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tonebase Cello Course

Saint-Saëns

The Swan

Taught by renowned cellist 

Mischa Maisky

Master cellist Mischa Maisky goes into detail as he gives a course on interpreting the masterpiece of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals: The Swan. Using demonstrations musical and technical, and with the help of his daughter, the pianist Lily Maisky, we gain new insight into this most familiar and critical part of the repertoire. Above all, he says, the piece should have an elegant atmosphere and we must embody a “reflective, swan-like character.”

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    Difficulty: 
    Intermediate
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    Duration: 
    1
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Course Syllabus

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<p id="">Master cellist Mischa Maisky goes into detail as he gives a course on interpreting the masterpiece of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals: The Swan. Using demonstrations musical and technical, and with the help of his daughter, the pianist Lily Maisky, we gain new insight into this most familiar and critical part of the repertoire. Above all, he says, the piece should have an elegant atmosphere and we must embody a “reflective, swan-like character.”</p>

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Mischa Maisky

Legendary artist Mischa Maisky, one of the last of the classic Russian school of string playing, has been one of the world's leading cellists for fifty years.

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