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justabarnowl.bsky.social
i feel the same way about all the violinists and cellists who play pop music for TikTok engagement, wasted skill because consumers have no taste
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
catherineblack1.bsky.social
Passionate cellists do join us for Winter Music in Lewes on November 22nd for a thrilling days playing and development
#cello #cellocourses
catherineblack1.bsky.social Catherine Black @catherineblack1.bsky.social · 8d
Ahoy #cellists
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.

A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
mirandacello.bsky.social
Michelle Kesler's and my album got reviewed on ConcertoNet!
“Balance with eloquent refinement” can best describe the discipline these two accomplished cellists bring to the Recital Hall." 😍🎻

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October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
cairosteele.com
"Where the other two [cellists] also a couple?
"They were, until one got septicimia and lost 3 fingers."

... I just realized they were no longer both CELLISTS, not no longer a COUPLE 😭 I was like "wow he lost 3 fingers and his partner left him but they still play cello together"

I am stoned
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
girlyfriday.bsky.social
It's been one year without you, and I am learning every day how to rely on myself and my intuition. You would have loved Conclave.
A brunette woman in a blue dress sits at a harpsichord with two cellists playing behind her.
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
gurnb.bsky.social
#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic
Vivaldi's sonatas for Cello & BC explore a wide range of emotions; it is no stretch at all to transpose the fabulously melodic line into an aria, but with cellists like this playing, why would you? 🤠
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
rlb-21.bsky.social
Perhaps the most beautiful cello piece ever composed, played by one of the greatest cellists of all time. Thank you.
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
vanoreo.bsky.social
cool fact i learned is that concert violinists are about 60:40 conservative and cellists are 75:25 liberal
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
jacobgarchik.bsky.social
like all great cellists, she abandons her music career to become an art restorer in the sequel.
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
divyampersaud.com
As a cellist forced into composition by my disability… cellists really lack imagination or ear lmao
October 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
deerea.rs
just TWO! MORE! DAYS!! until the variety hour!! We have poetry we have prose we have drag we have opera we have games we have wearables we have duelling cellists we have incredible art ITS GONNA BE SO AWESOME!!
the poster for Dolls Dolls Demons Dolls at the Leather Archives& Museum, this Friday at 7PM!
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
eklorman.bsky.social
How might Bach’s Cello Suites have been influenced by French-style pièces de viole?
#cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello
Bach’s Cello Suites and French Pièces de Viole In composing unaccompanied violin solos, J. S. Bach was following a well-trodden path with significant contributions from German violinist-composers. Precisely what motivated him to compose Cello Solos is less clear. Compositions such as Domenico Gabrielli’s Ricercari for unaccompanied cello (1689) are not likely to have been familiar to Bach or to have served as his prototype. But is it possible that French-style solos for bass viol (known as pièces de viole, composed with or without added continuo accompaniment) could have influenced his conception of the Cello Suites? Viola da Gamba: Harmonic vs. Melodic The French viol player Jean Rousseau (1644–99) distinguished between the “harmonic” style (jeu d’harmonie) of viol playing and the “melodic style” (jeu de mélodie). In the former, the viol conveys both melody and harmony, sometimes through chords and double stops, as well as through registral leaps that distinguish the bass line from the upper voices. In the latter, the viol plays the melody and requires extrinsic accompaniment. Whereas Rousseau advocated the melodic style, Sieur de Machy (fl. c. 1660–90) considered a viol player playing only melodies to be comparable to “a man who plays perfectly on the harpsichord or organ, [but] only with one hand.” In practice, the distinction between the two styles was sometimes blurred, as some collections were composed to be playable either solo or with continuo accompaniment. Music in the pièces de viole tradition—either by French composers or by Dutch and German composers who inherited and extended it—was likely part of the musical atmosphere at Cöthen while Bach composed the Cello Suites, given the influence of French music and culture on German courts and the presence of the outstanding gambist Christian Ferdinand Abel. A Gavotte en rondeau by Sieur de Machy [An excerpt from a musical score for solo viola da gamba is reproduced here.] This Gavotte en rondeau from Sieur de Machy’s Pièces de violle (Paris, 1685) exemplifies de Machy’s harmonic style, in which the viol expresses melody, bass, and accompaniment. The texture and style might remind some cellists of the Gavotte from Cello Suite No. 6. It is conceivable that, in composing suites for unaccompanied cello, Bach developed an original synthesis of the German solo-violin tradition and of French pièces de viole. The Cello Suites at Your Fingertips Order a copy of Bach: The Cello Suites by Edward Klorman for your personal guide to these magnificent compositions! For more information, visit Bach-Cello-Suites.com. Follow on social media: Facebook: @BachTheCelloSuites Instagram: @Bach_The_Cello_Suites The slide reproduces an image of the cover of Edward Klorman’s book Bach: The Cello Suites.
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
roefizzlebeef.bsky.social
infodumping in the group chat about my favorite cellists as all my friends politely ignore me
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
gmar tov! tsom mashamauti! happy max bruch op. 47 day to all those cellists and organists who are observing
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
professorberry.bsky.social
21 cellists...
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
eklorman.bsky.social
Pablo Casals was famously the first cellist to record all six Cello Suites. Who were the first cellists to perform the complete cycle in concerts?
#cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello
Performing the Cello Suites as a Cycle Today, many cellists have tackled the Herculean feat of performing all six Cello Suites in either a pair of concerts or a single marathon event. The earliest-known concerts of the Cello Suites cycle took place in the decades just after World War II. The Swiss cellist Henri Honegger and the Dutch cellist Max Oróbio de Castro toured this program extensively, frequently drawing comparisons to one another and setting a paradigm that generations of cellists have followed. Henri Honegger and Max Oróbio de Castro Honegger—a student of Julius Klengel, Pablo Casals, and Diran Alexanian—played the complete cycle in 1946 in London’s Cowdray Hall and, over the next decade, toured the program across England, the Netherlands, and the United States. A critic reviewing the Cowdray Hall cycle expressed doubts about the six suites as a suitable recital program. But other reviews were more enthusiastic: a pair of 1949 recitals in The Hague were hailed as a “clear, compelling presentation of the composer’s intentions,” rather than a “Romanticized Bach” or a “quasi-spiritualized” and “sterile” one. A review of a 1955 cycle in Wigmore Hall found that his “outlook is so musicianly that his renditions always give genuine satisfaction.” His 1959 box set, recorded over two days, has recently been reissued on CD. Oróbio de Castro, a student of Isaäc Mossel and Casals—performed the suites in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1948–50. A reviewer from The Hague described his concerts as “an initiative that requires not only craftsmanship but also artistic courage.” Another generally positive review of the same concerts characterized his Romantic style of playing as “representing more the emotional life of a nineteenth-century [composer] than that of Bach or his contemporaries.” A Proliferation of Cello Suites Cycles The ensuing decades saw several cellists playing the complete cello suites in New York: David Freed in 1956, George Neikrug in 1979, Norman Fischer in 1984, Mischa Maisky in 1987, and Rostropovich in 1987 (for his sixtieth birthday). Recitals of the complete cycle played an important role spreading the Cello Suites around the globe. The British-Israeli cellist Thelma Yellin performed the cycle in 1950 in a trio of broadcasts on Kol Yisrael, the Israeli public radio, and Uzi Weisel performed them in a pair of concerts at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1971. The Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto marked the composer’s tercentennial in 1985 with tours to New York, Paris, and throughout India, Mexico, and the USSR. More recently, Yo-Yo Ma performed the cycle at a BBC Prom in the Royal Albert Hall in 2015 for a sold-out audience of over 5,000 people. He marked the release of his third Cello Suites album (2018) with The Bach Project, a sprawling tour of six continents, comprising thirty-six performances of the cycle and corresponding “days of action” engaging local community organizations and artists. The Cello Suites at Your Fingertips Order a copy of Bach: The Cello Suites by Edward Klorman for your personal guide to these magnificent compositions! For more information, visit Bach-Cello-Suites.com. Follow on social media: Facebook: @BachTheCelloSuites Instagram: @Bach_The_Cello_Suites The slide reproduces an image of the cover of Edward Klorman’s book Bach: The Cello Suites.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Claude Debussy & The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic:
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May 17, 2024 at 6:33 AM
nachogeaux.bsky.social
RUSSIAN CELLISTS REPORT FOR DUTY! Russian police raid Moscow Conservatory, issue military draft summonses to young musicians meduza.io/en/news/2024...
Russian police reportedly raid Moscow Conservatory dorm and issue military summonses to students — Meduza
Russian police raided the dormitory of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and issued military summonses to multiple students late last week, the Telegram channel “Ostorozhno, Moskva” reported o...
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November 27, 2024 at 3:32 AM
keezyyoung.bsky.social
all the cellists know it, certainly haha
April 23, 2024 at 6:16 PM
emilycello.bsky.social
I lived everywhere! Mostly Hollywood Dell (in the hills between the Bowl and Franklin) and Toluca Lake/NoHo. I am an unapologetic lover of the Valley 🥰 PS I never knew Brian but there are so many great cellists in LA there’s no way to know them all.
May 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
rule-of-candor.bsky.social
an insult to cellists everywhere, but effective.
August 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
drcuriosity.bsky.social
I'm a bit like that with cellists, sometimes.
April 10, 2024 at 9:11 AM
drlaplace.bsky.social
This suite stands out for its technical demands, expressive Sarabande, and rich polyphony, creating the illusion of multiple voices on a single instrument. A triumph of Baroque music, often reimagined by modern cellists on a standard 4-string cello
December 15, 2024 at 8:49 PM
brikcius.bsky.social
Happy Siblings Day! 🎉

Duo Brikcius [2 #Czech 🇨🇿 Cellists 🎻 - 2 #Siblings]

Anna Brikciusova - Cello
František Brikcius - #Cello

www.brikcius.com/Anna #ČasVypršel

#SiblingsDay #CzechMusic #CzechCellists
April 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
izandra.bsky.social
“Repost if you’re queer and into horror”
From the 2018 movie The Perfection. Two female cellists in fancy dresses sit on a stage performing a duet.
August 8, 2023 at 5:57 AM