Cyprien Katsaris - Three Variations on Happy Birthday (audio + sheet music)
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- Опубликовано: 1 сен 2013
- Cyprien Katsaris is one of those rare pianists whose technique, interpretive acumen, and intuitive sense combine to astonish his listeners. Typically, he divulges a uniquely eccentric manner at the keyboard: he smiles, gestures oddly with a free hand, frequently looks away from the piano during the thorniest passages, and often rises as he's striking the last chord. Katsaris possesses a broad repertory, taking in works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Messiaen, and countless others. He is also a composer of some note, too, having written original works for piano, and transcriptions of well-known orchestral works for piano and cadenzas for various Mozart piano concertos. Katsaris has made numerous recordings over the years for many labels, including BMG/RCA, DG, Decca, EMI, Sony Classical, Telefunken, and Warner.
Cyprien Katsaris was born in Marseilles, France, on May 5, 1951. Raised in Cameroon, Africa, he began playing the piano at four. His advanced piano studies were at the Paris Conservatory under Monique de la Bruchollerie and Aline van Barentzen. He also studied chamber music performance there with René Leroy and Jean Hubeau. Katsaris captured first prize at the Conservatory in both piano (1969) and chamber music (1970).
Though he was a seasoned concert artist by the early '70s (his Paris debut was in 1966 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, playing the Liszt Hungarian Fantasy), his breakthrough came in 1974 when he won the Cziffra Competition in Versailles. Katsaris was thereafter in demand as soloist and recitalist at the most prestigious venues across the globe. In 1977 he was an appointed music director of the Festival International Echternach, serving until 2007. The following year he was chosen as soloist at the inaugural concerts of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, including for a series of concerts on tour. That same year he gave his U.S. debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati.
By the late '70s he was also making recordings, the first major one a 1980 Telefunken LP of solo Liszt compositions. Katsaris won three Grand Prix du Disque awards for Teldec recordings of Chopin (1985) and Liszt (1984 and 1989). In 1992 Katsaris appeared on Japanese TV in a 13-part series devoted to Chopin. In the new century Katsaris remains active: among his more memorable concerts was his appearance at the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with the 2008 Olympics.
(AllMusic)
Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480p if the video is blurry.
Original audio: www.geocities.jp/leo_ornstein/...
(A special thanks to RUclips user "ryo123idea" for the MIDI of the piece. You can visit his channel here: / ryo123idea )
(Performance by: MIDI)
Original sheet music: en.scorser.com/I/Sheet+music/2... 
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I love the transition from fur elise to the tempest
The transition from minor to major here is so pleasing at 5:30
You are the most extraordinary person I have ever had the privilege of knowing and loving. You are beautiful from the inside out. This day is truly a day to be remembered and celebrated - the day you were born. Happy birthday to the sunshine of my life.
@Macushla XOXO
Awww... 😍
Really amazing and refreshing ... But why did Katsaris stop at Chopin style ? It would have been funny to hear this Melody in Bartok or Prokofiev style !
+gilles poilvet Dunno, if it only said three, he's only gonna do three... :)
@@thenameisgsarci agree
Others did, try a search on RUclips
Probably because it gets increasingly harder to find pieces by the likes of Prokofiev or Bartok that utilize a basic I-V-I-IV-I chord progression to graph on top of "happy birthday".
theme and variations is probably my favorite form due to the fact that it can be used for goofing around
Ah, GSarci, uploading fun, interesting and enriching content as always! When will I cease to be amazed by your uploads? I love the parody in this; it's a wonderful tool for teaching my students about parody!
"When will I cease to be amazed by your uploads?"
Hmmmmm, to be honest, I don't know.
And, to tell you the truth, I don't want you to.
By the way I added your channel to a card on my most recent upload! Just wanted to let you know about the shout-out!
Oh, OK, I saw it... thank you so much! :D
Amazing ❤
Thank you for Mozart where the minor part reminded me of Chopin and/or the 2nd movement of his piano concertos....so romantic.
You made my day 🎉
Legitimately the coolest way to say Happy Birthday. #music #awesome
One of my favorite channels.
Glorious! Marvelous!
Best wishes from Mozart is great!!!!!!
Nightingale no it isn't
What is that piece from Mozart originally, do you know2
@@musik350 the midi is bad
@@LucasPianoSalon the person i replied to seems to have deleted their comment, i have no idea what this was about initially
@@musik350 Ok
Brilliant! Love it.
Brilliant! Just brilliant!
These 6 minutes made my day :D
Bohus Balko Thank you. Hope the other videos do the same as well. :D
Love this! Very special.
Amazing, brilliant and extremely clever.
Thank for your classic song.
Very interesting variations,i never heard it before thanks
Cyprien is so gifted!
What an awesome video!
Thank you from Barcelona ♡
Incredible, I love the transition to the beethoven sonata.
Guess I have to play the "Pause-the-video-and-screencapture-game" to obtain the sheets :D
Beautiful
This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Wow~! Great discovery of today(Saturday) to enjoy~
Very nice!
This is very good!
Quel logiciel a été utilisé pour la partition?
Can someone give me the sheet music? The enscorser link only gives 1 page :( thank you. :)
Brilliant! Humor is something lacking in music from all eras.
Do not think the great composers were devoid of it.
We shall never know how they amused themselves and friends in close circles.
These variations are done with expertise.
The composers with tragic short lives are laughing once again.
Love this comment they sure are
I disagree. The great composers are filled with humor much more profound than what’s here. Especially composers like Haydn, Mozart (the musical joke), Beethoven (op. 31 no. 1), Prokofiev (2nd piano sonata), Strauss (don Quixote). What’s in this piece is just parody, that isn’t even done that well, given it isn’t as much a parody of style as it is a juxtaposition of different melodies.
@@ohadnativ I think the original comment was saying that great composers were funny. That said, I agree that it's a shame that, after the Mozart one (I think - I can't identify the specific references at least), it's all just mashups of melodies with Happy Birthday. Hell, if the Mozart had clearly been that it might have worked, cos we'd have known from the outset that it was that, but as it stands, it sets up one thing and then gives us another, and not in a comical way.
Those no. 2 from op.69 and op.64 though... :)
Which piece of Mozart's music did he use? :)
very clever :)
And next Scott Joplinesque version? WONDERFUL FUN !
Thank
Why isn't the download link posted? For you who are wondering,the sheet is available to download from en scorser
No Rachmaninoff ?
that would be too difficult to make
_big chords_
I composed a creative piano cover of the melody "Happy birthday to you" as if in Rachmaninov style)) ruclips.net/video/w_YW6NrOKaY/видео.html It is not a completely accurate stylization, as in the case of my covers in the late Scriabin style, since the texture here is simpler than it would have been in Rachmaninov's (without sub-voices and virtuosic figurations). But still, the sensations from listening to it are sufficiently "Rachmanistic": the harmonies characteristic of him sound here, and a long melodic line is also extended. It is like a big wave - it originates, expands, reaches the top and then gradually calms down, ending with a cathartic chord somewhere in the depths - as if the exhalation dissipates after a deep breath...
And also I wouldn't be Rachmaninov at all)) if I didn't use here his favorite motif of the medieval sequence Dies irae, (Gregorian chant "Doomsday"): at a certain moment, this menacing motif in the bass simultaneously connects with the theme "Happy birthday" in the upper voice (will you find-hear this place?))
Considering that Rachmaninov is the creator of some of the darkest works (most of his large compositions somehow relate to the funeral, sabbath and apocalyptic figurative sphere), there is some irony in the fact that the most "non-April-1st" composer, born on March 20 according to the old Julian calendar, with the transition to a new calendar in 1918 in Russia is now considered born on April 1st - on the day that is now associated with the "day of laughter" and jokes.
I think that Sergei Vasilyevich would just appreciate this kind of black humor with the use of the "theme of the Apocalypse" in congratulating him. He could have joked:
"Well, the birthday boy has become closer to the End" ))
Very nice, i like the Mozart style one :D. And the op. 69 no.2 Style Chopin one made my day. Love that waltz
JLTMusic I can only imagine a Liszt one Haha.
JLTMusic I wonder which piece he would've used....
"Happy Birthday: Mephisto Waltz Style"
In the Beethoven-Part, he played every last note of the three of the main theme twice as long as it should!
the siivagunner of happy birthday...
hahaha very nice, sometimes funny and strange:)
🎉🔥🔥🔥🎶🎹
很棒耶
Does anyone know why this version is different from the one that he actually plays at his birthday?
I believe there was indeed a first version of the piece, to which I don't have any access to.
How can you even play the beginning?? I need longer fingers 😭😭😭
3:28 That's the tempest sonata 3rd movement?
Yup
cool xD
ouch!!! all of that talent..
the fur elise one was pretty funny
Thanks, today's my birthday🤗😂😂
this song is pretty cool! :3
Dahre' Miller Nah, you just need to stretch your hand out and play them as arpeggios.
I am not sure. Is this a good song to sent to someone for a happy birthday?
I think so. :)
which mozart song is that from?
ಠ_ಠ
There was a part very similar to the lacrimosa from the requiem, i think, and some typical mozart-ish stuff like a-c-b-c-a-c-b-c bass line, and trills, etc. =)
What is the title after fur elise?
Beethoven Tempest Sonata No. 17, Opus 31 No. 2 in D minor, Allegretto
Out of all the Katsaris nonsense, this one's the best. Also, the last note in the left hand is incorrect.
Where can I get the sheet music?
Timothy OLeary From the video. Download MuseScore 2. It's a free music notation software and copy, respectively transcibe it.
Timothy OLeary That would do the trick. Or you can find it at en.scorser.com.
Fah, le metió un montón un montón de temas
Wasn't expecting to find an excerpt from Beethoven's objectively best sonata in there ;)
heyy, do you know where can i download the MIDI? i cant read notes and i need the MIDI T_T
I'm sorry dude, I don't have access to my computer at the moment... :/
@@thenameisgsarci once u have the access... will u be able to upload the MIDI file elsewhere so i can download it?
@@user-sv3tc5lp8w maybe I'll try
@@thenameisgsarci thank you soooo much!🙏🙏
Try this: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/826247917710475278/860127265711325204/KATSARIS_CYPRIEN_-_Three_Variations_on_Happy_Birthday.mid
for elise / apassionata at the same , amazing idea
Challenge accepted. Hold my beer.
And give me up to 3 months.
Mind if I drink it all up, then?
meh, reckon the beer is forfeit.
Anyways, make it 2-3 weeks and I'll try to get back with a presentable recording. Here's the theme clyp.it/dy0oaqxx
No idea why there's a mono repetition at the end, I don't know a thing about recording.
This was posted about three months ago, right? ;)
2:20 Fur elise.
Seriously?
Hans Müller
Yes.
***** So obvious.
Why does it sound like a midi recording?
because it is. at the time of the release of this video, i was unable to find a performance.
Why midi performance though..?
Because I haven't found a performance that I am satisfied with.
2:21 2 nd bar. WTH IT SHOULD BE A NOT G note
hahahah absoluty funny :)))
Beethoven style?
where?
Uhhhhh... over there? :/
1:36
semperanticus dude..... calm down.
This is not a very accurate transcription. I would like to direct everyone to CK's original performance, see it first before observing this midi: ruclips.net/video/s32O5ubhJKc/видео.html
It would sound very great with a real piano and a real pianist, i don't like this midi secuence mode. The variations are very well written, very creative to inmerse the theme into each composer work, congrats!
Well, of course. I plan in the future to redo some of my videos here, hopefully they have actual recordings... :)
I feel bad for saying this, but I hope not much time was spent on writing this. Although I like the idea of the piece as a whole, the variations themselves are...nothing to write home about. That being said, he may have just sat down at a piano and improvised these, which is much more acceptable coming from someone who calls themselves a composer.
I dunno, but I believe "not much time" still takes time. :)
+thenameisgsarci I guess that's true.. I'm just thinking in terms of my own composition speed. I wrote a set of variations on We Wish You A Merry Christmas that's a similar length that took me about 3 hours.
semperanticus Well that's very rude. No, I don't have a username "bragging" that I'm a composer, I have a username stating that I'm a composer because I know I'm not a household name... and I would never talk to someone the way you do.
Mouth open
Katsaris cède à la facilité en annonçant les compositeurs par des citations directes. En outre, ces "variations" ne sont absolument pas métriques. Au final, on a une bouillie musicale faite de passage d'authentiques variations mélangées à des relents de tubes. Il ne joue pas le jeu de la variation. La créativité y est très réduite. Je suis déçu.
Acutally, you have made some cadences which are really strange. I know it's Beethoven but I think you went to far.
And there are also some errors of parallels octave in Chopin, when clearly it's not a doubling. But anyway it is fun :)
semperanticus ???
Rach Sky, All of it sounds SUPERB, You follow the rules,...I'll listen to this very clever and funny invention,... and You meant too, not to.
Geopholus yeah I meant too. What did you say before?
That's absolutely crappy and trashy stuff😂😂😂
I dunno if that's something you should say with three laughing faces... XD
Great, now, look what you've done!
A pretty pathetic mix up. Not sure it is music.