Brahms: Cello Sonata no. 1 - 1st movement (Benjamin Zander - Interpretation Class)

For more classes like this one, please visit the Benjamin Zander Center - www.benjaminzander.org/
Yihang Li, cello with Dina Vainshtein, piano
Benjamin Zander's Interpretation of Music, Lessons for Life
Dave Jamrog, Audio/Video

[@helenpanshin5589]

"It's not about the cello; it's about the human heart." -Benjamin Zander Well put!

[@urshandschin5108]

I like that here (27:09), for once, one clearly points out the fact that the piano is often given the important role, and the cellist should LISTEN to the piano playing!

[@user-lo1co5mi7l]

"Have you lost anyone you loved>That is the emotion there." wow that brought tears to my eyes instantaneously. Mr. Zander, you are brilliantly. Thank you for these classes.

[@TheYgds]

I love how much time he gives to each of these students. I've been to masterclasses before, and 10 minutes was the maximum they were willing to spend with a student. Sure there were sometimes time constraints, but the commitment this takes is remarkable. He really cares about these students mastering their art.

[@calevy7099]

You go, Yihang Li! Masterful. ❤️

[@panossolo909]

Thank you Ben! I wander if this masterclass’s just benefits the young cellist. Equally, if not more importantly, it teaches us what to look out for. And the enthusiasm you impart to us,, THANK YOU

[@LanceClark]

I could watch these all day

[@williamdamico4640]

Lance Clark I do!!!!

[@zakerymizell8838]

Love this man and his students! Always such great insight into these pieces

[@christiandperry]

Absolutely amazing instruction modeling amazing talent as thou it is clay! Truly an artist!

[@baassd3965]

18:54 ..... I love Zander :D

[@user-gp4ge9yb5s]

such a talented young cellist!!! She played so beautifully!!

[@paytonprys1586]

Such a wonderful cellist for being so young

[@maazzafar2822]

Dina is awesome!

[@lynnrixson3013]

Absolutely tremendous as usual. Brilliant stuff Ben 😊

[@orchepiaviolinviola]

Hi Ben! It’s your student from ions ago! Watching and listening to this performance brought me back to the class I had with you at NEC! I remember Paul Maerlin playing this in our class. Thank you for teaching me! I try to remember everything you’ve taught me and I’ve been passing the gems on to my students. This was my favorite class at NEC!

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

is she your Daughter??

[@orchepiaviolinviola]

@@benitoiiidolor6567 Are you talking to me???

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

@@orchepiaviolinviola Yes! but is she your Daughter?

[@orchepiaviolinviola]

@@benitoiiidolor6567 I'm not understanding your comment? Why do you keep asking me if she's my daughter? Mr. Zander was my TEACHER at SCHOOL. Did you have a problem with me saying hello to my TEACHER??

[@orchepiaviolinviola]

@@benitoiiidolor6567 Now I notice you can't answer my question!

[@RobManser77]

Was she 14 when this was filmed? That's astonishing playing!

[@stricklandwu]

Fantastic

[@RochestersGotTalentbyPaulRefic]

thats the blues in classical music

[@phosart4050]

Omg.... ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@valingui]

Qué maravilla

[@manuelgoncalvespinho1776]

"Play that like Rodin."

[@danielangel3685]

Look at the piano at 18:53

[@isaacparedes3565]

Loool

[@TheOperamore]

Why was he doing that? Lol

[@musicgaines7170]

He's a piece of shit.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

@@TheOperamore He was helping the accompanist to turn the page.

[@38348101]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nunodionisio496]

I would like to see one of these videos with the double bass it seems to be forgotten for some reason and it's sad to all of us bass players so if you can do that I'll love this kind of video!!

[@ModusVivendiMedia]

Here's one, though it's with Hans Jørgen Jensen instead of Benjamin Zander, from around 2016 I think. (Actually I didn't find his teaching here nearly as interesting or helpful as Benjamin's. Of course with a player like Mikyung, what was he going to say? He had to make himself sound important somehow!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWHZmH6bjbF0fqc

[@ModusVivendiMedia]

Also here's another bass masterclass (though again not Zander, this time it's Peter Lloyd of The Colburn School): kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnOVZGtnl9KJoNE

[@soundhill1]

I love the violin sonatas, just noting I don't always want to have to manage such intensty.

[@soundhill1]

Brahms' 2 with Oistrakh. Full voice at times but always your "beautiful" And the real Brahms music shines through, not what a performer thinks Brahms to be. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGXRap6Ll9-gfbs

[@soundhill1]

I've just been listening to Leonard Rose play Brahms 1. I was exposed to much Brahms through my formatory years. Then at a lesson with William Pleeth in the early 1960s he was wanting me to dramatize Brahms 1. I tried to adapt but I don't feel myself to have "clicked" to Pleeth really. And maybe with his Bach bowings.

[@soundhill1]

This is a puzzle for me, where my Brahms came from. I didn't know my grandfather but he was overseas for a while wth Godowski. When he came back my mother would have heard his interpretations presumably from Brahms to Godowski. And as I grew she was constantly playing the Ballades and Intermezzi and various songs

[@Pianobody]

Her cello's wearing a cape!

[@ABCchill]

Isn't this a reupload?

[@amielschotz4982]

Brilliant as always, perhaps life changing for the young cellist. But he sends a mixed message-first insisting that she act out the “story” in body language and facial expression, but finally saying that in a sense she needs to be almost invisible, so that the “presence” is all that of Brahms. No, it’s a collaboration and there are times in the music when it’s fine for the audience to be aware of the performers AND the music at the sam3 time.

[@lekhapratap1652]

He never did one on viola, did he? The gentle savagery Damn. Well it is music.

[@TheOperamore]

He did. On brahms viola sonata

[@lekhapratap1652]

TheOperamore thanks

[@Ali.Shlaibeq]

There are many on viola, there's one on Schubert's Arpeggione and more recently Bach's Cello suite in C major.

[@nickzaytz5712]

remember Łukasz Pawlikowski did this?)

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

Yes! Why?

[@estremp]

Why can't we lift our head while playing ? And look at the horizon or into someone's eye ? When does music starts to exist ??

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

suggested UMG ("We don't talk About Bruno")

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

rip

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

Rip Cellist :)

[@idktbh2318]

Yes! finally a student im better than!

[@Andrea-hm1ix]

change the pianist please

[@richardwebb2348]

Zander - Creepy ewh!

[@urshandschin5108]

I like that here (27:09), for once, one clearly points out the fact that the piano is often given the important role, and the cellist should LISTEN to the piano playing!