@BaboonBassoon Why should he? I hate people like you, this is the way he chooses to play it your just jealous people actually watch :). Everyone has a right to their own interpretation without retarded youtube trolls like you coming here and pretending like your opinion is worth anything.
when i first learned this piece i thought it was way slower so i was playing it at like 50 bpm... this is like 90 O.o interesting interpretation, his playing is beautiful
I dont like this version. Its too fast and the bowing is different his not slurring some of the notes as it is in the music. But he's still a talented musician. I prefer Mischa Maisky's version way better. Just the right tempo, not too fast or slow and very clear and rich sound. :)
I am 14 years old and play the violoncello. I have uploaded my own interpretation of this piece. It's of course not as masterful as this video, but it would still be nice if you would check it out and tell me what you think about it.
I listen to classical as well as a lot of classic rock and 80's metal among other things but if i could give all of this ages music up so that Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Debussy and many other great composers could come back and make more music and play concerts i would give it all up in a heartbeat. Todays music is nothing compared to classical music.
I dont get it which one do you mean (minute:second)?
The end of the first half (1:31) too low? I dont think so - maybe because the third of the D major chord is low in perfect pitch, the whole chord seems to sound little lower than in well temperatured piano pitch.
MAYBE only the D in 3:09 could be very little too sharp.
i think it´s like a out of body experience when u are really into playing this, the body is there, but only for the purpose of playing, not to be at somebodys display,
so i reccomend to close your eyes while listening ^.^
@davebermuda so very true, i find that i have this same experience every time i play this song, in fact i play it better when i do, so much more emotion and you just feel closer to the music and the instrument in general.
@1ShaharCohen Music = feeling. I don't feel bach's love for music in this recording. The way you 'know' a thing in music has nothing to do with your feelings for it. That's all I've got to say about it.
I kinda agree with that. I really love his interpretation on other plays, but i prefer other versions for the first suit at least. He's so rushing! But well as Bach left no indications to play...
Anyway the bwv 999 lute suite prelude was very hard to play but half a year from when I started to play guitar I was able to play the half of it. With the cello suites I feel like I have to go from north korea to US by swimming, no way to do this.
I study guitar for a long time now, so I 've chosen this suite to play.On start I study the sheet rythmicaly then solfez and in the end I 've sung the notes with the right tempo(six first measures) everything seemed alright. But when I study the fingerings and position changes I understood that either I am an amateur or the guitar transcription I had read was only for guitar soloists.
AS a classical guitarist (well after a fashion!) I now always look at cellists' interpretations of Bach. They unfortunately make the classical guitar sound rather "thin" - but John W.Duarte and John Williams' Schott (GA 213) do offer "rich rewards" for the guitarist.
composed by the giant J.S.Bach probably at Kothen, these 6 suites are authentical gems of music for this lovely instrument and we listen to them performed by the great maestro Rostropovich, what else do we need?
Cuando yo sea viejito quiero tocar como este tipo... Pero seguro que además voy a tener una marca en mi rostro por toda la música que llevo a cuestas que me hará verme feliz...
Tremenda música y a seguir trabajando que el reloj de arena está en mi contra ya desde hace años. No mucho he avanzado porque uno siempre requiere de disciplina férrea y determinación para lograr las metas.
Voy queriéndole con el Preludio... but not with the cello, but the electric bass :)
My mother took up the guitar when she was in her 70s - well into them. The only other instrument she ever played was the harmonica, all by ear (she taught me when I was 9 and I've been making music ever since). She learned to read music. It's good for the brain to learn a musical instrument. Very good for the brain.
My father had the great pleasure and joy to listen to rostropovich play from a first row seat in 2000. He said it was the greatest musical experience of his life. This movie illustrates why.
As a cellist I can almost feel how smooth that bow is on the strings just listening to it. It's a lot like the first cut with scissors into a fresh page of cardboard. Really satisfying.
@magicalhats15 Nice analogy. Personally I feel its more like diving into a quite lake of shimmering unbroken water. Interesting what different cellists hear in the same music!
@EggieMeggieX It really is Far too bad The music master has past on but he will live on in his music. I will never see him preform and that sadens me but i willl enjoy his music as long as i shall live
@jramz91 You are just a fucking IDIOT, the term is Gerontofiliac (love for old people),not necrophiliac ( love for a dead corpse ) Learn your facts right and make sure your tongue is connected to your brain before opening your big and ignorant yapper. You are probably from the USA United Stupids of America.
@piontro LMFAO WOW you are pathetic, see this is why America is great, we actually have a sense of humor. Wherever you are from must have a bunch of people with sticks up their butts. And ACTUALLY if you knew YOUR facts, you would know that Rostropovich has been dead (rest in peace) since 2007. So the term necrophiliac could apply here. DUH united STATES of America just schooled you bitch.
If you see a video of Shirley Temple from her childhood, and it turns you on (she is in her 80s now), are you a pedophile or a gerontophiliac? Think about that for a minute...
@jramz91 i'm no necrophiliac, it's funny how people take such an innocent comment from a young girl and turn it into something evil and ugly, you have not LIVED if you haven't, as a child, had a fasination with someones head....
its like a never ending song....or river...flowing through your head...personally i think that this be a slower and more relaxed song....smile rostropovich...you frown the whole time...
@EVANgenesisX Like the protagonist in the 2009 film "Black Dynamite," Rostropovich IS smiling. The idea here is that music is an auditory experience, not a visual one. The smile is omnipresent. Just listen for it.
I'm playing this for solo and ensemble this year. The smoothness in his playing, and his tone quality, is what I really admire about him. RIP, Mr.Rostropovich. May your soul still be with us through your music.
What a delicate portrait weaved by the Orthodox Cellist! A loss can never be equaled when it is of such magnitude as this. Regardless, he had his time and used it well. Perhaps he met Bruckner, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich, and Glinka in the heights. We can only hope so!
BTW(by the way) He did a great job, but at :43 he slightly messed up. Im nothsting on him, actually, if that was me, I would mess up (in terms of sound and fluency, NOT notes) pretty much most of it. It was a minor detail i noticed.
how dare you have such infamous talk without little respect on this superb recording. For god's sake, above you is a cathedral and a genius who plays Bach, people, just don't insult.
It took me all of five minutes to post those comments, but may I ask; what are the criteria by which you decide whether an activity is a waste of time?
Do you by any chance own a set of golf clubs, a television -or for that matter a chessboard?
Have you ever spent in excess of three hours on a Sunday afternoon watching young, steroid-bloated ignoramuses fight over an inflated piece of rubber?
Because I would consider that a *superlative* waste of time.
ok u need to stop trying to waste ur time on commenting back. u posted like 3x more than kindfurryboy so im wondering what U do to waste time. go on youtube and try to pick a fight that ur going to lose?
With my limited ability to analyze the workings of your mind, you seem to believe that you, yourself, are intelligent. You use the vocabulary of a scholar, yet you surely know that your target audience is any random schmuck on YouTube. Therefore, by posting to reflect only your intelligence, you prove yourself as believing you are smarter than logic would dictate. According to studies, the most "incompetent" are ones who believe they are greater than reality. You fall into this category.
Well, I would expect the random schmucks who watch videos of *Rostrpovich* on Youtube to be at least somewhat more intelligent than the general poulation.
But you're right I suppose; as far as you or anyone else here is (or ought to be) concerned I'm just an internet wiseass.
My comments are written solely for my own amusement, and I don't expect anyone to take them any more seriously than I do.
I get this quite a lot, and frankly, it *really* gets on my nerves.
You bitch and whine that I've exceeded my alotment of polysyllabic words, and imply that my self-confidence is proof of my grandiosity with a feckless allusion to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I say again, for the thousandth time, what really bothers you is the very fact that I should dare to harbor such a self-assesment, and neglect to conceal it.
Whether it is merited or meritorious is -to you- quite beside the point.
I love how people claim scientific credibility with annecdotal evidence! I think the videos of this guy playing bach are exceptional, at first listen I did think I would have preffered a slower tempo, but the quick pace grew on me, I love it.
beautiful...I'm kinda making it a goal to record a version of the Cello Suites with only my bass guitar. Bach's a genius (my fav composer) and Rostopovich does him justice :)
i completely understand where you're coming from...the transition from cello to bass guitar is not as seamless as i originally thought lol. it's still a goal im trying out tho, but we'll c where it goes.
I just love they way Rostropovich plays this piece! it is just absolutely astonishing! :D I'm playing this piece my self on viola, but its nothing compared to him!!!!
Agreed on both counts. At thirty-three, it's far too late take for me to take up an instrument with any serious ambition in mind, but if granted a wish I would likely pick the cello.
Oh, and Bach. Quite possibly the single greatest musical genuis the human species has ever produced.
Very few competition level performers began their intensive practice any later than the age of ten, and there's a reason for this,
It's a matter of neuroplasticity.
I won't bore you with the details (unless you want me to) but in a nutshell, the costant practice at a young age in which calssical musicians engage doesn't just hone a procedural, skill, it actually rewires to a considerable extent parts of the brain that govern musical intelligence...
In my thirty-third summer, I'm afraid it's simply too late for this extensive rewiring to take place; the window of opportunity has closed.
If you 'll remember my qualifying phrase, "with any serious ambitionn mind" it really is too late for me tyo take up an instrument.
It's a pity, for I supect I might have had considerable potential; though in saying so I suppose I sound a bit like the haughty lady De Berg in Pride and Prejudice: (cont.)
"I should have been a great proficient, if I had learned."
I can live with this; I still have a 180 IQ and world-class artistic talent (and yes, I anticipate the "thumbs down" for my immodesty).
If anyone knows of a single example of a world-class instrumentalist (not a singer -the same neurological constraints do not apply) who bagan practice as an adult, I am most eager to hear of it, if only out of curiousity.
Stop wanking off in here!! This piece of music is epic.
madtownstu 2 weeks ago
The man is a stoic, but he is not hiding his passion. Amazing-no matter the speed.
jeanne673 1 month ago
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BaboonBassoon 2 months ago
@BaboonBassoon Why should he? I hate people like you, this is the way he chooses to play it your just jealous people actually watch :). Everyone has a right to their own interpretation without retarded youtube trolls like you coming here and pretending like your opinion is worth anything.
mevansmusic 1 month ago
when i first learned this piece i thought it was way slower so i was playing it at like 50 bpm... this is like 90 O.o interesting interpretation, his playing is beautiful
violavirtuoso17 3 months ago
Im a tuba player learning the Bach cello suites, and this is a mind blowing speed for me.
Helltime8 3 months ago 3
He's playing it like he's got a 'bus to catch.
whigwood 6 months ago
I dont like this version. Its too fast and the bowing is different his not slurring some of the notes as it is in the music. But he's still a talented musician. I prefer Mischa Maisky's version way better. Just the right tempo, not too fast or slow and very clear and rich sound. :)
koreanxforever123 6 months ago
Just enjoy this piece of art played by the best cellist ever, it`s unique.
ignatiev01 7 months ago 6
@jramz91 you can nuke everyone to death with stupidity like yours
mariosyjp 7 months ago
@mariosyjp hahah so very clever. i would love to nuke YOU because of YOUR stupidity.
jramz91 7 months ago
wow! looks like he's got super vision!
wrongbuzz 7 months ago
@jramz91
Then if you are turned on by the image of Rostropovich in this video, you are gerontophiliac or necrophiliac?
colourfulwithaU 7 months ago
@colourfulwithaU you're creepy.. that's what you are.
jramz91 7 months ago
@Wolf3660 who are you?... ive listened to this piece many times.
jramz91 7 months ago
omg wtf that last notw was flat like hell. it ruinede the whole piece
FreshAsphalt 8 months ago in playlist Bach: Cello Suites
@FreshAsphalt Naw... he was doing a long appoggiatura with a microtone and the video cut off before he resolved it. :-D
JoEbYX 7 months ago
@tawnabawna Huh?!
OrdinaryCritic 8 months ago
I am 14 years old and play the violoncello. I have uploaded my own interpretation of this piece. It's of course not as masterful as this video, but it would still be nice if you would check it out and tell me what you think about it.
Harnelakudu 8 months ago
Wonderful reading of an immortal masterpiece.
tinsh0es 8 months ago
I listen to classical as well as a lot of classic rock and 80's metal among other things but if i could give all of this ages music up so that Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Debussy and many other great composers could come back and make more music and play concerts i would give it all up in a heartbeat. Todays music is nothing compared to classical music.
Adandy29 9 months ago
This is fabulous and all, but I keep noticing that both Rostropovich and Maisky can never get that low D perfectly in tune...
Anya817 9 months ago
@Anya817
I dont get it which one do you mean (minute:second)?
The end of the first half (1:31) too low? I dont think so - maybe because the third of the D major chord is low in perfect pitch, the whole chord seems to sound little lower than in well temperatured piano pitch.
MAYBE only the D in 3:09 could be very little too sharp.
LorenzoLassek 8 months ago
He Is Communicating In A Language The World Understands
alicevlogs 9 months ago
It's so angry... still fucking amazing.
llamamcelvis 9 months ago
Мстислав Леопольдович РОСТРОПОВИЧ бессмертен в нашей памяти вечно!
GGefter1 10 months ago 2
i friggen love this man, and his massive glasses.
ohhhnoyoko 10 months ago
wooow. I love how he plays, but ANYWAY, that last not was HORRIBLE!
Trioptio 11 months ago
Bravo!
AlvaroccTT 11 months ago
WOW.
say3you3wont 1 year ago
Rostopovich or Yo Yo ma?
rodneywar 1 year ago
Love, love, love this piece especially when Rostopovich plays.
zigifrojd 1 year ago
Beautiful!
jessemomof2boyz 1 year ago
'Masterful"...fabulous.
diana
aussiechickdiana 1 year ago
+ 1000 !!! SUBLIME !!! IMMORTALE !!! UNICO !!!
31122051 1 year ago
does he play with " Duport"??
guiguibouli 1 year ago
The prophet sent by Bach LOL
arkhamasylum100 1 year ago
This is an exceptional performance.
zeroedimension 1 year ago
i watch u tube just to see the people argue... but it sounds great! passion!
jessegguitar 1 year ago
it sounds sick!! great !
jessegguitar 1 year ago
love good quality sound
zebrafigs 1 year ago
People, don't bitch here, just enjoy the music please.
wubs23 1 year ago
guy looks like Dick Cheney
diamondmoney007 1 year ago
i actually ahve rostropovich's autograph
SelfHatingWhite 1 year ago
animal
felicianoabaurre 1 year ago
may he rest in peace!
animekitten789 1 year ago
When did he pass away?
TylerCipolla 1 year ago
@TylerCipolla : 27 / 04 / 2007, tanti carissimi saluti !
31122051 1 year ago
@TylerCipolla : april 2007 to cancer
beanzaronii 1 year ago
FENOMENALE !!! ARTISTA SUBLIME !
31122051 1 year ago
i think it´s like a out of body experience when u are really into playing this, the body is there, but only for the purpose of playing, not to be at somebodys display,
so i reccomend to close your eyes while listening ^.^
davebermuda 1 year ago 4
@davebermuda so very true, i find that i have this same experience every time i play this song, in fact i play it better when i do, so much more emotion and you just feel closer to the music and the instrument in general.
BaneTurkey 1 year ago
If any one else was to play this piece at this speed everyone would say he was rushing. But no one dares say that about Rostropovich.
ricim82 1 year ago 20
@ricim82 Not just the speed, his whole recording is crap...
pinrootje 10 months ago
@pinrootje I think you need to shut up.....
xbasket12x 10 months ago 10
@xbasket12x true man shut up and listen
marquitos515 2 weeks ago
@pinrootje
If you say so- you really dont know a thing in music
1ShaharCohen 9 months ago
@1ShaharCohen Music = feeling. I don't feel bach's love for music in this recording. The way you 'know' a thing in music has nothing to do with your feelings for it. That's all I've got to say about it.
pinrootje 9 months ago
@pinrootje hey, youll never be a quarter as good as rostropovich, so shut up :)
quickshots11 9 months ago
@pinrootje Are you referring to yourself, sir?
OrdinaryCritic 1 week ago
@ricim82 Actually, I would say everyone else is taking a romantic interpretation of a baroque piece.
theothercanadian 7 months ago 16
@theothercanadian You are absolutely correct. They expect Baroque to be slow and full of feelings.
OrdinaryCritic 4 months ago 3
@ricim82
I kinda agree with that. I really love his interpretation on other plays, but i prefer other versions for the first suit at least. He's so rushing! But well as Bach left no indications to play...
Camein71 4 months ago
"oh, of course I want to play the Bach suites. How much will a get for it?" This isn't music, this is his job. Just like someone in an office.
pinrootje 1 year ago
Rostopovich is amazing, but his facial expression never changes and makes me feel like the cello is serious business.
ThinkBrad 1 year ago 2
awesome playing.
yuukihoshi888 1 year ago
Bach draait zich om in z'n graf!
pinrootje 1 year ago
@pinrootje - I absolutely agree. Bach would have a german fury if he heard his masterpiece ruined like that!
Archimedes555453525 1 year ago
Anyway the bwv 999 lute suite prelude was very hard to play but half a year from when I started to play guitar I was able to play the half of it. With the cello suites I feel like I have to go from north korea to US by swimming, no way to do this.
atzitzikas 1 year ago
I study guitar for a long time now, so I 've chosen this suite to play.On start I study the sheet rythmicaly then solfez and in the end I 've sung the notes with the right tempo(six first measures) everything seemed alright. But when I study the fingerings and position changes I understood that either I am an amateur or the guitar transcription I had read was only for guitar soloists.
atzitzikas 1 year ago
la sua mano è leggera e delicata come il vento.....:)
cicco93B 1 year ago
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@cicco93B english please
tututu000111222 1 year ago
AS a classical guitarist (well after a fashion!) I now always look at cellists' interpretations of Bach. They unfortunately make the classical guitar sound rather "thin" - but John W.Duarte and John Williams' Schott (GA 213) do offer "rich rewards" for the guitarist.
davidjd 1 year ago
The Glenn Gould of the Cello.
deichhorn 1 year ago
composed by the giant J.S.Bach probably at Kothen, these 6 suites are authentical gems of music for this lovely instrument and we listen to them performed by the great maestro Rostropovich, what else do we need?
beethomozart 1 year ago 2
Amazing
eldavikapo 1 year ago
amazing to my ears
TimBatan 1 year ago
Cuando yo sea viejito quiero tocar como este tipo... Pero seguro que además voy a tener una marca en mi rostro por toda la música que llevo a cuestas que me hará verme feliz...
Tremenda música y a seguir trabajando que el reloj de arena está en mi contra ya desde hace años. No mucho he avanzado porque uno siempre requiere de disciplina férrea y determinación para lograr las metas.
Voy queriéndole con el Preludio... but not with the cello, but the electric bass :)
Pulgar arriba!
cuandoestasconmigo 1 year ago
My mother took up the guitar when she was in her 70s - well into them. The only other instrument she ever played was the harmonica, all by ear (she taught me when I was 9 and I've been making music ever since). She learned to read music. It's good for the brain to learn a musical instrument. Very good for the brain.
sosome57 1 year ago
if bach have been heard rostropovich, he probably shoke his hand..
masterobiwankedisi 1 year ago
wait, his endpin is straight in this one.. is that a different cello?
tjqudrhks 1 year ago
TSss a no mames pinche ruquito se la rifa tocando ese violonsote
Luisitosau 1 year ago
no comments..???
he is truly amazing..!!
angelsmusicskate 1 year ago
My father had the great pleasure and joy to listen to rostropovich play from a first row seat in 2000. He said it was the greatest musical experience of his life. This movie illustrates why.
drankrur 1 year ago
you`ll get a 28
Genavie100 1 year ago
As a cellist I can almost feel how smooth that bow is on the strings just listening to it. It's a lot like the first cut with scissors into a fresh page of cardboard. Really satisfying.
magicalhats15 1 year ago 7
@magicalhats15 Nice analogy. Personally I feel its more like diving into a quite lake of shimmering unbroken water. Interesting what different cellists hear in the same music!
PerpetualMotionMan88 4 months ago
as thethruthis9 pointed out, Hair is NOT important... However he does have a very lovely and shiney head.... I'd like to stroke it..
EggieMeggieX 1 year ago 55
@EggieMeggieX It really is Far too bad The music master has past on but he will live on in his music. I will never see him preform and that sadens me but i willl enjoy his music as long as i shall live
AngleofDecay 1 year ago 2
@AngleofDecay here here!! so sad... =(
EggieMeggieX 1 year ago
@EggieMeggieX
This is the best comment.
SonicHedgehog123 1 year ago
@EggieMeggieX you necrophiliac..
jramz91 1 year ago
@jramz91 You are just a fucking IDIOT, the term is Gerontofiliac (love for old people),not necrophiliac ( love for a dead corpse ) Learn your facts right and make sure your tongue is connected to your brain before opening your big and ignorant yapper. You are probably from the USA United Stupids of America.
piontro 1 year ago
@piontro LMFAO WOW you are pathetic, see this is why America is great, we actually have a sense of humor. Wherever you are from must have a bunch of people with sticks up their butts. And ACTUALLY if you knew YOUR facts, you would know that Rostropovich has been dead (rest in peace) since 2007. So the term necrophiliac could apply here. DUH united STATES of America just schooled you bitch.
jramz91 1 year ago
@jramz91
If you see a video of Shirley Temple from her childhood, and it turns you on (she is in her 80s now), are you a pedophile or a gerontophiliac? Think about that for a minute...
colourfulwithaU 7 months ago
@piontro Seriously do u have no life but to post inconsiderate things on this persons youtube channel?
AnimeHottie1 1 year ago
@jramz91 i'm no necrophiliac, it's funny how people take such an innocent comment from a young girl and turn it into something evil and ugly, you have not LIVED if you haven't, as a child, had a fasination with someones head....
EggieMeggieX 1 year ago
@EggieMeggieX Wtf? i wasn't even talking to you.
jramz91 1 year ago
@EggieMeggieX You'd need to do it somewhere in private. Not while he's playing.
lewars1912 1 year ago
@EggieMeggieX Ha, ha...like it....me too...di
aussiechickdiana 1 year ago
come on...is hair really that important...?!?! just let it go man. just let it go...
thetruthis9 1 year ago 2
j'adore jouer la violoncelle, il est un trés bon instrument! voici une excellent composition.
sharkboi758 1 year ago
What a great room in which to record these pieces.
DavidSabine 1 year ago 5
le violon ça a un son crispant, mais ça, c'est beau, j'adore cet instrument !
et quel talent !
c4mi113 1 year ago
its like a never ending song....or river...flowing through your head...personally i think that this be a slower and more relaxed song....smile rostropovich...you frown the whole time...
EVANgenesisX 1 year ago
@EVANgenesisX Like the protagonist in the 2009 film "Black Dynamite," Rostropovich IS smiling. The idea here is that music is an auditory experience, not a visual one. The smile is omnipresent. Just listen for it.
BrucknerMotet 1 year ago 2
I'm playing this for solo and ensemble this year. The smoothness in his playing, and his tone quality, is what I really admire about him. RIP, Mr.Rostropovich. May your soul still be with us through your music.
TheDarkAshitaka 1 year ago 5
i gotta play this for grade 7 :(
shineymouse 1 year ago
you're fuckin lucky! :)
95greenhorn 1 year ago
gah!!! damn arpegios lol cant spell
mythical73 1 year ago
Il joue à la perfection...Incroyable...Il est un dieu!
MlleDidoulou 1 year ago 7
Il était un dieu...Rostropovich will not be forgotten!
obizin 1 year ago
Mstislav Leopoldovitch Rostropovitch est un immortel pour tout violoncelliste...Rostropovitch UN DIEU!!!
MlleDidoulou 1 year ago 42
@MlleDidoulou english please
tututu000111222 1 year ago
@tututu000111222 I'm just saying he's like an immortal for all cellist ! he is a god !
MlleDidoulou 11 months ago
Magic, a whole lot of magic. Plus just absolute perfection.
PhilosophicalViking 2 years ago 5
Polymath7........wow. I thought I "bsed" on here a lot, but you take the cake.
Darkshade773 2 years ago
What a delicate portrait weaved by the Orthodox Cellist! A loss can never be equaled when it is of such magnitude as this. Regardless, he had his time and used it well. Perhaps he met Bruckner, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich, and Glinka in the heights. We can only hope so!
Opolye 2 years ago 4
Le plus grand de tous les temps...
steloric 2 years ago
es lo mas hermoso que escuche en mi vida ..... nada me puede hacer sentir tan ....... no puedo no describir lo que me hace sentir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
elektramos 2 years ago
I adore this piece! But I'm playing it on viola, so it's not quite the same. =P But I adore Rostropovich, too. What a fabulous 'cellist. =]
MoshToMendelssohn 2 years ago
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BornInTheCreek 2 years ago
..........wow!
sophiawanganimallovn 2 years ago
just perfect!
seaknight500 2 years ago
Wow. This is awesome, and all I have left is the second half left :)
99Mandalore 2 years ago
BTW(by the way) He did a great job, but at :43 he slightly messed up. Im nothsting on him, actually, if that was me, I would mess up (in terms of sound and fluency, NOT notes) pretty much most of it. It was a minor detail i noticed.
99Mandalore 2 years ago
it gives me goosebumps, splendid!
marcelly3 2 years ago
muito bom ,lindo
celinhobass 2 years ago
He. Is. Brilliant. Rostropovich is my new favorite cellist. (not that i had one before...)
bdavis4life 2 years ago 5
He can play the cello.
twee881 2 years ago
I like the quick tempo. It gives the interpretation a fluidity and bouyancy.
tfennimore 2 years ago
i heard this song on an episode of 'House'. its so beautiful.
crecremew 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was the prelude, and it was sort of chopped about, but yes, beautiful stuff.
psbbfh 2 years ago
no, that wasn't the prelude, it was the allemande.. the 2nd part of the `1st cello suite
nburkemdx 2 years ago
This isn't the prelude, the house part had the prelude IIRC.
psbbfh 2 years ago
this is splendid !!!
cogermax91 2 years ago
how dare you have such infamous talk without little respect on this superb recording. For god's sake, above you is a cathedral and a genius who plays Bach, people, just don't insult.
cubuverde 2 years ago
You people need to stop wasting your time arguing on youtube. It may seem hypocritical for me to say so, but why waste your time.
rougetitan101 2 years ago 9
It took me all of five minutes to post those comments, but may I ask; what are the criteria by which you decide whether an activity is a waste of time?
Do you by any chance own a set of golf clubs, a television -or for that matter a chessboard?
Have you ever spent in excess of three hours on a Sunday afternoon watching young, steroid-bloated ignoramuses fight over an inflated piece of rubber?
Because I would consider that a *superlative* waste of time.
polymath7 2 years ago
ok u need to stop trying to waste ur time on commenting back. u posted like 3x more than kindfurryboy so im wondering what U do to waste time. go on youtube and try to pick a fight that ur going to lose?
aznguyiscool 2 years ago
With my limited ability to analyze the workings of your mind, you seem to believe that you, yourself, are intelligent. You use the vocabulary of a scholar, yet you surely know that your target audience is any random schmuck on YouTube. Therefore, by posting to reflect only your intelligence, you prove yourself as believing you are smarter than logic would dictate. According to studies, the most "incompetent" are ones who believe they are greater than reality. You fall into this category.
WatcherofTrends 2 years ago
Well, I would expect the random schmucks who watch videos of *Rostrpovich* on Youtube to be at least somewhat more intelligent than the general poulation.
But you're right I suppose; as far as you or anyone else here is (or ought to be) concerned I'm just an internet wiseass.
My comments are written solely for my own amusement, and I don't expect anyone to take them any more seriously than I do.
polymath7 2 years ago 3
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You, sir, are the reason people think classical music is for pompous dickheads.
SolarJakee 2 years ago
I get this quite a lot, and frankly, it *really* gets on my nerves.
You bitch and whine that I've exceeded my alotment of polysyllabic words, and imply that my self-confidence is proof of my grandiosity with a feckless allusion to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I say again, for the thousandth time, what really bothers you is the very fact that I should dare to harbor such a self-assesment, and neglect to conceal it.
Whether it is merited or meritorious is -to you- quite beside the point.
polymath7 2 years ago 2
Ooops. That should read "merited or *meretricious*".
polymath7 2 years ago
@polymath7 you can't do this and not expect people to get pissed!
Muggleman12 2 years ago
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He gives me hope in mastering this song. I have the notes, now to get the fluency of the bow. BTW i just started cello August 09
99Mandalore 2 years ago
@polymath7 Come again?
lewars1912 1 year ago
and your response is any better? lol
ferretfrenzy05 2 years ago
Trolls :/
hardleecure 2 years ago 2
C'est tres belle.
acdrama 2 years ago
sempre tem um boiola que diz " muito rapido pra min ", vai la e toca melhor, Rostropovich toco otimo e não tenho nada a reclamar.
lennoth 2 years ago
I love how people claim scientific credibility with annecdotal evidence! I think the videos of this guy playing bach are exceptional, at first listen I did think I would have preffered a slower tempo, but the quick pace grew on me, I love it.
ImrielnoMontreve 2 years ago
beautiful...I'm kinda making it a goal to record a version of the Cello Suites with only my bass guitar. Bach's a genius (my fav composer) and Rostopovich does him justice :)
metalheadnick555 2 years ago
not to be mean but lets just stick it to the bowed instruments, although it would be kind of cool to hear it on the bass guitar, great idea though.
Byakuya00006 2 years ago
i completely understand where you're coming from...the transition from cello to bass guitar is not as seamless as i originally thought lol. it's still a goal im trying out tho, but we'll c where it goes.
metalheadnick555 2 years ago
Good for you dude! And good luck
Byakuya00006 2 years ago
a bit to fast for me
sensangsun 2 years ago
that's why it's amazing
Sdwyer1 2 years ago 3
Thats how its supposed to be played, they are 16th notes.
jbove22 2 years ago
i said that i thought the tempo was a bit too fast
sensangsun 2 years ago
I'm stuck on the last half with the many minors, it is an awesome song.
Byakuya00006 2 years ago
I just love they way Rostropovich plays this piece! it is just absolutely astonishing! :D I'm playing this piece my self on viola, but its nothing compared to him!!!!
evildoom100 2 years ago 2
this is beatiful
MegaDARKSIDER 2 years ago
Wow!
1likestoplaymusic 2 years ago 4
This is great but I really wish to find a slower playing of this... very hard to follow especially when trying to learn how to play the song.
nolometangere 2 years ago
Wow. Mstislav shreds.
francescaemc2 2 years ago 4
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oh now i hate violin ...
i luv chello !!
jelous47 2 years ago
Say what you will of the Iraq war and Haliburton; there is no finer cellist alive than Dick Cheney ;)
polymath7 2 years ago
Ha! That's too funny!
Dick Cheney... hahaha!
Beethovenfan12 2 years ago
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RIP MISTA JACKSON!
crackersnsoup 2 years ago
I think I found my new favourite instrument if ever I was to play one!
But seriously, it's almost as if if you haven't heard Bach, you haven't really lived yet!
xxruthfanxx 2 years ago 2
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RIP MISTA JACKSON!
crackersnsoup 2 years ago
Agreed on both counts. At thirty-three, it's far too late take for me to take up an instrument with any serious ambition in mind, but if granted a wish I would likely pick the cello.
Oh, and Bach. Quite possibly the single greatest musical genuis the human species has ever produced.
polymath7 2 years ago
my friend, its never too late to take up an instrument.
XTXcalVinXTX 2 years ago 8
never too late too learn something new
thenasib 2 years ago 2
I.
Alas, that's just not true.
Very few competition level performers began their intensive practice any later than the age of ten, and there's a reason for this,
It's a matter of neuroplasticity.
I won't bore you with the details (unless you want me to) but in a nutshell, the costant practice at a young age in which calssical musicians engage doesn't just hone a procedural, skill, it actually rewires to a considerable extent parts of the brain that govern musical intelligence...
polymath7 2 years ago
II ...and motor coordination.
In my thirty-third summer, I'm afraid it's simply too late for this extensive rewiring to take place; the window of opportunity has closed.
If you 'll remember my qualifying phrase, "with any serious ambitionn mind" it really is too late for me tyo take up an instrument.
It's a pity, for I supect I might have had considerable potential; though in saying so I suppose I sound a bit like the haughty lady De Berg in Pride and Prejudice: (cont.)
polymath7 2 years ago
III.
"I should have been a great proficient, if I had learned."
I can live with this; I still have a 180 IQ and world-class artistic talent (and yes, I anticipate the "thumbs down" for my immodesty).
If anyone knows of a single example of a world-class instrumentalist (not a singer -the same neurological constraints do not apply) who bagan practice as an adult, I am most eager to hear of it, if only out of curiousity.
polymath7 2 years ago