Congratulations! That's a huge accomplishment, and you all should be proud of yourselves :)

Ώπα καλησπέρα!Εγώ το ξεκινάω από αύριο!

Michael Paul Smith it's not nearly as menacing as it appears. It's in a cello friendly key. You may want to consult with a cellist friend for the best fingering. For example, after the intro, you want to repeat the melody on your D string, not the A. Practicing 3-4 octave scales in this key will also help you find the notes in a more efficient manner. This is my go to piece for nearly every occasion. Bonne chance ⚜️🎻🎶

Thank you so much for your insights, Jen. I'll take all the help I can get! Et bon chance a tu, ma cherie!

I love the image of someone rising out of their coffin, cello in hand, and just playing and elegie for their guests ant their own funeral, then sinking back down... I know this isn’t what you meant but it’s a funny image in my mind

instaBlaster...

Much luck and respect for anyone that could play this piece at their own funeral!!! The piece is strikingly beautiful though. I used to play a lot of cello I worked my way through college playing cello and played in lots of symphonies and I played this piece many times and it was always magnificent to play. I still remember playing that low C string for two measures and watching the c-string vibrate half an inch back and forth and just pulling out the raw beauty of that low C. my challenge was to always try to make that string vibrate more than I had made it vibrate before. And when I finally made the string rattle against the fingerboard I knew that I had reached my maximum. Let me tell you as a cellist this piece is worth becoming a cellist for. And later years after I played cello I also bought a violin and a viola and my encouragement to buy the violin was to one day play Massanet's Thais Meditation. I can kind of play it if I hold the violin between my legs like a cello but it doesn't work really well. I've got a long ways to go but there's also a lot of very beautiful music yet to play. I remain resolute.

+Claire Pierce Hey! I'm also very excited because I've been chosen to dance this in contemporary style in 25/6/16 at my dance school's annual performance!

Claire Pierce I hope one day perform it with you in Iran, dear Claire . Nice choice

Ooh me too!!! I have a concert in november and im performing this song with a cellist!! Wish me luck 😀

BaileyRob this is kind of late but this song was actually written about the composers wife that died, the song literally represents death, the death is in the last six inches of your bow

JuanCenaツ - I am also late, but apparently you’re very very wrong. This piece was written after Faure’s fiancé at the time broke off their engagement.

Man. Poetic

je suis d’accord

You got this! The music is so rich, I couldn't stop myself from learning both parts haha, you can do this. Good luck with this piece though, I know some of the stretches can get rather large for bass.

Izzy G I have too, and although I have to do 2 other songs first, every time I hear it I want to play this song more and more. It's so emotional I can't wait to express this myself

I feel you man, cc. 36 is killing me😭

Lol

On est tous venu pour la même chose. 😉

lmao same here though

it's ez tho....

+Brayn Wu Yeah it wasn't that bad. I guess I was just nervous about it because it looked intimidating.

@@Kevin-xd2yv If you have the audio and music in front it'll help you understand the feel and technique of the piece like I play classical Harmonica (Chromatic Harmonica) and if I want to I can play this but if soo just practice the 32nd note section and you'll live and everything will be mellow ^-^

That's the only difficult section in the entire piece.

Everyone has their own experiences with music. Interestingly enough, your remark isn't the first time I've heard someone wanting to refrain from getting too involved with the music in such a way. Don't blame yourself for how you choose to appreciate art, so long as it's not hurting anyone :)

Thanks very much for your kind comment :) It's sad that it's refreshing seeing someone accept someone else's view and not (forgive the obsenity) s*** all over it, so thank you :)

kholman1994 I love to close my eyes, shut out the world and let the music fill me.

C'est normal tu sais ce sentiment possessif surtout pendant l'enfance.

mais wi cè suwww

Best of luck!!! If I can do it, you can too!

I have to perform this too! how did you do?

I have to Play it to an audition in under a month ahhh

Two days for me AAAAHHHGG

How have you done?

Best of luck, you’re gonna do great!!

+PigPenguin91 Gosh, I feel your pain. I know how to play both parts of this piece but I'm always too busy to record it and I don't even have a good way of recording it on my own.

+TheExarion One of the struggles of being a multi-instrumentalist! I always want to play ALL THE THINGS. But I can't do both at once, and yeah, I don't have a good way of recording it, either. (I also feel like it would be hard to get it to sound really good, a big part of playing with another musician is adapting to their rubato, and even if you know when you'll take some time or move through a part quicker, it's hard to get the balance right just by yourself)

You should check out the Handel-Halvorsen's Passacaglia (aka the Impossible Duet). Look it up, one guy manages to play both the cello and violin very well. It's definitely possible and I really hope I can get it done some day haha.

+TheExarion Ooh, the Impossible Duet? Now I'm intrigued. I'll definitely have to go look that up!

Haha, the "Impossible Duet" is a name that the uploader gave it. You'll see when you get there :D

How’d it go

this isn't a good audition piece but it's good for a recital if you have a recital coming up

+Brayn Wu No I was already in the symphony, I just meant that I was auditioning to play it with them as a soloist

o ok

I have used this as an audition piece for 30 years lol. Always got me the desired results.

Is that true?? I heard he wrote this after his fiancé at the time cut off their engagement :(

TheExarion no idea that’s just what my cello teacher told me!

Best of luck and happy practicing!

thanks :)

Lindo magnífico

How did you find it tho

I'm assuming that you are under 30yrs old. If you would like to experience classical music from a different perspective,...listen to some "Emerson , Lake , and Palmer" . You won't recognize the classical music because they don't do it in the "Boring" grampa style. BTW,. if you like what you hear from them,...there are a great many othe artists that work in that same vein of classical rock genre. They might just change your life.

You need to listen to Schubert's arpeggione sonata! I'm sure you'll love it

It looks waaaay harder than it is, try it and you will see :)

damn now i wanna hear that version

I am Day 38, All death :(

I am just survived without any dies

How long have you been playing piano?

If you can read bass clef, I'm sure you can find a way or two to make it work on violin :)

Just transcribe it four steps down and one octave up.

(This is my second channel, because for some reason my main channel isn't letting me respond to you.) If you want the video to be monetizable, then you have to use this piece in a way that incorporates Fair Use. Typically, if you want to use the whole piece, then talking over most (I'd say 90%) of the piece will render it undetectable via KZfaq's copyright system. You could also bypass this problem by finding an uncopyrighted performance of this piece. You might have some luck finding that on KZfaq, but I recommend giving credit to the performers and shouting them out in the description of your video or in the video itself (you can find the performers to each of my videos in the description). If you want badass points though, I highly recommend rerecording this piece for yourself. That's the most sure way to make your video monetizable as well. Start with the piano part and then take the cello afterwards.

This is the clearest and most precise answer I have seen to that copyright question. Thank you.

Let your thumb heal, first and foremost.

TheExarion ok thx

You might be using too much pressure on the strings and pressing harder than necessary. Try playing with barely any pressure from your fingers like 20% pressure. It'll sound really really junky but that's okay. This first step you don't even really need to press the strings all the way down on the board. Then add a little more pressure gradually until your string starts to speak a really resonant clean note. That may not be the issue but that's always helped me relax my fingers. It's really hard to tell the issue without seeing any bit of your playing lol. Just always make sure your hand isn't a relaxed C shape. also it's really weird but if you think about relaxing your pinky it kind of relaxes the rest of your hand I learned that in a master class! Hope this helps!

that 7 seconds of silence really did a number on me thanks dawg

Blue Moon good luck!! 🍀

@@epicminecrafter5404 Thank you! I'm actually quite positive that I will make it! Only because I'm curious, do you play any instruments?

Blue Moon i actually play cello too :) I got this piece from my private teacher and wanted to see how it sounds with piano so thats why i came here lol Whats ur fav part? I like measure 6 where i go down in d string to play e flat. Its just so beautiful and heartbreaking

@@epicminecrafter5404 Yes it is! My teacher says, it should sound like a faint memory and I think it fits. Hm, my favorite part... The whole piece is breathtaking (and even sadder if you think about the fact that Faure wrote it for his dead wife). But my favorite part is probably measure 38/39 where you go into e flat after the whole fast part. It just sounds like pure despair (almost like a cry). It's difficult to play, I think on this part I struggle the most. How long do you play the cello? I play six years and try to practice a little harder, because I'm quite lazy xD. This piece is really motivating.

Blue Moon ikr the whole piece is so beautiful. I’ve been playing cello since 4th grade, and im currently a sophomore in HS, so about 6 years as well! I need to practice too lol. I especially need to practice for district honors orchestra happening tmrw, which Ive barely looked at ://

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You can get any classical sheet in the ISMLP (Petrucci's Library); there you have several editions to pick, download and print. Good luck practicing this piece, it got me stuck at 2:35 because I still can't read very well.

Samoth Iorio Thank you for responding! If you need help on either section for reading notes, I might be able to help. I can play both the piano and cello part, and they're both equally fun :)

Thanks for the help, but I can read it, it's just that I'm veeery slow and I usually fall asleep :P You're welcome. Maybe one day when I start learning cello I'll ask you for help. Congratulations on your musical abilities, by the way.

imslp.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9gie,_Op.24_(Faur%C3%A9,_Gabriel)

It's 69 bpm.

It says in the printed music: Molto adagio. Most versions I heard are more in the Andante side not even Adagio let alone Molto adagio

www.imslp.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9gie,_Op.24_(Faur%C3%A9,_Gabriel)#Sheet_Music :)

very very thanks :)

Which parts?

Like in 4:00 the cello doesn’t really embrace the notes that he or she has, even in the after the forte it sounds... “blobby”

Other than that I love this duet, it’s very expressional and beautiful

@@hithere324 Tbh it sounds pretty even to me! Maybe it's just because I've been attuned to hearing it a certain way for over 6 years now haha. If I were to go out of my way to interpret it, I would argue that the cello is sort of passing off its torch to the piano so they can trade off back and forth at 4:05. But I can certainly see how one would prefer the cello to have the stronger voice at 4:00.

Before I respond, I must ask: Can you send me a performance where you think the dynamic markings are played through properly? I'd be very interested in listening :)

Colin Kirkpatrick maybe he thinks about the dynamics of the piano part. By the way, listen to the version of Isserlis, which is not available on KZfaq, but which is on his album of Fauré's complete work.

who cares it sounds really good in this recording. not everything has to be exact