Bach Chaconne for Four Cellos 

I agree with you. That's a good review

For being a violin, your are very articulate!

You are correct.

Peter Ozsvath where did you find the music? Next time you come to Dallas, let me know and we can play it!

Creo entenderte, la música de Bach es un pozo de sentimientos muy profundo de donde podemos en los momentos de angustia o de reflexiòn acudir para calmar nuestra sed...

Daniel Gordon Yale cellos of Aldo Parisot. Wonderful recording.

Howwwwly shit. Thank you so much for mentioning this ! God may bless Brahms.

@@rusticagenerica I certainly bless Brahms. A stroke has left me, at least for an indeterminant time, restricted to the use of my left hand (on the piano.) I can still play this, which is more than the majority of humanity can say.

That's not how this stuff works. He wrote it for violin, people do whatever they want to arrange things like this after he made it. Just like almost ANY other classical piece.

By the time Bach was nearing death he practically used music as a universal expression of patterns that needed not one specific instrument -- just ones that were suitable. The chaconne, however, is clearly written as a piece for one performer to demonstrate their prowess in baroque technicalities and highly emotive phrase choices. It is a mourning love song.

You’d need a microphone for each cellist plus others to record it in proper stereo - as well as sound engineers. Unfortunately classical music is under appreciated and under paid compared to most crap which is recorded in the highest of qualities

Interesante explicación... Solo una cosa:sinceramente no creo que Bach nesecitara del teclado para componer, creo que fluídamente escribiese sus composiciónes directamente sobre papel como uno hace para escribir una carta y del resto Como hacía Mozart.

It doesn't sound quite the same! When you play stacked notes (like in Bach's Chaconne), you actually hit the low string (which continues to vibrate after removing your bow, as low notes do) and then play the two higher notes right after so that it gives the illusion of playing three notes at a time (which can be very difficult and requires a certain level of technique in string switching). It should also be noted that this transcription is much fuller than the original piece because the cellos have been written in to harmonize with the melody.

on four strings bre 🙉

Yes, it should be played more!

thank you! christ people, just listen and refrain from subjecting us to your predictably annoying musical commentary

i agree!!!

Besides, it's not as if they are sitting in the concert hall listening to them. How many degrees of separation between the music and the listener's ear? Can you quantify that in a critique?

Yes. The Christ people are very annoying. Every Bach piece is coated with comments about God.

If you have found it, could you please let me know from where

+Brian W. Costigan i understand your feeling about the arpeggio section, however if you adjust the mindset a specific way, it sounds brilliant. if you view this as the arpeggio accompanying the "main theme", then it sounds almost something like a prelude to a great battle. it hints at a mystery and power. I encourage you to listen one more time to see what you think. ----- Just another Violist

I definitely agree. This arrangement gets better and better the more you listen to it; especially if you are familiar with Bach chaconne in D minor. It's as if each Cellist takes charge of one of the Violin stings as the Chaconne unfolds. Visually its amazing too as you see the music flow from player to player in parallel and in tandem. Much more expanded version of the Chaconne. Well done !

sad thing it's out of focus >< but I agree on the playing

Nope. I'm wrong: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Varga_(cellist)

never cite Wikipedia as a source

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+Andrey Denisenko this arrangement is sold on "ovation press" website

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Thereon Inarek Couldn’t have said it better.

I'd go the word "intense" rather than "violent" but that's a minor nitpick. To me, the Chaconne is prog rock: full on; fast, slow, loud, soft, stormy and yes, for a few seconds, lullabye. It's why I love Genesis' "Supper's Ready" and "Watcher of the Skies". Similarly Beethoven's Ninth ... superb edge and yet at times ultimate serenity. No syrup. The dynamics of this quad version runs from 3-7: it's missing edge.

moonriseset Edge may not be something that the group intended their rendition to have. You’re allowed to interpret music however you want. If there isn’t record of it from performances when the composer directed the orchestra, etc., then we have no idea of how the piece is “supposed” to sound. Even still, if we know exactly how the composer wished the piece be played, one of the beauties of music is that is allowed to be, and is different depending on the artist. Music isn’t supposed to be played exactly the same in every performance. This group decided to interpret it differently than you and the original commenter do, and that’s perfectly fine. This Chaconne is NOT a lullaby. It is not violent, not intense, not heavy metal-like, not a ballad, not intense. It CAN be all of those things, but there is certainly no restriction.

Terry Jones you are absolutely right about interpretation. I remember reading how Glenn Gould argued with a living composer that a particular phrase or speed was *wrong* but the composer said that's what is in my head! I guess all i can say is that to *me* I need this to be played with intensity.

Jay Preis That’s, my point. The composer is not here himself to tell us how to play the piece so it is up to us to do so. You are not the composer, so you have no authority to instruct someone else on how to play the piece, or any piece. You can drop this musical superiority nonsense; you are not a musical genius to be obeyed at a single word. Your opinion is worth as much as mine, meaning nothing.

Exactly

It's not just easyer to play each part separately, it makes possible to emphasize expression over virtuosity! That is what makes it so beautiful, to me (I played the original on violin and now play ,with more enjoyment, the cello)

Do you make it a habit not to read the description? Brian Thornton, Cleveland Orchestra Member Jennifer Son, Student guest artist Jared Blajian, Student guest artist Melissa Kraut, Faculty Cleveland Institute of Music

Well, Leopold Stokowski made a pretty good orchestral arrangement of this piece which I like, but I agree with you that this arrangement just doesn't seem to fully work for some reason. To me the "extra" parts are rather redundant and often serve to merely distract and detract from the main theme by adding unnecessary color and depth to a beautiful melody, one which already contains a lot of internal harmonies, that is chord structure, tension, dissonance and resolution within the melody itself. And as you say, the work generally loses its essence, which I'd argue is the technical virtuosity of a soloist, something which is pretty much entirely lost here.