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Hilary Hahn, the fastest violinist in the world

September 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM

I heard Hilary Hahn, the big Schoenberg promotor, 2 years ago in Rotterdam playing the Elgar violinconcerto.
I got an autograph on her Barber/Meyer violinconcerto cd.
The last 20 seconds of the 3th part of her Barber violinconcerto are so fast you can hardly can count the notes. In this video I try to express that with a lot of pictures in the end in a short time.

Here Hilary in a different role in a band. Rachel Barton the 2th:
Trail of Dead w/ Hillary Hahn in Moscow

She is also a professional singer, actress, professional violinist, comic, Marilyn Monroe imitator, Schoenbergpromotor, moviemaker. She is versatile and many-sided I think:

I like how the pictures speed up at the end - very exciting to watch and listen to. :)
Interesting, The fastest violinist in the world was on a british tv show, It's on youtube somewhere... He was playing flight of the bumble bee, and played the whole thing in less than 1:20, and averaged 13 notes per second!
Here: David Garrett breaks violin world speed record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHkX0URELfQ
It begins at 5.41 of the 8.02th minute video. I think that Hilary is faster in the end of Barber.
I think Hilary can play that piece the Bumbelbee faster and break the world record of David Garrett if she studies a lot on this piece.
OK Hilary go for it and win the battle of the sexes.
This one is even faster 1.03 in the flight of the bumble bee
The Bumble - Bee, Rimski Korsakoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3VmagAsIAk

Good old Mehunin also played the piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjuBuw4KsqU

About the Bumblebee,

Heifetz would wipe the violin with this Garret character

I have a pet theory that Hilary Hahn is from Alpha Centauri..
Hahaha, I love that last video. :)
It's the last few notes of the run up the fingerboard that impress me the most.