Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Variation 18 (piano solo)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Threw in a few bars of Variation 17 to segue nicely into 18. Originally for piano and orchestra.
Transcription: Robert Schultz
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Piano: Yamaha AvantGrand N1
Piano VST: Garritan CFX Full
My current CFX settings: forum.pianoworl...
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I think that the chromatic ending of the 17th evolving into a 5th and then resolving into the 18th is one of the most beautiful moments in the history of classical music
Yeah, the 17th variation is my favourite. Although I also love the 18th, of course.
Could you possibly put that into laymans terms. I would sincerely like to understand. Can you point out the time-frame in the video where this occurs? Thanks
@@dorisb505 Prior to 0.25 is the 17th variation
Yes it is totally
I cant agree more
This is the first piece of music I ever remember hearing. It brings back to me an apartment on Bloor Street East in Toronto, in the late 1940's, greenish yellow light streaming into the sunroom through the trees in the Rosedale Ravine, and being played by my mother on a 78 RPM phonograph. It wasn't until many years later that I recognized it when I heard it again.
In any case, it is the piece I want played at whatever celebration takes place at the end of my life. It escorted me, in a sense, into my life; I would like it to escort me out. Rachmaninoff was my mother's favourite composer, and either therefore or coincidentally, mine too. She actually saw him perform live in Toronto in the 1930's.
I also want this piece played at my funeral. My favorite piece of music.
Greenish yellow light streaming into the sunroom...beautifully said John
I am 84 years old and this has been my favourite piece of music since I was 15 years old .just love it ❤️
This has to be the most beautiful piece of music that Rachmaninoff ever composed.
It is definitely up there but his second piano concerto is the most beautiful in my opinion.
I would say that Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto no. 2 and the adagio to symphony are at least as beautiful as this piece.
Best version and best performance on RUclips! Congratulations!
How about Rachmaninoff himself?
@@rushana1956 😳
@@rushana1956 had Rachmaninoff ever played this solo transcription?
@@vladimirhorowitz6646 not this particular but whole opus - yes
@@rushana1956 we are talking about this exact transcription so your comparison to any other performance of the whole concerto doesn't make sense
This one - solo transcription played on a single piano
The whole concerto - piano playing with orchestra accompaniment
Completely irrelevant
You nailed the tempo and dynamics. I can hear the orchestra mentally. Well done!
Just marvelous...thank you so much. It is my favorite piece, and the one I hope
to be able to play for my darling wife...someday.
Is it weird that I want this to be played in my funeral 🤷🏻♀️😃
@@Iamdivine1306 yes this music is like back to a cosmos true
This is the music of my childhood. It is my memory of my mother who played it often. My friends think I play piano; they just don't know how crappy I am. Thanks for the inspiration. I'll keep at it.
Why do I cry when listening to this? The emotional response this gorgeous piece of music, not to mention the exquisite playing, evokes in me such a reaction that I simply burst into tears, and I'm not making this up. Just dazzlingly beautiful !
I feel the same thing when I hear this! ❤
Just reaches deep down into my soul ....
Wow. Your piano and vst sound amazing. Nice playing!
I wasn't expecting to find you here :p
To Mr. Eric, I agree with you, entirely😃
Your digital grand piano has amazing high quality sounds.
It sounds just like a real concert full grand piano!!🎵🎹🌹
@Allan Ren
Yes, that's right.
Evidence that, you should watch carefully the top board of this piano.
There is the speaker, isn't it?
Does have real grand piano such speaker?
This is clearly a digital piano.
Are you a blind or something?
@@Taka-Musics-Labo that last part was not called for. dafuq lmao
@Allan Ren yes, he’s using the Garritan CFX piano library on a computer. Oddly enough, the keyboard he’s playing is just to drive the library in the computer, no sounds are being generated in the keyboard itself.
@@knightley5896 shit went from 0 to 100 real quick
@@lukest292 I wasn't sure where he/she was going for a minute. Got relaxed and comfortable and then BAM! Right out of left field.
I’m glad you started with the 17th. Not that it’s the version I’m used to but it just has a different feel when the Rhapsody is started off. It’s like “get ready for a rollercoaster of emotion” especially when it resolves into the 18th Rhapsody. It just makes it even more beautiful and elegant but sentimental
Utterly phenomenal piece of music. You play so beautifully, in my next life this is going to be me...🤍
Of all the interpretations of this on RUclips, I think yours is the best.
This performance was absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful !!! This piece reach my emotions ! I'm crying. You play it beautifully. 🥰
Somewhere in time...Thank you for the perfect performance!
Wow this transcription and performance are amazing! Brb going to learn this, thanks for the inspiration!
Progress update?
Stou, I learned it a couple of weeks after posting that comment. It was pretty easy for me to learn and play (I’m self taught and I consider that to be the root of my many issues), and the only difficulty I had was banging out big chords with my relatively small hands. It was a significant part of my repertoire for about three months before I started learning new pieces and I have since forgotten how to play the piece in its entirety. It’s one of those pieces that I will always go back and relearn, and next time I think I’m going to include variation 17 because I really like the sound, and the transition between the two variations is remarkable.
I cannot tell you how moving a performance this is. I am awe struck at the technical command and romantic and poetic insight you give to this piece. It reminds me of Cecile Ousset's beautiful rendition of the 18th variation with the CBSO under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle.
just simply beautiful: playing and the piano itself
I can't find words for this... Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
Far as I know, Rachmaninoff never added lyrics to this piece of music nor did anyone else. If someone did, I don't think anyone would know. Far as I'm concerned, the music speaks for itself. It's perfect as it is. This wonderful piece of music would be ruined if lyrics were added.
Absolutely amazing! Superb playing, this is one of my favorite pieces. Your interpretation is sublime. I recently got back into playing after an 8 year hiatus, used to be really good but quit when I started playing the guitar. My dream is to one day play this.
how humans can be inspire to reach for the sublime and beautiful melodies to forget at least for a moment the ugliness we all carry inside the way GOD meant for us to BE how BEAUTIFUL.
Well said
Ack!! I thought I lost this! Your performance is my FAVORITE to this day, and one day your channel was gone. I just searched again today and you're back! Several music channels had gotten hacked, was yours one of those? SO glad you are back. Have premium now, and I'm downloading this. Yay, Rach is back! 😊
Best “piano only” var 18 on RUclips
Love the richness of the sound. Thanks for sharing.
This isn't an acoustic piano?? The sound is fantastic!
A hybrid Yamaha if I’m not mistaken.
It is a kawai novus nv 10 piano.
It uses the sound samples of the Clavinova, but a real physical piano action. So they fall it a hybrid but it’s more accurately, an electric piano with real piano keys and not just digitized levers
@@alaindevers1060 no it isn’t r/confidentlyincorrect
The description highlights that the Garritan CFX VST is used here.
Just lovely! It stirred up deep feelings believed forgotten. Thank you!
The
most beautiful music
Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!
thank you for your music and for your other uploads. There are so many talented musicians here on RUclips that it is always a surprise to discover a new outstanding pianist. You play beautifully!
I wish you many visits and likes you deserve it.
Please work on your marketing, people also want to read something about you, your biography where you studied, a photo of you, etc. etc......
This is absolutely beautiful. Bravo. I’ll be learning this piece next for sure. I hope to see more from you sir!
STUNNING !
Loved playing it. It's beautiful
So glad to hear something - but especially this - played on the N1. Nice interpretation.
Очень профессиональное исполнение! Браво!
Just lovely..! Love this..! One of the most melodic pieces of music..!
A Truly beautiful performance. I'm working on this one and you inspire me with the natural romantic arch of this performance. I can't believe I've never really listened to and embraced the amazing harmonic colors towards the end of this variation. I just recently worked up the C# mi Prelude and this is the one I'm working on now.
Thank you for sharing your obvious love for this timeless music. Rachmaninoff has left a genius body of work for the ages.
Wow - you're insanely good! A rach master indeed
Very good. Soft in the right times, stronger in the right places, you gave it life.
Very much like your CFX settings. I’m working on about 50 of my arrangements for two pianos of classical orchestral favourites, and am trying to get closer to your sound for playback purposes - just to give pianists a rough idea of what these arrangements sound like in live performance. I am a concert pianist myself, but I don’t have time to organize concerts with another pianist that would include them all… The videos I currently have on my channel use primitive CFX settings that make the virtual piano sound rather ‘tinny’, but I intend to replace them all soon with the much more natural settings I have learned from experimenting with some of your ideas. Thank you so much for putting them out there. Very inspiring.
Me casei há 33 anos ao som desta música, que continua me emocionando até hoje. A sutileza, romantismo e criatividade de Rachmaninoff, o tornaram atemporal . 🥰
Excellent - well played. And that Yamaha produced a near-perfect Rachmaninoff tone.
That was great performance! Thank you for sharing with us :) May I ask were did you find the music sheet for the 17th variation bars? Thank you!
Belíssima interpretação !
B r a v o ! 👏👏👏👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Maria Helena ( Florianópolis/ SC/ BRASIL. 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 )
Incredible performance. Thank you for bringing this joy into the world
Just beautiful, I've got to the bottom of the first page, only another couple of months of hard slog then
My absolutely favorite piece of music.
Amazing Performance
Beautifully played just perfect bravo
beautiful piece!
Beautifully played x
Very nice performance. I also use the Garritan CFX Full. Really like it and have used it on the last 5 or 6 videos on my channel. I use the default grand and set the reverb to a medium concert hall, string resonance to 30 and dynamic range about 85. Sometimes I will switch to "performer" instead of "audience"
I'll have to try your setting. I also like to boost the reverb. I've been enjoying the "Mellow Gold" preset. Nice to play ballads in my entryway late at night. It's a very live room. Mello Gold is a very dark grand sound with a lot of depth IMO .
this is he best version of the variation I found, amazing
Great clear rendition of this music.
Lovely rendition of this romantic classical music....... so beautiful.
No difference between acoustic and this hybrid.100% reproduction without compromise.Playing Amazing
Przepiękne wykonanie! Dzięki.
Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for!
Beautifully performed!
That was a nice little dopamine boost for me thanks dude!
This is one of my favourite piano pieces.
Bravo.
Thank you for the inspiration.
This is the way how R. Schulz transcription should be played. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for this performance. You are teaching me how to play it.
Wow
Absolutely wonderfoul music 🎹👏
Amazing and sounds so beautiful
Breathtaking. Awesome playing. Huge fan since i’ve seen the Nier covers like peaceful sleep. Keep it up!
Magnificent playing and love Yamaha. Thank you so much for your wonderful talent.
i first heard this in the movie his majesty okeef which the the movie i saw with my first love 63 years ago. i didn’t know what the piece was until many years later but every time i hear this i am transited back to the arms of my first love in 1961
How sweet❤❤❤
this is my favorite piece... i always loved racing games, and Gran Turismo 6 Ayrton Senna tribute, had this song, i love this piece
very nice, I like this piece played with just the piano
Superb 🎹 arrangement.. Kudos! 🎼
breathtaking.
For me is the best interpretation until this the moment that I ve ever seem in you tube.... Congratulations... Yamaha N1 Avangrand is awsome... Who is the pianist...?
This is one of my favorite pieces of all time, and it would be a dream come true to learn it. I'm about an RCM level 6/7 pianist and I was wondering if this piece is as hard as it sounds. Would it be a good challenge or should wait to try and learn it? The transcription is beautiful!
Beautiful playing. Pretty spot on.
Congrats, very nice interpretation 👍🏻
Beautiful 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💓
Beautiful
Very well played. 👏👏👏
Perfection in Sound
Beautifully played and nice piano 😊
Nailed it.
Incredible job
Can you cover valse di fantastica from ffxv, please. All piano your cover is really beautiful and have feeling. I'm looking foward your next video :D
What is your setup? I have a beautiful acoustic upright and a Yamaha S90XS 88 Controller that I use with Vienna Studios Synchron Pianos, East West Grand Piano and Kontakt Noire amongst others. Someone mentioned Garritan below. I'd love to know. Thanks in advance.
Very nice touch my friend.
Barely 2 years in...for me...this would be a wet dream...bravo!
Did you give it a try? Doesn't seem imposible
I love especially when you play the end of 17th Variation. Your playing is so beautiful!!! Where can I get the sheet music of the 17th variations you added please?
You can just use IMSLP for all public domain music.
So great interpretation! I love your playing version! Good job!
Well played! And very good!
Потрясающе!!!!!
Love it! Beautiful Playing. I found the sheet music online for free. I also, found the score for the end of the 17th Variation!
Where did you locate it?
Beautiful, well played!
Sheet link: www.theatomheart.net/dl/pianopdf/Rachmaninoff-18th-Variation-Loveridge.pdf
superb! bravo! great sound!
Beautifully played! We almost don't need the orchestra...
Sounds absolutely amazing 😍
So beauty ❤