Incredible! I enjoy your playing every much! Definitely on the list of things I miss about home: hearing you and the rest of the Houston Symphony play every weekend!
You are absolutely fantastic. I'm just starting to learn the Cello, it's been a year, an amazing year. My teacher and i talk about your performances all the time. At the moment i'm learning "The Swan" so watching your "Two Swans" video is part of my daily practice. Always learn something new. But this...... This is something else 🤯😍 You're such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing.
I think you have to play it to understand how difficult it is. There is nothing harder. And those people who say it is just an etude, can go and play popper for themselves for the rest of their life.
Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!!! Could you tell me please where can we find sheet music for Carmen? The link doesn't seem to allow ordering... Thank you!
Dear Mr. Smith, I am very curious, how long such piece took you to prepare from the moment you first read the score until you performed it 1st time? chapeau bas!
celloj thanks for the interest. I got the score in October and played it for the first time in December, this performance was from February. However I kind of built up to this over the years with other violin transcriptions,... it's not something I could have done years ago
it is very interesting to hear. thank you for answering. your dedication to cello is inspiring, especially after hearing that 'hard pieces' can be done in such short time as you did, the only condition is life long devotion to the instrument :)
Brinton Smith was my teachers teacher and after finding this I am left speechless.
This is amazing!!!! It's incredibly difficult on violin, I don't understand how it's even kind of possible on cello...
also, the link to purchase the transcription doesn't work anymore. Can you please update it so I can order it?
My jaw dropped to the floor ! Bravo is the minimal word to describe it.
R U KIDDING ME!?!?!?! HE EVEN PLAYED IT WITH HEART!
Incredible ... I have watched Carmen Opera, ballet, listened to violin fantasies, watched Carmen on ice and this version just hit the spot.
Astounding! As a fellow cellist, I salute you! Harry Wimmer
Incredible! I enjoy your playing every much! Definitely on the list of things I miss about home: hearing you and the rest of the Houston Symphony play every weekend!
Fantastic.Kudos ! I am speechless........
You are absolutely fantastic.
I'm just starting to learn the Cello, it's been a year, an amazing year.
My teacher and i talk about your performances all the time.
At the moment i'm learning "The Swan" so watching your "Two Swans" video is part of my daily practice. Always learn something new.
But this...... This is something else 🤯😍
You're such an inspiration.
Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful!!! Wonderful to see & hear great virtuoso!!
Beautiful. Kudos to you both.
Unbelievable...😱😱😱... And wonderful. Congratulations!!!
Great video and very inspiring for me 👍🏼
THANKS a million for sharing!! This is truly incredible playing.
just.... EPIC! you are an unbelievable cellist :-) thank you!
Amazing string playing.
I think you have to play it to understand how difficult it is. There is nothing harder. And those people who say it is just an etude, can go and play popper for themselves for the rest of their life.
Bravo for this cellist!! He is really amazing and should famous!
Bravo! Sounds awesome!!
Fantástico, increíble, sin palabras,...
this sounds much better on the cello
Amazing!!!!
Feuermann would be impressed with this
Bravo!
Good God...
Masterful!
It's so much more fun to watch you play this from the front...
photographers tell me the back of my head from a distance in dim lighting is my best angle
Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!!! Could you tell me please where can we find sheet music for Carmen? The link doesn't seem to allow ordering... Thank you!
chiv78 If you contact him through the website he will respond. tnv.net/contact-us/. Best, B
Невероятно 👍👍👍👍👍
Dear Mr. Smith, I am very curious, how long such piece took you to prepare from the moment you first read the score until you performed it 1st time? chapeau bas!
celloj thanks for the interest. I got the score in October and played it for the first time in December, this performance was from February. However I kind of built up to this over the years with other violin transcriptions,... it's not something I could have done years ago
it is very interesting to hear. thank you for answering. your dedication to cello is inspiring, especially after hearing that 'hard pieces' can be done in such short time as you did, the only condition is life long devotion to the instrument :)
It's actually amazing that a cellist of this caliber would even bother to answer such questions himself.
he plays so loose it’s as if he’s playing a violin