On Harp. This performance is stunning for so many reasons. What I would give to see you play Live. Or to be your page turner, except my eyes would be filling with tears of admiration, awe, love and joy. 😮😮😮
Pardon my French but.... FUUCK YEAAAH Wait, that bad boy has pedals on it!? Dope, and you play with heels?! Your crazy, and I mean that with the utmost respect Good shit! Keep jammin! ✌
BOO YA! Glad you liked it so much! And I always take crazy as a compliment. 😁 The pedals are how you can change the pitch of the string to play in any key or get your chromatics.
I never heard this on harp, and I love it! I was slightly younger than Rachmaninoff (when he composed this piece) when I played it in recital, and earned a Knabe grand piano! One of my favorite pieces to play.
@@telynros Thanks! I have a short bucket list. I went to Taliesen West and got to play on Frank Lloyd Wright's Knabe grand. I didn't play this piece. On my bucket list: I want to go back and play THIS piece on it. I watched your organ video of this piece. Didn't like all the references to death. This piece doesn't mean death to me, no matter what Rachmaninoff might have thought. I need to listen again. It sounded like it was arranged, some of the notes were different. I care because I play organ, too. Anyway, thanks so much for sharing this with us!
stroboscopic effect. the string moves faster than the camera takes frames, so it doesnt continually properly catch the string movements. i'm not sure if i can explain how this works by text in a short comment so i suggest looking up some youtube videos about it.
:O I played this on the piano some time ago and randomly got this recommended to me... sounds so otherwordly hearing it on another instrument and different tempo than the one youve been practising it on for months. Good job it sounds amazing :D
Yes! I learned it first on piano as well. The harp has this unique resonance separate from the piano, and generally needs a little more time for decay.
The playing is beautiful, the transcription seems just perfect, and the video is epic. I love seeing the pedal work! Are you considering publishing your transcription? It really sounds like it was written for harp.
Ooh, thank you! I know harpists are not supposed to point out the secret that they have pedals, but I think it's cool to the understanding of the functionality of the instrument. I hadn't really considered publication... I'm not too knowledgeable about how that works.
@@pianissimo7121 Yes, and they work much differently than piano pedals. That's how we get chromatics. Some harps have levers instead of pedals, which are moved with the hand.
@@telynros Are you kidding me? I love it! I'm also a musician. I play seven strings acoustic guitar. Brazilian chorinho, mostly. Feel free to take a look on my channel, if you wish.
You’ve convinced me with this one video to pick up my old harp again. It’s only a ~30 string lever harp so I can’t hope to play something like this anytime soon, but wow I hope one day it will be possible. Thanks for the inspiration!
YAY!! I'm so glad! I also started on lever harp. In fact, the one on this channel that I use for The Last Rose of Summer and Danny Boy is my original harp. 😀
This is my first time hearing it called pedalplay, but I like it! If you want to know more about how the harp works and its history, check out my tutorial video: th-cam.com/video/aFn3C8jFDMc/w-d-xo.html
Y'all! I'm pretty busy, but I'm open to taking suggestions of what classical music you'd like me to play next. I'll try to get to them when I can. Also, check out my dark channel where I have my computer music and short stories: www.youtube.com/@telyafterdark (more coming, again when I have time)
It's interesting seeing this played on different instruments. Ever since I heard this piece I've been haunted by it. There's an extremely alluring dark beauty to it; I wish I had half the originality it took to write it.
Right? Part of its charm, I think, is its simplicity. It doesn't get in the way of itself or preen about like it's the most intelligent thing in the room.
@@telynros Exactly. It's not Liszt's Feux follets, theoretically "music" but in practice it's just garbled, impossible to play or hear, and only really belongs in fierce competitions. This is music at its finest...expressive, emotive, inspiring, and telling a story. Thank you for your rendition.
this sounds fantastic! I would look towards changing your camera angle with each new take, so that you can splice with J-cuts that don't look as obvious. Very professional audio work!
Thanks for the tip! I definitely have a lot to learn about video editing. I think I did four camera angles for this one, but only have one camera, which means I have to play consistently enough to be able to cut between them.
I know! It's mesmerizing, right? A fellow musician explained that it's probably because the refresh rate of my camera is syncing with the wave rate of the note. I've experienced that in other ranges of the harp with fluorescents.
this is very good! i enjoy it alot, and i have been listening to my sister learning to playing harp for the last 10years, i told her to learn it. it looks difficult, is it difficult?
That's cool that your sister is learning harp! This piece is fairly difficult for the sheer number of pedal changes (198). What type of harp does she play?
Congratulations! You're the first person to notice! I did that because harps have more resonance in flat keys (more open strings), so the piece really opens up so much more in c min rather than c#.
Oh WOW. I am 38 years old, never knew a harp could have foot pedals. Not to mention how must work and effort has to go into tuning the thing. If you don’t mind my asking, as I am a heavy metal guitarist, and I don’t know how much your instrument costs. How much is that harp? EXCELLENT sounding, and props for this 👏🙏
Yes, some harps have levers (or none) and some have pedals. There's 7 pedals--one for each pitch class--and 3 positions for each pedal--flat, nat, and sharp. This harp costs about $30,000, but there are of course cheaper ones (and more expensive!) I've been thinking recently about a carbon fiber pedal harp. Would love to hear some of your metal music!
@@telynros Oh wow, didn’t think I’d get a reply. Lol, much less from you yourself! Thank you for the info, I really didn’t know and I was going to guess between 30 and $50,000. Again, it must be terrible to tune lol! I had a different TH-cam channel a while back that had a lot of my guitar playing, and due to certain life circumstances, I no longer on a single guitar. But that’s okay :) I’ll get another one someday soon, and will post when I play again. Thank you very much for your reply, you play beautifully. I am by no means is musically talented as you 😂 I forgot to ask, since it’s you, yourself replying. How long have you been playing? Plus thank you yet again for you replying, I look forward to watching anymore of your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
You played it in C minor, not in C Sharp minor. But it's okay, i loved it!!! ❤ (it"s not a piano and i guess that is more dificult to play it in C Sharp)
Yay! someone finally noticed! Actually, all keys are just as easily played on a harp (C# Major, for example, is as easy as C Major), but I did it because flats sounds so much better than sharps due to open strings. So c minor for this piece resonates beautifully, while c# minor sounds more pinched.
Really good. But the white wall in the background is a mistake here. You needed a photo Tapete there. With a very strange photo of people who watch your video. Best also would be a big plasma screen in the background with a video of people doing strange dances totally naked as your wall and this also with a speed of 5.0:1
Yeah, harp is notoriously hard to mic well. I really need 2 mics close for the high and low ends, and then 2 room mics. Sadly, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
I don't see why people are surprised that any piano piece can be transcribed for harp. They basically have the same mechanism with one string for each note. Seems pretty intuitive that anything that can be played on harp can be played on keyboard and vice versa
Yes and no. There are several mechanisms that are different between the 2 instruments. In harp, only 4 fingers of each hand are used, which makes 5-finger patterns that are so common in piano music much more difficult to execute on a harp. While it is fairly simple to move a finger slightly on the piano to get an accidental, it requires moving a pedal (or lever) on the harp. This means that music that is very chromatic, like Debussy, Ravel, and dare I say Rachmaninoff, can be nearly impossible if not approached creatively.
This is great, but the only issue is that the harp is a beautiful instrument and just doesn't sound right when such intense/dark pieces are played on it
I agree! But unfortunately the goth room in my house is upstairs, so the harp doesn't go up there. I think the black lace and veil is pretty goth, though. 🧛🏻♂️ If you want more dark imagery for this piece, I recorded an organ version on my dark channel, which follow's Rachmaninoff's supposed inspiration: th-cam.com/video/gq6LwaapvGg/w-d-xo.html Everything on there's darker.
@@telynros I really enjoyed your playing. Heard on the harp at a slower tempo than most pianists would probably play it, it struck me as kind of eerie. Seeing the black lace dress I could imagine the whole effect if it had gone full Goth. BTW Gothic architecture is my favorite. I once dreamed I lived on the second story in a gigantic Gothic cathedral I owned and had turned into a home. Kind of like Count Dracula, don't you think?
Hmm...is that because it should have been on harp to start with, or because it should never have been written so I couldn't butcher it on my instrument? 😜
For harp, default approach to chords is to roll them when there's 3 or more notes. Otherwise it sounds very dry...which is actually why I experimented with tight and more broadly rolled chords for this piece. Tight and brittle for the opening, bigger rolls for more emotion when the original theme comes back at fortississimo. Flat chords at this point would sound anticlimactic on a harp.
Never immagined this piece on harp. Your performance gave me chills, so clean
Thank you so much! ☺
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful. I taught myself how to play it on the Piano when I was 16. I don’t know how I did it. I’m 41 now.
It's a tricky one, especially at the end with the jumps!
@@telynros indeed. Good job.
I had no concept of this being a playable piece on harp but you absolutely played this so beautifully. I could listen to your playing for hours
Thank you! 😊
First time I heard Rach's piece I wondered what it would sound like on harp. Looks like my prayers were answered😄
lol. I wonder how often someone told Rachmaninoff that he was an answer to prayer. 😉
That was amazing!! Just beautiful! I could barely play that piece on the piano.
Thank you! It's tricky for sure.
Wow! Unbelievable! Used to play this on the piano and just started playing a lever harp, so blown away by the skill here.
Thank you! ☺
All that, AND she flips her own pages! Amazing! This'll be saved on my playlist for as long as I live. Well done!
Wow, thank you! So glad you like it so much!! 😊
Shes a str8 up Gangsta bro
Not like these sissy nowadays
I randomly had a thought wether someone had covered this on a harp, and was very happy to find this arrangement! Beautiful playing, thank you!
So glad you found it!
So beautifull❤️🖤
Thank you!
Never knew what the pedals on a harp did, or that harps even had pedals. I'm blown away by how hard this piece must be on the harp. Good job!
It is definitely tricky. If I remember correctly, it's somewhere around 200 pedals to get it done!
Absolutely breath taking!!! Beautiful!!!
Thank you!! 😊
Are you kidiiiinggg meee. That is awesome!
😊Thank you!
On Harp. This performance is stunning for so many reasons. What I would give to see you play Live. Or to be your page turner, except my eyes would be filling with tears of admiration, awe, love and joy.
😮😮😮
Aww, thank you so much! Live is a very special experience to be sure. And next to the instrument is even better!
Pardon my French but....
FUUCK YEAAAH
Wait, that bad boy has pedals on it!?
Dope, and you play with heels?!
Your crazy, and I mean that with the utmost respect
Good shit! Keep jammin! ✌
BOO YA! Glad you liked it so much! And I always take crazy as a compliment. 😁
The pedals are how you can change the pitch of the string to play in any key or get your chromatics.
This is unbelievable thanks for sharing.
So glad you like it!
I never heard this on harp, and I love it! I was slightly younger than Rachmaninoff (when he composed this piece) when I played it in recital, and earned a Knabe grand piano! One of my favorite pieces to play.
That's really cool!
@@telynros Thanks! I have a short bucket list. I went to Taliesen West and got to play on Frank Lloyd Wright's Knabe grand. I didn't play this piece. On my bucket list: I want to go back and play THIS piece on it.
I watched your organ video of this piece. Didn't like all the references to death. This piece doesn't mean death to me, no matter what Rachmaninoff might have thought. I need to listen again. It sounded like it was arranged, some of the notes were different. I care because I play organ, too.
Anyway, thanks so much for sharing this with us!
Such grace!
Thank you! 😊
Brava!
Thank you!
Lovely! So pleased I was able see you at work.
It's cool how "work" can be published on the internet now. 😎
Браво !
Thank you!
How cool is it that you can actually see the waves on the longest string?! Love that!
I know! It doesn't look that cool from where I'm sitting, but the camera captured it!
stroboscopic effect. the string moves faster than the camera takes frames, so it doesnt continually properly catch the string movements. i'm not sure if i can explain how this works by text in a short comment so i suggest looking up some youtube videos about it.
it's also the same thing when a fidget spinner looks like its spinning backwards on camera, or a fan etc etc
Восторг!
I'm glad you liked it! 😃
:O I played this on the piano some time ago and randomly got this recommended to me... sounds so otherwordly hearing it on another instrument and different tempo than the one youve been practising it on for months. Good job it sounds amazing :D
Yes! I learned it first on piano as well. The harp has this unique resonance separate from the piano, and generally needs a little more time for decay.
You Are A Very Talented Artist . I Enjoyed Every Second Of This Video ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!
BEAST!!!
Thank you!!
seems so suited for the harp! how beautiful.
It's so comfortably moody on the harp. 😎
impressing. Interesting transcription and very well played. Bravo ❤
Thank you! 😀
I love your sound!!
(It is amazing that you can play this piece without buzz!!!!!)
Thank you! Careful fingering and pedaling is key.
Simply inspiring- beautiful thank you for sharing this
You're welcome!
Wonderful!
Thank you!
Love this thank you
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I believe this is my favorite piece. I feel it.
I agree.
Un grand merci pour votre interprétation, bravo
Thank you! You're the first comment from France (or at least in French).
Omg. Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou! Amazing.
So glad you like it!!
The playing is beautiful, the transcription seems just perfect, and the video is epic. I love seeing the pedal work! Are you considering publishing your transcription? It really sounds like it was written for harp.
Ooh, thank you! I know harpists are not supposed to point out the secret that they have pedals, but I think it's cool to the understanding of the functionality of the instrument. I hadn't really considered publication... I'm not too knowledgeable about how that works.
@@telynros as a pianist who has never seen a harp IRL. I was shocked to learn it has a pedal.
@@pianissimo7121 Yes, and they work much differently than piano pedals. That's how we get chromatics. Some harps have levers instead of pedals, which are moved with the hand.
Well, that was lovely and I couldn't hear where you made a change (no perfect pitch here!). Nice hair! Fierce shoes! 😁❤️
Thank you! The shoes are everything, aren't they? 😁
Wonderful! Thank you for this.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
That was magnificent !!! Congratulations!!! And thank you.
Thank you!! So glad you liked it!
@@telynros Are you kidding me? I love it! I'm also a musician. I play seven strings acoustic guitar. Brazilian chorinho, mostly. Feel free to take a look on my channel, if you wish.
@@Empatiaa I'll check it out!
Thank you so much! Subscribed.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is wonderful 🔥
Thank you! 😀
👏🏻🎶
😎
Strong and beautiful !!!!
I want you to play Rachmaninov's vocalize and other pieces on solo harp !!!!
I'll look into that! 😃
Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you! 😊
Amazing job! Wonderfully put together video ❤️
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
SO AMAZING i love it i never really watch harp videos but this ones so amazing!!
Wow, thank you!
Fantastic performance! I’m learning on the piano now and it’s pretty tricky😅
It really is! Good luck!
Beautiful technique, transcription and performance.
Thank you so much!
amazing !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
well done! so beautiful 🎶
Thank you!
This is amazing! I am learning an original piano version these days and stumnled upon your harp cover. Impressive!
That's awesome! The world needs more Rachmaninoff.
You’ve convinced me with this one video to pick up my old harp again. It’s only a ~30 string lever harp so I can’t hope to play something like this anytime soon, but wow I hope one day it will be possible.
Thanks for the inspiration!
YAY!! I'm so glad! I also started on lever harp. In fact, the one on this channel that I use for The Last Rose of Summer and Danny Boy is my original harp. 😀
Great work, that was beautiful, greetings from Spain.
Thank you! Greetings TO Spain! Always fun to see how far my music has reached. 😃
This is the first time for me to see pedalplay on a harp. I did not knew that at all.
I like the sound of your arrangement and the video is very good.
This is my first time hearing it called pedalplay, but I like it! If you want to know more about how the harp works and its history, check out my tutorial video: th-cam.com/video/aFn3C8jFDMc/w-d-xo.html
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You so embody goth dear. The rare kind, the original kind.
Thank you! That's such a lovely compliment. ☺
Восхитительно! ❤🙌🙌🙌
Thank you! 😃
Truly Well Played ❤️👏🏻
Thank you! 😀
this is amazing. well done. just bought the piece to be as cool as you. love the low C vibrating :D
Oh I know, that last string, right?! That's my meditation just staring at it.
Bravissima! 🌼
Thank you! ☺
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎼👍💯👏
😊🥰
Good job
Thanks!
Increíble
Thank you!
Y'all! I'm pretty busy, but I'm open to taking suggestions of what classical music you'd like me to play next. I'll try to get to them when I can. Also, check out my dark channel where I have my computer music and short stories: www.youtube.com/@telyafterdark (more coming, again when I have time)
Fucking beautiful and amazing, damn you’re the best.
Aww, thank you! 😊
Wonderful congratulation
Thanks! 😃
It's interesting seeing this played on different instruments.
Ever since I heard this piece I've been haunted by it. There's an extremely alluring dark beauty to it; I wish I had half the originality it took to write it.
Right? Part of its charm, I think, is its simplicity. It doesn't get in the way of itself or preen about like it's the most intelligent thing in the room.
@@telynros Exactly. It's not Liszt's Feux follets, theoretically "music" but in practice it's just garbled, impossible to play or hear, and only really belongs in fierce competitions.
This is music at its finest...expressive, emotive, inspiring, and telling a story. Thank you for your rendition.
Super epic
😁
So cool! I play pedal harp too and I was looking to see if this song was even playable, thank you for inspiring me! 😊
You can do it! 👍 It's such a fun piece.
@@telynros thank you! ❤
epic
🤘
this sounds fantastic! I would look towards changing your camera angle with each new take, so that you can splice with J-cuts that don't look as obvious. Very professional audio work!
Thanks for the tip! I definitely have a lot to learn about video editing. I think I did four camera angles for this one, but only have one camera, which means I have to play consistently enough to be able to cut between them.
Waou
Thanks!
It's interesting that you can watch the vibration and wave on your lowest string.
I know! It's mesmerizing, right? A fellow musician explained that it's probably because the refresh rate of my camera is syncing with the wave rate of the note. I've experienced that in other ranges of the harp with fluorescents.
this is very good!
i enjoy it alot, and i have been listening to my sister learning to playing harp for the last 10years,
i told her to learn it.
it looks difficult,
is it difficult?
That's cool that your sister is learning harp! This piece is fairly difficult for the sheer number of pedal changes (198). What type of harp does she play?
@@telynros one with 3 (or 4 im not sure) pedals,
but in university she has a bigger one.
wow why do you only have 100+ subs
Would love to have more! Tell your friends! 😃
It's really great! Thank you for such a good performance! The only question is... why do you play it half a tone lower, in c-moll, not in cis-moll?
Congratulations! You're the first person to notice! I did that because harps have more resonance in flat keys (more open strings), so the piece really opens up so much more in c min rather than c#.
Oh WOW. I am 38 years old, never knew a harp could have foot pedals. Not to mention how must work and effort has to go into tuning the thing. If you don’t mind my asking, as I am a heavy metal guitarist, and I don’t know how much your instrument costs. How much is that harp? EXCELLENT sounding, and props for this 👏🙏
Yes, some harps have levers (or none) and some have pedals. There's 7 pedals--one for each pitch class--and 3 positions for each pedal--flat, nat, and sharp. This harp costs about $30,000, but there are of course cheaper ones (and more expensive!) I've been thinking recently about a carbon fiber pedal harp. Would love to hear some of your metal music!
@@telynros Oh wow, didn’t think I’d get a reply. Lol, much less from you yourself! Thank you for the info, I really didn’t know and I was going to guess between 30 and $50,000. Again, it must be terrible to tune lol! I had a different TH-cam channel a while back that had a lot of my guitar playing, and due to certain life circumstances, I no longer on a single guitar. But that’s okay :) I’ll get another one someday soon, and will post when I play again. Thank you very much for your reply, you play beautifully. I am by no means is musically talented as you 😂 I forgot to ask, since it’s you, yourself replying. How long have you been playing? Plus thank you yet again for you replying, I look forward to watching anymore of your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
Amazing!
I can play up to 2:12 on the piano this is amazing work!
👍It's so much fun to play, isn't it? And that rolling, cascading middle section...I hope you keep working on it so you can play the whole piece!
@@telynros Yes it is very fun to play
And thank you
You played it in C minor, not in C Sharp minor. But it's okay, i loved it!!! ❤ (it"s not a piano and i guess that is more dificult to play it in C Sharp)
Yay! someone finally noticed! Actually, all keys are just as easily played on a harp (C# Major, for example, is as easy as C Major), but I did it because flats sounds so much better than sharps due to open strings. So c minor for this piece resonates beautifully, while c# minor sounds more pinched.
@@telynros Yes, it usually happens on almost all instruments. although it depends on the song that is being played
Really good. But the white wall in the background is a mistake here. You needed a photo Tapete there. With a very strange photo of people who watch your video. Best also would be a big plasma screen in the background with a video of people doing strange dances totally naked as your wall and this also with a speed of 5.0:1
I think I could skip the naked people, but a funeral procession behind me would be cool!
Do you ever use pinkies for harp?
No, they're too short and weak. So only 4 fingers per hand.
nice. to bad the sound quality. well done!
Yeah, harp is notoriously hard to mic well. I really need 2 mics close for the high and low ends, and then 2 room mics. Sadly, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
I don't see why people are surprised that any piano piece can be transcribed for harp. They basically have the same mechanism with one string for each note. Seems pretty intuitive that anything that can be played on harp can be played on keyboard and vice versa
Yes and no. There are several mechanisms that are different between the 2 instruments. In harp, only 4 fingers of each hand are used, which makes 5-finger patterns that are so common in piano music much more difficult to execute on a harp. While it is fairly simple to move a finger slightly on the piano to get an accidental, it requires moving a pedal (or lever) on the harp. This means that music that is very chromatic, like Debussy, Ravel, and dare I say Rachmaninoff, can be nearly impossible if not approached creatively.
@@telynros thanks for that explanation
Such a dirge, but none too beautiful even on the harp.
I'm such a sucker for funeral music. I haven't posted it yet, but on my dark channel eventually will be a funeral doom piece I wrote.
3:02 Terrible.
This is great, but the only issue is that the harp is a beautiful instrument and just doesn't sound right when such intense/dark pieces are played on it
Do you think so? I love pulling the dark sounds out of the instrument. The harp can make such weird noises!
Just watching that lowest string is amazing.
@@spikespa5208 I know right! Mesmerizing.
Great but it would be even better if she and the background would have gone full Gothic. 😈
I agree! But unfortunately the goth room in my house is upstairs, so the harp doesn't go up there. I think the black lace and veil is pretty goth, though. 🧛🏻♂️ If you want more dark imagery for this piece, I recorded an organ version on my dark channel, which follow's Rachmaninoff's supposed inspiration: th-cam.com/video/gq6LwaapvGg/w-d-xo.html
Everything on there's darker.
@@telynros I really enjoyed your playing. Heard on the harp at a slower tempo than most pianists would probably play it, it struck me as kind of eerie. Seeing the black lace dress I could imagine the whole effect if it had gone full Goth. BTW Gothic architecture is my favorite. I once dreamed I lived on the second story in a gigantic Gothic cathedral I owned and had turned into a home. Kind of like Count Dracula, don't you think?
It’s time’s such as these it’s a shame that the piano was invented in the first place 🤫
Hmm...is that because it should have been on harp to start with, or because it should never have been written so I couldn't butcher it on my instrument? 😜
I don't like that she plays so much arpeggio. It's wrong.
For harp, default approach to chords is to roll them when there's 3 or more notes. Otherwise it sounds very dry...which is actually why I experimented with tight and more broadly rolled chords for this piece. Tight and brittle for the opening, bigger rolls for more emotion when the original theme comes back at fortississimo. Flat chords at this point would sound anticlimactic on a harp.
This is disgusting, I am terrified of Rachmaninov. Why did you do this to yourself?
lolz. I agree, Rachmaninov IS terrifying. But I really like moody music and occasionally I like a challenge. 😎
She played it not to well
How could it have been better?
@@telynros you were reading from a book. So you're excused. I thought it was learned. Don't worry about it. You were reading from a book.
Wonderful!!!
Thank you!!