Wednesday, August 29, 2007

A. Dvorak - Humoresque No.7

Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma play "Humoresque" (Suzuki Book 3).

I found this while idly cruising YouTube, looking for Suzuki pieces that I have played or intend to play. I am going to have to go back and work on my "Humoresque" to put a little more feeling into it. Well, actually, I think Perlman and Ma might be putting a little too much feeling into this, but I love it, and I am going to try to emulate it.

One of the comments on YouTube is "I didn't know this piece could be played that well."

8 comments:

CelloGirl said...

Beautiful!

gottagopractice said...

Great find!

gottagopractice said...

BTW, I linked this on CelloBloggers with a "suzuki" tag. Thought it might be convenient to build a collection there... so please add others you find!

Ava said...

Hi! Thanks for your recent visit to my blog. I read about you and it looks like we have some things in common! I'm a cellist too, but it's been many a year since I've focussed on it. I'm more focused on fiddle, mandolin, banjo and singing right now.

Nice to meet you!

Maricello said...

Hi GTGP, This was the only professional video I have found so far. There are some reasonably good student videos, though not many! Yours are very good!

I wish Suzuki would provide more information on the pieces they use (whether they are part of a larger work, for instance; background on the composer; instrument(s) for which the piece was originally written, for instance). Part of that might be a video collection of the pieces professionally played. And a CD or DVD of them more slowly played, especially the early pieces!

Hi to Cellogirl and Ava too! Thanks for dropping by! I found you both on Cellomania's grand list of blogging cellists.

Anonymous said...

I want their vibrato!

Anonymous said...

I want their vibrato!

Anonymous said...

They would make even "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" seem like a masterpiece.