POPPER Dance of the Elves | KOBEKINA and BALDEYROU

Dear Friends, I hope you’re well and before wishing you a wonderful summer and coming back in September full of energy and motivation, I wanted to offer you a fun video and collab with amazing rising star Anastasia Kobekina. Don’t hesitate to check out and subscribe to her Instagram account @anastasiakobekina and her UA-cam channel! / chellovechik
We decided to perform and record Popper’s Elfentanz opus 39 (Dance of the Elves), one of the most virtuosic and exciting encore written for cello, but this time in a very personal arrangement for clarinets, glockenspiel and… TRIANGLE of course!
David Popper was a famous Bohemian cellist and prolific composer (1843-1913), he made an incredible career as a virtuoso cellist, a chamber musician (he played for Brahms himself with the Budapest quartet), a cello and composition teacher, writing all type of repertoire and notably some instructional pieces as the incredible cello studies (I may record a few in the future 😇). David Popper was one of the last great cellists who did not use an endpin. An 1880 drawing of Popper playing in a string quartet shows that although he started his cello career without using an endpin, he adopted it later in his life.
On this video, Anastasia is playing on a 1743 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. I’m playing 3 different Buffet Légende in A (Green Line, Mopani and boxwood) with Vandoren BD4 and V12 3,5 reeds, a Buffet Tosca Bass (Vandoren B40 and 3,5 traditional reeds) and a Buffet Contrabass from 1935.
Hope you’ll like the result and don't hesitate to give me ideas 😁
Take care and stay safe!
#elfentanz #anastasiakobekina #nicolasbaldeyrou

[@Juliushenrykim]

The unexpected harmony of cello and clarinet, truly 'fairy‐like' tone unlike other performances, and the proper tempo and tone. This is the best version of youtube I've seen!!

[@kevinzhengmusic]

If only pianists regularly played accompanying parts with such enthusiasm and nuance!...

[@benjimoomoo]

I am amazed at how absolutely effortless she makes that look. Just incredible.

[@utha2665]

Anastasia is a rising star? She is

[@francispoulenc8865]

it couldn't be better (especially that bass saxophone is like "I'm done now and I am getting paid as much as you guys" !)

[@jacobclemente7457]

Can i have a request Poet and The Peasant hehe😊😁

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

they're taking the clarinetists to isengard

[@philipperigault5911]

Impressive and beautiful, and quite an editing job once again. Is she entering the Baldeyrou school of cloning and multi-instument playing (semester 1 = triangle) ? Thank you so much for all this year's collection of treasures that inspire us so much, and have a great summer full of music, we'll be back in september too !

[@itamarbar9580]

I need his spinning song with you two

[@musokid89]

MY JAW IS ON THE FLOOR! 😭 anyone wanna buy my clarinets!? Nicholas is the best clarinettist in the world right now 👍

[@steponasp.5706]

0:53

[@goalexey]

Actually, this is the best cello performance I've found on youtube. Perfect tempo (not stupidly fast), and the performance is filled with characters, dynamics, phrasing and story-telling. Great arrangement too. Bravo!

[@ClarinetFromGent]

Bravisisissimo... Just brilliant.. You are an alien, Nicolas..

[@plontz]

Nice video to start a new working week

[@cppro_artsluiscepeda6480]

so far so good

[@user-yf5ip7xk9c]

incredible

[@aaddbbcc3098]

Amazing! The cellist is wonderful, congrats to her, and of course to you to give us this pearl of performance.

[@justinrunrun9560]

bravo！

[@criser1988]

Jajajajajaja maravilloso! Que buena interpretación y arreglo, saludos!!

[@jeannoelbourdot7216]

Encore un pur moment de bonheur musical... Un seul mot me vient en tête. BRAVO !