I can't imagine the effort it takes to make such a piece sound so good. Especially since the entire piece can seem stupid and pointless. Amazing performance.
There is another recording of this here at Y/Tube with about 25% wrong notes. Yours is labeled a “Trial Recording” but it beats the others in accuracy.
Nah... *anyone* can play this. But if you can play it as well as 'Barbaro Mr.' here, then you just might be ready to move on to this: watch?v=2lTMiQsMH1g Oh, and NO CHEATING WITH DENTURES.
I found this tonight, and I have been watching it over and over. It makes me laugh with joy. Yes, there are a lot of wrong notes, but here you have something almost no pianist would even try to learn made into a delight for both the eyes and the ears. It is beautiful in every way. It is exactly what I needed to hear tonight and, I'm sure, on many nights to come. I even shared it with my Facebook friends along with high praise. It's getting saved to my favorites right now.
i've been practicing it since i watched this for the first time 2.5 years ago. i think i'll have a relatively clean recording by the 3 year mark. soon...
@madlovba3 Yes, it is essentially, no more and less than, 'Etude'. After practicing it, I never got feared to any jumping and crossing. Even Scherzo Focoso doesn't need move both arms smiltaneously. This is not suitable for the stage(I played once at there, but it was horrible performance).
I can't get over this. This is indeed stupid, but the best, most amusing kind of stupid. Thank you for it! I always imagine pianos secretly laugh at their owners because, when you think about it, what humans can do is very limited. I think your piano is terrified by you.
I have watched this repeatedly. I am in awe. Cannot imagine where that particular technique will be useful, but you've got it covered. Your standard technique must be incredible.
Rewatching this over the years, I can’t fully grasp the depth and magnitude of the accomplishment you had achieved in this recording. Great work, bravo!
"Such a crossing is musically non-sense" - yes, but it is just such a joy to play it! Seriously! Am I alone or do other pianists also love to play e.g. Mazeppa, because of the wonderful feeling of flying hands and freedom over the keyboard? :D
Oh, my goodness. Wow. How delightfully silly. I could get sea-sick just watching. Congratulations on learning that seemingly impossible piece. It is unlikely I will ever hear a better performance. I have to say - that was fun. Thanks.
@Jorge Ramon Ortiz Ruiz imo Etude 45 is harder, because of the variety in technique. This focuses on leaps and hand crossing. 45 has all of that (albeit less) and a whole lot of other stuff too.
Man I thought it was ok at the beginning, but right from 0:50 the WTH phrase kept in my mind right until the piece finished. Lol this piece is dum alright, but don't take this the wrong way, this is one of the most impressive piano playing I have ever seen
LOL for both the sagacious description and the insane performance (especially the ending xDD)! Very, very well done. Hamelin would definitely be proud for rendering such a hellish piece, but he would also say "oh boy, don't waste your talent on such rubbish" ;) You're correct, however - I think Mereaux was a kind of "Czerny of grandmasters", so wrote tons of musically sub-zero pieces to improve your technique on an advanced level. (I think MAH also played few to achieve his godlike dexterity xD)
Mereaux might have very-sensibly written this as a duet... except that would risk breaking the Marquis of Queensberry's Rulez ;-) I admire your bravery: extraordinarily enjoyable result
I am really impressed, even though its not very interesting musically its still very prestigeful being the first mereaux recording on youtube (non-digital).
That’s the technique Liszt and Alkan feared to include in «La Campanella» and «Quatre âges - 20 ans» (closer to the end). Because obviously they were wiser! The result? Maintenant, Mereaux is known by dozen times fewer people than Alkan. Even though the title is «Étude» and «Bravura» (which reminds about sheer technical, not musial purposes of this piece). I have always admired your willingness to revive those grrreat crackpots of the past. Your performance makes me high on this étude.
Wau Simply astonishing and congratulations for having the courage to face compizons like this. The truth is that it kills me the curiosity to take this great work and to take it to my repertoire. I wonder if he would be so kind to pass his score in the mail, I would greatly appreciate it ... (I do not speak English, I hope the google translator does good work haha)
What a gymnastic feat! Well done. I do have to say however, that there are many more interesting studies than the 'Bravura' one in the set of 63 Méreaux composed.
It was Mereaux after all... Didnt expect it... But- Not disappointed. Only in myself because i didn't know he made a worse """""etude""""" than the Napolitana one. This os very easy... If you are cross-eyed and have 99,9% blindness. Mr. Barbaro thank you for your service!
Hamelin talks about Mereaux in an interview: MAH: If it weren’t good music, I wouldn’t bother with it, you know? Some people still think that I’ll play stuff just because either it’s little-known or it’s difficult. I have a set of études by a very, very little-known French composer. Of the same period as Alkan, as it turns out. His name was Amédée Méreaux. It’s a big set of 60 études. Some of this stuff is just hair-raising and makes Alkan look like nothing. [pulls out score] EI: Oh, wow. MAH: An extreme example, here. (he speaks of the etude played in this video) EI: Oh, for sure. Look at that! [There are two-fisted chords leaping in every direction.] MAH: I mean, this is the only piece I know in which you can actually catch vertigo… and it’s in C Major, probably the worst key to do this in. EI: [Paging through] I feel like there’s something of Henselt in the figurations? MAH: Maybe, a lot of it is very widely spaced… I laughed my head off when I saw this… The problem with these pieces is that, musically, they are sub-zero. The melodic invention is… it’s not enough to say that it’s poor, it’s just not there. And it just goes on and on and on and on. He writes 60 pieces in an absolutely worthless idiom. If I was interested in difficulty for difficulty’s sake, I could play this, I suppose. But this stuff just isn’t interesting.
I've taken a peek at some of the (midis) of the 60 etudes by Mereaux. They are...a little more interesting than Czerny's Opus 365, and I feel that they are similar in terms of technical difficulty. It's interesting because these Mereaux 60 etudes and the Opus 365 seem to be serving similar purposes; somewhere between being "just" exercises, and actual concert etudes (like those of Chopin) while, of course, demanding brutally efficient technique. I'm just wondering if any of you find it worthwhile to hear or play either of these sets of etudes? Or are they better off as just exercises? I'm eager to find out any opinions on this.
Realmente, Mereaux es original en el tratamiento de sus estudios. No comparto en absoluto las apreciaciones musicales de Hamelin. Esta música tiene un verdadero interés. No podemos referirnos solo a este estudio. Si examinamos la op.63 completa apreciaremos un sabio tratamiento del contrapunto y de la armonía. Magnífico.
1) Full of wrong notes but one has to appreciate the effort 2) This etude is "technically" nonsense, not "musically" nonsense (but we all know Mereaux loved to flex), the melody itself in fact is fine and catchy.
I was expecting some Mereaux from you! LOL Have you studied only Bravura or are you preparing other etudes? BTW, Hamelin said in an interview about this Etude: "This is the only piece I know in which you can actually catch vertigo"... no comment needed :D
It is actually fun to watch your increasing annoyance with this piece, and I wondered if you would, at some point, just slam the piano. But this piece is extremely hard, and also a workout - for me a quite senseless one, too, regarding the composition - for the arms and hands.
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Personally, I like how it sounds, although the real joy is watching the ridiculousness of the playing.
Yeah, the hand crossings are crazier to watch than hear.
I like thé mélodie but hand crossing is very impresive
Strangely addicting to watch
Emily La I know right
3:46 damn the seizure section was executed wonderfully.
Amazing
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It's interesting that such a horribly difficult piece can camouflage sounds like a Czerny etudes.
Czerny Op.365 etude 45 And 46
No. 46 is a very cool piece!
I can't imagine the effort it takes to make such a piece sound so good. Especially since the entire piece can seem stupid and pointless. Amazing performance.
oh hi ai guy
The piece _is_ stupid and pointless, but it's super admirable that this pianist managed to make it sound like _something_ better than musical drivel.
There is another recording of this here at Y/Tube with about 25% wrong notes. Yours is labeled a “Trial Recording” but it beats the others in accuracy.
Nah... *anyone* can play this. But if you can play it as well as 'Barbaro Mr.' here, then you just might be ready to move on to this: watch?v=2lTMiQsMH1g Oh, and NO CHEATING WITH DENTURES.
I found this tonight, and I have been watching it over and over. It makes me laugh with joy. Yes, there are a lot of wrong notes, but here you have something almost no pianist would even try to learn made into a delight for both the eyes and the ears. It is beautiful in every way. It is exactly what I needed to hear tonight and, I'm sure, on many nights to come. I even shared it with my Facebook friends along with high praise. It's getting saved to my favorites right now.
i've been practicing it since i watched this for the first time 2.5 years ago. i think i'll have a relatively clean recording by the 3 year mark. soon...
@madlovba3
Yes, it is essentially, no more and less than, 'Etude'. After practicing it, I never got feared to any jumping and crossing. Even Scherzo Focoso doesn't need move both arms smiltaneously. This is not suitable for the stage(I played once at there, but it was horrible performance).
I love the melody in this piece! makes me so happy
haha this is such a "look what I can do!" piece. Simply ridiculously well done :)
I can't get over this. This is indeed stupid, but the best, most amusing kind of stupid. Thank you for it!
I always imagine pianos secretly laugh at their owners because, when you think about it, what humans can do is very limited.
I think your piano is terrified by you.
This is one of the best comments about music that I've ever read!
@@ejb7969 yes its true
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I have watched this repeatedly. I am in awe. Cannot imagine where that particular technique will be useful, but you've got it covered. Your standard technique must be incredible.
maybe in the third mvmt of petrouchka with the chord jumps? lol
ameede mereaux wrote this piece for the purpose of hand cross training
cupids, love Clearly... lol
@@evergreen2415 Of course.
to flex
Rewatching this over the years, I can’t fully grasp the depth and magnitude of the accomplishment you had achieved in this recording.
Great work, bravo!
"Such a crossing is musically non-sense" - yes, but it is just such a joy to play it! Seriously! Am I alone or do other pianists also love to play e.g. Mazeppa, because of the wonderful feeling of flying hands and freedom over the keyboard? :D
True, I love playing la Campanella :p
Yeah but not to this extent bruh.
@@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus5224 i personally think its delightfully boring to play and also to listen
@@lucaslorentz I only like the jumps
@@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus5224 la campanella right hand is played an octave higher btw :D
Simply one of the most marvellous technical displays ever.
Oh, my goodness.
Wow. How delightfully silly. I could get sea-sick just watching. Congratulations on learning that seemingly impossible piece. It is unlikely I will ever hear a better performance. I have to say - that was fun. Thanks.
Very useful technique
I always come back to this just to entertain myself.
There is much benefit to what you learned from this piece. You've done a VERY good job with this work!
One doubts that playing the piano is kind of a workout...
THIS PIECE:
Come back and watch this every month or so. Some of the best technical playing I've ever seen.
I swear there's no point to this monstrously difficult etude, but you pulled it off really well.
Does anyone just revisit this video every once in a while to watch this nonsensical technique?
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@@bloba6969 😎
Still amazing after many years
@@IreallylovetrainsCouldn't agree less!
練習曲を何だと思ってるのか..骨抜きなバカは立ち去ってください
That was mesmerizing to watch (and hear). Thank you.
Amazing job for an impossible piece. You have my sincere admiration. I can't begin to imagine how you worked that out.
The second most difficult of all of Mereaux’s pieces! Well done!
Logan McDonald what is the first in your opinion?
@Jorge Ramon Ortiz Ruiz imo Etude 45 is harder, because of the variety in technique. This focuses on leaps and hand crossing. 45 has all of that (albeit less) and a whole lot of other stuff too.
Hi, Rein.
Rein
@@loganm2924 in my opinion no.45 is far easier that this
I think the term "musical non-sense" describes the entire Méreaux opus 63 perfectly. But so enjoyable. Definitely a guilty pleasure.
op 63 no 59: hello
goodness me!!!
this was so enjoyable to watch!
i literally had a smile on my face the whole way through :P
THANK YOU for uploading!!!
This is the funniest thing I have seen and heard in a while. Silly, yes, on many levels I think. But that can be funny too.
Ha, how fun!! Just now discovering these etudes.... Thanks for your great recording!
One of the best things on the Internet
Bravo 👏, dancing hands, beautiful to see. Great performance!
I wonder if Debussy knew of this piece when writing his 12th etude?
@shubus
It is not waste of time if I study SF. I guess Alkan's SF is the only piece this Mereaux's etude get effective, as much as I know.
This insane you even kept the original tempo
Omg, this is sooooo satisfying to watch!
HILARIOUS!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!! Marvelous playing!!
HAHAHAHAHHAHHA omg this is hilarious. I don't know how you could survive after playing this but... you did. :)
Man I thought it was ok at the beginning, but right from 0:50 the WTH phrase kept in my mind right until the piece finished. Lol this piece is dum alright, but don't take this the wrong way, this is one of the most impressive piano playing I have ever seen
Well, you have at least one unique party piece up your sleeve! Ridiculous and mind-blowing at the same time!
0:50 insane jumps!
bravo au pianiste pour avoir joué ce morceau de malade, avec tous ces sauts complètement délirants, presque sans fausses notes !
“Why mereaux, no one will play it like this”
Mereaux-“well with that Time Machine I saw this so, I wrote it too easy”
i think this piece is quite brilliant. With a sort of crude humor, similar to Charles Valentin Alkan's Le Preux.
Bravo! That was insane! And, no offense intended, it was actually hilarious to watch. I've never seen anything like it. I wonder when it was written?
PapaDontCome same time as Liszt. :)
Look, Ma! It's a cross-hand piece ! Dumb musically, but cute. I thought it was going to be "God Save the Queen" in the mode of Gottschalk!
Mazeppa’s long lost brother
LOL for both the sagacious description and the insane performance (especially the ending xDD)! Very, very well done. Hamelin would definitely be proud for rendering such a hellish piece, but he would also say "oh boy, don't waste your talent on such rubbish" ;) You're correct, however - I think Mereaux was a kind of "Czerny of grandmasters", so wrote tons of musically sub-zero pieces to improve your technique on an advanced level. (I think MAH also played few to achieve his godlike dexterity xD)
This is all what I thought. Good comment :)
Man that's a lot of work for basically nothing. It's so utterly ridiculous you have to love it.
Kudos for playing this.
Mereaux might have very-sensibly written this as a duet... except that would risk breaking the Marquis of Queensberry's Rulez ;-)
I admire your bravery: extraordinarily enjoyable result
Good Lord! I've never seen anything like it!
olympic performance
Victor Borge would have had a field day with this.
I am really impressed, even though its not very interesting musically its still very prestigeful being the first mereaux recording on youtube (non-digital).
超絶技巧大好きな人（自分もそうですが、、w）にとっては弾きたくなる曲ですね！
Ending is absolutely stunning 😍👂
The second section actually has amazing melody line, and it should be appreciated more
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Yes uwu
Mereaux generally needs more attention!
@@j.rohmann3199 1:18 i meant, the melody is so gud
@@AsrielKujo it is vewwy gud
H guys
Legend.
No jump will ever scare you after learning this piece... not even if it's about jumping a canyon on a tricycle!
No one:
Méreaux: Aight imma cross hands to make it harder.
@Franz Liszt ritkis
@Franz Liszt What?
@ֺ XxD
@Mathews yes why
@Mathews No. Help
That’s the technique Liszt and Alkan feared to include in «La Campanella» and «Quatre âges - 20 ans» (closer to the end).
Because obviously they were wiser! The result? Maintenant, Mereaux is known by dozen times fewer people than Alkan. Even though the title is «Étude» and «Bravura» (which reminds about sheer technical, not musial purposes of this piece).
I have always admired your willingness to revive those grrreat crackpots of the past. Your performance makes me high on this étude.
I feel like you gave this piece way more time and attention than it deserves lmao
this is above islamey on a Reddit list of most difficult piano repertoire (#30 to be precise).
Congrats!
Wau Simply astonishing and congratulations for having the courage to face compizons like this. The truth is that it kills me the curiosity to take this great work and to take it to my repertoire.
I wonder if he would be so kind to pass his score in the mail, I would greatly appreciate it ...
(I do not speak English, I hope the google translator does good work haha)
What a gymnastic feat! Well done. I do have to say however, that there are many more interesting studies than the 'Bravura' one in the set of 63 Méreaux composed.
So very very good!!
이분이 아마 유튜브에서는 유일하게 양손 전환 도약연주에 성공한분이 아닐까 싶네요...
-메로는 이딴걸 연습곡에 막 넣다니 양심은 있는건지-
"So, which hand has the melody"
" *yes'nt* "
I think we need to hear Stockhausen's transcription of this piece.
Dang this is really great
It was Mereaux after all... Didnt expect it... But- Not disappointed. Only in myself because i didn't know he made a worse """""etude""""" than the Napolitana one. This os very easy... If you are cross-eyed and have 99,9% blindness. Mr. Barbaro thank you for your service!
just amazing
Insane piano pieces
Hamelin talks about Mereaux in an interview:
MAH: If it weren’t good music, I wouldn’t bother with it, you know? Some people still think that I’ll play stuff just because either it’s little-known or it’s difficult. I have a set of études by a very, very little-known French composer. Of the same period as Alkan, as it turns out. His name was Amédée Méreaux. It’s a big set of 60 études. Some of this stuff is just hair-raising and makes Alkan look like nothing.
[pulls out score]
EI: Oh, wow.
MAH: An extreme example, here. (he speaks of the etude played in this video)
EI: Oh, for sure. Look at that!
[There are two-fisted chords leaping in every direction.]
MAH: I mean, this is the only piece I know in which you can actually catch vertigo… and it’s in C Major, probably the worst key to do this in.
EI: [Paging through] I feel like there’s something of Henselt in the figurations?
MAH: Maybe, a lot of it is very widely spaced… I laughed my head off when I saw this… The problem with these pieces is that, musically, they are sub-zero. The melodic invention is… it’s not enough to say that it’s poor, it’s just not there. And it just goes on and on and on and on. He writes 60 pieces in an absolutely worthless idiom.
If I was interested in difficulty for difficulty’s sake, I could play this, I suppose. But this stuff just isn’t interesting.
Wow, this piece is absolutely ridiculous. But cograts on playing it like that.
Mereaux, one of the greatest composers when it comes to piano for dogs
3:12
@f1f1s Technique is only a means. If such silly hand-crossing purported to be a mediator of great musical worth, pianists would master it, I believe.
This is the original Rush E.
Me, at the beginning: why does he have to do that?
Video: *you’re missing the point*
Wonderful!
my nails literally scratched my fingers when i'm sightreading at 25% speed
i usually play this piece with my feet.
I play it with my eyes
Too absurd and i still love it xD
I've taken a peek at some of the (midis) of the 60 etudes by Mereaux. They are...a little more interesting than Czerny's Opus 365, and I feel that they are similar in terms of technical difficulty. It's interesting because these Mereaux 60 etudes and the Opus 365 seem to be serving similar purposes; somewhere between being "just" exercises, and actual concert etudes (like those of Chopin) while, of course, demanding brutally efficient technique.
I'm just wondering if any of you find it worthwhile to hear or play either of these sets of etudes? Or are they better off as just exercises? I'm eager to find out any opinions on this.
no 59
Realmente, Mereaux es original en el tratamiento de sus estudios. No comparto en absoluto las apreciaciones musicales de Hamelin. Esta música tiene un verdadero interés. No podemos referirnos solo a este estudio. Si examinamos la op.63 completa apreciaremos un sabio tratamiento del contrapunto y de la armonía. Magnífico.
Great workout as well 😊
They left hand bass notes are accurate which is impressive. I would be floopin’ around
well, SOMEONE had to do it
The very end with the swooping crossovers look very painful on the finger tips.
the ending look like it was sped up
@@andrewzhang8512 you mean Czerny.
@@bigdick3228 I... don't remember posting that.
@@andrewzhang8512 what i was said is that czerny is the epitome of speed on the piano
You sound like Yui Morishita.
1) Full of wrong notes but one has to appreciate the effort
2) This etude is "technically" nonsense, not "musically" nonsense (but we all know Mereaux loved to flex), the melody itself in fact is fine and catchy.
breh
Meh
What the actual fuck. And here I am having trouble with 2 octave right hand jumps at half that tempo...
Oh. Wow!
What the actual fuck
I was expecting some Mereaux from you! LOL
Have you studied only Bravura or are you preparing other etudes?
BTW, Hamelin said in an interview about this Etude: "This is the only piece I know in which you can actually catch vertigo"... no comment needed :D
Bruh…. Insane
I don't know whether this Bravura is stupid or not, but, I like this piece. Your performance shows how very difficult a piece it is to master.
It is actually fun to watch your increasing annoyance with this piece, and I wondered if you would, at some point, just slam the piano.
But this piece is extremely hard, and also a workout - for me a quite senseless one, too, regarding the composition - for the arms and hands.
Красивые руки😁
Did u get those Forarms by practicing this piece?
Fair enough 😂