My mother played this as well. No matter who I asked to play it they couldn't. I had it played as background to mums power point with photos at her funeral august last year. It ws a lovely way to farewell her on her 97th birthday
I used to play this when I was 10 yrs old , a Robin used to come through the room window onto the window sill . The local newspaper sent a reporter round , I sat there all day playing it over an over , after much tea and biscuits ,the robin didn't show , the reporter quit and went away . days later the sun was out , I played through it , he appeared , we were elated , but also disappointed , as you let us down Mr Robin , and made us look like a load of fools , but alas ! lol you were so sweet .
Ironic that I learned to play this as a young boy by my mother who was a pianist in her own right and 70 years later I still enjoy playing this. Nice version.
For those having trouble: Make sure to break the tension in your wrists, shake out, loose shoulders, think like a water pipe that’s got to flow from your shoulders through your wrists. If you’re right, it won’t work. Use the arpeggios as a chance to break the tension in your wrists, and as you come “down” in your arc with your right hand (during the theme and the predominant parts, and then mimic it with your left in the others), use that as a moment to relieve any wrist tension at the “top” of your wrists as well. Make sure you’re not bearing down or pressing. Remember that it’s a percussive instrument, your fingers should be as well (think hammers). I always found this to sound way more difficult than it was to play, and that’s what it is a great add to your repertoire. If you can count the 7 into 1 properly and make sure your rhythm is correct, your fingering, and your technique is on point, and of course relaxed arms, then you should be able to get through it. If you’re tight, stop, shake out.
This was one of the pieces my mother played when I was a child. How I loved listening to her play. Her other favorite was Rachmaninoff Bells of Moscow (prelude in C# Minor).
My wife always tells me about taking piano lessons from her grandfather, Marcus Lombard, in the 1940's when she was a little kid. Marcus had been a concert pianist in the early 1900's and was a "keyboard tyrant" (she constantly reminds me) when he was teaching Rustle of Spring to her. She loved Sabbah's version, and I think it's one of the better versions I've heard. I like it played at a "brisk" tempo.
I'm not fluent in the beauty and art of playing piano but I must say I love how aggressive it sounds to me. The funny this is rap music brought me here. A song called wu renegades by killarmy. I just loved how they sampled this song. I wondered for years as to who composed this and what it was called. It was in 1997 that I first heard said song. Thank you for your beautifully displayed talent. Sincerely a lover of great music and fine musicians
Must say I like this version. My Grandmother used to play this 'par excellence'. Some of the other players I have heard are technically correct but lack feeling. Thank you,
It's written in the salon style, it's a piece to show off, you're meant to pull it about. Admittedly, it is a tad fast in one or two places, but it certainly doesn't lose gravitas and intensity.
Questo pezzo lo suono con immensa gioia a 4 mani con una mia amica, mi trasporta in un meraviglioso bosco in primavera quando si scioglie l’ultima neve!...
Not just a beautiful piece of music, but very difficult to play well. If you can master this song, then you've mastered the piano. My Mother, at 92, could play the beginning parts of this from memory quite well.
Cheyenne van L. - Ya, if you say so. Please post a YT video of YOU playing this piece extremely well. Timing is EVERYTHING in this piece, and Daniel plays it very well.
I took this music to a new piano teacher and said I want to learn this. She looked at the music then at my hands and said forget it. I have small hands. I really love this piece.
I have small hands as an adult, with even smaller hands when I learned this as around 13 years old. You can totally do it! It will just take a lot of practice!
You can learn it! I played this for my junior year recital and I have way tiny hands. I just had to learn how to jump around a lot and make sure it didn't sound choppy. I wish that teachers wouldn't limit their students like that. I think you should learn it on your own and then play it for your teacher just to show her.
I have fairly small hands, (I can just reach a 9th, forget a 10th! ) and my teacher assigned me this piece. It is possible for smaller hands because it is broken chords rather than blocked. It is a difficult song though!
@Cynthia Blagg Don't listen to piano teachers who tell you that you cannot play a certain piece because of whatever reason. I have maybe 6 months of piano lessons and I have taught myself (Without piano teachers) some fairly difficult pieces.
Congratulations to anybody who can play ANY part of this difficult song. I cannot. But my mother, over 90 years old, can play a good part of this piece quite well. She had extensive piano lessons in her childhood.
@@Mike12522 my 11 year old grandson is learning this piece (and doing very well) from my dear mother's sheet music from the 1930s. The music is yellowed and brittle. I pulled it out just to show him while sharing about the joy of listening to her play. I knew he was doing well at piano (2 years of lessons so far) but I never dreamed he could tackle this!!
Even as her student, not sure if that assumption is correct or not, I heard she played it on her year 6 class party, people still chat to her about it now, really is quite amazing.
I was not being smart or critical but the truth is I have not heard ANY pianist have the fluidity in the right hand as the pianist here under an age of 30 plus. I personally can play this piece and suffer the same problem :)
This is such a beautiful piece, unfortunately this is a terribly dull performance. Mr. Sabbah is a very good pianist. He has good technical skills, but he should put a lot more emotion and expression into his music. This piece should sing, but it does not.
It's treacle. It's sentimental -- in the bad sense of the term. It portrays Spring as a cliche. Its superficial prettiness does not mitigate all these bad qualities.
There is something wrong with this composition regardless of how beautiful it seems at first sight. Every interpretation is a desperate attempt at trying to fix it, make sense of it somehow. But they all fail. Including this one. You simply cannot play it as it is written. You have to change it somehow.
My mother used to play this and I haven't heard a piano version for well over 40 years, thank you to whoever put this on TH-cam.
Wow mine too!!! She was invited to Carnegy Hall as a child but was too frightened! It’s an extremely difficult piece to play
My mother played this as well. No matter who I asked to play it they couldn't. I had it played as background to mums power point with photos at her funeral august last year. It ws a lovely way to farewell her on her 97th birthday
So did my mother! I have not heard it for 50 years. What a nice memory.
I can play this song. Prob not as elegantly as this guy, and prob with a handful of mistakes, but it still counts.
I love this piece of music and even more after hearing this wonderful and flawless performance of it! Thanks for posting!
Absolutely brilliant! I enjoy Rustle of spring played the Sabbah way! My favourite.
Thank you very much for your nice comment:) This was especially good since the comment before this one was not so nice!
Incredible rendering. I've waited 30 years to hear this! I suppose it helps a little that the keys and height of the piano are made for men.
My all time favourite tune
I used to play this when I was 10 yrs old , a Robin used to come through the room window onto the window sill . The local newspaper sent a reporter round , I sat there all day playing it over an over , after much tea and biscuits ,the robin didn't show , the reporter quit and went away . days later the sun was out , I played through it , he appeared , we were elated , but also disappointed , as you let us down Mr Robin , and made us look like a load of fools , but alas ! lol you were so sweet .
Oh wow! You must be SUPER talented now as an adult! I wish I could have played this at age TEN!
Ironic that I learned to play this as a young boy by my mother who was a pianist in her own right and 70 years later I still enjoy playing this. Nice version.
For those having trouble:
Make sure to break the tension in your wrists, shake out, loose shoulders, think like a water pipe that’s got to flow from your shoulders through your wrists. If you’re right, it won’t work.
Use the arpeggios as a chance to break the tension in your wrists, and as you come “down” in your arc with your right hand (during the theme and the predominant parts, and then mimic it with your left in the others), use that as a moment to relieve any wrist tension at the “top” of your wrists as well.
Make sure you’re not bearing down or pressing. Remember that it’s a percussive instrument, your fingers should be as well (think hammers).
I always found this to sound way more difficult than it was to play, and that’s what it is a great add to your repertoire. If you can count the 7 into 1 properly and make sure your rhythm is correct, your fingering, and your technique is on point, and of course relaxed arms, then you should be able to get through it.
If you’re tight, stop, shake out.
I adore this piece of music, my aunt used play it for me when I was young and I was so impressed.
This was one of the pieces my mother played when I was a child. How I loved listening to her play. Her other favorite was Rachmaninoff Bells of Moscow (prelude in C# Minor).
My wife always tells me about taking piano lessons from her grandfather, Marcus Lombard, in the 1940's when she was a little kid. Marcus had been a concert pianist in the early 1900's and was a "keyboard tyrant" (she constantly reminds me) when he was teaching Rustle of Spring to her. She loved Sabbah's version, and I think it's one of the better versions I've heard. I like it played at a "brisk" tempo.
I'm not fluent in the beauty and art of playing piano but I must say I love how aggressive it sounds to me. The funny this is rap music brought me here. A song called wu renegades by killarmy. I just loved how they sampled this song. I wondered for years as to who composed this and what it was called. It was in 1997 that I first heard said song. Thank you for your beautifully displayed talent. Sincerely a lover of great music and fine musicians
Látom ezt a szép zeneszámot és a sztár előadót sokan megtekintették. Köszönöm. Ja én is meghallgattam. Üdv.
Must say I like this version. My Grandmother used to play this 'par excellence'. Some of the other players I have heard are technically correct but lack feeling. Thank you,
The most incredible thing I have ever heard! Absolutely exquisite!
The best Daniel Sabbah
Absolutely breathtaking. Such talent. Thank you for sharing with us.❤️
I'm playing this piece for my recital on August 13th. Beautiful job!
Thank you for such a fine performance. Peace and be well.
My mother used to play this also, brings back lovely memories
Mine too. That is why I am listening now. It was her birthday today. She passed away 2 years ago..
+Mary Snare Me to. My Mother played this and then taught me to play it. She passed away 34 years ago.
Tempo and rendition very pleasing
. . . excellent!
Magnifique !!!
Superb!
It's written in the salon style, it's a piece to show off, you're meant to pull it about. Admittedly, it is a tad fast in one or two places, but it certainly doesn't lose gravitas and intensity.
outstanding !
beautiful
Ótima interpretação !!!!!!!!!!
Great talent
Questo pezzo lo suono con immensa gioia a 4 mani con una mia amica, mi trasporta in un meraviglioso bosco in primavera quando si scioglie l’ultima neve!...
wonderful
Thankyou :), lost passion in piano for a while, going to get back into it I think.
perfect !
almost like my DAD played...….RIP daddy
cool
Great !
It will be a good idea. Piano is very interesting ! ;)
deosebit de placut...
Perfect, like a robot, no emotion, no passion, no color, just notes.
There's supposed to be emotion sir, and I can hear it clearly. Just saying :-)
@@haleyb-v9786 Thank you:)
is it meant to be played this fast?
Yes. The runs in the right hand throughout it are semidemiquavers. Even though it's only 80 crotchets per minute, it is really very fast.
🥇🏆👍👏
Bravo
how can this guy play with his ring on?
I didn't realise it was a study in march tempo!!
Yes!
This song is my nemesis! (I tried to learn it for a recital, and failed miserably).
Just take it piece meal, its not that hard unless you do it all at once :) repetition!
I did take it a bit at a time. The problem is I simply couldn't get my left hand to move fast enough (I'm VERY right handed).
I'm learning this right now
where is the poetry?
bit fast I feel.
Not just a beautiful piece of music, but very difficult to play well. If you can master this song, then you've mastered the piano.
My Mother, at 92, could play the beginning parts of this from memory quite well.
I have.... I'm performing it a couple Saturdays from now. :D
Keeping it this fluid is VERY difficult.
Actually not that difficult.
Cheyenne van L. - Ya, if you say so. Please post a YT video of YOU playing this piece extremely well. Timing is EVERYTHING in this piece, and Daniel plays it very well.
Mike12522
I plan too. Right now I'm working on a Rachmoninoff prelude for an audition in December.
I took this music to a new piano teacher and said I want to learn this. She looked at the music then at my hands and said forget it. I have small hands. I really love this piece.
My sister had tiny hands and played this piece for almost 45 years. Go for it Cynthia Blagg!
I have small hands as an adult, with even smaller hands when I learned this as around 13 years old. You can totally do it! It will just take a lot of practice!
You can learn it! I played this for my junior year recital and I have way tiny hands. I just had to learn how to jump around a lot and make sure it didn't sound choppy. I wish that teachers wouldn't limit their students like that. I think you should learn it on your own and then play it for your teacher just to show her.
I have fairly small hands, (I can just reach a 9th, forget a 10th! ) and my teacher assigned me this piece. It is possible for smaller hands because it is broken chords rather than blocked. It is a difficult song though!
@Cynthia Blagg Don't listen to piano teachers who tell you that you cannot play a certain piece because of whatever reason. I have maybe 6 months of piano lessons and I have taught myself (Without piano teachers) some fairly difficult pieces.
no it is not , it looses gravitas and intensity, but his performance is superb !!
I can only play up to 0:47, and not without mistakes 😢
Congratulations to anybody who can play ANY part of this difficult song. I cannot. But my mother, over 90 years old, can play a good part of this piece quite well. She had extensive piano lessons in her childhood.
@@Mike12522 my 11 year old grandson is learning this piece (and doing very well) from my dear mother's sheet music from the 1930s. The music is yellowed and brittle. I pulled it out just to show him while sharing about the joy of listening to her play. I knew he was doing well at piano (2 years of lessons so far) but I never dreamed he could tackle this!!
Yes, it lacks emotion but it is not like a robot, it is still enjoyable.
To aver that this heart-stirring performance lacks emotion is utterly asinine.🤢😬🥺😳😫
I’m learning this piece and how do you do the 7/8 polyrhythm correctly?
Count it out loud
1 & a
It meant to be played "agitato" .... ;)
I think it's a combo of the sound quality not being good and the lack of feeling in this performance... It just didn't do it for me..
My piano teacher learned this when she was 12 :/
And took till she was 22 to come close to this good :)
Even as her student, not sure if that assumption is correct or not, I heard she played it on her year 6 class party, people still chat to her about it now, really is quite amazing.
I was not being smart or critical but the truth is I have not heard ANY pianist have the fluidity in the right hand as the pianist here under an age of 30 plus. I personally can play this piece and suffer the same problem :)
Please look at this one, just amazing in my view
/watch?v=AAX3SZPcvi0
This is such a beautiful piece, unfortunately this is a terribly dull performance. Mr. Sabbah is a very good pianist. He has good technical skills, but he should put a lot more emotion and expression into his music. This piece should sing, but it does not.
Much technique displayed but little musical playing. This piece needs greater savouring.
8/10 needs a shave
Ethan Kemp Always a fool with something useless to comment about
ok sugar daddy
Mechanical
A tremendously gifted performance of a perfectly awful piece of music. But I don't think I've ever heard a better rendition of it.
How can this be an awful piece of music?
It's treacle. It's sentimental -- in the bad sense of the term. It portrays Spring as a cliche. Its superficial prettiness does not mitigate all these bad qualities.
WTF? It's just a short piece of music for goodness sake. I think you're reading too much into it.
Sorry. But in my view, if anything, it's not short enough.
thomas, no accounting for those with their taste coming from where the sun does not shine :)
There is something wrong with this composition regardless of how beautiful it seems at first sight. Every interpretation is a desperate attempt at trying to fix it, make sense of it somehow. But they all fail. Including this one. You simply cannot play it as it is written. You have to change it somehow.
It’s that it’s got parts that count 7 into 1. It’s supposed to sound like that.