Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

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  • Dario Ronchi plays the Maple Leaf Rag to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Scott Joplin's death.
    If you liked this video don't miss my latest performance: The Entertainer by Scott Joplin to the following link!
    • Scott Joplin: The Ente...

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  • @Dario_Ronchi
    @Dario_Ronchi  ปีที่แล้ว +192

    Hi everyone, if you liked this video don't miss my latest performance: The Entertainer by Scott Joplin to the following link!
    th-cam.com/video/Yz0SVCJT6eg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=DarioRonchi

  • @mountaineerdragger
    @mountaineerdragger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1426

    I'm a 70-year old fourth year piano student. Last week my piano teacher handed me my lesson book and said she had assigned a new piece to me, but she didn't want me to know what it was until I got home. This was it. I almost fainted when I saw the sheet music. I'm hammering it out (very slowly) and am enjoying the learning process. When I grow up, I want to play Maple Leaf Rag just like you do!

    • @druefreeman439
      @druefreeman439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      I'm so impressed that you are taking on this challenge at 70 and arrived at this point after only 4 years of lessons. I think you might have a future in music, son ;-). Good for you!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      Thanks! You will do!

    • @elisabethscott20
      @elisabethscott20 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      This is wonderful, I hope you're still going strong ❤️

    • @wmobberley4416
      @wmobberley4416 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Yes! Go for it! For years I only could play the first and second parts but baulked at learning part three. However, I am so glad I eventually did learn it because it is SUCH fun to play. Persevere through all of it, especially part three. You won't regret it. Everything suddenly clicks and you realise that it may be hard to read but one you get into the swing of it, it is not as hard to play as it first seems to be because you begin to recognise the sequence of patterns in the keys you are playing and not the sheet music. Wonderful stuff.

    • @hmxr715
      @hmxr715 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      When you grow up?

  • @annprice5999
    @annprice5999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

    One of the best performances I’ve heard of this piece: no rushing, clean as a whistle, every note and color coming through. Bravo.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      So many thanks!

    • @Funnyfinsfan
      @Funnyfinsfan 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Dario_Ronchigreat music

    • @meghanh2511
      @meghanh2511 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It’s supposed to be played faster than this though.

    • @drakevandoozer1557
      @drakevandoozer1557 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I prefer it a little messy for some reason lol. He did good though just different tastes

  • @slifer4912
    @slifer4912 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I swear I heard this song randomly through my childhood. I don’t remember a single time I willingly chose to listen to this, yet I’ve heard it a million times. I didn’t even know the name of the song

    • @jmun852
      @jmun852 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      That’s what you call a classic 👏

  • @gb-jg1ud
    @gb-jg1ud ปีที่แล้ว +288

    Best performed/played version I have heard. It's so rare to find someone who can play it at the correct "marching" speed and not hammer away on a sprint. Your superb tempo ...with the high quality piano ...you can actually hear each note and its intensity and the pedal ..it seems to hang in the air long enough to hear and visualize each one. Bravo!

    • @jimbrent8151
      @jimbrent8151 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Concur

    • @Tr33fiddy
      @Tr33fiddy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Check out Tom Brier.

    • @basementbuckeye3789
      @basementbuckeye3789 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You should hear it syncopated if you haven't already. It's looser/swinging beat is probably closer to the way it was actually performed in the saloons Joplin originally played in. Most people who learn it now, including myself play in a classical piano matching time signature but playing it with a swing beat is actually pretty fun but also more challenging.

    • @annprice5999
      @annprice5999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This *is* syncopated. That’s sort of the point of ragtime.

    • @susanholler2128
      @susanholler2128 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree! Many people play ragtime as if it’s a contest of who can play it the fastest!

  • @olddoggeleventy2718
    @olddoggeleventy2718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    One of my all-time favorites. Not rushed as so many players do and the tone of the Steinway is magnificent. Thank you sir for your years of hard work and study as well as the talent to perform for us.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thank you for your time and interest. Cheers

    • @skrie
      @skrie ปีที่แล้ว +8

      exactly. I love this tempo. It's crystal clear and wonderful.

    • @gb-jg1ud
      @gb-jg1ud ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@skrie perfection

    • @dharman7021
      @dharman7021 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm a 70-year old fourth year piano student. Last week my piano teacher handed me my lesson book and said she had assigned a new piece to me, but she didn't want me to know what it was until I got home. This was it. I almost fainted when I saw the sheet music. I'm hammering it out (very slowly) and am enjoying the learning process. When I grow up, I want to play Maple Leaf Rag just like you do

    • @Moon_Fire_Water
      @Moon_Fire_Water 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "I know a fine way to treat a steinway, I love to run my fingers o'er the keys, the ivories, and with the pedal I love to meddle..."

  • @MrAgent11421
    @MrAgent11421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +726

    The notes are nice crisp and clear. An excellent performance.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Thank you!😉

    • @jeandesaulniers9711
      @jeandesaulniers9711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @dave4248 Thanks Steinway & Sons...

    • @jerryhenry662
      @jerryhenry662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      in tune

    • @Mortimer50145
      @Mortimer50145 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was brought up on the classic Joshua Rifkin recordings, and to my mind Dario's bass accompaniment is just *slightly* too stacatto for my liking. But perhaps I'm being picky. The tempo is just right. The likes of Tom Brier can play Maple Leaf Rag at machine-gun rate (and in every key under the sun) which is a prodigious achievement - but Dario's (and Joshua's) renditions are music.

    • @cush6827
      @cush6827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is called Soul-less

  • @viccasaur
    @viccasaur ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Love Scott Joplin music, always makes me feel like I’m in a old western saloon.

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And it's so sad that saloons and brothels were the only places his music could be appreciated in his early days.

    • @pikachuchujelly7628
      @pikachuchujelly7628 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Ragtime wasn't played in old western saloons. That's something Hollywood came up with. Ragtime's era was around 1890 to 1910 and was played mainly in bars in the South.

    • @markoboyle3715
      @markoboyle3715 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The reason he was played in the old saloons was the invention of the player piano. Only a few, to this day, could play it properly, thank you for this fine performance.

    • @cia5602
      @cia5602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@pikachuchujelly7628You literally just described western saloons

    • @pikachuchujelly7628
      @pikachuchujelly7628 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@cia5602 Yeah, saloons are pretty similar to bars and clubs, but the time period, location, and culture surrounding it is different. Ragtime wouldn't have been played in the saloons of the old west, which was the mid 1800s. Its origins are in cities like New Orleans and St Louis during the early 1900s. Ragtime developed mostly from marching music combined with the syncopated rhythms from cakewalk dances.

  • @keve1212
    @keve1212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    I have to agree with the others who have said this is the best rendition of Maple Leaf on TH-cam.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      So many Thanks!

    • @clasicradiolover
      @clasicradiolover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      My first time hearing this song. I love TH-cam and the Internet. I can listen to Ragtime Clasic Rock Spanish Flamenco Mexican. I love all kinds now that I otherwise would never have known.

    • @crischaves7958
      @crischaves7958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello

    • @sailorconan
      @sailorconan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Except the scott himself's performance, he is the best!

    • @michaelshachat2289
      @michaelshachat2289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah

  • @hedgiegal3340
    @hedgiegal3340 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Absolutely beautiful to see a concert pianist playing this. Scott Joplin was truly a genius.

  • @O5680
    @O5680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    True original American classical music. I love it!

  • @stuartholder2098
    @stuartholder2098 6 ปีที่แล้ว +631

    This is the way that ragtime should be played. Not too fast with that wonderful base, particularly in the Maple leaf Rag. Thank you once again Dario.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Thank you for wathcing and for the kind compliments!

    • @davidelongo6438
      @davidelongo6438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Actually, the right tempo for this particular piece by Joplin, one of his most fastest ones-we talking about a 2/4 American march tempo, indeed-, is exactly 120 bpm (about 1.25x), which isn't fast at all (like 144 or 152 bpm, for example), but a regular and steady one-listen to the band/orchestra cylinders of that era-. And this isn't just an opinion and a personal one, but the pure application of musical Philology. Also, Rag-Time is music historically written for dancing, not just listening to, as we use to do nowadays. And you can't improvise a lively two-step or cake-walk over a piece this slow. Of course, one person can say he likes this tempo, but saying it's the proper one, too... well, I'm deeply sorry, about this, but History and musical sciences tell us different things. To like one thing doesn't mean that thing's objectively good.

    • @davidelongo6438
      @davidelongo6438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @FinnCraftYT absolutely not, of course: all my adfirmations are just the result of my musical studies and debates with important musicologists like Marcello Piras, who also wrote various essays and articles about Scott Joplin, Rag-Time and Afro-American music in general.

    • @williamjones4483
      @williamjones4483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @FinnCraftYT If he did copy and paste that, so what? The vast majority of people posting comments are not anywhere near professional typists and I am quite certain most of us do copy and paste to avoid the agony of trying to properly compose a comment and completely type it out error free.

    • @staalman1226
      @staalman1226 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidelongo6438 There is no objective exact tempo, at least other than what the composer writes the tempo as. Joplin himself did put one one of his pieces (not this one) that "ragtime should never be played too fast".

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Listening in May, 2023.. An excellent performance. Perfect. I love Scott Joplin.Great.

  • @natalieb6193
    @natalieb6193 6 ปีที่แล้ว +445

    The sound of that Steinway!

    • @susanbooth2717
      @susanbooth2717 6 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      The skill and talent of the musician!

    • @richardwang6866
      @richardwang6866 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Both!

    • @phyllispetras2181
      @phyllispetras2181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      those fabulous bass strings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @smoothlady1983
      @smoothlady1983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Groovy!!!!!!!

    • @smudger671
      @smudger671 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's way too closely miked.

  • @oldgypsytap
    @oldgypsytap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    Perfect....clean..crisp as Ragtime is supposed to be. This 90 year old should know : )

    • @yehdssdgsdg7790
      @yehdssdgsdg7790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I’m sure you’ve lived a full life full
      Of many stories to tell.

    • @rosemarygeary649
      @rosemarygeary649 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How many songs did Scott Joplin write?

    • @eoin.
      @eoin. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rosemarygeary649 ?

    • @nunyabiznez6381
      @nunyabiznez6381 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      My grandfather, who would be 128 were he still alive, went to New York with an uncle in 1910 and heard Joplin playing at a venue I have not yet discovered. Grandpa was 16 at the time. He was so enthralled by Joplin's piano playing that he bought sheet music for as many pieces as he could find and when he returned he tried to talk my great grandfather into buying a piano. Great Grandpa compromised and bought a player piano and gifted Grandpa some Joplin piano rolls to go with it. Rumor has it that the rolls were cut by Joplin himself though the tubes they originally came in are no longer around so I can't confirm it and there is little useful information printed on the rolls. I remember my grandfather cranking up the player piano, turning a switch and away it went playing this, his favorite song. As little kids we'd dance or sit at the piano and pretend it was us who were making the music. My uncle got the player piano about 50 years ago and my Dad got the rolls. Dad died and I went off to college and when I got back I discovered Mom had relegated them to the landfill as "worthless junk" due to the inability to play them on any modern machine. A few years later I found out that my little brother had rescued them from the trash and kept them in a hidden cache in his bedroom and had forgotten about them until Mom sold the house. He gave them to me as a birthday gift the following winter. I've had them ever since. My point in all this is that this recording here on TH-cam is very close to the piano roll I recall. I've not had access to a player piano in about twenty years but to me, the rolls are worth more than the piano. Hopefully one day I'll find one and hear it again.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@nunyabiznez6381 Thank you for your invaluable historical testimony on Joplin! I would be very pleased to have, if possible, more details on the Joplin concert of 1910, maybe you could talk to someone from your family (brothers or cousins) who knew about this fact told by your grandfather. I know that Scott Joplin, also to advertise his most recent pieces, used to perform on the piano in music stores where it was possible to buy the sheet music of the piece played on the piano. Maybe your grandfather had gone to listen to him to consider whether to buy the sheet music. Thanks

  • @francescopolo2621
    @francescopolo2621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Well I’m not exaggerating if I say this is the BEST Maple Leaf Rag interpretation I ever heard. Perfect from every point of view - tempo, precision, dynamics, clearness, recording quality, piano sound (this Steinway is truly appropriate for this piece). Thank you, grazie!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Grazie a te Francesco!

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agree 100%. I especially enjoy the tempo - it's the best for toe-tapping!

    • @williamdillard413
      @williamdillard413 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      YES! But to be honest, it is a top line Steinway Grand and was never really intended to be performed on such instruments, LOL! Yes, I agree it's awesome.

  • @MsBiggles51
    @MsBiggles51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Perfect tempo. Brilliant. We can hear every note and every nuance of the dynamics. And it's a tempo you can march to and dance to, which was the intention of the ragtime. Most people just murder this piece by playing it far too fast. This was a breath of fresh air, so thank you.

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed, it's the perfect tempo!

    • @ryantimm9748
      @ryantimm9748 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh agreed he got the tempo PERFECT. I can’t stand how people try to play it as fast as possible. I don’t enjoy that at all :/ this is the BEST performance of this song on TH-cam hands down

  • @joeolander4350
    @joeolander4350 6 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    That big Steinway really delivers those bass notes the way he wants.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes!

    • @marcolorenzetti4807
      @marcolorenzetti4807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @smudger671
      @smudger671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's very closely miked. A bit too close for my taste.

    • @jeandesaulniers9711
      @jeandesaulniers9711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smudger671 As far as I'm concerned,there's no other way than Steinway...

    • @smudger671
      @smudger671 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeandesaulniers9711 What's that got to do with being closely miked?

  • @Antoine-dk5fs
    @Antoine-dk5fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Perfect tempo. Wonderful 👍😀👏👏👏

  • @paulathalmann7541
    @paulathalmann7541 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm a 14-year old fourth year piano student. Today I hat my lesson and my teacher handed me out this peace. Than i heared it here on TH-cam and I was shocked. How shut I play this peace? I didn't expect, that he give me after 4 years something like this. But when my piano teacher thinks i can play it, I can do it for sure.

    • @MultiBadger32
      @MultiBadger32 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You teacher will no doubt have a practice plan. But my advice would be to do a lot of one-handed practice, to the point of being bored by it. Then put the hands together extremely slowly, getting the syncopated rhythm fully accurate. Then speed up a bit and start thinking about dynamics and shaping. It's tempting to jump ahead - because most talented players can reasonably quickly do a poor version it at pace that sounds impressive to drunks in a pub. But that normally results in rhythmic and technical errors that then have to be unlearned!

    • @whoisthisnoyes
      @whoisthisnoyes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MultiBadger32i do not understand so i will see myself out from u smart asses

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you want to take on Joplin in particular, get familiar with counterpoint and Baroque music because Joplin's structuring is very similar to it. If you can play Baroque well then with some familiarizing with the ragtime style you can play Joplin's work very well. This is why Joshua Rifkin is considered one of the best interpreters of Joplin's music.

  • @originunknown3209
    @originunknown3209 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolute perfection, played to utter perfection! Joplin is outstanding, one of the greatest composers for the pianoforte!!!!👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

  • @Dario_Ronchi
    @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +741

    Hello everyone,
    today I would like to tell you why I played the Maple Leaf Rag at that speed of execution, also in order to clarify many contrasts of opinions I see among you. It is true, Joplin did not indicate, at the beginning of the score, the metronome beats number, but nevertheless we read "Tempo di marcia" (March Time). We understand that most of the marches in binary time (2/4, 4/4 etc) did not reach high execution speeds, but they were not even too slow. The second factor that convinced me not to go too fast were Scott Joplin's words used in his "School of Ragtime" method, that I would like to share with all of you: "We wish to say here, that the" Joplin ragtime " is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often good players lose the effect entirely, by playing too fast
    harmonized with the supposition that each note will be played as it is written, as it takes this and also the proper time divisions to complete the sense intended."
    Hoping to have been useful I wish you a good listening!
    Dario

  • @franciscomojica6129
    @franciscomojica6129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Extraordinary performance. I think you did great honor to Scott Joplin. You should feel proud of carrying this ragtime rhythm in your blood and passing it on to future generations. Congratulations!

  • @TechHowden
    @TechHowden 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is the only version I've found that plays at the proper original speed in high quality, thanks so much for making this.

  • @sophdog1678
    @sophdog1678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "The Maple Leaf will make me the king of ragtime composers" - Scott Joplin
    Scott, you are the king. You will always be the king. Not even one person in a hundred could name any of the others. I sure can't.

    • @EwanGamingnintendoclubcouk
      @EwanGamingnintendoclubcouk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For me, Tom Brier comes extremely close

    • @oliviasenes7478
      @oliviasenes7478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@EwanGamingnintendoclubcouk really close, he literally reads sheet music in one stare lol

    • @user-zh6mh2zk4h
      @user-zh6mh2zk4h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This was the first-ever million-selling song. Available as sheet music, piano rolls, and Victrola cylanders. Crazy!

    • @brucekuehn4031
      @brucekuehn4031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This came out in 1899. Just for perspective, that was the year Duke Ellington was born.

  • @Vitaly_Koshkin
    @Vitaly_Koshkin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    браво ! просто здорово! на мой взгляд самое лучшее исполнение этой композиции многие почему то играют в более высоком темпе - не понимаю зачем? Очень ненавязчиво эмоционально и грамотно исполнено после того как услышал моментально самому захотелось выучить Спасибо

  • @99MarcC
    @99MarcC ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's so nice to hear someone not only play the song, but feel the song. I could listen to this on repeat for days.

  • @mrgrapefruit1757
    @mrgrapefruit1757 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    im 15 years old, and ive been learning this piece for about a week and just started the third second, im so excited to finish it and play it

  • @user-sp5bz2uq8b
    @user-sp5bz2uq8b หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I want the maple leaf rag played at my funeral!!😊 Because I won't be able to do it myself!!😅😅!

  • @Nickmedium
    @Nickmedium 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent, beautiful played and most enjoyable. Thank you ❤

  • @barrypope4358
    @barrypope4358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I absolutely love this. I listen to it everyday! It lifts me when I get tired and weary.

  • @lewismoss3760
    @lewismoss3760 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Especially the 3rd section. This guy makes the piano quite literally sing with passion

  • @eileenebraxton6175
    @eileenebraxton6175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    This is the best version on the Internet. Wonderfully played!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thank you very much!!

    • @brokentoedspoon
      @brokentoedspoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For sure, Super clean and neat!!

  • @nobodysbusiness8791
    @nobodysbusiness8791 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I've heard several different people play Maple Leaf Rag on TH-cam. So far this the best performance I've heard yet. I also appreciate the Steinway piano and high definition recording equipment you obviously use. Well done, sir.

    • @robinvsdk
      @robinvsdk ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He played it very well. Most people who play this miss half the notes and make it sound very messy.
      I do miss the swing, he doesn't really play it with emotion.

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed, it's really nice!!

    • @craigaungle2391
      @craigaungle2391 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      best of the best

  • @patriciaazarias5258
    @patriciaazarias5258 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have heard this version approximately 20 times. Dancing to it every time. THE BEST!!!

  • @robhughes7763
    @robhughes7763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I love the way this piece is played, I’m currently trying to learn it and always keep coming back to yours for reference, as it’s the best version on the net... sounds fantastic... thank you.

  • @CurmudgeonBoy
    @CurmudgeonBoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So beautifully played with feeling. So many people just to try show off how fast they can get through it. Brilliant and inspiring to this novice pianist.

  • @wadefite
    @wadefite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I think this is the best rendition I have heard.

  • @tensorific
    @tensorific 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The most polished rendition of this piece on all of TH-cam!

  • @hedgewizard1
    @hedgewizard1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent. My mother is dead now, but I remember when I was growing up I would hear piano music in the middle of the night. I'd come upstairs to the music room. I'd see mom playing without any lights on in the room. She she was feeling sad or stressed, she'd play from memory songs that she had learned when she was younger. One of those was the Maple Leaf Rag.
    I close my eyes as I listen to your performance and I can see her--fifty years ago. Memories are incredible things. Thank you for that memory.

  • @clasicradiolover
    @clasicradiolover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Ragtime! When I was in Elementary school we went to Carolina Beach, NC to visit some friends of my mother's. They had a player piano. Played the Entertainer and I was hooked. I got them to play it over and over. That was 46 years ago maybe.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your story is very fascinating! Ragtime, and in particular Joplin's, has a powerful magnetic force: it went out of fashion for over 20 years at the end of the nineteenth century and then returned in the 70s until today. I think it will never be forgotten and indeed I hope Scott Joplin finds the right place in music history, because I believe he is still one of the most underrated authors ever.
      Cheers

    • @michaeledwardharris
      @michaeledwardharris 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dario_Ronchi My father started playing in the 40's and got really into ragtime around the 70's. The first 18 years of my life at home were characterized by Scott Joplin blaring through the house on a nightly basis. My father is coming to my house this very weekend and I'm going to video record him playing on my piano. I can't wait to show my daughter, who has never heard him play, what a true, old school master of the piano sounds like. For the record, he sounds like you!

  • @ritchiesmall5324
    @ritchiesmall5324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It sounds just right to me - each note crisp and separate. I have never heard a better version.

  • @dankr7009
    @dankr7009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Love this rendition. It's not too fast and the notes were crisp and the pedal was just enough. I use this video to improve my own playing of this piece.

  • @user-sv2oj5um1q
    @user-sv2oj5um1q 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Scott Joplin did not want his music to be associated with bars like they are now, instead he wrote them to be beautiful pieces of classical music. The rest of the world has forgotten, but you have not. Thank you, from a 16 year old who is just a few lines into the Trio (part 3)

    • @nottinghillad
      @nottinghillad 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear a lot of Scarlatti in Joplin...

    • @rickydumas9994
      @rickydumas9994 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hardly 'classical', more an African-American polka. His intention was to lift ragtime music from its "cheap bordello" origins, to be played as written without improv. Dance music it certainly was, he even wrote a ragtime ballet - and an opera which unfortunately was lost when his possessions were seized due to an unpaid bill.

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz หลายเดือนก่อน

      Joplin wanted ragtime to be treated seriously like classical music, this is true.

  • @paulkesler1744
    @paulkesler1744 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great performance & pristine sound -- he plays every note without "slurring," yet it still swings. A winner!

  • @maulporphy4399
    @maulporphy4399 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My stepfather was an incredibly talented musician. We went to see "The Sting" in 1973 in Sacramento. We came home to the house we were renting, which had a grand piano. He sat down at it, and within 20 minutes he was playing "The Sting Theme" just as it was performed in the film.
    And the piano wasn't even his instrument. He was a guitarist.

  • @GamerGuyMatt1892
    @GamerGuyMatt1892 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely wonderful performance. Bravo 👏🏻

  • @thedealer777
    @thedealer777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It is magically invigorating when a crafted master musician plays on a masterfully crafted instrument.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      what beautiful words. Thank you very much!

  • @mathadden6209
    @mathadden6209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I have listened to many versions of this on TH-cam and this is by far my favourite. I love the tempo, the precision and the quality of the sound. So many of the others seem rushed.

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's very nice to watch and listen to, I love Scott Joplin. Beautiful music ...

  • @Beutelipper
    @Beutelipper 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Beautiful. There's a competition on the internet to see who can play the piece the fastest. Here, a wonderful pianist finally plays the piece at the correct tempo.

  • @a_blaser
    @a_blaser 6 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Wow, I love this performance. The amount of pause/slowing just before the new section at 1:48 is perfect! It really lifts and carries the listener on. Thanks for sharing.

  • @TheAvenstar
    @TheAvenstar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I have to admit it: This is the best MLR I've ever heard! Not a single embellishment. Not too fast. To prove you're human I caught a single slipped note at 2:57. Absolutely fabulous. Thanks for posting.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thank you

    • @stueyphone
      @stueyphone ปีที่แล้ว +20

      The wrong note sounds kinda nice

    • @chund.s.9730
      @chund.s.9730 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stueyphone agree

    • @aidenduval1492
      @aidenduval1492 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@stueyphone beauty of rag my friend

    • @T-J-S
      @T-J-S 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@stueyphoneTrue

  • @rattywoof5259
    @rattywoof5259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brilliant articulation, every note spot on, total clarity - he lets the music speak for itself. Terrific performance.

  • @user-sp5bz2uq8b
    @user-sp5bz2uq8b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah, best I've ever heard! Wish I could play like that ❤😊😊!! Joplin would have agreed 💯!!

  • @frithjof1690
    @frithjof1690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am 16 years old an during quarantine i didn't know what to do so I played the piano for a very long time every day.
    And now I am finally able to play this beautiful rag time.
    I listen to this version of it to know how it should sound and I just love it.

  • @ericandsarahsmom1000
    @ericandsarahsmom1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've listened to other performances of this piece, and I always come back to this one. The lovely tone of the Steinway is another reason. Marvelous, Dario!

  • @jameslapham4326
    @jameslapham4326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I truly enjoyed this performance. It is genuinely a celebration of this marvelous piece, not just a chance for the pianist to show off. Thank you, Mr. Ronchi.

  • @Schmoityface
    @Schmoityface 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Why all the down-votes?! This is fabulous.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      So many thanks!

    • @harvv5706
      @harvv5706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      fair point,is played well,dont feel very rag to me but is still good

    • @pandapirate25yearsago33
      @pandapirate25yearsago33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      r/thisisnotreddit
      r/she'sgotapoint

    • @tylerking2554
      @tylerking2554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Dario_Ronchi I love you

    • @funnyuser2796
      @funnyuser2796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      says the redditor

  • @emilybunker3715
    @emilybunker3715 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a beautiful performance; and the dynamics amazing

  • @tamasjambor6750
    @tamasjambor6750 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gut, gut, ich mag dies Lied! Danke, dass du es mit uns verteilt hast!

  • @joshslater2426
    @joshslater2426 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:49 It’s just so satisfying and empowering when the piano kicks in with full force. Excellent cover mate.

    • @hjm5885
      @hjm5885 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      exciting !

  • @TL8311-j6x
    @TL8311-j6x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you Dario Ronchi. This is my favorite recording of Maple Leaf Rag.

  • @oracleoracle2655
    @oracleoracle2655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Loved it. My favorite rendition of this tune. Have not heard any other version I like as well as this one. Excellent!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much!

    • @johne6081
      @johne6081 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to take anything whatsoever away from this fine performance, but if you like it, check out Joshua Rifkin and Cory Hall, my other two favorite interpreters of MLR.

  • @phyllispetras2181
    @phyllispetras2181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    HAVE to come back here often!!!!!!!

  • @markharvey573
    @markharvey573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In a word, sublime.

  • @carlad2346
    @carlad2346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow! Well done!

  • @oracleoracle2655
    @oracleoracle2655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent! This is how ragtime should be played...not too fast, with that great base. Absolutely love this version.

  • @jeff31xx
    @jeff31xx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Simply fantastic. Definitely the most beautiful rendition I've ever heard of this song as others have commented. I could watch your hands stride those keys for hours, and the Steinway sound is glorious. Scott would be all smiles I'm sure. Do post more Joplin covers. Great job!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! Ok in my next videos there will be Joplin again 😉

  • @zakaryjaynicholls9867
    @zakaryjaynicholls9867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is beautiful, very crisp and clean, performance of a ragtime classic. A lot of easy to miss notes are very audible, an excellent performance all round.

  • @daboriginz8896
    @daboriginz8896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Listening to it always gets me chocked up, great piece of music !!

  • @davidmckenzie420
    @davidmckenzie420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I taught myself piano back in the 70's, just so I'd be able to play this great song. I practiced it for a solid year. And one day, I played it with only 2 mistakes. I felt such a victory...Bucket list item, I guess, as I didn't continue to pursue the piano...Anyway, what a talent Joplin was!

  • @superdot36
    @superdot36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    An excellent version. Cero improvisation. Wow! One of the best I have heard.

  • @guillaumebarbier-pestourie18
    @guillaumebarbier-pestourie18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wondefully played and what a melody!!!

  • @rodrigodies7953
    @rodrigodies7953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THE BEST!!!!!! I can hear every note and the perfect ensemble in the perfect timing!

  • @michelleterblanche5636
    @michelleterblanche5636 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My bucket list is to this. Beautifully done Dario, I listen to this over and over

  • @maryrubin9072
    @maryrubin9072 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Superb! This is the best I've heard! Most recordings sound like someone banging out notes, adhering to an unnaturally rapid tempo, with no phrasing or idea where the music is headed except to the end! You take your time to enjoy the ride, and I love the humor in your phrasing! To me it almost sounds like old friends reminiscing about their times together - reliving the moments and laughing! I just love this!!

  • @gregmann8981
    @gregmann8981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I can't count the times I've heard well meaning artists obliterate this piece. FINALLY, an artist who gets across the feeling that Scott Joplin was trying to convey. Well done maestro!

    • @saskaleb
      @saskaleb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      did you hear the reconrding of joplin playing? nothing to compare; this guy is too slow and too carefull for rag

    • @gregmann8981
      @gregmann8981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@saskaleb Sorry but you're outnumbered here bud.

    • @ramalhuseynov4312
      @ramalhuseynov4312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gregmann8981 Outnumbered doesn’t mean wrong

    • @gregmann8981
      @gregmann8981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ramalhuseynov4312 If you like to bask in the delusion of having some special insight or quality that everyone else in here who commented doesn't possess then yeah, you're right, we're all wrong.

    • @ramalhuseynov4312
      @ramalhuseynov4312 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gregmann8981 Never said he is correct but just because someone is outnumbered doesn’t mean they are necessarily wrong

  • @nathanpgraf
    @nathanpgraf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Clearly, this man is a professional pianist. He must have a degree in music from Juilliard in New York or the Royal Academy in London. Maple Leaf Rag is not a piece that a novice or amateur can simply perform. This performance is concert hall worthy and it sent shivers down my spine.

  • @draexian530
    @draexian530 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love a well played old rag. It'll brighten every day. Props to you, and Mr. Joplin.

  • @Harryebo6094
    @Harryebo6094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Takes me back to 70's, my parents used to play Scott Joplin Piano Rags played by Joshua Rifkin. Thanks Dario for the trip down memory lane.

  • @MrSteeeevo
    @MrSteeeevo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The down votes are people who thought they could play this well, and then watched this clip. Brilliant!!

  • @1Rocketman62
    @1Rocketman62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is the music that I grew up on. This is how my late father played this. Truly brings a tear to my eye. My father gave up playing after he had a stroke.

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Your words really moved me. I dedicate this piece to you, your father and all people who love and have loved music with heart and soul.
      Greetings from Italy.
      Dario

  • @daverose4789
    @daverose4789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You can really hear the superb articulation at this tempo. Perfect. Stunning performance in every way :-)

  • @stevenkkh
    @stevenkkh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like the each single note you play. So clear, no-missed and briliant!

  • @giginigro
    @giginigro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mamma mia, perfetta! Bravissimo la sento almeno 10 volte al giorno. Super

  • @QuandtHenderson
    @QuandtHenderson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Magnificent piano and perfectly tuned and voiced. Wonderful rendition, excellent performance!

  • @islaadele1212
    @islaadele1212 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I've only ever heard this played quicker, but I think I prefer this tempo. You have more time to appreciate little textural ripples that fly by otherwise. Very crisp.

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The version played by Joplin himself clocks in at 2:46, but I like this tempo better, maybe because the joy lasts longer!

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CorePathway Joplin never recorded this tune.

  • @silvanozorzenon4286
    @silvanozorzenon4286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Un interpretazione perfetta come tempo ritmica sfumature di suono di un brano famoso non facile da capire e rendere nello spirito dell'epoca senza farsi travolgere come spesso accade da eccessi di velocità a discapito della qualità

  • @andrewshaver5800
    @andrewshaver5800 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ragtime has such a distinct sound. Wonderful performance, Dario. Bravo!

  • @user-sp5bz2uq8b
    @user-sp5bz2uq8b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazing to think Joplin wrote his rags on a basic upright piano! What would he have thought listening to it played on a grand piano?? It's a shame really but great credit to ronchi and marvin hamlisch for keeping his music alive today!! Most of today's artist's are plonkers who can't even read a note 🎵 of music and use the piano as a prop!! True ragtime will never die because of Scott Joplin, simple.❤❤😊😊!

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Joplin had access to grands I'm pretty sure.

    • @user-sp5bz2uq8b
      @user-sp5bz2uq8b หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@PiotrBarczI suppose so but still incredible!!

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-sp5bz2uq8b Indeed!

  • @robinlawrence2438
    @robinlawrence2438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Definitely the best performance of Maple Leaf Rag I have ever heard! Please keep uploading! Love it, love it, love it!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So many thanks!! 😊😊 keep on following me. Cheers

  • @bazookachicken_
    @bazookachicken_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "One rag to rule them all, one rag to chime them, one rag to rule them all and in the music bind them."

  • @derekdaniels8649
    @derekdaniels8649 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A truly virtuoso performance! This is by far the best rendition of the Maple Leaf Rag I've ever heard. Congratulations Dario!

    • @MRHEY
      @MRHEY ปีที่แล้ว

      virtuosa

  • @cfmpam498230
    @cfmpam498230 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think Scott Joplin is the grandfather of American music as since his time all American artists have used his music in their songs with everything from blues, country, pop & rock !!! If your old enough you can pick out at least 6 segments of maple leaf rag alone that has been in numerous songs you have heard over the decades and that is just one of his songs !!!

  • @Deodrix
    @Deodrix 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 4th grade in the 90s, my teacher was the best. She'd play this song often, and play guitar as well. Lots of old folk songs I realize I was lucky to have heard at such a young age.

  • @joeyb4ever
    @joeyb4ever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The subtleties in timing really make this version special.

  • @susanbooth2717
    @susanbooth2717 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    If this is not tickling the ivories, nothing is...beautiful!

    • @Dario_Ronchi
      @Dario_Ronchi  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you very much for all your kind words! Cheers

    • @Hollyhock7
      @Hollyhock7 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tell me about it ♡

  • @christophertyus3112
    @christophertyus3112 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I like the way that he plays one of my favorite Scott Joplin ragtime pieces!

  • @eitanschapiro2692
    @eitanschapiro2692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very good played amazing very pleasant to listen to