Not the soloist, watch the cello
OrchestrasWatch this from the current Verbier season.
She’s Swiss, 19 years old, from Lausanne.
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Extraordinarily gifted cellist. World-class to my ears. [Having heard Rose, Yo Yo Ma, Harrell, Starker, Ginastera and several others live, and up-close, I can perhaps form a creditable opinion.] Hopefully she will enter the ranks of the exceptional in the not-too-distant future. Will she pursue an orchestral career? She is section-principal material in just about any ensemble in the world. All the best to her! Watch her, Mr. Lebrecht. This is no scantily clad megalomaniac.
Scantily clad megalomaniac..!
Who could he possibly mean?
Does this lovely cellist have a name?
Yes, she does. Watch the video and you’ll see it! Also, the name of soloist, conductor, and orchestra.
Clara Schlotz. She studies at the Zürich University of the Arts.
Yes, Clara Schlotz
Stunningly beautiful phrasing.
Simply wonderful!!! What a gifted young musician!
Beautiful playing. So controlled too.
Nice Norman…..
I was there presenting for Medici. And Clara was a miracle…..
I interviewed her a few days later too.
Like hearing God
Magical! Clara Schlotz has such a feel for this part…and the piano soloist Alexandre Kantorow is superb in Brahms as well.
Kantarow is distinguishing himself all over YouTube. I want to hear him in the 2nd &3rd sonatas and in Schumann.
Reminds me of Jacqueline du Pré…
Hmmm….I find her tone rather thin and lacklustre. It needs the warm bodied, lush, Brahmsian tone, that painful yearning singing quality that’s found in Du Pre, Rostropovich and Yo Yo Ma.
Maybe she’ll grow into it? Not many come around like the big three you mentioned above.
I am glad Brahms simply ,classical line isn´t buried under fat , russian vibrato here..
There’s always one.
What were you listening on? A phone or a decent hi fi?
It’s playing such as that, combined with Brahm’s pathos in this piece, which has always made listening to Brahms a private affair via recordings. The tears he evokes are too embarrassing to share in public.
Beautiful! Lovely talent.
I wonder if any of today’s young conductors ever listen to the old masters like Celibidache, for example? They and we would benefit from it a great deal.
If they want to play it at half speed, yes.
He had a fine musical mind as broadcasts and kater recordings show. And tooHe also had a bitter nasty attitude and it kept him from leading some of the better orchestras which many think he deserved. Was he different just to be different ir did he have integrity?
The biggest prick i ever played under….Creating a ridiculuous cult by playing everything at half speed, a nauseating , pompous clown ,totally full of himself,full of contempt, disrespect, racism, misogynism, arrogance…The great Maurice Murphy told me some funny stories how LSO members gave him a little lesson…I played once under him, in a youth orchestra.Called in sick for the second program.At least i didn´t have to practice too hard, since everything was at practice speed….I got free tickets for his Berlin Phil return, i believe it was in 1992…He managed to get the brass and strings at the end of the first mvt of Bruckner 7 half a bar apart, at both concerts!!!( It was on the original broadcast, but got edited for VHS and Digital Concert Hall….That´s quite an achievement, with the Berlin Phil!!!
It’s not twice as slow but half fast.
Name? Is this a youth orchestra? The oboist is good too!
Look at the title of the video, her name is right there for all to see. I agree that it could have been repeated in the text of the article, but it’s not like she is uncredited…
https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/artist-training/students/
Verbier Festival Orchestra…Superb youth orchestra.
Great, let‘s objectify more 19-year-old women by referring to them without their name… that‘s a good look for this site. Unless, of course, it is the cello who is Swiss and 19 years old…?
J. Brahms – Concerto pour piano No. 2 – Solo cello Clara Schlotz, VFO / A. Kantorow & L. Shani
Look at the video title…
Her name is Clara Schlotz and I think you will all remember the very first time you heard her, in years to come!
What a spacious and really ideal tempo. Only one other performance have I heard the hello’s solo and duet played so memorable and really giving us an essential august Brahms quality: a cellist in a Frederic-Francois Guy performance. The winds in the middle here too. I recently heard a laterKarajan recording with a pianist who I never hear talked about:Werner Richter-Hauser one of the best accounts of this music!
Absolutely. Strange that Karajan’s DG version with Anda didn’t reach the same level, in spite of their close relationship.
The pianist you are thinking of is Hans Richter-Haaser.
Although it is sometimes conjectured that Brahms got the wonderful idea for the cello solo in the slow movement from Clara Schumann’s own piano concerto, I’ve always suspected that another and stronger influence was the cello solo in the slow movement of Robert Schumann’s violin concerto a work which Clara, in consultation with Brahms and Joachim, decided to suppress as reflecting his final insanity and thus potentially damaging to Robert’s still developing reputation. But that theme continued to intrigue Schumann for the rest of his days (claiming he had received it from the spirits of Mendelssohn and Schubert) and Brahms also did his best to preserve and perpetuate the theme as something like the last flicker of Robert Schumann’s true genius.
Those two cello solos could almost be played as a duet with the piano concerto’s cello solo being the accompaniment.
Wonderful, moved me to tears; perfect tempo, phrasing, tone….
My Mother loved Brahms, her father was a cellist, we chose this movement as the entry to her funeral ceremony (and the sparkling 4th movement for the exit!!), i wish she (and my Grandfather), could have heard this artist.
Thank you so much.