Absolutely brilliant cello playing and cannot find further words for it. My Father flew missions in Italy during WW11 and wrote home how he lived for the time he would be home and getting his fingers in shape to play this. He loved this and his passion for playing this again got him through the war.
My Dad was a war time fighter pilot and commanded a Wing over D Day and met my Mother in Antwerp and I was born in Bern where he was the Air Attache and she loved all sort of music including Piaf and Django Reihnhart and all classical music
One of the most often played pieces by Boccherini, together with the so famous minuetto. Boccherni's procuction is indeed spendid. RealIy is a pity that it is so rarely performed.
The harmony and the cello sound are amazing. The Boccherini music is so agreeable and relaxing that allows us to gain forces for the hard life days. Congratulations to the outstanding cellist.
How can anyone Not Like this? The setting is beautiful, the musicians scrubbed and lovely to look at and the music..What can I say? How fortunate I am to sit here in the comfort of my own home, over half a world away and watch those elegant fingers fly over those cello strings hitting each note with a precision I envy..transported away I am, only wish I had discovered this a long time ago Cheers to every one Tineke
Beautiful, fresh, and so well-crafted. Phillips is an amazingly gifted cellist who expertly navigates the music with poignancy and depth. The orchestra, crisp and transparent, delightful in their support of the soloist.
First time I know about Xavier Phillips, and what a surprise! Great musicality. A real pleasure to listen! Also, great performance of the orcherstra, full of charm.
I was married to a classical guitarist, and musicians really do give their lives to playing this beautifully and powerfully. Thank you, M. Phillips, and messer citrazzo, for sharing.
Boccherini was a famous cellist who was engaged by the royal family of Spain, where he composed a lot of works putting the cello forward, such as for instance quintets for two cellos (one having a soloist part), one alto and two violins, which he could play with a local string quat rtet. When he could have an orchestra, he composed cello concertos, among which this one which is the best known. It is certainly his best known with the famous minuetto (which is extracted from one of the quintets described upwards). Probably the melodic ulaity of its themes explains his celebrity.
For me the educational value of this site is amazing. I had never heard this piece before and it is enchanting. Partially that is due to the excellent performers.
Bravo sir, with much clapping, stamping and whistling. Consider this a private standing ovation! The name of Goffriller is, of course, inextricably linked with Pablo Casals. You, as did he, made the beautiful instrument sing and sigh to perfection. Bene meritum.
Este hombre estaba dotado de un talento y una genialidad que lo sitúan entre los grandes compositores de la historia. Muchas gracias messer citrazzo. Un saludo cordial desde España.
La perfección del cello y su ejecución creo que alcanza límites inalcanzables. Mi aplauso en el silencio de la noche camino de la madrugada donde esta música suena más honda y sublime. Enhorabuena.
Mr. Boccherini held only two "real" jobs in his entire life: career diplomat, and cellist. At the time, I doubt very many people could have imagined that his night gig would be the one that had the potential to save the human race. The people of Italy need and deserve our support. I'm not sure what we can do to help them, but our amoral and STOOOPYD medical establishment had better think of something FAST! As for Luigi Boccherini's life and art, if the live performances, records and videos that he has inspired can make it a little bit easier for his people to endure life in isolation, that too will be a literally lifesaving blessing!
And Boccherini is, well I find in performance , one composer who really appears to stay within a certain range for many of his cello pieces. I love that Bb6 , it's awesome ! Push the instrument... we can get a good 4 1/2 octaves out of it; superb.
While he may not be the first cellist composer to write at such high register he definitely is one of the first to do so, and apparently cello finger boards have been lengthened to modern standards due to demands of musicians like Boccherini . His contemporary like A. Kraft, who is a bit younger also writes at very high register. Note extensive use of thumb position. though not new, has become a common technique in his music. I also wonder high much Haydn knows about Boccherini as his own cello concertos are quite similar too. There is also Hammer, who apparently has influenced or worked with Haydn too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Hammer, and he probably also wrote cello music at super high register too.
its not that bad, especially because above the fingerboard, you must play in a harmonic series, which does include that Bb6. If you listen to the quasi cadenza right after the opening of the 4th mvmt in the Elgar Cello Concerto, it goes to the A right underneath Bb6 which is just as hard. Elgar wrote this concerto MUCH after Boccherini. The cadenza here is by Maurice Gendron who is also quite modern, like Elgar. You'll notice that after Rostropovich expanded the repertoire of the cello, its range expanded as well.
Thank you. Hearing this beautiful work again after years. I had remembered the music but not d name of the work. I shall now look out for more works of this composer.
Che bella interpretazione! E che sollievo ascoltare finalmente il nono concerto di Boccherini attingendo alla sua autentica scrittura, abbandonati definitivamente - io spero - gli appesantimenti di un Grutzmancher che pretendeva di ...... perfezionare un genio.
The cadenzas are by Maurice Gendron. I remember totally falling in love with Gendron's Boccherini Concertos as a teenager-which is 35 years ago!!! I then went to the closest music store and bought the sheet music of his versions of the Concertos and tried playing them -I was amazed, how playable they actually were. Boccherini knew how to make his instrument shine... Then I bought a book of all of Gendron's cadenzas - and they were great fun too! Not as hard as they look, but hard enough...
@Hooty he’s a 20th century cellist so I don’t think they’ll be public domain. If you can afford it there’s a book sold by Ficks music with his cadenzas for a bunch of pieces including Schumann, Boccherini, Haydn D, and Tchaikovsky. That’s $33.50, kinda pricy for a book that’s all cadenzas but if you really like them might be worth it. If that’s too much I think there’s something to be said for just trying to figure it out by ear, maybe add some of your own edits. It can be a fun, although difficult process
An outstanding, highly brillant player and a very good and plain interpretation! He is at least as good as the generation of Gendron and Rostropovitch was
I didn't like Philips' rendition of Bach's extremely sad Cello suite No. 1 in G Major . But the rendition of Boccherini's Concerto No.9, especially the second movement, was great which made me feel very sad and forced to think ruefully about my usage of harsh words at home. Boccherini might have had some other story in mind when he composed the second movement. But I took it personally this way and felt very ashamed and repentant. What can be done when Boccherini the composer and teacher of moral appears simultaneously! Thanks Boccherini, and the cellist.
Quite stupid that coment. I love Beethoven, I think he is the greatest symphonist of all times but there were great composers and such beautiful music before his time that your improper coment arouses out of ignorance.
@@antoniorodriguez4979 Why do you have to say it in such manner? He did not discover yet, or maybe he just doesn't like. Ofcourse there is a lot of wonderful music throughout history, but take it easy.
pre Beethoven (is actually classical music or baroque which are the best around) inter-post Beethoven ( romantical movement, is more appealing to the audience) I would recommend you, Tchaikovsky, is to me at the same lvl of Beethoven (some works of T. are better)
Ismael hoyos martinez do not say classical is the best around. it’s mostly repetitive stuff as opposed to the rich harmony of baroque music, and the thick and emotional melodies from the romantic era
