@@fishingtrio7823 Because alkan wasn't like liszt, they were both amazing composers, but liszt was constantly giving concerts, travelling and becoming more famous. While alkan was really eccentric, he lived as a recluse and gave only a few concerts. So he became a forgotten composer.
Какое счастье что я открыла для себя этого удивительного композитора!! А недооценённый,потому что повторить гениальное исполнение не все смогли . Нет равных
He wrote this during his aural exam. The teacher told him to "listen to the wind". Needless to say, he condemned the teacher to spend his final days in Hell practising this piece.
But this one's total madness! I mean it's too much to handle! so it's the only piece that I personally dislike from him, even tho he's one of my favourite composers, but yeah, he's too undeservedly underrated, I hope more people will know about him and his crazy pieces lol
@@therealransuare you trying to reply with something relevant to what he said or are you just trolling? also im pretty sure chopin wasnt gay, it was a theory some people had a while ago
I think that it's because you can play it 12345 or 54321, which can be made arbitrarily fast. The limitation would be the low octave notes, which you have around a fifth of a second to get off of, difficult but doable.
@@pineapplewhatever5906 Yeah. I think this piece in its entirety is impossible at this tempo though. The fastest recording isn't very close.(It's still impressive though)
This set (including le vent and aime moi) was dedicated to Liszt actually. Liszt performed le vent. This piece is nothing compared to Liszt douze grandes etudes in terms of difficulty. Musically, Schumann considered le vent blank piece. Alkan fans on RUclips disgust me.
@@prammar1951 Know properly before argue something. This is "Comme Le Vent"(Op.39 No.1), not the "Le Vent"(Op.15 No.2) dedicated to Liszt. Anyone doesn't make it that speed yet. So your comment "nothing compared to Liszt" is non-sense.
Oh sorry. I feel embarrassed. Anyways, there are alot of myths on Alkan that discourage pianists from playing more Alkan x Jack Gibbons wrote an article about those myths. Also, I don't agree, this piece isn't impossible, Rachmaninov performed it in 1919 in tempo.
@Matteo Cosentino CLV is much easier than Concerto for Solo Piano to perform. But has the same difficulty (, if not harder) as Le Preux and Scherzo Focuso
I absolutely love alkans work. His music has great structure and virtuosity to it, expressing it any way he wants, completely owning the keys. I love listening to his music and imo has better technical ability than Liszt.
I agree, but it is only more technically demanding if you exclude Liszt's early works, like the Grand Etudes and Paganini 1838 etudes as well as his opera and symphony transcriptions. His Beethoven and Berlioz transcriptions in particular would easily rival Alkan's Solo Concerto in difficulty and sophistication, I think.
He is my favourite piano youtuber, I have seen him play this piece, I believe he had 2 videos on it, but for some reason he removed them, maybe he's planning on releasing a better version like he did with Le Preux and Le Chemin de Fer...
Bruh are you serious even?! That's totally impossible! I doubt even Allan himself could play at this tempo, so anyways, do you or anyone have that video of his? If anyone does, pls upload it cuz I wanna see the madness xD
Manuel Valencia you mean... Rondo form? If so then i must spoil something: there are lots of pieces with similar structure to rondo alla turca. Because rondo alla turca is a rondo, so is every last movement of a mozart sonata, so is the last movement of many beethoven sonatas, so is the form of many Chopin pieces. In fact every skngle pop song is in rondo form So btw has anyone noticed that justin bieber's songs sound a lot like, in terms of structure, mozart?
Im just new to this classical music while i compare those classical composers and artist most were like metal sans the electric but Alkan is like the EDM during those times
Alkan's etude without opus could be played at a rave, and the same time could be straight out of a pokemon game, and at the same time its just another virtuosic romantic piano piece
I don't know what exactly it is, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't bring myself to like Alkan's work. I always give a new piece a chance, because he appears to be very technically gifted, but it's just not my style I guess.
Zenith Baker Have you tried his Symphony for Solo Piano Op 39? I remember the first piece of his that I listened to was Le Preux which I initially found quite bombastic. While Alkan has many intensely virtuosic works, he has also composed a plethora of more sentimental works. Try his 30 Chants, his 25 Preludes Op 31, Les Mois, or his 48 Esquisses. Likewise, Etudes 7, 8, 10 and 11 of his Op 35. It took some time before I found the pieces of his that moved me. I hope you may soon find how his music speaks to you.
Le Preux is very bombastic on the outside but holds many hidden melodies and musicality. I hated it the first time I listened to it as well, it's really an acquired taste.
Zenith Baker have you tried listening to a proper recording? Even so, lots of people are on your boat. I also can't seem to enjoy most of his music, though i'm sure it's very complex and know they're very technically difficult. But the melodies aren't very inspiring, and the harmonies are quite dull in comparison to other composers
jimmy alderson What do you think then of the pieces I mentioned in my previous comment, especially the Op. 35 works? All should be available on RUclips.
@@Erolon I have purchased pianoteq but I do not know how to link it to sinthesia. how do I put it on sinthesia and achieve high-quality sound. help me solve this issue. thank you in advance!
making fun of Liszt when a pianist cant find any idea any musical inspiration he become a vain virtuoso the question is not what are you playing its how you are playing . The important is to seduce the woman sitting beside
Manuel Valencia a lot of pieces you hear on synthesia you'd swear you hated. But get a proper pianist,mlisten to it a couple of times, and you may begin to like it. The reason, i think, that it is often necessary to listen to a piece of music a few times is to pick out the structure of it. For people who like pop music, the structure is always the same so this isn't nexessary. But for classical music, some pieces are in rondo form, some in sonata form, some in ternary form, some as fantasias, etc. So at first it sounds like a load of noise, but as you keep listening you begint you understand the progression of the structure. But don't fret if you still don't like it. Not many people can get a good taste for Alkan, i'm one of them. I don't, and many others also don't, particularly like his music as a whole like how one might like a vast majority of Chopin's works. This is one of his more... Consonant pieces,p. I don't think it sounds particularly amazing, sspecially in light of the melody and harmonic ingenuity of his contemporaries, but the purpose is more towards technical proficiency than musicality. Thankfully when Liszt wrote his etudes he sacrificed little musicality for them, and when Chopin wrote his he sacrificed none
@@jimmyalderson1639 I agree. This synthesized audio sounds confusing in places because of the relentless stream of notes, all the same loudness and duration with nothing to even make it clear where the bar lines fall. In a real performance the pianist can bring out the important notes (by playing them slightly louder or longer) and you'd then be able to understand more.
Ehhh....anyone in america saw my house? He flew away when I heard this song. If you want to find it it is red and you have to deliver it in Italy there will be no money-based rewards.
It wasn't meant to please people, it's a practice piece. But in fact, these high speed sounds are used in a lot of modern video game music and movie effects. Just because it is too complicated for you to understand while attempting to focus on it, does not mean it should be deemed "not musical." That's just a one sided opinion. The english translation for etude is study, in a musical aspect it is considered "The composition of enhancing ones skill." Education is important.
The tempo used here looks to be faster than Mr Alkan intended. By the way the metronome practice in the 19th century was to have the note value in the metronome marking to have two ticks, not one, therefore if this is what he thinks is the correct tempo, using modern metronome practice, where the note value is equal to one tick of the metronome, then he needs to half the tempo, then it will be correct.
One of the most underrated musicians of all time
I agree, but I can t understand why?😕
@@fishingtrio7823 Because alkan wasn't like liszt, they were both amazing composers, but liszt was constantly giving concerts, travelling and becoming more famous. While alkan was really eccentric, he lived as a recluse and gave only a few concerts. So he became a forgotten composer.
@@GUILLOM sad. same level of skill, but different levels of fame.
@@topic260 Only in performing but composing, Liszt completely outshines Alkan with his later pieces like Sonata in B minor.
@@fishingtrio7823 His compositional skills weren't at the same level as that of Liszt. Just listen to his Sonata in B minor and you'll understand.
Alkan was just perfect. Every his piece is original and masterpiece with unusual, but beautifull harmonies, melodies and rythms
Какое счастье что я открыла для себя этого удивительного композитора!! А недооценённый,потому что повторить гениальное исполнение не все смогли . Нет равных
2:55 catch the wave!
What a good pair of ears Alkan had. Listen to all those sounds in the wind.
He wrote this during his aural exam. The teacher told him to "listen to the wind". Needless to say, he condemned the teacher to spend his final days in Hell practising this piece.
Category: Gaming.
Franz Liszt frank is a great virtuoso
For him, play piano is like a game.
For us is like breath.
12도 까지 닿았다는 큰 손인데 ㄹㅇ게임수준이 아닐수가 없을듯ㅋㅋㅋ
Alkan was a true gamer
@@jighonky indeed
Every piece that's associated with wind is in A minor:
This,
Chopin's winter wind
Noskowski's Chansonette d'hiver, and le autem
Etc.
Howbout liszt transcendental etude no 12 Chasse Neige? Thats in Bb minor.....
Not all pieces.
Mmh I like A minor beacouse for me it feels "cold", like a frost storm
Alkan's other piece about wind is in B minor
The biting cold of the winter wind is just as severe as the pain from playing super difficult pieces in A minor. In G# minor it's just not the same.
Idk y alkan is so underrated his compositions are wonderful
But this one's total madness! I mean it's too much to handle! so it's the only piece that I personally dislike from him, even tho he's one of my favourite composers, but yeah, he's too undeservedly underrated, I hope more people will know about him and his crazy pieces lol
@@babygirl4169 crazy doesn't equal to good
@liebestraume7929 this doesn't sound "good"
This wind is from a typhoon.
Easy.
For Alkan of course
Too easy
That is easy only for him not for you
Very easy
Too easy for 6 year old Asian. Make it harder
i wish alkan expanded th theme from 2:25 to 2:37 its absolutely beautiful
it sounds a lot like the melody from Chopin Op.25 No.4 imo
@@ViktorRadoslavovChopin is gay 🤓
@@therealransuare you trying to reply with something relevant to what he said or are you just trolling? also im pretty sure chopin wasnt gay, it was a theory some people had a while ago
@@karrotkake That's your opinion ^v^
@@therealransu whats my opinion..
0:36 This part needs to be 21.3 strokes per second.
I think that it's because you can play it 12345 or 54321, which can be made arbitrarily fast. The limitation would be the low octave notes, which you have around a fifth of a second to get off of, difficult but doable.
hardest part of whole etude
@@pineapplewhatever5906 Yeah. I think this piece in its entirety is impossible at this tempo though. The fastest recording isn't very close.(It's still impressive though)
@@alexololo6644 i think @2:10 is the hardest part
Chopin's torrent etude on steroids
Difficulty: Hyper Liszt
@Classical piano - Synthesia im also asian
This set (including le vent and aime moi) was dedicated to Liszt actually. Liszt performed le vent. This piece is nothing compared to Liszt douze grandes etudes in terms of difficulty. Musically, Schumann considered le vent blank piece. Alkan fans on RUclips disgust me.
@@prammar1951 Know properly before argue something. This is "Comme Le Vent"(Op.39 No.1), not the "Le Vent"(Op.15 No.2) dedicated to Liszt. Anyone doesn't make it that speed yet. So your comment "nothing compared to Liszt" is non-sense.
Oh sorry. I feel embarrassed. Anyways, there are alot of myths on Alkan that discourage pianists from playing more Alkan x Jack Gibbons wrote an article about those myths. Also, I don't agree, this piece isn't impossible, Rachmaninov performed it in 1919 in tempo.
I find it more Mendelssohnian in style, but on steroids
Comme le vent means ‘like the wind’, and this piece captures that perfectly
*Posts a piece that's possible* : Extremely difficult
*Posts a piece that's impossible* : Very difficult
Concerto for solo piano and le preux are harder than comme le vent but CLV didnt deserve top 50 maybe top 25 or top 20
@Matteo Cosentino CLV is much easier than Concerto for Solo Piano to perform.
But has the same difficulty (, if not harder) as Le Preux and Scherzo Focuso
@Matteo Cosentino yeah, i know... le preux is for sure in top 5, Scarbo (ravel) too but Alkan's piano concerto absolutely top of the top😂
But it's not impossible
Incredible piano etude !
Yep
Impossibly amazing 🤩
0:11 excuse me?
Rimsky Korsakov: "flight of the bumblebee is the hardest quickest piece ever!"
Alkan:
I absolutely love alkans work. His music has great structure and virtuosity to it, expressing it any way he wants, completely owning the keys. I love listening to his music and imo has better technical ability than Liszt.
Liszt agrees with you on that.
If mereaux played his 45th etude, he is much better
I agree, but it is only more technically demanding if you exclude Liszt's early works, like the Grand Etudes and Paganini 1838 etudes as well as his opera and symphony transcriptions.
His Beethoven and Berlioz transcriptions in particular would easily rival Alkan's Solo Concerto in difficulty and sophistication, I think.
@@Santosificationable I agree symphony transcriptions are out of this world with their lenghts and technical difficulties.
Barbaro Mr. is the only RUclips channel that played it this fast...however, I can't find his video of it anymore. Anyone know what happened with it?
He probably privated it, I can't find either
He is my favourite piano youtuber, I have seen him play this piece, I believe he had 2 videos on it, but for some reason he removed them, maybe he's planning on releasing a better version like he did with Le Preux and Le Chemin de Fer...
Bruh are you serious even?! That's totally impossible! I doubt even Allan himself could play at this tempo, so anyways, do you or anyone have that video of his? If anyone does, pls upload it cuz I wanna see the madness xD
Am i the only one who feels that the piece is, in structure, similar to Rondo Alla Turca?
Manuel Valencia yeah maybe it’s because the main theme occurs multiple times during the piece
Manuel Valencia it’s not just similar to Mozart’s rondo alla turca , structurally speaking it’s similar to all rondos
No, it's similar in the arpeggios and the chords
Manuel Valencia i don't see it ._. maybe it's because they both use trills/turns as the main motive
Manuel Valencia you mean... Rondo form?
If so then i must spoil something: there are lots of pieces with similar structure to rondo alla turca. Because rondo alla turca is a rondo, so is every last movement of a mozart sonata, so is the last movement of many beethoven sonatas, so is the form of many Chopin pieces. In fact every skngle pop song is in rondo form
So btw has anyone noticed that justin bieber's songs sound a lot like, in terms of structure, mozart?
Allan is like a black midi in real life
Middle section sounds like rage over a lost penny by Beethoven
3:03
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Where’s your Comme Le Vent video? Huh? That’s right, it doesn’ exist. :)
can you guys guess why technically demanding music is harder to compose than technically easy music
@Frédéric François Chopin cuz its really hard to compose insanely hard pieces that still sound good and are of great musical value
1:16 left hand
the licc
Wow
What drugs did he consume when he made this
Simply piano on the 3rd day be like
Geeze it looks like mosaic.
POV: you drank a little too much coffee.
Im just new to this classical music while i compare those classical composers and artist most were like metal sans the electric but Alkan is like the EDM during those times
Ok
Alkan's etude without opus could be played at a rave, and the same time could be straight out of a pokemon game, and at the same time its just another virtuosic romantic piano piece
Gnomenreigen+Flight of bumblebee=this
0:01
Is it just me or does Alkan rival Liszt in crazy good piano?
never played at this speed
It has been. By Alkan and Rachmaninoff
This things gives twoset the stink eye when they diss its cousin, bumblebee, and it tried to eat bretts soul.
Just like you playing DNA
This kinda has a 'Rage over a lost penny' vibe
name that tune?
Pretty sure Alkan just yoloed 160bpm to fuck with us in the future.
no, he read the metronome like how physicists today read the pendulum, making the real tempo half this speed! /s
fast like the wind...but this was so fast that my fouse has flew away.....anyone has found it? Is red and maybe it is in USA now.
.house.
nice
Rarely touching the keys with your left hand xD Surprising
Wtf
Achille-Claude Debussy omfg you're fucking everywere
Dynacreeper what do you mean?
And aren't you that guy who was bragging that he can play all of this, but won't share the video?
@@jimmyalderson1639 ikr
What about video recording,is it fraps? I know the app. is called synthesia but what's your recording system?
Abdelmoine Alfa I use synthesia video creator for the video file and edit the audio in.
Ahh okay Thanks very much bro! I didn't know synthesia had a video creator.
Abdelmoine Alfa i
the audio is from someone playing the piano, just edited in i think
@@Fic__ no no no this computer playing not person
This is little bit less frequent than 200 hz.
2:54 3:45 3:55
Soooooo classical midi?
I don't know what exactly it is, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't bring myself to like Alkan's work. I always give a new piece a chance, because he appears to be very technically gifted, but it's just not my style I guess.
Zenith Baker Have you tried his Symphony for Solo Piano Op 39? I remember the first piece of his that I listened to was Le Preux which I initially found quite bombastic. While Alkan has many intensely virtuosic works, he has also composed a plethora of more sentimental works. Try his 30 Chants, his 25 Preludes Op 31, Les Mois, or his 48 Esquisses. Likewise, Etudes 7, 8, 10 and 11 of his Op 35. It took some time before I found the pieces of his that moved me. I hope you may soon find how his music speaks to you.
Le Preux is very bombastic on the outside but holds many hidden melodies and musicality. I hated it the first time I listened to it as well, it's really an acquired taste.
Zenith Baker have you tried listening to a proper recording? Even so, lots of people are on your boat. I also can't seem to enjoy most of his music, though i'm sure it's very complex and know they're very technically difficult. But the melodies aren't very inspiring, and the harmonies are quite dull in comparison to other composers
jimmy alderson What do you think then of the pieces I mentioned in my previous comment, especially the Op. 35 works? All should be available on RUclips.
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very nice! what softwares do you use to give such quality? plz answer I really appreciate it!
Abdelmoine Alfa I use pianoteq stage for audio.
Ah yes I know it and it's excellent but I only have demo version😄
Erolon what piano do you use from pianoteq?
I use the Steinway Model D piano model.
@@Erolon I have purchased pianoteq but I do not know how to link it to sinthesia. how do I put it on sinthesia and achieve high-quality sound. help me solve this issue. thank you in advance!
Listz: Actually I. . . CAN PLAY IT! (eheh you thinked for a moment thet he couldn't play it NOPE LISTZ CAN PLAY EVRYTHING )
making fun of Liszt when a pianist cant find any idea any musical inspiration he become a vain virtuoso the question is not what are you playing its how you are playing . The important is to seduce the woman sitting beside
It says in the title: VERY DIFFICULT. So that means it can still be played, right?
lingling han Yes, it’s possible. There are some performances on youtube.
Yes, but not even the best have managed to play it at this tempo which it is marked.
vincenzo maltempo plays this like nothing
Agamaz Not at tempo he doesn't. He even has brief pauses to find the notes.
rubato?
This isnt very musical though, it lacks any significance to me it's just pure virtuosity.
What the hell ... wooooooh This isn't human music score. It sounds like demon music ohhhhhh...
what
Charles Valentin Alkan I bought a PIANO AND I AM GOING TO USE THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING
wtf is the tempo
Comme le 500km/h storm
0:38 I like classical music, but this sounds like shit.
Manuel Valencia Yeah, but remember this is midi.
It sounds amazing with a real pianist.
On midi it sounds like someone struggling to take a shit
Manuel Valencia a lot of pieces you hear on synthesia you'd swear you hated. But get a proper pianist,mlisten to it a couple of times, and you may begin to like it. The reason, i think, that it is often necessary to listen to a piece of music a few times is to pick out the structure of it. For people who like pop music, the structure is always the same so this isn't nexessary. But for classical music, some pieces are in rondo form, some in sonata form, some in ternary form, some as fantasias, etc. So at first it sounds like a load of noise, but as you keep listening you begint you understand the progression of the structure.
But don't fret if you still don't like it. Not many people can get a good taste for Alkan, i'm one of them. I don't, and many others also don't, particularly like his music as a whole like how one might like a vast majority of Chopin's works. This is one of his more... Consonant pieces,p. I don't think it sounds particularly amazing, sspecially in light of the melody and harmonic ingenuity of his contemporaries, but the purpose is more towards technical proficiency than musicality. Thankfully when Liszt wrote his etudes he sacrificed little musicality for them, and when Chopin wrote his he sacrificed none
@@jimmyalderson1639 I agree. This synthesized audio sounds confusing in places because of the relentless stream of notes, all the same loudness and duration with nothing to even make it clear where the bar lines fall. In a real performance the pianist can bring out the important notes (by playing them slightly louder or longer) and you'd then be able to understand more.
알캉은 사람일까?
Ehhh....anyone in america saw my house? He flew away when I heard this song. If you want to find it it is red and you have to deliver it in Italy there will be no money-based rewards.
Great music
this is like a harder version of transcendental etudes
There is a fine line there is just too much going on to consider something musical, this is a little too much.
There are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Edit: To whoever gets this reference, I like you.
Cit
Asburgic emperor to mozart
It wasn't meant to please people, it's a practice piece. But in fact, these high speed sounds are used in a lot of modern video game music and movie effects.
Just because it is too complicated for you to understand while attempting to focus on it, does not mean it should be deemed "not musical." That's just a one sided opinion.
The english translation for etude is study, in a musical aspect it is considered "The composition of enhancing ones skill."
Education is important.
I think it’s very musical - not exactly emotional; but absolutely conveys a fun atmpsphere.
The tempo used here looks to be faster than Mr Alkan intended. By the way the metronome practice in the 19th century was to have the note value in the metronome marking to have two ticks, not one, therefore if this is what he thinks is the correct tempo, using modern metronome practice, where the note value is equal to one tick of the metronome, then he needs to half the tempo, then it will be correct.
so robotic though. there is no feeling of the wind :(
reminds me of torrent
The ending is disappointing
Nah mate, it works just fine.
its underwhelming
Rohr yep
Michael Ulloa ye but like
Meh
@@michaelulloa12 it doesn't fit at all to me...
This embarrasses chopins prelude in b flat minor and makes flight of the bumblebee look like a joke
An utter shambles. To make the music clear, it needs to be played slower. This mess goes to show that faster is not always better.
Белеберда
What a horrendous piece of music.
Comme le vent means ‘like the wind’, and this piece captures that perfectly
0:35