Joan BaezFestival (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

This is a wonderful document for the music and the era. I do not know how much better the blu-ray would be, but I am very happy with the DVD ,[ Criterion Collection].

Shows a world at the height of its power just as it would be fragmented within by the great Judas himself. It shows the great diversity of the folk movement during the early to mid sixties and has some really great performances by traditional and up and coming musicians. Its clear that at the time the Kings and Queens of the folk movement and much of the folk audience felt they owned Dylan. How wrong they were. But this is much more than a concert film featuring some Dylan performances, its a record of a powerful moment in music history.

This film depicts the mid-point in the ascendancy of the counterculture that became mainstream in the 1960s. It covers the Newport Folk Festival over the years from 1962 to 1965. We see the folk culture of the early to mid-60s, including a mix of preppies, late-stage beatniks and early-stage hippies on their way toward becoming the Woodstock generation.. Lots of good musical moments along with a portrait of social and political sentiments at a turning point in American cultural history.

Fabulous time capsule beautifully restored with excellent sound!!!

Rare, great video performance by Henryk Szeryng, one of the 10 best violinists of the 20th century.

...make no mistake, I'm a big fan of Szeryng...however, he had a reputation of occasionally having one or more cocktails before a performance...and in this video he appears to be lit up like a Christmas tree and the result is sloppy and demeaning.

Henryk Szeryng, undeservedly less famous these days than Perlman or Zukerman, was for more than 20 years, from the late '50s to the early '80s, among the world's greatest violin players (together with Heifetz, Milstein, Oistrakh, and later Perlman). His special talents were the most perfect intonation (pitch) in all of recorded violin playing, a miraculously huge, radiant, almost organ-like tone, and a pronounced ability to convey the overall architecture of a piece. Szeryng's bow arm, stronger and better controlled than anyone else's, was and is the stuff of legends. This video lets us witness the master in his prime. The sound is not very good (to get a real sense of Szeryng's sound, buy a CD of one of the many violin concertos he recorded in the '70s), and the camera does some annoying things, but overall it's a wonderful opportunity to watch how he kneads a tone, how his ridiculously muscular and flexible fingers seem to come alive on the fingerboard, how he (like a great opera singer) carefully develops a long melody from a soft beginning to spectacular ringing heights, how intelligently he interacts with the orchestral accompaniment. The second movement of the Tchaikovsky particularly is out of this world in its combination of soaring melody and darkest passion and pathos. For anyone interested in the violin and its capabilities, this is an indispensable document.

Nothing to dislike!

Was interesting from a historical perspective but would have been better if it contained complete songs by the featured artists.

これは1983年に行われたフーベルマンフェスティバルの映像。巨匠中の巨匠であるシェリングがチャイコフスキーとヴィヴァルディの協奏曲を弾いたもの。カメラアングルは良く、シェリングの右手や左手の様子が詳しく観察できる。演奏家にとっては、非常に参考になる。　　演奏はピカイチ。技巧面で「悪魔的」といわれたチャイコフスキーの協奏曲。だが、彼の演奏から技術的な不安定さを私たちが感じることはできない。ライブでこれほどにまで完璧に弾くのは容易でないにもかかわらず、それを見事にやってのけるのは、シェリングが真のヴァイオリニストたる所以だろう。　また、テクニックが完璧であるのみならず、中身が非常に「音楽的」であることも聞き手を感動させる。楽譜の裏の裏まで読み、考ち?抜かれた音楽がそこにある。ライブということもあって遊び心もあり、第3楽章の後半のある部分では、記譜よりも１オクターブ高いフラジオレットの音を出すところなど聴衆を喜ばせるシーンも見逃せない。　　ただ録音状態があまりいいとはいえないため（エンジニアのミスか）音質が悪い。それが若干気になるが、慣れればさほど問題ではない。　　なお、このフーベルマンフェスティバルは、1882年12月19日ポーランドに生まれたユダヤ系大ヴァイオリニストであるブロニスラフ・フーベルマンの生誕100年を祝って催された。スターン、パールマン、ズーカーマン、ギトリス、ヘンデル、ミンツらも出演した。

Un punto decepcionante y que corresponde a información equivocada. No contiene subtítulos como se indica en los datos publicitarios, lo cual es negativo para los clientes que, precisamente, han comprado esta versión por la teórica presencia de subtítulos en inglés