Julia Fischer: Portrait of an extraordinary and versatile violinist
[Music] playing champion music for me is the essence of my musical life i enjoy playing with orchestras i enjoy going on tour with orchestras but in the end the most fulfilling time for me is playing germany [Music] so [Music] it gets very intimate in a quartet you have to get along with each of the players uh we have to function two of us against two of us uh three of us against one all four together i mean it's it gets quite complicated and you need time to understand how the others are actually working [Music] just be very very clear [Music] [Music] you cannot play string quartet just like that it's it's not something you can do in the chamber music festival you just meet for two days and and then you play a concert but string quartet is actually the most difficult uh formation and it only works if you work together over the years and more often and regularly if i think about it how we played 10 years ago and what we achieved in those 10 years you need that time [Applause] me for me it was clear from the beginning that i wanted to be a musician and probably in the beginning it was simply because that's what my mom did so i thought what my mom does i will do as well but there must have been a certain point when the wish came from myself and it was not just trying to be like my mother i don't know when that happened i only know that whenever i was asked from when i was three my entire childhood when i was asked what i wanted to be as when i was growing up it was always being a musician i never ever had another wish for my profession [Music] meeting elohim made a huge impression on me and playing with him and receiving a lesson from him that was very very important and and very inspiring actually but then i came back to my teacher you know my my first reaction from my teacher that my teacher's first reaction was that uh if i won the first prize then the level wasn't very high so she didn't take it as a as an amazing thing that i won she just saw all the work that still had to be done [Music] [Music] it's nice to receive prizes but it's a little bit like the applause of the concert it's not going to change my own opinion on my work so if i was happy with the concert um and i receive great applause and um i'm happy even even more maybe even happier but if if i know that i played bad then the audience is not going to change my opinion on that i know what i want to achieve i want i know what to be happy with and what not and yeah so it's not really influencing me [Music] so [Music] if i'm happy with someone then i stick to the person that's why i also have the quartet i mean if if i enjoy playing with certain people then i try to recreate that and also same with orchestras and the same with conductors but that doesn't mean that i'm not also open to meet somebody new [Music] you can function really well well in rehearsal and then on stage you realize okay this is somehow not how i function in a concert or the other way around i mean i've for example with conductors had very weird rehearsals where i thought this concert is never going to go well and then i was surprised in the concert what actually happened because people just change on stage it's you can never create the atmosphere of a concert in a rehearsal there's just no way and also the way of listening it's it's very fascinating you you hear different things in the concert from a rehearsal and there's no way of creating that in a rehearsal so i'm i can only judge if a collaboration is going to work after the first concert [Music] i've just played a tour with the academy of somati in the fields which definitely belongs to my favorite orchestras we work without conductor so i'm also leaving the orchestra whenever we work together it's actually a tour so we at least together for a week or two weeks this time it was even three weeks and i know the musicians so well by now that we discuss interpretations after every concert and you know one of the viola sections comes up and says maybe tomorrow we could do this or that and it's almost like a huge chamber music group which probably is the ideal way of collaboration [Music] well i was appointed as a guest professor in frankfurt in 2006 and apparently i was the youngest professor but who knows if that's true i was younger than some of my students that's that story is true and when i started in munich i was 20 28 i think so um some of the students were almost my age but in music age is not a question i mean we you just talk about music and nobody cares if one is older or younger or whatever i mean especially with students who are that advanced it's more talk between colleagues i enjoy teaching greatly i miss it when i don't do it and i'm i'm blessed with a really great class with great personalities great great students that i really enjoy working foreign [Applause] [Music] i think to understand why i teach so devotely you need to know my my family's history is literally everybody in my family teaches i mean my mother is a piano teacher my grandparents were teachers in school my aunt is a history teacher my cousin is a teacher my brother is a trainer for dancing class so we all have it's probably in the genes there must be something in the genes that um we all feel this need to um pass on our knowledge sometimes even not being asked but we still have to pass it on [Music] [Applause] one day i just found myself that i don't buy cds anymore so if i don't buy cds then who actually is because i'm a musician and i don't buy them it's kind of strange so that's when i started to think okay there must be some other way for the future how to promote classical music i don't feel the need to to share my lunch with people or with my fans or something like that but i do want to share um certain aspects of my cultural and musical life so when i hear a new piece uh or if i wanted to promote a piece and of course i'm very happy to use um the platform of the internet to do so and i have to say that um i am a very independent person and i prefer to um to decide for myself what kind of pr i want to do and what i don't want to do [Music] is [Music] their location is absolutely beautiful and i also enjoy the audience i think it's a great audience that comes and then it it also has something to do with the fact that you know i get the opportunity to do what i want to do so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] in the end it's uh it's not work it's it's pure joy for me to play um in the quartet even more because i'm making music with my friends i mean i'm so happy to see the three of them if you play well that's the beauty of it [Music] um [Music] so [Music] do you
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