Watch: Schindler’s List leaves soloist in tears
mainThe violinist is Simone Lamsma.
The cor anglais Davida Scheffers.
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She’s playing a fabulous Britten this week in Houston. I don’t ladle heavy praise as some commenters here do, but her Britten earns it – great playing and musicianship.
Beautiful and moving indeed. I’ve visited this video many times. I sense that Davida Scheffers have a personal relation to these atrocities.
But Chloe Hanslip has the best performance I’ve ever heard of this music. I really like her expressive violin playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQQIQcPv-I
There is quite a difference between Lamsma’s more streamlined playing and Hanslip’s very romantic free approach. I wonder what Williams think?
(… and Perlman’s on YouTube the worst… ?)
Perhaps Davida Scheffers has a personal connection.
Regardless, the music is very moving, and the association with the Schindler’s List inevitable and overwhelming. I don’t know how anyone can watch that movie with a dry eye. I didn’t, and I am not Jewish.
There are some moist player’s eyes in this ‘Erbarme Dich’ by Quasthoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N425wHwhr8I
Todah rabbah Norman
And in the meantime, Schindler’s list’s Oscar awarded producer Branko Lustig was engaged in Zagreb, Croatia in this project for the Holocaust remembrance day:
https://www.vecernji.hr/kultura/predstava-brundibar-holokaust-1222529
(It’s in Croatian, but with some help of Google translator you’ll get the idea…)
Thank you for posting this.
Same hall
Noa Wildschut, violin,
Dorine Schoon, cor anglais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWaHG7l1vhI
The tears are because this orchestra is made up of highly-skilled amateur musicians most of whom went to conservatory and had plans to be professionals, but somehow never made it; Davida suffers from an extremely painful neuromuscular condition that derailed her career, and she thought she would never get to play in a professional orchestra again. That, combined with this particular piece of music, elicited the emotional response we all saw here. (The also-emotional blonde woman they kept panning to in the audience is Davida’s daughter).
Thank you.