this "early" Maisky will always remain my all-time favorite of this masterpiece: tempo, dynamics, phrasing, articulation... everything matches my personal vision of this piece.
If you feel this, be sure to donate money to classical musicians. We need to pay rent, too. I wonder, though, if the cellist Maisky, the videographer, and the sound technician are getting money from this youtube site, or is it just the one who uploads their work. Any answers from Bachology would be welcome. It's nice to have access to these great recordings, but artists should be paid for their work.
A girl with a cello, lived a block from me as the crow flies. She would sit on her front porch and play this piece. I was amazed at much of the interplay of the tones and over tones could carry for that much distance. Alot goes on inside of a cello. A violin has that tonal play as well, but only bats and young dogs can hear it. The cello puts it in human range. So does a classical guitar, but then the tonal play is very short lived. I play these on a guitar, but admittedly it is difficult. I listen to all of the Maisky videos often, it keeps me grounded.
I just got here after reading the part in the book where death seemingly cries because she realizes she could never experience this, which is the only reason she envies humans.
Heavenly piece written for a heavenly performance. Wonderful to hear cellist Mischa Maisky's past performance here, as well as present day interpretations of Bach.
@@andrewanderson3016 very well, my teacher is supporting and helping me to choose where I'll go when I finish school, and I'm practicing day by day to get better :), thanks for asking.
This might be a dumb question but was Bach actually able to play his cello suites? I know it wasn't his primary instrument.. This piece seems like it's extremely advanced.
"Do you want to learn "How to play Cello?" Start by watching this video and be familiar with the techniques. Get a good cello and plenty of practice." if only it was that easy bro
It´s acutually not a Bad idea to watch others play. Your Mirror neuron s will learn for you. Of course to really play an instrument you have to practice a lot, but watching good artists can help improve, espacially if you watch closly.
All have 6 preludes do have their own character, it is pointless to rank them. Bach's genius certainly is vast enough to accomodate for different styles.
There is a secret Bach's music known only to a select few. Bach's three major sarabandes that make listeners go crazy right away: 1) Bach Partita for Piano No.1 in B-Flat, BWV 825 IV. Sarabande 2) Partita for Violin Solo No.2 in D minor BWV1004 3mov sarabande 3) 22:05
I see people in the comments talking about holding your breath when playing and using the right breathing technique. I'm wondering if a cellist would make a decent diver....
I’m not even a professional and I have three Bach Suites memorized. He probably has all six suites memorized which is an extraordinary feat. The Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 is a long piece if you want to give that go.
Bach structures his work so well that it's almost hard to stop playing once you've started. There's a momentum and each note and each measure seem to naturally lead into the next. It's very satisfying.
After 5 months, ONLY 659 Likes? Where are all the people who kept complaining about indoor quarantining, having no place to go & nothing to do, when they have so much more free time to sit and listen and enjoy much more beautiful music now, than they normally ever have?
I always play the G major prelude when trying out a cello. Any would be great, but most of us know that one forwards and backwards and taking a piece that intimately known to a new instrument will tell you a lot.
Hello, I'm just curious about how Maisky plays the opening of this prelude. Is he playing the same note on 2 different strings, because he bows sets of 3 notes together? Also, I perceive that there are varying amounts of pressure with the bow on those 3 identical pitches to create a sound like separate bows. I hope this makes sense.
Yes, he is alternating between a stopped (fingered) note on a low string with the open string above it at the same pitch. This is the way Bach wrote it, indicated by note stems in different directions for the different strings. What is more interesting is that since this was written for a 5 string cello (called an accordatura), in some passages with the E string that simply doesn't exist on the modern cello, that note must be held down with the ring finger while the thumb plays the melody. You can find videos of Yo-Yo Ma avoiding this with some clever substitutions but I prefer the way Maisky does it (as I play it that way, too).
@@lindacowles756 Yes. My grad school prof said no one should ever really play this since it's not really for cello. But what the hell. That was 25 years ago and it's just too beautiful not to play. It's the next piece I'm posting to my Oregon Outdoors/Bach series in production now. But playing it has given me a deep respect for anyone doing it well.
I'm back here from listening Eliot Fisk slaying it at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EaLuZ0mYMKc.html ... thanks to Maestro Maisky now I can really appreciate this monument to beauty and grace by J. S. Bach..
Perfetto, se volevate che nessuno guardi più questo video ci siete riusciti: pubblicità tra un tempo e l'altro, all'interno di un tempo stesso. Tutto ciò è semplicemente orrendo. Sconsiglierò questo video a tutti perché in questo modo è inascoltabile.
