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  • I get goosebumps when he hits that C string.

    3:49-4:18

    I can't stop playing that over and over.

  • great house

  • i-came.

    

  • @ Mr.Bigbrownies- He's actually Latvian

  • maisky's always got such unique interpretations...always less strict and full of emotion..

  • @porpoisefathom Exactly. I love Slava, but he plays much as an older person would; strict and by the book. Maisky definitely puts (or shows) his heart in it.

  • Bach’s Third Cello Suite Prelude

    Movement more than human.

    Blowing away all sadness.

    There is such light…

    It does not conquer the darkness,

    Rather it rides above it and through it,

    Wonderfully untouched

  • iprelude- The newest classical hearing device from Apple.

  • @Linzoidteh1337 yes actually there is something called "amusia" which is a medical condition causing the inability to distinguish pitch or remember melodies. However, for most people that are "tone deaf", the problem is lack of attention to detail.

  • thumb position in third position at 02:19!

  • watch out, Jesus. here comes the next messiah

  • @jeremiah0807 dude hes russian!!!

  • I'm still in the Prelude? Holy crap.

  • He plays with such emotion...

  • @FredFredBurger53 Beautyfull to see, isn't it? Makes the music even better :)

  • where can i download this???? i realized Mischa Maisky (the guy playing) plays this song 1 minute slower. others play it fast that it ends at 3:30 which i dislike.

  • @iBdan97 Look in the video's description. As with damn near every youtube video, anything you need to know is there.

  • @fuduzan5562 thats the DVD... i meant like the song.

  • @fuduzan5562 nevermind. i already converted it.

  • Awesome.One of the best living cellists.TY B for posting.

  • @gecmartins

    I agree... totally!

  • I M P R E S S I N G!!!!!

  • @reflexpg You mean Impressive.

  • @fuduzan5562

    ;) exactelly..... Pardon for my english (the worst one I suppose) ;)

  • I'm not sure who the best cello player is, but Maisky brings the most life to it and makes it the most musically.

  • Jesus, is his hand an Aimbot?

  • @keel421 Don't be silly. It's just what aimbots were programmed to simulate.

  • eight haters are deaf. it's my favorite performance of Bach's Suites. He is awesome. Sorry for my english.

  • @ReneeGold94 don't apologize, it was perfect english. keep it up.

  • Beautiful.

    But the piedestal is awkward :)

  • Any contact info about Maisky? Please?

    

  • Not a single word from my vocabulary can describe this piece..........

  • @RacingStude dude, make that a speech for your music teacher -EXTRA CREDIT!!!!-

  • what year was this made

  • Just downloaded the score, and now I'm about to go learn it on tuba.

  • @iles127 tuba??? sweet,dude!!!

  • @iles127 good luck! haha. seriously though, im studying this piece on cello, and possibly am going to try and play it on trombone. wish me luck too!

  • @iles127 ????????

  • @JayWilliamThompson The Tuba was invented in 1835, so there is no Baroque era music written for it. So in order to play a baroque piece, one has to find another piece and transcribe it for tuba. This is easily done with cello music because they both play in bass clef and at concert pitch.

    And good luck to you @regaldrifter

  • @iles127 woah that's so cool! good luck :D

  • @iles127 that's awesome! i play euphonium, and have played through many of these suites (admittedly, i haven't worked any up to performance level) and the biggest challenge is breathing. you'll want to work on carefully mapping out breaths, and improving lung capacity. or circular breathing.

  • yo yo ma 's cello tone is very thin and weak. what he can do better is to frown and twist his face.

  • @levleung2000 His cello is amazing! Listen to something from Jacqueline du pre who has used the same cello. And she handled it extremely well. Very very well. I love the way she played. It's a terrible loss for her to stop playing to MS. I wish she was alive if she wasn't diagnosed with it. She could've been anything she wanted in the musical field.

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  • his bow transitions are seamless :D

  • 8 people are anti-semmi!!

  • Apocalyptica should make a cover of this song....

  • @EmoReaper1997 Or not

  • Must agree! He is the best!!

  • @TheSideflip Mstislav Rostropovich was Mischa Maisky's teacher for a while and said that Miska was an absolutely talented young man. Mischa plays with so much more passion than yo yo ma. (my opinion)

  • @SuperJapanesefreak

    i don't even consider yo yo ma to be in the same league as rostropovich or maisky. (my personal opinion as well)

  • His arm movements from 2:00 on look completely mechanical.

  • @ThinkBrad Knowtised this too. That perfection.

  • he plays flawlessly,i look at him and i know he's feeling his music as much as me or more

  • anyone know where he did a record?

  • he plays with an intense power "inside" of the string so that he sounds intense but not overbearing its great

  • Anyone know how old these are?

  • Sorry, who's this performer again? I love his interpretations the best

  • @XtremeEuph His name is Mischa Maisky.

  • Worst disability to have = Tone Deaf

  • @BlazzingSaber no such thing as being tone deaf, only DEAF deaf

  • @Linzoidteh1337 Wrong. I had an excellent musical ear but since recently I have a problem in the brains and sometimes I hear but can not recognise word or tone. At these moments the sound comes in strange colors. How you explain that? My neurologist can not explain.

  • I'm interested as to where I can get this version. A lot of professional musicians that I've watched play have different bowings than the ones in my book of all the Bach suites.

  • @mcrflyleafdisturbed This is because there is no manuscript autographed by Bach which has not been lost. The closet copy to the source was that made by Bach's second wife Anna Magdelena Bach, but even her edition contains errors. Long story short, without a firm standard copyists and performers have taken endless liberties with bowings and other forms of expression.

  • I personally like the Starker version best... but this is still very good.

  • Why do i love the preludes so much more? and shut up with the "8 people are tone deaf" and other utter bullshit it. Focus on the music not the critics

  • @SkiFantic well, you're criticizing too.

  • 8 tone deaf people... it's ok.

  • @reberto 8 cultural retarded ppl!

  • Is there something more beautifull than this?! This is incredible!

  • Excuse me: how does anyone NOT like this? I am counting 7 dislikes, which I could only understand if they said they hit the wrong key. Other than that it is unthinkable. What is it that's wrong? Cello playing does not get better than this. May be just as good, but better is simply hard to believe.

  • how can he not cry when playing this?!

    its so emotionaly powerful, i would cry my ass off if i could play that. but out of happiness. :)

  • I would LOVE to know the recording setup and equipment used for this!!:)

  • I would LOVE to know the recording setup and equipment used for this!!:)

  • How do you get such perfect bowing? o.o

  • @mushroomz88 practice XD im learning this song myself, and the bowing has to be as textured as wood let as smooth as a clean slate.

  • @regaldrifter "Song"??? If you're calling this work of art a "song" there's already a problem...

  • @wilsonviola i dont remember writing such, im sorry. the only thing i said was "practice XD im learning this song myself, and the bowing has to be as textured as wood let as smooth as a clean slate."

    but anyway, can we all stop arguing and enjoy this work of "art"?

  • @RacingStude

    On the contrary, I know that Yo Yo Ma is a master. And Maskie here, isn't in the same league. And that's the entire issue. Maskie the turd is floating in a sea of mediocrity.

  • @sidhammered I think you got me wrong. I didn't say anything about interpretation! In fact even though I do not particularly like his interpretation there are many interesting things about it which I would not have come up with myself.

    I have learned to interpret Bach on base of thorough examination. Artists, as you call them, my set impulses but I would never find anyone's Bach entirely "correct" because I, like everyone, will always have a different understanding.

  • @firebird1924 wow. i clicked on the wrong person! i meant to respond to flutist1989... haha, my bad

  • he should have considered tuning his strings before...

  • @firebird1924 I am so tired of people like you who insist on looking down upon artistic interpretations of Bach. I can't believe that anyone would say "I do know what Bach meant." Are you kidding me? You have no clue what Bach meant, and this statement just shows an incredible ignorance. Music is written by composers to be interpreted by ARTISTS, so who is to say that any particular interpretation is "correct." Like or dislike it on it's musicality or emotional affect, not it's "correctness."

  • how is it possible fornanyone to dislike something so beautiul?

  • He is better than rebound sex

  • @RacingStude Yeah, well, most your generation doesn't understand baroque music anyways. Especially in America. If you did any basic music history research you would know this is so far from what Bach wrote.

  • Fuck. So perfect.

  • 7 people have stick up their ass

  • I love his facial expressions... this looks like a man who really loves his music

  • 2:13

  • damn, his face is just so intense sometimes.

  • i think this is a damnnn inspiring ha looking at this piece and attempting it, i think he dioes it good justice! i certainly cant play this preluede at this level!! cut him some slack or put up your own recording of you playing it better

  • i noticed he raises his bowing shoulder very high--thats gotta hurt after a while?

    but his pitch and intonaiton are superb...among other things - so maybe there are no hard and fast rules for playing cello?

  • @porpoisefathom It's a school of thought to raise the elbow/shoulder high when playing on an instrument. Generally though, the vast majority of us musicians cannot do so for a long period of playing and/or have a great career because it does not promote longevity. So the "rules" that you probably learned still apply to yourself, unless you find yourself playing at a genius level with your shoulder high.

  • amazing

  • At the very least, go kill yourself. Oh, and if you can gain a higher level of respect for much, MUCH greater musicians than yourself.

  • @C0urante

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure you don't know me or my musical skill. But anyway, your premise is idiotic. Are you suggesting that you can't criticize a movie unless you've produced one, or criticize a book unless you've written one, or judge gymnastics unless you are a gymnast, or prefer one musician over another unless you are better than both of them? Your comment is a logical abyss.

  • @sheepgoatdogcat Fine, let's see you demonstrate your precious musical skill.

    As for my comment, it was more focused on respect in general for distinguished musicians who have obviously made it to their successful careers for a good reason. Saying that Mischa Maisky "is NOT a good cello player." is nothing short of purely incendiary thinking, and is not an actual criticism nor demonstrable of an enviable mindset to possess. I did not SAY that you had to be up to his level to critique him. Only

  • that you would have to respect his level of prestige and success REGARDLESS of whether or not you disagree with his playing style, or even if you'd much rather listen to another performer. Yo Yo Ma, in my opinion, doesn't do Bach nearly as much justice as Maisky, Starker, Rostropovich, or Bylsma... but I acknowledge readily that he is a professional-level cellist and has earned his rank, and would not even THINK to call him a bad cellist.

  • @C0urante

    Thank you, this is exactly my point. I don't believe for a second that he has obtained success for good reason. It's not clear at all why he has become successful. On the surface, all I see is a sub-par cello player, but for some reason he was recorded by Deutsche Grammophone, and I have no idea why. I mean, I respected DG, but they recorded this numbnut moron, and then market him? It makes no sense. I have his recordings of the cello suites, have heard them, and hate them.

  • @sheepgoatdogcat

    I can't help but think you're trolling. To say this isn't a good player? Yeah, best be on your way.

  • @sheepgoatdogcat

    What is it about him that makes him a bad cello player?

  • @gecmartins

    I'm not sure I would call him a bad cello player per se. All I'm saying is that there are many many cello players that are better. No doubt he has some people in high places in order to have gotten his recording contracts. He is part of an ethnic group that is famous for only hiring their own kind.

  • @sheepgoatdogcat

    Oh! I see it now. I guess what you were trying to say is that he is good, but not good enough to justify getting that recording contract. Is that it?

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  • I can't avoid to think that when Bach composed this movement he thought: "If you think the prelude in my first suite was beautiful, wait until you hear this one".

  • I miss my old cello :(

  • A true hero of our age.

  • @Kitt0000 if your refer about the music, yes!!! he is a hero!!! he's saving us from hearing poop music from this days!!!!

  • Bach better than sex.

  • the cello suites are the best example of bach's best musical attributes. they're totally free-form, yet completely tamed by a logical beat and pattern. no wonder jazz artists use his music so much:0

  • Cello = Eargasm.

  • @LaHoey Hahaha yes! So very true.

  • @LaHoey Eargamaxactly!

  • And I thought No. 1's prelude was beautiful..

    Of course all of bach's music is amazing, but this suite just tops the cake. I love no. 3 the most now,

  • @Samoriah the prelude for no. 6 is pretty great too. A lot more challenging

  • Thank You Maisky.

  • starting at about 1:50 his arm looks robotic...

  • @usamaki10 Years of practice makes you automatically play a piece with ease.

  • I love playing all those slurred notes near the end of the piece <3

  • I love this mans interpretation the best :)

  • whart year was this?

  • exelente!!!

  • He must have fingertips of steel! Maisky is my favorite bach interpret.

  • I really like Maisky's interpretation on any of the more romantic sounding movements of the suites.

  • Wow

  • i thinking why ppls whathing only prelude no.1?

  • i like this guy on his chair in the open room. these are some great recordings

  • can somebody please explain how to read the notation of the arpeggios during the middle of this piece? I still don't understand how to bow them =/

  • ask your teacher or so ;)

  • i dont know y but has become one of my favorites now ..

  • and people say Bach lacks emotion!

  • @SlyFox616

    Who? Tell me so I can get their brains straight.

  • @SlyFox616 well i feel sorry for such ignorant people

  • @jatora Of course it has emotion

    Can you imagine a piece of art without an ispiration? It would be a blank wall, a single note, if that. There would be no art in this world without emotion behind to back it up. Think before you spew thoughtless bits next time, please

  • wow someone as a stick up their ass

  • what can one say other than OMG! my favorite prelude, preferred with Casal, but this caught my ear. Mischa Maisky studied with Rostropovich and Rostropovich studied with Casal- so go figure!!

  • this one is my favorite

  • awesome!!!!

  • One of the true spectacular things in this world. The power of true raw emotional bach.

  • Bravo!

  • Mischa Maisky is one of my favorites to lisin to...its so calm, and he holds so much emotion in his face..i love it.

  • He looks so much like the vocalist from System of a Down! :)

    Great performance of Bach. A+

  • haha well...this and number 2. i can't decide between them. .-///-

  • this is my favorite o/////o it sounds so romantic and it just brings so many emotions up at once.

  • gotta love the chords and phrasing at 1:50. Dynamite piece there, Misha.

  • @1992jakethomas I have to agree, 1:50 is amazing.

    Playing the cello for 7 years, I wish I could be this good someday...

  • It's interesting how romantically he plays this

  • I love 4:00 part...

  • I totally agree with you, you can rarely say that something is played "wrong" in classical music because it's been written so long ago and current documents might not be totally accurate. If a piece sounds good, is all that really matters and his interpretations I think sound much better than Pablo Casals'.

  • I echo that sentiment in religious bullshit.

  • in fact this is the 3rd and final version i'm listening to today and he is the only one that i didn't think "he could have milked those phrases for way more"

    of all the recordings i've listened to this is my favorite.

  • excellent esecution, i like it

  • I wish this guy was my teacher.

  • I'm buying the DVD, I think it's worth it :)

  • it cuts through my soul whenever I hear cello, it's another language for me.

  • they make it look so easy. :O

  • Amazing. Is that a stradivarias?

  • No, Maisky using Montagnana Cello!

  • stradivarius* not stradivarias

  • 1:50

  • amazing.

  • it's not a crime to have lots of hair.....t

  • ºdont critizise how the artist looks like but only his art idiots

  • Amazing performance