As a season-ticket holder to the amazing Houston Symphony Orchestra I second the greatness of the Houston Symphony cello section! Bravo, Brinton and the entire Cello section.
@enricoalvaresviolin22 күн бұрын
Bravo!
@trevoreades197124 күн бұрын
Wow ❤
@axelsohn1454Ай бұрын
Smith is an absolutely superb cellist and has many videos cellists should view and study. Apart from the fire and intensity of his performance of this wonderfully crafted piece and its paen to Piatigorsky, a young cellist watching and listening can learn a huge amount about bow and left hand technique. Thanks for posting this.
@fulanodetaldoorkutАй бұрын
Saurasati would be a good name too
@samsonchen6444Ай бұрын
May I know whose arrangement is this?
@masterzen89372 ай бұрын
Amazing !!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@DavidMarteinson2 ай бұрын
Feuermann would be impressed with this
@brucehubbard84043 ай бұрын
"Bravi, bravi!!" ❤️🎶🎹🎻 Such a talented family!
@qfcbv3 ай бұрын
Lol the descripton was ahead of its time: "Truly one of the cadenzas ever."
@solowcello3 ай бұрын
Great playing!
@haydenr.87604 ай бұрын
bravo
@maestroukr4 ай бұрын
I love your performance of this! I don't have the Piatigorsky arrangement here; did he skip Schubert's variations 1 and 4?
@RaffaeleBinetti4 ай бұрын
if I had to dance it it would be impossible for me to do it in one minute
@annatsereteli5314 ай бұрын
Bravo! ❤🎉
@jenrest67825 ай бұрын
Master piece
@kurakoko5 ай бұрын
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.
@kurakoko5 ай бұрын
Bravo for this cellist!! He is really amazing and should famous!
@michaelavillarreal5 ай бұрын
Gut had the best spectrum of overtones while still projecting with clarity.
@aristideduplessis81516 ай бұрын
This is still, by miles, the most virtuostic, light, characteristic, and beautiful version on KZbin.
@harryheights6 ай бұрын
Excellentissime. Bravo !
@carolestraub65026 ай бұрын
Beautiful!
@janettebailey77716 ай бұрын
This so beautiful, well played both of you.❤. Please can you let me know where I can purchase the sheet music.TIA. 😊
@spinozareader6 ай бұрын
Oh, that last "Leave me alone"...
@spinozareader6 ай бұрын
My, what impressive scales you have!!
@sebby53366 ай бұрын
is this in prep for dvorak?
@jonathanhunt56186 ай бұрын
Very lovely: thank you!
@mugginsmouse16 ай бұрын
❤️
@kevinl62316 ай бұрын
Thank you😀
@MichaelBeckman6 ай бұрын
Beautiful!
@celineflamen17286 ай бұрын
🌺🙏
@enricoalvaresviolin6 ай бұрын
Bravo both! Beautiful
@cmorrison33697 ай бұрын
So beautiful.... gives me chills. Thank you
@TheYaccy7 ай бұрын
✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨ I can't find the sheet music for this on the internet. Could you please tell me how I can purchase it?
@gloomymirthbukamucho40499 ай бұрын
What's the name of the song at 1:20?
@batcello9 ай бұрын
THE REVEAL! A few caveats- the gut strings are the thickest gauge Oliv, so the total pressure is quite close to a steel set. Obviously this is not a great recording quality on an ipad, at low recoding levels and much nuance is lost to the echo of the hall. Nevertheless most of the observations people made here were consistent with what people in the hall said. And this is my cello on which gut has been played for 2.5 years and adjusted to sound with that. Different people may very likely have different results with different cellos/ halls. Most people guessed wrong. and I *for sure* would have guessed wrong, had I not heard this with my own ears! Because the results are really quite shocking. So- the actual order: #1 Steel-Rondo Experience, Jargar Evoke, Jargar Evoke, Rondo (I tested about 10 steel sets and this combination sounded both the best and the loudest of what I had to try) #2 Oliv (Gut) thick gauge - the setup I've been playing for the last two years. #3 Dominant Forte A/D Dominant medium G (from 1997 because that's all I had on hand) Obligato C (It sounded better with the Dominant C but that broke) n.b. this is not the new Dominant Pro steel brand, but Dominant, the 1970s era nylon core brand that many violinists still use. The dominant set was the most open sounding, the most tenor-ish and the most projecting. It sounds a little hollow on the recording, but better in real life. The instrument rings like I've never heard it ring. It is probably what I am going to use for Dvorak, even though I am truly baffled by the results. It responds *very much* to bow speed, but not to pressure. As in more bow speed doubles the sound, but more pressure does much less than I'm used to (even with gut. Likely because of the lower tension) Much more like playing a violin. It will take some learning... After years of playing on the thickest A string around, suddenly I'm playing on the thinnest. Dominant fortes aren't even readily available from most shops! Perhaps the most fascinating thing about all of this- almost no one preferred the steel! Not just hear but of the many I sent this to. Nor was it that significantly louder than the gut. It has more edge and, under the ear, it sounds much louder that the gut, but after two years of playing on gut I think I have learned how to make them project decently. You can't play them like steel strings and their warmer sound can perhaps be more easily covered by acoustic masking of other instruments, but gut are not, per se, necessarily much softer than steel, even though they may sound that way under the ear. What this experiment is really making me wonder is whether we have been moving the string market more and more towards what sounds best under the ear, rather than what speaks in a hall? I mean who has the time, money or mental instability to do tests like this? And maybe higher tension isn't necessarily more sound? It certainly wasn't in this case. You can look at the waveforms and see that the Dominants- nearly 20% less pressure- project more. The next step would be spectrum analysis... If anyone else tries Dominants (not pro, old school) *please* let me know if they work on your cello! Thanks all- Brinton Smith EDIT- I've heard today from a violinist friend who said that in the violin world it is said that Dominants make good/great old instruments sound really good and not so good instruments sound bad... It might be the same for cellos? an important caveat maybe...
@CelloTube-vs7mf8 ай бұрын
Very interesting, indeed! Will definitely give Dominants a try in the future. I also think you raise an important point regarding the string market and "under the ear bias". There is for sure a lot of experimentation to be done in this field and lots to be discovered.
@JulienGaudfroy8 ай бұрын
I will answer this with one main aspect for me: higher tension strings always are musically less sensitive. So even when the soundpost is loose enough to work with modern tense strings sets, the sound will speak less and sing less most of the time. Between the Dominant tension and the Spirocore/Jargar set is more ideal for music, which already is a big range and there is no standard of course, . But the modern sets makes bow pressure variation way less musical, harder to express music like the human voice that constantly micro-varies.
@xxxxapexxxx2 ай бұрын
Thanks, it's a very interesting and rare test. I've been using the Dominant for a few months, I tried a medium set with the Larsen airy first string. after playing a piano trio concert, I felt the need for more resistance under the bow and took a set of strong dominants, the sound is very open and free, at the moment it seems excellent to me. when I return to my work in the theater with opera solos, I will be able to say better whether the dominants are a valid choice. I have now put a Larsen soloist as the first string, which has a little less pressure than the arioso.
@philgaskill9 ай бұрын
Absolutely gorgeous, as always, Brinton. -Phil Gaskill
@gloomymirthbukamucho40499 ай бұрын
Very interesting video! Thank you very much. I think gut strings sound better on the lower strings, but on higher I didn't hear much difference. Anyway now I dream about the gut set)
@mettevunsjensen40949 ай бұрын
Thank you for publishing this. As musicians, we all know the hard work behind our abilities. So to me it’s much more interesting to see behind the scene-work. Also, I’m not able to spend a lot of money on strings, so this is very valuable.
@nm8079 ай бұрын
Thank you for this magnificent interpretation. It is impossible to find a score for two, three or more celli. Could you help me if you know any arrangement available of this score ? 1000 Merci.
@larrylemaster39319 ай бұрын
God is in the details...
@emmanuelvacakis44639 ай бұрын
Feuermann didn’t die. He was murdered by the doctors.
@NicoleMorel-t1w10 ай бұрын
What a beautiful play ! Thank you very much for publishing it on KZbin. Please, could you tell me where I could buy this Sheet of Music arranged by your friend Kevin Dvorak. I love it so 1000 merci in advance. N.M.
@axelsohn145410 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this. Nelsova was truly one of the greatest.
@kgtys11 ай бұрын
🎻 Exquisite playing. One of the best interpretations of this piece!
@ChristineRauh11 ай бұрын
superb! what a grand idea!!! 😅
@SuperMumboo Жыл бұрын
This work is on my music stand at the moment!
@rominn2184 Жыл бұрын
Absolute clear and pristine mastery of the instrument. A cellist could ask for nothing more.