Hi Annique, this is a totally inspiring video. I feel less alone with how things go when I start a new piece. Thanks - these videos are totally inspiring.
I was excited to see this video because I love Rhapsody in Blue. Good job! About Fantasia: I never did see it as a child. The reason for that is when I was 4 years old, my mother took me to see my first movie: Pinocchio. It scared the *hell* out of me. It was so bad that I refused to go to the movies again until I was 10, and even that took peer pressure from multiple classes of boys, the whole thing sponsored by the cops. It seemed ill-fated because the film was "The Man who Shot Liberty Valence" but even with a violent title I overcame my fear.
Pinocchio is a work of art and the stunning pinnacle of Disney's craft. It is also pretty dark for a so-called children's film. Is it even a children's film? Older children maybe. The scenes of Pinocchio being locked in the cage in the caravan and the children metamorphosing into donkeys were scary to me on first viewing as an adult. I'm not surprised that at 4 you found it terrifying.
That was beautiful Annique. Loved it! Saw Fantasia. Words cant do this film justice. I absolutely love surrealism. The orchestral version of BWV 565 was genius. My mom turned me on to classical music when I was very young. She had a degree in music and taught piano. She could play many many composers including Chopin but her favorite was Beethoven. Often when I was young she would play after I went to bed and I drifted off listening to her playing. There was a bust of Beethoven on the piano. When my mom played Ragtime, she would turn Beethoven around so he wasn't looking at her. Of course I wanted to play like my mom but I was lacking discipline. I wanted to run before I could crawl
I was first introduced to classical music by my Mom. Growing up, she began her practice at 5 am because she loved it so much. As a result she became her teacher’s best student. The piano was the very first instrument I ever heard because of my Mom’s playing. My siblings and I would often beg her to play for us and she often played us to sleep. When we were old enough, she gave us lessons and we all now play (except for the 3 year old) ;)
Disney Fantasia! Very inspiring! Playing the piano for 23 years, I always wondered whether Fantasia inspired anyone else to classical music. My children haven’t watched it yet. Thanks to you and your challenge videos, I hope the series would end with the same impact on them. I’ve been learning a lot from you by the way. Thank you! You’re a fantastic pianist. ❤
Absolutely love this! Rhapsody in Blue reminds me of my childhood, where I would do a lot of flying because my dad is a United airline pilot. :) The theme for the safety instructional video was this piece! He is also a musician (he plays classical guitar), so this piece reminds me of him as a whole.
I fell in love with the piano after seeing the Leeds International Piano Competition on TV as a child. We were quite poor and didn't have the money to buy a piano but unbeknown to me my father set about remedying the situation. One night I was awakened from a deep sleep, taken into the street, and presented with 2 uprights sitting in the middle of the road that he had cadged from local pubs. By the light of street lamps and in my pajamas I plinked and plonked on these out-of-tune antiques to pick out the best, or least bad, to keep. The chosen one was hoiked indoors with the help of 2 hefty friends of my father, while the other was sent clanking down the street, luckily missing the few cars that were parked there. It was gone the next morning. It was out of tune and had sticky keys and moth-eaten felts. The strings were a bit rusty and it smelled a little of stale beer, but I loved that piano and it got me through grade 4 at the Royal College of Music. After I left home I dropped piano because I was always on the move and there's no place for a piano in a bedsit. I switched to guitar instead. After retirement, I took it up again after being inspired by two outstanding young pianists here on youtube. Needless to say, Annique was one of them. For the rediscovered joy it has given me, I can't thank you enough. Introduction to classical music came from school. We luckily had music appreciation lessons. We also had a school orchestra and school choir. I was in both. I played clarinet in the orchestra - badly. No one else in the family was remotely interested in classical music. I didn't see Fantasia until I was grown up but I'm sure Disney's Silly Symphonies had an unconscious influence.
Es ist einfach unfassbar erstaunlich, was du in einer Stunde schaffst! Ich bin immer wieder begeistert und freue mich auf die 1-10-60 Challenges, egal ob ich das Stück kenne oder nicht, denn ich weiß jedes Mal, dass das Video grandios sein wird. Bitte hör niemals damit auf 😄
Love gershwin, however it's super challenging to play! I first heard gershwin's rhapsody in blue whilst watching fantasia when I was 8 years old, I'm now 21. And, like you, that was my gateway into classical music. No one in my family played any instruments or was into classical music until that point, however, my cousin who is 5 years younger than me is now completing her A level in violin studies. I'm a health care worker by profession, studying to become a doctor, but I play piano whenever I have got the chance. Great content Annique, can't wait to see you on the 6th of October. 😊
Growing in my mother belly (in Greenland mind you), mom and dad would place a headset on her belly and play Scott Joplins 'The Entertainer' and the rest from the soundtrack from 'The Sting' (1973) for me to listen to. And after birth in 1984, growing up and to this day, the tunes from the soundtrack would always soothe me. I grew up with the musical ' The Sound of Music', Tom and Jerry and The Looney Tunes playing classical music from Strauss and Liszt, the first Fantasia movie from 1940 (Tchaikovsky's Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy, was my favorite) and later Fantasia 2000 ( Rhapsody in Blue is definitely my favorite) and my mothers family had tonnes of songs, family songs, that we sang at every event (birthday, first school day, confirmation, Christmas, etc.). Music was always near us, but we were on the upper part of lower class/lower part of middle class, always just managing by, so no formal music training was available for us 4 siblings (looking back, no formal training was not available in Greenland). I learned to play the guitar in my late teens though. First during my high school days, I startet to play with different bands. Later on in senior class, I took the challenge to learn to play 2 Ray Charles songs, 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'That Lucky Old Sun' on piano, played and sang solo on our last spring concert. After high school we all split and me playing music slowly eroded to just playing guitar and singing for myself. Couldn't afford a piano. Fast forward to now, nearing my forties. 8 months ago I won and bought in an auction a digital piano, and learned to play Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata, 1st. Movement' in 4 months and now after 4 months only got to second page of Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' (the piece is over my league but I'm not giving up). ;) I am so happy to find yours as well as Frank Tedesco's channel. You both rekindled my spirit of playing piano. So thank you.
I learned this piece a few years ago, and still LOVE playing it! My dad is an organist, and both my grandfathers played instruments, so music runs in my family! It is so awesome to see that you took the step and just love music, even though you’re the first in your family!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi Annique, another great video! I started playing when I was five with the neighborhood teacher that gave lessons to all the kids. I happened to stick with it, moved to pop/rock, played in a bar band in my twenties, then switched to solo piano jazz. My mom's side of the family all played, my brother plays guitar. For vacation this year (🙂) I spent several weeks in France. Hope you're enjoying your vacation!
Oh and Fantasia introduced me to Paul Dukas. Love that series of animations. I grew up in a family of musicians but not professional musicians. We played a lot of Irish music. I came mostly to classical through figure skating and ballet. Tchaikovsky was my first love and Rachmaninoff my true love.
These type of videos give hope to hobby pianists. Goes to show even if you've recorded all Chopin etudes, all pieces need good practice and time, time to learn and bring up to high level.
When I was a little girl, my sister and I used to travel with some friends and their parents on the weekends to a town. Richard Clayderman was always playing in his parents' car. That made me fall in love with the sound of a piano.
I am a late beginner at piano even though practicing intermittently for 40 years - now more seriously - am intrigued with Gershwin and Mozart - have substantial hints that they may have been one and the same soul. We all incarnate dozens if not hundreds of times along the way. Prodigies have become so from previous lives of potent practice. There are more dimensions to the phenomenon. I am presently studying one then the other - Mozart and Gershwin. With little musical background, the task is challenging - I wonder if you might have a take - sense of comparison of the two composers from the standpoint of a trained musician and pianist. Thanks for the videos and music.
Mom was very music-oriented, she started piano and then I, being a curious little kid, also wanted to give it a go. I was instantly overwhelmed by it and practiced for hours on end. I now regularly perform with my university's choir! Edit: just finished the video. You've made some seriously impressive progress in 1 hour. I'd imagine this being my 2 weeks progress...
Yeah i am always surprised by the difference of her first minute and after one hour. It's like one month of practice for me. Sadly having followed her for over a year, she is unresponsive to comments and doing youtube very much for the revenue. I've never seen her reply substantially to any comment just very rarely one short sentence. She is very business oriented despite the fun appearance and invitation to "tell me what you think in the comment" which is only with the youtube algorithm in mind. Appearances are deceiving.
Although I don’t play as well as I once did, Rhapsody in Blue was also my gateway into classical piano music. If I hadn’t started listening to Gershwin when I was very young, I may not have eventually fallen in love with Chopin or Rachmaninov. Nice job, Annique!! Love you. 🌹
Enjoyed this tutorial, hearing this wonderful piece. My God-brother used to play this a lot. He studied at Juiliard with Madame Rhosina Llevine. He is gone now but miss hearing this. Thank you! 👏
Very interesting mention, bc my great grandmother was extremely close with Josef and Rosina when they lived in Queens. And they LOVED her piano, which has now been in our family for over one hundred years. In fact a photograph and letter from them has hung beside the piano for many years.
I actually have gone to Germany this summer, namely to a town near Mainz called Simmern, in Rheinland Pfalz. I went to a music concert and it was amazing. I fact, they played Rhapsody in Blue there.
For me, I always think of Nodame Cantabile when I hear Rhapsody in Blue. Always amazing watching you learn new pieces! Very inspiring and I feel I've actually been getting a lot better at learning pieces over the years since I started watching you.
Suggest you look up the version with Gershwin on piano (piano roll, that is) and a "Jazz Band" conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. Pretty nifty. Have to say for my money I judge this piece by how the conductor gets (or doesn't get) the screaming brass climax about a minute before the end. To my ear, the very best is Zubin Mehta's recording with the NY Philharmonic for the movie "Manhattan" (Gary Graffman on piano). All around fantastic.
I did not know about the Disney movie of Rhapsody in Blue. Just finished watching it and loved! I do own the music. It has long been on Bucket list of pieces to master. Thank you for picking that as a challenge!
Can you please record your entire practice session of any song of your choice? Valentina Lisista did that to Beethoven's Concerto 3rd (it's the second half of a 3 hour video) and I absolutely fell in love with that video, because it shows everyone how you overcome all of the hard struggling parts, but in practice, and not just explaining.. It might add a lot to your view retention too!
I started piano when I was about 5, but only got into classical in recent years after falling in love with Rachmaninoff (among other composers). My dad was somewhat musical when he was younger, but now it's just me and my older brother that are the musicians in the family :)
My family is super musical (mom's side), so music (Classical and opera) has been a part of my life for basically all of it. And I enjoy playing, although I'm in like, grade 3 ABRSM, but I'm practicing with bigger pieces (currently on Bach's Gavotte and it's lovely but frustrating 😹😭 Anyway, I love your content Annique, and I hope your concert goes fantastic 💫💫
Feeling touched while listening to your Gershwin's playing! 🥰 So much humor and sparkling moments in your final performance, love it!✨ Don't know if I could play like this in 1 hour and 11 mins X_X
Wow, you got through several pages in an hour. It would take me weeks to do that. Also, it seems my Rhapsody sheet music starts off differently than yours. Does your sheet music run about 29 pages?
Love that one, 'cuz of fantasia too, this short film is epic! And you nailed it! But now I'm more into "Rhapsody in various shades of blue" 🥰 Viel Spaß!
I purchased a hard copy of the piano solo version a while ago. Sight reading through the whole thing was an ADVENTURE, to say the least. Maybe someday I'll tackle actually trying to learn it for real!
I watched that thing from Fantasia II from Disney. I've dabbled in accordion and guitar years ago when I was a kid. I couldn't advance because of the question of recitals. I now dabble in piano. I'd like to add the violin, but I'm a bit strapped for money now. So I have the internet and vicarious experience. It's not quite the same, but it's okay.
I also come from a family of non-musicians, so I can relate! My inspiration to learn to play piano was definitely the Tom and Jerry episode 'The Cat Concerto' 😁
You should do a piece from a musical! I suggest "Defying gravity" or "The Wizard and I" from Wicked! Please consider it! I love your videos! You're amazing!
I love Rhapsody in Blue. I've been working on it, off and on, for over 3 years. It definitely made me feel better to see you struggling with a part that I consider to be technically the easiest. I will also say that you got amazing results in a very short amount of time. I think a lot of the point that you're making with your videos is that everyone sounds rough when they come to a piece cold, and everyone needs to practice well.
I loooove Disney Fantasia. I‘m neither from a musical family and this piece (together with the cat concerto from Tom & Jerry) is the reason why I wanted to play the piano. I played the original version (the one with the orchestra) when I was a teenager, sadly not with a real orchestra but with another piano… Staying with disney: why not play the 2hands piano version of the finale of the carnival of the animals featuring the flamingos?
I hope you & you’re family are having a very relaxing holiday. Can I ask, do you make sure you are never too far away from a piano or keyboard whilst you’re away or do you take a complete break from piano practice altogether ? Ps I love Rhapsody In Blue but it seemed extremely difficult although you managed it very well 👌
I must admit I have not watched the new _Fantasia,_ only the 1940 original. I should probably remedy that. However, my favorite film that marries animation with classical music is the 1976 Italian production _Allegro Non Troppo._ While a parody of _Fantasia_ it is also a great setting of classical music. If you decide to watch it, which I highly recommend, make sure to watch the original release. The original release has live-action scenes of the orchestra as introduction and between the animated sequences, and they are very funny. The original release is 1h 25m, the second release is 1h 15m.
My holidays were not exciting except for running into a bar pianist that introduced me to Jelly Roll Morton and now my fingers and lower arms hurt a lot.
This piece is on my bucket list for my piano journey. I played it 50 years ago on my saxophone, but on piano it’s still beyond me.
Hi Annique, this is a totally inspiring video. I feel less alone with how things go when I start a new piece. Thanks - these videos are totally inspiring.
I was excited to see this video because I love Rhapsody in Blue. Good job!
About Fantasia: I never did see it as a child. The reason for that is when I was 4 years old, my mother took me to see my first movie: Pinocchio. It scared the *hell* out of me. It was so bad that I refused to go to the movies again until I was 10, and even that took peer pressure from multiple classes of boys, the whole thing sponsored by the cops. It seemed ill-fated because the film was "The Man who Shot Liberty Valence" but even with a violent title I overcame my fear.
Pinocchio is a work of art and the stunning pinnacle of Disney's craft. It is also pretty dark for a so-called children's film. Is it even a children's film? Older children maybe. The scenes of Pinocchio being locked in the cage in the caravan and the children metamorphosing into donkeys were scary to me on first viewing as an adult. I'm not surprised that at 4 you found it terrifying.
That was beautiful Annique. Loved it!
Saw Fantasia. Words cant do this film justice. I absolutely love surrealism. The orchestral version of BWV 565 was genius.
My mom turned me on to classical music when I was very young. She had a degree in music and taught piano. She could play many many composers including Chopin but her favorite was Beethoven. Often when I was young she would play after I went to bed and I drifted off listening to her playing.
There was a bust of Beethoven on the piano. When my mom played Ragtime, she would turn Beethoven around so he wasn't looking at her.
Of course I wanted to play like my mom but I was lacking discipline. I wanted to run before I could crawl
I was first introduced to classical music by my Mom.
Growing up, she began her practice at 5 am because she loved it so much. As a result she became her teacher’s best student.
The piano was the very first instrument I ever heard because of my Mom’s playing. My siblings and I would often beg her to play for us and she often played us to sleep.
When we were old enough, she gave us lessons and we all now play (except for the 3 year old) ;)
Disney Fantasia! Very inspiring! Playing the piano for 23 years, I always wondered whether Fantasia inspired anyone else to classical music. My children haven’t watched it yet. Thanks to you and your challenge videos, I hope the series would end with the same impact on them. I’ve been learning a lot from you by the way. Thank you! You’re a fantastic pianist. ❤
I love rapsodia in blue
1 hour? So, so impressed.
Nice performance ❤.
More Gershwin pls!
from 7.58 I Just Cried .... and I did'nt know why. Thank you Miss!
Absolutely love this! Rhapsody in Blue reminds me of my childhood, where I would do a lot of flying because my dad is a United airline pilot. :) The theme for the safety instructional video was this piece! He is also a musician (he plays classical guitar), so this piece reminds me of him as a whole.
I fell in love with the piano after seeing the Leeds International Piano Competition on TV as a child. We were quite poor and didn't have the money to buy a piano but unbeknown to me my father set about remedying the situation. One night I was awakened from a deep sleep, taken into the street, and presented with 2 uprights sitting in the middle of the road that he had cadged from local pubs. By the light of street lamps and in my pajamas I plinked and plonked on these out-of-tune antiques to pick out the best, or least bad, to keep. The chosen one was hoiked indoors with the help of 2 hefty friends of my father, while the other was sent clanking down the street, luckily missing the few cars that were parked there. It was gone the next morning.
It was out of tune and had sticky keys and moth-eaten felts. The strings were a bit rusty and it smelled a little of stale beer, but I loved that piano and it got me through grade 4 at the Royal College of Music. After I left home I dropped piano because I was always on the move and there's no place for a piano in a bedsit. I switched to guitar instead.
After retirement, I took it up again after being inspired by two outstanding young pianists here on youtube. Needless to say, Annique was one of them. For the rediscovered joy it has given me, I can't thank you enough.
Introduction to classical music came from school. We luckily had music appreciation lessons. We also had a school orchestra and school choir. I was in both. I played clarinet in the orchestra - badly. No one else in the family was remotely interested in classical music. I didn't see Fantasia until I was grown up but I'm sure Disney's Silly Symphonies had an unconscious influence.
I spent the whole quarantine period learning all of Rhapsody in Blue. Fantastic job on the "love theme"!
Will be very interesting to do this challenge with a fugue of Bach. I am very curious!
Very nice video again, thank you for your musical content ❤
Your facial expressions throughout the video.. crack up 😂
Es ist einfach unfassbar erstaunlich, was du in einer Stunde schaffst! Ich bin immer wieder begeistert und freue mich auf die 1-10-60 Challenges, egal ob ich das Stück kenne oder nicht, denn ich weiß jedes Mal, dass das Video grandios sein wird. Bitte hör niemals damit auf 😄
Love gershwin, however it's super challenging to play! I first heard gershwin's rhapsody in blue whilst watching fantasia when I was 8 years old, I'm now 21. And, like you, that was my gateway into classical music. No one in my family played any instruments or was into classical music until that point, however, my cousin who is 5 years younger than me is now completing her A level in violin studies. I'm a health care worker by profession, studying to become a doctor, but I play piano whenever I have got the chance.
Great content Annique, can't wait to see you on the 6th of October. 😊
Growing in my mother belly (in Greenland mind you), mom and dad would place a headset on her belly and play Scott Joplins 'The Entertainer' and the rest from the soundtrack from 'The Sting' (1973) for me to listen to. And after birth in 1984, growing up and to this day, the tunes from the soundtrack would always soothe me.
I grew up with the musical ' The Sound of Music', Tom and Jerry and The Looney Tunes playing classical music from Strauss and Liszt, the first Fantasia movie from 1940 (Tchaikovsky's Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy, was my favorite) and later Fantasia 2000 ( Rhapsody in Blue is definitely my favorite) and my mothers family had tonnes of songs, family songs, that we sang at every event (birthday, first school day, confirmation, Christmas, etc.).
Music was always near us, but we were on the upper part of lower class/lower part of middle class, always just managing by, so no formal music training was available for us 4 siblings (looking back, no formal training was not available in Greenland). I learned to play the guitar in my late teens though.
First during my high school days, I startet to play with different bands. Later on in senior class, I took the challenge to learn to play 2 Ray Charles songs, 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'That Lucky Old Sun' on piano, played and sang solo on our last spring concert.
After high school we all split and me playing music slowly eroded to just playing guitar and singing for myself. Couldn't afford a piano.
Fast forward to now, nearing my forties. 8 months ago I won and bought in an auction a digital piano, and learned to play Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata, 1st. Movement' in 4 months and now after 4 months only got to second page of Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' (the piece is over my league but I'm not giving up). ;)
I am so happy to find yours as well as Frank Tedesco's channel. You both rekindled my spirit of playing piano. So thank you.
This is the most beautiful section of Rhapsody in Blue!
I learned this piece a few years ago, and still LOVE playing it! My dad is an organist, and both my grandfathers played instruments, so music runs in my family! It is so awesome to see that you took the step and just love music, even though you’re the first in your family!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
the fact that an hour of practice brought tears to my eyes really means youre something special, good job ❤️👏
Your editing has improved so much! Keep up the good work❤👍
I find it too much...miss the old style of videos
@@onemanfranagreed. The simpler and more intimate editing was way better.
I agree, it seems over edited for sure
Hi Annique, another great video! I started playing when I was five with the neighborhood teacher that gave lessons to all the kids. I happened to stick with it, moved to pop/rock, played in a bar band in my twenties, then switched to solo piano jazz. My mom's side of the family all played, my brother plays guitar. For vacation this year (🙂) I spent several weeks in France. Hope you're enjoying your vacation!
Oh and Fantasia introduced me to Paul Dukas. Love that series of animations.
I grew up in a family of musicians but not professional musicians. We played a lot of Irish music. I came mostly to classical through figure skating and ballet. Tchaikovsky was my first love and Rachmaninoff my true love.
These type of videos give hope to hobby pianists. Goes to show even if you've recorded all Chopin etudes,
all pieces need good practice and time, time to learn and bring up to high level.
When I was a little girl, my sister and I used to travel with some friends and their parents on the weekends to a town. Richard Clayderman was always playing in his parents' car. That made me fall in love with the sound of a piano.
I am a late beginner at piano even though practicing intermittently for 40 years - now more seriously - am intrigued with Gershwin and Mozart - have substantial hints that they may have been one and the same soul. We all incarnate dozens if not hundreds of times along the way. Prodigies have become so from previous lives of potent practice. There are more dimensions to the phenomenon. I am presently studying one then the other - Mozart and Gershwin. With little musical background, the task is challenging - I wonder if you might have a take - sense of comparison of the two composers from the standpoint of a trained musician and pianist. Thanks for the videos and music.
Mom was very music-oriented, she started piano and then I, being a curious little kid, also wanted to give it a go. I was instantly overwhelmed by it and practiced for hours on end. I now regularly perform with my university's choir!
Edit: just finished the video. You've made some seriously impressive progress in 1 hour. I'd imagine this being my 2 weeks progress...
Yeah i am always surprised by the difference of her first minute and after one hour. It's like one month of practice for me. Sadly having followed her for over a year, she is unresponsive to comments and doing youtube very much for the revenue. I've never seen her reply substantially to any comment just very rarely one short sentence. She is very business oriented despite the fun appearance and invitation to "tell me what you think in the comment" which is only with the youtube algorithm in mind. Appearances are deceiving.
Although I don’t play as well as I once did, Rhapsody in Blue was also my gateway into classical piano music. If I hadn’t started listening to Gershwin when I was very young, I may not have eventually fallen in love with Chopin or Rachmaninov. Nice job, Annique!! Love you. 🌹
Enjoyed this tutorial, hearing this wonderful piece. My God-brother used to play this a lot. He studied at Juiliard with Madame Rhosina Llevine. He is gone now but miss hearing this. Thank you! 👏
Very interesting mention, bc my great grandmother was extremely close with Josef and Rosina when they lived in Queens. And they LOVED her piano, which has now been in our family for over one hundred years. In fact a photograph and letter from them has hung beside the piano for many years.
I absolutely love rhapsody in blue. It took me quite a while to learn the clarinet solo
I played this for my senior recital. I’m so glad you covered this piece. It’s so much fun to play. ❤
Well played,
After only an hour!
Fab music!
Amazing piece to choose for this challenge!! Es war sehr schön! Sie sind meine Lieblings!
2:16 i spit out my drink
I actually have gone to Germany this summer, namely to a town near Mainz called Simmern, in Rheinland Pfalz. I went to a music concert and it was amazing. I fact, they played Rhapsody in Blue there.
For me, I always think of Nodame Cantabile when I hear Rhapsody in Blue. Always amazing watching you learn new pieces! Very inspiring and I feel I've actually been getting a lot better at learning pieces over the years since I started watching you.
Thank you, enjoy you vacations
This brought me to tears. You have such a beautiful way of singing!
5:48 I'm also inspired classical music by this theme or music i guess😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Suggest you look up the version with Gershwin on piano (piano roll, that is) and a "Jazz Band" conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. Pretty nifty. Have to say for my money I judge this piece by how the conductor gets (or doesn't get) the screaming brass climax about a minute before the end. To my ear, the very best is Zubin Mehta's recording with the NY Philharmonic for the movie "Manhattan" (Gary Graffman on piano). All around fantastic.
I did not know about the Disney movie of Rhapsody in Blue. Just finished watching it and loved! I do own the music. It has long been on Bucket list of pieces to master. Thank you for picking that as a challenge!
Can you please record your entire practice session of any song of your choice? Valentina Lisista did that to Beethoven's Concerto 3rd (it's the second half of a 3 hour video) and I absolutely fell in love with that video, because it shows everyone how you overcome all of the hard struggling parts, but in practice, and not just explaining.. It might add a lot to your view retention too!
I enjoyed your video. Thank you! Enjoy your vacation!
I hope you decide to do a full performance. One of my favorite pieces as well.
I started piano when I was about 5, but only got into classical in recent years after falling in love with Rachmaninoff (among other composers). My dad was somewhat musical when he was younger, but now it's just me and my older brother that are the musicians in the family :)
My family is super musical (mom's side), so music (Classical and opera) has been a part of my life for basically all of it.
And I enjoy playing, although I'm in like, grade 3 ABRSM, but I'm practicing with bigger pieces (currently on Bach's Gavotte and it's lovely but frustrating 😹😭
Anyway, I love your content Annique, and I hope your concert goes fantastic 💫💫
As always well done on the new piece challenge; LOVE this videos but I do Love the new intro and video visual effects✊🏿💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿‼️
Feeling touched while listening to your Gershwin's playing! 🥰
So much humor and sparkling moments in your final performance, love it!✨
Don't know if I could play like this in 1 hour and 11 mins X_X
An absolutely wonderful video! I've been trying to play this piece for nearly 50 years and still can't play the whole thing thru. About 75% of it.
Fantastic performance my friend 🎹🎶👏
Hi Annique I really loved this like all the other pieces, could you please share some tips for czerny etyde op 740 no 37. Thanks in advance
Hi Annique, lock down in covid started me learning piano
Superb!
Wow, you got through several pages in an hour. It would take me weeks to do that.
Also, it seems my Rhapsody sheet music starts off differently than yours. Does your sheet music run about 29 pages?
That was brilliant!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
O love It. Congratulations
Love that one, 'cuz of fantasia too, this short film is epic!
And you nailed it!
But now I'm more into "Rhapsody in various shades of blue" 🥰 Viel Spaß!
I hope one day I can learn pieces that quickly. I would be lucky to learn that much in a week with multiple hours a day practicing.
wonderful
Could you do a comparison video between the Boston piano and the Yamaha c2 I guess? What kind of things do you like more on your new grand
I purchased a hard copy of the piano solo version a while ago. Sight reading through the whole thing was an ADVENTURE, to say the least.
Maybe someday I'll tackle actually trying to learn it for real!
I watched that thing from Fantasia II from Disney. I've dabbled in accordion and guitar years ago when I was a kid. I couldn't advance because of the question of recitals. I now dabble in piano. I'd like to add the violin, but I'm a bit strapped for money now. So I have the internet and vicarious experience. It's not quite the same, but it's okay.
I also come from a family of non-musicians, so I can relate! My inspiration to learn to play piano was definitely the Tom and Jerry episode 'The Cat Concerto' 😁
You should do a piece from a musical! I suggest "Defying gravity" or "The Wizard and I" from Wicked! Please consider it! I love your videos! You're amazing!
Big Fan love your playing and was wondering if you would do a video on how your so good at sightreading if possible and can't wait for the album
I love Rhapsody in Blue. I've been working on it, off and on, for over 3 years. It definitely made me feel better to see you struggling with a part that I consider to be technically the easiest.
I will also say that you got amazing results in a very short amount of time.
I think a lot of the point that you're making with your videos is that everyone sounds rough when they come to a piece cold, and everyone needs to practice well.
I loooove Disney Fantasia. I‘m neither from a musical family and this piece (together with the cat concerto from Tom & Jerry) is the reason why I wanted to play the piano.
I played the original version (the one with the orchestra) when I was a teenager, sadly not with a real orchestra but with another piano…
Staying with disney: why not play the 2hands piano version of the finale of the carnival of the animals featuring the flamingos?
Wonderful video - I love this series ☺️
love these videos!
absolutely awesome what you perform after one hour. A "normal" person would take one year for it.
Wait, for the next challenge could you do Mephisto waltz?
So talented 👍
This is my favorite piece in the whole world. Thanks for playing it. One question thou, why did you start on that part?
I hope you & you’re family are having a very relaxing holiday.
Can I ask, do you make sure you are never too far away from a piano or keyboard whilst you’re away or do you take a complete break from piano practice altogether ?
Ps I love Rhapsody In Blue but it seemed extremely difficult although you managed it very well 👌
Mazeppa next?
Bro she would die trying to perform that with 1 hour and 11 minutes of practice.
Brava!!!
Could you try waltz in eb major pls ❤ love your vids by the way
Can you do this challenge with Valse Sentimentale or Liebesleid please?
Toll Toll Toll. macht spass. Also mir jetzt :))))
plssssss do mephisto waltz, i've just finished to learn it
Very nice video ❤🧡💛🎉🎉🎉
I got intro classical music after hearing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. I was around 14 years old.
hi Annique welcome back to Taiwan, are you in South???
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I must admit I have not watched the new _Fantasia,_ only the 1940 original. I should probably remedy that.
However, my favorite film that marries animation with classical music is the 1976 Italian production _Allegro Non Troppo._ While a parody of _Fantasia_ it is also a great setting of classical music. If you decide to watch it, which I highly recommend, make sure to watch the original release. The original release has live-action scenes of the orchestra as introduction and between the animated sequences, and they are very funny. The original release is 1h 25m, the second release is 1h 15m.
My holidays were not exciting except for running into a bar pianist that introduced me to Jelly Roll Morton and now my fingers and lower arms hurt a lot.
Hmmm...exactly how difficult would it be to get an orchestra for a 1m/10m/1h though...? 🤔
Where did you get the sheet?
You should do one one lizst b minor sonata (preferably middle section)
Ooo, some fancy editing stuff this time I see! How did you get your piano to France?
I love Disney fantasia with Mickey mouse
Nice
Pretty please could you try something from David Hicken, his pieces have such a different rhythm :) pleaseeeeeeee
i liked fantasia. now i try to play it.
What an Intro 😱😱😱😱😱
Try Shura Cherkassky's Prelude Pathetique for the next challenge
This challenge but for Rachmaninoff concert 2
Can you try winter wind please?
She already plays the piece. It is in her upcoming album.
Gut gemacht! Falls du die Version noch nicht kennst, suche nach Jack Gibbons Solo Version :)