Tolstoy famously wept when he first heard this piece. Tchaikovsky was sat next to him at the time and later said it was the proudest moment of his life. Thank God for music that elevates the spirit :)
@Joe Bauer, The arrangement for cello and orchestra of Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile was undertaken by the composer himself for the cellist Anatoly Brandukov when Tchaikovsky was in Paris for his Parisian concerts in 1888.
This must be one of the greatest A.C. ever played live or record of all time. She took this master piece of her own - completely digested to present a genuinely recreated her own A.C. What really impressed is those prolonged phrases at many slower curves - going even slower but never a dull moments but chilling tensions bringing the deepest heart and souls out. When the final high pitch slow phrase is over, she appears to have nothing left in her inner - she succeeded pouring all of her sours & sprits out for this great performance.
I like her performance very much. She seems to put all her soul into the music. Very moving. This is the first time I listened to her performance and will look for her from now on. Bravo, Han Na!
Loved that end note. Looked like she was biting back a tear at the end. Nice. Easily one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for any instrument. It's so crazy that my favorite piece for Piano, Violin and Cello are all Tchaikovsky. That dude knew how to rock a quill and some parchment!
Absolutely exquisite. The embodiment of musical genius displayed by this young woman!! Thank you for sharing as this is one of my all-time favorite musical works by the great Peter I. Tchaikovsky!!!
When I listen to her calm music I find myself always in purgatory surrounded by shadowed sadness and cannot but looking upon the blue sky without power. The music of truth. This world consists of saddness. Our cloth, our food, our house, our family our contry cosist of saddness.
Late nineties Han-na bowled me over with her debut recording. Much later I realised how incredibly young she was then. Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Bruch, it's a spectacular album.
Marvelous expression. A great cellist. Far superior to the guy on a string. About distractions for the audience: I got kicked out of a choir for this same reason. I was told to be less emotional as I sang. Perhaps we should tell performers to be less passionate about their music.
Paul D I think Lesley meant in the description; this is the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's string quartet #1, arranged for cello + orchestra, and thus, not a Haydn cello concerto :)
superb performance! I do wish she (and so many other classical musicians) could do away with the overly dramatic facial contortions, almost to the point of being NSFW. Really a distraction for me. I usually close my eyes when I'm at a concert and the musician gets a little too graphic.
I play cello and while I agree that musicians moving around or contorting their faces too much takes away from the music, from my experience it isn't always controllable. People tell me I get very a very intense expression when I'm playing with others, and I can't control it and usually am not aware. When playing a solo, I often get so... lost(?) that I stop controlling my facial muscles and probably have all kinds of weird expressions. Not saying that that's the case for everyone, because I've seen some players who are almost jumping out of their seats whenever they play a single note, but not all musicians react to playing the same way.
If you are saying that she is acting that's unproveable. I believe these musicians genuinely get caught up in the emotional beauty of the music and in a trance like dream carry us with them. Never a "distraction" to me.
Marvelous expression. A great cellist. Far superior to the guy on a string. About distractions for the audience: I got kicked out of a choir for this same reason. I was told to be emotional as I sang. Perhaps we should tell performers to be less passionate about their music.
