Well, with the possible exception of the one containing the chaconne. But in every picture I've seen with a character who plays the cello, the number one movement, re-si-la-si-re-si-re-sol, of that suite is heard at some point. I'm recollecting the picture about the Jaqueline Dupre and his unfortunate marriage with Daniel Baremboin. Films depicting a violin student or player are much less frequent, due to the enormous popularitiry the cello has got over the past forty years. I think the cinematographic industry has picked up the subject due to the particular position a woman displays when executing at the violoncello. Anyway, I see now I am answering the question myself. It's a matter of the popularity of an instrument or rather, of the novel appearance of one instrument among the great public (who knew the cello 50 years back?). But why Bach's suites and in particular no. 1?
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Originally posted by Enrique View Post[...] I think the cinematographic industry has picked up the subject due to the particular position a woman displays when executing at the violoncello [...]
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Originally posted by Quijote View PostWhatever do you mean, Enrique? Well, of course I know! There is that famous story of the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham reprimanding a lady 'cellist ...
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Originally posted by Quijote View PostWhatever do you mean, Enrique? Well, of course I know! There is that famous story of the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham reprimanding a lady 'cellist ...
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Originally posted by Quijote View PostWhatever do you mean, Enrique? Well, of course I know! There is that famous story of the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham reprimanding a lady 'cellist ...
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Originally posted by Michael View PostTwo clean quotes from Sir Tommy: (Not word for word - but from my memory)
"The late quartets? Written by a deaf man - best listened to by a deaf man."
"The last movement of Beethoven's 7th is like a bunch of yaks galloping around".
He did make a great recording of the C major mass, though.
a) Nepal;
b) in the Black Forest (I'm serious! In a sloping field next to a trout farm.).
In neither place could I have described them as excitable, galloping sort of animals. I don't think Beecham ever saw one, or maybe he was hallucinating on his 'powders'? Somehow I think Wagner was a lot closer in his description of this movement !
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