Maxim Vengerov | 5 Most Difficult Violin Pieces | Classic FM

Virtuoso Maxim Vengerov, Classic FM's Artist in Residence, names the five violin pieces he judges to be the most difficult of all time... 🎻⚡️

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[jumpeduppantryboy]

Vengerov: It's almost impossible
Also Vengerov: *Plays it perfectly*

[magdielburdiles.]

Plot twist: this was Vengerov warmup, the editor got confused and they will soon release the hardest pieces for Vengerov.

[a.gabrielarchibald]

My shaky bow in the beginning of Schubert's piece would turn the piece into Darude Sandstorm....

[foxtrotfelix]

This is such a nice break from how the world portrays fast pieces as the hardest in the world. The difficulty comes in making your instrument sing delightfully.

[TheAsianTree]

That first note in Schubert right there is shaky bow real estate.

[violinlounge]

00:10 Schubert fantasy in C major
03:01 Beethoven concerto
04:37 Brahms concerto
07:10 Rachmaninov Vocalise
12:40 Mendelssohn concerto

I think the choices are interesting. He plays all the Paganini and Ernst stuff since a young age, so the musicality is where he still can find challenge. I mean, try to add something special to pieces played so often... he can! To those critiquing him for his choices, I’d say try to play the Vocalise just as beautifully as he does 😉.

[violinchick]

I really appreciate that he chose pieces that are musically difficult, not just technical.

[henrybilling]

"Hello, my name is Maxim Vengerov"... Maxim, do you really have to introduce yourself?

[macleadg]

Hilary Hahn and Maxim Vengerov: two amazing musicians who are also gracious, humble, and kind.

[damshek]

Sustaining a very long quiet note is to a violinist what making an omelet is to a chef- supposedly basic and not very flashy, yet requires a surprising amount of skill to really get right.

[pv]

Twoset: these are the most difficult pieces
Vengerov: hold my violin

[sefaemreilikli]

The hardest thing is creating beauty with what you have.

[TheYgds]

I find it so interesting how Vengerov's maturity about this subject didn't have him automatically going for the same selection of Paganini, Ysaye and Kodaly pieces. It is evident, that Vengerov values control, musicality, phrasing and yearning beauty over strings of complicated double stops, harmonics and left-hand pizzicatos. When I was a teenage cellist that was the mark of difficulty (and for an amateur like myself still is), but as I've grown older I've learned to appreciate the depth and complexity of well woven legatos, bow control and tempered subtle vibrato. While I could play the Vocalise with nary an error when I was 15, it takes a lifetime to master all of the subtle nuances of such a piece and truly deliver on what the music is trying to invoke. Bravo Vengerov, I've truly learned something today.

[juliafreitas]

I really appreciate how he says the pieces are difficult but then he plays it like it was nothing

[sharlottafalls]

How my teachers say I rush: you should quit violin you have no sense of rhythm!
How Maxim Vengerov says you are rushing: you are a king that is not willing to share space

[mmn]

It's always a great privilege to listen to these conversations. Thank you, classicfm, and everyone involved in the making of these videos!

[mcig]

This goes to show that technicality is not the real challenge for Vengerov

[thearem]

Wherever I go, other Twoset Fans are already there....

[edith]

This man has been my musical crush for over 20 years❤ I've been to so many concerts of his, yet he still amazes me.❤

[helmiviolin]

"5 most difficult violin pieces"
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It looks easy when he plays :')