Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach suite 1 III. Courante

[Darkness3968]

learning this piece right now!

[mstokiohotelCRAZY]

Rostropovich was amazing. Beautiful. Inspiring. I am speechless. Anyone who dislikes this has to really reconsider their taste in music and their respect for genuine talent. He will live in our hearts forever.

[VilliusPossessoris]

This was wonderful. Mstislav Rostropovich was a wonderful cellist, and a wonderful person. He gave up his good life in the Soviet Union to speak out for freedom. God bless him.

[TheDancer11304]

I love this!

[doctorsensual77]

My favorite part so far. Simply magnificent!!

[bassbass99able]

3 more bullets [: ) hahahha.

[Hrafnkell100]

Who dislikes this video is a **** like if you agree

[thelaughingguitar]

Rostropovich is still a great inspiration for many cellists today. You can really tell that the playing cello was literally the main aspect of his life. Rest in peace.

[cellomad1]

3 Lady Gaga fans watched this video.

[itstherocky]

3 people are deaf

[osvaldocalcena]

que Maestro!!!! gracias por publicar este video!!!!



[Sortudinho]

Man I would love to play in a church like that

[TORNELLcello]

This is one of the best movements of the Bach suites that he plays, in my opinion.

[NatRmrz]

His performance amazed me! He even makes me cry :')

He's brings me what he's playing making me feel i'm beside him

i mean

HE IS SUCH THE MOST WONDERFUL CELLIST!

Great Post @Cayo255 :)

[MlleDidoulou]

He's incredible . He's a god . He's an immortal to all cellist young or old , good or not . He's like the inspiration of alllllll my life !

[53donster]

i hear god

[StormtrooperTK404]

Trollman comments that he is not slurring. Or at least not as much as he's supposed to.

[ChucklezTM]

I love him so much. His moods and shifts and colors in his sound make so much sense to me, so much more sense than a lot of other cellists. He's so wonderful...

Haha, the first time I saw a video of him playing my dad came in the room and he was like, is that a politician... playing the CELLO?! And I was like, no, Dad, that's Rostropovich, and you should know him cuz he's one of the greatest ever!

[Pickdivision]

No way I can play that fast. He one of the greatest cellist.

[ClaudiiniiPovich]

El mejorr cellistaaa :')

[SqueekyMonkey101]

SLAVA!!!!!! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST PLEASE STILL BE ALIVE!!!

[sosome57]

What a master.

[beethomozart]

lovely pieces of music and an extraordinary cellist

[snootzie78]

Rostropovich--the greatest cellist of all time

[BWV1013]

Hermoso¡¡¡



[dosergiobr]

The best execution ever ! A real master.

[usamaki10]

@Bmanzfly well obviously not as well as him, but it is fairly easy to just learn it in its most basic form, nothing that's very hard

[paul84043]

@usamaki10

I know what you mean about it being "relatively easy" regardless of some of the remarks. I am in my second year of playing the Cello and my teacher started me on this Courante for that reason, it's not technically difficult to play, but obviously, it's a different story to play it "correctly".

[bachtocello]

this is great :)

[usamaki10]

this song is really fun to play and relatively easy

[thelawya]

this was amazing

[xThatOneKid]

.... he almost looks kinda like Dick Cheney....

[Penguines]

Did you see his trill?!??! It didn't even look like he trilled.

[Emimilykity]

I KNOW!

its like impossible for me to do trills with my fingers

very short

[triBond151]

It's possible that they had him "lip sync" a recording he had done previously just for sound clarity's sake, and that in the video he actually didn't trill, creating the effect you saw.

Or he's just so good he didn't even have to move his hand :P

[rawritssami]

O_O he did it soooooo fast.

i can't do it that fast with my pinky XD

[ToxicDumpling]

thats why hes considered one of the best, if not THE best :)

[rawritssami]

@ToxicDumpling i know :D he's so amazing.

[samneillman]

oh my God! Amazing! One day i will play like he (i hope) :D

[mykadia]

Wow look at the man's fingers! He was unstoppable and amazing.

[wowowowable]

He is so hot......

[Archimedes555453525]

Flawless, but too fast

[macaw2000]

Well it's a good thing we have Archimedes555453525 here to critique Rostropovich.

[wenzhiquan]

that's a contradiction within your own comment XD

[OrdinaryCritic]

@Archimedes555453525 See Ma's version; it's even faster.

[Lost251]

Simply amazing...

Rest in peace, my friend. You have inspired so many people out there, and you are missed every day!

[colinrb13]

Rostropovich and I agree; the courante was the hardest to memorize!

[ben2599]

may he rest well. he blessed the surface of this planet with his music all across the world.

[UrsaMenor51]

R.I.P. Maestro

[Jesseniagabriella]

he died april 27, 2007.. what a shame

anyone who was taught under him was blESSED

he's my hero and i idolize him with allll of my heart

[wenzhiquan]

i hear ya~ he's the reason why i even started to play cello.

[glamorousgeek94]

my teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher. :]]

[EchoWinds071]

That's cool. :)

[Musiciankdsc]

awesome piece!!!!!!  :)

[rio985]

LOL!

no! I mean, oh man! what a lack of respect! :/

[cpark02]

Wow... Just wow, and this is not one of those CLEAR versions audio versions and still it sounds so awesome. This guy is definitely tops it for me. And to think my cello teacher was a student of his, I didn't even know who this guy was.... and how good until now.... (dummy. :P)

[hobbedacat]

ohh my love this soo muchhh anyone know when he died? thats so sad :( but greeeeat piece :D

[zcelloplaya]

RIP... y such a serious face though its a happy song lol

[daneiibombs]

haha..maybee he needed to be concentrated..

miss you maestro..

[CesarLopLeo]

RIP, great cellist.

[Tajamorn]

Beautiful!

[ebolamunkee]

Is he... READING the music? I thought Rostropovich had everything ever written for cello memorized...

[Sqaaak]

As a cellist, & having memorized the suites, I still would have the part before me: it actually gave me greater freedom, in my performance, to glance at it from time to time as Maestro Rostropovich does here. By the way, to any of you who would make remarks as to his age, he plays, here, with a power and vigor that men a half his age do not have. And effortlessly too: note his spiritual focus; he is in the process of realizing the sublime, which is the great humanity of Bach and of his playing.

[ebolamunkee]

It was a joke, honey... And nobody said a word about his age. :-)

[EQmatters]

Amazing, thank you for posting it!