This is my absolute favorite classical piece, as a cellist and just as a musician in general. This truly inspires every creative fiber in my body. Yo Yo Ma's raw emotion definitely shines through in his playing. Dvorak is a musical genius, he will forever be my favorite composer. <3
@drunkwuv Don't make yourself self-righteous for it seems as if you match their pompousness. If people don't like this, they don't. If they do, they do. It's as simple as that. If you really feel this sort of performance, just ignore those that perceive this differently and enjoy. But if you feel the urge to refute those that find this unappreciative, maybe you don't appreciate classical music more than you make yourself to be.
I figured out Whiter Shade of Pale and the Legend of Zelda theme on guitar yesterday! Oh the things I'm forced to do when i don't start drinkin first thing in the mornin
Yes I did know that I was just saying that it amazes me that people say he is not a good musician!! And boy does he make that Montagnana sound absolutely amazing!!
all music played the same, actually. but it is more or less known based on who's soul its performing....i would say yo yo ma is one of the popular ones.
@rebeccanubodys actually emily is right. i have encountered numerous professionals who hate mas technical style. my private teacher tells me to stop playing like him when ever my position is incorrect XD either way he is utterly fantastic :)
this is a beautiful piece, really lifts me up whenever i hear it :D
What's really a tragedy here.. and evidenced by the comments... is that even in this sacred realm of music...people will still try to find a way to insult each other and if pushed a bit farther want to actually kill each other.
What's really a tragedy here.. and evidenced by the comments... is that even in this sacred realm of music...people will still try to find a way to insult each other and if pushed a bit farther want to actually kill each other.
This performance is legendary! Yo-yo ma's intonation, which is especially difficult in this concerto, is flawless.
Also in his playing, it sounds like his fingers, when they hit the fingerboard are being placed into pre-assigned frets....and it's so perfect that his sound sings above the orchestra's. It also helps that he plays on the same cello as Jacqueline DuPre used...the Davidoff. Not sure if this is the one he's using, but he has wonderful instruments and you can hear the difference.
8:56-9:01 is just amazing. I want to know what that feels like, in that moment. You can just feel that climatic energy radiating from the screen. That moment, right there... that must be freedom.
@2Blit hanging loose is the way to do it. it gives musicians character in their playing, we see their emotion as they play. and its their trademark to any type of fame. my vision of a cello artist is epic, face cringed from the blast of epicness due to epic playing, pieces of hair flying in the air from maximum shredding, spotlight, and audience camera angle
This and Allegro Appasionata by Saint-Saens are the best concertos for the cello. I saw Yo-yo ma play this at the St. Louis Symphony, and it was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Long live yo yo ma!!!!)
where are the auto-tone vocals and elementary catch phrases? where are all the lyrics demeaning to women, homosexuals, and anyone coming from a poor background? how can i possibly enjoy music that i cannot sloppily dance to while intoxicated at a club? if only these guys were real musicians...
@m00stifur - life must be pretty pointless and boring where you come from if you have enough time to sit around and mock other people's posts on youtube... Didn't your town recently get a new traffic light or street light for you to go look at and keep you entertained?
@m00stifur Some rappers are real musicians =/ They just don't usually get millions of dollars. Society makes people stupid and thus creates a demand for forms of entertainment that don't demand any thought to consume. It's just like electronic music; you have some musicians doing very repetitive drum loops and basslines strictly for raves and you have some people carrying the flag forward into the realm of what becomes possible when you can generate any sound mathematically. *Shrug*
@m00stifur But I don't know about the lyrics demeaning people from a poor background, considering that many of the musicians in question seem to have come from poor backgrounds themselves. Anyway the music on the radio is no good, at least I can find comfort in the fact that I am not the only one that feels this way. I guess the ironic thing is that many of the fans of the stuff you are talking about are poor as well. Some people just don't know...
@Comprised idk you make no sense to me your immature yet you try and get your point across by being racist, he wasnt being racist he was stating a fact that music nowadays or just mainstream doesnt take much effort to impress anyone. Also, you are gay.
@malerockdemon2 I was addressing the racist undertones of his smug ass comment ironically. Also, racism and immaturity are congruous, so..?
My problem here is m00stifur's dinosauric rejection of music he doesn't understand, and the way he postures as a sophisticate through that rejection. It's like he is listening to Dvorak to spite lil wayne. You are a fucking idiot, too.
@MrViolinGuy Have you never listened to popular music (Especially rap, short for crap)? The more mindless,simple and trashy it is, the more popular it is! That's what m00stifur is talking about. If Mozart or Bach etc. were here they would think they were on the planet of the apes!
@m00stifur I love classical music so much, it pains me to hear people say this kind of stuff on classical music videos, you're giving classical music listeners this visage of being better than other music. I'm a music student at a great music school and I play in orchestras and love the operas of Wagner, baroque oratorios and the emotion of Brahms and Mahler, but I get excited over new music. Not all new music is demeaning, a lot is very uplifting and positive. I understand where you're coming f
@Moonmatt2 I believe m00stifur is making a funny, indirect reference to a specific genre of modern music, most likely Mtv productions like Kesha, Spears, Lil' wayne, Lil' Jon, and they're friend Little Jack ;), and not modern music in general, and I must say on that point I wholeheartedly agree with him.
breathtaking!! ... the camera should remain focus on the last bow movement .... it should be the most impressive and the final release of the tension created ....
Id have to agree, although its always a mater of opinion, listening to this makes me feel like im watching a Star Wars movie....not my cup of tea (the movies or this piece, lol)
Hmm... it does have kind of an epic science fiction-ish sound to it at times. I like it a lot though. The moments of calm in between the fast music makes it for me.
I am happy that I have meet Yo-yo Ma in Kennedy center for his silkroad tour. My son is also name Yo-yo but the second sound is different meaning, My son's name mean " having friend ", Mr. Ma is "Friend-Friend". He can play western and Asian music wonderfully.
@cellofreak1229 i love this concerto but i am not a fan out yo yo ma's version of it. he is a fantastic player but his version of this piece just doesn't fit for me.
@cellofreak1229 The reason they say they don't like him isn't (generally) because of his sound but because of his technique. Don't get me wrong, he changed my life and he is probably is the most humble person around, but his technique is "technically wrong" because of his size. He's a smaller guy and his hands look like those of violinist, so he has to do things which you wouldn't want to necessarily teach an up and coming student. He makes it work though :)
Hey Everybody! ParkSlopeYuppyToilet is stupid, Just that... He wants attention, stop giving it to him.... let's enjoy Dvorak Concerto,... it's better than the Alicia Keys music he likes...
Don't worry about who I am, idiot. I could be Itzhak Perlman for all you know.
My point was that this loser Asian dude "Yo-Yo" or whatever his name is, is walking around like he's God's gift to mankind, meanwhile he doesn't even write his own music. What a joke.
Loser? he is one of the greatest musicians alive. What if he doesn't write his own music? does that affect his playing? Do all musicians have to write their own music? What a retard~~
If you can't play it as well as he can play it then STFU. If you can play it as well as he can play it, then you wouldnt be spending your time here dissing someone who is making the cello more popular and thus enhancing your employment prospects. Tard.
"standing violin", who the hell do you think you are.
First, go learn some BASIC musical knowledge before commenting, THEN bugger off and go play Halo 3, you'll fit in perfectly with the 8 year olds and the 21 year old retards.
also, am i the only one to notice that guys are always the best at everything? i mean seriously. there's always the best - for example- the bets girl runner, but a guy will always be faster. . .
D; yo-yo ma is a guy, and he is the best; obviously better than jacqueline du pre, because he's a genious.
D; i just thought i should point that out. . . O.o
rofl i had to post two comments since the whole thing didn't fit in one. . XDD
guys in general tend to- i unno have a natural ability to do things that girls can't do as well but you know what, when that girl's 98 and the guy's 98, we'll find that the guy has died years ago and the girls still living XD
thanks for the thumbs down people . . . rofl i thought rostropovich did better; for one thing because he knew the piece better and knew different way to play it, while on the other hand, yo-yo bluntly admitted to having trouble experimenting on this piece.
every single cello player has a different way of playing a piece, and yoyo has his own style. he might not have had the easiest time experimenting with this but still, it was better than so many people who can play it. definitely. and personally, i think his sound is amazingly beautiful and that its pointless and stupid to say that so-and-so sounded better in their rendition. i mean, who cares that much?
i posted that saying he had trouble, because just watching and hearing him makes it seems like he can do anything without a problem. Then when you hear he's having some trouble it makes you think he more normal and maybe you could play like him.
oh my goodness! i love this piece. i know one kid that's going to play this at my next concert and he played it at my last =3 it was amazing and i'm sure it's gonna be amazing again =] this piece is so pretty!! i ♥ it!! :D
The New York Phil recording is the only recording you will find where the French Horn solo at 3:02 is played all in one "breath" thanks to the second horn filling in so Myers can take a breath.
I love this piece so much. One thing I've never understood is how in 1865 when this was apparently written there is such a nod to jazz . Check out 5.34mins where he goes into jazz mode, is it just me or was he foreseeing a musical trend years before time ?
Do you mean stradivarius is a violin? No he made a lot of celli too, and Yo-yo ma owns the Davidov stradivarius and a Montagnana cello, so I was wondering wich cello he was playing on.
Cellogeek: I'm no expert, but the Davidov seems to have a high pitched flavor almost metalic undertones. I can't tell from the speakers on my computer which this is. I had the joy of hearing him play this in Hartford.
Id say the Montagnana. If you look closely, you can see how wide the cello is on the bottom. Also, how the cello looks a little shorter from top to bottom. Strads are longer, and have a slightly smaller bottom. And Montagnanas produce a more bass-like tone on the bottom two strings.
Yo Yo Ma is fantastic. He just plays majestically well with the right note. I really feel he is really playing with his soul. Hw is just the greastest!
I have to say that I love this performance. While I prefer Rostropovich's on here, Ma is brilliant as always. The orchestra sounds wonderful as well. All this considered I think my favorite part of this video is at 3:17-21. I play in 3 orchestras right now, and although I am a violinist, I have enormous respect for high caliber players of any of the instruments. Especially the brass. To do execute like in that spot is just breathtaking to me. It's without flaw.
To the sensless critics: Guys please! this is great, Rostropovich and Shafran also. What's wrong with that? We're talking about a standart that's amazing! You go do a performance of this level! Being humble in the face of great music-making helps, you know...
Really aweomse orchestra, and YoYo Ma is always great. It's really dynamic and all that, but I just don't like the piece itself as the Haydn or Elgar conerti
One of the best peices brought into this world. Great proformance. Of course, I prefer the Rostropovich version, but this is a great concert as well.
I am studying this peice, and come to realize that while great masters such as Ma and Rostropovich make it look so easy, it takes enourmous amounts of virtuosity and skill to master and preform a work like this. Truly a masterpeice.
I guess we're all entitled to an opinion, and I try always to be fair. On second thought, keep your pompous, spineless and banal opinion to yourself. Yo-Yo Ma is a genius.
again, you're a complete idiot trying to spoil someones reputation falsely either because you are a jealous and effete little person in this world that is full of hatrid and disgust because you suck at life. or that you are a complete dipshit fool. in this case you are both
The whole point of these youtube videos are for people to enjoy and critique. Thats why Yo-Yo is playing in the first place: for our enjoyment (the audience). Its almost our responsibility to respond and make comments. They don't always have to be nice...
ug, happy Joe's out of NYP. Sorry, but his playing is just so ugly.
omjeremy 6 days ago
A remarkably fierce intro...to an emotionally moving and dramatic dance in the moon light!!!! wavetherock
wavetherock 2 weeks ago
This is my absolute favorite classical piece, as a cellist and just as a musician in general. This truly inspires every creative fiber in my body. Yo Yo Ma's raw emotion definitely shines through in his playing. Dvorak is a musical genius, he will forever be my favorite composer. <3
mscakeinacup 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Wonderful!!!
marian444 2 months ago
AH 240p.... we meet again.
Raginggunfire 2 months ago
Oh...... Why can't I have tone as good as that?
greaterthanfan 4 months ago
yoyo ma makes hilarious bunny expressions
fwdcypher 6 months ago
@drunkwuv Don't make yourself self-righteous for it seems as if you match their pompousness. If people don't like this, they don't. If they do, they do. It's as simple as that. If you really feel this sort of performance, just ignore those that perceive this differently and enjoy. But if you feel the urge to refute those that find this unappreciative, maybe you don't appreciate classical music more than you make yourself to be.
dkwonism 7 months ago
I figured out Whiter Shade of Pale and the Legend of Zelda theme on guitar yesterday! Oh the things I'm forced to do when i don't start drinkin first thing in the mornin
Justen1980 7 months ago
Definitely one of the best works ever composed in history. So powerful.
Arainion 8 months ago
i notice as he was young in this one he didnt smile a lot
thataccentgamer 8 months ago
Yeah. Those animal food trough wipers can just go to their rooms with no supper!
supercalifragelistik 8 months ago
Damn Straight m00.. =]
KristoferKries 9 months ago
he really shouldve come out of a hole in the ground instead of having to sit there the entire intro
kinglyredlion 9 months ago 16
Yo Yo Ma
morphflow 9 months ago
Ahh playing this with my orchestra for our first concert :D
So excited
Shonargh 11 months ago
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Close your mouth, dirty Japanese Stupid Karatist!!!
Matuha751 1 year ago
one of the cellist used a german bow grip I believe.
ixion1741 1 year ago
truly divine
azazelloveful 1 year ago
if i was to go out to war, this is the song i would listen to right before
nilinar09 1 year ago
I love yoyo and oh my god, i love stanley soooo much too.
JeremiahBaker2 1 year ago
Bravíssimo....PARABÉNS!
Carlos33237 1 year ago
To all the people who are cursing at m00stifur, it is blatantly obvious that he is being sarcastic. Good job Mozarts!
AshleyMorris1000 1 year ago 2
Yes I did know that I was just saying that it amazes me that people say he is not a good musician!! And boy does he make that Montagnana sound absolutely amazing!!
cellofreak1229 1 year ago
who's conducting?
TheBassoonchk 1 year ago
Fantastic!!!!!
played with such feeling and emotion
take care
pegasus26 1 year ago
all music played the same, actually. but it is more or less known based on who's soul its performing....i would say yo yo ma is one of the popular ones.
thethinker133 1 year ago
amazing
cello7294 1 year ago
Simply amazing
Eskimviolin 1 year ago
I simply enjoy more rostropovich version.
ARIandINBI 1 year ago
Am i the only person who likes Hip-hop/Rap and Dvorak?
jburger360 1 year ago
@jburger360 nope
dromemaster7 1 year ago
@rebeccanubodys actually emily is right. i have encountered numerous professionals who hate mas technical style. my private teacher tells me to stop playing like him when ever my position is incorrect XD either way he is utterly fantastic :)
this is a beautiful piece, really lifts me up whenever i hear it :D
jewellcrye 1 year ago
Cello Concerto in B minor? 0:36 it should be in h minor
toofoo89 1 year ago
@toofoo89
h minor is only used in Germany.
B minor is the international term.
b-Moll in Germany would be B flat minor.
SystemBassist 1 year ago
those last two notes yoyo plays sends chills down my spine every time i hear them.
amazing stuff
golfygolfy 1 year ago
at 7:57 theres like, an undulating feeling to the music. or is it just me xD
theaivillage 1 year ago
Don't we all wish we could play this?
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What's really a tragedy here.. and evidenced by the comments... is that even in this sacred realm of music...people will still try to find a way to insult each other and if pushed a bit farther want to actually kill each other.
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What's really a tragedy here.. and evidenced by the comments... is that even in this sacred realm of music...people will still try to find a way to insult each other and if pushed a bit farther want to actually kill each other.
missionfarstar 1 year ago
This performance is legendary! Yo-yo ma's intonation, which is especially difficult in this concerto, is flawless.
Also in his playing, it sounds like his fingers, when they hit the fingerboard are being placed into pre-assigned frets....and it's so perfect that his sound sings above the orchestra's. It also helps that he plays on the same cello as Jacqueline DuPre used...the Davidoff. Not sure if this is the one he's using, but he has wonderful instruments and you can hear the difference.
dwayneparkerUSA 1 year ago
8:56-9:01 is just amazing. I want to know what that feels like, in that moment. You can just feel that climatic energy radiating from the screen. That moment, right there... that must be freedom.
MsBlackTie 1 year ago
this is beautiful, but I stili like Saint-Seans and Elgar better
Rin4Lizzie 1 year ago
7:41 That is just ridiculous. I can't even do that in my dreams...
SeraphThanatos 1 year ago
WHO DISLIKED THIS?! HOW can you dislike this???
blackriverthesecond 1 year ago 10
ew. i didn't like this very much. don't think i'll go on to part 2...
StopTheMoti0n 1 year ago
This piece is absolutely amazing! I love the way the orchestra focuses so much on their playing, like 3:40. Yo-Yo Ma rocks!
matthew888yellow 1 year ago 2
I really wish I could play this well it would be awesome. But listening to yo-yo play it is good enough it makes me happy.
maxxy6330 2 years ago 4
Excellent music. I thought the only place they made facial expressions like that were in Heavy metal. I was wrong, this is were it started.
2Blit 2 years ago 13
@2Blit hanging loose is the way to do it. it gives musicians character in their playing, we see their emotion as they play. and its their trademark to any type of fame. my vision of a cello artist is epic, face cringed from the blast of epicness due to epic playing, pieces of hair flying in the air from maximum shredding, spotlight, and audience camera angle
fosho415 3 months ago 2
This and Allegro Appasionata by Saint-Saens are the best concertos for the cello. I saw Yo-yo ma play this at the St. Louis Symphony, and it was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Long live yo yo ma!!!!)
cellocrazy1994 2 years ago 3
I can hear his New World Symphony in this
deathmonki666 2 years ago
where are the auto-tone vocals and elementary catch phrases? where are all the lyrics demeaning to women, homosexuals, and anyone coming from a poor background? how can i possibly enjoy music that i cannot sloppily dance to while intoxicated at a club? if only these guys were real musicians...
m00stifur 2 years ago 186
Oh, I bet we could manage to dance to this. :P
PChanmisao 1 year ago 3
@m00stifur - life must be pretty pointless and boring where you come from if you have enough time to sit around and mock other people's posts on youtube... Didn't your town recently get a new traffic light or street light for you to go look at and keep you entertained?
nielen1 1 year ago
@m00stifur You are my hero
LikidySplitz 1 year ago
@m00stifur Well actually, musicians don't have to be rock bands. I like them too, but this is different. It speaks music in a way without words.
miskaeune05 1 year ago
@m00stifur Some rappers are real musicians =/ They just don't usually get millions of dollars. Society makes people stupid and thus creates a demand for forms of entertainment that don't demand any thought to consume. It's just like electronic music; you have some musicians doing very repetitive drum loops and basslines strictly for raves and you have some people carrying the flag forward into the realm of what becomes possible when you can generate any sound mathematically. *Shrug*
isolateslowfaults 1 year ago
@m00stifur dont be so self righteous, its not healthy
Croyles 1 year ago
okay i'm flicking you off right now
11squirk 1 year ago
@m00stifur okay i'm flicking you off right now for that horrid comment
11squirk 1 year ago
@11squirk
His comment is pure sarcasm, if you cannot get it then i am sorry for you.
Voidrend 1 year ago
@m00stifur You sir, are a man who knows where his towel is.
umbilicalelephant 1 year ago
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@m00stifur You sir, are a man who knows where his towel is.
umbilicalelephant 1 year ago
@m00stifur .... You Sir, are a man who knows where his towel is.
umbilicalelephant 1 year ago
@m00stifur Ha! You call that dancing?
SillySantaHat 1 year ago
@m00stifur But I don't know about the lyrics demeaning people from a poor background, considering that many of the musicians in question seem to have come from poor backgrounds themselves. Anyway the music on the radio is no good, at least I can find comfort in the fact that I am not the only one that feels this way. I guess the ironic thing is that many of the fans of the stuff you are talking about are poor as well. Some people just don't know...
SillySantaHat 1 year ago
@m00stifur dude, shut up
teofthe1 1 year ago
@m00stifur Are you saying that these guys are bad? or are you just being sarcastic?
findyourfreedom14 1 year ago
@m00stifur I like your breed of ignorance more than that of those pesky blacks
Comprised 1 year ago
@m00stifur I actually really hate your attitude. Beauty exists in many forms, and you are only as good as you are able to appreciate that.
Comprised 1 year ago
@Comprised i dont think you get his sarcasm
malerockdemon2 1 year ago
@malerockdemon2 You are retarded. I am addressing the point he is making with that sarcasm. Also, you are gay.
Comprised 1 year ago
@Comprised idk you make no sense to me your immature yet you try and get your point across by being racist, he wasnt being racist he was stating a fact that music nowadays or just mainstream doesnt take much effort to impress anyone. Also, you are gay.
malerockdemon2 1 year ago
@malerockdemon2 I was addressing the racist undertones of his smug ass comment ironically. Also, racism and immaturity are congruous, so..?
My problem here is m00stifur's dinosauric rejection of music he doesn't understand, and the way he postures as a sophisticate through that rejection. It's like he is listening to Dvorak to spite lil wayne. You are a fucking idiot, too.
Comprised 1 year ago
@Comprised yumadtho?
malerockdemon2 1 year ago
@malerockdemon2 lol ya
Comprised 1 year ago
@m00stifur what the heck are you talking about?
MrViolinGuy 8 months ago
@MrViolinGuy Have you never listened to popular music (Especially rap, short for crap)? The more mindless,simple and trashy it is, the more popular it is! That's what m00stifur is talking about. If Mozart or Bach etc. were here they would think they were on the planet of the apes!
supercalifragelistik 8 months ago
@m00stifur I love classical music so much, it pains me to hear people say this kind of stuff on classical music videos, you're giving classical music listeners this visage of being better than other music. I'm a music student at a great music school and I play in orchestras and love the operas of Wagner, baroque oratorios and the emotion of Brahms and Mahler, but I get excited over new music. Not all new music is demeaning, a lot is very uplifting and positive. I understand where you're coming f
Moonmatt2 6 months ago
@Moonmatt2 I believe m00stifur is making a funny, indirect reference to a specific genre of modern music, most likely Mtv productions like Kesha, Spears, Lil' wayne, Lil' Jon, and they're friend Little Jack ;), and not modern music in general, and I must say on that point I wholeheartedly agree with him.
SirDanOfHell 5 months ago
Chills and tears in my eyes ...
QueenZelma 2 years ago 3
breathtaking!! ... the camera should remain focus on the last bow movement .... it should be the most impressive and the final release of the tension created ....
maxshng 2 years ago 2
Wow, this is an amazing piece. Gives me goosebumps =P
122ace 2 years ago 2
Dvorak is best, vivat czech republic. J.Filip (czech)
Eiffelos 2 years ago 4
wikipedia says this is the most recorded/played cello concerto proffessoinaly
ringwraith2021 2 years ago
I didn't know that, thanks for the info
It is very clear why
lriccc 2 years ago
wats that instrument at 3:12? it has a sweet sound
videoposter1410 2 years ago
french horn
rommeltw 2 years ago
yes it is a french horn. and composers often gave the french horn significant solos in cello concertos ie. in the shostakovich cello concerto
Nathanmay2012 2 years ago
french horn
hwuman 2 years ago
@ videoposter1410: at 3:12 it's a french horn.
pocketmonkey101 2 years ago
french horn
Galatians324 2 years ago 5
yeeeeah!
schoblinsky 1 year ago 5
from what i know, yo yo yo almost sliced the concert master's face into half XD
ngexpert 2 years ago
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Not sure I could listen to a whole evening of this, especially wearing a suit :|
kingmazza86 2 years ago
Id have to agree, although its always a mater of opinion, listening to this makes me feel like im watching a Star Wars movie....not my cup of tea (the movies or this piece, lol)
Kintulop 2 years ago
Hmm... it does have kind of an epic science fiction-ish sound to it at times. I like it a lot though. The moments of calm in between the fast music makes it for me.
Elensila2718 2 years ago
Well back in the day it was THE entertainment. There were no TVs. So basically the music had to take you on a ride with your own imagination. :)
Aerien 2 years ago
hes maybe one of the last really outstandig cello players in the world... :)
FreddieMercury1212 2 years ago
I am happy that I have meet Yo-yo Ma in Kennedy center for his silkroad tour. My son is also name Yo-yo but the second sound is different meaning, My son's name mean " having friend ", Mr. Ma is "Friend-Friend". He can play western and Asian music wonderfully.
quarstrongforce 2 years ago 3
incredible
injenieus 2 years ago 3
I can't believe poeple can sit there and say they don't enjoy Yo-Yo Ma and how he plays!! This guy is freakin amazing!! Simply Outstanding!!!
cellofreak1229 2 years ago 56
@cellofreak1229 i love this concerto but i am not a fan out yo yo ma's version of it. he is a fantastic player but his version of this piece just doesn't fit for me.
itsumonihon 1 year ago
@cellofreak1229 The reason they say they don't like him isn't (generally) because of his sound but because of his technique. Don't get me wrong, he changed my life and he is probably is the most humble person around, but his technique is "technically wrong" because of his size. He's a smaller guy and his hands look like those of violinist, so he has to do things which you wouldn't want to necessarily teach an up and coming student. He makes it work though :)
Emilyemacook 1 year ago
@Emilyemacook you sound like such a fool...lol
rebeccanubodys 1 year ago
@cellofreak1229 if you played the cello, youd probably know that he also is a great actor - and one of the best cellists...
SirToby21 1 year ago
Hey Everybody! ParkSlopeYuppyToilet is stupid, Just that... He wants attention, stop giving it to him.... let's enjoy Dvorak Concerto,... it's better than the Alicia Keys music he likes...
sjmh280491 2 years ago
OHHHMMYYYGOOOSSHHH
i love this piece!!!!!!!!!
only yo yo ma can perform it like this <3
auroraalice616 2 years ago
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Oh please, who the heck does that Asian guy think he is, acting like such a big shot. He's no one special, playing this Mickey Mouse music.
ParkSlopeYuppyToilet 2 years ago
who the fuck are you? I'm guessing you are a low life who doesn't apprecite classical music. dumb fuck
2008schrumSte 2 years ago 2
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Don't worry about who I am, idiot. I could be Itzhak Perlman for all you know.
My point was that this loser Asian dude "Yo-Yo" or whatever his name is, is walking around like he's God's gift to mankind, meanwhile he doesn't even write his own music. What a joke.
ParkSlopeYuppyToilet 2 years ago
Loser? he is one of the greatest musicians alive. What if he doesn't write his own music? does that affect his playing? Do all musicians have to write their own music? What a retard~~
2008schrumSte 2 years ago 3
If you can't play it as well as he can play it then STFU. If you can play it as well as he can play it, then you wouldnt be spending your time here dissing someone who is making the cello more popular and thus enhancing your employment prospects. Tard.
bckm54 2 years ago
Wow, you are a fucking tard. Not all musicians write their own music you know.
LVAzippy 2 years ago
sure, and the Alicia Keys is not Mickey Mouse Music... but still being garbage... jaja
sjmh280491 2 years ago
go yo-yo
doranthefish 2 years ago 2
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The dude playing the standing violin is a complete homo.
Luckilius 2 years ago
haha
BonoManolo 2 years ago
"standing violin", who the hell do you think you are.
First, go learn some BASIC musical knowledge before commenting, THEN bugger off and go play Halo 3, you'll fit in perfectly with the 8 year olds and the 21 year old retards.
(comment at "Luckilius")
generallyanony 2 years ago
The bass and cello part at 2:20 reminds me of a part in the Mozart Clarinet concerto.
muzacallysound 2 years ago
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also, am i the only one to notice that guys are always the best at everything? i mean seriously. there's always the best - for example- the bets girl runner, but a guy will always be faster. . .
D; yo-yo ma is a guy, and he is the best; obviously better than jacqueline du pre, because he's a genious.
D; i just thought i should point that out. . . O.o
rofl i had to post two comments since the whole thing didn't fit in one. . XDD
rawritssami 2 years ago
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cassandra5322 2 years ago
guys in general tend to- i unno have a natural ability to do things that girls can't do as well but you know what, when that girl's 98 and the guy's 98, we'll find that the guy has died years ago and the girls still living XD
samuelkim1 2 years ago
"thanks for the thumbs down people, key word: IF, im just saying yo yo ma's rendition is quite good.
cassandra5322 2 years ago
thanks for the thumbs down people . . . rofl i thought rostropovich did better; for one thing because he knew the piece better and knew different way to play it, while on the other hand, yo-yo bluntly admitted to having trouble experimenting on this piece.
rawritssami 2 years ago
you're sort of pissing me off
every single cello player has a different way of playing a piece, and yoyo has his own style. he might not have had the easiest time experimenting with this but still, it was better than so many people who can play it. definitely. and personally, i think his sound is amazingly beautiful and that its pointless and stupid to say that so-and-so sounded better in their rendition. i mean, who cares that much?
S00xD 2 years ago 5
i wasn't putting him down for anything.
i absolutely love yo-yo.
i posted that saying he had trouble, because just watching and hearing him makes it seems like he can do anything without a problem. Then when you hear he's having some trouble it makes you think he more normal and maybe you could play like him.
that's what it did to me at least.
rawritssami 2 years ago
oh my goodness! i love this piece. i know one kid that's going to play this at my next concert and he played it at my last =3 it was amazing and i'm sure it's gonna be amazing again =] this piece is so pretty!! i ♥ it!! :D
denisej242 2 years ago
nevermind. figured it out.
hornchick220 2 years ago
who plays 1st horn here?
hornchick220 2 years ago
i have to be honest.
i thought rostropovich played this piece better but around 5:46 and before that was amazing.
rawritssami 2 years ago
The New York Phil recording is the only recording you will find where the French Horn solo at 3:02 is played all in one "breath" thanks to the second horn filling in so Myers can take a breath.
Rcoppin91 2 years ago
Sheer awesomeness.
erichsu95 2 years ago
Myers plays with his eyebrows, his lips don't even move
shib340 2 years ago 3
This melts my heart...
RicardoMonterey 2 years ago
He makes it look so easy, but just think of all the hours of practice he put into this. Wow.
cellomaestro101 2 years ago
this song is so well orchestrated (and really fun to play)
scottbrogan00 3 years ago 2
WOW!! Wonderful Performance!! And this is 100% sure his Montagnana cello!
cellofreak1229 3 years ago
Kurt Masur is a fucking genius!
muurtalo 3 years ago
I love this piece so much. One thing I've never understood is how in 1865 when this was apparently written there is such a nod to jazz . Check out 5.34mins where he goes into jazz mode, is it just me or was he foreseeing a musical trend years before time ?
algreensurdo 3 years ago
i think you interpret too much
it's not that jazzy, so it wouldn't fit in the time
TreeGem 2 years ago
this is not only amazing but the stage is. My orchestra played there for the National Orchesta Cup.
beautyinmusic 3 years ago
I wish this was the full recording. Breathtaking. The french horn player is goddamn sexy.
cjevnise 3 years ago 4
midwinterMike
God's last name is not damn.
mlhardin 3 years ago
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shut up. lol
darklordsmiley 3 years ago 3
had no idea i like him so much
gggggggod 3 years ago
Which cello does he play on? Is it the Montaganana or the Stradivarius?
cellogeek95 3 years ago
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stradivarius id a violin
Pros4cello 3 years ago
Do you mean stradivarius is a violin? No he made a lot of celli too, and Yo-yo ma owns the Davidov stradivarius and a Montagnana cello, so I was wondering wich cello he was playing on.
cellogeek95 3 years ago 2
Cellogeek: I'm no expert, but the Davidov seems to have a high pitched flavor almost metalic undertones. I can't tell from the speakers on my computer which this is. I had the joy of hearing him play this in Hartford.
sccadu 3 years ago
Id say the Montagnana. If you look closely, you can see how wide the cello is on the bottom. Also, how the cello looks a little shorter from top to bottom. Strads are longer, and have a slightly smaller bottom. And Montagnanas produce a more bass-like tone on the bottom two strings.
makuletboy 3 years ago
Hmm, Davidov? Really? To whom did the Dolphin Stradivarius go to, then?
chriseok 3 years ago
its amazing how he vibrates on the trills while 3/4 down the instrument
siddharth9200 3 years ago
fantasticly played, as usual.
lol at 8.59, very emotional...
lorenzarthur91 3 years ago
yeah he's all right ;)
wonderful performance as always. truly inspiring and makes me reallllllllly feel like i need to practice :)!
cellomikel29 3 years ago
Estoy de acuerdo. Es porque él es un musición muy increíble y apasionado.
joyfulforHim 3 years ago 2
Yo-Yo es uno de los más grandes
reneplatini 3 years ago
hahaha while yoyo ma's playing, the cellist next to him is like "wow hes making me look bad" xD
xdivinebladex 3 years ago 3
Yo Yo Ma is fantastic. He just plays majestically well with the right note. I really feel he is really playing with his soul. Hw is just the greastest!
vicentevivancos 3 years ago 3
I have to say that I love this performance. While I prefer Rostropovich's on here, Ma is brilliant as always. The orchestra sounds wonderful as well. All this considered I think my favorite part of this video is at 3:17-21. I play in 3 orchestras right now, and although I am a violinist, I have enormous respect for high caliber players of any of the instruments. Especially the brass. To do execute like in that spot is just breathtaking to me. It's without flaw.
fiddlinmatt 3 years ago
Yo Yo Ma plays with so much power and passion, that even listening to this crappy youtube recording, i feel awestruck and am left speechless
greendayrocks333 3 years ago 8
lol crappy youtube recording...
XxLUVLYmiixX 3 years ago
tbh this is better than rostropovich's (or however you spell it) interprtation. That and thats Jacke Du pres cello!
supergaymonster 3 years ago
One of the greatest cello concerto's done by one of the greatest Cellist.
macksteinberg 3 years ago 3
To the sensless critics: Guys please! this is great, Rostropovich and Shafran also. What's wrong with that? We're talking about a standart that's amazing! You go do a performance of this level! Being humble in the face of great music-making helps, you know...
pichat1 3 years ago
Really aweomse orchestra, and YoYo Ma is always great. It's really dynamic and all that, but I just don't like the piece itself as the Haydn or Elgar conerti
Ilikemycello 3 years ago 3
One of the best peices brought into this world. Great proformance. Of course, I prefer the Rostropovich version, but this is a great concert as well.
I am studying this peice, and come to realize that while great masters such as Ma and Rostropovich make it look so easy, it takes enourmous amounts of virtuosity and skill to master and preform a work like this. Truly a masterpeice.
vuxta1 3 years ago 6
The Rostropovich/Karajan recording, to me, is as definitive as Du Pre's Elgar recording.
mrn93 3 years ago
i love the passion on ma's face as he plays
he gets so into it
its awesome
wildeness16 3 years ago 9
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He's really to agressive in his play....I'd rather prefer Rostropovitch version. Not good, NOT GOOD at all.
yipicayeah 3 years ago
I guess we're all entitled to an opinion, and I try always to be fair. On second thought, keep your pompous, spineless and banal opinion to yourself. Yo-Yo Ma is a genius.
jeffporper 3 years ago 5
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I think that your conclusion means much ignorance in the world of classical music. try again.
yipicayeah 3 years ago
again, you're a complete idiot trying to spoil someones reputation falsely either because you are a jealous and effete little person in this world that is full of hatrid and disgust because you suck at life. or that you are a complete dipshit fool. in this case you are both
xXTiberiusXx 3 years ago 3
The whole point of these youtube videos are for people to enjoy and critique. Thats why Yo-Yo is playing in the first place: for our enjoyment (the audience). Its almost our responsibility to respond and make comments. They don't always have to be nice...
cellolover94 2 years ago 5
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shut up and listen......
filfanmarfot 2 years ago
I've been listening to this for the past 5 minutes. What am I listening for again?
cellolover94 2 years ago