Cello Journey #7, May 7, 2006

[jewbeee]

Beautiful bow technique! Very enjoyable! Thank you!

[1md4b0ss]

luke, you are the best cellist i have ever heard! Keep up the good work!

[seaayo]

i love the double stops!!

[MadamCadaver]

so do i!

[JordyKun]

This piece looks very fun to play. Especially the double stops at the end. This is one I would want to play in the future sometime along with the allegro apassionato by Saint-Seans. I do like all of Popper's work. My favorite though is his Hungarian Rhapsody, but this is right next to it.

[soosongg]

thanks for playing it a little slower

it was great for tips on how to learn it

[chiangee13]

too slow but very good tone and no rushing, good job

[francello75]

You always play everything very well! Bravo, bravo and bravo!! Will it be ever possible to watch You on concert here on YouTube (perhaps with a full orchestra, recital, with piano or whatever)? I turned to be a big fan of You and your cello journeys! :-)

[wubbie12]

good to see this piece without piano

[Ikke12345678910]

this is so cool... i wish i could play like him... when i'm better at playing the violin, i WILL start cello lessons!! :D

[Alumita]

Luke, you're the best :)

[thinker93]

ah...it sounds good for a professional to play it, when I play it it sounds much worse!

[TheTradge]

I'm about to start working on this, and this has given me a good idea of how it sounds, good tempo, and phrasing, etc =) good job

[shostakovich39]

i'm currently working on this as well. i am awed at this performance... i'm supposed to be playing it at a competition soon. now i have a better idea of what i need to brush up on and polish. thanks for posting!!! :D

[MadaMadaDana]

dang good job. i found a recording of this song. really nice. i think you would bring out the soung more if there was a piano and more movement XP Kudos. beautiful sound. mind sending me this? my teacher wont give it to me. =]

Keep It Up. i saw your other vids too. they great as well

[ibuki7x]

wow, this is a happy piece. where did you get the sheet music for this song? it's amazing.

[eBooeBoo]

Wow. Wow wow wow. I'm currently working on this piece (I was in a happy crazy mode when I found that you recorded the piece) and I just couldn't see how anyone could play those chords so smoothly (from m. 242-273) but your performance made it seem so possible...

Also kudos to how you managed to play the whole piece through. I can't seem to play through pieces without stopping due to my multiple mistakes per measure.

[DTD]

That was GREAT!

[jim52]

how about Saint Saens The Swan

[jim52]

thank you



[DTD]

loved it!

[thedemise]

Hi just wanted to say i really like the videos, I know you probably don;t take requests but maybe you might think of Sarabande from suite no.2 its really sombre and it could help you show the wider range of the cello, not that your not doing a fantastic job already.

[Arpeggio]

THis is indeed my newww favorati!!!!!

[JazzmanianDevil]

Truly amazing work. I wonder if any other instrument can produce such a range of sounds, as if several string instruments were playing at once, some doing the baseline and others the melody. Masterful.

[knightchik]

It's kinda funny-I linked to MY videos in my lj and my mom followed, but I think she watches yours more than mine.

'Sokay, I like these.

[ikant100]

awesome playing.

[larsenlmark]

A great performance of a challenging piece! Another addition for my "favorites". Thanks!

[serchan]

BravO!

[cacoseraph]

Oh man!

The tarantella dance style originated in the erroneous belief that a bite of a Italian/European wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, was fatal unless this crazy whirling dance was done to the point of exhaustion. This was during the middle ages, or rennaisance... i can't quite remember. I wanted to comment since the beginning... but waited until i had something to contribute... this couldn't be more perfect.

[cacoseraph]

Anyhow, thank you so much for your series. I thought #3 was my favorite... but it has been replaced by #7, on principle (and i quite dig the music too!). I don't know anything about classical music, but i love watching people play instruments and being able to kind of correlate their actions to the sounds.

Please keep making these and bringing a little civility to my brutish heart :)

[cellojourney]

Thank you for making this nice comment. I was debating mentioning something in the podcast but I thought it would take too much time. You describe it really well.

[ZenithXLT]

Holy Cow!! I'm a huge fan of cello and I love all the pieces you've done so far, but that one really blows my mind! That was awesome!

[IcySapphire64]

That was very nice, but it needed a violin or two to really add to the happy spirit.