Saint-Saëns "The Swan" PIANO (A. Siloti) + Free Practice Score 

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Definitely man.

Nả ní

I want to award you with "The Best RU-vid Comment Award" or something. Made my day!!! :D

Archerfish Johns good for beginners

I like ur pfp 😂

No one who’se a beginner is playing this song😂😂😂

​@@Therebesquarewe're trying.

Aojeong -- you're welcome!

Hello Paul, may I request Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, that's my favorite!!

John Tsai you want him to (learn), play and record the whole concerto?

Jakob 'Kousei' Poon I think it's not hard for Paul, for his advanced level, and probably he already knew the concerto well.

Paul, would u sentence me to prison time for my guitar Swan? ....plmk, thx

Omg, how that went? Did you prove him wrong?

@@lincheers8818 this was my friend 🥲 he passed away in a car accident

@@imraro-7661 really?

@@C0ldB3er yea, i was scrolling through the text messages we had. So much memories because we would message each other through RU-vid for over 5 years😢

@@imraro-7661 :(

Amadeus Justinn Haryanto dont talk about my mother like that.

glorymeister LOL

Yo Yo Idiot you mean? How low has classical music gotten. We live in an era of pretenders .. ugh

Here is a performance much better than yo-yo ma's, and you have to mention yo-yo ma to validate it? I hope most people are not slave to brands like you are.

@@fyliao Just like we hope most people aren't pretentious fools like you who feel the need to point out their 'superior' taste in classical music and performers.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1gRoIy0YWQo.html ^The most beautiful skating ever

OH MY GOD THATS EXACTLY HOW I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS SONG he really helped get through some tough winter times

Toy de acuerdo

Eu sou um grande fã do Brasil, do povo, do país, da música. Eu morava no Rio e São João Del Rei por 2 anos. Eu tinha um amigo pianista na escola de música em São João que ocasionalmente tocava música brasileira para mim - alguns dos compositores que você mencionou. Ele me deu algumas partituras que ele realmente copiou à mão, pois às vezes isso era o que os pianistas precisavam fazer antes dos dias das fotocopiadoras. Eu ainda tenho essas pontuações preciosas com a minha na Tailândia e talvez eu tente gravá-las um dia. Naquela época eu conheci um compositor no Rio chamado César Guerra-Peixe - desenhei seu retrato enquanto meu amigo pianista tocava sua música para nós. Maravilhoso homem, incrível compositor. Você conhece ele? É claro que adoro a música de Villa Lobos, meu amigo Mercuzio transcreveu seu Bachianas Brasileiras No.5, para mim, tenho a intenção de começar a praticar por um tempo. Talvez eu agradeça ao seu encorajamento. Aqui um par de gravações que eu fiz da música brasileira, vou pesquisar os outros compositores da sua lista. Obrigado pelas recomendações. "Odeon" Ernesto Nazareth ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UWtmW7tejrI.html "Tico-Tico no fubá" Zequinha Abreu ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KyEuFpJuwfc.html

Eu já sabia de seu contato com o Brasil, mas não imaginava tamanho domínio de nosso idioma. Impressionante. Realmente temos alguns bons compositores. Guerra-Peixe infelizmente é muito pouco conhecido inclusive pelos próprios brasileiros. Gosto de compor músicas para piano. Não sei se terei o talento necessário para estar entre os grandes brasileiros, mas trabalho para tentar chegar lá. Muito obrigado pelos seus vídeos, e devo confessar que contribuiu em partes para que me desse vontade de voltar a tocar piano. Obrigado pelo seu tempo e trabalho.

Paul Barton estou sem reação por saber desse seu contato com o Brasil. Sim, conheço Guerra-Peixe. Sou do Nordeste do Pais, Maceió - Alagoas. Existem alguns compositores alagoanos que têm obras fantásticas e inacessíveis pela internet muitas delas. Espero poder transcrever e enviar por email assim que estiver disponível para conhecer um pouco mais. Muito obrigado pela resposta!

Paul Barton toca Henrique Oswald, um grande compositor brasileiro! Muito obrigado! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kTRXxS4EhCI.html

please paul can you play the crave by Jelly Roll Morton

Please share your video here, would love to see it!

Leda and the Swan had traumatized me since I was a kid. Yikes.

Hello Nicoline, I would very happy if I thought this video would help you play the piece - good luck!

I've played a few transcriptions of The Swan over the years and Siloti's sounds the most musical to my ears and feels the most comfortable to play. It's fun passing the melody note between hands too.

Thanks David - the piece is a bit like the Mexican national motto "Grows as it goes". Have a good weekend and greetings back to you from Thailand.

I won't change your mind because i absolutely agree with you. I like it even more than the original :(

I like both versions. Siloti has the rare gift of not "over blowing" his transcriptions while still making them worthwhile pieces for a concert hall. The two Bach in D Major (Andante from the Violin Sonata and Cantata 29) are two good examples of his style

Voting for this Siloti version after listening to both once. :-) The Godowsky is too busy and too much chromaticism (?) to be swan-like.

sí, la armonía es muy bella, la forma anhelante cambia de mayor a menor y se eleva hacia arriba y hacia arriba hasta el final cuando se aleja flotando en la distancia. (Google translate)

I agree. This one is pretty much a direct transcription while Godowsky's is innovative and adds something new to the music.

It means to be extra extra quiet lol

MultiMapping I don't think it's an electronic piano. I think the last low G note was a tad sharp, which leads me to believe that it's at least an acoustic piano. I could be wrong.

+Josh Fisher You got a good point there, it definitely sounds like one, it just doesn't look like one (could be the camera angle) +gabrieldarkr You're saying that to someone who has been playing piano for over 10 years and who is an owner of a Yamaha C5. Please think before you say stupid things on the internet.

gabrieldarkr you do realize that by "acoustic piano" I was referring only to the method of the sound's propagation, and not its shape, right? A grand piano is an example of an acoustic piano. There's really no way of knowing the shape, because of the camera. you're just being a jerk to sound smart.

MultiMapping It's definitely a grand

The piano is a FEURICH 218 and it appears in all my video after a small upright at the very beginning of uploads to this channel. My grand piano in this video was filmed from above and the additional still of the score was added as a graphic layer over the video in Final Cut Pro X. The same overhead keyboard view is often seen in other videos on this channel and instead of the score that section of the video frame shows part of the iron frame, which is not the traditional gold but a bronze/red colour. In other videos the same FEURICH 218 piano is seen in full from the side.

I just listened to that - and downloaded the sheet music. Thanks for the recommendation.

mgb365, you can get pretty much any sheet music from IMSLP.

guess I'll never know :D still haven't tried to learn this

Can't think of another explanation.