This dude's performance of this transcription (his own) is perfect. The others, while also good - just not great like this performance. Come back everytime - bravo maestro
Breathtaking ! Terrific drive and opulence. If you have to have the Bolero on a piano, this is probably as good as it can get. There doesn't seem to be much more one can do with two hands. A truly great achievement by a too little known virtuoso.
un solo uomo, ma con cinque cervelli. 2 per la mano destra e tre per la mano sinistra. a 6:21 ci innalziamo al livello di Paradiso a 7:50 scopriamo che si può andare oltre il Paradiso da 9:18, per favore, per favore. Può scoppiare la testa. Da quì in poi il pianoforte morde e non ci molla più. Attenzione!
But that's probably improvisation (no, I have never heard about them). This piece should have something to go with it. The Bolero is the same melody again and again, and each time more instruments join in. In the piano version, each time the melody plays he does something else (compare 1:09, 4:09, 7:09). He had to make some kind of notation of what chords he's going to do when and how.
Sinply (for some, not for me). Have you ever heard about e.g. Keith Jarret? Bill Evans? Hours of music, no sheets. (Of course, some of the music was transcribed ex post, like Artistry of Bill Evans asw.) Just... plenty of great music, no sheets at all.
Okay, since you consider yourself an expert, please pass some of your knowledge to a humble music enthusiast and amateur pianist such as me, and explain to me how you can compose over ten minutes of music without ever writing anything on paper. PS. I would be very surprised if the NASA never wrote down anything on paper when building the space shuttle.
@marcnycity it's not 2 people, but 1! I have also seen him perform it live. He puts something inside the piano, which makes the affected key thereafter sound like the snare drum you can hear!
