Anner Bylsma plays Duport No. 8

[johannaaustralia]

Beautiful, soulful.

[cellopaco]

thanks to you Mizzles240, I dont' feel so lonely anymore

[cellopaco]

fine playing except the sound is terrible, intonation very approximative and musicality pale.

But be quiet, Bylsma is playing! don't say anything against it!

[Mizzles240]

@cellopaco i think you said what everyone is thinking but wont admit

[MrDvdelft]

You do, I hope realize that Duport was not a Baroque Composer?

[jokerXL512]

@MrDvdelft

He was more Rococo/Classical, and if you look closely you can see that he's using a classical era bow (and his grip is at the frog instead of the balance point). And you can tell by the tone that he's using gut strings. Still period accurate, just a different period.

[vladdrangend10]

I love his funky intonation.

[hansifick1]

why does his version begins with g sharp and in my score it is a?? can me please tell somebody whys that so

[aznmusicmaster]

@hansifick1 Bylsma, being one of the best Baroque cellist, is probably not using the 440A that most of us are used to hearing while tuning. According to wiki (lol I just lost my credibility), a baroque A would be somewhere around 415 Hz.

[hansifick1]

@aznmusicmaster

though you did lose at least a part of your credibility, thanks a lot ;-) with 440A tuning you need the thumb in the 1. position all the time like Bylsma in 2:39... its so hard

[Polluxgeminae]

@hansifick1 Baroque pitch, half a tone lower. A=415Hz

[incasmaya]

Mi fa abbastanza schifo!

[guardagujas2]

@incasmaya Ma che cazzo dici? Mi sa che non sai proprio un bel niente di musica, caro mio.

[cyber10100]

greatness

[bodlarka]

super



[bodlarka]

super

[A3cello]

Just magnificent!

I've been working on this lovely piece!

He plays It so well...

[MsMicellist]

so charming. 

[dion82]

I had a cello teacher that always told me: practice the etudes like they were repertoire works, and study the repertoire works like etudes. Bylsma really does that, with this beautiful rendition of a such technical piece of music.

[exellentdogg]

hey im related to this guy

[cathalcom]

nice, but Tanya Tomkins is alot better!

[AlamoCityCello]

I posted the Duport work a couple of years back. The bow control needed makes the piece tricky. Anner Bylsma makes it look easy.

Great Artist!

[watcherusdt]

that position cant be good for his back

[MyZenzero]

Love...love...love...

[porpoisefathom]

thank you for posting this--this was wonderful!!!

[mozlard]

1:46 mins.. Not that i would know so much about playing Cello or that tune, but wasn't that a bit of a mistake right there?

[pbaron23]

ypir right. But in general he is a good cellist! I mean the best baroqe cellist in the world.

[celloWiz10]

music is not about absolute perfection nor is it possible - not only in music but any career

do us all a favor and stop posting comments like that

[PGRANDIER]

increible....el mejor duport por siempre....muy humano adoro bylsma.

[violashizzle]

The best performance of Duport EVER:)

[esquina8]

¡Grandioso Maestro! Una verdadera lección de música (y de manejo del arco)

[w1ish]

Anner Bylsma Is the baroque God on cello......

[THEKILLER878]

Im starting to play the cello,man i wish i can play like him its beutiful how it sound.Music makes me happy thats why i love music :)

[EndeavourMorse]

This is magnificent. 

1:35 impressive stretch to that low A. Most of us mortals have to use our thumbs to reach back there.

[CicadaKillerMan]

What I find amazing is how he's able to play that pattern that is in the first two subphrases all in one bow.

[mandrilovsky]

bored...

[MrCarlei]

isso é muito bom!

[sibelius27]

Thanks for posting. Good to see.

[aury100]

HO VOTATO IL MAX

[delt6019]

This is what Duport studies are meant to sound like.

They are beautiful studies.

[sciencemuzzy]

Qué pasada. Esa cadencia del final me ha dejado patidifusa.

[illamavole]

love anner bylsma, though i am a bassist. i listen to him and try to play bach the way he plays beautiful lyrical passages.

[anisometropie]

the bowing technique is really similar to the one used in the andante of the Bach sonata no2 for violin solo.

[sibelius27]

Say no more!

[njones18]

i love this man

[diegonsimon]

Me too

[brownebass]

I love this man, and I love you

[VickVids]

i love u too :)

Peace

[poedesi]

stupid

[randytooth]

love the freedom he brings to this piece

BRAVO!!

[rulleverulle]

I have met this man two times in 2007, but sadly he does not play anymore due to complications he got by a bruised finger or something like that. Nowadays he only gives public lectures and masterclasses. Quite interesting though, and this man has got humour! The best Dutch cellist, and the best baroque interpretator alive!

[killamanjaroselectah]

Maestro de maestros

[flathills]

yeah thats how to do it.......go on my son!

[shizufacku]

a sublime and musical rendition of a piece that is normally the subject of exam material and scrambling bow strokes

hats off to you sir with much respect

[dustinzev]

que magnifico...bravo!

[deiocello]

GENIO...........

[deiocello]

GENIO............

[CelloFiend]

Am I the only one who noticed the distance between his fingerboard and bridge!? Is that a baroque cello?

[TheHumannBee]

Yeah, it is.

[AlamoCityCello]

I DREAM of playing the cello at this level!

[Spocknumberone]

Perfecto!

[Musichiere]

perfect!

[pbaron23]

he started to play in note --> g

not in---> A

[carlosgarciaamigo]

That´s not true, it´s clearly an A ascending a fourth to the D.

[shostbachkovich]

that's not true. A=415. I remember you Duport's time A wasn't 440. Neither A=442. Just a different temperament you're not used to listen!

[Spocknumberone]

Do you means That's not torture... ;)))

[pbaron23]

i said the same thing.

[Valdir1981]

Shostbachkovich is right...

[alexiserik]

It is definitely not at A=440

[withcellist]

Anner Bylsma is only cellist with the exception of Janos Starker who can make cello etudes sound like master pieces.

[tarantellaonline]

Totally agreed. Though played on a baroque cello, it seems that it is still in A=440

[YouveStolenMyEyes]

It is in 440 except the cello is tuned one semitone lower.

[TheHumannBee]

I have to disagree. I'm sure that Rostropovich could play this beautifully as well, although every cellist is different and unique.