Introducing the Baroque Cello 

I’m too baroque to buy that

I love this series so much. It brings so much dry text to life in living color.

Her hair colour matches the cello. Awesome!

I love crunchy peanut butter! I want one like this but I’m a beginner and they’re far too dear I should think.

Beautiful video. Thank you. :)

The cello is 290 years old. The wood material must be completely dry out. Would this have an impact (good or bad) on how sound waves resonate within the cello's chamber compare to the newer baroque cello instruments?

Ahh I’m salivating

That’s one huge guitar

Me: Wow that bridge is really high. Cellist: You'll notice that the bridge is fairly low. Oh right.

"What happened to your end-pin?" "Oh, it baroque." ...rimshot #DadJokes

I read this as barbecue cello and I was very concerned.

The bow explains the pulsing quality of the sound, wow so cool :)

Is someone doing laundry in the background?

That cello is older than white settlement in Australia.

Is peanut butter an instrument?

Is nobody gonna talk about how she sitting on air

For anyone looking to find the second piece, it's called Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E Flat Major - Bourree II :)

must admit, the sound from that instrument is absolute bliss! well played!

This woman and her cello are definitely paired. I bet every one of the cellos owners before her had her warm soul too.... Giacomo Gavelli would be so proud

"So for us it doesn't feel like we're playing old music; we're making old music new..." This perfectly sums up why historical performance practice is so exciting to me. To hear an orchestra comprised of familiar yet uniquely historical instruments playing familiar music in a uniquely historical way creates a fresh perspective on the music, and one that is perhaps closer than ever before to the composers' original intent.

whats really painful: playing vivaldi with modern instruments

I absolutely love this kind of videos, they are very much enlightening. Thank you so much!

To me it sounds less powerful than a modern one, but it breath more and it's softer. It's a bit like someone speaking loudly versus someone speaking normally with some more nuances.

In the background, Steve Reich's new work, 'Fridge Phase'.

Baroque Obama.

The sound is exquisite. It’s like as if the Cello purrs as it’s played

For me, listening to music performed on period instruments is pure joy. I feel closer to the history and I feel we're hearing what the composer heard when their piece was performed. It's worth the trade-off that modern instruments provide. It must be an absolute honor to play that instrument and it's a delight to hear it played so well.

who hears the 'yeah' in the background at 3:38

I have studied the baroque cello as well, and there were a couple of things that she didn't cover. One is that baroque cellos are remarkably smaller than modern ones. I can hold a baroque cello easily, but, I can't hold my modern German cello in the same manner because it is too long and too heavy. The other thing is the bow and the bow grip. Cello bows in the Baroque Era often did not have tightening screws. As a result, cellists often played with an underhand grip, applying direct pressure to the hair of the bow with their ring and middle fingers to tighten it. This was more common earlier in the Baroque Era, when the cello was more of a continuo instrument.

I'd love to hear Elgar's Cello Concerto played on this instrument.

Oh those poor, yet harmonic sheep...

This cello has a much more mellow and warm sound to it. It's very nice.

I've become attracted to the sounds of baroque instruments. They sound more "organic", delicate, variable. Easy on the ear. Your explanation hit some of the reasons I couldn't have guessed. I played pop music for a long time. Heard Wim Winters on a clavichord. It knocked me down. "Vibrato on a piano?". Thanks for sharing! What a sound!

Lovely tone on a lovely instrument - I noticed that you hold your bow with your hand is little higher on the stick than we would with a modern day bow. Very enlightening - thank you!

I'm sad for the lost of nuance and character in so many instruments.

The Resonant. A movie about an old cello come back to life after being mauled by heavy handed humans. The cello lives. Tearjerker movie.

Minor correction: Gavotte II is from Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major! The piece played at the end is the Bourées II from No. 4.

I really like the sound/tone of the Baroque Cello over its modern counterpart (2:25, 5:09)!!

Fabulous instrument and player.

Beautiful playing! That cello is so resonant

What marvelous series this is - the instruments are all so well explained and beautifully demonstrated. Ya got me!

Such a beautiful instrument and the sound is beautiful as well! Thanks for sharing.

All baroque instruments have more color in their sound than their modern counterparts. This is painfully obvious when I hear modern orchestras perform the Brandenburg concertos. The problem isnt musicianship but having instruments designed to sound homogeneous.

Just a clarification/correction: Endpins became standard towards the end of the 19th century but they had been around for a long time before that and they weren't introduced to allow virtuosity. Playing original cellos was often 'da gamba' style but early cellos existed in a wide variety of sizes and many were simply too large to be supported between the legs. These were played on the floor (very awkward) or more comfortably propped on a stool. They even developed a support strap for processions (eg. Jacqueline du Pre's Davidov strad has a filled hole that was used for a strap when the instrument was used in monastic processions). Eventually a hole was drilled in the button and a stick used as a rudimentary endpin. Michel Corrette's "Methode, Thèorique et Practique pour Apprendre en peu de temps Le Violoncelle dans sa Perfection" (1741) mentions the endpin (bâton or stick) and Robert Crome (ca. 1765) refers to the “Wooden Peg.” Even into the 19th century many cellists preferred "da gamba" style (eg. Piatti always played "da gamba" style even after endpins came into common usage). Incidentally "da gamba" style simply refers to between the legs - it is nothing to do with the viol family or viola da gamba. Cellos (actually the whole violin family) are not a development from viols ... they developed separately and were archrivals. The double bass shows some cross development but viol construction is much simpler (flat backed, no bass bar, no sound post and C holes instead of f holes). Whilst the bass shares some body similarities to the viol it has all the build characteristics of the violin family.

I enjoy your artistry and passion for music very much. Thank you for sharing, Ms. Buchberger

Last Thursday I had the amazing opportunity to listen S. Johns Passion performed by the OAE in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.. it was, perhaps, the best performance of religious vocal period music I ever had the chance to experience. This very cello, located right in the middle of the stage, was one of the very protagonist of the evening. I have no words... every singer, every player, every instrument has a soul and a drive to bring to the public a wonderful artistic experience. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Such an articulate presentation! I now feel like an expert. And what beautiful playing!

rip two set

Love this explanation. I am sad that I can hear music, feel music and so on. But I simply cant play music. When I have someone near me who plays an instrument, preferably an older type instrument like this one, I just have to stop what i am doing and listen. I usually completely calm down. I wish I could do that for myself.

LOL, baroque cello is very similar to bass viola da gamba, especially without the end pin and with the silver wound gut for the lower strings. i've never heard the peanut butter analogy. i'll have to think about it the next time i'm on my bass gamba.

And...there is also a Baroque fan somewhere close by.

Can you put those strings on a modern cello?

I have a question about gut strings. In this video it is said that the two low strings are wound with silver, and have a gut core. Was this also done in the 18th century, or not until today?

"bark" cello? I thought it was pronounced "bar oak".

The endpin was in fact invented [edit: I should have said “introduced on the modern cello”] by Adrien-François Servais, according to some sources because he had become to fat to play without it.

Very beautiful! You can tell she loves what she does! :D I'm quite curious as to why the strings are a half step lower than modern-day cellos are (this cello was tuned G#, C#, F#, and B instead of A, D, G and C). Was that common in baroque cellos or was the instrument simply tuned incorrectly before recording?

When did steel strings come about? wasn't everything gut stringed until the 20th century? As in most of the time people gave a squirt about bowed instruments?

This is very well done: short but packed with information and the information is presented in a concise, clear way.

@2:12 ".... if you think about it like peanut butter the gut strings are like the rough kind, with more bits in it" absolutely the most British way to say "Chunky Peanut Butter"

We now have aquila red synthetic strings.

I would only hear baroque instruments if I could. Lovely sound! Thank you for great explanation and demonstration! I'll listen carefully to my recordings of Bach and Vivaldi for the difference in up and down bowing. Cheers!

I keep fighting the urge to shout DON'T TOUCH IT! DON'T BREAK IT! POLISH YOUR FINGERPRINTS OFF IT!

Thank you so much! I was curious about how the baroque 'cello was different. This morning I heard Juliana Soltis play the Bach Cello Suite No. 1( on the radio) and loved the sound; it was very rich. I used to play the cello, but this was different and I was intrigued. Thank you for the explanation.

YOU ARE A VERY GREAT TEACHER , EXPLAINER , EXPLICATOR , MUSICIAN , AND CELLIST. BE WELL. ---EMERITUS PROFESSOR BJNG.

I may have just yelled at your camera person out loud. I'm buying my first cello tomorrow, and, while it is a modern instrument, I dearly wanted a closeup of the bow hold. Thank you though, it's as fascinating to learn about yesterday's differences as it is to play (as a child) in today's digital realm. (I mostly am learning to compose / produce on the computer.) Oh! Is the baroque bow hair the same horse tail as modern? Do up-bows and down-bows sound different still if a baroque bow is used on an e-cello?

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I really enjoyed this history! The bow being weighted different along with the strings for sure will make a piece sound completely different and give it completely different texture/flavor. Something I never would've thought of without watching this video!

"Hopefully carefully" 😂😂😂😂🐑

Baroque Era made use of every animal part. So their had to be a lot of Jewish String Musician's in those days because the cello was kosher 🤣 ✡ so with those strings being made of lamb & silver, jewish commerce & blockchain coding remained discrete.

The sound of that literally made me get the tingles in my chest like when you see your lover. What a unique experience we have all gained. ❤️

She gave the correct scientific reason why you wind a string. "To make it heavier" Most people assume it is to increase the diameter.

I find the voice to be very agreeable, like sipping a extremely smooth warm cup of hot chocolate on a brisk winters evening while relaxing by the dancing flame on the hearth

That is a very serious British face she makes when she plays.

a much warmer sound

That is an amazing instrument. Beautiful!

I'm very upset this isn't oversized.

thank you! very interesting

this is a nice video but ... my god I absolutely love that accent

Wow, it really sounds drastically different than modern cello's. Is there somewhere I can stream/buy/listen to the Bach Cello suite's in their entirety played on Baroque Cello?

They are so intelligent they made a floating cello in the air that doesn’t need a end pin

Wonderful sound. I love the warmth and the graininess of the texture. Luise Buchberger has a beautiful touch on the instrument.

British person making peanut butter analogies. Amazing.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. It’s so fascinating.

The cello is still used as a bass instrument to this very day, Dead South anyone?

This is an instrument I've never known about. The notes have a resonance to them. Thank you for taking the time to show this instrument. Absolute joy listening to you. Instruction about the instrument and played with passion!

What's the different between this and Viola da Gamba?

it'd be interesting to the functional MRI of these players while they're playing instruments to see if a bass activates a different area of brain compared a higher pitch sounds!

the sheer number of puns in this comment section nearly baroque me

Is anyone watching this also a cellist? Like If you are ~A Cellist

I like the tone of this instrument. Not to mention how lucky the cello is.

Just say 'CRUNCHY', you know you want to.

I love the sound of this cello it's softer new ones are too loud

Where can I listen to the full recording of her playing? I would buy it! I didn't want it to stop.

I thought the missing peg was just a result of overzealous Chroma Key effects. Very interesting!

The warmth of those strings are insanely noticeable.

When she started playing, it reminded me of that old TV show I used to watch called Little Bear

I love the difference in sound of the downbow and upbow. Makes the instrument and music more dynamic.

Very informative! I appreciate the dedication of musicians to their music which enhances our lives.

Play the Kenshi (game) theme part.

How does anyone on musicians salary afford a 1700s instrument must be over 500k