My friends at @storybydanehav, who helped film this video, have created a documentary about me: th-cam.com/video/TFJ3mgx0xy0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9yRAiW4GWxZHx8Tv. It is part of a series of documentaries about 100 different individuals and revolves around the creation of this very video, my job at the Stockholm Philharmonic, the quest for excellence...and the need to let go. Make sure to watch it! 🎻 /Josep CA
Imagine not only get rickrolled, but 4 times at once. Not only 4 times at once, but also in a very decorated and sophisticated way. Not only in a classy way, but also musically explained so we get to understand the whole process of how did we get fugue-rickrolled. My new go-to rickroll video.
I'm not going to post this on the main comment because I don't want to hurt the composer's feelings. I really enjoyed the Barbie Girl Fugue because it was just well-done, but also it very much highlighted the motif. So, it was sort of like Fugue re-make of a song. // This piece was also well-done, but my issue is that it only uses the beginning motif but never carries the whole phrase (which ends in the line "never gonna tell a like and hurt you."). So, what happens is that the Never Gonna Give You Up Gigue does't really sound or "feel" like the original tune or idea. Listening to this is more like listening to an entirely different, independent composition. It's still amazing stuff, though, and I subscribed! (PS, come check out my color-music theory here at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Damn, came for the music, stayed for the production quality and animations. Also really good job demonstrating & explaining all these music theory concepts over the course of the piece. What a piece of art :D
You excel in the art of hybridising the familiar tunes of the 20th century with the lovely Melodie’s of the classical era. I’m of the firm belief that anything made classical/orchestral will sound just as good if not better than the original, but it must be done right. You are proof of that method. Your Barbie Fugue was honey to my ears and if I’m not mistaken, the odd pattern of notes does also poke it’s head up in this piece too. Somewhere around one minute. Like a fingerprint of your style. All that’s left to say is Bravo!
Excellent work, Josep - thank you very much indeed. It goes without saying that the musical work is first class, but you're setting a new standard in piano video here, and the rest of us will be racing to catch up. Keep it up, please!
I'd like you to know that I've shown this to my Music Appreciation class when covering fugues and the Baroque period. Fugues are really dense and hard to follow for students, but the way you edited this made it much more engaging and easy to follow, not to mention the use of a familiar tune as the subject. The graphics really draw your ears to important parts that make it easier to digest. Perfect!
Thank you Josep! Great work! I have been a pianist since I was a kid with 8 years of classical lessons. But as an adult I have turned to playing easy pop/rock songs by ear. Now your work has inspired me to get into classical music again! I recently bought an upright piano and I am having my best life playing on it :)
I was already humbled by the fact that you not only composed and played this,but you also did the awesome editing, and thenI read you are a cellist...What have i done with my life? You are amazing.
This is such a great modern example of one of the most complex musical forms in history. Plus, the clean editing helps to make it clear how the themes weave into each other. Amazing work!
One of the best visualizations of a composition I've ever seen! I'm really digging the scrolling score parts and the little animations. This is so compositionally pristine - I especially liked 1:06 - 1:10 and 1:34 - 1:45 :D Thank you for the truly excellent work!!
I stumbled across this channel through the classical Barbie girl doorway, then tumbled in and down, down, down a wormhole. Now I have angry clients, a hungry husky, and parrots that have learned to laugh and snort in strange manners. Sublime.
This is insane!! Beautiful composition and what an elegant performance. Really love that mini-interlude at 0:36 and that sequence moment at 1:36 😍 Truly a genius pianist 👏🎹
Great visuals! Incredibly well crafted piece from a tune that is deeply rooted in pop culture! It really is a joy to listen to your pieces. only the irrepressible desire for more remains... The only content creator who makes me drop everything as soon as a new video with a new track comes out!
This was awesome, I love how much complexity a simple figure can achieve. I'm curious about how would you compose an orchestral version, without the limitations of the piano.
I was not prepared for so many different parts of this composition (I started typing “arrangement” and got about two letters in before correcting myself) …but the first time it modulates to minor. Whew.
I love how you mixed together the C# Major Fugue from Bach's WTC BWV: 848 (Book 1), and Rich Rolls theme. Its a great insight that you noticed the similarity between the two themes and married them exquisitely. Keep doing what you are doing to make Fugue's popular again, Bach tried and failed, then Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov (though not really) and then Glenn Gould, well maybe J.C. Alonso can! I have my fugues waiting in the wing to join you;)
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso its an incredibly logical fugue. I love how Bach exhausts almost all permutations of each motif. Both the theme and counter-theme, but always with respect to the foundational idea. As for the WTC, I love all of them, but one of my top favorites in the C major fugue, it is such an incredibly difficult fugue to write, its so dense with stretto. Pure genius. Have you explored the Golberg Variations? As in there lies my favorite contrapuntal work of Bach. Var 4 and 10 (the fughetta). Magnificent!! The Beatles Penny Lane barrowed their baseline from this work (probably variation 4). Consider covering it. You're welcome😉. Parita in Dm (BWV 1004), and his passacaglia in Cm BWV 582 (for organ) are my favorite Bach works -- unmatched in their glory and majesty. One more question, you are very proficient at keyboard, why did you choose the cello as your primary instrument? I am not accomplished as a pianist, but proficient, I love playing it (I play guitar and drums as well, but am mostly into composition) however, I've longed to learn the cello because of its rich sonorous tones! Have you found any works for cello than Bach's cello suite'? Do any even exist?
Just...grats!! Genial! Explained, clear, new aired but with all the classical counterpoint. You know what you're doing... and you're doing really great!
Sos un crack, Josep, todo excelente! Composicion, ejecucion, edicion grafica y hasta didactica y humor... un video de antologia. Me encantó - en la parte con varias disonancias seguidas - la cara de sorpresa, disgusto, desaprobacion ( pero que en el fondo le encantó ) de Bach.
Do a classical version of another famous hits of Rick and Body and Soul, Sleeping Away and You moved me ❤❤❤❤❤. Thanks for mixing ode to Rick Astley mixing a dance disco global hit with classical arregements and classcal interpretations, kudos ❤
Please, please, let us know how we can support you in a way that can keep these videos coming. You're seriously one of the most talented people on TH-cam, you absolutely nail the fugue and the style of Bach. Please, allow people to support you, to buy things you create. I would be first in line. Absolutely fantastic.
Hehe yes! I have previously used the backwards running music to showcase retograde motion since it is more logical to do so, you are right. In this case you maybe have to think of the notes as being upside down as well. 😅/Josep CA
Wow those animations must have taken forever!! Both the video and the fugue are so impressive 🤩🤩 I can barely play a fugue, so composing one seems so insane to me! This is awesome ❤❤
Wow wow wow wow wow Everything is just perfection here, excellent work and a beautiful original piece. I hope Rick gets to see this. Will put a smile on his face. Keep it going!
Perfection in every aspect 😮❤ I am sincerely amazed. Music composition: even JSB himself couldn’t have done it better🤤, sound quality: 👌🏻🔝, camera work and editing: 💪🏼, in-video commentary: 😏☝🏼🤓💭❕ Bravo 👏🏻 bravissimo! That, by the way, applies to every video by you that I’ve seen so far!
When I went to high school my formal music education ended, not my choice. As I get older I am so frustrated because music affects me at a visceral level and I wish I knew the reasons. Thank you for this.
I've already praised your work but I'm not shy to do it again! I'm profoundly sad that the physical condition of my beloved idol/master Keith Jarrett prevents him to produce more masterpieces nowadays but I'm also so glad there are a few extremely talented fellows like you to disrupt musical frontiers and dazzle us with such beauties! THANK YOU.
Such a good pianist but hes a professional cellist and obviously a well trained composer! So much with this fascinating guy. Hope he gives us some of his compositions!
My friends at @storybydanehav, who helped film this video, have created a documentary about me: th-cam.com/video/TFJ3mgx0xy0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9yRAiW4GWxZHx8Tv. It is part of a series of documentaries about 100 different individuals and revolves around the creation of this very video, my job at the Stockholm Philharmonic, the quest for excellence...and the need to let go. Make sure to watch it! 🎻 /Josep CA
As Buxtehude said to Bach: "i'm glad the old Art hasn't died and lives on in you" great work !!
And also to Paul Simon, I've heard.
I remember that it was Reincken, not Buxtehude...
@@riccardocollu8610 It was.
Thank you! @@riccardocollu8610
When I die, I’ll leave my Buxtehude.
The most incredible part is that he's actually a professional *cellist* !!! He's such a genius!
I feel so humbled as a pianist 😢
wwwewawe w wait WHAT?!?!?? A CELLIST???? omg...
he could as well be a professional video editor
@@nazazaku Yep!!!
You kidding
Imagine not only get rickrolled, but 4 times at once.
Not only 4 times at once, but also in a very decorated and sophisticated way.
Not only in a classy way, but also musically explained so we get to understand the whole process of how did we get fugue-rickrolled.
My new go-to rickroll video.
I'm not going to post this on the main comment because I don't want to hurt the composer's feelings. I really enjoyed the Barbie Girl Fugue because it was just well-done, but also it very much highlighted the motif. So, it was sort of like Fugue re-make of a song. // This piece was also well-done, but my issue is that it only uses the beginning motif but never carries the whole phrase (which ends in the line "never gonna tell a like and hurt you."). So, what happens is that the Never Gonna Give You Up Gigue does't really sound or "feel" like the original tune or idea. Listening to this is more like listening to an entirely different, independent composition.
It's still amazing stuff, though, and I subscribed!
(PS, come check out my color-music theory here at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Not only is this fantastic musically wise, but as a video, this is truly impressive. The tracking, and the text behind the hand… *chefs kiss*. Kudos!
nice spot, I'd never have noticed that text effect, but yeah it works
Agreed!!
Yeah, perfect editing. Great tool to learn about composition
Ive never been so happy to be rickrolled
Or, as JSB said "Rickgeröllet.:😂
Me too!! This is actually beautiful
Yeah. It’s a while that I didn’t have been too. Especially in 2024.
...Even if you can be rickrolled absolutely anytime of the History.
Damn, came for the music, stayed for the production quality and animations. Also really good job demonstrating & explaining all these music theory concepts over the course of the piece. What a piece of art :D
Thank you very much, it definitely took some hours of editing… 😅/Josep CA
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso It shows!
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso I'm shocked. Bravo!!! Bravisimo!!!
Amen!
I was crying with the sheer beauty and genius of it all.
I imagine Bach would be applauding loudly! 🎉
The musical genius in composing this piece plus the phenomenal video editing/effects is just an incredible combination of high level skills. Hats off!
You excel in the art of hybridising the familiar tunes of the 20th century with the lovely Melodie’s of the classical era. I’m of the firm belief that anything made classical/orchestral will sound just as good if not better than the original, but it must be done right. You are proof of that method. Your Barbie Fugue was honey to my ears and if I’m not mistaken, the odd pattern of notes does also poke it’s head up in this piece too. Somewhere around one minute. Like a fingerprint of your style. All that’s left to say is Bravo!
If you can sustain such quality over the coming months and years this channel is gonna be huge. Incredible work as always!
I don't think he can. He has people helping him film because they are making a documentary about him. But they will be finalizing it soon.
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso Good to know. I love your music.
Excellent work, Josep - thank you very much indeed. It goes without saying that the musical work is first class, but you're setting a new standard in piano video here, and the rest of us will be racing to catch up. Keep it up, please!
Thank you Bill! ❤/Josep CA
Wow. Absolutely brilliant! Anyone who has ever attempted to play a Bach fugue would recognise your absolute talent.
I'd like you to know that I've shown this to my Music Appreciation class when covering fugues and the Baroque period. Fugues are really dense and hard to follow for students, but the way you edited this made it much more engaging and easy to follow, not to mention the use of a familiar tune as the subject. The graphics really draw your ears to important parts that make it easier to digest. Perfect!
The sheer amount of talent you have is ASTRONOMICAL. I always look up to you when trying to compose. Sin palabras! (Y la edición del video increíble!)
Just top notch everything. The actual music is insanely high quality on its own, let alone the amazing editing style.
Your videos are high quality, creative, high iq and funny altogether. Just, thank you, classical music needs people like you🙏
Thank you Josep! Great work!
I have been a pianist since I was a kid with 8 years of classical lessons. But as an adult I have turned to playing easy pop/rock songs by ear.
Now your work has inspired me to get into classical music again!
I recently bought an upright piano and I am having my best life playing on it :)
I was already humbled by the fact that you not only composed and played this,but you also did the awesome editing, and thenI read you are a cellist...What have i done with my life? You are amazing.
This is such a great modern example of one of the most complex musical forms in history. Plus, the clean editing helps to make it clear how the themes weave into each other. Amazing work!
Вы просто прекрасны, спасибо вам большое за эту красоту. Жду каждой вашей фуги с нетерпением. С уважением и любовью из России.
One of the best visualizations of a composition I've ever seen! I'm really digging the scrolling score parts and the little animations. This is so compositionally pristine - I especially liked 1:06 - 1:10 and 1:34 - 1:45 :D
Thank you for the truly excellent work!!
Lol, thanks, amazing!
That's the way of keeping classical music alive and relevant!
I wish you all the best
I stumbled across this channel through the classical Barbie girl doorway, then tumbled in and down, down, down a wormhole. Now I have angry clients, a hungry husky, and parrots that have learned to laugh and snort in strange manners.
Sublime.
Theres lots of this kind of content on youtube, but you definitely do it the best
This is insane!! Beautiful composition and what an elegant performance. Really love that mini-interlude at 0:36 and that sequence moment at 1:36 😍
Truly a genius pianist 👏🎹
Thank you very much! ❤ /Josep CA
Just awesome! Wonderful composition, rendition, and video edit - true mastery! 👏✨🎹
This video is perfect in everything. Well done.
Very nice craftmanship. Congratz!
The best rickroll of my life
Music : great
Explanations : great
Images : great
Edit : great
To sum up : brilliant
Your commentary is as entertaining as your musicianship is brilliant. Superb!
*The most sophisticated rick roll*
Great visuals! Incredibly well crafted piece from a tune that is deeply rooted in pop culture!
It really is a joy to listen to your pieces. only the irrepressible desire for more remains...
The only content creator who makes me drop everything as soon as a new video with a new track comes out!
This guy has talent. I’ve composed a woodwind quartet recently in a classical style (on my channel) lately, though his skill is on a different level!
The way you record (video and audio), the way you EDIT😮💨. All the animations, that is a loooooot of work, man. Well done!
This was awesome, I love how much complexity a simple figure can achieve.
I'm curious about how would you compose an orchestral version, without the limitations of the piano.
This makes me unnaturally happy. Thank you! Fugue on!!
Brilliant as always - the playing, the video creation, the music theory notes, and YOU!! 👍
I was not prepared for so many different parts of this composition (I started typing “arrangement” and got about two letters in before correcting myself)
…but the first time it modulates to minor. Whew.
I love how you mixed together the C# Major Fugue from Bach's WTC BWV: 848 (Book 1), and Rich Rolls theme. Its a great insight that you noticed the similarity between the two themes and married them exquisitely. Keep doing what you are doing to make Fugue's popular again, Bach tried and failed, then Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov (though not really) and then Glenn Gould, well maybe J.C. Alonso can! I have my fugues waiting in the wing to join you;)
Haha, yes, that one is one of my favourite fugues ever! ❤/Josep CA
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso its an incredibly logical fugue. I love how Bach exhausts almost all permutations of each motif. Both the theme and counter-theme, but always with respect to the foundational idea.
As for the WTC, I love all of them, but one of my top favorites in the C major fugue, it is such an incredibly difficult fugue to write, its so dense with stretto. Pure genius.
Have you explored the Golberg Variations? As in there lies my favorite contrapuntal work of Bach. Var 4 and 10 (the fughetta). Magnificent!!
The Beatles Penny Lane barrowed their baseline from this work (probably variation 4). Consider covering it. You're welcome😉. Parita in Dm (BWV 1004), and his passacaglia in Cm BWV 582 (for organ) are my favorite Bach works -- unmatched in their glory and majesty.
One more question, you are very proficient at keyboard, why did you choose the cello as your primary instrument? I am not accomplished as a pianist, but proficient, I love playing it (I play guitar and drums as well, but am mostly into composition) however, I've longed to learn the cello because of its rich sonorous tones! Have you found any works for cello than Bach's cello suite'? Do any even exist?
Love your work❤ Thank you Josep!👍
Just...grats!! Genial! Explained, clear, new aired but with all the classical counterpoint. You know what you're doing... and you're doing really great!
Wonderful. You made these songs sound much better ( it’s like a pie turned into a royal wedding cake).
The list of history's great fugists has a new entry on it!
Thank you Excellent video, love your Fugue, your playing, and your brilliant editing. 🇨🇦
I am so amazed by your creative and talented variations! 🙂
This is outstanding. The work, the performance, the videography, and the commentary. Pure brilliance! ❤
Absolutely brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing this-I’ve shared this link with many friends.
Such a great composition!
I had been waiting for a new video like this, and boy oh boy did you deliver.
This was incredibly helpful, as someone beginning to listen to and appreciate Bach’s music more, this helped me further understand it. Thank you.
This is just incredible! A true masterpiece! I think, Bach would be very proud of you.
Love your work! Staying tuned!
Thank you! So great to see another video from you, a truly talented person!
This is beautiful. I love the animations also!
WOW! This is the 3rd video of Josep's that I have watched and they keep getting more interesting and more educational. AMAZING.
Sos un crack, Josep, todo excelente! Composicion, ejecucion, edicion grafica y hasta didactica y humor... un video de antologia. Me encantó - en la parte con varias disonancias seguidas - la cara de sorpresa, disgusto, desaprobacion ( pero que en el fondo le encantó ) de Bach.
This was awesome!! Love the commentary, really helped me understand the form. Sending this to every music theory teacher I know (which is 3 :D)
And he plays the cello even better !
Congratulations, Josep! Beautiful music and production. God bless you!
Again, this is amazing ! Great work, I love your development !
Do a classical version of another famous hits of Rick and Body and Soul, Sleeping Away and You moved me ❤❤❤❤❤.
Thanks for mixing ode to Rick Astley mixing a dance disco global hit with classical arregements and classcal interpretations, kudos ❤
Please, please, let us know how we can support you in a way that can keep these videos coming. You're seriously one of the most talented people on TH-cam, you absolutely nail the fugue and the style of Bach.
Please, allow people to support you, to buy things you create. I would be first in line.
Absolutely fantastic.
A thousand times more pleasant than the original one 😂 Great job!
Please, continue. Your work is great!
Cant believe, this video only got 4000 Views. Your skills are amazing
Oh, I see 🙈 its online since Yesterday
The first time i saw "Inversion," isn't that Retrograde? JK. Bravo, a beautiful piece.
Hehe yes! I have previously used the backwards running music to showcase retograde motion since it is more logical to do so, you are right. In this case you maybe have to think of the notes as being upside down as well. 😅/Josep CA
you give me hope that creating beautiful music with harmony is still possible. I would love to hear some pieces in the style of Scarlatti!
Wow those animations must have taken forever!! Both the video and the fugue are so impressive 🤩🤩 I can barely play a fugue, so composing one seems so insane to me! This is awesome ❤❤
Wow wow wow wow wow
Everything is just perfection here, excellent work and a beautiful original piece.
I hope Rick gets to see this. Will put a smile on his face.
Keep it going!
What you're doing here, i's essential to this world. Thank you so much
this is unironically a beautiful fugue. thanks!
Perfection in every aspect 😮❤ I am sincerely amazed.
Music composition: even JSB himself couldn’t have done it better🤤, sound quality: 👌🏻🔝, camera work and editing: 💪🏼, in-video commentary: 😏☝🏼🤓💭❕
Bravo 👏🏻 bravissimo!
That, by the way, applies to every video by you that I’ve seen so far!
A delight for the ears! Thank you!
"I'm a philharmonic cellist and i play a BIT of piano." Get.ooout.
Marvelous work, as always!
You are so talented
Very clever, thanks for posting!
"Nice hall, huh?" * rewinds video *
love your videos!! thank you💕
Wow! You can rickroll me like that as much as you want! Incredible work and video editing.
WOW. can you release an album of your baroque interpretations of pop music? I would seriously love that
Wow - stunning performance, composition, and presentation! Thanks for not Gifuguing Us Up.
When I went to high school my formal music education ended, not my choice. As I get older I am so frustrated because music affects me at a visceral level and I wish I knew the reasons. Thank you for this.
This is so good!! 🎉
I've already praised your work but I'm not shy to do it again! I'm profoundly sad that the physical condition of my beloved idol/master Keith Jarrett prevents him to produce more masterpieces nowadays but I'm also so glad there are a few extremely talented fellows like you to disrupt musical frontiers and dazzle us with such beauties! THANK YOU.
Such a good pianist but hes a professional cellist and obviously a well trained composer! So much with this fascinating guy. Hope he gives us some of his compositions!
Beautifully composed
best fugue ive ever heard in my life...
Chapeau! Authentical Baroque style! Very few can pull that off!
This is insanely good. A masterpiece, and piano is not even his main instrument ...
Send this to Rick Astley
Wow! Please keep doing this.
This made me emotional. So happy that this exists
This is the first time I've been not rickrolled but amazed❤
The guy is never going to give up on the piano ❤
This kind of playful brilliance gets an instant subscribe, like, and I tell all my friends.
I don't think Bach would use three dotted eighth notes in a row 🤣
Also nice video editing
Astounding. Just astonishing. Complexity married to humour in a chapel of artistry.
U're a genious ! Great skill ! Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼
I heard a mental applause at the end of this