Piatigorsky's students talking about Piatigorsky, and how to find an instrument within your budget.

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First part of the video: Piatigorsky's students talking about Piatigorsky. Note that Misha Maisky was a student of both Rostropovich and Piatigorsky. Second part of the video: Dealers talking about how to choose a cello. They gave great advices. 1) choose one without knowing the label and price. ( within a price range ) 2) One has to like the cello within a day or two ( like falling in love ). But , you also need a day or two days to take the cello home to test it, not just fall in love with it in 1 hour. You need to have it for two days. If you fall in love with it too quickly, you will fall out of love with it too. 3) Play the same passage on all cellos you try to test the how they sound. 4) If a donor is buying a cello for you, don't want too long because the donor may change mind or may die accidentally. 5) If you try too many cellos, you may learn that one register sounds good on one cello and another register sounds good on another cello, and your goal becomes more and more unrealistic, and you want a cello that have all the good qualities from all the different cellos you tested !!! Many people say that Stradivarius cellos are difficult to play to make them sound good . Third part of the video: Chinese cellist super star 秦立巍 Li-Wen Qin trying out some cellos. 秦立巍 Li-Wen Qin: Born in Shanghai in 1976, moved to Australia in 1989 where he studied with Nelson Cooke at Melbourne University. In 1995 he received a scholarship to study with Ralph Kirshbaum at the RNCM in Manchester, U.K. During his studies Mr. Qin won numerous prizes including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 1993 Young Performer of the Year, the First Prize in the Adam International Cello Competition in 1997, a Special Distinction in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition, and the Gold Medal in the Royal Overseas League Competition. Described by Paul Cutts in The Strad as “the most gifted young cellist I have heard,” Liwei Qin won the Silver Medal in the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. Mr. Qin is currently a scholar-in-residence at the RNCM. Mr. Qin has performed extensively throughout Asia, Australia and Europe. As a concerto soloist he has performed with the Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmanian, New Zealand, BBC Scottish, and Singapore symphony orchestras, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sinfonia 21, State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Warsaw Sinfonia, and the National Symphony and National Radio orchestras of China. He has worked with many conductors including Alexander Lazarev, Valery Polinsky, Lord Menuhin, Simone Young, Jorge Mester, Martyn Brabbins and Vernon Handley. Mr. Qin has given recitals and broadcasts extensively throughout Australia, Asia the U.K. including recordings for ABC Classics, Channel Classics, BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. In 1997 he recorded his first CD featuring the Dvorák Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations for the ABC Classics label with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2000, he will give a solo recital, and take part in an Australian Gala Evening, both at Wigmore Hall in London. He will perform the Elgar Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and concertos with the Melbourne Symphony, Western Australian Symphony and Australian Chamber orchestras. Mr. Qin plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello circa 1791 belonging to Ralph Kirshbaum.