Edward Elgar, Cello concerto from the Romanian Athenaeum hall

[@chambermuses7802]

Anastasia's maturity and sensitivity here, at only 22, were already stunning, and have only deepened and ripened. What a gift to us she is!

[@Shadi_Moussa_poet]

Oh my God, the amount of magic with this Elgar concerto... A mixture of anxiety, questioning, fear, desire, joy and hope... I can imagine the hills of the English countryside with this music. And the concerto performer added a wonderful feeling with her charming playing, she owned my heart with her melodious instrument... Thank you, Elgar. And thanks to the orchestra for the interesting performance. I follow from Damascus❤

[@danielezekiel97]

Still love watching and listening to this. So young , ! and what a wonderful performance at a young age with such tenderness and affection for the piece. Did you know Elgar was self taught composer

[@ivainsencher]

And the soloist, oh my, she shows the depth of a Rostropovich+boldness of Du Pre elle même!

[@amielschotz4982]

Elgar had struggled to rise from his lower middle class background (and a Catholic in Protestant England)to become the voice of empire. His music embodies the majesty and nobility of that great image, to be heard time and again in his great “nobilamente” themes. But the carnage of World War I showed that nobility to have feet of clay. So the cello concerto, his last major work though he lived another 14 years, is a farewell elegy to a world that not only had gone, but that perhaps had had a hollow heart. All that sorrow, with great reserve, is expressed in this masterpiece.

[@robertcohn8858]

A passionate, soulful, gorgeous performance by Ms. Kobekina and ensemble. Hard to believe this was only "2nd prize".

[@karlheiden1168]

For both of us: 1st prize!

[@mrgrinch8540]

@@karlheiden1168 Its not like shes your daughter

[@shang-wenwang1679]

thanks for the modern technology, then I can hear this wonderful performance and seeI such a beautiful music hall on the earth

[@vitocortesi9389]

I Have tears in my eyes I see the Jacqueline Dupre's soul close to you Anastasia

[@MILAMGM]

Makes me cry everytime I watch it. This performance is very rich and full of feeling. Great start of a soloist career!! This girl is a-ma-zing.

[@simoncoxall5203]

Just discovered. Tremendous tribute to this inspiring piece. I heard once this was Elgar’s response to the trauma of the Great War. However true, one can’t help but be moved by this execution of the great work. Thankyou

[@sarahraven2876]

I've been waiting decades to hear an Elgar with as much emotional power as du Pre brought it, and here it is. Plus, you bring your own subtlety of phrasing and thoughtfulness that's all your own. Bravo! Looking forward to hearing your other videos and new album.

[@luizprado1077]

She is more than amazing! Congratulations to the orchestra, also!

[@margareteast5670]

Phenomenal musician! Such range of expression, flawlessly performed! Wonderful, intelligent interpretation! Beautiful, warm sound, facile technique. Brava!😍

[@hausercello5489]

Hello

[@keithtinkler4073]

Written in 1919 this was Elgar's deep lament for the first World War - his music having been first recognized by the German public.

[@Phantomrasberryblowe]

Keith Tinkler How was it first recognized by the German public?

[@gonzalovaldivia3835]

many thanks for the interesting info. that is why the anguish beautifully expressed in this wonder concert. in spite of the history, the German public seems to be more open than others?

[@mogmason6920]

@Giovanni Pierre Elgar lived in Germany during this period, after being unsuccessful back in England and he met a music publisher named Augustus Jaeger, who took him under his wing and got him noticed. Back in the UK, he was still a nobody however. He later dedicated the 9th Enigma variation to him. Elgar’s music, despite being known today as being quintessentially British, was actually influenced heavily by that of Brahms, Wagner and Schumann (his three favourite composers), more than any British composer that ever lived before him.

[@nicolasdelaforge7420]

@@mogmason6920 No wonder I so love the Elgar cello: Brahms' 1st Symphony has no equal for me in art. Thanks for the information. My pen name is Bruun. I was astonished to see a town or village called 'Bruun' as my wife and I traveled through Switzerland - it was located amidst the formidable mountains on a lake! I then dreamed of living there for a number of years.

[@peterwhyte317]

Thank you to the soloist, orchestra, conductor and the recording engineers for a lovely performance

[@anthonyanderson2405]

The saddest and most profound concerto ever written. Masterful interpretation!

[@ColdShadeShi]

One of My favorite pieces. I can feel Your passion...

[@Dack105]

29:05 That's got to be the best I've head the end of the piece played. So crisp and powerful.

[@Wessex90]

This is my favourite cello concerto and it is the very piece that convinced me to start playing the cello. Beautifully played :-)!

[@AlphaGoII]

Inspirational Wessex.

[@Ксюша-х4к]

Анастасия, спасибо за прекрасное исполнение! 👏👏👏

[@whoami8434]

The facial expressions at 3:10 really get me. No matter how hard you try, when you’re that connected to the music, that’s inevitably what you look like.

[@AnnabelleDrumm]

Look at that competition audience, so stoic. No one will ever please them. Fabulous work, Anastasia!

[@HistoryInvestigators]

A mirror of Jacqueline Du Pre, but also unique in her own way. A truly passionate cellist, love the expressions she gives us during the performance- what a treat this was!! And she didn't win first place? I was shocked! Life really isn't fair!! This was one of the best performances of this concerto I've ever seen

[@ivainsencher]

Ever since I watched Hillary&Jackie I fell in love with this splendid piece by Elgar. Impossible to listen to it "in a casual, en passant mood:-)".

[@waterkingdavid]

Apart from such a beautifully played truly awesome piece of music there is something really lovely about the performer. Something truly special. Wonderful for the heart!

[@markpriest589]

Magnificent! Such a hypnotic rendering. Truly soulful.

[@dansingmuch]

This is such a beautiful cello concerto by Elgar and Anastasia Kobekina does it beautifully.

[@christianbrodiez5287]

Quelle belle prestation de la part de cette jeune violoncelliste Anastasia , parfois espiègle ,parfois virtuose ,totalement passionnée par sa partition , Bravo !

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This Comfort and Grace are immeasurable and beyond description

[@Sava12242]

exceptional...a moving and virtuoso level performance. A beautiful and superior cellist player with a nuanced and musically profound conductor & orchestra, thank you!

[@mrsbrownandhercat]

Brian - Agree absolutely, plus the wonderful acoustics of this magnificent concert hall add to the splendour.

[@Manu3337333]

Magnifique! Quelle grâce et élegance dans le jeu des bras, mains et doigts. Et quel son, j'en ai parfois la chair de poule. Merci Anastasia. Va multumesc!

[@Manu3337333]

et le chef d'orchestre est super . Quelle belle entente et écoute , coordination avec l'orchestre. Merci Monsieur! merci l'orchestre

[@МаринаМихневич-г6у]

I love this composition verry very much. And it was my firrst s....ad. Jabe you eve seen film Hilary and Jackey?? Tray this, its OMG😢

[@lucianamurta4226]

I'm a Brazilian researcher and I'm studying a Romanian painter who was born um Cluj-Napoca in 1916. Congratulations for your performance!

[@ZenWhisperer25]

Ștefan Luchian ?!

[@geraldwiddowson3902]

What a wonderful Passionate performance. She reminds me of The famous Du Pre Who i saw in London many years Ago. Wonderful

[@larrydunn5556]

Elgar's Cello Concerto always reminds me of Jacqueline du Pre and you play this piece so beautifully. You are so talented, so passionate and so lovely!

[@karlheiden1168]

Jacqueline du Pre is Anastasia Kobekinas (in an interview) declared "role model" and you can hear that in her performance!

[@musiquepoursedetendreetdor4491]

Ce concerto est magnifique. Et quelle interprétation. Félicitation c'est superbe 😊❤

[@bug5327]

there's something more wistful and dreamy about the way you played this versus yo yo ma. I like it a lot

[@cuckoouncledave]

Videos like this bring me to the place of pure contentment.

[@MaxiMushrooM]

Your interpretation is so briliant and beautiful! Thank you so much for this moment :')

[@soongheeha1420]

Beautiful playing! I am working on this piece and your playing inspired me to work harder. Thank you for recording!

[@nicollrodriguez1412]

De por si es un concierto muy difícil, al inicio los nervios traicionan, hubieron algunas notas falsas. Ya en la segunda parte entró mas segura y brillante ✨✨✨. Se aplaude mucho y el nivel que se necesita es muy alto bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Nibor222]

Agreed, probably due to nerves. Some very minor problems of intonation appeared very occasionally in the first movement. However, intonation in the second movement and onwards was as close to perfection as is possible - and, most important of all, the 'cellist's musical interpretation was nothing short of sublime.

[@hausercello5489]

Sim, eu espero que sim.

[@Luca-vb3xo]

Such a captivating performance

[@fighterdow]

this girl is so beautiful, and she plays so well.

[@neoniahazelwood9263]

Beautiful music and an outstanding performance. Thank you.

[@TheAmrev1776]

BRAVO! Anastasia Kobekina has immense talent and skill at the Violoncello!

[@ernstschliephake522]

...so great Anastasia, with such a personality, your own style, so expressive and deap...no words...gratulation...

[@Milsj81]

What a beautiful rendition, ❤️

[@michelaugeix8373]

Quelle superbe violoncelliste ! On a hâte de la revoir et de l'entendre chez nous; Bravo

[@alan1963]

Jacqueline Du Pre would be so proud of Anastasia's performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

[@rhodahart3265]

alan1963 b))

[@cmw9876]

Du Pré - so sadly lost to us just when she was in the prime of her career. Her London performance marking the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia was prophetically marked by the breaking of a Cello string during the performance - a sign of much to come. We live in a world now replete with such talent - so fortunate. Love you Anastasia but miss Jacqueline. It would have been a privilege to enjoy old age with her.

[@cmw9876]

It was Dvořák's Cello Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by a very young Daniel Barenboim, another part of an extraordinary story. Great talents are often given steel in fire. The archival footage is now on KZbin.

[@chrisshepherd828]

I believe Jacqueline Du Pre would have been proud and very encouraging to this young cellist.

[@SuperPagt]

Lol why ? Because she's a girl ?

[@onofrejosep]

Encantat d'haver descobert una cellista excepcional. Bravo!

[@luisastetecanal3599]

Estos Grandes MÚSICOS solistas, son unos verdaderos VIRTUOSOS !!!...interpretan las creaciones de los grandes maestros de la Música, como EXTASIADOS transportados a ese mundo maravilloso del ARTE MUSICAL, Anastasia es una de ellas sin duda. Viéndola y escuchándola al frente de su instrumento y la GRAN sinfónica, también uno como que se transporta a ese mundo maravilloso.

[@minaantanasijevic7780]

Beautiful performance, I felt every single note.

[@gerardbegni2806]

Anastasia Kobekina delivers to us an awesome version of this concerto.

[@sailormoon9658]

This is imposibble!🙇💕 She is/ They are great! Oh, I fell in love!

[@9UaYXxB]

This is great , a very thoughtful soloist , great recording, what a hall !

[@VaggosWho]

Amazing Concert and great video quality!

[@Jafsoke]

Het is en blij blijft een prachtig cello concerto - hemels!

[@jayh3283]

This is my favorite cello piece and what got me to fall in love with playing the cello more. This is the type of music piece I get really picky with without meaning to when hearing someone outside of Jacqueline Du Pre playing it. Anastasia played it flawlessly. She played it with great emotion, power and technique from start to finish.

[@BrotherJohannes]

Well done. To be overly effusive in a piece like this, which is a temptation, one can easily mask its subtleties and depths. Yet in this rendition I hear some beautiful phrasing and an ear for the orchestration. This piece evokes in me the attitude of a man whose strength has fled, or has long since atrophied, yet by grace has summoned one last utterance of his deepest love.

[@helenegagne3825]

Anastasia. tu joues comme un ange ! Orchestre beaucoup de sensibilité.

[@dab505279]

Super! And the picture quality is exceptional.

[@규상임-x6n]

Very good beautifully thanks for you. I love you. ❤❤

[@ElosoDelacueva-ge2qw]

Bravo, millones de éxitos, gracias por poner disfrutar algo tan bello.

[@kolcovarlam4477]

вы неподражаемы, Анастасия!! как же вы прекрасны!

[@frankcisyarmi]

amazing Anastasia Kobekina!!!!!

[@ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣΡΑΚΚΑΣ]

Amazing!!!!

[@Super2tek]

WOW! beautiful concerto :)

[@oliviervinches5032]

Это просто чудо!!! Анастасия: я люблю тебя!!!

[@josefernandes-gy6oz]

Very good concert specially the chelista girl and director. Thanks, Grillo.

[@gessecrash]

This is one most shymphony amazing that I already saw! Truly a masterpiece...

[@purplesewa]

Thank you so much anastasia, thank you for inspiring me to advance on the cello. The way you played this cello concerto truely made me fall in love with the cello all over again. At times i feel stuck and like i cant progress i rewatch this and remind myself that i can do it. Thank you and i cant wait to see where you go with your amazing talent.❤

[@raouldegendre2571]

beautiful cello, so much feeling , Elgar is moving soul music !

[@antoniomontemuro9751]

De coração, muito obrigado, Anastasia.

[@larrytran7584]

Amazing! and thank you for sharing it to the world. Jacqueline du Pre will be very proud of you. Hope you have happiness & inner peace.

[@alexb.4802]

favorite cellist

[@jakubjanku4436]

Damn this really reminds me Jacqueline Du Pre's playing, I even think miss Kobekina toog great inspiration from Du Pre. This is really top performance of Elgar's cello concerto, definetly best from her generation maybe even from all generations.

[@Liz-gb2jz]

Simply Bravo! 👏🎻😍

[@colinguan7626]

I. 0:50 II. 9:08 III. 14:04 IV. 18:42

[@МихаилАрестенко]

Спасибо, Анастасия. Прекрасная интерпретация. Зашёл на минуточку (искал Джулиана Ллойд Уэббера), и не смог оторваться - прослушал до конца. Спасибо за это отменное удовольствие.

[@alainmarchal7345]

magnifique anastasia !

[@documentaliaMente]

Beautyfull Anastasia! Greetings from Argentine. :)

[@investmenttudor1659]

My favorite cello piece. I never get tired of listening to it. Thanks for the upload

[@ilGuruDeiGatti]

Wonderfull music, great Kobekina violoncello.

[@usmc9543]

A brilliant performance by Anastasia. Wish I could've been in the audience!

[@cholig]

Bravo! Greatest sound ever the best!

[@АннаАндриянова-в7ы]

Это потрясающе и невероятно!! Спасибо от всего сердца, Анастасия!

[@shreyaschawathey7245]

Such a beautiful Concerto! She is Athena!!

[@James-do5qp]

If you think this was good, you should hear her recent performance to see how far she has come since then. Both her technique and expressiveness has vastly matured and it looked and sounded so effortless now.

[@BujorStoicovici]

Excellent! I think it is more like Maisky than du Pre, but even more it's like Kobekina. Well done!

[@pigeon5935]

Belle playing the cello

[@mcnaire2004]

Very enjoyable to listen to

[@keldherbst]

Oh my god, what a talent, a virtuoso

[@mohann2007]

Great, one more fantastic cellist to follow on youtube! :) Cheers, Anastasia!

[@alvarogarciabarbosa3199]

Sentimiento profundo!! El más precioso concierto de chelo!! Excelente!!

[@cloudy7971]

i love how happy you look at the end of the performance

[@tube4beno]

Very, very nice interpretation !!!

[@nursabrina7198]

thank you sister. i appreciated it very much! love sabrina nur

[@joahnnseneca1407]

Una chelista extraordinaria, que transmite energía, sabiduría, sentimiento , incluso haciendo olvidar su perfección tecnica.,que es grande. Bravo

[@laurentcinus]

😮 - it's beautiful to cry -

[@JStein-uo5xq]

Wow!!! this is beautiful! Magnificent interpretation Anastasia!