@@sorim1967 - It's called an opinion. If you can't accept other people's opinions, why read comments? Just watch the video. Also this rendition was an interpretation of the piece. Just my opinion on an interpretation. And as Dennis Chiapello pointed out, it probably is due to the recording. Typically you have condenser mics close to the strings in a piano recording. We don't know where microphones were set up so audio on a video playback may be different.
Bro you literally play in a rock band. All recent music is, is just “meat and potatoes”. You are someone who has no appreciation for the real music. Music isn’t about the “meat and potatoes”, it’s about the space between. While the “meat and potatoes” adds to it, the space between creates the gap. It’s what allows us to enjoy the “good part”. It puts things into context. Tchaikovsky’s music is art. This piece is art.
@@michaelwojcik2597 - Hey man, that was just my opinion tho. I'm sure most people listening to this enjoy the whole thing, and if you do that's great. I tend to like that main recognizable part of this number. Kind of like Beethoven's 9th. I don't really like sitting and listening to the whole thing, just the epic part. People aren't as patient as they were back in the 17th & 18th centuries.
@@michaelwojcik2597 - "Bro," I play in a rock band? I don't play in a rock band lol. I've been a full-time musician playing mostly at retirement communities since 2016 as a solo piano player. Anyway, since that argument is over, a lot of the music back in the old days needed to fill a lot of space with a lot of useless stuff. Sorry, but just the truth. Now I'm going to get a doctorial lecture...
@@bherber Late response but I do think its a pretty ignorant comment to make. Classical symphonic works (to which this piano arrangement is based off) are long because they're very much intentionally structured to tell a story or emotion. Works like Strauss' Don Quixote are structured in such a way to tell a story through music and is fairly comprehensible if you're aware of the story of Don Quixote. It has little to do with patience, there are a lot of short pieces throughout the history of "classical music" like Elgar's Salut d'Amour that get to the point quickly. Beethoven's 9th Symphony is structured the way it is because it is a representation of Beethoven's world view and triumph of the human spirit. The Symphony doesn't work as intended if you just play the end of the 4th movement, its like only playing/listening to Bohemian Rhapsody's opera section and only that because the intro is too boring. There's a reason for the structure and its not because Queen needed to pad their song out to 6 minutes. In the case of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, the name fantasy overture gives it away and it is obviously telling the story of Romeo and Juliet from start and finish. I think it is fair to believe that the original composition by Tchaikovsky failed to translate the story of Romeo and Juliet into an interesting symphonic piece (or the arrangers for failing to translate a symphonic piece to piano well, which I do feel is often the case) but its fairly shitty to berate the performer or arrangers for playing the entire piece instead of just the "meat and potatoes". If you just want the 20 second snippet of the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene melody, there's countless videos out here that will give you only the "meat and potatoes" and nothing else.
This is such a beautiful interpretation. This is by far my favorite piano transcription of the Romeo and Juliet Overture.
Really quite amazing and from memory
Fantastic 4-hand arrangement & excellent + enjoyable rendition. BIG THANKS for you both. :-)))
I loved your performance! And the Transcription its yours too! Amazing loved it so much.
Absolutely PERFECT !!!!!!!!!!!
That’s amazing!
It is beautiful. So awesome!
Wonderful ❤️❤️
BRAVO!!!
any chance we can access the sheet music?
Unfortunately we have not finished the score yet...
@@dichterliebe2008 What about now? 😅
@@dichterliebe2008 Looking forward to it!
You're not utilizing the powerful bass of the piano. Way too much treble.
That might be due to the recording.
A particularly ignorant and ungracious comment. If you can't hear properly why not see what base line notes are actually being played?
@@sorim1967 - It's called an opinion. If you can't accept other people's opinions, why read comments? Just watch the video. Also this rendition was an interpretation of the piece. Just my opinion on an interpretation. And as Dennis Chiapello pointed out, it probably is due to the recording. Typically you have condenser mics close to the strings in a piano recording. We don't know where microphones were set up so audio on a video playback may be different.
Focus on the meat & potatoes. People don't want to fall asleep waiting for the good part.
Bro you literally play in a rock band. All recent music is, is just “meat and potatoes”. You are someone who has no appreciation for the real music. Music isn’t about the “meat and potatoes”, it’s about the space between. While the “meat and potatoes” adds to it, the space between creates the gap. It’s what allows us to enjoy the “good part”. It puts things into context. Tchaikovsky’s music is art. This piece is art.
@@michaelwojcik2597 - Hey man, that was just my opinion tho. I'm sure most people listening to this enjoy the whole thing, and if you do that's great. I tend to like that main recognizable part of this number. Kind of like Beethoven's 9th. I don't really like sitting and listening to the whole thing, just the epic part. People aren't as patient as they were back in the 17th & 18th centuries.
@@michaelwojcik2597 - "Bro," I play in a rock band? I don't play in a rock band lol. I've been a full-time musician playing mostly at retirement communities since 2016 as a solo piano player. Anyway, since that argument is over, a lot of the music back in the old days needed to fill a lot of space with a lot of useless stuff. Sorry, but just the truth. Now I'm going to get a doctorial lecture...
@@bherber Late response but I do think its a pretty ignorant comment to make. Classical symphonic works (to which this piano arrangement is based off) are long because they're very much intentionally structured to tell a story or emotion. Works like Strauss' Don Quixote are structured in such a way to tell a story through music and is fairly comprehensible if you're aware of the story of Don Quixote. It has little to do with patience, there are a lot of short pieces throughout the history of "classical music" like Elgar's Salut d'Amour that get to the point quickly.
Beethoven's 9th Symphony is structured the way it is because it is a representation of Beethoven's world view and triumph of the human spirit. The Symphony doesn't work as intended if you just play the end of the 4th movement, its like only playing/listening to Bohemian Rhapsody's opera section and only that because the intro is too boring. There's a reason for the structure and its not because Queen needed to pad their song out to 6 minutes.
In the case of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, the name fantasy overture gives it away and it is obviously telling the story of Romeo and Juliet from start and finish. I think it is fair to believe that the original composition by Tchaikovsky failed to translate the story of Romeo and Juliet into an interesting symphonic piece (or the arrangers for failing to translate a symphonic piece to piano well, which I do feel is often the case) but its fairly shitty to berate the performer or arrangers for playing the entire piece instead of just the "meat and potatoes". If you just want the 20 second snippet of the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene melody, there's countless videos out here that will give you only the "meat and potatoes" and nothing else.
@@timdonk1916 - It's all a matter of opinion and personal taste. I wouldn't be offended if you criticized a piece of music that I liked...