Itzhak Perlman – Beethoven: Violin Concerto (with Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker)

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  @greggreggreggreggreggreggreg1 · 1 year ago

  I remember Beethoven playing this in Vienna. I was just 7 at the time. Now I am 226 and it still brings tears to my eyes.

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  @mielevandeven9844 · 2 years ago

  Some years ago i was in a hospital. There was a patient listening to this music and i ased him, what music is that? So he told me, he was a terminal patient and as his time was running out fast he only listened to the music worthwhile listining to. As this masterpiece surely is. Now, some years later, it is nearly my turn. Only heaven can hold more beautiful music then this. Dirk

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  @JamesLaney-v9q · 1 year ago

  I first heard this when I was 21, a gift from a dear aunt for graduation. I am now 97 and it still transports me

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  @sheenahocking · 2 years ago

  I have loved this concerto since I was a child, and now I'm old. But to be able to read all the comments - that is something else. Suddenly, I am not alone, but in a crowd of lovely appreciative people, and I can know them a little, in a way I couldn't in the audience in a concert hall. YouTube is a miracle of our times, and I filled with gratitude that this performance has been preserved for all of us to enjoy.

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  @davidgoss1736 · 5 years ago

  When a violinist hobbles on crutches to his seat and smiles the whole time you know he is a great man before he ever plays a note; he is more than a great violinist, he is a universal treasure.

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  @piermarco · 6 years ago

  I cannot understand how it's possible to click "I don't like" to this amazing perform! Perlman is the music, he's the violin!!

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  @jerrykopel8538 · 5 years ago (edited)

  how can anyone feel sorry for him/herself after listening to this music played by a man who can't walk and composed by a man who couldn't hear ?

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  @Jerry-t3i · 1 year ago

  In this crazy world we live in, thank God we.can listen and appreciate brilliant classical music.

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  @jeanielam4260 · 5 years ago

  This piece helps with my depression and anxiety. Whenever I am baraged with non-stop negative thoughts, this is the only piece that stops those voices. I don't know why but thank you Beethoven.

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  @spuds1002 · 3 years ago (edited)

  This violin concerto introduced me to classical music when I was 12. I found Perlman's rendition in the local library on tape cassette, 43 years later and it is still my favourite concerto. I learned to play the violin as a result. I would pretend to be the conductor, waving my chopsticks in the air, tears running down my face, such was the beauty of this concerto. The first movement alone is a masterpiece (almost a symphony in itself). Perlman is on another level, and I have yet to find another violinist come near his interpretation of Beethoven's one and only violin concerto, thank you thank you thank you...

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  @marijane8665 · 6 years ago

  It just doesn’t get any better than this! Beethoven, Perlman & Barenboim! I love UTUBE everyday for bringing us this content. Where else, in what era, was this possible? I’m 73+ yrs. old and I’ve loved classical music for most of my life...and it’s never been so universally accessible. So glad to be alive today❣️Marijane

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  @Pierre-v6f · 1 year ago

  Music is a balm for all the darkness of the présent days

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