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

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.

The only reason that I popped up in this life was to hear to this kind of music, was listening to Schubert about half an hour ago, and thinking that’s how you experience heaven! Beethoven well! Another level of heaven !! Just sublime! Life is really good my friend !

I am very grateful for Mr Perlman, the great violinist, the Conductor and all the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the excellent performance. It brings me immense joy and hope!

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

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!!

Humanity at its best ...inspiring, uplifting moving....

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

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.

Perlman-Barenboim is the best concerto duo ever

This is great, thank you! Perlman and Barenboim are treasures. Beethoven was amazing, and the Berliner Philharmoniker are also great!

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

My man introduced me to Classical music years ago. I am so grateful for it. Beethoven is his favorite and he spends many hours listening to it. I have learned to appreciate the beauty of it because of him.

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.

"Like" doesn't quite capture my feelings, where's the love button?

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

God bless Mr Perlman for his lifetime of wondrous music.

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...

The salve we all need so much more than we know. Thank you all.

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.