Hi! In the last video, lots of people recommended this piece (Swan Lake, Op. 20: I. Scene). It seems to be well known as Swan Lake Theme. I expect that lots of people know this piece. I used the piano solo arrangement by Kenneth Nappier. I attached the link in the description. At the last parts, I changed notes a little bit.:) This piece is so beautiful. And, it is easy to play. I hope that you guys enjoy it. Thank you for your support:) Have a good day! (Leave comments when you want to recommend pieces!:)
This piece is so haunting; at first, it has a sad melancholy-like tune to it, with a dab of fantasy, but later, it turns into a strong beat, filled with horror, dread, unknown terror, and oh God knows what-!
Which suits perfect for Swan Lake's story itself In the beginning, I can picture how the princess has to deal with turning into a swan everyday, with no way seen to escape it's curse and her curser The prince meets her and they chat, thus she reveals her past By the end, with the dreadful beats, you can also picture the moment she gets cursed by the cruel wizard, with the only way to undo it being marrying someone not only she has no feelings for, but fully despising him aswell, especially as he's the one who cursed her and destroyed her home
Same to me, he is my favorite and his pieces were my first lessons, starting with this scene in The Swan Lake but of course rearranged by my teacher for a kid starter, and then followed by a few from The Children Album. That was 4 decades ago. I will download this arrangement, you play beautifully.
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This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Which is why I'm going to tell you a story, a long story so I hope you find it interesting. I'm 63 years old now and basically a self-taught piano player. I would not call myself a pianist, not yet, not by a long shot. I only learnt to play the piano so I could play this piece from Swan Lake. It was also my mother's most favourite ballet but she died when I was 8. I told myself that one day, I would learn how to play Swan Lake and then play it every year on her birthday. With help that dream became reality. I can't read music. Oh god, I've tried, believe you me. I've had lessons. So many teachers, but because they get so frustrated with me, they tell me im not able to be taught and that i should give up, save my money. So I did just that. Im dyslexic and suffer with ADHD, which was only diagnosed 12 years ago, which probably doesn't help with my situation. In my 53 years of trying to play an instrument, the only one i managed to learn was the clarinet, when i was 34. Ive always loved the sound, thanks to the big band sound of the 1940s. The likes of Glen Miller, for example. I also love the violin, especially listening to Mozart, but hey, some things just aren't possible to learn, right. Now, the piano is an instrument i do like. I like it a lot. So this is where i feel my story gets interesting. When i was at school, we had double music classes lasting about 90 minutes. l was 10 years old, but all of the instruments were taken save for the grand piano in the assembly hall. My music teacher told me not to be put off by its size. After the first lesson, 45 minutes where he basically explained what sheet paper was, and how you used it. For example, the names for all of the music lettering and shapes, etc. I was told to make a start. What!!! I was left in the assembly hall, on my own, with no one to talk to. No one to ask for help, nothing, while my classmates were, well, in the music room. I couldn't read music. I sat there on the stool looking right at it, but it may just as well have been written in a foreign language. One of the masters came into the hall and said, "Don't let me bother you, boy, carry on." I thought to myself. Please, Sir, please bother me. Ask me why im not playing, as the silence felt terrifying while the master walked on past through the double doors and i didnt play a note. I was sure he would tell me off or something. It felt like 5 minutes, but probably just 30 seconds. Eventually, my music teacher came to me. He had already gone around everyone else in class, and now it was my turn. It was so hard. I did my best to concentrate and follow what he was saying, but it was just gobberlygook to me. We went back to the classroom where i sat at his desk, while he went over the music sheet again, but because of the instruments being, well, not played exactly, but you get the idea. He tried, i tried, but I just didn't understand. He said i was stupid and gave me detention. This went on for 3 weeks. In the end, he was just like the ones i had when i was much older. Rude, unsympathetic, and cruel. Years fly past, and from time to time, I would bring out my clarinet and play along to some of the big band numbers I had managed to learn. I even tried to play Swan Lake, but that was a joke. Then, when i moved home the lasttime, i found that my neighbour played the piano, and very beautifully, i must say. I would hear her playing every day when I got home from work. I must admit. At first, I thought she was playing records. She was that perfect, at least, to my ear through the walls. Then, about ten days after I moved in, i knocked on her door to introduce myself. She said her name was Hilda, then invited me in. To my surprise, not only was Hilda blind but 92 years old. Surely she had to be playing records, right? After she invited me in we talked over a pot of tea and biscuits. Once we got the usual neighbourly chit-chat stuff out of the way, I brought the piano music up. She apologised if her playing disturbed me. Oh no i said, on the contrary, i enjoy it. I asked her who the composer was and what records she played. She laughed and said, "it is me, i am the composer." Really, I said, but I don't see a piano. Come with me young man, and take hold of my arm. She led me to the conservatory, there it is. My husband gave it to me on our 25th wedding anniversary. I play on it every day. OMG, i thought, she has a Steinway and not just any Steinway but one with fancy gold writing on it. There was even the name of a famous orchestra. It looked antique with its stained wood. Probably mahogany with rose wood inlays. It looked so sleek and expensive. I said, "Oh wow, what a beautiful Steinway." Do you play she asked? I said, "Sadly, no, but it's my aim to one day. If i can find someone with enough patience to teach me. " I then started telling her about my music journey with the teacher at school and then more recently the other ones while we enjoyed another fresh pot of tea. She then told me her story that when she was 6 years old, she fell off of her bike and hit her head on the pavement. She has no recollect of that whole day. Just the details her parents told her. After a week in a coma, she woke up and could not see. She was blind, which frightened her to the point where her mother slapped her face. Can you imagine just how scary that must have felt as a child. You have lost your sight then suddenly out of nowhere, wham! You get slapped around the face. Her parents were very strict, but as she told me her story, i would not say they were strict but rather hard on her instead. I would even go as far to say, her mother abused her. Her father was away a lot working for the army as a civilian assessor while her mother, a very hard and by all accounts, a very spiteful women, an evil person too. She worked as a school music teacher. It was how she made her daughter learn the piano that really got to me. During the war, WWII, Hitler was killing off the Jews. Hilda's parents fled Germany arriving in England in 1940 with just a suitcase. She was just a young teen but remembers that week like it was a film. She went to a Gramma school as her mother was a music teacher. From the age of 3, Hilda was made to play the piano every day. Every single day apart from when they fled Germany. Her father was killed in 1967 in a car accident then her mother committed suicide 2 months later. Hilda alone with no family only had friends at the synagogue and her girlfriend from work. Apart from the occasional birthday party she went to, her only I guess you could call it, excitement, was to listen to the radio and play her baby grand. Then, one day, a nice young Jewish man asked Hilda out on a date and the rest as they say it history. His name was Joseph, but he died from pancreatic cancer when he was 52. They had one child, David, who lived in America, New York, the last I heard. Joseph gave Hilda the piano for their 25th wedding anniversary, and she played it every day. But when Joseph died, she became withdrawn and so played for hours on end into the early hours. Then 3 years before I moved in next door her home was broken into. The thieves stole everything of value but not the piano. If only they had known because. When Joseph purchased the piano it came from an estate sale. The auction rooms had no idea of it true value but Joseph did. He bid on it and ended up paying 185 guineas. Before the piano was delivered to their home, Joseph, with catalog and bill of sale in hand, promptly insured the piano for £15,000. Hilda, knowing that I could not read music taught me how to play the piano. She never read music, but to hear her play, you would never have known. Sadly, Hilda died a year later. I was invited to the reading of her Will. David was there, and although he received Hildas estate, she left the piano to me! I have it in my longe. It takes up half the room, but I don't care. I have it insured too, for £30,000 but when I die, it will go to a piano music school. I think Hilda would be happy with my choice. I do have children, but none of them play music, and to be honest, they have no interest in anything these days. Hilda was a wonderful and very remarkable lady. I miss not hearing her play. I miss our talks. I do hope she is resting in peace. 🙏 God bless you Hilda. As Vira Lynn said. We will meet again. Don't know where don't know when.😢
I am a 18 year old who was feeling very down today because my dumb self is failing constantly to play the acoustic guitar. Your story really put a smile to my face and a tear to my eyes! ❤ thank you, love, hope you have a lovely 2025 !!!!
Pianists playing a piano: strikes perfect notes, sinks emotion into every key press, devotes their life to the instrument. Me, playing with a piano: hehe, i liek pushing buttins.
Ahhhhhhhhhh Swan Lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is utterly gorgeous! I'm very used to listening to the entire orchestra version but this arrangement plus your gorgeous playing makes it feel like this is how it should always have been played
This is played so beautifully, it is my motivation to start up piano again after quitting for 6 months. Thank you for putting in all your emotion and showing how great this piece is. Wish me luck
Did you know that... In 1871, Tchaikovsky took advantage of his vacation to compose a small ballet, Lebedinoïe ozero, for his sister's children. When, in the summer of 1875, Vladimir Petrovich Begitchev, the Intendant of the Moscow Grand Theatre, asked him to compose a ballet, Tchaikovsky immediately accepted, especially since the proposal was lucrative (Tchaikovsky would receive 5,000 rubles (about $70 today)) and the composer confided, in a letter to his friend Rimsky-Korsakov, that he had long dreamed of trying his hand at this kind of music !
5,000 rubles in Tsarist time for 1880 is 3000000 rubles nowadays, or 42,800 dollars today. But even this does not mean anything. Then for 1 ruble it was possible to buy a lot of goods, because the ruble was equated with gold. At the beginning of the last century, before the First World War began, 5,000 rubles already cost 5,000,000 modern rubles, or about 71,000 modern dollars. The salary of a loader at that time was 20 rubles a month. The official salary in the office of 40 rubles. The price of food, goods and housing was much lower than today.
My son is five years old, he is starting to take piano lessons, and he told his teacher he wanted to learn this piece, he loves it, and we watched this performance like a hundred times already, though I'm a big fan of Tchaikovsky I have always evaded his most famous overplayed pieces, but I can't get enough of this version it's a complete new insight
I've never felt so much emotion in my life. Makes my body ache in sorrow, sadness, but hopefully. there's new days to be had. let's be graceful with our future selves
When people usually think of Dracula, what immediately comes to their minds is Toccata & Fugue (and I in no way say that it's wrongs, It's a wonderful piece on its own after all). But to me, this is Dracula's theme, like someone said before it's both angelic and evil sounding, with such etiquette feel to it and to me that is what Dracula symbolize at the end.
@@MrSelkies There are melodic progressions directly taken/inspired from Swan Lake in both Star Wars and Harry Potter OSTs. It's honestly pretty cool how influential classical music has remained throughout the years
Beautiful! Some years back I bought the the little lady tickets to see the Russian Balet perform Swan Lake for her birthday. . Absolutely incredible! Having to drive to another state to see it was a small price for the experience, and since my lady is a former professional and competitive dancer it made her whole year. As the music plays, I can still visualize not only the dancers, but the story as well. Thank you for playing this piece.
Apreciar a música de Tchaikovsky no século XXI, assim como Mozart, Chopin, Wagner entre outros, é uma maneira maravilhosa de ter a possibilidade de compreender o quão profunda pode ser e é essa espécie de arte; o quão necessária e magnífica a música ( de qualquer espécie ) pode soar e inspirar todo tipo de gente.
HAHAHAHAHA I can literally hear odette saying "SWAN!" in the middle of a team fight riding on Johnson as they bumped onto the enemies HAHAHAbtw, Odette main here
This was so beautiful; I could literally see swans. This has always been one of my favorite pieces Kassia, and I'm so happy that you played it! I can't thank you enough for this! Your interpretation is so majestic and graceful, it's damn near perfection
I'm actually listening this first time and I am feeling great. Imagine closing your eyes playing this on your piano in a room in a Russian palace when the sun starts rising on a cold snowy dawn. Feels really good.
swan lake is one of my favourite ballets, it’s my dream to go see it in person one day 🥺 even online it’s so magical so i can only imagine how wonderful it is in person
This one sends chills down my spine, the key color makes it seem as if it's some story of a terrible blizzard where one person is stuck in ( swan) over the frozen horizon freezing their life in this tragic melody
I listen to this song daily and about 10 times in a single day this song deepens me makes me feel different emotions this song is perfect and simply beautiful
Действительно, Чайковский великий композитор, и вы это доказали. Играете великолепно! Indeed, Tchaikovsky is a great composer, and you proved it. You play great!
Hi Kassia. Such expression in your performance and beauty. Im a cellist since 15 years but after a long break of music due to worklife I started to love piano music and your expression is so beautiful and you are a very skilled pianist. Thanks for uploading your videos , you are very inspiring! Im currently looking for to buy my own digital piano. Keep posting videos and thanks for all your inspiration ! //Julia from Sweden
I wish I had the kind of control over my appendages that you do. I'm a pretty soulful guitarist, but my fingers don't always do what I tell them to. This is beautiful. I can feel it on my skin when I hear it played.
It's quite a bit of time we are not allowed to visit theaters and see Ballerinas, Operas, etc. This reminded so much of the last Swan Lake I saw. You sounded so nice and your sound so rich. Wow. Loved it
Eu sinto algo como início de um conto de fadas, a luz no fim do tunel, a esperança, mas que depois se revela o oposto, algo maléfico e melancólico talvez. Também me faz parecer como duas faces de algo ou alguém, pois a música alterna entre uma melodia calma e bonita pra algo totalmente diferente.
Hello Kassia,I first saw this video about six months ago. Ever since I really wanted to play this. About four or five months ago, I bought a keyboard, and can now play this and a few other pieces you’ve played like Lacrimosa, Prelude in E Minor and Nocturne in E flat Major. Thank you very much, you are my inspiration and allowed me to find my passion.
Ah, Tchaikovsky at his most amazing form, the entire Swan Lake play is amazing thanks to his music, he just knew perfectly how to make people fall in love with Theater Needless to say, this arrangement is just perfect, and this is one of the best performances in this channels until now! And as I’ve been saying for the past months, your other performances are just AMAZING! I won’t and I can’t stop saying thank you for everything, with your videos you give people a kind of pleasure that persist throughout all the day, so again, thank you and have a Good day! ;}
Hi, Lux.:) Sorry for the late response.:) I always feel that you are a kind person. Thank you for your words.💕 With your support, I will prepare lots of good performances.
I was watching Rosseau, and then this played next and I still thought it was them until I saw the name Kassia. And I'm over here thinking "Well dang. Who is this?" As a musician this is some good quality.
I would like to see the brain of a talented pianist . Being able to use majestically both hands creating the main music with background at the same time, it’s just wawww. Talent is a gift
This is the first time I’ve heard this piece played so wonderfully. Most of the other interpretations leave something to be desired for me, but the way you played is gorgeous. Please keep up the good work! :)
Beautiful as always 😍 Some pieces I'd like you to play: - Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6 - Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor - Shostakovoch - Second Waltz - Vivaldi - Summer - Chopin - Heroic polonaise - Joplin - Maple leaf rag - Chopin - Torrent etude
This was my floor floor music as a competitive gymnast as a child. Back then I didn’t know what song it was and had been looking for it ever since. It’s so beautiful and I felt honoured to have it as my music.
This beautiful music & great performance literally moved me to tears.. Swan Lake became one of my favorites that I play regularly. Thank you for the inspiration!🌹
Amazing and unreal beautiful!!! The most powerful and full of grace interpretation of Swan Lake on the piano! Literally, your hands dance ballet on the keys! Bravo!❤️
Hi! In the last video, lots of people recommended this piece (Swan Lake, Op. 20: I. Scene). It seems to be well known as Swan Lake Theme. I expect that lots of people know this piece. I used the piano solo arrangement by Kenneth Nappier. I attached the link in the description. At the last parts, I changed notes a little bit.:) This piece is so beautiful. And, it is easy to play. I hope that you guys enjoy it. Thank you for your support:) Have a good day! (Leave comments when you want to recommend pieces!:)
Play Heroic Polonaise plss💟
I love that melody 😊
Can you play a transcendental etude by Liszt? 🤔
Can you make DayDreamers Diary pls??
Play hungarian rhapsody no 2 please👍🏻
I would love to hear your rendition of chopins noctune op 62 no1! It´s such an underrated piece!
As a ballerina and pianist, I can say: this is gorgeous.
Dario Robert Herma Why?
@Anna Elsjoki same I am both a ballerina and pianist and I totally agree with you
@@ednaramirez8761 *Lmao Cringe Talk you drama bro? Xddddd*
@@dariorobertherma7169 D:
I wish i can play piano
This piece is so haunting; at first, it has a sad melancholy-like tune to it, with a dab of fantasy, but later, it turns into a strong beat, filled with horror, dread, unknown terror, and oh God knows what-!
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B C# D E F#~ D F#
That's why they used it for Dracula 🧛
The joker father
But actually it has like resolution-after war-winning vibes if you listen in to the orchestra version, which I more preferred
Which suits perfect for Swan Lake's story itself
In the beginning, I can picture how the princess has to deal with turning into a swan everyday, with no way seen to escape it's curse and her curser
The prince meets her and they chat, thus she reveals her past
By the end, with the dreadful beats, you can also picture the moment she gets cursed by the cruel wizard, with the only way to undo it being marrying someone not only she has no feelings for, but fully despising him aswell, especially as he's the one who cursed her and destroyed her home
As a pianist, I can confidently say that this is why Tchaikovsky is my favorite composer.
He's just not my favorite because Beethoven exists, but I love his pieces so much!
As an oboist this is my fav piece❤️
Hello, could you help me buy sheet music from him. I am from Russia and PayPal does not work in our country. I will be very grateful for your help!
Agree! Tchaikovsky rocks.
Same to me, he is my favorite and his pieces were my first lessons, starting with this scene in The Swan Lake but of course rearranged by my teacher for a kid starter, and then followed by a few from The Children Album. That was 4 decades ago. I will download this arrangement, you play beautifully.
2:58 This one high chord always gives me goosebumps. It just feels, creepy.
It does feel creepy I get a wierd feeling when I hear it
It somehow always reminds me on Star Wars
@@lessing3144 i think the imperial theme is inspired by this music
Kind of like the exclusive music of evil people
Like a sharp piece of ice piercing the chest to the heart.
How can a music sound so angelic and evil at the same time..
That's the interpretation of both the white and black Swan...
It sounds like it would be played while in a massacre
Tchaikovsky everybody.
Melancholy. Thats the word I can think of to explain this.
✨Piano magic✨
You played this one majestically. The piece gets better and more powerful every minute. Good job on this one ;)
Hi, Piano Time:) Always thank you for your kind words!:)💕
hi piano time :) lol
@@Kassiapiano awesome
I was gonna comment this but 💖 agreed!
Hello😜
2:57 always gives off Star Wars/Harry Potter vibes
Jhon williams "composed" both of the soundtracks... He has stolen stuff from other real artists and then assembled it together.
Which particular star wars soundtrack are you talking about
@@AdityaDeo-cg6eu reminds me of the imperial march
@@Solomon_Gamess I believe that exact melody is in imperial march
@@user-vk2cd9qw7i Not just the melodies, but the harmonies and developments, too. lol
As neither a ballerina or a pianist i can say that this is amazing
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@@leaxy No
@@DeontologicalConsequentialism why
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@@DeontologicalConsequentialism no way
Wow, the way you express your emotion in this piece is very exquisite.
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I do think so!
Oh god-
Exquisite 👌🏻 fancy word for saying awesome
Kassia playing: Swan Lake
Me playing: *Duck Swamp*
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Ahaha I love that
I'm studying this piece but compared to what my piece shows, her version and my mine can be compared to heaven and earth. (╥﹏╥)
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This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Which is why I'm going to tell you a story, a long story so I hope you find it interesting.
I'm 63 years old now and basically a self-taught piano player. I would not call myself a pianist, not yet, not by a long shot.
I only learnt to play the piano so I could play this piece from Swan Lake. It was also my mother's most favourite ballet but she died when I was 8.
I told myself that one day, I would learn how to play Swan Lake and then play it every year on her birthday. With help that dream became reality.
I can't read music. Oh god, I've tried, believe you me. I've had lessons. So many teachers, but because they get so frustrated with me, they tell me im not able to be taught and that i should give up, save my money. So I did just that.
Im dyslexic and suffer with ADHD, which was only diagnosed 12 years ago, which probably doesn't help with my situation.
In my 53 years of trying to play an instrument, the only one i managed to learn was the clarinet, when i was 34. Ive always loved the sound, thanks to the big band sound of the 1940s. The likes of Glen Miller, for example.
I also love the violin, especially listening to Mozart, but hey, some things just aren't possible to learn, right.
Now, the piano is an instrument i do like. I like it a lot. So this is where i feel my story gets interesting.
When i was at school, we had double music classes lasting about 90 minutes. l was 10 years old, but all of the instruments were taken save for the grand piano in the assembly hall.
My music teacher told me not to be put off by its size. After the first lesson, 45 minutes where he basically explained what sheet paper was, and how you used it. For example, the names for all of the music lettering and shapes, etc. I was told to make a start. What!!!
I was left in the assembly hall, on my own, with no one to talk to. No one to ask for help, nothing, while my classmates were, well, in the music room.
I couldn't read music. I sat there on the stool looking right at it, but it may just as well have been written in a foreign language.
One of the masters came into the hall and said, "Don't let me bother you, boy, carry on." I thought to myself. Please, Sir, please bother me. Ask me why im not playing, as the silence felt terrifying while the master walked on past through the double doors and i didnt play a note. I was sure he would tell me off or something. It felt like 5 minutes, but probably just 30 seconds.
Eventually, my music teacher came to me. He had already gone around everyone else in class, and now it was my turn. It was so hard. I did my best to concentrate and follow what he was saying, but it was just gobberlygook to me.
We went back to the classroom where i sat at his desk, while he went over the music sheet again, but because of the instruments being, well, not played exactly, but you get the idea.
He tried, i tried, but I just didn't understand. He said i was stupid and gave me detention. This went on for 3 weeks. In the end, he was just like the ones i had when i was much older. Rude, unsympathetic, and cruel.
Years fly past, and from time to time, I would bring out my clarinet and play along to some of the big band numbers I had managed to learn. I even tried to play Swan Lake, but that was a joke.
Then, when i moved home the lasttime, i found that my neighbour played the piano, and very beautifully, i must say. I would hear her playing every day when I got home from work. I must admit. At first, I thought she was playing records. She was that perfect, at least, to my ear through the walls.
Then, about ten days after I moved in, i knocked on her door to introduce myself. She said her name was Hilda, then invited me in. To my surprise, not only was Hilda blind but 92 years old. Surely she had to be playing records, right? After she invited me in we talked over a pot of tea and biscuits.
Once we got the usual neighbourly chit-chat stuff out of the way, I brought the piano music up. She apologised if her playing disturbed me. Oh no i said, on the contrary, i enjoy it. I asked her who the composer was and what records she played.
She laughed and said, "it is me, i am the composer." Really, I said, but I don't see a piano. Come with me young man, and take hold of my arm. She led me to the conservatory, there it is. My husband gave it to me on our 25th wedding anniversary. I play on it every day.
OMG, i thought, she has a Steinway and not just any Steinway but one with fancy gold writing on it. There was even the name of a famous orchestra. It looked antique with its stained wood. Probably mahogany with rose wood inlays. It looked so sleek and expensive.
I said, "Oh wow, what a beautiful Steinway." Do you play she asked? I said, "Sadly, no, but it's my aim to one day. If i can find someone with enough patience to teach me. "
I then started telling her about my music journey with the teacher at school and then more recently the other ones while we enjoyed another fresh pot of tea.
She then told me her story that when she was 6 years old, she fell off of her bike and hit her head on the pavement. She has no recollect of that whole day. Just the details her parents told her.
After a week in a coma, she woke up and could not see. She was blind, which frightened her to the point where her mother slapped her face. Can you imagine just how scary that must have felt as a child. You have lost your sight then suddenly out of nowhere, wham! You get slapped around the face.
Her parents were very strict, but as she told me her story, i would not say they were strict but rather hard on her instead. I would even go as far to say, her mother abused her.
Her father was away a lot working for the army as a civilian assessor while her mother, a very hard and by all accounts, a very spiteful women, an evil person too. She worked as a school music teacher. It was how she made her daughter learn the piano that really got to me.
During the war, WWII, Hitler was killing off the Jews. Hilda's parents fled Germany arriving in England in 1940 with just a suitcase. She was just a young teen but remembers that week like it was a film.
She went to a Gramma school as her mother was a music teacher. From the age of 3, Hilda was made to play the piano every day. Every single day apart from when they fled Germany.
Her father was killed in 1967 in a car accident then her mother committed suicide 2 months later.
Hilda alone with no family only had friends at the synagogue and her girlfriend from work. Apart from the occasional birthday party she went to, her only I guess you could call it, excitement, was to listen to the radio and play her baby grand.
Then, one day, a nice young Jewish man asked Hilda out on a date and the rest as they say it history. His name was Joseph, but he died from pancreatic cancer when he was 52. They had one child, David, who lived in America, New York, the last I heard.
Joseph gave Hilda the piano for their 25th wedding anniversary, and she played it every day. But when Joseph died, she became withdrawn and so played for hours on end into the early hours.
Then 3 years before I moved in next door her home was broken into. The thieves stole everything of value but not the piano. If only they had known because. When Joseph purchased the piano it came from an estate sale. The auction rooms had no idea of it true value but Joseph did.
He bid on it and ended up paying 185 guineas. Before the piano was delivered to their home, Joseph, with catalog and bill of sale in hand, promptly insured the piano for £15,000.
Hilda, knowing that I could not read music taught me how to play the piano. She never read music, but to hear her play, you would never have known.
Sadly, Hilda died a year later. I was invited to the reading of her Will. David was there, and although he received Hildas estate, she left the piano to me!
I have it in my longe. It takes up half the room, but I don't care. I have it insured too, for £30,000 but when I die, it will go to a piano music school. I think Hilda would be happy with my choice. I do have children, but none of them play music, and to be honest, they have no interest in anything these days.
Hilda was a wonderful and very remarkable lady. I miss not hearing her play. I miss our talks. I do hope she is resting in peace. 🙏 God bless you Hilda. As Vira Lynn said. We will meet again. Don't know where don't know when.😢
cool story bro
Wow, it's like reading a book, a wonderful story.
Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.
That's beautiful. Im glad you're keeping hildas memory alive with the piano she gave you.. All the best man ❤
I am a 18 year old who was feeling very down today because my dumb self is failing constantly to play the acoustic guitar. Your story really put a smile to my face and a tear to my eyes! ❤ thank you, love, hope you have a lovely 2025 !!!!
me :I always get amazing content
kassia : I always make you happy
TRUTH!!!!
Thank you, AK/RhythmGamer.:)💕
Que ja ja no entendí
@@Kassiapiano Hello Kassia I recently bought your score and it doesn't even come from the video, I'm really disappointed, I hope you can answer me :(
@@Ake_Gaming ru serios?
Pianists playing a piano: strikes perfect notes, sinks emotion into every key press, devotes their life to the instrument.
Me, playing with a piano: hehe, i liek pushing buttins.
good tip ; ruclips.net/video/KD1bQeeEo9M/видео.html
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this actually so me i hate it here lol
@@lightaflame8608 😂
Me: I like buttons make loud noise
Ahhhhhhhhhh Swan Lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is utterly gorgeous! I'm very used to listening to the entire orchestra version but this arrangement plus your gorgeous playing makes it feel like this is how it should always have been played
Hi, CT Yeoh!:) You seem to really like this piece:) I am happy that you can enjoy this piece. Always thank you for your support!💕
@@Kassiapiano I always enjoy anything from Chopin or Tchaikovsky! Getting to hear you playing it only makes it so much better!!
@@Kassiapiano I love this too!
There was no reason to yell. Use your inside voice
@@bobmclain4097 🤦♀️
As a ballerina and a pianist, I can confidently say that this is beautiful
Girlllll ballerina and pianist? That must be some hard but amazing life
Six people who said the exact same thing...😮❤
Too many ballerinas and pianists, it seems xddddd
@@yusouph2002 yaaaaa 😂 I just play piano and guitar
You don't Need to be a pianist or a ballerina to think it is beautiful though...
This is played so beautifully, it is my motivation to start up piano again after quitting for 6 months. Thank you for putting in all your emotion and showing how great this piece is. Wish me luck
Good luck
6 month better then 7 years. Its mine personal record so far. Gl hf
Don’t quit, no matter how much you may want to at the time. I guarantee you will regret it in the future if you do!
this piece is for orchestra…
good luck!
단순히 건반을 눌러 소리가 나오게 하는 것과 음악을 연주를 한다는 것은 천지차이인 것 같습니다. 유려하게 흘러가고 유기적으로 연결되는 음들이 듣기 자연스럽고 좋습니다. 좋은 음악 들려주셔서 감사합니다.
Simply piano be like:
Day 1: Has never touched a piano.
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Day 5: *Plays this*.
Literally me in october and now am playing 5 minute pieces💀
@@alanisyizettemiranda8966 yeah I actually have the app but I still think the adds are a bit over the top 😂
Underrated comment
As a pianist I can say It's not really hard
@@tomasitto299 it’s easy for you to say
0:21 so cute how notes make a heart
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Did you know that...
In 1871, Tchaikovsky took advantage of his vacation to compose a small ballet, Lebedinoïe ozero, for his sister's children.
When, in the summer of 1875, Vladimir Petrovich Begitchev, the Intendant of the Moscow Grand Theatre, asked him to compose a ballet, Tchaikovsky immediately accepted, especially since the proposal was lucrative (Tchaikovsky would receive 5,000 rubles (about $70 today)) and the composer confided, in a letter to his friend Rimsky-Korsakov, that he had long dreamed of trying his hand at this kind of music !
5,000 rubles in Tsarist time for 1880 is 3000000 rubles nowadays, or 42,800 dollars today. But even this does not mean anything. Then for 1 ruble it was possible to buy a lot of goods, because the ruble was equated with gold. At the beginning of the last century, before the First World War began, 5,000 rubles already cost 5,000,000 modern rubles, or about 71,000 modern dollars. The salary of a loader at that time was 20 rubles a month. The official salary in the office of 40 rubles. The price of food, goods and housing was much lower than today.
@@ruldali615 Wow thank you for these informations ! And sorry for my mistake...
wow
nice!
I feel like I should check out your channel
I hope i was as smart as him
rimsky-korsakov is the composer of the flight of a bumblebee
I first came to know about this song from a Barbie movie, then this song was there in my keyboard and now I'm shocked this is such a good piece!
Dirys what
hahahah sameeee!!! old barbie movies were bomb
@@mathiasprofinet2512 this song was used in a barbie movie called barbie and the Swan Lake or something so ...
Me from FNaF 3
@@pallolafer I searched for so long someone who came from FNaF :D
My son is five years old, he is starting to take piano lessons, and he told his teacher he wanted to learn this piece, he loves it, and we watched this performance like a hundred times already, though I'm a big fan of Tchaikovsky I have always evaded his most famous overplayed pieces, but I can't get enough of this version it's a complete new insight
2:44 I love it when the pianist uses the whole piano
I've never felt so much emotion in my life. Makes my body ache in sorrow, sadness, but hopefully. there's new days to be had. let's be graceful with our future selves
Even when I was too young to know what music was....I heard this composition...and it has remained in my soul.
2:48 instant goosebumps. You did an amazing job!
2:34-3:20 always gives me goosebumps
When people usually think of Dracula, what immediately comes to their minds is Toccata & Fugue (and I in no way say that it's wrongs, It's a wonderful piece on its own after all). But to me, this is Dracula's theme, like someone said before it's both angelic and evil sounding, with such etiquette feel to it and to me that is what Dracula symbolize at the end.
Гениальное произведение.
Шедевральное исполнение.
Llego al punto más alto de satisfacción escuchando esta pieza...
Díganme que no soy la única, porfa.
Claro que no es la única 🤗
Amiga no estas sola
Tiene sus picos, muy intensos y sentidos. Está adaptación al piano es de primera...y no estás sola...somos muchos entre el gentío. Saludos.
😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
Eres la unica
Tchaikovsky is the composer who gives a goosebump in every note of his piece!!! Excellently played!!
This is beautiful...
Thank you, Chris!!:)💕
You haven't listen it yet.
@Thomas i agree🤗🤗🤗🤗
Swan lake will always be a masterpiece to me
At some parts we can feel how inspired John Williams was in his compositions, I think about Harry Potter. Nice performance Kassia, as always.
Yea, it was probably what they provided him with as a reference.
Yes! I got big Star Wars vibes from this, especially Imperial March.
I hear the main HP theme throughout this!
@@MrSelkies There are melodic progressions directly taken/inspired from Swan Lake in both Star Wars and Harry Potter OSTs. It's honestly pretty cool how influential classical music has remained throughout the years
@@giraffodil436 well, they should have used this instead of hedwig's theme IMO
Beautiful! Some years back I bought the the little lady tickets to see the Russian Balet perform Swan Lake for her birthday. . Absolutely incredible! Having to drive to another state to see it was a small price for the experience, and since my lady is a former professional and competitive dancer it made her whole year.
As the music plays, I can still visualize not only the dancers, but the story as well. Thank you for playing this piece.
ainda existem amantes da música clássica por aqui? eu amoooo, me ajuda muito principalmente a estudar
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Essa música é magnífica
Que bom ver que não sou a única que gosta desse estilo musical.😊
Oii kkk
Apreciar a música de Tchaikovsky no século XXI, assim como Mozart, Chopin, Wagner entre outros, é uma maneira maravilhosa de ter a possibilidade de compreender o quão profunda pode ser e é essa espécie de arte; o quão necessária e magnífica a música ( de qualquer espécie ) pode soar e inspirar todo tipo de gente.
I just cried. Now I'm going to learn it and destroy my midi keyboard with tears.
🤣💀👏👏👏
@@kelleypeak6969jo n ro
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BCD C#DE DEF EFG F#GA-
*explosion
@@javieraleiva2961 ???
"The dance of the swan is so graceful and charming"
A Mobile Legend reference hehe gatcha
HAHAHAHAHA I can literally hear odette saying "SWAN!" in the middle of a team fight riding on Johnson as they bumped onto the enemies HAHAHAbtw, Odette main here
I've only started listening to classical music last year and I gotta say that this has been the best piece of music I have listened to thus far.
Benjamin Yao's Phoenix Overture is a great hype song in classical
This was so beautiful; I could literally see swans. This has always been one of my favorite pieces Kassia, and I'm so happy that you played it! I can't thank you enough for this! Your interpretation is so majestic and graceful, it's damn near perfection
I'm actually listening this first time and I am feeling great. Imagine closing your eyes playing this on your piano in a room in a Russian palace when the sun starts rising on a cold snowy dawn. Feels really good.
swan lake is one of my favourite ballets, it’s my dream to go see it in person one day 🥺 even online it’s so magical so i can only imagine how wonderful it is in person
Perfect expression and technique. Music full of pathos- you can almost picture the story in the musical interpretation.
_you do not play the piano you caress it with delicacy and kindness because of how beautiful it brings out the sounds_
Прекрасно вышло! По-моему, "Лебединое озеро" звучит глубже именно в фортепианном исполнении. Лайк из России)
Поддержу
@@АлександрМазуров-в6м good tip ; ruclips.net/video/KD1bQeeEo9M/видео.html
Так автор канала тоже русский
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правдо
Estou arrepiada com tamanha perfeição
Эти произведения просто шедевры такое спокойное состояние когда их слушаю ❤
This one sends chills down my spine, the key color makes it seem as if it's some story of a terrible blizzard where one person is stuck in ( swan) over the frozen horizon freezing their life in this tragic melody
Beautiful review.
the build up in the last minute really makes my heart race everytime i hear it. really beautiful
Ikr I could never tire of listening to this interpretation
Learnt this at school
Also I'd ove to see you play Chopin's op 25 no 9
Yea I'd also love to see Kassia play it
Butterfly ?
@@Dylonely_9274 yes butterfly
And op25 no 11
@@jackcourtier-dutton2201 shes already done that one
This is by far the best piano rendition of Swan Lake I’m lucky enough to have crossed paths with.
This music is heartbreaking and the pianist is a heartbreaker! Bravo!
A message to the future generations. Don't let this song die!
I listen to this song daily and about 10 times in a single day this song deepens me makes me feel different emotions this song is perfect and simply beautiful
Действительно, Чайковский великий композитор, и вы это доказали. Играете великолепно!
Indeed, Tchaikovsky is a great composer, and you proved it. You play great!
Ах, какое удовольствие мне доставляет классика! Спасибо за эти видео. Я тоже должна добраться до своего пианино!
Мне хотя бы приобрести пианино 😂🤞🏼
Tchaikovsky siempre va ser mi compositor favorito
para 😍 toda la vida
Я тоже люблю музыку Чайковского
Woah... to be good enough to mess around with such a difficult and timeless piece and make it sound better is quite the accomplishment...
*woah*
Sitting on the toilet has never been so epic
Yes
when youtube comments get too relatable:
wow gojo satoru listens to piano music
HAHAHAHHAH SAME
@@RandoomyDoodly sorry bro i changed my pfp a decade ago and im just too lazy
i watch this so many times and i don't got sick of this, tchaikovsky make magic every time he played a piano
Hi Kassia.
Such expression in your performance and beauty. Im a cellist since 15 years but after a long break of music due to worklife I started to love piano music and your expression is so beautiful and you are a very skilled pianist.
Thanks for uploading your videos , you are very inspiring! Im currently looking for to buy my own digital piano.
Keep posting videos and thanks for all your inspiration ! //Julia from Sweden
Hello, could you help me buy sheet music from him. I am from Russia and PayPal does not work in our country. I will be very grateful for your help!
I wish I had the kind of control over my appendages that you do. I'm a pretty soulful guitarist, but my fingers don't always do what I tell them to. This is beautiful. I can feel it on my skin when I hear it played.
指先のコードも白鳥の羽をイメージしてしっとりとしなやかにキラキラ水滴が舞うように流れて素敵💓やっぱりピアノソロがいちばん好き!
A melhor pianista do Brasil sem dúvidas!!! inspiração
It's quite a bit of time we are not allowed to visit theaters and see Ballerinas, Operas, etc. This reminded so much of the last Swan Lake I saw. You sounded so nice and your sound so rich. Wow. Loved it
I have goosebumps from listening to this. It was beautiful
I loved dancing to this when I did ballet it reminds me of how beautiful this really is and how we express ourselves in many forms of art. ❤❤
Yes,this piece it's so beatifull.
As a pianist,i can say this piece reminds me i play in a vast place like in a iceberg with the boreal.
Uff....NICE
I watched the movie when I was a kid and this music hits everytime, feels so nostalgic listening to this after years
what movie
@@aondutta325 Black Swan
The main theme proves that something doesn’t have to be incredibly difficult to play to be beautiful
1:32 That trill... Glorious.
1:34
😮
She's Brazilian
me too. congratulations for being amazing and representing us.
Can we all appreciate the technique even this requires and how it really sounds like an harp
До мурашек, просто гениально😍👍🏼
eu acho essa música tão bela, e ao mesmo tempo tão triste, parece que carrega um desabafo
Amo Tchaikovsky e amei sua interpretação Kassia 🤎
Concordo plenamente com você
Eu sinto algo como início de um conto de fadas, a luz no fim do tunel, a esperança, mas que depois se revela o oposto, algo maléfico e melancólico talvez.
Também me faz parecer como duas faces de algo ou alguém, pois a música alterna entre uma melodia calma e bonita pra algo totalmente diferente.
Hello Kassia,I first saw this video about six months ago. Ever since I really wanted to play this. About four or five months ago, I bought a keyboard, and can now play this and a few other pieces you’ve played like Lacrimosa, Prelude in E Minor and Nocturne in E flat Major. Thank you very much, you are my inspiration and allowed me to find my passion.
You can play all these pieces after just 5 months of playing the piano?
@@emiliomannucci1176 With enough efficient practise anything is possible! Though my renditions certainly aren’t as good of course.
I’m a harpist and this is the only piece I play with the orchestra this year. Lovely piece. You play it beautifully on the piano (:
Ah, Tchaikovsky at his most amazing form, the entire Swan Lake play is amazing thanks to his music, he just knew perfectly how to make people fall in love with Theater
Needless to say, this arrangement is just perfect, and this is one of the best performances in this channels until now! And as I’ve been saying for the past months, your other performances are just AMAZING! I won’t and I can’t stop saying thank you for everything, with your videos you give people a kind of pleasure that persist throughout all the day, so again, thank you and have a Good day! ;}
Hi, Lux.:) Sorry for the late response.:) I always feel that you are a kind person. Thank you for your words.💕 With your support, I will prepare lots of good performances.
정주행하게만드시네 레전드에요 아름다워요곡이 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ❤❤❤
as a pianist and a ballerina i must say: this is the most gorgeous piece i have ever heard
Очень нравиться.слушаю часто с удовольствием и восхищением.Спасибо за исполнение
I was watching Rosseau, and then this played next and I still thought it was them until I saw the name Kassia. And I'm over here thinking "Well dang. Who is this?" As a musician this is some good quality.
Ah yes the piece I've been waiting for. Good job very well played
Hi, Pussslayer. It's good that you like it. Thank you for your support!:)💕
Pusslayer nice name lmao
I would like to see the brain of a talented pianist . Being able to use majestically both hands creating the main music with background at the same time, it’s just wawww. Talent is a gift
Everyone: Lol, Barbie Vibes!
Me: Little Einstein’s 🤟
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TCHAIKOVSKY IS MY FAVORITE!! THANK YOU!!
Hi, Julian.:) It's good to hear that.:) Thanks for your support!💕
카페에서 커피 마시면서 듣는데 지금 날씨와 너무 잘 어울려요~
정말 아름다운 연주ㅜ
항상 감사합니다!!:)💕
@@Kassiapiano 덕분에 행복한 저녁을 맞이 했어요. 감사해요:)
How this masterpiece can be angelic and dramatic at the same time. Just amazing
This is the first time I’ve heard this piece played so wonderfully. Most of the other interpretations leave something to be desired for me, but the way you played is gorgeous. Please keep up the good work! :)
am I the only one here who's only thinking about that one barbie movie while listening to this?-
x2
I loved that movie, watched it as a kid.
Ehh
Nope
Kyra Schrick you uncultured swine
(Jk)
Beautiful as always 😍
Some pieces I'd like you to play:
- Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6
- Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor
- Shostakovoch - Second Waltz
- Vivaldi - Summer
- Chopin - Heroic polonaise
- Joplin - Maple leaf rag
- Chopin - Torrent etude
For now this comment is underated, but i'm agree
Mazeppa xD
Add the Der erlkönig
Stravinsky - Rite Of spring
This was my floor floor music as a competitive gymnast as a child. Back then I didn’t know what song it was and had been looking for it ever since. It’s so beautiful and I felt honoured to have it as my music.
This is so beautiful gives me a beautiful feeling i can’t explain
as a skilled pianist, I have one word to describe it: gorgeous🎹
Yes as a pianist, ballerina,scientists and college professor this sounds amazing
How’s you being a scientist or a professor relevant to the way this sounds??
La plus belle version que j'ai entendu de ma vie. Félicitations, ça donne des frissons
This beautiful music & great performance literally moved me to tears..
Swan Lake became one of my favorites that I play regularly.
Thank you for the inspiration!🌹
I wish i could play this tbh.. i'm gonna practice really hard everyday! Thank you for inspiring!
Você é muito talentoso, está de parabéns. Obrigado pela experiência maravilhosa que você proporcionou.
Amazing and unreal beautiful!!! The most powerful and full of grace interpretation of Swan Lake on the piano! Literally, your hands dance ballet on the keys! Bravo!❤️
Hello, could you help me buy sheet music from him. I am from Russia and PayPal does not work in our country. I will be very grateful for your help!