It was only 1.5 years ago that I started Rousseau, and now there are over 2 MILLION of us - I can't even begin to comprehend this, thank you all. Now that we’ve hit this incredible milestone and ticked HR2 off the bucket list, it is time to take Rousseau to the next level. An original album is already in the works, we're thinking of ways to reimagine live shows too and are working on a concert series! This is just the beginning of what is planned beyond RU-vid and I can’t wait to share more details with you all in 2020! If you’re subscribed to the newsletter, you’ll be the first to know. ♥ www.rousseaum.com
Simply piano might teach you how to play "Girls like you" or whatever 2019ish songs. But I don't think it can teach you the proper fingerings to press the keys with._.
The Cat Concerto-Tom and Jerry 0:00 Tom starts playing 0:30 Tom cleans his hands and puts his shirt back up 0:40 Tom continues playing 1:12 Jerry;sleeping was moved around. 1:18 Jerry Wakes up 1:25 Jerry falls on a string 1:35 Jerry notices Tom 1:40 Jerry starts waving to the key patterns,Tom notices Jerry 1:49 Tom flicks Jerry back into the piano 2:16 Jerry appears under a piano key 2:25 Tom plays the key of which Jerry is under 2:32 Jerry runs under the keys 2:39 Tom plays the key Jerry is under and moves on 3:35 Tom plays an ascending run 3:38 The trill is still going as Jerry is repeating them from the inside of the piano 3:43 Tom bonks Jerry and continues playing 5:08 Jerry slams the piano’s door shut and flatten’s Tom’s hand 5:50 Jerry tries to cut Tom’s fingers 6:21 Jerry replaces two keys with a mouse trap 6:25 Tom’s finger was caught in the trap and inflates 6:28 Jerry starts playing with his feet 6:31 Tom starts getting Jerry of the keyboard 6:37 Tom checks if Jerry is around and continues playing 6:48 Jerry starts playing his own tune 6:57 Tom shoves keys as Jerry appears and makes faces at Tom 7:14 Tom was tired of Jerry’s shit and start tormenting him 8:19 The hammer starts playing Jerry like a baseball 8:31 The hammers move around and hit Jerry in the face multiple times 11:55 Jerry starts playing by breaking two hammers as Tom tries to mimic them(repeat this part at 1.5x speed 3 times) 12:15 Tom gets tired and collapses
@Gizio the Jackal i don't think that's what they meant. i think they meant the first part of lassan is pretty easy but once you get to the middle it gets hard
@@ericshasbeendoingstuffz you're literally taking some of the best classical works ever conceived with months if not years of tweaking and perfection made by a virtuoso pianist and comparing it to music a 17 year old makes in his bedroom in 2 weeks. Listen to some polyphia or Einaudi or Hans zimmer or people like him and you'll understand.
Never heard Hungarian Rhapsody in its entirety before.. What a journey. Further you are into the piece, more detached you are, reality becomes blurry and you recognize pieces of what you knew, but distorted, unfamilliar. This is a journey from depression, thru mania, to mental breakdown. Absolute ma-ster-pie-ce
My grandfather used to play this as well as many other Liszt and Chopin pieces when I was a kid. He chose a life of entrepreneurship over becoming a concert pianist. He always said it was the best decision he ever made because otherwise he never would’ve met my grandma and my whole family would never have come to be. He passed away last month. It’s amazing how much more of an impact this recording has for me now that he’s passed. R.I.P. Grandpa Challe. I’ll see you again up there.❤️
I literally struggle with believing someone created this music and it makes me cry when I think about all the beautiful things that can come from a human brain 1/22/24, just watched this again and just noticed Jerry tumbling down the side at one point. I'm quite pleased
Nah more like The schoolwork: Moonlight Sonata The homework: Prelude Op 3 No 2 (Rachmaninoff) The test: Chopin’s Impromptu That one kid who knows everything:
My 12 yr old grandson can play this without sheet music. I love hearing him play a few classics. He’s also a stud linebacker and fullback in football. The first time I heard him play piano I was AMAZED and other adjectives. I asked him why he never told me he had this gift he told me, “PawPaw I didn’t want you to think I’m a sissy😥” at 60 I changed my views and told him how impressed and proud I was for him, and of him! Amazed is an understatement for my gifted boy!! Wish I could take credit, I can’t🤣
i can just imagine... the year is 1851 and Liszt knows he has this BANGER and he is about to go perform it live for the first time in front of all kinds of royals and upper-class individuals, that would have been a sight to see
I've been revisiting this recording periodically for a couple of years now and I consider this my reference recording for this piece. That is, this is what I compare everything else to. Tonight, two hours ago I was in a private home listening to a private concert performed by a very good concert pianist. There were about 30 people present. The piece was performed on a new Yamaha baby grand. They played this piece, one of my favorites. When they got to the cadenza two people got up from the audience and walked over and joined the pianist and they went on to play the most complex mind blowing 7 minute long six handed cadenza I have ever heard. They never left the theme of the piece but simply reworked it and varied it and layered it from end to end in what I would call a beautiful convolution of notes. The three performers composed the arrangement of the cadenza themselves. The principal pianist is a concert pianist but also teaches and the other two were his students. I was unable to convince them to provide me with a copy of the sheet music for the cadenza though clearly they were performing off sheet music they had hand written.
Same haha, i was listening to this while doing HW then out of nowhere decide to see how skillful this guy is and BAM Jerry and its cat concerto easter egg haha lovely!
He never said that, that’s stupid, i dont even think that he thinks that this piece is hard, he have much much harder pieces, like, el countrabandista, paganini etude no.4 (1838)
And its true no one played paganini etude no.4 (1838), and the only one who played el countrabandista on youtube was Valentina lisitsa, and she is 200 years after him, not at his time
Okay, a few things: First of all, the visuals in this are beautiful. Definitely the best and most interesting ones that you've used so far. They really add an extra feeling of wonder. Gold and diamond are appropriate as this is such a long-awaited piece, it's like treasure to us subscribers. Secondly, I love all the little unique changes you've made with the timing and phrasing of certain parts, which I haven't heard anywhere else. You definitely made the piece your own and gave it a new life, a new feel, a new personality if you will. Incredible. (P.S. the abridged part was awesome). Obviously this took a lot of hard work and care, and you must have spent a long time preparing, practicing, editing and recording. Thank you for putting in so much effort to entertain your audience and brighten their experience!
First half is magnificent. For the second half someone must have pissed off Liszt really bad and he was like: “Screw all future pianists trying to play this one.”
I'm pretty sure Liszt must have felt, as a fantastic pianist, that there was not enough repertoir out there challenging enough for him. To be able to play a festive piece at this level must have been very refreshing for him!
You can see the moment the black keys ripped the skin off of my fingers at 10:50 - what a fun cadenza to play on a digital piano ;) Make the pain not be in vain by sharing this video :P Fingers are better now but still healing up, for the first time ever - I'm taking a week off! No video next week but there will be another special one on the 14th!
toes he's overrated tbh. Like did u see the live chat during the premiere of this video. These people seem to have never heard an actual professional play this. If they hear Hamelin playing this then they would faint
@@Numberonesorabjifan sure he may not be professional, but a lot of people has seemed to want it and he finally delivered it so I think it deserves more views. Maybe more people need to be informed that the video's released.
@@クロノシル This isn't hating. They acknowledge the player's ability but point out the fact that there have been and still are pianist more capable of playing this piece. Still it is a feat to be able to play the piece so well.
Musically, this performance is world class: Dynaimcs, eveness and tempo and not too much rubato. Did not expect to see Hamelin's cadenza. People rarely even play any cadenza for HR2 at all these days and for you to pick a cadenza that rivals the whole piece in terms of difficulty is certainly worth all the praise. I am in awe
Marcelo Price It is a place that the composer adds in the music for the performer to show off their skills, or set a mood. At the end of this piece, the composer (Liszt) wrote in that the performer should play a cadenza there. Liszt himself composed a few cadenzas for this, and Rachmaninoff created one also, and Hamelin’s version was played here.
It helped me pass my art appreciation exam. (the exam was about classical music, our professor would play parts of the music and we have to answer the title of the music and the composer)
It's really true. When I found out all the sounds from Tom and Jerry was made by an orchestra I almost died. That cartoon series will forever hold a special place in my heart. All their endless banter was pretty amusing
@@ginapop7281 You should learn about him. He was Hungarian. Liszt Ferenc. Yeah, he born close to the Austrian border in Doborján, and after WW1 with Trianon that part became part of Austria, and yeah, Liszt is a hungarian name, and austrians don't have sz letter, and yeah, Ferenc and Franz is the same name in hungarian and german translation, and yeah, her mother was austrian and her father Hungarian. And finally, Lina Ramann Franz Liszt als Künstler und Mensch [Liszt Ferenc - a művész és ember] also say he was Hungarian. So take time and effort to learn about him, because he was Hungarian. So please, don't be stupid, learn before comment. And don't forget the part, you listen the "Hungarian Rhapsody" not "Austrian Rhapsody".... Edit: I know I know, the Austrians stole themself the German Ludwig van Beethoven and call him Austrian too, and give the austrian Hitler to germany. Edit2: About Beethoven, I know that the Hungarian Rhapsody part isn't a real argument, as Beethoven himself started working about King Stephen, Op. 117 (König Stephan) and still Beethoven is a german not hungarian, but it still not change the fact that Liszt was hungarian.
@@StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe I would say 50/50. He has an austrian mother and a hungarian father. He was born in then hungary now austria. He said he was hungarian but he learned german way before he learned hungarian. So I think he was both hungarian an austrian somehow. Sorry for my (maybe) bad writing. I live in austria.
Like almost everything by LISZT, this piece, composed in 1847 and published in 1851, magnificent, lyrical and vibrant, and deliriously creative, is extremely difficult to perform, demanding a lot from the most evolved, experienced, skilled and dedicated pianist, which is fully demonstrated in this video by ROUSSEAU. (Celso Lago, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Many performers try to rush through the most technical elements of this piece, which is technical and impressive and all that. But you have to appreciate how accentuated, complex and beautiful piece this is when no notes are swallowed, and your brain actually has time to process all the incoming data :) . This is one beautiful performance, Rousseau! Thank you
Horowitz's rendition Ive found was a 100 mph dumpster fire. And people say no it's great just because its Horowitz. Fuck that it was terrible and Lang Lang's version was just as terrible. Rosseau's version didnt have the dynamics as much but outside of a few hard spots where he slowed down it was clean and I appreciate it.
Yeah, there are so many pieces that people always rush when the piece is actually moderato for exemple, or the piece is not so fast but people change de speed, like La Campanella or Fantasie Impromptu, the interpretation is not so fast but there's a lot of people playing so freaking fast, that's so sad and sacrilegious.
@@ebfsgsffsgscseb It came from Marc-Andre Hamelin, a great virtuoso. Rousseau decided to play it as what is meant to be in that section is what is called cadenza ab lib, in which the performer plays an improvised, usually virtuosic passage of music to fit his/her own style of playing. Hamelin was one of the several pianists on RU-vid (at least) whom adhered to said musical direction, as many would have ignored that and move to the coda. Rachmaninoff is another who had done a cadenza for this piece, you should check it out!
About a year ago, I didn't really know what genre of music I enjoyed, there wasn’t really anything that genuinely intrigued me. I didn't have a favorite song, I wasn't familiar with many famous artists or composers, I generally just wasn't closely connected to the world of music. During my freshman year in high school, I was part of a band with my friends (I played the keyboard). When we decided that we were going to start performing, I started to feel like I had more of a purpose in playing piano other than just playing for fun every once in a while. So, I began playing a lot more consistently and practicing more difficult songs. But, at this time I still wasn't truly “in the music,” I didn't love it enough. One afternoon, my piano teacher showed me this one song during a lesson. I could just tell by the name that it was a classical piece, my least favorite genre of music at the time. After listening to it for about two minutes, we went back to our lesson. I honestly forgot the reason why he wanted to show me the piece, but it didn't exactly interest me in the slightest bit (mainly because I assigned the stereotypes people often associate with "classical music" to it (like “slow,” “boring,” etc.)). After that one particular lesson, I started humming. I didn't recognize what was stuck in my head until I went to my search history on RU-vid. "Nope. No. Not that one-oh wait..." and that was it. The _classical_ song that I had completely forgotten about. *“Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.”* You know what I did then? I clicked on the song again, played it from the beginning, and listened very intently with a clear and curious mind. After I heard the whole piece in its entirety…. Yes, I made the connection that it was _that_ song from Tom and Jerry, but what I truly got out of that experience was an eagerness like no other. The eagerness to explore and completely immerse myself in the world of classical music. From then on, I've been doing just that. I’ve been listening to classical music for hours upon hours each day, I’ve been playing countless classical pieces on the piano (in fact, I’ve been playing so much lately that I developed carpal tunnel syndrome in my wrists and fingers :()
I remember that feeling...but I found Dubstep instead, and got the same feeling. I, too, thought about the classical stereotypes, and never listened to it until I found Rachmaninoff's prelude in g minor. I now have an obsession for piano music of all kinds, and am even converting dubstep songs into classical, and vice versa. Really hope Rousseau sees your comment! Have a nice day!
@@entity-hp3xw - I'm glad you found a passion for music as well 😊Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor was also one of the many songs that got me addicted to classical music. Thank you!! You too :)
From me being a little kid to 14 I have never heard of classical music. I was always listening to EDM and songs from The Fat Rat and stuff. But one day while I was at my cousins house, my cousin was watching your lie in april. At first, I thought it looked boring but when I watched more of it, they music and story line hooked me. Ever since then, I have never stopped Rewatching your lie in april and never stopped listening to classical music. Classical music is what gives my life meaning... I hope to play as much classical music as I can before my time(currently 16).
@@haruitsuki9929 - I couldn't agree more, I don't know what I'd be doing or how I'd be feeling emotionally right now without classical music. I also used to listen to TheFatRat quite a bit when I was younger :)