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Je ne pense pas que cela ait un sens de chercher à savoir qui de Maisky ou de Rostropovitch est le meilleur, ce sont tous les deux de merveilleux interprètes, doués tous les deux d'une grande musicalité. Micha Maisky a une grande force dans les mains, dans les doigts, alliée à une grande souplesse. Le gras du doigt joue un grand rôle dans la qualité du son. Regardez les mains des violoncellistes qui ont une belle sonorité, ils n'ont pas une main de philosophe, mais plutôt une main de bébé, avec des doigts qu'on peut tordre dans tous les sens, ce qui est nécessaire dans les suites de Bach, pour les doubles cordes. Ce prélude, plein de bémols est très beau. Je vous conseille d'écouter le prélude de la sixième suite, toujours interprété par Micha Maisky, un régal. Merci pour cette video, en précisant que depuis 1964, je suis un grand admirateur de Rostropovitch. P Mosnier Strasbourg
Love this -- so much more emotional depth than other virtuosic performances (Yo-Yo Ma, God bless ya, and even Hilary Hahn on the partitas, another favorite). I am such a fan of infusing these suites, in particular the preludes (which are NOT dance movements), with some life and passion. So many performers and professors teach these suites to all violists, cellists, and bassists, and the focus is almost always on being somewhat dispassionate (e.g. don't alter that rhythm too much, don't put too much 'Romantic' expression into that Baroque note, etc), which can really ruin the joy and power in Bach's music. Talk about a wonderful way of keeping Bach's music alive in a new era, bravo!
I would argue the emotional depth is questionable, yes he uses a very passionate sound, however it's more suited to a piece of romantic music, i.e. stylistically inappropriate for this music, and you can perform with emotional depth without tanking the absolute shit out of the piece, as I feel Maisky does frequently whilst performing Bach. These suites, I feel, call for a more subtle type of expression, and I really think one should steer clear of the term "power" in relation to Bach's solo string writing, I'm not by any means saying that this interpretation is "wrong", however that said I do not believe this is how one should approach performing solo Bach, as they're not romantic pieces of music. Also worth noting, these pieces are German not Russian, so using this big, romantic Russian sound to play Bach is like using a light, airy French sound to perform Shostakovich!
@@TheTradge Well, I rather enjoy the "Russian" interpretation of Bach. That's the beauty of art, and of music- the performer gets to be every bit as much the artist as the composer. :)
It's almost scary to watch this man play. He's like a machine, no mistakes, every move like it was programmed. Did anyone walk up to him and see if he was real?
anyone else find this one particularly gets right inside you and kind of grabs you by the soul and shakes you about a bit...? good old Mischa... :) it's always the preludes that do it for me anyhoo.
Some say that the world today is better than yesterday. That cannot be true as Bach is no longer alive. However, I am sure he would be overjoyed to know that his work will continue to be studied and enjoyed for as long as humans can survive. God bless Johann and the mighty legacy and brilliance that he gave to the world.
I did this piece on marimba in school. It translates well on a full 5-octave because the low end is just gorgeous. Use a softer mallet up top to lose some of the harshness and it sounds beautiful all around.
very tricky timing, and hard bass notes, well played wonderful, SO RELAX and HAVE CONFIDENCE! I was the same tonight just playing old english recorder and i was so nervous, for our village xmas concert in Ireland, so breathe xxx
I usually listen to this late at night because the neighbors come to the very corner of their yard and yell into my room, So i usually have other music playing loudly to drown out their junkie shrieking. Such magnificent sanctuary.
i agree my friend. Hatred is only the result of something left undone. It tears and rips at the soul. When your loved one denies your love, that love turns around to hate....
I cannot believe he slurred every single note i played this piece and i could manage to get the full sound of every single note, but with only half a bow for each one that would be extreeemely difficult
i don't really like classical music. but i love Bach. and because of that, i have tried to aquire the taste for the other great ones. But i just don't enjoy them very much. Don't really know why i'm commenting. this is a wonderful piece! Rock On! or.. something.. whatever, keep doing this!!
Well you're in luck because this music happens to be Baroque music and not classical (; (except that the style the performer is using is very much a more modern/Romantic era style lol)
I'm with D0g63rt. I am now addicted!!! And as for the green-screening. there wouldn't be a shadow to his right (your left) on the floor if it was green-screened. No, he picked this spot specifically for acoustical reasons. I just wish I knew where it was at.
I bought a book of nothing but cello suites by bach that's transposed for violin. That way I can play the suites on either flute or violin. I bet I'll enjoy playing though it.
i think any musician that plays a piece by bach has to understand the feeling the composer was trying to convey. if you dont do that, it doesnt give the true feel of the music. this applies to any composition, but it is a key point to playing bach.
One of the few performances that dares to use slurs in the prelude. The thing about this piece is that you have in a way to pretend that you are a pipe organ. The low E flats in the first few measures are a pedal point and the ear must connect them because you can't sustain them. Then the E flat progresses through D down to C. If you play every note with a separate bow it's very hard to create the illusion of sustained tones. Everything must be so connected and sustained in this movement!! (Also, the cellist has to hear the whole chord at all times in each measure, not only the individual notes.)
Whilst I agree that the pedal notes in this prelude are important, however the way Maisky has gone about accentuating them is completely inappropriate; you don't have to absolutely tank every single one, because this kind of music just doesn't all for it, and the cello is a very resonant instrument to begin with, so I feel a faster bow with more release will create the desired effect, rather than absolutely bludgeoning every single bass note! This is why I can't stand Maisky or Rostropovich's Bach, because they make it too Russian, lacking severely in the kind of stylistic subtlety that characterises Bach's music.
Not a book, but there's a few recorded on my channel -- Suites 1 and 3 posted, all the rest straining at the harness... My version of this movement is whacko.... much syncopation helps solve when-do-I-breathe, and also adds some life, but many will disapprove.
Mischa Maisky is of course a fantastic cellist, but I don't like the way he plays J S Bach. I have listened to a lot of baroque specialists over the last years, so now a performance like this sounds really strange to me... If you don't know what I'm talking about, try to find this same movement played by Pieter Wispelwey, audio only. Something completely different, and I love it so much more :-)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Maisky's Bach, if you listen to baroque specialists perform Bach, they have a far more sophisticated approach to phrasing, that isn't distorted by excessive vibrato or sostenuto, and they make players like Maisky and Rostropovich sound like they're killing the essence of the music with their excessive romanticism.
I agree that Maisky's interpretation is a bit overzealous and rough but I'm not sure if Wispelwey's interpretation of Bach is that great either. I've only listened to his version of the Prelude for No.4 and I don't enjoy the short and separated bowing he uses.. This piece is meant to make the cello sound like an organ with it's sustained notes and I don't see that at all in Wispelwey's version. I will definitely listen to the rest of his work but, at least for this movement, I can't say it's better than Maisky.
Rosh P - See that is a notion with which I disagree, whilst you are right about your organ analogy, which is backed up by the E flat pedal in the opening bars, there is no reason why Wispelwey shouldn't use that bowing and articulation, if you look in the Anna Magdalena score, you'll actually see that there are no slurs and no articulation markings, so there is an argument for and against sustained notes in this prelude. If anything I would argue that separation of the notes makes more sense, given the consistent use of broken chords, and the harmonic nature of the movement.
Each player has their preference, personally I play the D flat because it works better harmonically, plus the Anna Magdalena Bach score isn't necessarily easy to read, it could have been a flat, could have been a natural, but as long as the harmonic progression works then I'd say either would be acceptable.
@dcos24 Not to disagree with you--Bach is amazing-- however, for quite some time, until Casals, these Bach cello suites were almost never performed in public and were considered to be simple etudes. So, this amazing music was missed by many, who were certainly not "retards", for a very long time. (I do have to mention that I think this can partly be credited to the function of the cello until Casals, but I am no music historian.)
@dcos ive worked wit good music ive heard good music. this is good music. sorry 2 break it 2 u. but u just got 2 have a connection. i guess u dont. @geoyasha88, he is pretty great is he? nd thank u bacholoji 4 putting these up :)
@Simonappel SO? i cant say i dont like an interpretation? lol we are in democracy u know? Comments can be also negative..this is their function: to allow people discuss the video...D: lol
@dcos24 You're * :3 Also you completely lack any sort of capitalization, and your punctuation leaves much to be desired. That having been said, I agree, Bach's cello suites are fucking amazing.
That's a nice imagination once i read ur comment about mischa cello playing i started to imagine it tooo at first i was thinking of a war and then silents hahaha corny i know but still i prefer urs hahaha welll thats alll nice imagination
IMHO what you are seeing here is not memory, and has little to do with thought in general. At this level of mastery the Visible Spirit, the Body is "Creating" music with the aid of two other Bodies, the Bow and the Cello. This as opposed to a mind using thought to 'play' instruments using memory to recall notes in the correct order along with the right emphasis. The latter is usually accomplished by reading music, and sounds 'nothing' like this. I'd wager nary a thought crosses this man's mind
Hi, what's up? Although I had the chance to listen to different performances I'm got used to listen to Pablo Casals. In spite of this cello player is doing his best and the cello has a nice sound I'm sorry to say that he needs to improve very indeed. Breathe is very important. Several notes are not on tune and sometimes he looses the rithym, too. There's no better version than the Casals' one. From my personal and honest point of view -I'm a cellist- Casals is the man. He's got this catalan strengh, heart and soul that allows him to play the best-ever Bach Suites. I do love Janos Starker, Paul Tortelier and Rostropovich, too… but that tiny and honest catalan is a total blast. Total zazen: position, actitude and breathe. The same concepts when you learn cello tecnique. I'm a retired cellist
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Imagine having the Cello Suites memorized in their entirety...
My favorite cellist!
I'm tied between him and Yoyoma
Je ne pense pas que cela ait un sens de chercher à savoir qui de Maisky ou de Rostropovitch est le meilleur, ce sont tous les deux de merveilleux interprètes, doués tous les deux d'une grande musicalité. Micha Maisky a une grande force dans les mains, dans les doigts, alliée à une grande souplesse. Le gras du doigt joue un grand rôle dans la qualité du son. Regardez les mains des violoncellistes qui ont une belle sonorité, ils n'ont pas une main de philosophe, mais plutôt une main de bébé, avec des doigts qu'on peut tordre dans tous les sens, ce qui est nécessaire dans les suites de Bach, pour les doubles cordes. Ce prélude, plein de bémols est très beau. Je vous conseille d'écouter le prélude de la sixième suite, toujours interprété par Micha Maisky, un régal. Merci pour cette video, en précisant que depuis 1964, je suis un grand admirateur de Rostropovitch. P Mosnier Strasbourg
The top of each arpeggio is like a human straining to reach heaven
Love this -- so much more emotional depth than other virtuosic performances (Yo-Yo Ma, God bless ya, and even Hilary Hahn on the partitas, another favorite). I am such a fan of infusing these suites, in particular the preludes (which are NOT dance movements), with some life and passion. So many performers and professors teach these suites to all violists, cellists, and bassists, and the focus is almost always on being somewhat dispassionate (e.g. don't alter that rhythm too much, don't put too much 'Romantic' expression into that Baroque note, etc), which can really ruin the joy and power in Bach's music. Talk about a wonderful way of keeping Bach's music alive in a new era, bravo!
I would argue the emotional depth is questionable, yes he uses a very passionate sound, however it's more suited to a piece of romantic music, i.e. stylistically inappropriate for this music, and you can perform with emotional depth without tanking the absolute shit out of the piece, as I feel Maisky does frequently whilst performing Bach. These suites, I feel, call for a more subtle type of expression, and I really think one should steer clear of the term "power" in relation to Bach's solo string writing, I'm not by any means saying that this interpretation is "wrong", however that said I do not believe this is how one should approach performing solo Bach, as they're not romantic pieces of music. Also worth noting, these pieces are German not Russian, so using this big, romantic Russian sound to play Bach is like using a light, airy French sound to perform Shostakovich!
@@TheTradge Well, I rather enjoy the "Russian" interpretation of Bach. That's the beauty of art, and of music- the performer gets to be every bit as much the artist as the composer. :)
I'm hopelessly addicted to all these bach cello videos now...
Are you still addicted 11 years later?
Man, I wish I could hit that opening E-flat like he can.
It's almost scary to watch this man play. He's like a machine, no mistakes, every move like it was programmed. Did anyone walk up to him and see if he was real?
anyone else find this one particularly gets right inside you and kind of grabs you by the soul and shakes you about a bit...? good old Mischa... :) it's always the preludes that do it for me anyhoo.
Never knew Arpeggios could be so amazing
Some say that the world today is better than yesterday. That cannot be true as Bach is no longer alive. However, I am sure he would be overjoyed to know that his work will continue to be studied and enjoyed for as long as humans can survive.
God bless Johann and the mighty legacy and brilliance that he gave to the world.
That room is so GORGEOUS!!!!
Hey, pay attention to the performance 😊👍
why in the world would someone search up and listen to classical music.. and then dislike it? it's just.... i don't even...
I did this piece on marimba in school. It translates well on a full 5-octave because the low end is just gorgeous. Use a softer mallet up top to lose some of the harshness and it sounds beautiful all around.
love the shaping. Mischa you are my favorite
So beautiful!
my favorite of the Preludes !!
very tricky timing, and hard bass notes, well played wonderful, SO RELAX and HAVE CONFIDENCE! I was the same tonight just playing old english recorder and i was so nervous, for our village xmas concert in Ireland, so breathe xxx
Amazing beautiful soulful resonating cellular
I usually listen to this late at night because the neighbors come to the very corner of their yard and yell into my room, So i usually have other music playing loudly to drown out their junkie shrieking. Such magnificent sanctuary.
i agree my friend. Hatred is only the result of something left undone. It tears and rips at the soul. When your loved one denies your love, that love turns around to hate....
great!!....."Soli Deo Gloria"
I agree, Im from the area and would love to hear!!!
I cannot believe he slurred every single note i played this piece and i could manage to get the full sound of every single note, but with only half a bow for each one that would be extreeemely difficult
Wonderful indeed.
extraordinario!!! hermoso!!
♣ ♣ ♣This is just amazing for studying ♣ ♣ ♣
i don't really like classical music. but i love Bach. and because of that, i have tried to aquire the taste for the other great ones. But i just don't enjoy them very much.
Don't really know why i'm commenting. this is a wonderful piece!
Rock On! or.. something.. whatever, keep doing this!!
Well you're in luck because this music happens to be Baroque music and not classical (; (except that the style the performer is using is very much a more modern/Romantic era style lol)
es como si me hablaran bonito y con voz de amor desesperado...!!! Dios amo a Bach :3
I'm with D0g63rt. I am now addicted!!! And as for the green-screening. there wouldn't be a shadow to his right (your left) on the floor if it was green-screened. No, he picked this spot specifically for acoustical reasons. I just wish I knew where it was at.
Sensacional!! Grata por compartilhar
it's very good interpretation!!!
Thank you for sharing
omg, beautiful
I bought a book of nothing but cello suites by bach that's transposed for violin. That way I can play the suites on either flute or violin. I bet I'll enjoy playing though it.
EPIC INTRO!
Awesome . . .
Love the mischa maisky version, but yoyo-ma tender phrasing is appealing when a more "sentimental" performance is on due.
♥ ♥ ♥Thank you very much. I'm pleased. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
play bach on the cello (like a boss)... for 15 hours (like a boss)... turn in to jesus (like a boss)... fly into the sun (like a boss)
this comment is so 2010's
Exquisite background.
this piece is so painful... but worth it
This version is much better than Yo-Yo Ma's.
Stephen Angeles You mean the one from the BBC prom? I agree, and can't help but blame his old age.
This version sounds like the, angry, grumpy lets get stuff done interpretation.
I love it!
When I imagine myself playing this, I feel angry, but trying to soothe myself.
Trying to find some bright side to anguish.
esta super duper lindo yo apnas toc 1era pocicionXD
Cómo vas?
This piece was in the end credist of the movie "Roswell".
I WISH I could play this piece half as well as him.
Thanks !
excelent
Genius
i think any musician that plays a piece by bach has to understand the feeling the composer was trying to convey. if you dont do that, it doesnt give the true feel of the music. this applies to any composition, but it is a key point to playing bach.
Nice stuff.
every time I listen to it it gives me goose pimples
One of the few performances that dares to use slurs in the prelude. The thing about this piece is that you have in a way to pretend that you are a pipe organ. The low E flats in the first few measures are a pedal point and the ear must connect them because you can't sustain them. Then the E flat progresses through D down to C. If you play every note with a separate bow it's very hard to create the illusion of sustained tones. Everything must be so connected and sustained in this movement!! (Also, the cellist has to hear the whole chord at all times in each measure, not only the individual notes.)
Krzysztof Więź oh wow
Whilst I agree that the pedal notes in this prelude are important, however the way Maisky has gone about accentuating them is completely inappropriate; you don't have to absolutely tank every single one, because this kind of music just doesn't all for it, and the cello is a very resonant instrument to begin with, so I feel a faster bow with more release will create the desired effect, rather than absolutely bludgeoning every single bass note! This is why I can't stand Maisky or Rostropovich's Bach, because they make it too Russian, lacking severely in the kind of stylistic subtlety that characterises Bach's music.
:-O
His "bludgeoning of the bass notes" is one of my favorite aspects of Maisky's playing.
@@chekprac1 Agreed! First caught my ear when I heard Pablo Casals play it.
ahhhhhhh refreshing.
his bow hand reminds me so much of rostropovich.. i think maisky was one of his students actually
that´s the sound of their eyes...
@Kosmonautdolly How I wish just to have that room as my bedroom!!!!!!
you got to be kidding @anisometropie this guy is a virtuoso.
is there a musical book on bach's music for cello transposed for tuba or baritone sax?
Not a book, but there's a few recorded on my channel -- Suites 1 and 3 posted, all the rest straining at the harness... My version of this movement is whacko.... much syncopation helps solve when-do-I-breathe, and also adds some life, but many will disapprove.
Anyone know where these recordings were made?
Palladio's Villa Caldogno
OMFG ME TOO!!
Better than Yo Yo Ma's sincerely, Mischa you are a master of your craft, you need to play at the Kimmel center in Philadelphia , usa
Wow
I finna play it on bass
Idk who is better Maisky or Rostropovich?
+Minecraft Diamonds Slava
+Minecraft Diamonds Technically Slava, but I feel that in a lot of cases, Maisky, especially with the Bach Suites, has better musicality.
Rostropovich is better but I like Maisky better :D Or maybe we're just overly fond of his because he's passed on:P
Actually one is a student of the other
Bylsma...
Mischa Maisky is of course a fantastic cellist, but I don't like the way he plays J S Bach. I have listened to a lot of baroque specialists over the last years, so now a performance like this sounds really strange to me... If you don't know what I'm talking about, try to find this same movement played by Pieter Wispelwey, audio only. Something completely different, and I love it so much more :-)
Ennah08, I agree. Thank you for sending me to Pieter Wispelwey!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Maisky's Bach, if you listen to baroque specialists perform Bach, they have a far more sophisticated approach to phrasing, that isn't distorted by excessive vibrato or sostenuto, and they make players like Maisky and Rostropovich sound like they're killing the essence of the music with their excessive romanticism.
I think it sounds great...just say'in
I agree that Maisky's interpretation is a bit overzealous and rough but I'm not sure if Wispelwey's interpretation of Bach is that great either. I've only listened to his version of the Prelude for No.4 and I don't enjoy the short and separated bowing he uses.. This piece is meant to make the cello sound like an organ with it's sustained notes and I don't see that at all in Wispelwey's version. I will definitely listen to the rest of his work but, at least for this movement, I can't say it's better than Maisky.
Rosh P - See that is a notion with which I disagree, whilst you are right about your organ analogy, which is backed up by the E flat pedal in the opening bars, there is no reason why Wispelwey shouldn't use that bowing and articulation, if you look in the Anna Magdalena score, you'll actually see that there are no slurs and no articulation markings, so there is an argument for and against sustained notes in this prelude. If anything I would argue that separation of the notes makes more sense, given the consistent use of broken chords, and the harmonic nature of the movement.
these pieces have been made for dancing. Not joking, so if you're going to critique something about this, have that on count.
when you look at something..ask yourself what it took to make that.
trovata !!!
I play the violin but this makes me want to switch to cello
3:50
This is wonderful. Interesting interpretation. I prefer Heinrich Schiff's.
bar 16 should be D natural and not flat. sounds good still
0:58
James Bond are you sure?
Each player has their preference, personally I play the D flat because it works better harmonically, plus the Anna Magdalena Bach score isn't necessarily easy to read, it could have been a flat, could have been a natural, but as long as the harmonic progression works then I'd say either would be acceptable.
@iEatYou611 what???
@jakemeow the cello lessons, im gonna start too.
@dcos24 Not to disagree with you--Bach is amazing-- however, for quite some time, until Casals, these Bach cello suites were almost never performed in public and were considered to be simple etudes. So, this amazing music was missed by many, who were certainly not "retards", for a very long time. (I do have to mention that I think this can partly be credited to the function of the cello until Casals, but I am no music historian.)
@Simonappel .................
@wogud826 thats deep
@arsmoriendi5 To know what?
ahhhhhh.
A bit strong for this piece, isn't it?
turidoth TEN YEARS WOWIE
@jakemeow let me know.
Misha is not bad,but i like so much Yo-Yo Ma and Giovanni Sollima!
What is this?? It makes me cry... What is wrong with me..
@dcos ive worked wit good music ive heard good music. this is good music. sorry 2 break it 2 u. but u just got 2 have a connection. i guess u dont. @geoyasha88, he is pretty great is he? nd thank u bacholoji 4 putting these up :)
@iEatYou611 E flat major? OH SHIT. -.-
@Simonappel SO? i cant say i dont like an interpretation? lol we are in democracy u know? Comments can be also negative..this is their function: to allow people discuss the video...D: lol
I know I already do :)
Ancient proverb :" concerning taste let there be no dispute." But I'm right anyway.
scary movie!!!
Glory to God.
@dcos24 You're * :3 Also you completely lack any sort of capitalization, and your punctuation leaves much to be desired. That having been said, I agree, Bach's cello suites are fucking amazing.
I looked at the key signature and I almost died.
That's a nice imagination once i read ur comment about mischa cello playing i started to imagine it tooo at first i was thinking of a war and then silents hahaha corny i know but still i prefer urs hahaha
welll thats alll nice imagination
Who's better than who? They are just different...
- ZOMBIE STARE AT SCREEN- O w O
Oh my... fuck yes!
IMHO what you are seeing here is not memory, and has little to do with thought in general. At this level of mastery the Visible Spirit, the Body is "Creating" music with the aid of two other Bodies, the Bow and the Cello. This as opposed to a mind using thought to 'play' instruments using memory to recall notes in the correct order along with the right emphasis.
The latter is usually accomplished by reading music, and sounds 'nothing' like this.
I'd wager nary a thought crosses this man's mind
Hi, what's up? Although I had the chance to listen to different performances I'm got used to listen to Pablo Casals. In spite of this cello player is doing his best and the cello has a nice sound I'm sorry to say that he needs to improve very indeed. Breathe is very important. Several notes are not on tune and sometimes he looses the rithym, too. There's no better version than the Casals' one. From my personal and honest point of view -I'm a cellist- Casals is the man. He's got this catalan strengh, heart and soul that allows him to play the best-ever Bach Suites. I do love Janos Starker, Paul Tortelier and Rostropovich, too… but that tiny and honest catalan is a total blast. Total zazen: position, actitude and breathe. The same concepts when you learn cello tecnique. I'm a retired cellist