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@georgeosipian3440 28 күн бұрын
Hi Alban! My name is George and I play double bass. You are very talented musician and I learn a lot of things from you. Thank you for sharing this
@RareBlabbit 2 ай бұрын
Mr Gerhardt when will you be coming to England as an aspiring cellist I really would to see you ( or more appropriately hear you ) play
@ТатьянаКубрак-в7у 2 ай бұрын
Красиво.Спасибо.
@user-ek7vy5vz4h 2 ай бұрын
Simply beautiful.....😊
@bernie57 2 ай бұрын
wow amazing playing Alban. Your cello projects very well indeed. I first heard this work with the Rostropovich LP recording.
@yesman4627 2 ай бұрын
Amazing
@danielgaisford 2 ай бұрын
Alban, you’re so natural at this. Really wonderful Q&A!
@cathschofield7488 2 ай бұрын
What a beautiful sound you make
@paulcapaccio9905 3 ай бұрын
Why you memorize anything anymore ? Not necessary anymore
@zerxninja4479 3 ай бұрын
Why not may I ask...
@paulcapaccio9905 3 ай бұрын
@@zerxninja4479 undo strain on the human mind in today’s high paced world
@zerxninja4479 3 ай бұрын
@@paulcapaccio9905 are you saying memorizing isnt needed...or playing instruments arent.? You kinda need to memorize unless you wanna turn 10 pages during the song or more. You must not be a musician lol
@natahabroido8371 3 ай бұрын
Восторг! Большое спасибо
@B.W.Prints 3 ай бұрын
It happens to all of us, your recovery was amazing. Bravo!
@mfd1512 4 ай бұрын
😉Sehr nette Video-Idee…Ruft Erinnerungen an einen Boettcherklassen-Vortragsabend in mir wach, als ich im 2. Satz Lalo komplett den Faden verlor (und Wolfgang hinterher ziemlich sauer war!😂)
@mrssibelius 4 ай бұрын
That tiny dent in the wrist moves the "axis" closer to the hand. Therefore faster vibrato.
@pablolaporev 4 ай бұрын
But still… you handle it like a boss 😄
@martinosimionato1536 4 ай бұрын
I agree what do you think is it hard? Tchnique or other things?
@Fliszt-sz8ww 4 ай бұрын
Hello. Also as a Pianist, a lots of experiences of same mistake, I admire and even appreciate of your upload. Nowadays people are so easy to criticize others(even from fellow musicians), comparing live concert with studio recording, determine musicians by misnotes than musicality… this kind of ‘mistake’ should be considered more natural and with humor.
@MalaNi76 4 ай бұрын
You are wonderful! I had a pleasure of playing on stage with you a couple of times and I feel so honored. I love your facial expressions in this video.
@Cellitito 4 ай бұрын
I admire you even more for sharing this 🥲 I’m still haunted from one of my performances of a duet I did, I played the violin solo part of the Bach double *on the cello* and, for the solo, I totally forgot what I memorized and started improvising (frantically trying to get to the specific note that would cue the violinist back in). I really appreciate how you just laughed it off, and continued with spirit. I had the opportunity to see you play Dvorak live and get to meet you afterwards 😌 I was so excitedly nervous I was shaking 🥹
@estebanbatallan 4 ай бұрын
Grande Alban!!
@paules3437 4 ай бұрын
You're very brave to show us this, and I must say you look super comfortable in terms of playing and memory etc. We all know a moment's enough to throw even the pro's off. As a 17 yr old I played the slow movement of Ginestera's piano sonata and got incredibly lost, but because the music was so "modern," i just made it up until I landed at a point I knew. You can do that with modern music; not so much with, say, Mozart. My teachers and I laugh about that to this day, 40+ yrs later.
@albancello 4 ай бұрын
Good for you, glad you overcame that moment and kept on going - and hopefully continued playing by heart and not being scared for the future...
@hhdh7474 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for showing us that it can happen to anyone - even the most gifted and accomplished like yourself. I will show all my students! (You used to play often with us here in the US with Rhode Island Philharmonic when Larry Rachleff was here. We miss your beautiful playing and great musicianship - and hope you can return!)
@albancello 4 ай бұрын
I'd love to come back to the Rhode Island Philharmonic, always enjoyed my time there!
@ponziopilates1146 4 ай бұрын
Ahahah grandissimo! Suoni benissimo e sei riuscito a mascherare bene il momento di crisi! Ehehe grande grande! Un abbraccio
@stylecine 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your "human" moments. Otherwise, you are a godly cellist. Hope future technology allows us for a chip that can be planted in our brains so we do not forget music xD
@bernie57 4 ай бұрын
........a dark thought indeed! I hope that you are jesting!
@stylecine 4 ай бұрын
@@bernie57 No I am serious. It does sound invasive, but don't you imagine there will be a technology where you can physcially increase the memory storage space for human beings? Anyways, I just want to be free of that anxiety caused by memory, though, that is not my only source of anxiety when I'm performing xD
@waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3 4 ай бұрын
@@stylecineI think it takes away humanity, mistakes are human
@albancello 4 ай бұрын
interesting thoughts indeed - I say I might agree with you though, that it would take something away from the performance if we take away the chance of maybe getting lost. Indeed, we are humans, and failure and mistakes are part of the journey - not that we shouldn't strive for perfection, but in this case it's slightly different: I didn't get lost because I had poor memory, but because I tried something new, different (as I actually always try to do), and in this case I got carried away and indeed lost my train of thoughts. Even if I had the chip implanted in my brain I am quite sure in this moment I would have bypassed the chip for the sake of creativity and would have gotten lost in spite of it :)
@carolinepye8694 4 ай бұрын
Sounded Great Alban despite going off “piste” a little and thank goodness for the magic “C” - the recovery was majestic 😊
@xxbstpagexx 4 ай бұрын
I am an amateur cellist. I love these daily routine videos. I find them deeply insightful and inspiring since a lifelong professional cellist is still striving for perfection and “cleaning” his technique daily. I hope to gather the self discipline to put some of these into a daily routine of my own. So far, the Piatti 1 is regular. I played the Sevcik for nearly two weeks, but lost motivation. Feuillard 8 I played daily about 15 years ago, but nowhere near the accuracy and purpose. Thank you for creating and sharing.
@xxbstpagexx 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing.
@twcellist 5 ай бұрын
As a non-professional cellist I had a similar experience playing Piatti No 7. Just all of a sudden had a blackout and found myself looping several times!🙃Thankfully nobody in the audience seemed to notice or care. 🙏It's good to know though that even professional cellist are human. 😉
@ralphhennen5769 5 ай бұрын
Really like following your instructions. Question: would any of this exercise be different using a mute on the bridge, besides having a lower volume? Thanks.
@shevaschwartz 5 ай бұрын
Next time someone slags me off for playing the Fitzenhagen, I'm sending them this!
@quietneighborhoodproductio4936 5 ай бұрын
really halarious!
@deepwaters9300 5 ай бұрын
Rules are rules.
@carolinepye8694 5 ай бұрын
Up Bow Alban - you sound better than ever ❤ it!
@teodordavidsoporan4482 5 ай бұрын
Definitely a very original idea, that you make sound great!
@xxbstpagexx 5 ай бұрын
Hilarious
@brendamann6106 5 ай бұрын
Thank you! I am starting Sevck’s 40 exercises. I watched your video on #19. Cole and Harrell who have passed now made several videos still on UTube in which they discuss bowing. They go through the first 21 of them. I felt yours with close up slow movements very helpful even though I haven’t gotten to 19 yet. Your playing in your concerts is wonderful!
@meralyilmaz9164 6 ай бұрын
If I were born again, I would live the same life, more skillfully and fearlessly. But this time I won't be late in recognizing you..!”♥️🇹🇷Dvorak♥️🎼Alban Gerhardt♥️🎼
@bernie57 7 ай бұрын
wow beautiful playing both of you. love the character of the Goffriller and depth of the sound particularly in the lower registers; impressive how it sounds so throaty way up on the G string. Bravi
@lorrytrujilloperezphd 7 ай бұрын
You are so funny and charming.
@stevenj9970 7 ай бұрын
Great! Wow, not seen that much that thumb position action the in fast section since D. Shafrin...Makes sense though, much less shifting! I've always loved this concerto, though a pity the orch. accomp. is so thick it can overpower the solo cello lines. One has to work a LOT harder in this work.
@bernie57 7 ай бұрын
the comic cellist!! funny stream of consciousness edgy stuff Alban !!
@aufbrechen 7 ай бұрын
i dont like that comic stuff. Why is he the clown?
@johndiana5276 7 ай бұрын
Alban, you are hilarious! You may have found your edge over all the other cellists. Talk a little because it was obvious the audience loved it. Jack
@pechesmith 7 ай бұрын
Good evening, Mr. Gerhardt. I have thoroughly enjoyed your performance tonight in Vitoria. Thank you, thank you. I love the cello, and Lalo was previously unknown to me. Your performance was stratospheric. Could you please share the name and autor of little piece you played solo? Thank you very much and congratulations again
@albancello 7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the concert! I played the 1st movement of the Solosuite by Gaspar Cassado as encore. Come visit my Patreon site where you can (among 300 other videos) can see the full Suite :)
@pechesmith 7 ай бұрын
@@albancello thank you for your "express" answer. I´ll visit your Patreon.
@richardandaya3932 7 ай бұрын
Isn’t that Kevin Bacon?
@albancello 7 ай бұрын
oh please, don't insult Kevin Bacon :)
@PlanetImo 7 ай бұрын
Lovely :)
@kennethslavett1177 7 ай бұрын
I had just finished performing the Saint-Saens cello concerto. The conductor asked me to play the last movement of a Mahler symphony which has a soprano soloist. This was after the intermission. I was sitting next to the first cellist. Just after the movement began, my A string broke. Without any hesitation I played all of the high notes on the D string. I’m always amazed at what you can do just to survive.
@SeaRasp 7 ай бұрын
Incredible video, ty!
@kanubeenderman 8 ай бұрын
ha ha awesome way to keep on playing - the show must go on they say! I can't imagine the ledger lines needed for those notes though. one would think the composer would ask a violin to step in at that point, or a piccolo :) and the players behind you are amazed at notes you are getting out of that cello, not to mention the d string