Vanessa-Mae plays Toccata & Fugue
Vanessa-Mae plays a rare version of Toccata & Fugue with her acoustic violin, accompanied by the Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra. This was during her Classical tour in ’96.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Große Fuge (Great Fugue), opus 133, accompanied by an animated score.FAQ Q: Where can I get free sheet music for this piece? A: You can download score and parts from IMSLP: tinyurl.com Q: Where can I learn more about this piece? A: The Wikipedia article is pretty good en.wikipedia.org and this New Yorker article about a recently discovered manuscript is interesting tinyurl.com Q: Who is performing? A: I don’t know. I licensed this recording from Royalty-Free Classical Music (dot com) through Shockwave (dot com), and they don’t say who their performers are. Q: I’m having trouble following the rhythm. A: I’m not surprised; it’s highly syncopated. I’ve done a couple of versions with barlines in them. First, here’s a bar-graph-only version with barlines: www.youtube.com Next, here’s a version with both balls and barlines: www.youtube.com If you don’t like the balls, here’s a bar-graph-only without barlines: www.youtube.com And, here’s the original (bar-graph with balls, but no barlines): www.youtube.com Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself? A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here: www.musanim.com There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first: www.classicalarchives.com Q: Could you please do a MAM video of ______? A: Please read this: www.musanim.com .
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48 comments
Favourite part 00:00 to 4:22
she is amazing, no one plays like her
Brava.
chuk norris toca mejos sin manos jajaja
she needs to cut down on the flair
What an absolute delight she is. In every sense.
Ick.
Simplemente sensacional !!!!!!!!!.….……
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, just discovered that it’s way better with sound of!
She is gorgeous!
Vanesa tan hermosa como su musica
Well I’m watching this from 2390 BC…I’m ‘super’ old…I mean,.. I’m REALLY REALLY old, also I’m from The Past Bitches, but I went forth and multiplied!.. so there! Btw do you know a guy called ‘Virgil’? or how about a lady called ‘Lady Penelope’?…I was just wondering that’s all…
increibleee C: ♥
With all respect, I don’t agree with you. Maybe it is the right way to deliver beautiful classic to otherwise pauper masses? Sorry for harsh words…Beautiful performance indeed.
That’s why I said “in my opinion” ! Crappy is certainly not appropriate, but I’m not fluent in English so forgive my bad vocabulary :/
it is stupid to say crappy music. Music, as well as any other art, is COMPLETELY opinion based.
In my opinion, she sold her soul to crappy music… I mean, wtf are those drums, it’s like something you could hear in a supermarket …
I think violin does not fit with this kind of music ! … That’s my opinion..
Many people must look up to her. I would have learned a lot from this, if I had not quit playing violin.
I’m watching this in 2390, THAT’S RIGHT, I’M FORM THE FUTURE BITCHES!
Wow, zo mooi
Very old lol
Maybe that’s the reason why my cousin really idolizes her.…!
WOAH!
the dissonances makes me think of a sense of indistinguishably felt tones. Not heard really, only perceived in the mind. A chaotic dance of reforming past experience (hearing a note) based on memory and the fell of vibrations. Chaotic in it’s movement as if grasping in order to connect the sound. The second being more ordered sort of a reminder of years past, the music he indeed hears in his head and writes on paper. Lovely, melodic, beautiful.
I guess that is my take on it.
I’m not really a music student, or a huge buff on this stuff. But to me it almost sounds as if it is an argument, or I dunno…the subjects don’t get along at all. Chaotic dissonance followed by more ordered melody. Yet they are together in this piece, as if to show they are just different sides of the same coin. Reading some of the quotes that scrolled it made me think. Perhaps this is Beethoven’s musical expression of his deafness…
Truly crazed and profound — lurching, screaming. We must have higher quality sound, as we had in the 1950’s. If you listen through the muffles you need nothing else. the music is peerless. It transports all — it makes good musicians into the greatest — death becomes nothing to fear after this.
I agree with Stravinsky.
This piece of art uses chords that probably baffled the people to listen to them. Beethoven used balance to create consanance out of disidence, for that I aplaud him. It is a unique piece that has and will inspire many of my own music.
Ah, Beethofens DNA.
In a strange way, this has an almost modern, jazzy vibe to it, especially 00:17.
But perhaps that’s just me.
Sorry I’m not totally sure where to place a request, but how about some Grieg? I would love to see what you could do with some of his music. Thanks for all the amazing pieces you’ve put together thus far.
After watching the whole score, the text at the end seems like it’s still moving!
That’s my favourite part of the piece. :/
The Waltz is a DANCE.. it also changed to a 3/4-beat, ~100 yrs b4 Beethoven’s time :
@smalin: gr8 portfolio of u/l ‘s !!1
gr33tZ from Vienna
The Waltz is a DANCE.. it also changed to a 3/4-beat, ~100 yrs b4 Beethoven’s time :
@smalin: gr8 portfolio of u/l ‘s !!1
gr33tZ from Vienna
And elaborated on and followed by a stretto, entailing augmentations and diminution of the subject, as well as inverse movement, retro grades, cycles of secondary dominence, etc.
A fugue begins in homophonic texture with a subject (often in the Bass), proceeding with the Answer (often in the Alto) over a counter-subject, proceeding with a transfer of register of the subject to the Soprano, above a conter-subject now in the Alto, and a free contrapuntle part in bass (often in a form of Fifth species counterpoint);
agreed, Beethoven was very systematic and structured in the way that he wrote. i forget which piece (for some reason the Eroica symphony and the op. 131 quartet ring a bell), but there were over 200 pages of sketches found that he apparently wasn’t totally pleased with. he also sent letters to his publishers listing hundreds of mistakes that they had made which he insisted they fix (they rarely fixed more than half of them). so yes, anything you find in Beethoven’s work is there for a reason.
I believe that the dissonances are on purpose. I can see Beethoven going crazy and laughing out loud from 7:56, especially from 8:27 xD And making demented faces because of the Trills… No, seriously, I think he made it that way for a reason.
Yo creo que las disonancias son adrede. Me imagino a Beethoven todo loco y riéndose a carcajadas a partir de 7:56, sobre todo desde 8:27 xD y poniendo cara de psicópata en los Trinos Extremos de después… No, en serio, yo creo que él lo puso así por una razón.
it takes some time to get used to it, but when you have it is marvellous.
vOv I think if he or anyone otherwise were to compare this with with a Baroque fugue, a la Bach, it does not compare. However, it seems to me to fall within it’s own genre separate from fugality and in that respect it is exceptionally great IMO
The top 10 greatest fugues ever written belong to Johann Sebastian Bach solely. I’m sure Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn would all admit this.
WHAT? 9th symphony, Eroica Variations fugue, Hammerklavier fugue. Up there with the greatest fugues written… Personally dislike this great fugue.
you’re a great fugue…
After watching this it looks like my screen is wavy
Awesome.
Has anyone else noticed the freaked out optical illusion from staring at the score too long?