An Afternoon with Gregor Piatigorsky

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Steve Grumette

7 жыл бұрын

A documentary film about famed cellist, Gegor Piatigorsky
Directed, photographed and edited by Steve Grumette

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@LloydRMaes 7 ай бұрын

What a master of the cello! I heard him play 55 years ago with Laszlo Varga at San Francisco State. It was a marvelous program!,,,

@c150gpilot 4 жыл бұрын

I watch this again and again. I've read CELLIST, and Terry King's biography, for the inspiration. Piatigorsky died at age 73. I started cello at age 74, after most of my life with violin. I've come to prefer the cello.

@vladiinsky 4 жыл бұрын

Hello sir. Glad you have started to learn cello. Casals was asked when he was quite old, why does he still practice. He allegedly answered: Because I feel I am making progress! Cheers :)

@vova47 4 ай бұрын

Smart!

@culturehorse Ай бұрын

So rich in its brevity and depth of place this short reminiscence holding civilized Man's and Arts' richest values as a enduring and empiracal testament. Thanks so much.

@cellom.9227 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe he died only a year after this. Great philosophy of life and music.Thank you for making the film.

@josephhapp9 8 ай бұрын

The smoking probably did not help.

@karenpomer9891 5 жыл бұрын

Sadly. when his widow Jacqueline Rothschild Piatigorsky, a wonderful sculptor and champion chess player, died in 2012, at age 100, the new owners demolished this beautiful home with complete disregard to the home's historical significance including the music room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.

@Jeff-wb3hh 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very sorry to hear that. When I was watching this documentary, I thought, what a beautiful home inside and out.

@karenpomer9891 3 жыл бұрын

@@Jeff-wb3hh Grew-up two doors away and it was heartbreaking to the neighborhood when his house was demolished. My childhood home, is scheduled to be torn down this Spring.

@Jeff-wb3hh 3 жыл бұрын

@@karenpomer9891 Oh no. Too many people have too much money and not enough respect for old things. Imagine the cost of buying a home in California and then demolishing it and building a new one? We need to preserve our history, so we can appreciate it and learn from it. My goodness, if the fires don't destroy them the ones that don't appreciate history will. Perhaps a petition to government to declare these homes as National Landmarks so the new generations can't destroy them would help save them.

@mrFalconlem 3 жыл бұрын

Why are you worried about that, be glad we had all this music recorded how shallow to worry about philanderer FL wrights room which no one saw. I came here for the music, not the Room in his House

@karenpomer9891 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrFalconlem excuse me? Piatigorsky house could of been turned into a museum dedicated to him and the wonderful artists who performed and studied with him. Instead there's a monstrosity of a house built by an indifferent narcissist.

@nina3594 3 жыл бұрын

He has a wonderful voice. It sounds like his cello

@AlamoCityCello 7 жыл бұрын

Gregor Piatigorsky had a profound influence on my life. Even though I never got the chance to met him. His music making and teaching shaped who I am today.

@medievalmusiclover 5 жыл бұрын

Great for You!

@Apalexpe 4 жыл бұрын

Learning about this fascinating master from the amazing Terry King, his beloved student, has been one of the greatest gifts ever.

@extrasalt4595 4 жыл бұрын

I knew Terry King at Grinnell College, 79-81. He was in the Mirecourt Trio, whose violinist, Kenneth Goldsmith, was a great mentor of mine. Hoomeyow!!

@Apalexpe 4 жыл бұрын

Extra Salt Thay is amazing! Thanks for sharing, Terry and Laura are incredible human beings and musicians. I met Kenneth before I met them actually!. I went to high school in Houston and a lot of my friends studied with him!

@ovinr3187 2 жыл бұрын

Piatigorsky was my teachers-teachers teacher!

@lawnerddownunder3461 3 жыл бұрын

"They deal with beautiful matters, so they must become beautiful themselves." I had to stop watching and swoon a little over that.

@coolxjl 6 жыл бұрын

Such a short video, yet we're given a lesson in life.

@TejaJaensch 7 жыл бұрын

"A good servant of art..."

@monelleny 5 жыл бұрын

What an amazing gift to be able to watch this on youtube. Thanks a milion!!!!!!!!!

@haeunkim7832 Жыл бұрын

As a pupil of Raphael Wallfisch at the Royal College of Music. I feel very blessed to found and watching this video. I am actually working on Schumann Concerto with him. It gives me huge insight and inspiration. Thank you very much.

@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын

Bless your heart, and blessings to your art! I’ve received such pleasure from hearing both Piatigorski and Raphael Wallfisch play, he’s one of my favorite cellists, and I especially love the recordings he made with his father. His mother is a real inspiration, as well. Good luck!

@MaQuGo119 11 ай бұрын

Nice

@underlinedluke 4 жыл бұрын

Great man, great artist. What a beautiful film. It somehow reminds me of Bergman's Wild Strawberries. The calm narration, the silent wanderings, the evaluation of one's life and purpose. I wish this was at least 90 minutes long.

@road2acoustic99 4 жыл бұрын

This is the Jascha Heifetz of the cello :-D

@kfmiller1947 6 жыл бұрын

These days I wonder about the depth of the human spirit. When I hear his playing I am reminded of how rarely, especially now, it is, that one can hope to encounter a such an incredible soul. Perhaps it is worth mentioning that Terry King has written a fantastic biography of this great man.

@florestan8333 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, he was a profound musician and thinker. But the human spirit hasn't changed all that much - we are all much more complex than we're given credit for, even if it doesn't seem that way! (Though not that many of us can express this so beautifully through music!)

@valika00 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful person, and teacher!

@bogdanprzekop 5 жыл бұрын

This artistic treasure reveals (perhaps) the substantial Presence of Deity in one's earthly sojourn...

@ZaddyGohan Жыл бұрын

What an incredible video of an incredible man. I would’ve liked to have an evening to just sit at talk with him, he seems to be brimming with wisdom and perception. One of the best to ever play cello, rest in peace Mr Piatigorsky!

@wpoon1 4 жыл бұрын

Although music is language without words, it deliveries the feeling or idea to be shared by the composer.

@Wessex90 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful film. As a cellist this is something far more valuable than gold could ever hope to be. Fun fact, Rapael Wallfisch was my first teacher's teacher :-).

@billyhuang Жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful piece of history Mr. Grumette. Thank you for capturing these moments and sharing with the world so many years later.

@TonyCello 6 жыл бұрын

How wonderful to see a young Raphael (my old teacher) playing!

@thezealouscellist1966 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, that was Wallfisch! I was trying to figure out who it was.

@vladiinsky 4 жыл бұрын

No, that was your young teacher playing! I paused for a moment, thought that it was the italian cellist Umberto Clerici, but he is today maybe 40 years old so I thought, is he a vampire maybe...good that I know who it is now :)

@thezealouscellist1966 4 жыл бұрын

My college cello professor had been Evan Drachman's (Piatigorsky's grandson) teacher and one day, at one of our lessons at his home, he happened to have one of Piatigorsky's cellos Evan had let him borrow. "Would you like to try it?" he asked. I must say it had a beautiful tone and handled so well, though, sadly, I think I was too young and inexperienced to realize what I had in my hands. Certainly my playing at the time was not enough to do it justice!

@florestan8333 2 жыл бұрын

I've watched this for the fourth time in three days...The music is magnificent, but also what he says is so thoughtful and unpretensiously profound. (And what a voice - on the cello and personally!)

@nicolotar 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for capturing such eternal, insightful moments and sharing them at this much needed period,,)

@RoomanJohan 7 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for sharing these valuable moments of a great cellist !

@murielrezek1481 6 жыл бұрын

Great celist and man, thanks.

@monahasan3169 3 жыл бұрын

Magical short film, gratitude to know that thinking is an art itself! A Great calm gentle film that inspires creativity!!! Thank you!!!

@luizamsalgado 2 жыл бұрын

A GIANT! LOVE HIM ! Many thanks for this...

@galnyska 7 жыл бұрын

thank you for this upload!

@lotus92620 6 жыл бұрын

This is priceless....thank you!!!

@navneetkumaryadav7280 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!

@jondesouza1296 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ivsonmartins7211 7 жыл бұрын

The best youtube video! Thank you so much for this upload!

@littlekiwi9724 5 жыл бұрын

How wonderful

@MrXiaoda Жыл бұрын

Piatigorsky was also a philosopher, a true giant.

@65attila 6 жыл бұрын

How stunning !!!!

@claudiopescatore77 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@morenamellace3534 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@richa671 6 жыл бұрын

Kudos for adding to youtube!

@cellokeith 7 жыл бұрын

very nice documentary

@EliDeutschmann 8 ай бұрын

I love him so much, thank you❤

@benjaminrubenschnirman2292 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr. Grumette, Thank oh for this marvelous historical document of a beautiful person’s Life, thoughts and feelings. It is stunning and essential to hear Mr. Piatigorsky’s thoughts and attitude to the world in regards to music, teaching, boredom and more!

@lylezahn817 7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your upload very much! He was my teacher's teacher. I try to imagine the two of them working together & it is overwhelming!

@rheumer 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Thanks!!!

@anapastorgomez4444 7 жыл бұрын

rheumer ii

@renetaenunn5638 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this documentary of a passionate master specially after listening to Evan Drachman as well and seeing his grand fathers beautiful Cello in life

@williamgregory1848 Жыл бұрын

When Piatigorsky first chose the cello in 1910, it was not considered a viable solo instrument. Very few people played the cello with competence or beauty. Cellists were rarely employed as soloists with symphony orchestras and almost never performed recitals. Audiences couldn’t imagine listening to the cello for an entire evening! But Piatigorsky developed and expanded the technique of the cello making it as facile and expressive as the violin. He also transcribed, arranged, composed and commissioned countless works for the cello thereby increasing its repertoire. His mission was to show the beauty and nobility of the cello’s voice the world over. It is a testament to Gregor Piatigorsky’s career that perhaps the most famous classical instrumentalist today is a cellist, Yo-Yo Ma.

@LNcello 6 жыл бұрын

1:55 - 2:31- "Requiem" by David Popper (for 3 celli and piano)

@catalinadermenjian 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing this documentary. My cello teacher, college professor Georg Pedersen was also his student, and its amazing to learn the same method he taught to his students. omgg so magnificent

@vanessablacksmith3200 2 жыл бұрын

amazing

@Ronbo710 5 жыл бұрын

Loved seeing his beautiful Wife Jacqueline at the chess board. An accomplished artist in her own right.

@davidmdyer838 4 жыл бұрын

She befriended Bobby Fischer and tried to bring him back into competitive chess.

@evanij 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@whiteowl1137 2 жыл бұрын

Wow,!!! Just Wow

@vladimirlopez7840 6 жыл бұрын

That cello case was amazing I wonder if it still exists in someone’s home.

@user-uc4xk9dz3o 4 ай бұрын

Its in NY city Met museum of Art Watching this video next to it was otherworldly.

@SuperHuchting 9 ай бұрын

Great Cellist!

@SimonStreuffViolinEducation 4 жыл бұрын

I love how unpretentious he plays the Bach!

@3lptruckinginc216 5 жыл бұрын

MAESTRO!!!!!

@3lptruckinginc216 7 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. GREAT GREGORY

@peterrudolfi 6 жыл бұрын

One of a kind, He.

@bytheway1031 2 жыл бұрын

🎂Gregor Piatigorsky 04-17-2022

@zaferteomete5284 4 жыл бұрын

FANTASTİC CELLİST

@wombat5628 4 жыл бұрын

"Too many people are bored to death."

@user-op6vy3gg2b 4 жыл бұрын

Piatigorsky and Heifetz were very close friends. Whenever there party Heifetz attend Piatigorsky was also. I am sure Heifetz musical taste was influenced by him and also the other way around. Piatigorsky was a heavy smoker and died from it .

@goddessfrost2668 6 жыл бұрын

🎶♥🎶

@mireliancovici555 6 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know what piece is he playing in the beginning ? Thank you

@anjinsanx44 Жыл бұрын

Sad he's gone ...a true human being of breeding n refinement

@erybotond 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the piece played before the Popper Requiem?

@user-sd7dg6dl4y Жыл бұрын

Обалдеть, не мог предположить, что Григорий Лепс в старости будет играть на виолончели.

@tizianomattei4000 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this gem of human and musical richness... I'd like to add Italian subtitles for my students to enjoy it, could you possibly enable community contribution for that?

@sgrumette 4 жыл бұрын

Dear Tiziano, I have just enable community contributions for this video. Best wishes, Steve3

@tizianomattei4000 4 жыл бұрын

@@sgrumette Thank you so much!

@tizianomattei4000 4 жыл бұрын

@@sgrumette subtitles submitted! :)

@tizianomattei4000 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you have to approve them or set the video to use them, because they don't appear, yet... Thank you again!

@sgrumette 4 жыл бұрын

@@tizianomattei4000 I just checked on KZfaq, and it says that the subtitles are now under review, so it make take a little time before they're up.

@jonjoe9657 2 жыл бұрын

CAN SOMEONE LIST ALL THE PIECES HE PLAYS PLEASE

@dr.greggrove4413 4 жыл бұрын

I can't find a date in which the film was produced. Would the 1970s be accurate? Gregor along with several of his chamber music cohorts were all RCA Victor artists. I suspect if we had more videos in which the artist comments on music, his aspirations, his beliefs, more students would take instruction all the more seriously.

@sgrumette 4 жыл бұрын

Greg, the film was completed in the spring of 1976, a few months before Piatigorsky died.

@stflaw 6 жыл бұрын

Steve, are you related to Lina Grumette? I knew her very well through playing chess at her home in the '70s & '80s. She was an important influence in my life. I remember seeing Mrs. Piatigorsky there on several occasions, and at Lina's funeral. I believe they were close friends?

@sgrumette 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, LIna Grumette was my mother. She and Jacqueline Piatigorsky were very good friends. Thanks! Steve

@stflaw 6 жыл бұрын

Your mother was a very special lady. Thank you for responding.

@paulharris3000 6 жыл бұрын

...profound utterances from 1:18 to 2:50...

@florestan8333 2 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know what the piece he plays at the very beginning is?

@culturehorse Ай бұрын

Also beuatiful film quality cinematography. What is the outro music, Schumann?

@sgrumette Ай бұрын

Yes, it is from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65: III. Largo

@culturehorse Ай бұрын

@@sgrumette hi much honored thanks. Enjoyed and edified by the mise en scene. Not familiar w that work, will remedy that. Appreciate it & hope alls well -hva a wondrfl summer. -nyc

@ashenmunasinghe Жыл бұрын

Can someone mention the piece played at the beginning of the video, by the maestro himself? Thankyou

@steveg2471 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this wonderful video. Do you know which cello he used in this film?

@sgrumette 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, but I assume it was one of his two Stradivarius celli: the "Batta" or the "Baudiot." Steve

@mishakustanovich3954 5 жыл бұрын

Batta.

@kathrynmcmorrow7170 4 жыл бұрын

@@mishakustanovich3954 It looked kinda batta'd.

@LittleHarryBrother1 5 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know the name of the solo piece Piatigorsky plays in the opening of the video?

@sgrumette 5 жыл бұрын

The Schumann cello concerto, 1st movement.

@LittleHarryBrother1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for replying! I was however thinking about the piece he plays by himself, while sitting in a garden.

@duwir5959 3 жыл бұрын

Is the student Raphael Walfisch? Looks a little bit like him.

@sgrumette 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the student is, indeed, a very young Raphael Walfisch!

@davidrauh7706 7 жыл бұрын

@philippo21 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful! The question came up a few times already, but may I ask again, if you know what solo piece Piatigorsky is playing in the garden in the very beginning? Thank you!

@sgrumette 9 ай бұрын

I wish I did, but unfortunately, I don't.

@philippo21 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! @@sgrumette

@neilfunk1857 3 жыл бұрын

Can you please tell us who the young cello student is?

@sgrumette 3 жыл бұрын

Raphael Walfisch

@yowzephyr 2 жыл бұрын

At the beginning he kinda looks like Jack Benny.

@christianschumacher6689 7 жыл бұрын

Can anybody tell me when this was recorded? Thanks for sharing this wonderful video.

@sgrumette 7 жыл бұрын

Dear Christian, The film was shot on 16mm in 1975 and completed in the Spring of 1976, a few months before Piatigorsky's death on August 6th, 1976. Best wishes, Steve Grumette

@christianschumacher6689 7 жыл бұрын

Steve Grumette Dear Steve, thank you for the answer.

@ContraMundumPress Жыл бұрын

Is this the entire film, Steve, or an excerpt from a longer work?

@sgrumette Жыл бұрын

It's the entire film.

@roryyyyyy 7 жыл бұрын

Which piece are they practising at 3:35 please?

@sgrumette 7 жыл бұрын

Dear Rory, Unfortunately, I don't recall the name of that piece. Perhaps some other viewer can identify it for you. Best wishes, Steve

@DamianDaminator2012 7 жыл бұрын

They're practicing the Schumann cello concerto (:

@roryyyyyy 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jorgewashoreynarojas1790 4 жыл бұрын

This video pisses all over 99.999% of KZfaq.

@derekflanderschang9654 3 жыл бұрын

Yessss

@dobekhil 10 ай бұрын

I wasn't taken by it. But I wasn't taken by anything else either. What should I do? I wasn't taken by anything.

@sgrumette 10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry you weren't taken by the film. What would have been required for you to have been taken by it?

@dobekhil 10 ай бұрын

@@sgrumette I didn't mean I didn't like the video sir. In fact... it provoked a strong thought. Thanks for the video.

@bckm54 Жыл бұрын

any relation to Lina Grumette?

@sgrumette Жыл бұрын

Yes, Lina Grumette was my mother.

@medievalmusiclover 5 жыл бұрын

Another great Jew!

@kathrynmcmorrow7170 4 жыл бұрын

Like Father like Son.

@user-pf3jx4uf5u Жыл бұрын

Удивительно, нет русских субтитров.

@murielrezek1481 6 жыл бұрын

violoncellist:-)

@smilecome1 7 жыл бұрын

I apolozige for my brainless commment. I was just saying, no offense. Thanks share the knowledge. But please save your curse. Peace!

@penelopewhite1509 5 жыл бұрын

No one in this video has very good pitch.

@sgrumette 5 жыл бұрын

Dear Penelope, Is it possible that the intonation errors you detected resulted from the limitations of the 16mm film technology available in the 1970's?

@pviola314 5 жыл бұрын

They're just having a lesson. Who knows how far away it is from a performance. Piatigorsky is old so it makes sense. There's ample evidence his pitch and technique are great in his career

@piotrgach5073 5 жыл бұрын

Very true

@vladiinsky 4 жыл бұрын

Because its not a baseball video, Penny!

@LloydRMaes 7 ай бұрын

What a master of the cello! I heard him play 55 years ago with Laszlo Varga at San Francisco State. It was a marvelous program!,,,