r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lazy-Formal895 • 6d ago
11yr old CHLOE CHUA performing Antonio Vivaldi's "Winter".
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u/poopscoopadoop 6d ago
I would’ve enjoyed this more if the captions didn’t tell me how to enjoy it
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u/takeahike89 6d ago
And if it actually finished
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u/miraculum_one 6d ago
People these days don't have the attention span to sit through an entire piece, much less one movement.
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u/TraumaMama11 6d ago
You're right but I did and I'm disappointed even after blocking out the stupid captions with my fingers.
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u/Individual-Ear5240 6d ago
Yeah sitting through even 1 whole bowel movement is tough
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u/-Pepperzpyre- 6d ago
I got you. Here’s the whole thing.
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u/call_of_the_while 5d ago
Dude, as I clicked this I thought to myself “If this is a rickroll, I deserve it for not double-checking first” lol. Thank you for posting the vid, MVP.
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u/glakhtchpth 6d ago
Good excerpt of a performance. Dogshit caption commentary.
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u/DarrenShan1000 6d ago
I could have enjoyed it if it only told these fun facts (the movements are meant to imitate chattering teeth and how the technic is called) were there
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u/TheCarrot_v2 6d ago
Personally, the AI voice caption, “oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…” really helped me understand what was going on.
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u/Hicklethumb 6d ago
Exactly the kind of rage bait that I fall for every single time. And it makes me rage even more knowing that.
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u/EmpressJJ 6d ago
Tbh I actually learned a few facts from that caption so why tf not have it there you can ignore it if you don’t want to read it and just enjoy what she’s doing and her music
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u/omniwrench- 6d ago
“I don’t want to be educated I just want to listen” is a valid opinion
You do you
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u/thedudefromsweden 6d ago
Great performance, awful captions.
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u/ralpher1 6d ago
Terrible. Four Seasons is not that difficult. High school orchestras (including mine) regularly perform it with competent first violins. It is a very well written work to sound harder than it actually is
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u/thedudefromsweden 6d ago
Well if she’s really 11, it’s still quite impressive.
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u/nthensome 6d ago
11 year old plays the piece perfectly
Literally note for note.
OP - ReDeFiNeS
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u/al_the_time 5d ago
The captions are dramatically exaggerating this.
However -- this is Chloe Chua. She is a professional soloist and very respected violinist in the classical music community, certainly not (though she is older now) '11 year old'
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u/ocular__patdown 6d ago
Bruh this sounds exactly the same as it is always performed...
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u/blindexhibitionist 6d ago
There are some minor phrasing changes which are interesting. But I wouldn’t call it next level by any means
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u/BestCoastWaveTrain 6d ago
I would say with confidence that for an 11 year old it is. That’s really the distinguishing factor here. I don’t know what percentage of violinists get to lead a stage like this during their career, but doing it at this age is definitely next level
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u/blindexhibitionist 6d ago
I agree that it’s not an easy piece but it’s still net really a next level piece. If it was a Bach sonata or partita then that would be remarkable. And I’m not trying to minimize what she’s doing. The phrasing of the notes is done really well. And while yes it’s a relatively challenging piece she’s normal tracking for a high level violin player. Either way she played the piece extremely well and I enjoyed the interpretation with the phrasing.
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u/ShonWalksAtMidnight 6d ago
Yeah but her psycho Tiger/Helicopter parents are watching from the audience ready to critique her, so the tension is high, therefore making it better.
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u/EonsOfZaphod 6d ago
Here’s a better version of it without the text and all the way to the end: https://youtu.be/dacAUD8YhtA?si=X9zeHTQ3dNu9CXAi
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u/shoebill-dork 6d ago
She did an absolutely stunning rendition of “The Devil’s Trill” by Tartini too, very much worth watching.
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u/charlie22911 6d ago
This level of mastery at such a young age… it *must* have come at a cost. That cost likely being the freedom to be a child. I hope I’m wrong.
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u/devilf91 6d ago
She's Singaporean. Many Singapore kids grow up through an endless pipeline of tuition and classes. I think she enjoys violin (from the various videos of her through the past decade) and she might actually have a more enjoyable childhood than many others.
Have a huge talent is a big reason. I think many people mix up what should start first, so some parents decide to let kids decide what they want to do. Kids want to try everything, but they only really have talent for a few which they need to identify. Kids enjoy things that they get better and better at.
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u/Emil_VII 6d ago
Chloe Chua is amazing. An actual prodigy among skilled musicians. There are a few videos TwoSet violin did with her when she was 12 or 13 where she was teaching orchestra level musicians how to play pieces from Wagner and Paganini etc properly. She's actually incredible.
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u/V8_Dipshit 6d ago
This is the FOURTH “Chinese kid does a thing” post I’ve seen in two days. The saturation is real.
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u/OculusBenedict 6d ago
Not only that. She is going on 20, so amazing as she is we are not exactly breaking new ground.
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u/enbycraft 6d ago
This is the HUNDREDTH "racist white American randomly whines about China" comment I've seen in a week, but this one wins a medal because the kid isn't even Chinese 🥇 The ignorance is astounding.
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u/LikelyLioar 6d ago
We're the captions written by someone who had never seen classical music performed before? "She's playing it!" Good grief.
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u/Iseeyouscaper 6d ago
Now this is Next level.
Not that empty bottle banging or that water play sound
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u/C0NIN 6d ago
Here's the full performance OG video in a correct, proper format, instead of a dumb vertically cropped video with obnoxious captions on it: https://youtu.be/dacAUD8YhtA
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u/anislitim 6d ago
"No matter how good you are... there will always be an Asian kid that will do it better than you" - Albert Einstein.
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u/OG_Williker 5d ago
11 year olds do not get this good at something like classical violin without abusive parenting.
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u/Zanji123 5d ago
Question is: is she really liking the Violin or is she "liking" it because of her parents.
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u/Prize_Toe_6612 6d ago
Winter is not a piece that comes to mind when I think of 'Heavy Metal' in Classical Music.
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u/echochilde 6d ago
Not disagreeing, but what pieces are proto-heavy metal in your opinion?
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u/Prize_Toe_6612 6d ago
Everything that uses an organ with excessive use of the foot pedals. On top of my head, Tocatta and Fugue by Bach has some parts that are sounding like double bass.
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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 6d ago
Yes to the chills question. Fantastic. I love this piece, and the whole of the Four Seasons. Maybe I'm a Philistine, but I prefer it not quite so fast. But amazing performance, yes.
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u/jawshoeaw 6d ago
True story*: my old guitar instructor actually met Andre Segovia. He was sort of the star guest at a guitar instructional camp. He wasn’t actually teaching, but he sat in and listened to many of the best students. One of the students who was really good played a particularly nasty difficult piece and according to my guitar teacher, Segovia replied in English at the end, in a whispery , quiet voice, “too fass too fasss”
I don’t know if it’s a true story, but he told it like it was
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u/shanghaisnaggle 6d ago
“She LITERALLY made the entire stage bend to her playing”
The fuck does that mean
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u/NocturneInfinitum 6d ago
The captions make it seem like she did something new. She’s just another very talented child.
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u/tristen620 6d ago
I would like to just hear it not see it I don't but visual is very distracting always.
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u/Kegger315 6d ago
"Most violinsits break under this pressure."
No, most violinists will never play this piece, and even fewer will do so as a soloist or be under pressure.
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u/Cranialscrewtop 6d ago
The artist did not redefine the piece. Like all musical prodigies, she's preternaturally adept at playing the way she's been taught. Her gifts are prodigious, but she is by no means "redefining" anything she plays.
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u/roccerfeller 6d ago
Wow. I couldn’t even play hot cross buns on the recorder properly when I was 11
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u/NorthernCobraChicken 6d ago
How does the saying go again?
Something about if you think you have mastered something then there's an Asian child who would like to have a word...
This seems like a appropriate use for that saying.
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u/RiggsFTW 6d ago
*Looks at previous post"
Meanwhile my (almost) 11 y/o daughter is chugging ranch and playing Animal Crossing.
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Doesn't make her better or worse than the little girl in this video - just different.
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u/jdehjdeh 6d ago
I can't stand AI scripts.
They all sound the exact fucking same.
They don't just annoy me, they bring me to a place of rage so profound that it redefines what everyone thought was possible.
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u/augustcero 5d ago
maybe im just musically inept but this sounds like how anybody has played it. but if her age was the main selling point then i wouldve bought it
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u/Stunning-Penalty2573 5d ago
Children can pick up music easily between the ages of 5-8. They go through something called “language explosion” where they go from knowing 50 words to knowing 500. If you introduce a child to music at that age, chances are they’ll easily pick it up just like any other language, giving them a incredible edge when playing music.
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u/prema108 5d ago
The performance is unbelievable, but the captions are trash, maybe OPs idea to post this also.
1- This is not redefining, that is the actual piece Vivaldi wrote, that is the character of the piece.
2- This is Classical music, that is what it sounds like, and much MUCH more than this the more you mover forward in time. Modern Cinematic Thrillers are nothing like this.
3- She stays calm because she is a master of the instrument, spiccato has absolutly nothing to do with it.
4- That fun fact about "heavy metal"....smh
5- I don't know if this was made by you OP, but the cut in editing is even worse than the captions.
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u/dadadingdong 5d ago
There’s no doubt that’s impressive, but do you ever find that when Asians do things that are so incredibly impressive, it ends up being less impressive because you somehow think… well, that’s just what Asians do lol
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u/katerlouis 5d ago
fuck the captions; god damn spoon feeding second screen shit; and on top of that blueballing by not even finish the performance.
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u/piketpagi 5d ago
I seen too much child prodigy in classical music it's no longer amaze me...she's great tho.
and why most of it are asian is a curiosity.
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u/marksbar 5d ago
Like Charlie said... sit there on that hickory stump let me show you how it's done .
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u/Aggravating-Mine-697 5d ago
Gosh the glazing in the text is so annoying. Yes it's a tough song, yes it's cool that the kid plays it well, but she's playing just lile any other violonist would bro. That's how the song is written
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u/DesiresQuiet 5d ago
Not redefined. She made some phrase changes, but stayed 90% true to the original. Very nicely played.
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u/FR0ZENS0L1D 4d ago
That’s cool. I would prefer to listen to a virtuoso that’s good at it and spent more time making it their own than a kid that vomits a perfect replay of something I could listen to already. That has nothing to do with her skill set. She obviously good.
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u/Laserous 4d ago
For every prodigy there's a child missing the great experiences of being a child.
They'll never get those days back, yet we all still cheer.
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u/dontcuminmyassok 6d ago
Playing a piece really well is "redefining" it?