Rabbath plays Breiz

A clip from Art of the Bow (really good DVD to own)

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Music

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• Rabbath
• Breiz
• Double
• Bass

[stridegum1213]

I quit.

[0chizhikpizhik0]

my comment wasnt about violinists in particular, or violinists vs. bass players,

rather about what is and is not a high standard of string playing/music making. sorry that wasnt clear.

in the big picture of music making/string players, etc, this equates to a study, etude, or bowing exercise, both technically and musically. these are the reasons that this clip doesnt hold my interest.

[felixkail]

@0chizhikpizhik0 get informed! the fact that rabbath use the same bowing in all the piece is because this piece tak its inspiration from trad music: music from "bretagne" in french or "Breiz" in breton...

So it is perfectly correct to use such bow techniques repeatedly ! and here the musicality is perfect...

classical music player need to stop looking at their belly button! here you talk about this like it's a classical music piece ! and it's not !

it's trad ! and trad is played like this !

[arondrusek]

Playing this for my solo performance at TMEA. I'm so physced.

[KISIMOV]

this man is awesome!!

[CarlosMacMartin]

I don't care what all the Simandl proponents say about Maestro Rabbath.The man is

awesome and untouchable! Now bring the noise!

[NatalievandenHurk]

I saw Francois play this at the Adelaide town hall a few years back when he were doing master classes. It was the most amazing concert of my life.

[zivot3]

You don't require more practicing just focused practicing, that's it Regardless the bow hold. Rabbath is a composer. Criticizing is good if its positive. Check out paganini capriccio 24 on bass, here on you tube. Catalin Rotaru is amazing.

[zivot3]

I disagree on German vs French being easier than latter one on bow control. If you want to play a passage like this just do Sevcik op.2 book and op.3 you can do whatever bow technique you want spiccato volante and other stuff. Just start slowly and move it up a notch every time. Just do these books and believe me they are not hard at all. You can buy the cello versions, (by the way I'm a bass player to German style), which are better than the the crappy Bass editions.

[zivot3]

Yes Rabbath is not a violinist, but this supposed breaktrough or his own bow style is nothing new and its not his. His bow hold was applied by cellist Andre Navarra, a long time before Rabbath and his arm position as well. Which by the way is almost 100% similar to Galamians violin teaching principals.

[aznpride23407]

yes. king of the french bow.

Isn't playing an Etude much better than playing a normal piece for showing how accomplished he isbecause Etudes are meant to practice the technical aspects of musicality?

And Rabbath is not a composer either is he? No he's a bass player. He plays what he needs to play and wants to play to become a better bass player.

Unless you play bass better than him, I suggest you stop criticizing his work. He didn't make this video to show off, someone else did.