I never would have thought that anything could surpass Itzhak Perlman’s performance of this!!! I thought a piano really didn’t show the depth of emotion and touch the soul as deeply as the violin, just as I feel the violin can’t compare to the piano for Claire de Lune, but you proved me wrong!!! (I’d LOVE to hear you perform that) You are an Artist, a true one of a kind Master who has touched all of us with your heart, passion, brilliant skills.....your music is like Valium for my body and mind. I too, have played this over and over! Keep up your beautiful videos, your music is like beautiful poetry, sure wish you you did live performances
Jane, you are so so so kind! Thank you so much for this! I'd never think of comparing myself to Itzhak Perlman... something I've actually mentioned to people in person is how much this pieces sings through him and his violin, and I could only hope that I captured a fraction of that spirit. I do perform once in a while... in fact I have two concerts in the Phoenix area this month! But no, I don't yet play outside of Phoenix (where I live) very often. I'd love to!
Charles Szczepanek You are to the piano what Itzhak Perlman is to the violin!!!! I never thought the emotion in that song could be translated and interpreted to the piano with such depth of emotion as the way you do it. My grandfather was a Hungarian Jew and this song means so much to me. I listen to many violinists and pianists on line and you are the virtuoso of them all!! Well, now I know I can purchase your work which I’m thrilled about! I will check to see if you are performing next time we’re in Arizona. We would love to see you perform live . My husband and I listened to your beautiful Christmas song arrangements last night. What a gift you have, which is then a gift to all of us which you so kindly share!! May we reciprocate by supporting you and also by purchasing your work!! Thanks again for sharing your art !
Thanks again, so much, Jane! I'd be very interested to hear your grandfather's story. From what I know, most of my family immigrated to the States just prior to WWI, but there's no way for us to really tell anymore because of so many records missing... Shameless plug... I have a Patreon page where some of the most interested people can keep in touch with me. Those patrons helped to fund this entire video. Check out the page here: www.patreon.com/charlesszczepanek I'll also send you a complimentary copy of my new album (CD or digital download) if you sign up! In any case, I thank you for watching and writing such a beautiful note. Looking forward to keeping in touch through music!
I recently watched Schindler's list for the first time. The situation was beyond horrible but Schindler saving 1200 Jews and them being so grateful made me weep. I have never been so deeply touched by a movie.
Father God through Jesus Christ gave me the gift of music, for typical players they wouldn't be banging the keyboards like you did. Is it true that one of your ancestors and or your loved one's ancestors have been the victim of Auschwitz concentration camp? If so then thank you on expressing your anger out loud, bc that's also my anger if I was to play on the piano.
@@FatBellyChemist1234 Because my ancestors came from Poland and Alsace-Lorraine there's a very high likelihood that someone in the bloodline was a victim, but we aren't sure as most or all of the family records were destroyed during the war. Was a family member of yours a victim of the Holocaust?
@@CharlesSzczepanek I am deeply sorry to hear this, from what I am aware is that no, because I'm nostly Chinese but I do have European ancestry too, mainly German and Italian. From what you're playing of piano you did express your ancestor's anger even your very distant relative's anger, sadness, depression, physical and mental trauma, bc it wasn't addressed properly at the time. Good on you for doing that justice for victims, more is needed I think. What I know is that my bf's grandpa was deeply affected by one of the nazi party member did curse him and his 1st borns and their relationships, including marriages, friendships and financial stuff; one of the curses was that the 1st born had to do prostitution to get rid of excess bills ; the other curse was the 1st borns to live less than 50 to 70 y.o. So when my bf told me his I was deeply furious, I felt Father God's great anger. So the issue was addressed, by breaking all those curses in Jesus' mighty name.
I agree totally. I swear, I don't think that I have ever felt a piano "weep" like it does here. I don't simply mean sadness. If musical instruments are an analog of the human voice, then it also follows that under a practiced hand, they can be an analog of the human spirit as well.
Every time I watch you play this, I start crying. Your arrangement reminds me a little of Chopin's "Revolutionary" etude (use of the arpeggios and the pre-note trills). GREAT arrangement!!
When I rewatch Schindlers List, I always come back to this variation of it. The way you play the piano for this song is absolutely wonderful, it would be amazing to hear you play this in person.
After all this time, this remains my favourite version of this melody..and also my favourite piece of all time. I can't explain in words the level of emotions that this song brings me. For over a year.. I've been listening to this masterpiece every day. It is for me a relief, a place of comfort. The beauty and the story behind ,all the little details, the depth, the way it all conects together is just incredible..again undescribable in words. And the way this is all performed..the level of work..dedication, the hundreds of hours spent behind this 5 minutes of art. I hope this reaches you, Mr Charles. I can't thank you enough..all my respect!
Thanks so much for this, Valerius! I'm glad that all of the effort that you so aptly recognize in your comment has been paying off for you and for many others. The best reward is knowing my music (and video in this case as well) has moved people. Thank you for sharing how you feel!
What makes the blood flow is the heart, let the heart move is the note. Listening to your piano playing quietly is a kind of listening enjoyment. Thank you very much for sharing your happiness!
Wooow! I think that I heard all variations of this Amazing melody! As a Jewish I wanna tell you that all perished and victims of this unbelievable tragedy are proud of you also from the sky. My tears can’t stop! God will bless you and your family!
I was impressed to find so much passion, pain and longing in this piece. I heard it many times but never with such a performance. It brings up all my unhealed wounds.
Luke, thank you! That’s such high praise, especially from another pianist and composer! This was my first arrangement of music from movies; I wrote it at the beginning of my “Keys to the Cinema” project. I only have videos for a handful, but you can listen to the entire album on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/album/1loDgaUhBDopVy0yBcbSpv?si=CHeLKl0nRWKsPn12teHAFA
АХ!!! БРАВО!!! БРАВО!!! БРАВИССИМО!!! ВЫ МЕНЯ СРАЗИЛИ ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНОЙ ИГРОЙ!!! Я ТЕПЕРЬ ВЕЧНАЯ ВАША ПОКЛОННИЦА!!! ЖЕЛАЮ ВАМ КРЕПКОГО ЗДОРОВЬЯ И ТВОРЧЕСКОГО ВДОХНОВЕНИЯ!!!
Listening to this on repeat not just for its beauty and humanity, but so that I can be reminded myself how important it is and what a POWERFUL impact it makes to stay faithful with the technical work year after year! Best piano version of this piece I've ever heard! Now come on John, let us all have access to it!!! :)
In the beginning I thought "well this rendition is just like all the others" but man was I wrong.. When the intro was over, and you really got going, I was blown away! By far my favourite rendition of this masterpiece so far!
I absolutely love the theatricals with this! The black and white sets the gravitas of the piece. You are a bit of an enigma Charles, on the one hand you make it look effortless and on the other the passion overwhelms. Oooooh spine tingling.
@@CharlesSzczepanek I think you misunderstood me Charles, I wasn't implying there was no effort put in to this marvelous piece. What I was trying to say was that you play so skilfully, you make it look easy to play, which of course it isn't. Also making the sound irresistible to the ear is more than knowing the notes, it's about the sound pouring out from your heart down to the fingers and lighting up the keys like fireworks. That is what you do, which is why I love listening and more still watching your hands fly over the keys. Listening to music should transport us out of our heads into magic and that's what you manage to do, thank you.
Oh my God, this is the most beautiful, emotional, soulful piano playing I ever heard and see, thank you so much for this amazing and inspiring work, I just can't find the words that I can describe, you're so talented and gifted with the most beautiful music instrument on the planet ❤
This song makes my heart ache like no other. The reality of what happened back then starts to hit and I feel more appreciation for the life I have and regret for those that had to suffer. All I can do is pray that God takes us all to Him sooner rather than later. Thank you for this piece. You've certainly done it justice.
What an intense feeling... a beautiful arrangement, gorgeously interpreted. You have made what was already perfect reach an unimagined level... as if one of those impossible and fantastic melodies that one hears in dreams would come true...
Guillermo, thanks so much for this! You are too kind, but I super appreciate it. It's so difficult to do justice to a piece originally for orchestra and the incredible Itzhak Perlman.
@@CharlesSzczepanek - Of course, the original is simply amazing, but the arrangement you've made is quite astonishing... as a matter of fact, it is beyond words. If John Williams could hear your version would say the same than me at least, if not, he would drop a tear of joy... I just play this masterpiece of yours over and over, because I just can't stop enjoying this deep emotion. Thanks.
@@CharlesSzczepanek - I have to add something else (because I can't stop myself, hope you may forgive me)... I hear your performance over and over again and I keep enjoying the way you've made the single original melody a complete story as if the entire film could be seen but only by listening to your utterly gorgeous notes... The original version with Itzhak Perlman is pure feeling, yes, but you've made a very varied carousel of emotions, and not everyone can do that just with a few arrangements to the original melody... I take my hat off for that.
@@CharlesSzczepanek - Well, not everyone certainly, because it is a situation of animic and cultural empathy, but, there will always be those who enjoy something so refined and tasteful. Thanks to you.
It is said that the world is not so big that people do not meet in it. I have now met an artist who has appealed to me so much that I will seek out his other artistic renditions. Thank you very much. You are a master at opening hearts!
I don't know how many times I have already listened to this masterpiece. Every single time it's just breathtaking the feelings you create through the harmony between your piano playing and the video. I can't really even put it into words. Please keep up your work and thank you for sharing this with us.
@@СветланаКупреева-и8г Я использую Google Translate, чтобы помочь. в моем первом комментарии я сказал: «Большое вам спасибо! Я рад, что вам это понравилось!
Charles - what an awesome arrangement and so passionately played on the phenomenal Mason & Hamlin BB! And the B&W video vignette produced up at the Mason & Hamlin Piano Factory in Haverhill, MA just came out perfectly. Bravo!
Jason, thanks so much! A room we've both been in, but looks so much different with the props and in black and white! The Burgetts really hit a home run directing and shooting this with me.
Сыграно просто на высочайшем уровне. У Вас должно быть больше подписчиков - несправедливо, что их мало) Когда Д.Вильямса пригласил С.Спилберг написать музыку к фильму, тот сказал, что нужен лучший композитор, на что Спилберг сказал: "Знаю, но они все уже умерли"... Величайший фильм и музыка к нему. Я с Украины и эта песня разбивает мое сердце как и в 2009 году, когда я впервые увидел этот фильм. Спасибо за эмоции и великолепное исполнение.
Thank you so much for this, John! Are you still living in Ukraine? My heart goes out to everyone who has been suffering and living in fear for so long now.
@@CharlesSzczepanek да, я остался в Украине и никуда не уезжал. Тут моя земля и все, что мне дорого. И я верю в пословицу: "Тот, кому суждено утонуть - не сгорит".
Every time I listen to this, I get more and more Mesmerized by your Artistry, so Beautiful and your power you display on that Mason and Hamlin Grand is Incredible. @@CharlesSzczepanek
a true aficionado, your interpretation of the movie, is quite outstanding and is a credit to you and the whole production team. An inspiration to any budding pianist.
I could not stop crying! Emotional, 1000 per Cent. 100, doesn't go there!! What A Star YOU ARE!!! It was beautiful, just wanted to say that!!!! Saw the film, and yes, was in tears. And yes, John Williams would be so proud of you!!!
@@CharlesSzczepanek thank you so much for coming back to me. It was a hard film to watch, and emotional to say the least. Take care and I would love to hear some more of your work. ❤️
@@nigelwatson2756 Thanks! I upload something new about once a month... they can't all be so cinematic in video style, but I do what I can! I'm hoping to get up to about 1 every week or so by the end of the year.
Wow ,simply wow. I'm astounded at the beauty and showmanship yet it has an air of grace ,which leads to vigour and tension so beautifully and touchingly felt by my heart. I definitely want to learn this piece
Very compelling, beautifully performed and captured. Your talent and skill are unmistakeable. I wish our schedules would've lined up in such a way that would have allowed me to join and assist this excellent video. Lighting, camera and editing all professional and well done. I'm very impressed with the way you've taken to video editing. Already showing subtle touches that typically appear years down the road. Really well thought out production. Congratulations.
Keith, thanks so much for checking this out! Super proud of this one. We planned two full days to shoot all of the necessary components, so a far more relaxing setting than when I requested we do two videos in just one day! Shot on one of the new Sony DSLRs, post done in Resolve by yours truly haha. I'm still looking forward to working together on another project! Also would love to work on any other editing you might want to outsource ;-)
Love all of your arrangement and original pieces. In my opinion - among of all the youtube „pianists“ - you know the best how to put the notes together to create intensity and atmosphere - plus you have fantastic finger skills. Would love to play this piece myself, but unfortunately John Williams had other plans. Hope someday the sheets will be available again. Best regards from Germany, Charles!
GREAT arrangement!! (Just what I was looking for!! Yah--so happy...I can actually get the sheet music?? I LOVE what you've done--you genius. Many years of studying I can tell... THANK YOU!! (And beautiful technical playing too ...not to mention the "acting"). BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Pamela Ann Fuller Thanks so much for your comments and compliments! Huge huge praise that you put John Williams and me in the same sentence! Yes, that spot at 2:23 is one of my favorites, actually in all of the film arrangements I’ve written. It’s pretty difficult to play, but the musical reward is great! You see the link for the sheet music in the description?
Дорогой Чарльз, моё преклонение перед Вашим гениальным исполнением и мастерством не помещается в одном комментарии. Возможно даже сотен комментариев с самыми красивыми и глубокими словами окажется недостаточным, что бы описать моё восхищение! Я мужчина, и наверно мы с Вами ровесники. К сожалению, я не говорю на английском, но надеюсь, Вы переведёте и прочитаете. По дружески жму Вашу руку и обнимаю как брата!
@@CharlesSzczepanek Я не музыкант. Но ради этой мелодии я ходил на уроки пианино и научился играть эту музыку. А сейчас я очень рад, что у меня есть письменная связь с таким превосходным музыкантом!)
@@CharlesSzczepanek Мне всегда нравилась инструментальная музыка, и особенно фортепиано. Три года назад я посмотрел фильм "Список Шиндлера" . Эта трагедия, и красота этой драматической глубинной мелодии заставили меня купить электронное пианино и пойти на уроки. Я тогда выучил три произведения за четыре месяца. Список Шиндлера, Серенада Шуберта, и из репертуара Френк Синатра Ночные Странники. Но потом прекратил заниматься и сейчас уже почти всё забыл. Работа, финансовые проблемы и стресс не позволили учиться дальше.
@@audistoquattro5031 I'm happy to hear about the inspiration, and sorry for your stress! Perhaps there is still a way that music that be fun and help resolve life stress, even if you aren't taking lessons or seriously studying? Your first 3 pieces are quite an accomplishment!
I've listened to this piece 40 times now and it's the most emotionally beautiful piece I've ever heard. You are an incredible pianist! As you play, I keep thinking of scenes from the movie, "Schindler's List" and my eyes fill with tears. You have so much emotion in your playing coming from your heart. You have a wonderful talent! I pray that nothing so sorrowful of an event as the movie portrays ever happens again. I like the ending too-when you go to your typewriter and finish your letter. It brings a smile to my face and tells me the sorrow is over for now and life goes on.
Thanks so much! I love your comments and appreciate you listening! Thanks for your attention to all of that stuff and that it's meaningful to you! Great to hear :-)
Aufwühlend, voller Emotionen, meisterhaft arrangiert und herausragend gespielt. Ein Stück, welches mich immer wieder zu tränen rührt und gleichermaßen fassungslos angesichts der unsagbaren Grausamkeiten und des Leids zurücklässt. Ergreifend und bewegend. Vielen Dank dafür
Hello, and thanks so much! Unfortunately, the sheet music will not again be available for purchase until John Williams lifts the legal action he took against all arrangers :-(
Schindler's List, when I first watched it in 1994, etched an indescribable pain in my soul. Rewatching it on Netflix last year only reignited the raw pain it evokes, leaving me with a haunting reminder of the human suffering endured during that dark chapter of history.
You are incredible, your fingers are the butterflies! By the time i watched Shindlers's list I didnt know it had oscars and was so highly appreciated, so when I finished watching this movie I was sitting in silence afraid to say a word and slowly realising that I have just watched a masterpiece...
I wish I could, but I'm not legally allowed to sell or even post sheet music for any of my arrangements of music by John Williams. Sorry!! The video description here has more info about the issue if you're interested.
@@CharlesSzczepanekno problem after watching this video after 1000 times no need for sheet music 😊 thank you for your piano interpretation of John Williams Schindler list it's really amazing and full filling technically from piano point of performance
Charles Szczepanek and nonstop. You miss one day of practice yourself notice it, miss two days, your teacher notices it, there days, your audience notices it.
All instruments cry when they Paley this music they cry for the souls who were so brutally treated and murdered in Hitler's camps We should never forget what these poor people had to endure
@@tonykulikovsky Nor should one forget many kind hearted non Jewish people who risked their own life to save Jews...Oskar Schindler is one of them. I tribute this beautiful piece to other souls who died under the atrocity of colonial empire, World and civil war.
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I never would have thought that anything could surpass Itzhak Perlman’s performance of this!!! I thought a piano really didn’t show the depth of emotion and touch the soul as deeply as the violin, just as I feel the violin can’t compare to the piano for Claire de Lune, but you proved me wrong!!! (I’d LOVE to hear you perform that) You are an Artist, a true one of a kind Master who has touched all of us with your heart, passion, brilliant skills.....your music is like Valium for my body and mind. I too, have played this over and over! Keep up your beautiful videos, your music is like beautiful poetry, sure wish you you did live performances
Jane, you are so so so kind! Thank you so much for this! I'd never think of comparing myself to Itzhak Perlman... something I've actually mentioned to people in person is how much this pieces sings through him and his violin, and I could only hope that I captured a fraction of that spirit. I do perform once in a while... in fact I have two concerts in the Phoenix area this month! But no, I don't yet play outside of Phoenix (where I live) very often. I'd love to!
Charles Szczepanek You are to the piano what Itzhak Perlman is to the violin!!!! I never thought the emotion in that song could be translated and interpreted to the piano with such depth of emotion as the way you do it. My grandfather was a Hungarian Jew and this song means so much to me. I listen to many violinists and pianists on line and you are the virtuoso of them all!! Well, now I know I can purchase your work which I’m thrilled about! I will check to see if you are performing next time we’re in Arizona. We would love to see you perform live .
My husband and I listened to your beautiful Christmas song arrangements last night. What a gift you have, which is then a gift to all of us which you so kindly share!! May we reciprocate by supporting you and also by purchasing your work!! Thanks again for sharing your art !
Thanks again, so much, Jane! I'd be very interested to hear your grandfather's story. From what I know, most of my family immigrated to the States just prior to WWI, but there's no way for us to really tell anymore because of so many records missing... Shameless plug... I have a Patreon page where some of the most interested people can keep in touch with me. Those patrons helped to fund this entire video. Check out the page here: www.patreon.com/charlesszczepanek I'll also send you a complimentary copy of my new album (CD or digital download) if you sign up! In any case, I thank you for watching and writing such a beautiful note. Looking forward to keeping in touch through music!
Can one get the sheet music for this arrangement
@@janedoe3935 Haha I would like some Valium man so I don't die
I recently watched Schindler's list for the first time. The situation was beyond horrible but Schindler saving 1200 Jews and them being so grateful made me weep. I have never been so deeply touched by a movie.
It’s a beautiful and moving film.
마지막부분의울림이강한대사1달라..
John Williams would be proud of this arrangement I think.
Well he should be. It was written on piano first. He writes all his compositions on a 100 year old stein piano at his house.
@@Michael-jw6et That is amazing. Didn't know that before. Do you have proof?
@@arghyachakraborty3068 follow the link and skip to the 1:40 mark.
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@@Michael-jw6et Wow... the video was awesome. Thank you so much
He wouldn't.
This is the most beautiful piano arrangement of this piece
Thank you so much, Elizabeth!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰@@CharlesSzczepanek
The anger and sadness, anxieties were revealed in the way how you've played it. I really like it.
Helen Jay thank you! I’m glad the emotional complexity came through the notes for you.
Father God through Jesus Christ gave me the gift of music, for typical players they wouldn't be banging the keyboards like you did. Is it true that one of your ancestors and or your loved one's ancestors have been the victim of Auschwitz concentration camp? If so then thank you on expressing your anger out loud, bc that's also my anger if I was to play on the piano.
@@FatBellyChemist1234 Because my ancestors came from Poland and Alsace-Lorraine there's a very high likelihood that someone in the bloodline was a victim, but we aren't sure as most or all of the family records were destroyed during the war. Was a family member of yours a victim of the Holocaust?
@@CharlesSzczepanek I am deeply sorry to hear this, from what I am aware is that no, because I'm nostly Chinese but I do have European ancestry too, mainly German and Italian. From what you're playing of piano you did express your ancestor's anger even your very distant relative's anger, sadness, depression, physical and mental trauma, bc it wasn't addressed properly at the time. Good on you for doing that justice for victims, more is needed I think. What I know is that my bf's grandpa was deeply affected by one of the nazi party member did curse him and his 1st borns and their relationships, including marriages, friendships and financial stuff; one of the curses was that the 1st born had to do prostitution to get rid of excess bills ; the other curse was the 1st borns to live less than 50 to 70 y.o. So when my bf told me his I was deeply furious, I felt Father God's great anger. So the issue was addressed, by breaking all those curses in Jesus' mighty name.
I agree totally. I swear, I don't think that I have ever felt a piano "weep" like it does here. I don't simply mean sadness. If musical instruments are an analog of the human voice, then it also follows that under a practiced hand, they can be an analog of the human spirit as well.
Schindler's List was the saddest movie I ever saw. Your piano playing brought out the sadness and emotions of the movie. Well done.
Thank you, George! The movie is a masterpiece and the music from it is also a gem!
This Clip should have over 1 billion clicks.. almost started crying🙏
Thank you, Furkan! I'm glad you were moved by the music!
i felt the same way 💘
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This piece has me all teared up especially when i think of those in Palestine at this time. Takes me right back to the movie😢
Every time I watch you play this, I start crying. Your arrangement reminds me a little of Chopin's "Revolutionary" etude (use of the arpeggios and the pre-note trills). GREAT arrangement!!
When I rewatch Schindlers List, I always come back to this variation of it. The way you play the piano for this song is absolutely wonderful, it would be amazing to hear you play this in person.
Thanks! Hopefully when live concerts start back up again there will be more opportunities for people to hear it in person!
I have no words to describe how this music makes me feel, I do though have an adjective to describe the pianist. Marvellous !!!!!!!!
Rafael! You are very kind, thank you!
Genius!! I could listen to you all day long, but I would run out of tears 😢
Aw, thank you Sophie!
If that film was SO EMOTIONAL... the 50% (at least) was from the music, the soundtrack.
Instant crying when you listening these amazing notes...
Romilos Fronimides I agree!
After all this time, this remains my favourite version of this melody..and also my favourite piece of all time. I can't explain in words the level of emotions that this song brings me. For over a year.. I've been listening to this masterpiece every day. It is for me a relief, a place of comfort. The beauty and the story behind ,all the little details, the depth, the way it all conects together is just incredible..again undescribable in words. And the way this is all performed..the level of work..dedication, the hundreds of hours spent behind this 5 minutes of art. I hope this reaches you, Mr Charles. I can't thank you enough..all my respect!
Thanks so much for this, Valerius! I'm glad that all of the effort that you so aptly recognize in your comment has been paying off for you and for many others. The best reward is knowing my music (and video in this case as well) has moved people. Thank you for sharing how you feel!
What makes the blood flow is the heart, let the heart move is the note.
Listening to your piano playing quietly is a kind of listening enjoyment.
Thank you very much for sharing your happiness!
Thank you so much, Meilum!
Wooow! I think that I heard all variations of this Amazing melody! As a Jewish I wanna tell you that all perished and victims of this unbelievable tragedy are proud of you also from the sky. My tears can’t stop!
God will bless you and your family!
Thanks so much, Michael! God bless --
I was impressed to find so much passion, pain and longing in this piece. I heard it many times but never with such a performance. It brings up all my unhealed wounds.
Thanks so much for listening!
Браво- спасибо вам за высокое искусство!!!
Thank you for watching!
How wonderful to have a Mason and Hamlin! Beautiful playing. 🥹🥰
Fantastic interpretation, excellently performed and wrapped up in a very professional, thoughtful and tasteful production. Well done and thanks. Jon
Thank you, Jon! I'm glad you enjoyed not only the music but also the rest of the production!
The most virtuosic arrangement of a film score I've ever seen. Respect 🎩
Thank you, Luis!
Charles, this is perfect. If I'd ever considered covering this, I've changed my mind as I don't think this can be surpassed 👌
Luke, thank you! That’s such high praise, especially from another pianist and composer! This was my first arrangement of music from movies; I wrote it at the beginning of my “Keys to the Cinema” project. I only have videos for a handful, but you can listen to the entire album on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/album/1loDgaUhBDopVy0yBcbSpv?si=CHeLKl0nRWKsPn12teHAFA
АХ!!! БРАВО!!! БРАВО!!! БРАВИССИМО!!! ВЫ МЕНЯ СРАЗИЛИ ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНОЙ ИГРОЙ!!! Я ТЕПЕРЬ ВЕЧНАЯ ВАША ПОКЛОННИЦА!!! ЖЕЛАЮ ВАМ КРЕПКОГО ЗДОРОВЬЯ И ТВОРЧЕСКОГО ВДОХНОВЕНИЯ!!!
Thanks so much! Love your enthusiasm!
I especially what you did at 2:23.... imitating so many instruments. John Williams could not have done it better!!
Listening to this on repeat not just for its beauty and humanity, but so that I can be reminded myself how important it is and what a POWERFUL impact it makes to stay faithful with the technical work year after year! Best piano version of this piece I've ever heard! Now come on John, let us all have access to it!!! :)
Ah, thanks Jimmy!
What a performance! The sadness and sufferings flow through your fingers. Please keep uploading such videos.
Thank you! I plan to! I hope you'll check out the rest of the videos on the channel, even the less cinematic ones, thanks!
In the beginning I thought "well this rendition is just like all the others" but man was I wrong.. When the intro was over, and you really got going, I was blown away! By far my favourite rendition of this masterpiece so far!
Thanks, sjaakil! I'm glad you stuck with it!
Beautifully played, and in such a touching, well thought out setting. John Williams would be proud!
Thanks, Sasha!
I absolutely love the theatricals with this! The black and white sets the gravitas of the piece. You are a bit of an enigma Charles, on the one hand you make it look effortless and on the other the passion overwhelms. Oooooh spine tingling.
Thanks so much, Helen! I'm glad to hear the passion is much more obvious than the effort!
@@CharlesSzczepanek You type better than I do too and I used to be a Secretary LOL
@@CharlesSzczepanek I think you misunderstood me Charles, I wasn't implying there was no effort put in to this marvelous piece. What I was trying to say was that you play so skilfully, you make it look easy to play, which of course it isn't. Also making the sound irresistible to the ear is more than knowing the notes, it's about the sound pouring out from your heart down to the fingers and lighting up the keys like fireworks. That is what you do, which is why I love listening and more still watching your hands fly over the keys. Listening to music should transport us out of our heads into magic and that's what you manage to do, thank you.
Helen Holmes I totally got it! In fact I was happy to hear you say it looked easy... good playing is always supposed to look easy but move your soul!
@@CharlesSzczepanek thank goodness, I thought I had offended you, I would never do that on purpose. Thank you for setting me straight. X
Well what a masterpiece. Amazing skill and performed so well. 10/10
Thank you, Andy! I appreciate you watching!!
Nah.
11/10.
Beautifully played and filmed. Especially the red rose at the end symbolising the little girl in the film.
Thanks so much! And thanks for sticking around all the way to the end :-D
Oh my God, this is the most beautiful, emotional, soulful piano playing I ever heard and see, thank you so much for this amazing and inspiring work, I just can't find the words that I can describe, you're so talented and gifted with the most beautiful music instrument on the planet ❤
This song makes my heart ache like no other. The reality of what happened back then starts to hit and I feel more appreciation for the life I have and regret for those that had to suffer. All I can do is pray that God takes us all to Him sooner rather than later.
Thank you for this piece. You've certainly done it justice.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful comment!
What an intense feeling... a beautiful arrangement, gorgeously interpreted.
You have made what was already perfect reach an unimagined level... as if one of those impossible and fantastic melodies that one hears in dreams would come true...
Guillermo, thanks so much for this! You are too kind, but I super appreciate it. It's so difficult to do justice to a piece originally for orchestra and the incredible Itzhak Perlman.
@@CharlesSzczepanek - Of course, the original is simply amazing, but the arrangement you've made is quite astonishing... as a matter of fact, it is beyond words.
If John Williams could hear your version would say the same than me at least, if not, he would drop a tear of joy...
I just play this masterpiece of yours over and over, because I just can't stop enjoying this deep emotion.
Thanks.
@@CharlesSzczepanek - I have to add something else (because I can't stop myself, hope you may forgive me)...
I hear your performance over and over again and I keep enjoying the way you've made the single original melody a complete story as if the entire film could be seen but only by listening to your utterly gorgeous notes...
The original version with Itzhak Perlman is pure feeling, yes, but you've made a very varied carousel of emotions, and not everyone can do that just with a few arrangements to the original melody... I take my hat off for that.
Thanks! I don’t know if the strong emotional swings will fit everyone’s taste, but I sure like it this way, and I’m super happy you do as well!
@@CharlesSzczepanek - Well, not everyone certainly, because it is a situation of animic and cultural empathy, but, there will always be those who enjoy something so refined and tasteful.
Thanks to you.
Absolutely stunning-your version goes straight through my soul and expresses everything that’s in it.
Thank you, Hubert!
Hauntingly beautiful! I weep for all the souls lost as I remember this powerfully epic film. Thank You Mr. Szczepanek!!!
Thanks, Kevin! Glad to see you checking out this one too!
Like the rustle of leaves in the wind, incomparable complexity and mastery of execution and ease of harmony!
Thank you! And I love your imagery!
I can't stop listening to this, it's so beautiful!!! a soulful performance❤️ ❤️
Thank you, Madhuri!
I can't stop crying when I listening to this music TT_TT
@@mabilleaudrey2154 Thanks for listening! I hope they are good tears!
It is said that the world is not so big that people do not meet in it. I have now met an artist who has appealed to me so much that I will seek out his other artistic renditions. Thank you very much. You are a master at opening hearts!
Thank you Jan! The power of music is great. Thanks for watching, and I hope to see you around the rest of the channel!
I don't know how many times I have already listened to this masterpiece. Every single time it's just breathtaking the feelings you create through the harmony between your piano playing and the video. I can't really even put it into words.
Please keep up your work and thank you for sharing this with us.
Thanks so much, Justin!
Il brano è di una bellezza unica. Più arrogante suonato al pianoforte, più virile ma sempre molto toccante. Complimenti al maestro 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💐
Thank you, Vincenzo!
Божественно красиво.. Мои аплодисменты стоя Мастеру. За душу и сердце берёт. 💞💝💞💝💞💋💋💋💞💞👍👍👍
Thank you so much! I'm happy you enjoyed this!
@@CharlesSzczepanek 💞💋💞💋💞💋💞👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💞💋💋. Я не знаю английский язык, к сожалению 😢😢😢
@@СветланаКупреева-и8г Я использую Google Translate, чтобы помочь. в моем первом комментарии я сказал: «Большое вам спасибо! Я рад, что вам это понравилось!
@@CharlesSzczepanek. Дай Боже здоровья вашим рукам. Помоги Вам Господи
@@СветланаКупреева-и8г Спасибо
Charles augments an elegiac melody to a solemn, triumphant one. Love his ornamentation and passion.
Thank so much, Michael!
Amazingly gentle touch. Kudos.
Thanks don1carter!
Wow, this is simply incredible! All the emotions felt in the way you performed the piece. Thank you for this masterpiece of a rendition.
Thanks, Imago!! Glad you enjoyed this!
Charles - what an awesome arrangement and so passionately played on the phenomenal Mason & Hamlin BB! And the B&W video vignette produced up at the Mason & Hamlin Piano Factory in Haverhill, MA just came out perfectly. Bravo!
Jason, thanks so much! A room we've both been in, but looks so much different with the props and in black and white! The Burgetts really hit a home run directing and shooting this with me.
Wspaniałe wykonanie, jest Pan mistrzem... Czarno-biała sceneria . .. odleciałam... Dziękuję.
Thank you, Pani! I'm glad you enjoyed!
Absolutely amazing! The amount of emotion that surrounds this whole song is beautiful! Amazing arrangement!!!
Thanks so much, Jeremiah!
Song? Are you kidding me ?
Сыграно просто на высочайшем уровне. У Вас должно быть больше подписчиков - несправедливо, что их мало)
Когда Д.Вильямса пригласил С.Спилберг написать музыку к фильму, тот сказал, что нужен лучший композитор, на что Спилберг сказал: "Знаю, но они все уже умерли"...
Величайший фильм и музыка к нему.
Я с Украины и эта песня разбивает мое сердце как и в 2009 году, когда я впервые увидел этот фильм.
Спасибо за эмоции и великолепное исполнение.
Thank you so much for this, John! Are you still living in Ukraine? My heart goes out to everyone who has been suffering and living in fear for so long now.
@@CharlesSzczepanek да, я остался в Украине и никуда не уезжал. Тут моя земля и все, что мне дорого.
И я верю в пословицу: "Тот, кому суждено утонуть - не сгорит".
@@CharlesSzczepanek и спасибо Вам за теплые слова.
@@johnjones593 Stay safe and know the world prays for you!
Priceless gift. Deeply emotional and touching. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks, Gonzalo! I'm glad the music moved you.
Beautiful, with so much grace and power, You're Playing is so Amazing....
Thanks so much, Stanley!
Every time I listen to this, I get more and more Mesmerized by your Artistry, so Beautiful and your power you display on that Mason and Hamlin Grand is Incredible.
@@CharlesSzczepanek
Best piano arrangement of the Schindler's List Theme I've ever heard. It's amazing!! Congratulations, Charles, you're one true artist!
Thank you so much! And thanks for listening!!
This cover is so amazing holy moly so beautiful. This may be one of the best covers of a song i've ever heard
Thank you so much, Angelo!
I don’t really listen to piano music but I cant stop listening to this , amazing video also.
Thank you! Glad I could be one of the few pianists you listen to!
a true aficionado, your interpretation of the movie, is quite outstanding and is a credit to you and the whole production team. An inspiration to any budding pianist.
Thanks so much, Steve!
Bravo 👏 👏 👏. This is the best version that I’ve ever heard. Impressive performance & great video production!!
Thank you, Tom!
Это грандиозно!!! И трогательно... Спасибо...
Thank you, Svetlana!
so beautiful!!!!!
Deeann Petty thank you!!
I could not stop crying! Emotional, 1000 per Cent. 100, doesn't go there!! What A Star YOU ARE!!! It was beautiful, just wanted to say that!!!! Saw the film, and yes, was in tears. And yes, John Williams would be so proud of you!!!
Thank you, Nigel! It's a difficult film to watch, but a beautiful piece of art.
@@CharlesSzczepanek thank you so much for coming back to me. It was a hard film to watch, and emotional to say the least. Take care and I would love to hear some more of your work. ❤️
@@nigelwatson2756 Thanks! I upload something new about once a month... they can't all be so cinematic in video style, but I do what I can! I'm hoping to get up to about 1 every week or so by the end of the year.
What a fabulous contribution Charles. This is so absolutely beautiful.
Thanks, Deb! Good to hear from you!
Your playing is like walking on the surface of the water, it is fantastic, I would like to thank you that you shared your talent with us
Thanks so much! And thanks for watching!
Beautiful playing and interpretation. Wonderful piano!
Christiaan Carstens thank you! And ya, awesome piano for sure.
Wow ,simply wow. I'm astounded at the beauty and showmanship yet it has an air of grace ,which leads to vigour and tension so beautifully and touchingly felt by my heart.
I definitely want to learn this piece
Ranuli Dassanayake thanks so much!!
Very compelling, beautifully performed and captured. Your talent and skill are unmistakeable. I wish our schedules would've lined up in such a way that would have allowed me to join and assist this excellent video. Lighting, camera and editing all professional and well done. I'm very impressed with the way you've taken to video editing. Already showing subtle touches that typically appear years down the road. Really well thought out production. Congratulations.
Keith, thanks so much for checking this out! Super proud of this one. We planned two full days to shoot all of the necessary components, so a far more relaxing setting than when I requested we do two videos in just one day! Shot on one of the new Sony DSLRs, post done in Resolve by yours truly haha. I'm still looking forward to working together on another project! Also would love to work on any other editing you might want to outsource ;-)
Love all of your arrangement and original pieces. In my opinion - among of all the youtube „pianists“ - you know the best how to put the notes together to create intensity and atmosphere - plus you have fantastic finger skills. Would love to play this piece myself, but unfortunately John Williams had other plans. Hope someday the sheets will be available again. Best regards from Germany, Charles!
Thanks so much, Severin! I really appreciate that!
GREAT arrangement!! (Just what I was looking for!! Yah--so happy...I can actually get the sheet music?? I LOVE what you've done--you genius. Many years of studying I can tell... THANK YOU!! (And beautiful technical playing too ...not to mention the "acting"). BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Pamela Ann Fuller Thanks so much for your comments and compliments! Huge huge praise that you put John Williams and me in the same sentence! Yes, that spot at 2:23 is one of my favorites, actually in all of the film arrangements I’ve written. It’s pretty difficult to play, but the musical reward is great! You see the link for the sheet music in the description?
Would you be able to share the sheet music? Happy to pay you and Charles for the trouble.
Yet again your Masterful Work has brought me to tears. A man of 28 shed tears like a child.
Thanks, Cristian. I'm glad the music was moving for you!
Дорогой Чарльз, моё преклонение перед Вашим гениальным исполнением и мастерством не помещается в одном комментарии. Возможно даже сотен комментариев с самыми красивыми и глубокими словами окажется недостаточным, что бы описать моё восхищение! Я мужчина, и наверно мы с Вами ровесники. К сожалению, я не говорю на английском, но надеюсь, Вы переведёте и прочитаете. По дружески жму Вашу руку и обнимаю как брата!
Thanks for commenting, audisto! Thank you for your very kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed many aspects of this performance and music.
@@CharlesSzczepanek Я не музыкант. Но ради этой мелодии я ходил на уроки пианино и научился играть эту музыку. А сейчас я очень рад, что у меня есть письменная связь с таким превосходным музыкантом!)
@@audistoquattro5031 it’s good to hear you started some lessons! Was it the beauty of the melody or something else that inspired you?
@@CharlesSzczepanek Мне всегда нравилась инструментальная музыка, и особенно фортепиано. Три года назад я посмотрел фильм "Список Шиндлера" . Эта трагедия, и красота этой драматической глубинной мелодии заставили меня купить электронное пианино и пойти на уроки. Я тогда выучил три произведения за четыре месяца. Список Шиндлера, Серенада Шуберта, и из репертуара Френк Синатра Ночные Странники. Но потом прекратил заниматься и сейчас уже почти всё забыл. Работа, финансовые проблемы и стресс не позволили учиться дальше.
@@audistoquattro5031 I'm happy to hear about the inspiration, and sorry for your stress! Perhaps there is still a way that music that be fun and help resolve life stress, even if you aren't taking lessons or seriously studying? Your first 3 pieces are quite an accomplishment!
I've listened to this piece 40 times now and it's the most emotionally beautiful piece I've ever heard. You are an incredible pianist! As you play, I keep thinking of scenes from the movie, "Schindler's List" and my eyes fill with tears. You have so much emotion in your playing coming from your heart. You have a wonderful talent! I pray that nothing so sorrowful of an event as the movie portrays ever happens again. I like the ending too-when you go to your typewriter and finish your letter. It brings a smile to my face and tells me the sorrow is over for now and life goes on.
Thank you, George, for your very kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed this music, and I too hope that nothing so horrific ever happens again.
Una interpretación tan libre y tan hermosa de mi tema de cabecera que escucho y toco a diario, para acompañar e inspirarme de los dioses. Gracias 🌹❤️🌹
Thanks so much! I love your comments and appreciate you listening! Thanks for your attention to all of that stuff and that it's meaningful to you! Great to hear :-)
@@CharlesSzczepanek Thanks yo you 🌹🎬❣️
Flying fingers, oh so beautiful! Makes me want to learn the music! Thank you!❤❤❤❤❤so much emotion.
I did find a simpler version, I can “dream” I am playing like you. Praying for all my friends in Israel with this song. 😊
Woaw so beautyful, thanks
Pianomelody, thank you!
Ну как перестать слушать это!Невозможно!!Возвращаюсь снова и снова❤
Thank you for listening to more of my music!
beautiful....
Thank you, Hanafi!
Aufwühlend, voller Emotionen, meisterhaft arrangiert und herausragend gespielt. Ein Stück, welches mich immer wieder zu tränen rührt und gleichermaßen fassungslos angesichts der unsagbaren Grausamkeiten und des Leids zurücklässt. Ergreifend und bewegend. Vielen Dank dafür
Thank you so much, and thanks for listening!
El video, la puesta en escena me encanta, muy bien ambientado ❣️❣️❣️
Bellissimo e struggente 💖
Thank you, Emily!
😢😢what a heart breaking music,thank you so much ;you are brilliant ❤
Thank you, and thanks for listening :-)
Hello Charles, this is amazing. I am speechless with tears drawn listening to this. Would you have the sheet music available for purchase again?
Hello, and thanks so much! Unfortunately, the sheet music will not again be available for purchase until John Williams lifts the legal action he took against all arrangers :-(
Extremely poignantly beautiful. Wonderfully played with mastery. The best version I have ever heard. Such passion and emotion . awesome.
Thanks so much, Rosemary!
Это просто невероятно красиво.
Thank you, Tatyana!
Я всё слушаю и слушаю Вас с упоением, наблюдая за Вашей игрой!!! ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ!!! БОЖЕСТВЕННО!!! БРАВО, МАЭСТРО, БРАВИССИМО!!!
Thank you so much! You are very kind!
prekrasne.
Thank you, toco!
Schindler's List, when I first watched it in 1994, etched an indescribable pain in my soul. Rewatching it on Netflix last year only reignited the raw pain it evokes, leaving me with a haunting reminder of the human suffering endured during that dark chapter of history.
Belíssimo...
Thank you!
Absolutely amazing! Beautiful! Golden fingers. Thank you.
Thank you, Alex!
This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
Carl, I've been trying to think of a response for you for a week and I'm still speechless!
You are incredible, your fingers are the butterflies! By the time i watched Shindlers's list I didnt know it had oscars and was so highly appreciated, so when I finished watching this movie I was sitting in silence afraid to say a word and slowly realising that I have just watched a masterpiece...
Thanks so much! It's a wonderful film!
Can you please put the note sheet?
Facts fr, I wish to have something to learn
I wish I could, but I'm not legally allowed to sell or even post sheet music for any of my arrangements of music by John Williams. Sorry!! The video description here has more info about the issue if you're interested.
@CharlesSzczepanek OHHHH, no wonder, I was having person beef with you just for that one issue, still love ya!😅
😢@@CharlesSzczepanek
@@CharlesSzczepanekno problem after watching this video after 1000 times no need for sheet music 😊 thank you for your piano interpretation of John Williams Schindler list it's really amazing and full filling technically from piano point of performance
Wow! Ein gewaltiger Vortrag! Superb!❤️
Thanks so much, Burkhard!
Сегодня судный день. Слушая тебя, я слышу миллионы еврейских сердец. Ещё раз спасибо…
Thanks for listening, Michael!
Words could not express the pain I felt listening to your rendition but at the same time I am very amazed how well you have given life to the music.
Thanks, stripes!
How did you get so good?
Haha, well... two short answers... I've practiced 'a lot' ... and ... I took lessons for 20 years!
Charles Szczepanek and nonstop. You miss one day of practice yourself notice it, miss two days, your teacher notices it, there days, your audience notices it.
Good heavens,
how beautiful is this performance! Full of grace and silkiness!
Thank you so much!
Are u jewish？The song is so good.I can feel the piano is crying😭
Thanks, Clarissa! I'm not Jewish, but my family comes from Poland and the Czech Republic.
All instruments cry when they Paley this music they cry for the souls who were so brutally treated and murdered in Hitler's camps
We should never forget what these poor people had to endure
Very sad.. beautifully sad
You do not need to be Jewish to enjoy Chopin or play his masterpieces with heartfelt emotions. I am Jewish and can tell you this much.
@@tonykulikovsky Nor should one forget many kind hearted non Jewish people who risked their own life to save Jews...Oskar Schindler is one of them. I tribute this beautiful piece to other souls who died under the atrocity of colonial empire, World and civil war.
Once in a while.. I come back to listen to this marvelous piece...
Thankyo for this video! You play thery Beautiful!
You are welcome! Thanks for watching :-)
Meravigliosa esecuzione!!!!!!
Thank you!
How beautiful
Thank you!
Wait, what did I see? I can't believe, someone can turn out to be this expressive. I wish I could see you perform live.
Thanks, Vivek! I hope to do more live concerts in the coming years!
I am amazed. This gave me goosebumps like nothing before.
Thanks so much, Samuele!