Wordie: Cello: Comments

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:11:39 +0000

I have a CD of Jacqueline DuPre playing the Elgar concerto (presumably recorded before her disease had reached the advanced stage), which has so much raw emotion it's almost too heartbreaking to listen to.

Kind of like how some of the first season episodes of Six Feet Under are so good, they are almost unbearable to watch.

Comment by yarb, 7 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:01:53 +0000

Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" is beautiful isn't it? And of course Bach's cello suites.

Someone told me that the cello is the instrument closest in timbre to the human voice.

My favourite cello work is Elgar's cello concerto, which he wrote after WWI and is full of loss and hurt, except for a couple of brief skylarkish passages. But Shostakovich and Dvorak wrote amazing cello concertos too.

Comment by kewpid, 7 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:12:28 +0000

Bach's Cello Suite is beautiful.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 7 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:37:26 +0000

I love the sound of the cello.

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:45:59 +0000

I associate cello with kaddish, based on Bruch's "Kol Nidrei".