I studied with May Mukle's only student: Dr Lyndon De Lecq Marguerie, and I appreciate you including her music. Do you mind if I correct you - her name is May Mukle (pronouned Muklee like Berkley). Even the BBC have been pronouncing this wrong recently and there is no question that she pronounced her own name Muklee. Thank you.

Lovely video, thrilled to see May get deserved recognition today. May is my grandfathers cousin. There are a couple of inaccuracies in the video, the most important one is probably that her father Leopold was an immigrant from the Black Forest. He came from a village in Furtwangen, called Rohrbach. The Imhof and Mukle (pronounced Moo-cleh, or anglicised like my name it's Muckley) firm that made the orchestrions had it's workshops in Vohrenbach (near Furtwangen).

After 1998, Nellis continued with private lessons until shortly before her death. I, along with my son, were students of hers at SFS and continued to visit her at her home until about 2001. She was an amazing person. She had many interesting stories about being the first female principal cellist at NYC Ballet Orchestra. She also took us behind and under stage at Lincoln Center. I absolutely adored her and feel honored to have known her.

Thank you so much. Really enjoyed this story. Learning more about Portuguese history through names of city streets. This is a popular Portuguese street name and I wanted to know more. This by far is one of the most interesting stories I found and so well documented.❤

Thank you so much for playing this arrangement and sharing the performance on KZbin. Beautifully played! 🎼🎹

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Lovely! So glad I found this. Where is the CD available?

Congratulations! So moving and delicate! Thank you so much for sharing! 🥰🥰

She was a great cellist 🎻 Half-sister of 007

Winifred Mayes was my cello teacher in Ann Arbor from 1977 to 1978, when our first child was born. She was an inspiration, a wonderful humorist -- she spoke of playing cello while pregnant and feeling her son kick the cello as she played.

This is an outstanding video and such lovely playing! Thank you so much for posting. Your research is so interesting, and so accurate. Dorothy and Nellis’s father, Glen was superintendent of schools in Neodesha and their mother, Cecile, took them from Neodesha KS to nearby Ft. Scott to study with Markwood Holmes, violin, and Raymond Stuhl, cello, when the girls were quite young. Holmes and Stuhl taught at the Kansas City Conservatory but drove to Ft. Scott on weekends. When the girls were in high school, their orchestra teachers included Earl McCray, Edward Rutledge, and Mihail Stolarevski, who was principal violist with both the Cincinnati Orchestra and the Pittsburg Symphony under Fritz Reiner. While still in their teens, the DeLay girls toured with the American Youth Symphony under Leopold Stokowski.

Wonderful to hear these and I'm so grateful Mr Knott kept them. Looking at the BBC schedule website it seems that Amaryllis Fleming was a regular on Radio 3 and it's predecessor station. Amongst many appearances she contributed to a tribute to Pablo Casals on his death in 1973. However the timing of broadcast of these suites seems a little odd. 5 programmes weekly from 1st to 29th August 1974 starting at between 10PM and 11:30PM!

I love this so much🎶

Love this! Thank you for the videos

That was powerful and beautiful!!!

Maravilhoso!

Very very nice 😘

This arrangement is absolutely beautiful. Is there any way that you can share the score? My daughter would love to play this cello arrangement.

This is great! :)

1.O Holy Lord 0:06 2.Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 3:25 3.Lord I Want to be a Christian 7:28

So beautiful and Inspiring. I think that when we pass, or retire what remains is the kindness and empathy we gave to others and the art we rendered from our opportunity to be a conduit of the sublime artists who left immortal expressions of creativity for us to learn from and share our interpretations of.

Amazing performance by the both of you! I truly aspire to play like you guys one day!

Spellbinding!

You'll need to update this video ... lol ....

Thank you! Suggia is still unique!

A truly great cellist! There will never be another cellist like Suggia. I have the impression that of her Strad and Montagnana she loved the latter the most. I think she used that cello for her great recording of the Haydn D major concerto in 1928. Montagnana was the Guarneri del Gesu of the cello!

While I dearly love the original piece, there is something very intimate with just two instruments. Very beautiful!

very nice

I can't believe this piece isn't more popular. I have searched it up after hearing it in concert and all that comes up is you playing it. Quite beautifully at that.

Thank you, Hannah for this and your series. As a 40+ year old learning the cello, I often get discouraged and frustrated. Seeing and hearing these amazing women and their stories, provides much needed inspiration.

Beautiful!!

this is incandescent. I would love to buy these recordings.

thank you for posting this, it's wonderful!

Beautiful!!!

Thank you for making this available on You tube!

If anyone is interested there is another recording of Ms. Fleming playing this suite on youtube. It's from a performance about 10 years after this one, and there are quite a few differences, namely her ornamentation and use of historical pitch. Such an interesting lady, a true leader and innovator of the early music revival! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZS1iYSla8aCqpY

Thank you for this! We love your videos!

Beautiful, gorgeous performance, congratulations ladies!

I love this every time I hear it. I love who plays it.

Beautiful, as always. Thank you.

Amaryllis Fleming (1925-1999), an English cellist, according to Tully Potter in the article “Living to the Full” published in Strad Magazine in December 1999 was seen by someone at the time as the femme fatale who succeeded in practicing the cello. True or not, she was outstanding as a cellist, teacher, and innovative. “His adolescence was emotionally difficult. His mother, Eve Fleming, was a lady’s house in Chelsea, widow of a war hero, and deified daughter of a princess. Eve, studied violin with the sisters Adila Fachiri and Jelly Aranyi, this latter violinist, much admired by Maurice Ravel. Eve had three sons: Amaryllis, Peter and Ian. Peter became a successful travel writer, and Ian, novelist, created James Bond (007). Amaryllis was not a very happy relationship with her mother, who always told her was not her biological mother. However, at age 23, the painter Augustus John told Amaryllis to be their father, and that Eve was actually his real mother. She began studying piano at age three, and at nine wanted to study the violin, but her mother convinced her to study the cello. In 1937 she was sent to Downe House School in Berkshire as a pensioner, but occasionally went to London to take lessons with John Snowden of the Royal College of Music, where she made rapid progress. At 15 made his first appearance with the BBC Orchestra in London. In 1941, mother and daughter went to Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire. Amaryllis, then played in the Oxford Orchestra, whose director, Thomas Armstrong suggested she go back to Downe House to complement their studies. At 17 won a scholarship to attend full-time the Royal College of Music and lessons with Ivor James. In 1944 was a soloist in the Elgar concerto with the Newbury String Players. She also studied in Paris with Pierre Fournier, who offered free advice to become his private tutor, as well as a personal friend. She reportedly told to her friend Margaret Campbell, that Fournier had increased his virtuosic possibilities, especially on the bow techniques. Also studied with Guilhermina Suggia, Gaspar Cassado and Enrico Mainardi. In Prades, Pyrenees with Casals, she studied deeply the Schumann concerto. In 1953 she was again the soloist in the Elgar concerto, this time with the Hallé Orchestra, and by that time, Anthony Pini was considered the best English cellist”. In the late fifties, Amaryllis acquired his 1717 Stradivarius, an instrument that had, besides the belly, neck, and scroll easel replaced by luthier Jose Contreras in Madrid, around 1799. She became the greatest supporter after Piatigorsky, to play the Walton’s Concerto and presented in primiere, several new works for the instrument, including the Tre Pezzi by Mathyas Seiber, which were presented at the Cheltenham Festival under the baton of Barbirolli, the Sonatas of Arnold Cook, and those of Peter Racine Fricker. In the late sixties, Amaryllis turned to the Bach’s Suites, and through a score from the book of Anna Magdalena Bach played the work with a small 5-stringed Amati Cello of 1600, which acquired specifically for this purpose. This instrument, known as Cello Piccolo or Viola da Spalla which existed at the Bach’s time, therefore, may not be that which the great genius who conceived and commissioned to Leipzig’s luthier, Johann Christian Hoffman in 1725 (known as Viola Pomposa ) being used for the proper interpretation of the last of his six suites, as a means solo as well as instrument obbligato in several of his Sacred Cantatas. However, the interpretation of this work at the time of Fleming, playing the Girolamo Amati, was surely the first stereo recording held in the BBC Studios, performed by an earnest performer correctly referred to the original score of the Sixth Suite. His pupil, Jane Salmon of the Schubert Ensemble of London, said it was a version in full, and quite different from those performed with the great cello. However, the first monaural recording Bach’s Six Suites on 5-striged unaccompanied cello (considered as a reference to the mode) performed in the Villandry Castle, France, 1953, and recorded at the time by Ducretet-Thomson, as an interpreter, coincidentally, also a woman, the virtuoso cellist Annlies Schmidt-de Neveu. At maturity, less and less interested in great performances as a soloist in concerts, in part because of feeling overshadowed by Jacqueline Du Pre, young star on a large projection, Amaryllis was more devoted to chamber music, with a few appearances as a soloist . However, she played Dvorak's concerto at the Wigmore Hall, whose presentation was very well commented. That same year, Fleming formed a Strig Trio, accompanied by violist Kenneth Essex and violinist Granville Jones, with the latter’s death, replaced by Emanuel Hurwitz. Since 1993, with health problems, he devoted more to teach. Michal Kaznowski member of the Maggini Quartet stated that the classes had with her were key to his bow technique. By then, she has also become interested in metaphysics, cultivating Buddhism. Some months before his death, was received in audience by Dalay Lama in Tibet, and after that withdrew completely from the music scene. Amaryllis was almost totally ignored by the record industry, however, the BBC must have their tapes of the Piano Trio, and surely his studio recordings of the Bach Suites, very important to musicology because the use of the 5-stringed instrument in the recording (Cello Piccolo). I personally consider this record as being of fundamental importance, suggesting here the commitment of the BBC to be licensed it to recording, contributing, albeit belatedly, for the elucidation recordings and recognition of the Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, (in 5-stringed first time stereo recording) by Amaryllis Fleming. Only in 1977, the BBC released the rights to the tapes of Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano op.38, and Schubert's D.821, played by Amaryllis Fleming in a duet with pianist Geoffrey Parsons, which were brought to the disc by English label Nimbus, which is one of the few LPs recorded by this cellist. The 1717 “Amaryllis Fleming”, ex-Kuchler, Strad cello now belongs to the newly created Amaryllis Fleming Foundation of London, and was last heard in 2003 played by cellist Raphael Wallfisch.

Glad I watched and am glad for your effort but I will admit that I was fascinated and drawn in to watch by your necklace ornament and fur collar. It looks like a mic or a camera implanted in an ornament that originates from the sci-fi planet Arrakis (Dune). Goth- right? So you know, this link came from an article that NCPR produced.

Another amazing story. I live in Worcester but didn't know anything about this story until the day I really decided to start playing the Cello. Thank again for sharing.

Wow. I just watched the movie "Deception", amazing music, the Cello concerto wow. Thank you for you videos. So wonderful to hear you play and talk about cello and female cellists. ❤️

I just bought the book, came yesterday, I'm Portuguese so I'm feeling very proud, I had no idea of her greatness, only a few weeks ago when I started to play the Cello myself. Thanks for this video, amazing, very inspiring, I can see your passion. 😍❤️

Moving story, beautifully told. Thank you.

Just beautiful. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed making this work. Her story is amazing, and you delivered it in a really sensitive way, anyone can see that you are moved by this great artist. Cheers from Argentina. I doubt it, but some part of me hopes that maybe there is a Latin American female chellist who is worth this kind of investigation, hahaha. Maybe one day will appear, i tried to investigate on my one and found nothing

A beautiful story! Thank you for sharing!

This is absolutely beautiful music! What an amazing piece of equipment! Great work!

Excellent performance!! She was my teacher in RCM. Thank you very much for letting us hearing this!!