Bartók Concerto for Orchestra (Finale) Weicheng Zhao plays his transcription
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Weicheng Zhao played "Winners Concerts" at Kioi Hall in Tokyo, March, 2008.
Weicheng Zhao was the first Chinese in history to win the 43rd Yamaha International Electone Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan, 2007. In 2009 he began to pursue study of the pipe organ with Cherry Rhodes at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. One year later he received Second Prize and the Audience Prize in the Mader National Organ-Playing Competition. In 2012 he won the first prize and audience prize at the Sixth Miami International Organ Competition. Weicheng Zhao is currently enrolled in the Master of Music Degree program at USC.
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Sorry, but not only is his playing fantastic, it actually takes a lot of artistry and a great ear to program keyboards.
WOOOOOOOOOOW! Good enough to almost forget it is not a real orchestra. The only real giveaway are the broader dynamic changes which on an organ of course tend to be more "monophonic" because of the use of a single expression pedal. However: To work around these limitations so effectively is actually part of the mastery showcased here.
His playing sounds like an entire orchestra on stage, but only by one person
THIS VIDEO DESERVES MORE ATTENTION
This man is amazing! Saw him in competition in Miami.
Standing "O" for his recital pieces. Wonderful
Stumbled across this and glad I did. Fantastic playing and quite brilliant registration preparation. There are world class pianists who don't get near to achieving this level of musicianship. God knows how long it took him to prepare and practise this. Absolutely stunning.
I salute this guy's performance! I have been playing (now teaching) the organ for the past 30 years. I have seen the organ evolve from the very crude old days to the present ones and I have to say it has come a loooong way. The notes are played "LIVE" by the 10 fingers and 2 feet, but the percussions and the synchronization or changing of the orchestral instruments are pre programmed. If you noticed the square buttons that are placed in between the two keyboards lighting up like crazy (they changed with a touch of the right foot which has trigger pads), that's where the magic of the percussions and the orchestral instruments are pre programmed.
I didn't believe that sound was coming from the organ until I heard some of the high brass. AMAZING samples (over 10 years ago!) and AMAZING performance.
I confess my ignorance: just last night, I discovered this electronic organ produced by Yamaha, while I was looking for another performance of this same concerto. I was immediately amazed, thanks to this extraordinary organist who plays in this video: I think it's a musical instrument really great, that will inspire a lot of good music to new generations of composers. I think that I'll not hesitate to seriously consider the Electone Organ in my next compositions.
Amazing!!
OH MAMA U HAVE GOT TO GET ME ONE OF THESE!!!!
This could well set a trend of concert music in the 21st century.
This is spectacular. I wonder if he also does Miraculous Mandarin - I’d love to listen to his transcription of it.
Excellent performance! A very talented musician! 🤩
Only bitter, envious old trolls would give thumbs-down on this incredible performance!
Tremendous Job! Great keyboard artistry!!!!!!!!!
All of the sound comes from the organ. It uses digital samples of real acoustic instruments which is why it sounds like a real orchestra when he plays it.
Wow~! It was possible? Marvelous~!
My previous comment was not adequate. In the game of chess there are few players that are considedered Grand Masters. I would consider you to be a Grand Master on Keyboard! There are very few musicians out there who would match your artistry and skill. Whatever deity you believe in believe in the fact that you are blessed! My sincerest congratulations on you accomplishment. I know the world will be hearing more from you! Bravo Maestro!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant!
I know this work of Bartók fairly well and love it. What I do not understand in this amazing interpretation (sorry for my ignorance) is how much of the sounds is generated by the organ (synthesizer???) ot it is a mixture of playback by the orchestra and a solo by the organ???? Anyway, it sounds great.
Very impressive! Bravo! (Matt & Francine)
So who needs an orchestra when you have something like this and someone like this to play it?
Yep, there will be a skeptic and cry foul because this is sequenced....JUST remember, he had to put this "into" the instrument and it is a "live" performance....amazing
Totally brilliant!!!!
Incredible skill.
Late to the discussion but I can see where some could think that there is use of pre-recording. Look at 5:20 and you here a string line not played on the manuals. He is playing with the pedals. The competition is for live play only. You can use automatics triggered live, but no overdubs, pre-recorded sections, no loaded files with a touch pad. Just keyed voices, percussion, and effects. Real time only. I love Bartok and it's hard for people to realize that playing orchestral music on an organ, even missing many of the lines in the score, sounds convincing. Try one of the six string quartets and you would quickly miss something. Four instruments, each able to play up to four notes at a time, with different articulations, portamento, vibrato, etc.. The simpler the source, sometimes the harder to duplicate. See examples of film scores, Beethoven symphonies on the Electones. Cameron Carpenter and many others have taken pedal work to levels never seen. Pedal pianos, and extended organ claviers (more than 32 notes) give new tools to the youngest and brightest. Highest accolades to Weicheng Zhao. I do have some agreement with posters regarding interpretation. I know this piece, have studied the score, and love all of Bartok. As an accomplishment this is great. Interpretation is lacking in tempi, expression, and there are some high speed flubs if you know the piece and watch carefully. But again, for orchestral music on an organ, fantastic. I will search out other examples of Mr. Zhao's playing and am eager to see his progress in the last 10 years. My fervent wish is for Yamaha to sell these in the USA. Cheers.
He could play in the common room of the Starship. Less weight and mass. They didn't know what that was when this was posted lol.
wowowow this is incredible!
does anyone know what kind of organ he is using? iv never seen someone do anything like that on an organ!
Bravo! What a stunning performance and what a brilliant arrangement too. Absolutely thrilling.
Get outta town with this! Unbelievable!
This young man has quite a great talent and impressive finger and pedal technique, but to be fair, high kudos must be given to the pre-programing of sequences since it is obvious if you watch and listen closely, he is actually only playing about 20% of the notes you are hearing. The rest is being triggered, controlled, and played by pre-programmed computer sequences. None-the-less, the end result is quite impressive.
There are no recorded notes . Everything is played LIVE
Sorry but that is not true. I am not saying he is playing along with a "pre-record" but there are many sequences and notes that are pre-programmed and triggered when he gets to certain passages and specific beats. I looked and listened carefully once again and it is really obvious at and after 4:00 in the performance that he is not playing all the notes you hear. He takes both hands off the keboard and the timpani roll and glissando up all happens without him playing anything and about 30 seconds later, while his 2 hands are playing the 2 woodwind lines, there's a number of string chord pizz's happening and he's not playing them. Also, throughout the piece, I can see the various programming lighted buttons switching themselves seemingly automatically and I don't see him pushing any of those buttons or hitting "pistons" with his foot like an organist does. Again, I don't want to take anything away from this young man's talent, finger and pedal technique, but to assert that he is actually, physically playing every note we hear is not an accurate statement.
lednew2010 The timpani voice was assigned to the pedal voice as well as those string pizz you mentioned. those programming as you outlined - basically we called it as registration. Rhythm and registration can be programmed, then it became registration data. However, if the person wish to do it manually changing the registers without the aid of sequence programming, he/she can change it via expression pedal (on the right leg) by simply kicking toward the right side (there's a 'switch' attached beside it). Normally, contestants choose to programmed the registration data with sequence because a classical song with the interval of more than 5 minutes usually carries about more than 16 preset registration (in some case I have heard some contestant used up to more than 35 registrations), it depends on the arranger of the song too. if they need to do it manually, they need to consider some risk/incident that might occur (double kick the switch) or (delayed), or certain part of the song user have to play it with both legs (can't change registers via manually). YEC - Yamaha Electone Concours strictly disallowed participants with preset registration data that consists of (pre-play chords, note, or XG accompaniment). It was 100% Live. and yes, as for 'glissando', there's a function - After Touch and Initial Touch, which enables user to play notes expressively with the control of keys/pedals via fingers/legs with a certain amount of pressure.
LemonWaterBoy Thanks you very much for those details, very carefully explained. But I cannot figure out why you call a piece of art/classical music a song and its composer an arranger: this is not the same thing at all! A concerto is definitely not a song or a collection of songs!
You've got no bloody idea what you're talking about. 20%???? How dare you insult this guy.
Thanks
Wow! No words are enough for this guy! One question? Why the organ display and other organ led lights are all off? And what Electone model is that one?
I think it is a modified EL 87. I just noticed cos of the big LCD screen
This is a fantastic performance! I am interested to know how the registration changes are accomplished. Are they automated in some way or actuated by the feet?
Damn!
Wo ist das Orchester? Ich sehe nur eine elektronische Orgel...
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But... how?! so many questions.
Suena como una orquesta real
OOOOOO MMMMMMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGGG
Los timbales suenan reales👈
Ive seen few China players, are dam good in classical on the electone. They excel in pain striking technique like kungfu
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 sweet ♪ ♫ ♬ ♫ 🎶🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 love it ♪ ♫ ♬ ♫ 🎶
...und in Deutschland behauptet man, das ginge mit einem fast 4-fach teureren Instrument viel besser.Ich meine: Es geht nur besser mit einem echten Orchester!
Wondering what he can't play?!?!
Nothing. :)
You have no concept of what music is if you think this is nothing.
It would be interesting to hear "the concept of what music is" that I supposedly lack articulated. I suspect it's a grand child of Liszt and Paganini, "wowy zowy, how the hell did he do that?" competetitiveness. If that's it, I'm happy to do without.
Bartok died in 1945. Guess that makes him an old fogey, too, huh? And the cult of "physical dexterity," turning music into athletics, has been a plague on classical music for centuries. With the triumph of vacuity represented by clips like this, it has finally won out over musical meaning. Enjoy your contests, kids!
As an imitation of music: amazing. As music: nothing; completely, totally, NOTHING.