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

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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 ?

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

This will go down in history.....

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

Itzak + Stradivarius + Beethoven = ☁ Heaven ☁

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

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

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

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.

Perlman-Barenboim is the best concerto duo ever

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.