A. Dvorak- Silent woods (Yo-Yo Ma)

love it, perfect. enough said

thank you jirzy for this video!!! great music, great performance and great cellist!!!

I just started playing this piece. I don't think its that bad... knowing scales and such really helps. Dvorak does write in odd keys, but its what makes his music fun to play.

any one have any idea why Dvorak always wrote in awkward keys for string players? He seemed to like keys like Dflat. Any key that's not too resonant he seemed to go for with string music in particular

Hey you might be on to something there - too much sympathetic string resonance and you send an audience to sleep! Play it in the flats and there's subtle background tension with the slightly vibrating open strings.

I don't know really, only that Joe Pass said don't play solo jazz guitar tunes in E or A as you will fall asleep!

I talked my teacher into letting me do this one for contest because it was a Dvorak, that was before I knew it was in Dflat. lol! I make my life so much harder than it has to be. It's a beautiful piece and I shall leave it on repeat with the hope of the key somehow magically working itself into my brain. What's that you say? Practice? You traditionalists! Cannot wait until I can play this.

If a key can stop you in your tracks then you can't really play as well as you think.. or have really grasped the music.. What if there was no sheet music? Keys are just relative to one another & because most people have much more practice (though they don't really realize it) with the "simpler" keys it's often hard for them to grasp other keys. Practice is key.. and you just can't take it easy there. Gotta know all the keys like they're a part of you.

It's called humor. Of course this is a difficult piece and Yo Yo Ma is the grand master. You guys must be 15 years old...

Good luck, prick.

Yeah im a bass player and played this... Yeah its a pretty challengin piece because of the key its in! But i rocked it =*)