Edward Elgar, Cello concerto from the Romanian Athenaeum hall 

A mirror of Jacqueline Du Pre, but also unique in her own way. A truly passionate cellist, love the expressions she gives us during the performance- what a treat this was!! And she didn't win first place? I was shocked! Life really isn't fair!! This was one of the best performances of this concerto I've ever seen

Anastasia's maturity and sensitivity here, at only 22, were already stunning, and have only deepened and ripened. What a gift to us she is!

Oh my God, the amount of magic with this Elgar concerto... A mixture of anxiety, questioning, fear, desire, joy and hope... I can imagine the hills of the English countryside with this music. And the concerto performer added a wonderful feeling with her charming playing, she owned my heart with her melodious instrument... Thank you, Elgar. And thanks to the orchestra for the interesting performance. I follow from Damascus❤

And the soloist, oh my, she shows the depth of a Rostropovich+boldness of Du Pre elle même!

Elgar had struggled to rise from his lower middle class background (and a Catholic in Protestant England)to become the voice of empire. His music embodies the majesty and nobility of that great image, to be heard time and again in his great “nobilamente” themes. But the carnage of World War I showed that nobility to have feet of clay. So the cello concerto, his last major work though he lived another 14 years, is a farewell elegy to a world that not only had gone, but that perhaps had had a hollow heart. All that sorrow, with great reserve, is expressed in this masterpiece.

I Have tears in my eyes I see the Jacqueline Dupre's soul close to you Anastasia

A passionate, soulful, gorgeous performance by Ms. Kobekina and ensemble. Hard to believe this was only "2nd prize".

The music is beautiful and that hall is incredible.

She is more than amazing! Congratulations to the orchestra, also!

I've been waiting decades to hear an Elgar with as much emotional power as du Pre brought it, and here it is. Plus, you bring your own subtlety of phrasing and thoughtfulness that's all your own. Bravo! Looking forward to hearing your other videos and new album.

Thank you to the soloist, orchestra, conductor and the recording engineers for a lovely performance

Written in 1919 this was Elgar's deep lament for the first World War - his music having been first recognized by the German public.

Just discovered. Tremendous tribute to this inspiring piece. I heard once this was Elgar’s response to the trauma of the Great War. However true, one can’t help but be moved by this execution of the great work. Thankyou

Makes me cry everytime I watch it. This performance is very rich and full of feeling. Great start of a soloist career!! This girl is a-ma-zing.

One of My favorite pieces. I can feel Your passion...

29:05 That's got to be the best I've head the end of the piece played. So crisp and powerful.

thanks for the modern technology, then I can hear this wonderful performance and seeI such a beautiful music hall on the earth

Elgar's Cello Concerto always reminds me of Jacqueline du Pre and you play this piece so beautifully. You are so talented, so passionate and so lovely!

Damn this really reminds me Jacqueline Du Pre's playing, I even think miss Kobekina toog great inspiration from Du Pre. This is really top performance of Elgar's cello concerto, definetly best from her generation maybe even from all generations.

Apart from such a beautifully played truly awesome piece of music there is something really lovely about the performer. Something truly special. Wonderful for the heart!

Phenomenal musician! Such range of expression, flawlessly performed! Wonderful, intelligent interpretation! Beautiful, warm sound, facile technique. Brava!😍

Look at that competition audience, so stoic. No one will ever please them. Fabulous work, Anastasia!

This is my favourite cello concerto and it is the very piece that convinced me to start playing the cello. Beautifully played :-)!

Amazing!!!!

This is such a beautiful cello concerto by Elgar and Anastasia Kobekina does it beautifully.

Ever since I watched Hillary&Jackie I fell in love with this splendid piece by Elgar. Impossible to listen to it "in a casual, en passant mood:-)".

The saddest and most profound concerto ever written. Masterful interpretation!

Magnificent! Such a hypnotic rendering. Truly soulful.

Jacqueline Du Pre would be so proud of Anastasia's performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

there's something more wistful and dreamy about the way you played this versus yo yo ma. I like it a lot

The facial expressions at 3:10 really get me. No matter how hard you try, when you’re that connected to the music, that’s inevitably what you look like.

Анастасия, спасибо за прекрасное исполнение! 👏👏👏

I love this composition verry very much. And it was my firrst s....ad. Jabe you eve seen film Hilary and Jackey?? Tray this, its OMG😢

exceptional...a moving and virtuoso level performance. A beautiful and superior cellist player with a nuanced and musically profound conductor & orchestra, thank you!

this girl is so beautiful, and she plays so well.

Videos like this bring me to the place of pure contentment.

Estos Grandes MÚSICOS solistas, son unos verdaderos VIRTUOSOS !!!...interpretan las creaciones de los grandes maestros de la Música, como EXTASIADOS transportados a ese mundo maravilloso del ARTE MUSICAL, Anastasia es una de ellas sin duda. Viéndola y escuchándola al frente de su instrumento y la GRAN sinfónica, también uno como que se transporta a ese mundo maravilloso.

Your interpretation is so briliant and beautiful! Thank you so much for this moment :')

I'm a Brazilian researcher and I'm studying a Romanian painter who was born um Cluj-Napoca in 1916. Congratulations for your performance!

For me and Edward Elgar: 1st prize winner!

Beautiful!! One of the best I've ever heard. Such sensitivity and power.

Such a captivating performance

Ce concerto est magnifique. Et quelle interprétation. Félicitation c'est superbe 😊❤

Oh my god, what a talent, a virtuoso

Beautiful music and an outstanding performance. Thank you.

...so great Anastasia, with such a personality, your own style, so expressive and deap...no words...gratulation...

BRAVO! Anastasia Kobekina has immense talent and skill at the Violoncello!

This is my favorite cello piece and what got me to fall in love with playing the cello more. This is the type of music piece I get really picky with without meaning to when hearing someone outside of Jacqueline Du Pre playing it. Anastasia played it flawlessly. She played it with great emotion, power and technique from start to finish.

Beautiful performance, I felt every single note.

Anastasia Kobekina delivers to us an awesome version of this concerto.

You are amazing !!!

Magnificent!

Simply Bravo! 👏🎻😍

What a beautiful rendition, ❤️

This is imposibble!🙇💕 She is/ They are great! Oh, I fell in love!

favorite cellist

😮 - it's beautiful to cry -

Amazing Concert and great video quality!

I can't believe someone interrupts the movement of a concert to add a pop music commercial That is sacrilege and disrespect that should be punished by law. Excellent performance, shame about the commercial, thumbs down

Magnifique! Quelle grâce et élegance dans le jeu des bras, mains et doigts. Et quel son, j'en ai parfois la chair de poule. Merci Anastasia. Va multumesc!

beautiful cello, so much feeling , Elgar is moving soul music !

Amazing Anastasia!

My favorite cello piece. I never get tired of listening to it. Thanks for the upload

amazing Anastasia Kobekina!!!!!

This is great , a very thoughtful soloist , great recording, what a hall !

Quelle belle prestation de la part de cette jeune violoncelliste Anastasia , parfois espiègle ,parfois virtuose ,totalement passionnée par sa partition , Bravo !

Beautiful playing! I am working on this piece and your playing inspired me to work harder. Thank you for recording!

This is one most shymphony amazing that I already saw! Truly a masterpiece...

Bravo! Greatest sound ever the best!

Sentimiento profundo!! El más precioso concierto de chelo!! Excelente!!

Het is en blij blijft een prachtig cello concerto - hemels!

Это просто чудо!!! Анастасия: я люблю тебя!!!

She looks like Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Absolutely beautiful performance as well!

De coração, muito obrigado, Anastasia.

Such a beautiful Concerto! She is Athena!!

i love how happy you look at the end of the performance

Magnifique !

If you think this was good, you should hear her recent performance to see how far she has come since then. Both her technique and expressiveness has vastly matured and it looked and sounded so effortless now.

Wonderfull music, great Kobekina violoncello.

Thank you

WOW! beautiful concerto :)

Thank you so much anastasia, thank you for inspiring me to advance on the cello. The way you played this cello concerto truely made me fall in love with the cello all over again. At times i feel stuck and like i cant progress i rewatch this and remind myself that i can do it. Thank you and i cant wait to see where you go with your amazing talent.❤

Great, one more fantastic cellist to follow on youtube! :) Cheers, Anastasia!

Alisa Weilerstein did the best performance of this concerto....

Well done. To be overly effusive in a piece like this, which is a temptation, one can easily mask its subtleties and depths. Yet in this rendition I hear some beautiful phrasing and an ear for the orchestration. This piece evokes in me the attitude of a man whose strength has fled, or has long since atrophied, yet by grace has summoned one last utterance of his deepest love.

Quelle superbe violoncelliste ! On a hâte de la revoir et de l'entendre chez nous; Bravo

Amazing! and thank you for sharing it to the world. Jacqueline du Pre will be very proud of you. Hope you have happiness & inner peace.

вы неподражаемы, Анастасия!! как же вы прекрасны!

Finaly found exactly what I was looking for - thank you, it was perfect !

very beautiful, well done

Belle playing the cello

Bravo, millones de éxitos, gracias por poner disfrutar algo tan bello.

Wow!!! this is beautiful! Magnificent interpretation Anastasia!

love it! greeting from bali island

A brilliant performance by Anastasia. Wish I could've been in the audience!

Very enjoyable to listen to

Это потрясающе и невероятно!! Спасибо от всего сердца, Анастасия!

Super! And the picture quality is exceptional.

Encantat d'haver descobert una cellista excepcional. Bravo!

what a beauty!