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Episode 6, April 24, 2006 - Popper Gavotte
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The music for this episode is a dance written by David Popper. He lived about one hundred years ago and he was fairly well known at the time. He travelled and performed on the cello and also wrote lots of cello music. He must have been a very hardworking person. I think this music is a bit lighter and more fun. It is a dance called a Gavotte.
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April 25th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Another beautiful installment. Many thanks. I liked this one especially.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Thanks! One request: Could you post more details on the pieces so that we can look them up on our own?
April 26th, 2006 at 4:18 am
You legend. Keep it coming.
April 26th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Absolutely beautiful! That was a magnificent piece. I could actually imagine tiny dancers in my mind dancing to the music, lol. Can’t wait until next episode to discover what you will play. Thanks for the amazing music!
April 26th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
awesome!!!!
April 26th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Beautiful music. I play the French horn, and if I were to take up playing a stringed instrument it would be the cello. You make me want to start looking for one. Bravo!
April 27th, 2006 at 12:26 am
This is the first time I’ve heard or seen any of Popper’s work performed, and as a growing cellist myself I really appreciated and enjoyed your interpretation of it. I’m curious to know if this is out of his reknown 40 etudes? Again, thank you for playing, and keep up the excellent work!
April 27th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Thanks again!
April 27th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
wow great… !!! MR.Celliest where did you get the piece of that song.. its so nice .. i wanna try it, of course i will watch your movie 500 times first .. heheheh thanks… excited to the next movie…. good day! =)
April 29th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Hi Luke! I just purchased my first video iPod and tried to subscribe to your podcast series via iTunes. Unfortunately, it seems that your video format is incompatible with my 5G iPod player.
Have you considered using a free video converter to make your series more iPod friendly? You can get one here:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
Hope this helps. Keep up the great work!
Hugh Sung
April 30th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
That was awesome!! Thanks a agin for all your hard work and beautiful music!! Bravo!!
May 1st, 2006 at 7:13 am
Wonderful! Thank you very much.
Greetings from Belgium
May 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Rich - This is the D Major Gavotte by David Popper. Originally it is for cello and piano.
Chris - Popper wrote 40 Etudes, this is a separate piece. He also wrote many little pieces like this one.
An iPod edition is in the works. It should be available through iTunes tomorrow.
Thank you for all the feedback to everyone. Please keep posting it.
Luke
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:30 am
I am a new beginner, and you just blow me away. Your are awesome. Thank you!
October 27th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
wow. interesting interpretation…i do very different fingerings and stuff, and our speeds are different too…but i really like this. thanks for putting this here so we can learn more =)
October 28th, 2006 at 12:24 am
This is so awesome, I really like it - a friend of mine (”sera”) played this for a competition, so I know it’s pretty damn challenging
would you possibly be able to put on a video of the cello accompanied by piano?
October 30th, 2006 at 11:04 am
I think at some point we will play it with piano. It is neat that other people have played it.
December 20th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
The Popper Gavotte is really the best.
Fantastic music.
Go on like this!!
January 8th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I cannot thank you enough for this website. I am a beginner and it is so helpful to actually be able to see you play. You play beautifully. Thank you for this inspiration to all the aspiring cellists out there!
March 18th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Hello Luke,
your podcast is really great. Before I found your podcast I didn’t really know classical cello pieces, but I was a fan of the cello rock band Apocalyptica. Thanks to you I also got to know the other beautiful pieces that exist for cello and I decided to learn playing cello.
I hope that I can someday also play such pieces like Gavotte 
I’m really excited but I’m still at the beginning
Yours, Patrick
April 14th, 2007 at 12:41 am
This is pretty good, of course, but I’m so used to hear the gavotte with piano, that it seems a bit incomplete. Is there a possiblity of a rebroadcast of this with Ross?
June 12th, 2007 at 1:44 am
I LOVE POPPER!
Thanks for the great music Luke!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Greg- Thanks. I agree. I think Popper’s music has so many nice melodies and it is really memorable. It really shows off the cello nicely.
Luke
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Pretty cool, although I’m pretty that section with the harmonics from 2:53 til 3:00 should be the same tempo as the rest of it.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Tradge - This section with the harmonics is neat because it sounds a bit like the theme from that western movie with Clint Eastwood, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” It has a similar timbre and sequence of notes.
Luke
February 26th, 2008 at 4:32 am
wow! Great job!!
I recognize this piece and it is in book 7 of the Suzuki method and I’m dreading having to play this but you make it look fun!
Just one question: what position are you in when you play those really high harmonics in thumb position? I mean like 10 or 11? Seems pretty high
February 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Carter - Great that you are coming up on that piece. I am not sure positions up there even have numbers. Harmonics are a bit easier than playing the actual notes.
Luke
February 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
my grandmother got me into classical music. i hear you playing and at times im brought to tears. i never right on web sight but after hearing you i must. even my friends (ho mainly lisen to rap and R&B) like you. and im happy that you can inspire a younger crowd
May 13th, 2008 at 4:59 am
I enjoyed listening, but I didnt like your interpretation of the song much. It seemed very standard and ‘by the book’. I recently played this song for a college audition and I feel like there should have been more passion.
I admire your ability to work around the cello so effortlessly. Very Nice.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:04 am
Hi Luke, I REALLY like your playing, and you are an inspiration to me, a two year student of cello.
On #6, the Gavotte by Popper, how do I download that mp4 file for playback later ? I was able to download one of your recent selections, but for some reason, can’t find the link to download that one. Thanks, Richard
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Richard - Great to hear from you. I just fixed it. I am fixing up some of the older posts with download links.
Luke
July 16th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Very nice playing I loved it. Could be a little faster but overall very nice job
August 20th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Hi cello journey,
Thanks for all your work. I am the father of an 8 year old boy who has been playing cello for approximately a year (& french horn & piano!) and I am a complete novice in appreciating classical music. I am able to show him your postings so we can both develop an ear and find out what we like and don’t like. Your site is very useful. He especially has fallen in love with de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance and Dvorak’s cello concerto.
Your playing is a joy to hear.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Kwame - Thanks. All the best to you and its great that he is excited about the music.
Luke