“I don’t think musicians realize how much power they have.” So true. Thanks for reminding us Ben Zander!

That viola! What power that thing generates!

I applauded in front of my phone screen.

Ben zander is a national treasure. He unlocked the young lady' s true potential

Energy, energy, energy ... Mr.Zander has such a fantastic spirit !

If I had such a beautiful smile, I would be smiling all the time. Keep smiling, wonderful violist!

I have watched all these videos over and over in this series and can report I have interpretation of life, Mr Zander sees to that, but one draw back is when I go watch recitals at the local music society nowdays even though the artists are established and impress the average person, having taken in all Mr Zanders lessons I find most performances a little dissapointing as I know they can do so much more with the pieces they playing, be more sincere and move an audience so much more. I am also a Tempi fanatic now - if I listen to a Beethoven or Bach piece and the artist is playing a safe tempi when it should be much faster I tend to skip it. Thank you Mr Zander for your lessons and please know I am richer for watching them.

bach is my favorite composer

I have learned to adore this channel, what a gorgeous lesson, what gorgeous music, what a gorgeous girl playing that gorgeous instrument standing in for a cello, and that great old chap with all his insight, his enthusiasm, his encouraging humour and his many (gorgeous) mutterings :-) wise, kind and totally hilarious.

Access to this wonderful masterclass sequence is truly inspiring for people like myself no longer in our youth but always looking to improve access to such music. As below, they are enriching.

To have such a teacher!

Fabulous Karlie

i wish that lady would come back that was there last year,,,,Ben brought out the heart and soul of her playing thumbs up

Maravilhoso!!!! Obrigado por compartilhar conosco.

Bravo Karlie! 😊🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶🎻❤👍

Wowwwwwwww! Awesome performance.

Wooow it was amaizing...

Bravo Karlie

Beautiful, more beautiful then most cello performances

bless her she seemed so nervous! she did a wonderful job to deal with that. He put a lot of pressure on her. It's a big ask, to open your heart to Raoul!

This really helped me!

this is awesome Karlie!

It's so beautiful!

The 2 dislikes are twoset fans

Uma coda a la Beethoven, eu diria. Wonderful performance!

太精彩了吧！！！

please make a vídeo with an oboe player 😍

14:05 incredible

cello still does it better, but her playing was amazing

👏🏻👏🏻👍💕❤️

21:33 🥰

play it with everything you got cause in your mind youll never play it again ok

i ate cheeses tick while listen

14:43 beautiful

4:33

13:39

20 children, with two wives. Documented. J.S. Bach. Let's get frank. 1st wife in 1707, daughter of father's cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, with J.S. produced 7 children of which 3 died the same or next year after birth. One survived mother (she died 1720) and died at 24, way before his dad. Then in 1721, J.S. married court soprano, pretty girl no doubt, springing from two musical families, Anna Magdalena Wilcke. She copied or transcribed music for JS and occasionally performed still, at court. And raised the children that survived mother MB. AM delivered 13 children of which 3 died in the birth year, one died the year after birth, two died at 3 and one at 5. Of the first 7, 3 survived dad, of the second 13, 5 survived dad JS. Whilst he must have worked full-time on his Christian mission to ~'go forth and multiply', there was frequent deep sadness, no doubt. With his deeply emotionally touching music, inspired by a protestant Christian religious context and his personal catastrophes, Bach has been sainted in Western music. But let's be frank. Or call me cynical if you like. I am not cynical, but if we reference "20 children", in 2020, we better be clear about the balance sheet of Bach's life and its context to his music. Or else, the message goes lost in translation. J.S. Bach's business and career side shows a man who was chasing higher social status and potentially more money all the time. Who's - no doubt - high testosterone led to conflicts, in French called: incompatibilité d'humeurs. Clashing personalities. Sometimes with the nobleman-employer, likely sometimes with the employer's new wife, for her different taste, maybe. In my language I might say somebody goes through life "with blinkers on" - the flaps on horses' headgear that prevent distraction, but meaning people can only see one thing and we don't like that. We could also say somebody "has a board in front of their head" when referencing people who have little empathy in the way they go through life. The German language has a word "Draufgänger" that literally translates 'person who goes onto things'. In English, go-getter or dare-devil, in your face, somebody who's banging through life and issues. Maybe do first, think later. Also literally somebody who 'goes on top of, or mounts'. Well, the banging is very apparent. If JS wrote a bourrée for cello, that first was music to an, originally vulgar, dance, second for a solo instrument, so not likely for a nobleman's party, as there would have been a small orchestra, but for the nobleman to practice the dance so as to look better at the next party he visited, or organized. Court life was the world of courtship. French courts and their refined mannerisms may have been reference with the German peasant nobles, but the French courts also were the place where, sipping a drink, you might stick your pinky out. Pinky out, as a way to flag, 'I have STD, so if you have it too, let's get it on.' The saying, 'better a noble savage than a savage noble,' has a real historical background. The way we tell history, by leaving out the gory details, and just repeat the glory, is very scholastic. But leaving out essential details - "we don't lie" - turns history into pantomime. Does bringing these details back, change the way we interpret music? Yes, the maestro demonstrates it all the time. But we can go a step farther in giving context, to further music's cause? Imagine the bourrée for single cello being played on a version of cello that was played like a huge viola, on a strap around the neck: violoncello da spalla [ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nthzZtuS1M_FY30.html ]. Where the player could move his body with the beat of the dance. That may have reminded more of a fiddle. Bach composed and played very secular music in his day too. He had his evening or night concerts called "Nachtmusik" - nothing religious, but secular music entertainment, acceptable in the social context of the time, so it could not be vulgar. The word lives on in Mozart's "Eine kleine". With "serenade" we think of different nigh music, of a lover in the dusk of night under the window of the person lusted after. With Nachtmusik, I would just think evening concert. Nocturne. Storytelling. Completely different than the music played at a court as a way to pay homage, respect to, say grace and hail, to a king arriving. In an exuberant way. Think Händel's coronation music. The courts Bach worked being less up there in the ranks of nobility, protestantism in Germany a little less catholic, i.e. more sober, than the British court, he nevertheless wrote a kind of exuberant court festival noble man entering the scene kind of music. Not all sainted and sacred. Bach. World heritage no less.

This hall has very strange acoustics with reverb which emphasizes some notes, and this gets very hard on ears.

Cello? Or viola? Or viola playing cello piece

She seems upset...

I’d love to see more players of color on this channel, specifically Black musicians. We do exist you know! ;)

Too young, too mechanical. Find the passion find the fun.

viola 🤢