The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I have said it one before and I'll say it again...Wow!!! His interpretations are sooooo refreshing along with his phrasing. Wowee wowee!!

Brings Bach to life, plays as Bach wrote it to be played, wonderful cellist, should have more international acclaim, without question one of the best & most interesting cellists in the world today.

Unbelieveably fantastic! What feel, liveliness and phrasing. What speed and finesse. Bravo!!! Bravo.

Certifié intergalactique! La meilleure perfomance violoncelle de cette pièce que je ai jamais entendu jusqu'ici.

Amazing cellist....trechique, sound, interpretation... just perefect! Thanks for thist post!

that's what playing a great music feels like my friend.

This is a beautiful and refreshing interpretation of this Suite. It is beautiful

It is such a pleasure to hear Queyras interpret this beautiful music in a manner that brings joy to the heart and spirit as well as to the mind. To my perception, this piece as performed by even the greatest cellists often seems to be wonderful finger exercises directed to satisfying the intellect, but lacking in the innate directness, simplicity and natural musicality of this performance.

beautiful cello, beautiful playing!

He is such a stud. One of me all time favorite interpretations of this. :)

For me he is the best for de suites

Queyras plays with magical sensitivity and beauty. The 1696 Cappa cello sings with wonderful resonance and balance The setting is in total harmony with the music Cinematography is extraordinary Acoustics are superb The lightness and spirit of this recording Makes it an absolute joy to hear again.and againand again..

really quite stunning! Best bach on youtube (IMO)

Si léger...ça touche le coeur! Bravo!

Wow! Very french, just terrific!!!

I'm not a cellist, but I bought this CD and this man touches me every single time with his beautiful tone. He really catches the dance spirit of these works as well. A very nice alternative vision is Viviane Spanooghe from Belgium, masterful!

i got goosebumps! so good!

Superbe cette version des Suites pour cello. Dès l'Espagne, merci pour votre vidéo.

Браво!

God bless you!!!

Like #500 (: Amazing and masterful..absolutely stunning!

Wonderful!

so bueatiful !

that was actually better than starker's. jean guihen queyras is one of the best interpret of the suites in ages.

Wonderful Interpretation, i like it a lot!

Oh my god :P Thanks so much for that :P

God-tier bow technique

@mulkip ja gezien, geluisterd en genoten! uniek!!!

with full respect to Mstislav,Jaquelin and Yo-Yo; Jean`s Bach sounds much more attractive than their`s version! Bravo Mr Jean! Great job!

I enjoyed! *applause*

i like his expression when playing, i feel if however well i play but dont hav the right feeling of the song, then the song wont turn out nice..

великолепно !!!

@rtega The "metronome" as a mechanical device with an audible tactus, is indeed a 19th century invention. However, as you can find even in Wikipedia: Galileo Galilei first studied and discovered concepts involving the pendulum in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. By these means, musicians of the early 18th century did measure time, and indeed, Quanz includes a metronome markings table in his book "on playing the flute" (1752).

Agree...

If not already the king, certainly Queyras is the Crown Prince and heir apparent Calendar: 14 April 2010 Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris Jean-Guihen Queyras: J.S. Bach, 6 Suiten BWV 1007-1012 für Violoncello solo

@rtega Sure they existed, Quanz has a list of metronome markings for many baroque dances. :) And, surely there were slow tempi. Maybe not that exaggerated slow, like we sometimes do now, but it is unthinkable that in the baroque era, all music was fast!

it's actually way better ;) :P if you finally are able to play like that... and you know the piece by heart.. then it's a really special feeling to play a piece. you can even do that with scratching.. (talking about vinyl... of course.. ;))

Sometimes I wonder if this version of the suite no3 is better than the version of Rostropovitch... Before he records the 6 suites he said that he didn't want to do that because of the king of cello ! But I think he's not very far of them !

This was gorgeous to hear and I agree with comment that the phrasing and playing are superb, but the editing of the video drove me crazy. A little more subtlety in the cutting would be most helpful with this type of piece.

@zinktitanum Haha, Quantz was from the 18th century. The metronome was invinted more than 100 years after he died... Check your facts.

@xxVivaldixx I'm sure as a "Juilliard alumni who has preformed [sic] this particular suite hundreds of times, including live in apollo," you have a video of your interpretation you'd like to post? It can go right after the video on your profile of you being 16 years old and throwing a moltov cocktail with your friends from 2 months ago!

in the barroco music all was fast no slow or dependen but normally all was fast

@zasesdea then how do you know? Metronomes didn't exist at that time...

@zasesdea how do you know? You lived at that time?

I'm not trying to prove anything, as always it is a matter of taste. For me Arnold Steinhardt and Kim Kashkashian (seperately) have verbalized about the importance of dance in Bach. While personally when I listen its how I perceive them. I wasn't trying to be aggressive about it. Think what you will, though.

@rtega not im studying so much

beautiful very close to pau casals

Very beautiful. However, I think the chords starting at 1:33 should have been savored a bit more.

That was flawless! Almost as if it were yo-yo ma.

Damn why is it that half of the classical music videos start 20 seconds into the video? Every single person who clicks such a video wants to listen to the piece, theres no point of a deadly silence of dozens of seconds in the beginning! Those infos could be in the description line, thats why it is for, anyway. arghh. Humbug.. Nice one though.

@zasesdea They think they do based on books. Imagine basing your idea of how people play now by reading an encyclopedia. Would that be correct? Would we have any objective way of knowing exactly how fast or whatever people played now? Basically I don't care. Music tends to speak for itself. But a lot of people make claims that they make sound like absolute certainties which definitely are not certainties and they leave away the authors that give claims to the contrary.

The guy is a master. Those who think it s bad, they can´t even play the HAPPY BIRTHDAY in an electric organ...f...them

Queyras plays the suites like a fussion of wispelwey and yoyo ma... I preffer wispelwey's version =). is cool that he played with his eyes closed =).

@zinktitanum Metronomes are post-baroque. Metronome markings for Baroque music are never the composers own, and don't have much authority unless supported by good arguments. Tempo markings existed (though Bach rarely added any), but were (and are) ambiguous because there was (and is) no common standard (like a metronome) to compare them to. Fast to one man is slow to another.

Huge nostrils!xD Anyway, he is a very good cellist:)

@rtega and? but the people now the times

@ludocresh5 Who cares? Watch an interview with Glenn Gould sometime: he like to make the point that all the basic statements for posterity have already been made, i.e. we already have 100 recordings of every piece in the repertory with the performer trying to realize what "the composer intended." Gould didn't think we needed a 101st. More than 100 years after the inception of recorded music, if you aren't doing something unique with this piece as a performer, why make the recording at all?

kinda looks like jerry seinfeld

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In other words...If it is Baroque don't fix it.

This guy is good. Stop saying who's better than who, everyone has a unique style of playing. Pull the sticks out of your asses.

It'd be nice if the cameraman had focused less on his face and more on his fingers...

@xxVivaldixx ok, but you also have the right to be criticised then. why is this so poor?

i'm not saying he's worse than yo yo ma, but he's certainly not better

It's a compromise but also you can't play dance movement ignoring basic rhythmic ideas. It'd be preposterous not to play them as dances just because it is undanceable by the standards of the day. At least as a starting point of reference.

No interpretation is better than another interpretation, the musician play the music the way he want to play it, thats all, nothing more, there is no best version of the prelude of bach

A prelude is not a dance.

PLEASE! Yo-Yo Ma's thin tone and generic interpretation are not even in the same league as Queyras.

I prefer Tortelier .... Starker...Gavriel Lipkind and Fournier in descending order over this interpretation. Too idiosyncratic.