathing and start feeling the music it is so value sadistically written it's so comfortable and then you starting to enjoy one time in Berlin I what scene was playing the Tchaikovsky wheel in console and after because he plays a Hong Kong he played the easel Eastern art and it was a big experience for me then when I heard that I have the chance now to doom to get in a master class here then I was thinking what peace can i play and then I I thought okay there was the ISA he soon out he was playing it's so good and if I have the chance now I want to to to practice with him on this or not and then I was starting to to practice on this one too just for three weeks and I hope everything will be all right I live in Heidelberg in Germany I'm 20 years old and I'm playing for now 14 years with a small break of two years everybody was talking about violin and music and everything in and I don't like any more and I go to play with France and go to street and hang around something and then one day I miss my violin I love the violin very much like a girl fantastic so technically so wonderful equipped and so many wonderful colors that you draw this is very impressive I I would like to tell you just few remarks on that you know this is a very interesting piece that was written in the beginning of this century so this is sort of an impressionistic time you know of the Impressionists it's like a painting that you that you see with many different colors you know sometimes the colors are so vivid that are telling you how to play and with the energy the energy czar so different there's so many wonderful moods it's like a accumulating this thing is incredible energy all this time and then suddenly it explodes yeah and it can be like in the boxing match you know you for a left hand is it's very hard to play but you don't lose you don't have to lose the right hand on the way you have to think about chords but you have to put the line on you you know the musical line and without a break on the wind the weather is changing colors are changing wind is blowing suddenly some impression what is this we don't know and real storm real stir changing out of control here no you're in control no it's a lot of change of feelings peacefully he was living in Belgium yes and there was maybe like he a lot of rain and he was sitting a lot of time he was sitting at home I think and you can feel that he has a little bit depressive on it yet and on one moment in the piece there like this and I come a small depression you can you can feel his depression and after this he forget everything and go again in very technical phrase you're tired patients and in fact that's true because we're tired now is the last job and now there's a rock concert not classical concert anymore you

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Length: 49min 46sec (2986 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2012