Incredible! I enjoy your playing every much! Definitely on the list of things I miss about home: hearing you and the rest of the Houston Symphony play every weekend!
You are absolutely fantastic. I'm just starting to learn the Cello, it's been a year, an amazing year. My teacher and i talk about your performances all the time. At the moment i'm learning "The Swan" so watching your "Two Swans" video is part of my daily practice. Always learn something new. But this...... This is something else 🤯😍 You're such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing.
I think you have to play it to understand how difficult it is. There is nothing harder. And those people who say it is just an etude, can go and play popper for themselves for the rest of their life.
Dear Mr. Smith, I am very curious, how long such piece took you to prepare from the moment you first read the score until you performed it 1st time? chapeau bas!
celloj thanks for the interest. I got the score in October and played it for the first time in December, this performance was from February. However I kind of built up to this over the years with other violin transcriptions,... it's not something I could have done years ago
it is very interesting to hear. thank you for answering. your dedication to cello is inspiring, especially after hearing that 'hard pieces' can be done in such short time as you did, the only condition is life long devotion to the instrument :)
Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!!! Could you tell me please where can we find sheet music for Carmen? The link doesn't seem to allow ordering... Thank you!