Alan Harris Cello Vibrato Tips

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[tullochgorum]

How refreshing - a YouTube cello technique video from someone who actually knows what he's talking about! More please...

[nickross101]

nice teddy bear

[gehersh]

This is unlike the suzuki guy, abject opposite. More people should be watching this.

[gehersh]

This concentration on the left hand is making my bow arm jealous. More Bow!! and Buoyancy!!

[estinn46voler]

i play cello and the rocking motion is much harder for me

[1ilovecello]

i don't like this video

[Equifish]

At 3:50 I was like Damn!

[jkimcello]

@SatchmoSings While you have shown me very good examples of excellent performance practice, I could easily post a recording of both Toscanini and Furtwangler in which the orchestras use tons of vibrato in addition to the ever famous (tasteless) expressive sliding.

Most great musicians CAN play without vibrato and most do when it's called for but when we have an excellent tool for expressing the intent of the music, why shouldn't we use it?

[SatchmoSings]

@jkimcello While I don't have that 1929 recording of Toscanini and the NY Phil doing the "Clock" symphony, here's Furtwangler again doing Haydn's Symphony no. 94.

I can handily see why Toscanini, with difficulty, could admit that Furtwangler was great; he certainly gets the performance practice pretty darn correct.

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Where's Waldo? WHERE'S THE VIBRATO? lol!

[SatchmoSings]

@jkimcello In the interim, Here's a 1930 recording of the strings of The Berlin Philharmonic playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; the performance practices on this recording is quite correct in many ways.

[SatchmoSings]

@jkimcello I still maintain that's it's some stupid, reflexive habit; try playing expressively WITHOUT IT and then you're a REAL musician.

[SatchmoSings]

@jkimcello How can I tell from a 1929 recording that the Phil wasn't using any vibrato?

Well, I may have overstated it however the answer is very simple; I LISTENED to the recording!

bY way of a better example, I found a recording of Bach's Brandenburg No. 3 that is correctly played this way; let me look for it and I'll get back to you.