Stravinsky/Petit "Rite of Spring" transcription for solo piano (Aaron Petit) 

20k! Thank you all! I am so appreciative of your comments and shares, and feedback, etc. :)

Now imagine: Stravinsky HEARD all this IN HIS HEAD!

3:30 Remember that it was here, a mere 3 minutes into the piece that Diaghalev asked "Does it last a very long time this way?" To which Stravinsky replied, "To the end, my dear!"

Oh my gosh as a pianist I have to say this is INSANE to remember - IT'S HALF HOUR LONG and some sections does not even make sense. You have a big talent, my friend.

I love how a piano transcription can show you things about the score that you might have missed.

You know you play rite of spring good when the audience just stares at you and wonders when it will all stop,it is what happend to strav but more intense

I cannot comprehend your incredible talent...to play this memorized, absolutely astonishing 😱😱😱😱😱

This is apsolutely crazy! Takes an amazing pianist to play the rite perfectly like this!

15:10-15:57 so haunting, and reminds of Ravel's "Scarbo"!

Very impressive technique and understanding and concept of "Rite of Spring." Extremely musical and enjoyable performance. Hope you get to perform this work again! Marcia Battat, Napa Valley Music Associates

THAT IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!! I love the Rite of Spring and this piano arrangement was amazing!!!!!

Absolutely an incredible rendition and wow, that guy can play the piano!

Really increadible job, to capture the same vibe as the orchestral version in just one piano is just incredible, better than a lot of the four handed versions! A great successful career awaits you, brother!

I'm ten minutes in and must say I'm impressed as hell.

Outstanding, clear, expressive. Best transcription for two hands (much harder than four!) and best performance...imaginative, driven, accurate, full of colour, good pacing. Should be made into a CD for posterity.

30:41 the facial expressions in the public are priceless :D

This is marvelous! Stravinsky previewed Rite on piano to friends and colleagues ( including Debussy ), before an orchestra ever played it. He made an arrangement for two pianos, which is still performed.

Aaron petit. More like aaron le grand. My greatest Respect for writing this, being able to Play it and even memorized

I wish Stravinsky could have heard this.

This is great. On the piano like this, it sounds like a lot of Bartok's stuff. For all its percussiveness, it's also extraordinarily lyrical and beautiful.

Most complex piece of music I have ever heard! Amazing!

You know, when I showed this video to my grandparents, it shocked me. My grandparents first of all, don’t like classical music at all, and they proclaim that they can’t withstand the vibrations the piano strings made. As a piano player myself, I obviously have to change their mindsets to make life go on smoother, so, one day I saw this cover of the Rite of Spring. And please notice that there’s 3 elders sitting less than approximately 2 ft from Aaron, and I took this as proof that elders can withstand loud piano sounds, especially towards the ending at the Sacrifice Dance. The response from them is saying that the elders are half deaf, that’s why they can stand it. BUT I KNOW IT MUST NOT BE TRUE, otherwise the elders won’t go to the concert anymore, amirite?

Fantastic tone colours!

Wow, that was seriously amazing! Although it was solo piano I could really hear the orchestration/orchestral instruments. Incredible transcription......

What kind of human can write this smashing music…? Absolutely beautiful performance ❤

one of the coolest videos i’ve ever had the pleasure to watch in my entire life

Karate piano playing. This is great.

yessssss sir! this is stravinsky purissimo! you are one of the very few who really got it. bravissimo!

BRAVISSIMO! I hope you get to perform this more & more, brilliant job!

Aaron: Your transcription is superior to others that I own and that have been written by world-famous pianists and teachers. My god, young man, get this published if you haven't already done so. Your virtuosity and expressivity are astonishing, too. May you have a very successful, enriching career ! 🎹 😁🚬 🏋🌅 oh. one postscript... If you ever write transcriptions of Respighi's tone poems (Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome, Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Botticellian Triptych) I will WANT sheet music.. cheers 😊

sometimes the intesity is so great. this whole video is out of this world. you are capturing the piece.

Love how you literally banged the keyes with your fist at the end :) Wonderful performance. The first time I've seen Rite of Spring performed on just one piano.

Wow. I’ve got to say, I didn’t think this could ever be played on the piano, and yet, here it is. Are there like timpani in this piano model? I’m absolutely stunned at how you managed to pull that effect off. I’m not a pianist by any means. I wish I had your piano and composition skills. Excellent arrangement. EDIT: OMG. That glorification of the chosen one (AKA the T-Rex) was so POWERFUL! You look like a T-Rex pounding on that piano. I’m absolutely amazed. 😵 OH! And that dance macabre at the end. Such a wonderful execution! (See what I did there?) Loved the entrance and that final blow. UH. I wish I would have been there. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Just wait for the algorithm to bless this masterpiece

From one Aron to another Aaron, I am mesmerized by your arrangement of this landmark piece. You've taken a vast orchestral universe and translated it into a world of pianism every bit as compelling, colorful, and impressive. It would have been wonderful even without your great prowess at the instrument. Beautifully done!

This was impressive! Congratulations on this wonderful performance

Virtuosity personified

Wonderful! Can't even imagine how much effort it takes to perform like this.

What a maniac! In a good way of course, this is insanely impressive, also helps me a lot to understand more about the rite in general. Thank you very much for this

Excellent ,Beautifully Done

So beautifully scored for a single piano and devine performance!!!! Amazed!!!

This is, by far, the greatest solo piano rendition of the Rite of Spring I have ever encountered! Another great transcription of this piece, albeit for four hands, is that of Fazil Say--he plays both parts himself then syncs them. Anyway, bravo, maestro!

So many more people need to see this my friend! Absolutely amazing!

how is this humanly possible to do????? so amazing i'm at loss for words

WOW! Incredible!

How lucky you are to be so gifted. Absolutely incredible! Such an accurate rendition of a very complicated and difficult piece.

Mesmerizing playing right here!

Amazing !

He played it from memory ?! Btw great preformance , thanks for posting !

Bravo!

Brilliant work, Aaron! This transcription is excellent!

Bravo!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I'm so glad I came upon this video, brilliant transcription and playing!! Congratulations!

Bravissimo, I really enjoy this amazing piano transcription, thank you!

great job.

This is amazing, I keep re-watching the augur of spring part. Whoa talent 😦

Incredible. This is absolutely amazing. I immagine stravinsky playing this

Brilliant!!!! Bravo.

sick playing, gotta love the audience cam

Bravo! Thank you for this. You've created a new vision of The Rite. Also hugely enjoyable.

Great transcription and beautiful performance. Thanks a million for posting this Aaron!

Love the ending! :)

Oh, this is good! Thank you.

Absolutely mind-blowing. Bravo!

Simply amazing, great job

Wow !!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

This was amazing, I haven't been so moved by a piano transcription like this in my life, just outstanding

Great googly-moogly, that was incredible! 🎶💗

Great effort my friend, thank you, work like this keeps me practicing.✌

Bravo!!

Taaan disfrutable 😌

Amazing job!

Difficult to find words to describe how amazed I am, this is INCREDIBLE! Congratulations my friend!

Magnificent!

Je suis époustouflé !!!! It is as if you had composed yourself the original masterpiece .... now Stravinsky live in you ... !!! Thanks to exist ...

extraodinary, bravo Aaron Petit! quelle précision, et beaucoup d'expressivité

Just lost my words...WOW~!!

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING

Fantastic transcription and performance! 🖤

I’m totally amazed, that’s pure exstasy to me. One of the most beautiful videos ever. Thank you so much

That was simply fantastic. This is more riveting than the orchestral version. Well done. 😅

第二部の冒頭、ゾクゾクしました。すばらしい演奏に出会えたお客さんが皆幸せそう。

La prise de courant en arrière plan est juste magnifique

I can't believe how much of the piece you manage to capture with just a piano! Absolutely nuts it's just the rite!!

Meraviglioso ❤

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Hard to stop watching this - something very difficult to achieve for classical performance.

This is beyond human.

BRAVOOOOOOO! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

5:25-5:35 is such a beautiful trickling trickle noise

How on earth did you perform this. How on earth did you memorize this. Amazing! And what a great performance. Stravinsky would be proud of you.

I love how as an orchestral piece, the Rite of Spring is still eerie, but it's given another dimension when it's performed on piano: it's jarring, loud, alarming, unnatural, and I think that's why I think this is such a good idea. Even though ROS isn't meant as a piano piece, it's still really well done and has the same strange, agitating quality as when an orchestra performs it.

What an amazing transcription and performance! I love stravinsky and has been performed 4 hands version of this work before. How can I get this score? I hope to practice this work!

I've come back to this for the 20th time now. Addicted! You manage to bring a whole orchestra to the listener with just two hands and one piano! Are there any sheets available for this transcription?

An amazing transcription and an amazing performance! I can't believe that it's possible ... but you did it! Congratulations! The thing I REALLY can't believe is what a small audience you are performing it for. I hope you have had the opportunity to perform it for the huge audience it deserves.

Why this channel has only 400 subscribers?!

Wow

Hello Aaron! I want to congratulate you on your astonishing and musical performance of this masterpiece. I have just sent you an email asking you for the sheet music as i am deeply interested in playing this song. Thank you!

You’re a true one man band

damn dude