One of the most often played pieces by Boccherini, together with the so famous minuetto. Boccherni's procuction is indeed spendid. RealIy is a pity that it is so rarely performed.
Absolutely brilliant cello playing and cannot find further words for it. My Father flew missions in Italy during WW11 and wrote home how he lived for the time he would be home and getting his fingers in shape to play this. He loved this and his passion for playing this again got him through the war.
The harmony and the cello sound are amazing. The Boccherini music is so agreeable and relaxing that allows us to gain forces for the hard life days. Congratulations to the outstanding cellist.
Beautiful, fresh, and so well-crafted. Phillips is an amazingly gifted cellist who expertly navigates the music with poignancy and depth. The orchestra, crisp and transparent, delightful in their support of the soloist.
Boccherini was a famous cellist who was engaged by the royal family of Spain, where he composed a lot of works putting the cello forward, such as for instance quintets for two cellos (one having a soloist part), one alto and two violins, which he could play with a local string quat rtet. When he could have an orchestra, he composed cello concertos, among which this one which is the best known. It is certainly his best known with the famous minuetto (which is extracted from one of the quintets described upwards). Probably the melodic ulaity of its themes explains his celebrity.
How can anyone Not Like this? The setting is beautiful, the musicians scrubbed and lovely to look at and the music..What can I say? How fortunate I am to sit here in the comfort of my own home, over half a world away and watch those elegant fingers fly over those cello strings hitting each note with a precision I envy..transported away I am, only wish I had discovered this a long time ago Cheers to every one Tineke
First time I know about Xavier Phillips, and what a surprise! Great musicality. A real pleasure to listen! Also, great performance of the orcherstra, full of charm.
I was married to a classical guitarist, and musicians really do give their lives to playing this beautifully and powerfully. Thank you, M. Phillips, and messer citrazzo, for sharing.
And Boccherini is, well I find in performance , one composer who really appears to stay within a certain range for many of his cello pieces. I love that Bb6 , it's awesome ! Push the instrument... we can get a good 4 1/2 octaves out of it; superb.
While he may not be the first cellist composer to write at such high register he definitely is one of the first to do so, and apparently cello finger boards have been lengthened to modern standards due to demands of musicians like Boccherini . His contemporary like A. Kraft, who is a bit younger also writes at very high register. Note extensive use of thumb position. though not new, has become a common technique in his music. I also wonder high much Haydn knows about Boccherini as his own cello concertos are quite similar too. There is also Hammer, who apparently has influenced or worked with Haydn too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Hammer, and he probably also wrote cello music at super high register too.
its not that bad, especially because above the fingerboard, you must play in a harmonic series, which does include that Bb6. If you listen to the quasi cadenza right after the opening of the 4th mvmt in the Elgar Cello Concerto, it goes to the A right underneath Bb6 which is just as hard. Elgar wrote this concerto MUCH after Boccherini. The cadenza here is by Maurice Gendron who is also quite modern, like Elgar. You'll notice that after Rostropovich expanded the repertoire of the cello, its range expanded as well.
For me the educational value of this site is amazing. I had never heard this piece before and it is enchanting. Partially that is due to the excellent performers.
The cadenzas are by Maurice Gendron. I remember totally falling in love with Gendron's Boccherini Concertos as a teenager-which is 35 years ago!!! I then went to the closest music store and bought the sheet music of his versions of the Concertos and tried playing them -I was amazed, how playable they actually were. Boccherini knew how to make his instrument shine... Then I bought a book of all of Gendron's cadenzas - and they were great fun too! Not as hard as they look, but hard enough...
@Hooty he’s a 20th century cellist so I don’t think they’ll be public domain. If you can afford it there’s a book sold by Ficks music with his cadenzas for a bunch of pieces including Schumann, Boccherini, Haydn D, and Tchaikovsky. That’s $33.50, kinda pricy for a book that’s all cadenzas but if you really like them might be worth it. If that’s too much I think there’s something to be said for just trying to figure it out by ear, maybe add some of your own edits. It can be a fun, although difficult process
La perfección del cello y su ejecución creo que alcanza límites inalcanzables. Mi aplauso en el silencio de la noche camino de la madrugada donde esta música suena más honda y sublime. Enhorabuena.
My Dad was a war time fighter pilot and commanded a Wing over D Day and met my Mother in Antwerp and I was born in Bern where he was the Air Attache and she loved all sort of music including Piaf and Django Reihnhart and all classical music
Mr. Boccherini held only two "real" jobs in his entire life: career diplomat, and cellist. At the time, I doubt very many people could have imagined that his night gig would be the one that had the potential to save the human race. The people of Italy need and deserve our support. I'm not sure what we can do to help them, but our amoral and STOOOPYD medical establishment had better think of something FAST! As for Luigi Boccherini's life and art, if the live performances, records and videos that he has inspired can make it a little bit easier for his people to endure life in isolation, that too will be a literally lifesaving blessing!
Este hombre estaba dotado de un talento y una genialidad que lo sitúan entre los grandes compositores de la historia. Muchas gracias messer citrazzo. Un saludo cordial desde España.
Bravo sir, with much clapping, stamping and whistling. Consider this a private standing ovation! The name of Goffriller is, of course, inextricably linked with Pablo Casals. You, as did he, made the beautiful instrument sing and sigh to perfection. Bene meritum.
Thank you. Hearing this beautiful work again after years. I had remembered the music but not d name of the work. I shall now look out for more works of this composer.
Che bella interpretazione! E che sollievo ascoltare finalmente il nono concerto di Boccherini attingendo alla sua autentica scrittura, abbandonati definitivamente - io spero - gli appesantimenti di un Grutzmancher che pretendeva di ...... perfezionare un genio.
Quite stupid that coment. I love Beethoven, I think he is the greatest symphonist of all times but there were great composers and such beautiful music before his time that your improper coment arouses out of ignorance.
@@antoniorodriguez4979 Why do you have to say it in such manner? He did not discover yet, or maybe he just doesn't like. Ofcourse there is a lot of wonderful music throughout history, but take it easy.
pre Beethoven (is actually classical music or baroque which are the best around) inter-post Beethoven ( romantical movement, is more appealing to the audience) I would recommend you, Tchaikovsky, is to me at the same lvl of Beethoven (some works of T. are better)
Ismael hoyos martinez do not say classical is the best around. it’s mostly repetitive stuff as opposed to the rich harmony of baroque music, and the thick and emotional melodies from the romantic era
An outstanding, highly brillant player and a very good and plain interpretation! He is at least as good as the generation of Gendron and Rostropovitch was
I happily BURNED my Grutzmacher edition after buying this one. I love playing the first movement again. You are all correct, it sounds like Boccherini. I have the Wallfisch recording which I like.
To Alexander Smith. This IS the original version. No one is making up their own version. How little do you really know? If you have been suckered into thinking the 19th century adaptation by Grutzmacher could possibly be an authentic classical period concerto, then you have a long way to go in your musical education. And BTW, you will never hear Boccherini played any better (let alone as well) by anyone, anywhere, ever.
Holy fking shit i just spent like a month practicing the gruetzmacher and I was thinking like "Wow, this is pretty easy", and then I hear this, the original. It's so much more beautiful than the original but now I have to unlearn the other version - _ -
@@3peko You mean, the original is more beautiful. I agree - such a shame that 95% of cellists in the 19th and 20th century got suckered into Gruetzmacher romantic bullshit version! He should've stuck with his etudes! The same thing with Tchaikovsky Roccoco variations, the version which 99% of people play is an arrangement (much better than Guetzmacher, and plus he did not compose, just did some cuts and changed the order) of a dedicae of the work, Fitzenhagen. And plus, I've read that Piotr Ilyich was angry because of this. Now everybody in the world knows Fitzenhagen's version. It's not fair to the artist that composed the piece! Imagine if I would, let's say, "rearrange" Michaelangelo's David a bit? Cut a hand, do some sandpaper work? Wouldn't it be fun???
One of the most often played pieces by Boccherini, together with the so famous minuetto. Boccherni's procuction is indeed spendid. RealIy is a pity that it is so rarely performed.
Absolutely brilliant cello playing and cannot find further words for it. My Father flew missions in Italy during WW11 and wrote home how he lived for the time he would be home and getting his fingers in shape to play this. He loved this and his passion for playing this again got him through the war.
World War eleven????? He from the future or some shit?
@@ethan3755you know exactly what she meant; no need to put her down with vulgar language.
I love his playing, takes such care with the notes..Very delicate, very classical..
The harmony and the cello sound are amazing. The Boccherini music is so agreeable and relaxing that allows us to gain forces for the hard life days. Congratulations to the outstanding cellist.
Stunning clarity of that beautiful cello - and superb interpretation of the piece by all!!!
Beautiful, fresh, and so well-crafted. Phillips is an amazingly gifted cellist who expertly navigates the music with poignancy and depth. The orchestra, crisp and transparent, delightful in their support of the soloist.
Excellent celloist.....excellent performance....bravo....i wish him health and much more success.
Very distinguished playing by Xavier Phillips! And thank you very much for the wonderful congenial cadenzas of MAURICE GENDRON!!!
Boccherini was a famous cellist who was engaged by the royal family of Spain, where he composed a lot of works putting the cello forward, such as for instance quintets for two cellos (one having a soloist part), one alto and two violins, which he could play with a local string quat rtet. When he could have an orchestra, he composed cello concertos, among which this one which is the best known. It is certainly his best known with the famous minuetto (which is extracted from one of the quintets described upwards). Probably the melodic ulaity of its themes explains his celebrity.
The cadenzas on this piece are absolutely BRILLIANT!
This piece is so beautiful. It makes me happy inside.
Schön, die Originalfassung zu hören.
This is too beautiful, I'm a cellist myself and his upper hand positions are so clean and delicate!!!
After a great Boccherini concerto, it has a surprise! I'm touched by his Bach.
How can anyone Not Like this? The setting is beautiful, the musicians scrubbed and lovely to look at and the music..What can I say? How fortunate I am to sit here in the comfort of my own home, over half a world away and watch those elegant fingers fly over those cello strings hitting each note with a precision I envy..transported away I am, only wish I had discovered this a long time ago Cheers to every one Tineke
Thank you Mr. Phillips for a most joyful experience with the Boccherini Concerto and thanks to messer citrazzo.
A perfect soloist!
That's the original form of the concerto.
I have loved Boccherini forever. His cello speaks directly to my soul. What a joy to watch Mr. Phillips perform this concerto. Thank-you.
+joelpeterk Yes. What a great Cellist and what a terrific, tight orchestral performance on what looks like an incredibly good stage
He was a musician born in "Lucca la Toscana"who moved to Spain at an early age...He was composer of the Spanish royal court..
So great to hear this non romanticized version which give this brilliant soloist full scope for bravura playing
First time I know about Xavier Phillips, and what a surprise! Great musicality. A real pleasure to listen! Also, great performance of the orcherstra, full of charm.
This is the real thing… I’ve never heard it before even though I have the music, what a delightful peace.
Timestamps:
1st Mov. 00:32
2nd Mov. 10:11
3rd Mov. 15:06
Bach. 22:06
Love this cello's tone! :D
Love this version, bravo!
I was married to a classical guitarist, and musicians really do give their lives to playing this beautifully and powerfully. Thank you, M. Phillips, and messer citrazzo, for sharing.
He is Fantastic!!! The cadenza is so beautiful!!
Simply astounding, wow.
22:03 - Lovely finesse, both Boccherini & the Bach. Lovely finish.
So enjoyed listening to the Boccherini and the Bach. Bravo!
That Bb6 at the end of the first movement cadenza, I never knew a cello could even go that high. Amazing.
And Boccherini is, well I find in performance , one composer who really appears to stay within a certain range for many of his cello pieces. I love that Bb6 , it's awesome ! Push the instrument... we can get a good 4 1/2 octaves out of it; superb.
The cadenza wasn't composed by Boccherini though, but by Maurice Gendron.
Wagner - Parsifal relude (Georg solti)
While he may not be the first cellist composer to write at such high register he definitely is one of the first to do so, and apparently cello finger boards have been lengthened to modern standards due to demands of musicians like Boccherini . His contemporary like A. Kraft, who is a bit younger also writes at very high register. Note extensive use of thumb position. though not new, has become a common technique in his music. I also wonder high much Haydn knows about Boccherini as his own cello concertos are quite similar too. There is also Hammer, who apparently has influenced or worked with Haydn too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Hammer, and he probably also wrote cello music at super high register too.
its not that bad, especially because above the fingerboard, you must play in a harmonic series, which does include that Bb6. If you listen to the quasi cadenza right after the opening of the 4th mvmt in the Elgar Cello Concerto, it goes to the A right underneath Bb6 which is just as hard. Elgar wrote this concerto MUCH after Boccherini. The cadenza here is by Maurice Gendron who is also quite modern, like Elgar. You'll notice that after Rostropovich expanded the repertoire of the cello, its range expanded as well.
Extraordinary performers AND extraordinary conducting!
For me the educational value of this site is amazing. I had never heard this piece before and it is enchanting. Partially that is due to the excellent performers.
Really lovely. I had not heard this work in a long, long time. Thanks.
Very otherworldly and superior; very majestic and soothing! xx :*)
The cadenzas are by Maurice Gendron. I remember totally falling in love with Gendron's Boccherini Concertos as a teenager-which is 35 years ago!!! I then went to the closest music store and bought the sheet music of his versions of the Concertos and tried playing them -I was amazed, how playable they actually were. Boccherini knew how to make his instrument shine... Then I bought a book of all of Gendron's cadenzas - and they were great fun too! Not as hard as they look, but hard enough...
@Hooty he’s a 20th century cellist so I don’t think they’ll be public domain. If you can afford it there’s a book sold by Ficks music with his cadenzas for a bunch of pieces including Schumann, Boccherini, Haydn D, and Tchaikovsky. That’s $33.50, kinda pricy for a book that’s all cadenzas but if you really like them might be worth it. If that’s too much I think there’s something to be said for just trying to figure it out by ear, maybe add some of your own edits. It can be a fun, although difficult process
oh gosh, the flawless playing :)))))
La perfección del cello y su ejecución creo que alcanza límites inalcanzables. Mi aplauso en el silencio de la noche camino de la madrugada donde esta música suena más honda y sublime. Enhorabuena.
Boccherini is one of my favourite composer👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
My Dad was a war time fighter pilot and commanded a Wing over D Day and met my Mother in Antwerp and I was born in Bern where he was the Air Attache and she loved all sort of music including Piaf and Django Reihnhart and all classical music
Extraordinario en todo sentido, conmovedor!!
Hints of what Heaven is like...wonderful...nora
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Mr. Boccherini held only two "real" jobs in his entire life: career diplomat, and cellist. At the time, I doubt very many people could have imagined that his night gig would be the one that had the potential to save the human race. The people of Italy need and deserve our support. I'm not sure what we can do to help them, but our amoral and STOOOPYD medical establishment had better think of something FAST! As for Luigi Boccherini's life and art, if the live performances, records and videos that he has inspired can make it a little bit easier for his people to endure life in isolation, that too will be a literally lifesaving blessing!
Este hombre estaba dotado de un talento y una genialidad que lo sitúan entre los grandes compositores de la historia. Muchas gracias messer citrazzo. Un saludo cordial desde España.
Luigi Boccherini is a God.
Simply perfect.
that first cadenza is magistral!
приятно вспомнить молодость - тоже играла на экзамене эту же Сюиту...
thank you. your music is so much beautiful and bravo!
Just perfect. Thanks for sharing this wonderful performance.
Bravo sir, with much clapping, stamping and whistling. Consider this a private standing ovation! The name of Goffriller is, of course, inextricably linked with Pablo Casals. You, as did he, made the beautiful instrument sing and sigh to perfection. Bene meritum.
Very well recorded, nice orchestra and fantastic cello playing! Thanks for the upload!
I love this concert !!!!🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👄
Thank you. Hearing this beautiful work again after years. I had remembered the music but not d name of the work. I shall now look out for more works of this composer.
I LOVE his first movement cadenza.
Simply wonderful!
I didn't know this one ! But it is great music ! I will listen more to Boccherini cello music !!!! Nice discovery !!!
Cool! This one is on my LP (Boccherini, Tartini, Vivaldi "Cellokonzerte des Barock"). I grew up with this kind of music.
Maravillosa version, de este fantastico violocellista
I find it enchanting and very close to Bocherini's taste.
superb! yes, it's not the sound of an historic instrument, but Boccherini would have loved it...
Che bella interpretazione! E che sollievo ascoltare finalmente il nono concerto di Boccherini attingendo alla sua autentica scrittura, abbandonati definitivamente - io spero - gli appesantimenti di un Grutzmancher che pretendeva di ...... perfezionare un genio.
Чудове,здорове виконання..Просто молодець.Дякую.
THANK YOU for performing the original galant style version. Far superior in my opinion.
Agree!
This cadenza...holy shit. Beautiful.
So wonderful!!!!
echt gut!!! Habe gar nicht gewusst dass es von Boccerini noch ein so gutes Cellokonzert gibt!
Le meilleur et le plus virtuose concerto de Boccherini ,il y a 12 et celui - là , en si bémol est le 9 : excellent violoncelle et superbe cadence
magnífico...
Splendida esecuzione di un capolavoro nella sua versione originale.
Pre-Beethoven not my usual cup of tea but I'll give a chance to any cello concerto. I like the sound of that instrument.
Quite stupid that coment. I love Beethoven, I think he is the greatest symphonist of all times but there were great composers and such beautiful music before his time that your improper coment arouses out of ignorance.
@@antoniorodriguez4979 Why do you have to say it in such manner? He did not discover yet, or maybe he just doesn't like. Ofcourse there is a lot of wonderful music throughout history, but take it easy.
pre Beethoven (is actually classical music or baroque which are the best around) inter-post Beethoven ( romantical movement, is more appealing to the audience) I would recommend you, Tchaikovsky, is to me at the same lvl of Beethoven (some works of T. are better)
John Shaw pre-dvorak cello concertos suck for the most part
Ismael hoyos martinez do not say classical is the best around. it’s mostly repetitive stuff as opposed to the rich harmony of baroque music, and the thick and emotional melodies from the romantic era
Wonderfulll.I love concerto...
genio maravillosa version
An outstanding,
highly brillant player and a very good and plain interpretation!
He is at least as good as the generation of Gendron and Rostropovitch was
Magnificent!
non conoscevo questo concerto,suonato molto bene!
今まで聞いた中でこのボッケリーニが最高です。
Bravo! Molto bravo!
Thank you kindly.
excellent ! excellent! excellent!
OH MY GOD! LIKE BUTTER!!!!!!
0:37 start
PARABÉNS que som mais lindo .. Irei estudar mais para produzir um som como o seu..
I happily BURNED my Grutzmacher edition after buying this one. I love playing the first movement again. You are all correct, it sounds like Boccherini. I have the Wallfisch recording which I like.
:)
Arthur Royce which edition is this?
Damn what did that old crusty kraut ever do to you?
An excellent performer with a stupend technique!!
PERFECT!!!!!
Excelente versión!
Superb accuracy! Bravo!
The cadenza was composed by Maurice Gendron and is available in a collection published by Edition Delrieu 1971 Nice France.
Thank you
Muy bueno el Philips.Excelente interpretación.
magnífico
Merveilleux!!!
Wonderful!
自分用
1. 0:37
2. 10:12
3. 15:07
4. 22:10
Amazing .
video starts at 0:36
WTF? do u play the cello or smthn
Fantastick!
dang, that first movement cadenza is insane.
amazing !
To Alexander Smith. This IS the original version. No one is making up their own version. How little do you really know? If you have been suckered into thinking the 19th century adaptation by Grutzmacher could possibly be an authentic classical period concerto, then you have a long way to go in your musical education. And BTW, you will never hear Boccherini played any better (let alone as well) by anyone, anywhere, ever.
Chess
What a jewel this performance is. I am so happy I stumbled across it. I hae never heard this original version. So elegant.
Antony Cooke yeah the gruetzmacher-rose cadenza is a lot easier than this one.. where can i find the music for this version??
Holy fking shit i just spent like a month practicing the gruetzmacher and I was thinking like "Wow, this is pretty easy", and then I hear this, the original. It's so much more beautiful than the original but now I have to unlearn the other version - _ -
@@3peko You mean, the original is more beautiful. I agree - such a shame that 95% of cellists in the 19th and 20th century got suckered into Gruetzmacher romantic bullshit version! He should've stuck with his etudes! The same thing with Tchaikovsky Roccoco variations, the version which 99% of people play is an arrangement (much better than Guetzmacher, and plus he did not compose, just did some cuts and changed the order) of a dedicae of the work, Fitzenhagen. And plus, I've read that Piotr Ilyich was angry because of this. Now everybody in the world knows Fitzenhagen's version. It's not fair to the artist that composed the piece! Imagine if I would, let's say, "rearrange" Michaelangelo's David a bit? Cut a hand, do some sandpaper work? Wouldn't it be fun???
Maravilhoso