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Wonderfully played.
Of course, Karen, everybody's eyes and ears
are turned on you. This is a great cello variation.
But underneath, things are going on
that the listener might not be quite as
aware of, that are hugely important in
giving the personality, the atmosphere
to your cello solo. So I would love to take this
engine apart, so to speak, and hear the different parts of it.
So Ayane, would you kindly play
the viola part to this variation?
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It's so bare-boned. It's so disarmingly simple.
But now, Zoe, if we add the second violin part to this, what does that sound like?
[MUSIC]
It's amazing, suddenly this tells a completely different story. It's just
another texture, and a much more interesting one. And Miho, if we add the
first violin part to this, what does that sound like?
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I have the feeling that I've just
opened up my watch after having looked at it to see what the time is
all these years, just to understand, how does it work?
And I see all these moving parts inside, and they're fascinating. They're intricate.
but they're all completely necessary
for this whole thing to work. And so now
let's put the lid back on the watch
and hear this beautiful cello variation
at least a little bit of it, with all the parts together.
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Thank you. And that is Schubert's genius.