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

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

Itzak + Stradivarius + Beethoven =
☁ Heaven ☁

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...

There are just no words to fully describe the beauty of this. Thank you Mr. Perlman.

That smile on Perlman's face- a man who truly loves his 'work'. Just stunning...

Itzhak is not just a great violinist. He is a doctor. He heals my soul and heart.

Durch diese Musik wurde ich geheilt von Depression. Sie sind mein Vorbild.Danke. Mein liebster Komponist und der beste Violinspieler der Welt. Da ist man an den Tor des Himmels.

This concerto makes my soul sing and soar.....played by Itzak Perlman it is indeed sublime

This piece is medicine for the troubled mind and salvation for the downcast soul

I STARTED LOVING THIS MUSIC IN MY EARLY 20S NOW EARLY 80S

Millions of people world wide can never attend a concert like this but what an astonishing blessings that we cna see and hear this performance . Deo gratias.

Some of my first memories are of my Daddy upstairs in his den playing the first movement over and over again, he must have been obsessed with it. I was too shy to go upstairs and listen alongside him so I sat entranced at the bottom of the stairs - the same flight of stairs I am looking at now, 65 years later, alone with my cats in the house I inherited from my dear parents.
This was late 50's or early 60's. The performer, I learned much later, was Suzanne Lautenbacher. I was barely more than a baby and this was probably the first piece of classical music I ever heard. It made a big impression! At the time I didn't realize the impression made was one of a kind - that only as an innocent child could a piece of great music so magically entrance you - at the time it was just beautiful music I loved.
Daddy eventually stopped playing it and the years passed and I forgot all about it until one day, when I was maybe 23, I was digging through his old LP collection and I found it. I put it on and with those first few drum beats tears started streaming . . .it was overwhelmingly beautiful and nostalgic. By the time I got to the cadenza (the solo portion, the one by Fritz Kreisler, also played by Pearlman here) I was back there again and in a Proustian epiphany I had remembered not just that time and how it felt but I remembered and regained "child", or some faint echo of it at least.
Ever since then I have been obsessed. The effect on me is something more than music. This movement is, for me, an object of special power, unique in the universe, a portal back to that time and back to the heart and mind of that tiny child who sat in awe at the bottom of these stairs.

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.

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!!

Thank you Dad and Mom - wherever you are - for giving me the love of your music.

After my mom passed this
music brings me joy and
great peace 😊

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.

The best violin concerto ever !
RIP Great Beethoven.

This will go down in history.....

A masterpiece played by a master. So beautiful how he feels every note. It’s a gift to have something so beautiful in an ugly world.

Happy 75th Birthday Itzhak Perlman

The tone is so rich. And also the way Perlman plays, as if he is not trying hard at all, but instead relaxed, submerged. Very blessed and talented Perlman is

My father, John W. Helton, was also a master violinist. I remember him playing this piece with the Music Minus One series of recordings... outstanding virtuoso. He was also an accomplished composer and conductor of the Houston Youth Symphony back in the 70s. Later on in life he took up the balilika and played with the Houston Balilika Society. He also taught violin and piano. Dad was constantly in demand for concerts and other various events. He brought all of us up being involved in music and the arts. I myself played violin with the Houston Youth Symphony and attended school at the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts... but I was never more than a mediocre fiddlist. Hearing Itszak Perlman playing reminds me of Dad... and all the memories

The magnificent music that is available on KRplus is truly extraordinary. Imagine those millions of music lovers who were able to enjoy brilliant classical music only be attending a concert and then it was gone, whereas we, today, can enjoy the concert continuously because of the internet and because of KRplus. It is truly amazing.

this beautiful man makes magic with a little wooden box in his hands...

The greatest violin concerto played by the greatest violin player of our time. This is magical!

Two Jewish Masters with their hands and hearts giving us one of the dearest gifts in this world as Beethoven's music is

Lost count of how many times I’ve listened to this. ❤❤❤

Perlman is the epitome of what it means to have music at the core of one's soul. I'm sure the great Beethoven would have heartily approved of this magical performance.

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

A breathtaking performance of the Beethoven violin concerto: Barenboim splendid at the helm; Perlman at his unbeatable best; and behind and under and through it all, the marvellous Berlin Philharmonic. Beethoven performed here with near definitive precision and profundity. A marvellous spectacle.

Lost count how often I listen to this piece.
Itzak is just the most miraculous violin talent of the ages.
What a sublime gift to us music lovers! 💓

This is probably one of the greatest recordings of all time.

Absolute perfection, Perlman is the proof that music’s spirit is beyond every physical barrier. Thanks thanks thanks for all this beauty

Both the conductor and violinist are extraordinary! What a feast of music!

Un genio assoluto. Il concerto per violino e orchestra sembra che Beethoven l'abbia scritto pensando a quando l'avrebbe eseguito Perlman, il più grande violinista vivente da oltre 50 anni.

Thank you YOU TUBE, for providing access to these incredible performances. This one is out of this world - so wonderful to hear during these troubling times.

Balm for the troubled soul in these strange times. Thank you for your skill and dedication all musicians of the world

Восторг!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God bless Mr Perlman for his lifetime of wondrous music.

This music helps us to live.

I adore Itzhak Perlman - for his talent and virtuosity but even more as a person. He is always happy and smiling as he arrives on stage to play - despite the fact that mobility is a challenge for him. Such a positive force in the World. So needed - especially now. Bravo 👏👏🎶

Gracias Itzhak, gracias Daniel. Gracias Ludwig.

We live in a miraculous age. We are here in this beautiful room listening to music's greatest masters.

Itzhak Pearlman is a musical genius...a true master at his art!

Perlman is an inspiration for mankind!

Two geniuses meet: Beethoven and Perlman. sublime.

I doubt any of us will ever hear a greater performance of this masterpiece in our lives. Sublime.

Another answered prayer when the KRplus algorithm dropped this amazing, soul-stirring selection into my feed. I really needed this. I was raised on classical music from as far back as I can remember. On Saturday and Sunday mornings my father would have the radio tuned to Sunrise Symphony on WOR out of New York. This was back in the 1940's. Have always loved this piece. Once my parents were able to buy a console with a radio AND a phonograph, my father started collecting classical music on records so we could listen to that marvelous music any time. My aunt was a violinist and played with our community orchestra. Anytime there was a concert ANYWHERE near us (we lived in north Jersey) featuring a violin concerto, she would take me with her to hear it. I'm 78 years old now but I remember the first time Itzhak Perlman appeared on TV. He was introduced as a "new, young, violinist" on a level with some of the other recent virtuoso violinists. Don't remember which selection he played that day, but there was something about his music 🎶 that touched my heart and soul. I remember saying to my Dad that I knew he was going be one of the greatest violinists that ever lived. His sound was not like anyone elses. Being able to hear this tonight has been a true gift. This is my favorite violin concerto. It's too bad Beethoven didn't write more for the violin. But perhaps he felt he would never be able to equal this. If anything, Perlman's music has gotten so much sweeter with the years. Thank you again Itzhak and Beethoven.

One of the world's great violinists of all time playing one of the world's great composers of all time, sublime!

Just watching Perlman tune his violin was inspiring. He made more beautiful music in those few seconds of open strings than I've played in 33 years as an amateur violinist.

That violin tone is unbelievable!

Don't forget the genius of the man, Beethoven late in life conscripted such beautiful music...deaf. He heard it in his mind and wrote the scores, even conducted his compositions never hearing a note but what was in his mind, masterful genius.

I found a 4 CD Perlman set with this recording included when I was 18 and couldn’t afford the $50 price tag. It ended up the first gift I received from a beloved friend. I still have it 20 years later. Memorized every note. One of my treasured possessions.

I listen to this concert in the first hours of the new year, because it vibrates at high frequencies, especially when it is performed by such musicians. Perlman is the splendor of time, which has a violin in the soul, and the soul in the violin.

he can make ones soul cry

What a gift! It made me cry of joy! 4 weeks of quarantine in Santiago, Chile and I get this present. Thank you !

Incomparable. Restores my faith in humanity.

Perlman-Barenboim is the best concerto duo ever

ugh! the way the violin just sings

Magnificento!!! Magnifying!!! Powerful!!! Electrifying!! I am a paraplegic, I know the meaning of this. He plays straight from his heart to let us feel it!! Bravissimo Itzhak!!!🎻🤟🏽

The most perfect violinist ever to my mind

Life doesn't get any better than hearing this

Barenboim and the orchestra are amazing too.

Itzhak Perlman is the Best! I love the way he doesn't need the music, plays by memory. BRAVO!!

Beautiful beyond words. And there is my violin lying over there on a chair wishing I could play it like that.

I adore Itzhak Perlman as a man and as a musician virtuoso. You can feel his soul as he performs. Magnificent! Magical!!❤

I've seen Perlman in Person, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. What a treat! I have to say I shed quite a few tears with that performance.

28 years ago and still a masterful performance.

I think this is the best performance of the violin concerto I have ever come across.

Perlman is part of my newborn’s routine. She listens to this piece every night before bedtime and moves her hands trying to follow the music. Perlman is unique

it is so wonderful, if more people will listen this music, there will be more peace in the word! Ital Perlman is touching the heart❤

I think it’s the most beautiful of violin concertos (and there are so many to choose from). I played a recording of this concerto for my mother (it was he favourite) as she lay on her deathbed and I will never ever forget her reaction. It moved her to another place. Someplace only she new where😊❤️🙏

I love the roar of the audience when the music ends, and again a few seconds later when Maestro Perlman stands! It's one more thing to enjoy about this wonderful performance.😘🎶

This performance is completely awe inspiring.
Itzhak Perlman’s violin is hypnotic and emotional, bringing on tears of joy!
Beethoven will always be a true musical genius and icon.

Not sure what's better - Perlman's virtuoso playing or Barenboim's virtuoso conducting! Bravo Maestri!

i was 16 when i heard it for the first time. it was 1963.
my violin teacher had a disc player and said..i should hear this. i felt as if a new world opend its door for a new sky ..
i was totally overwhelmed.
now i am 73 and still overwhelmed as well.
listening to this wonderful violin concerto is one of the reasons for living !
thanx very much for uploading !!

This is, quite simply, the greatest concerto ever written. Much credit goes to Perlman, Barenboim and all the performers but the lion's share goes to Beethoven for this miracle of sound. It expresses the depth of the human spirit and the wonders of our intelligence. This is man at his best.

By far the most beautiful performance of this masterpiece I've ever heard.

Nothing is forever, but in this age of temporary jobs, temporary love and temporary friendships I am glad that there are people like I.Perlman and other wonderful musicians who help make Beethoven sound so great that one wats to believe that it is forever...or may be it is just Classical?

I heard Maestro Perlman play this concerto with the Toronto Symphony in Carnegie Hall during the NYC marathon on a Sunday afternoon in the Fall of 1987. He stood in for the singer who was sick, every note was perfect. I was in the cheapest seat at the top of the hall and he was a dot on the stage but the sound lingers with me still , to see him now so close up, every expression, his fingers and bow moving effortlessly. Thank you, thank you for posting this on KRplus.

What could be more spiritually uplifting in these terrible COVID days, than to listen to this glorious piece, played to perfection. Thank you for uploading.👏👏👏👏👏

That violin... it's like it is a part of him, not only an instrument!
I thank you for posting this beautiful interpretation! It is a blessing for my mind and soul! 💞

For over 50 years I have been enthralled by Beethoven and his genius. First with his 9th symphony and then this Violin Concerto. I first heard it performed by the legendary Jasha Heifowitz, now by Itzhak Perlman.
It still runs chills in my heart to hear such excellence!

The first time I heard this concerto was when I was in 9th grade, and suffering from the serious congestion produced by a cold. I was lying down in front of the fireplace, listening to the concerto and my father was sitting on the sofa, and I found myself sobbing through the entire piece, its beauty affecting me deeply.

I am stunned that the audio quality is so good for a live performance. It sounds every bit as good as an in-studio job that is tweaked to perfection. It goes without saying the performance itself was amazingly spectacular.

This artistic genius is our God given gift 🎁 here on earth. Bless Itzhak Perlman always!🙏💕👏

Tre giganti e una Orchestra mitica...ammirare poi la gioia che manifesta Perlmann quando suona fa pensare al miracolo che la musica riversa sull'umanità.

Have loved his violin for more than 3 decades. Unfortunately, can't play his records or even his CDs, because my devices died and I can't afford new ones. My thanks to anyone, who has put these beautiful pieces of music unline, for me to be able to listen to. Thank you Itzak and yous. who are with me.

Itzhak is magnificent!

Oh, Ooooo, this is my first time hearing him play, it's simply perfect, that's it!

I grew up in Appalachia, never exposed to Beethoven. Somewhere I came by a cd of this in the 70s. I drove from Newhall CA to West LA for work. During my drive I listened to this and traffic didn’t bother me. It is so spiritually transcendent it defies words. Perlman is really great. DB is no slacker. Fantastic.

Wow....the combination of this extraordinary orchestra, Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman......stunning and absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.

ITZHAK PERLMAN the Legendary Violinist !!!!

I saw this man in concert. He is the total gentleman.

Que concierto Bellisimo de Violin del Gran Beethoven. Fue un Genio iluminado para la humanidad. El Gran Perlman con esa magia de sus manos incomparable toca nuestras Fibras mas Intimas de nuestro ser. Cuanta Belleza !!!!

Aaah. When you have chills repeatedly and the hair stands up on your head you are in the thrall of Itzhak Perlman at his best!

this video, alongside Monalisa and others, is part of the greatest works of art in human history.

So happy to be here on this planet; so filled with gratitude.

Dios mío, no me canso de escuchar ests obra tan majestuosa que nos regalo Bethoveen, interpretada y dirigida por dos grandes genios, gracias 🥰🥰👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤❤❤❤