Yo, heres a question, why is it when asians do western culture, they do it so well, but when westerners do asian culture its basiclly a room full of incel guys with gingervitus arguing over cartoon images of women on pillows?
Hey! I love Ravel. I've always found his music and this piece to be very dreamy. His music feels fantastic/otherworldly and it transports me somewhere else when I listen. I don't always think of "dreamy" in the sense of something attractive or peaceful, but more so in how it is very immersive, strange, and linked to the subconscious.
Ya it sounds dreamy waltz-like but the underlying tones actually refer to something like a famine which is why they make the ending so brutal and violent and also the atonal stuff scattered around the piece
@@phyllispetras3369 His is very good. I like both. That is more intense and feels more like a dance macabre instead of a waltz. I think both capture Ravel's intention but in different ways.
This video reminds me of that video where the student goes into math class late and sees two problems on the board and assumes they are homework. He then goes home and eventually solves them. The professor later tells him this was not homework, but instead were previously unsolved problems.
Such tremendous articulation and phrasing! Following the score with my eyes is not easy let alone playing this on the piano. Ravel would have been so much pleased to hear Seongjin play La Valse like this.
Wow unbelievably well played and not to mention that a lot of effort must have gone into deciding which bits of the additional instruments could be added in. This is a performance of the highest standard to say the least.
It’s wild to imagine that he also has an orchestra version of this. Especially considering how it was performed here. Like what do you MEAAAN? Amazing job
This music is so magnetic and engaging because of Ravel's harmony blending of broken chords and the melody sounds romantic and sensual. Started studying the piece but with separate hands coz its really difficult😃😰
Knowing that this was supposed to be a dance, and the change to society around him had to be very much on his mind, that despite Ravel rejecting idiomatic interpretation of this piece, I think there is something idiomatic in it, that being the Waltz as the heartbeat of life.
Honestly wondering how this pianist was able to play those glissandi ossias simultaneously with what is written for both hands, as I thought it was physically impossible to do so.
I've heard this piece is supposed to represent the by gone era of aristocratic parties with waltzes and pleasure music, the solo piano transcription helps with that aspect imo
The first four notes of the middle voice are four 8ths in the time of 3, then the remaining three are in the usual time. Two bars later, the middle voice has three 8ths in the time of 2 for each beat. Could the composer have been a teensy bit more explicit? Perhaps so, but when you make an keyboard arrangement of one of your biggest pieces, you're allowed to presume some degree of familiarity - that is, no one would play this without having heard the orchestral version.
Who did compose this piano score of Ravel’s La Valse?? As I know, Ravel composed orchestra version La Valse, and then someone made this piano score, not Ravel. c.u.r.i.o.u.s lol
I know exactly what the struggle is like when you are young and trying to push your boundaries. I would best recommend to give this piece a shot and if it doesn't go well for the first time you can give it another go any time in the future. I would also recommend you to practice other works by ravel (like the mirroirs; nr. 1,2,4and 5( nr 3 is the most unaccessable );and le tombeau de couperin) and etudes/preludes by impressionist and romantic composers. If you really want to put effort into improving your technique and interpretation skill give the Chopin etudes and preludes a try. They helped me a lot on my journey as a pianist. Another composer which really helps with getting music like ravels straight and tidy is rachmaninoff. If you're ready you can always try his etudes tableaux and preludes. They really help a lot when approaching more challenging music with complex harmonies since liszt, Chopin etc. are more simple in that regard. Good luck on learning this piece and with your future projects. Hope this advice helps.
Sebastian Müller thanks for the advice mate, although I’m 18, I’ve still got a lot to learn, I’ll try my best at some etudes and preludes. Which etudes do you recommend to learn technuiqes that’ll help me in the future? I know basicly all are important, but which ones are most? Thanks
Ravel: writing a schizophrenic, tonally-unstable ending to the waltz
Also Ravel: haha lets return to d major in the last two bars
PAM PAM PAM PAM POM!
@@Mingled_RiverOWO real
Even though the ending is in plain D major, it doesn't sound consonant to me at all, thanks to the absolute HYSTERIA from the previous bars lmao.
Probably the greatest young pianist of our time.
true, also Yunchan Lim
Yo, heres a question, why is it when asians do western culture, they do it so well, but when westerners do asian culture its basiclly a room full of incel guys with gingervitus arguing over cartoon images of women on pillows?
🤡
@@A5hais that you buddy?
If you play this backwards, It's the entire history of the universe from the Big Bang to the Heat Death
the way the voices, sometimes so many, fit together so well is astonishing.
I cannot believe that he played it like this at the age of seventeen!
Just amazing!
What?! Seventeen?!
Damn I'm almost 17 and I was just thinking that doing this at 25 would be life goals
Wow!
@@sebastianboeddinghaus3505 I felt that
bruhhh
Most elegant and emotional waltz.
악보를 보면서 들어도 모르겠네요 저는..ㅜㅜㅜ 대체 저걸 어떻게 저렇게 들리게 치는 걸까요 정말 신비롭단 생각이..ㅠㅠㅠㅠ 호그와트가 따로 없어.......
Incredibly difficult to play. Well done.
Incredibly difficult to read let alone play David. he did well. cathy
Looking at tht start i wont attempt. Those are hard lead in notes
Ouch, I was just listening to this interpretation to see if I could play it, but definitely not unfortunately XD
This is simply the greatest performance of this piece.
This pianist and that piano are a great combo
Add ravel and you’ll have ultimated the combo
Ok
@@vine2197 Ok
이 때도 였구나... 라벨 연주할 때 돋보이는 특유의 천재성...🙏
I love this. So dreamy..
This piece not dreamy at all if you know what it's talking about......
Hey! I love Ravel. I've always found his music and this piece to be very dreamy. His music feels fantastic/otherworldly and it transports me somewhere else when I listen. I don't always think of "dreamy" in the sense of something attractive or peaceful, but more so in how it is very immersive, strange, and linked to the subconscious.
Ya it sounds dreamy waltz-like but the underlying tones actually refer to something like a famine which is why they make the ending so brutal and violent and also the atonal stuff scattered around the piece
Yes... a nice dream where you’re eating all these delicious fresh pies and halfway through you realize you’re in the plot for Sweeney Todd.
@@clarissa_gutierrez Ahh great play!
best interpretation i've ever heard
Glenn Gould !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY favorite is yuja wangs, yes i know she’s overrated but her performance of this piece is staggering
T
@@vine2197 h
@@phyllispetras3369 His is very good. I like both. That is more intense and feels more like a dance macabre instead of a waltz. I think both capture Ravel's intention but in different ways.
This video reminds me of that video where the student goes into math class late and sees two problems on the board and assumes they are homework. He then goes home and eventually solves them. The professor later tells him this was not homework, but instead were previously unsolved problems.
One of the hardest transcriptions ever written after 1920
Such tremendous articulation and phrasing! Following the score with my eyes is not easy let alone playing this on the piano. Ravel would have been so much pleased to hear Seongjin play La Valse like this.
grammar nazi
It's grammar :)
Crazy colors, I love this, sometimes it sounds like early Sorabji, WOW! ❤❤❤
Wow unbelievably well played and not to mention that a lot of effort must have gone into deciding which bits of the additional instruments could be added in. This is a performance of the highest standard to say the least.
Marvellous ! I could barely breath during the eleven and a half minutes.
1:44
I am melting.. wow
This may be a matter of personal preference but I literally can't find a more beautiful performance of this piece.
Yes... so inspiring... absolutely incredible. And only 18.
This reminds a lot of Friedrich J. Krüger's prelude in D flat Major. Truly an outstanding performance!
OMG! This is the definitive interpretation of this most exciting composition. Bravo senor!
FFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@phyllispetras3369fortississimo
조성진은 진짜 레전드다
진짜 전설이다..
I understand what he said.
가슴이 웅장해진다...
@@yuchanbot 아 개웃기넼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
That is so explosive of playing the lowest A and Bb on the piano suddenly in the middle section
3:27, I agree
I saw an unexpected performance of this at my university and my goodness, it was so spectacular. I had never heard the piece before. I was in shock.
It’s wild to imagine that he also has an orchestra version of this. Especially considering how it was performed here. Like what do you MEAAAN?
Amazing job
This music is so magnetic and engaging because of Ravel's harmony blending of broken chords and the melody sounds romantic and sensual. Started studying the piece but with separate hands coz its really difficult😃😰
It's a masterpiece
Best Ravel La Valse for sure 🎉
"Bravo!"
Mind-blowing
Loved how you posted the piano transcription along with the music. I can visualize his performance this way better. Good work!
My favorite Ravel piece for sure
Just after Ondine.
Yesisi
Introduction and Allegro
My second favorite after le tombeau de couperin
my second favorite after the Concerto for the left hand (and the Valses nobles)
blows my mind every time
어떤 곡을 쳐도 완성도가 높구나! 라발스는 제대로 치는 피아니스트 몇 명 안되는 듯~특히 더블 연주는 각자 쿵쾅거리고 시끄러워서 저런곡이 맞나싶을정도...
조성진연주를 들으니 너무나 매력적인 곡
Incredible feat in sound and color
Thanks for uploading!
3:27 is like a jump scare in music...
PUUM TARATATARATATARATSTSTSUVSPDNCPDMKXODD PUM AAAAAAAOOOOOOOAAAAS AAAAOOOOOA HJSIGOA FV
FFFFF
ppp
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF BASS NOTES DRDRDERDRDRRDR
wow~~ so amazing
WOW!
집에 앉아서 공짜로 성진님 연주를 듣다니 감개무량하네요..
라벨의 라 발스에서 왈츠 느낌을 이렇게 뽑아내다니
정말 신의 경지에요….
3:38 my favorite moment
The chromatic bass is beautiful (at around 3:45)
아 미치게좋으네❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥✨✨✨
Pure magic!
레전드인듯
Tremendo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravooooooooo!!!!!!
Holy moly thats how you do it
That deserves a fucking like
Bravo!
goals
the intro reminds me of the beginning of Rachmaninoffs Piano concerto 3 cadenza!
3:27, 5:50, 9:30
Found you.
Found you.
yup he definetly needs a big bravo
같은 해 조성진의 한달 전 연주 영상을 본 후 이 연주 들어보니 이게 좋네요. 실황 연주는 아니고 녹음이지만 백혜선의 라 발스도 꼭 들어보세요.
one day...maybe one day!
Although it’s obviously not as good as the original version (orchestral), it’s still an outstanding transcription from the legendary composer.
6:10
9:35 글리산도
I feel like I'm hearing a hallucination
3:56 is Pure Imagination
Knowing that this was supposed to be a dance, and the change to society around him had to be very much on his mind, that despite Ravel rejecting idiomatic interpretation of this piece, I think there is something idiomatic in it, that being the Waltz as the heartbeat of life.
This is what I imagine Tchaikovsky would sound like if he had lived a century later.
Ravel was born 35 years after Tchaikovsky
@@LeoArtoni3 EXATO
If he had... uh... let's say he wouldn't be Tchaikovsky anymore, ok?
And people say flight of the bumblebee is the hardest piece… Pfft.
I played it in 5th grade.. i dont know what some people are really thinking lmao
@@visveee6678 i thought you meant la valse for a sec lol
So ture
To even mention flight of the bumblebee is ridiculous in itself
Alkan's le preux is the hardest piece on earth!
Best part is 10:24
Honestly wondering how this pianist was able to play those glissandi ossias simultaneously with what is written for both hands, as I thought it was physically impossible to do so.
How can someone even play the 3:33 and 3:44 glissandos while also playing the chords
8:36 How do you play that tremolo at that speed?
wow...............
Learn from 2:16
역시 조성진이랑 임동혁이 최고닼ㅋㅋㅋ
Agree
How does he play the beginning so quickly and softly?
...?
Practice
Youth and untainted mind.
Not yet too limited by harsh reality.
Advice on trying to play tremolo at 8:35?
yes use ur fingers
watch the video of him playing it- he doesn't play all of the second chord.
How does he play the beginning so quickly and softly?
I've heard this piece is supposed to represent the by gone era of aristocratic parties with waltzes and pleasure music, the solo piano transcription helps with that aspect imo
1:45~2:23
Having heard this, I forgive Ravel for his Bolero.
He doesn't need your forgiveness
@Brigitta Freya No, I abuse a piano sometimes (and I write a little music myself - see youtube)
@@peabrane8067 You're absolutely right, but I forgive him anyway.
@@CuriosusSum Bolero was just an exercise or compositional exercise lol, we should all forgive him
Lol
8:36 Is this part required for 3 hands or what?!
1:54
3:33 How on earth do you play that glissando? Even ignoring the fact that it's a chromatic glissando, don't you have those other chords in the way?
2:20
10:37
10:14 _The Simpsons_ theme.
The guy saying “bravo” at the end is so pick me
My response after my mom told me to clean your keyboard: 9:43
😂
❤❤❤
Those difficult chords can drive the listener to madness. Impressionistic music is modern music and conveys a foggy window where images look blurred😐
@@jaeminko4286 Well, it's a waltz. That should be self-explainatory.
On the second bar of the lower system at 0:41, is that meant to be a septuplet?
The first four notes of the middle voice are four 8ths in the time of 3, then the remaining three are in the usual time. Two bars later, the middle voice has three 8ths in the time of 2 for each beat. Could the composer have been a teensy bit more explicit? Perhaps so, but when you make an keyboard arrangement of one of your biggest pieces, you're allowed to presume some degree of familiarity - that is, no one would play this without having heard the orchestral version.
I honestly don't know how Cho manages those ossia-lines. Does he have a third arm, or what?
9:35
10:40
How do you play the part with 3 staffs and the chromatic scale ? You only have two hands...
From what I understand, they're possibly optional lines you can try to incorporate into the performance ? Correct me if I'm wrong....
@@utternonsense1998 Yep, they are.
@@utternonsense1998 actually I knew that, but I've tried just that passage and I don't know how to manage it between both hands
"Bravo" lol
Damn, more difficult than Islamey and Scarbo if you want to ask me.
#ugottalisten2b4udie
By 1906, the composer had drafted a symphonic poem entitled “Vienne,” but only returned to his initial sketches after the conclusion of his military service in 1918. By then, the impresario Serge Diaghilev asked Ravel to write La Valse for the Ballets Russes, to be featured on the same program as Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Ravel introduced the finished composition to Diaghilev in a version for two-pianos in 1920. The composer described the work in the following way: “Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees at letter A an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the fortissimo letter B. Set in an imperial court, about 1855.” For one reason or another - probably stemming from an earlier disagreement over Daphnis et Chloé - Diaghilev was not impressed and rejected the work. He refused to have it choreographed, and Stravinsky who was also present, maintained absolute silence.© 2019 Interlude All Rights Reserved
Omg
정말 궁금한게 있는데 외국에서는 라벨 작품을 많이 다뤄도 이 곡은 많이 안 다루던데 왜 우리나라에서는 라 발스가 라벨의 대표곡처럼 간주되죠?
@@jihachoi9924 아하 그렇군요..긴 답글 남겨주셔서 감사합니다!
4:47 keep going
Beethoven
09:42 WTF
10:53 W T F
@@vine2197 WTF
*B*
*A*
*S*
*S*
@@paolo6219 BANK WTF
Who did compose this piano score of Ravel’s La Valse?? As I know, Ravel composed orchestra version La Valse, and then someone made this piano score, not Ravel. c.u.r.i.o.u.s lol
ia eud it was ravel that made this transcription (the piano version) too :)
I am so inspired by this Valse brilliante. That I transcript it.
I really want to play this piece but...I’m only 15 :( I feel like I wont be able to do this beautiful piece justice
Mily Balakirev thanks for the advice!
I know exactly what the struggle is like when you are young and trying to push your boundaries. I would best recommend to give this piece a shot and if it doesn't go well for the first time you can give it another go any time in the future. I would also recommend you to practice other works by ravel (like the mirroirs; nr. 1,2,4and 5( nr 3 is the most unaccessable );and le tombeau de couperin) and etudes/preludes by impressionist and romantic composers. If you really want to put effort into improving your technique and interpretation skill give the Chopin etudes and preludes a try. They helped me a lot on my journey as a pianist. Another composer which really helps with getting music like ravels straight and tidy is rachmaninoff. If you're ready you can always try his etudes tableaux and preludes. They really help a lot when approaching more challenging music with complex harmonies since liszt, Chopin etc. are more simple in that regard. Good luck on learning this piece and with your future projects. Hope this advice helps.
Sebastian Müller thanks for the advice mate, although I’m 18, I’ve still got a lot to learn, I’ll try my best at some etudes and preludes. Which etudes do you recommend to learn technuiqes that’ll help me in the future? I know basicly all are important, but which ones are most? Thanks
Mily Balakirev And then there is me, not even being able to play Jeux d'eau with 15 :(.
I'm 13 and I really want to play this piece....but I just don't want to ruin it.