Like so many other people who have commented here, I just found thi sguy tonight. Yes, he has passed, but this music is guaranteed to live on and make him immortal. What wonderful writing!
ya, me too, they played some of his pieces here in San Francisco right after he passed and I was blown away especially his piano concerto no. 2, damn his stuff is wonderful
The Prelude is one of my favorite etudes of all time, just an exceptional work that blends the harmonic aspects of jazz with the virtuosity of classical piano. Jazz listeners hear classical, while classical listeners hear jazz - but it's all the same here. Quite fascinating indeed.
yeah these 8 etudes took me almost 2 semesters to get them okay to be performed on my grad concertino. They are truly deep and reflective in many ways. I feel that knowing this Russian Jazz giant at my age of late 20 is a pity, wth i was doing in my previous 20 years indulging in piano?
Lukas Nepomuceno same. Just heard of him 2 or 3 days ago and his godly music and now i see these comments and im just sad. If only nikolai could be here to see all these new fans of his stuff after his passing. I feel like it could be possible he could become incredibly popular after his death though. I mean this is just so fantastic.
Me too, I live here in San Francisco and Sunday nights on KDFC (radio) they have a program called 'At the Top' where youths from the age of 10-17 perform live, altho last Sunday's was pre-recorded because of the pandemic. One of the kids played Kapustin's piano concerto no. 2 and I was blown away. WOW! what a beautiful mixing of jazz and classical elements. Why haven't I heard of this composer? I'm gonna complain to the management of the radio station to give more airing of his work
I've heard many recordings of pieces within this set, and imo, nobody can top him. At most, they only match his clarity, dexterity, and rhythmic control. Man, he plays everything so well in the pocket and just stylistically so right (which makes sense, since he wrote them). This guy really mastered both the jazz and the classical pianistic idioms in both his playing and composing. Rest in peace, Nikolai Kapustin :'( Your music lives on.
Indeed, though he rolls occasionally on the Intermezzo AKA No. 7; I recently had the pleasure of meeting that godlike Mr. Hamelin; his hands can span 12 keys each; quite fascinating as Rachmaninov’s apparently did
@@pmwkiy6879 According to his biography, he has very average hands, in no case comparable to Rachmaninoff. That also makes sense considering he grew up during WWII with probably not much food, he wasn't a very large person whereas Rach was almost 2 meters tall.
It's jazzy, but it's not jazz. These Etudes are as perfectly worked out and polished as anything from Ravel or Rimsky-Korsakov, but infused with Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, etc. As for the playing - Kapustin's performance of his own music is meaty, juicy, satisfying.
Kapustin is one of the rare exceptions of a composer who is the best performer and interpreter of his own music. I can think of Beethoven, Liszt, Paganini, Chopin and Brahms in the 19th century and Prokofiev and Rachmaninov in the 20th century who had this extradorinaiy ability.
You've forgotten about the master of masters and the foundation of all composers that is Johann Sebastian Bach who was more admired as a performer and improviser than a composer.
Man I love ALL of these etudes so much, but Reverie is absolutely STUNNING. The chord progression beginning at 3:49 leading up to that climax at 3:59 melts my heart. And the coda and those final chords are just so unique and peaceful.
Ha!! Seeing your Mario Paint profile picture made me go down memory lane to when I remade Kapustin's 3rd etude on MPC! And lo and behold, you commented on my video of it :) Glad to see that his music still resonates with us over a decade later haha. Hope you've been well during that time :)
The prelude is just like a jazz tune and I am HERE FOR IT. His soloing can also be studied, as it is quite different from other soloists. For instance, in the first solo loop, I do not hear a hint of the blues scale! Although seems like, for this etude and the next, that his soloing is mostly diatonic and pentatonic, with some quartal harmonies. The Reverie sounds like a perfect etude for all devilish romantic pieces: Schumann Toccata, Liszt Feux Follets, and many more. The third starts as this sort of funk, maybe rock bit. as you start to say "okay, this is the repeated notes etude, not important" this Chick Corea line hits you HARD, like, "Damn I didn't know there was melody in this!". In short, the etude blossoms in Fusion, with a touch of Liszt to cap off the tune. Something else one should note is how long Kapustin's tunes are. I think the Intermezzo should be called "Goddamnit, Tatum".
He does use it quite a bit later. Outside of these etudes, I’m certain the blues scale appears in his 24 preludes Op.53 and his 2nd piano sonata. He also starts using the so what voicing quite a bit in those, see the 4th prelude and the scherzo of the aforementioned sonata. Incredibly well crafted music that’s also a joy to play and listen to.
Kapustin is a genius. This music gives me shivers (unfortunately not this low sound quality) The amount of detail in here will only be truly noticed by piano players who dive in (I'm not being elitist, just pointing out the level of musical depth he puts in: the LH patterns are constantly changing up, the "solo" sections.." Super pumped Kapustin seems to be getting recognition in recent years. My favourite living piano composer, as soon as I heard his music I kind of became uninterested in playing much else tbh.... These Etudes are hard!! trust! (But seek out a better quality sound of this same recording :)
Nikolai Kapustin should be a 'household' name, up there with Rachmaninov. Every classical radio station in this country should devote time to this magnificent composer. Maybe he didn't produce the number of pieces of other Russian composers, or in the same style, but my lord his work is wonderful.
Friends, Well this music may seem coming to the layman's ear, quite complex and virtuosic, it is actually quite simple, harmonically speaking, and really, at most a transliteration of many of the greatest jazz stylists in notated format. Alas, what most of these starstruck commentators are actually impressed by, is something none of them could really hum or whistle at the close of this frenetic fingerizing. The composer is, yes, technically gifted, but musically or should I say compositionally, quite compulsive. But present day mines are very easily taken in by complexity, which masquerades as brilliance. If anybody has the depth of interest and power of attention to truly encounter a 20th century masterpiece for the keyboard, with memorable content as well as Virtua 6 displays, then listen well and often to the parent surprise winning piano sonata by Samuel Barber
@@josephmarcello7481 I am literally a classically trained composer, Kapustin had the chops. He's had serious talent. You're just being a contrarian snob. I imagine you hate Gershwin for the same reasons. It's got a vibe to it you can't like overlook it. And I think you should really open your mind rather than gatekeep music. Venture out into the wilderness of New Music for example if you haven't
Sorry to disappoint, but I adore Gershwin for the very reasons that I do not adore Kapustin... In Gershwin, there is no pretension, no compulsiveness, but only a boyish genius joyfully celebrating its love of music, melody, harmony, leaving its impression in the soul long after, and often, forever after, it's hearing - with enough creative juice to give birth to unforgettable and exquisite melodies, m buoyed up by the most ingenious and elegant of accompaniments, which the world seems never to get enough of. Indeed, I regard his Opera porgy and Bess as a complete masterpiece from beginning to end, both in song, register teeth, Aria and chorus, and I have gone so far as to procure in the legal copy of the orchestral score through private memes in order to study it more fully and deeply, four, as you must know if you love Gershwin as much as you imply, and have attempted to see that Opera in orchestral score, you have been unable to, because it has never been published, and is only available in vocal score for piano and voices. But rather than further attempt to share a painful truth with you, I would invite you to have the opportunity to abandon your prematurely adopted self-assurance, and to take up my invitation to share a CD or two with you in order that you see or rather hear, the consciousness, the musical mind and soul, from which the initial comments which seemed so to distress you first emerged. And then, if you are man or woman enough to admit, that my musicality actually is of a level sufficient to have made the remarks I did more authoritatively or perceptively, then, who knows?, you may actually find yourself embracing a humbler frame of mind. Just text your land address to 413-475-4072, and, lo and behold, you will find a human being who, unlike most on the planet, will actually honor his promises by providing the goods. But try not to be so terribly impressed by mere virtuosity and dazzling, dizzying note-spilling. It won't be there, lingering in your memory, like a Gershwin classic or an exquisiteBarber melody, when you lay your head down to sleep. A composer of some 60 years who has actually received various awards for his works, if not ready popular notice, and who loves both sides of the musical world, The lowbrow and the highbrow I alike, with degrees both undergraduate and graduate in the art of composition, who has been called upon to restore film soundtracks whose manuscripts have been lost purely by listening to them by ear, and notating every single part of the entire orchestra, who has written four operas, 15 stage musicals for summer theaters and performance schools, whose work has been cited by octogenarian jazz pianist Emery Smith as the most unique hybrid of classical and jazz idioms in his long career, and as the music journalist for the Greenfield Recorder and other newspapers for some 10 years, as well as the author of an article you can access online at a site called the new music box, entitled,' The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Music', the friend of many classic film composers, such as Alex North and Hans J S,alter, with a large collection of never published, privately procured film scores, and thousands of classical works from antiquity to contemporary times, more than a few of which he can write down note for note by memory, whether it works by Bach or Gershwin for that matter, I would gently suggest that, like all in the virtual world, you have sadly, badly, underestimated your unknown friend on the other end of the wire. Cheers
Tuve la gran fortuna de escuchar los 2 ultimos estudios en vivo, de manera casual mi maestro comenzo a tocarlos. Le pregunte cúal era el nombre y heme aquí. Son demasio dificiles y estoy agradecido de haberlos conocido de manera tan directa. Dios bendiga a los pianistas y músicos.
Sitting here listening to it and trying to decide if I like it...then a few minutes go by and I realize much of it is quite mesmerizing. Might not love all his work but certainly respect the hell out of it and aspects are amazing.
Batzorig Vaanchig I think they provide a little more value to the repertoire than the Hamelin set, which lacks depth and is just an obnoxious exercise book lol
BS that Hamelin’s is only an obnoxious exercise book. I’ve had the privilege of chatting with Hamelin 4 times and getting his book published by Edition Peters signed twice, as well as another item signed. He has worked hard on these etudes and of course some may be personally seen as more musical than others. Subjectively though, all perspectives are different and can count for what they are. (:
@@vnwa7390 I don't know, I think when it comes to composing Kapustin is leagues ahead in terms of style and originality, and I'm not sure if that is purely subjective. I mean some people dedicate their life to composing (like Kapustin) and some more to the stage (like Hamelin). Both are fine of course, but I do think there is some merit of truth in Nic's comment.
Yes, I haven't found a better recording of the Toccatina than this one, aside from Shan-shan Sun's which is different enough that I think it ties for the top. Hamelin's version is only slightly below though.
@@stravinskyfan ua-cam.com/video/gFefmXsnzMc/v-deo.html 2:27, 3:22 ua-cam.com/video/eWj8Yyb95aQ/v-deo.html 14:10, 14:47 ua-cam.com/video/vDWeGp4UE6M/v-deo.html you can clearly see him playing tenths comfortably need i say more ?
@@stravinskyfan No, in the book "Conversations with Nikolai Kapustin", he mentioned that he had an average hand, which was enough to hit tenths, furthermore, he clearly played tenths in Reverie, etc.
Brilliant composer, top tier 21st C.composers. For me, it was love at first hearing, never tire of his music. Yeol Eum Son played in competition--she nailed it! Still does!
THE 3RD PIECE IS THE MOST FASCINATING , JAZZY & MODERN PLENTY OF MODULATION , UNPREDICTALE HARMONIC THOUGHT AND GIVING ME A LOT OF ENERGY WITH THE TUNE 7:05 IS THE BEST PART BRAVO KAPUSTIN
Hmm, without actually playing them and only following along with the music no. 4 seems to me like it would actually be the easiest. Sparse chords in left hand and mostly arpeggiated chords in right.
This stuff is a drug. The progression is just going down the circle of 5ths but with a lot of chord extensions. Surprised to find how simple it is with how beautiful it sounds.
@@ilikeplayingffftonecluster851 Yes! It's an ingenious principle: minor chord -> major subdominant -> double subdominant -> minor -> major subdominant... I love it!
The best jazz player and composer of all times! It would take me a year just to master one concert etude coz it looks really difficult. Love the melody themes especially with the slow tempo movements!!
To be quite honest, I learned etude 6 while it was way above my skill level and it actually did take me a year! I didn't expect to find such an accurate comment lmao.
He is a fucking GENIUS. Of a composer as well as a pianist. I got to know his music through the brilliant South Korean virtuoso Yeoleum Son’s recent, more polished and refined performance of his music, but I am afraid to mention I actually prefer this raw-er, more impulsive, rough-and-tumble approach. Can‘t be wrong, performed this way by the composer himself!
Well, 170,000 got here before me so I feel like a real late comer. I found this video quite by accident. Thank you UA-cam. This stuff is so musical and entertaining, it leaves smile on your face.
What I love about no 5 is at first you think what is that ? As it’s very “notey” This is in no way a bad thing but I may make it harder to appreciate at first Until you start hearing that it’s just a bogstandard blues progression ! And then it all flows and makes sense ! Then it becomes up there with the others !
The greatest, virtuosic, living composer and pianist. His music is yet to be discovered by pianists at the top of their career. Hamelin has recorded a whole CD or two of Nikolai Kapustin. Some pianists have played then as encores. Opus 100 is an Abrsm Grade 8 piece.
@Józef Hofmann Yes, you're right. Steven's Osborne CD cover looks like a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring Kapustin's Op. 39, 53 and 54. Very similar to one of Dave Brubeck'sVinyl LP record cover. I could listen to them over and over. These CDs were only available on the internet. There were some CDs performed by the great man himself, published under some strange (Russian) record label. Perry
@Józef Hofmann do also check out Su n Hee You, her Kapustin album is one of the best from the new pool of talent, her approach to the music is spot on and are among my favorite recording of each piece features on that album.
A professor of mine showed me these pieces a few years ago and I've never been able to find them (on account of not remembering the composer name) until this randomly showed up in my recommended. I couldn't forget the sound of that second etude though. Thank you.
Николай Капустин это уникальное, космическое Явление!! Я назову его музыкальной энигмой!! Это машина по созданию джазовых шедевров, вдохновляемая свыше неким сознанием более высокого порядка!! Очень похоже на то, как сочиняет музыку искусственный интеллект!! Поэтому такие скорости, не свойственные человеческому мозгу! Капустин это человеческий приёмник, ретранслятор!! Так высший Разум, непостижимо мощный, пожелал поиграть с людьми, проявившись в той сфере, которая ему близка!! Это сверхтворчество! Транслируется с уровня ментального поля, более энергетически насыщенного и динамичного!!
Last week at Brevard Music Festival Trevor Hyun played two of these - I. Prelude and VI. Pastoral. I almost started crying for joy to hear them, sounding somewhat familiar yet new. Exhilarating!
![Nikolai Kapustin - 8 Concert Etudes, Op. 40 (1984) [Score-Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eWj8Yyb95aQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Like so many other people who have commented here, I just found thi sguy tonight. Yes, he has passed, but this music is guaranteed to live on and make him immortal. What wonderful writing!
NO NO NO NO NO- I'm devastated...I only discovered this composer today- and the second comment I see says "Rip"..... I'm speechless
ya, me too, they played some of his pieces here in San Francisco right after he passed and I was blown away especially
his piano concerto no. 2, damn his stuff is wonderful
Indeed, I had no idea he died so recently. :( That made me sad...
aaah yeah man, that's an unfortunate moment to discover the Boss. But well... better this than to never hear his masterpieces, don't you think ?
@@MrDaiohAzu for sure, I just found out that Beethoven was deceased as well. I need to keep up with the news
Frrrr like why’d you have to go and die
The Prelude is one of my favorite etudes of all time, just an exceptional work that blends the harmonic aspects of jazz with the virtuosity of classical piano. Jazz listeners hear classical, while classical listeners hear jazz - but it's all the same here. Quite fascinating indeed.
Well said
As a person that has listened to both for years this sounds like through composed jazzed.
A very well-stated comment!
yeah these 8 etudes took me almost 2 semesters to get them okay to be performed on my grad concertino. They are truly deep and reflective in many ways. I feel that knowing this Russian Jazz giant at my age of late 20 is a pity, wth i was doing in my previous 20 years indulging in piano?
Incredibile come uno dei più grandi compositori della storia sia tutt'oggi misconosciuto...
Rest in Peace Kapustin.
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3. 5:07
4. 7:22
5. 11:20
6. 13:40
7. 16:10
8. 19:47
감사해요^^~
I have never heard of this composer before but this is godlike. Just like that he combines jazz piano and classical piano!
Lukas Nepomuceno same. Just heard of him 2 or 3 days ago and his godly music and now i see these comments and im just sad. If only nikolai could be here to see all these new fans of his stuff after his passing. I feel like it could be possible he could become incredibly popular after his death though. I mean this is just so fantastic.
Me too, I live here in San Francisco and Sunday nights on KDFC (radio) they have a program called 'At the Top' where
youths from the age of 10-17 perform live, altho last Sunday's was pre-recorded because of the pandemic. One of the
kids played Kapustin's piano concerto no. 2 and I was blown away. WOW! what a beautiful mixing of jazz and classical
elements. Why haven't I heard of this composer? I'm gonna complain to the management of the radio station to give more airing of his work
@@spactick Wow the Second Concerto is no easy thing to play! Kudos to the "kid" (essentially a young virtuoso) who played it :)
@@vivvpprof check out Dmitry Masleev's- Kapustin piano concerto no.2 here on UA-cam.....mind blowing
performance
FUSION BABYYYY
I've heard many recordings of pieces within this set, and imo, nobody can top him. At most, they only match his clarity, dexterity, and rhythmic control. Man, he plays everything so well in the pocket and just stylistically so right (which makes sense, since he wrote them). This guy really mastered both the jazz and the classical pianistic idioms in both his playing and composing.
Rest in peace, Nikolai Kapustin :'( Your music lives on.
I was just about to comment, how magnificent his playing is. The rythmic accuracy is impeccable. So clean and articulate too. Really remarkable.
A little-known fact: Not only does Kapustin have 3 hands, he also has 8 fingers on each of them. What an amazing set of etudes.
Kapustin has very large hands, like Rachmaninov did. Perry
Indeed, though he rolls occasionally on the Intermezzo AKA No. 7; I recently had the pleasure of meeting that godlike Mr. Hamelin; his hands can span 12 keys each; quite fascinating as Rachmaninov’s apparently did
@@pmwkiy6879 According to his biography, he has very average hands, in no case comparable to Rachmaninoff. That also makes sense considering he grew up during WWII with probably not much food, he wasn't a very large person whereas Rach was almost 2 meters tall.
@@adlfm yeah looking at the score Kapustin has pretty average hands for a man, which is nice to see.
And the same must go for anyone who wants to play these pieces!
Learning these because I discovered him on UA-cam.
UA-cam is seriously such an incredible resource for us musicians!
Caleb Ritchie no kidding!
Caleb Ritchie -- So TRUE! and also for us Plumbers and Steam-fitters!
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こんなにも良い曲つくれるなんてカプースチンは天才だな
Wie kann man das Ganze nur so exakt in Noten umsetzen. Wahnsinn.
It's jazzy, but it's not jazz. These Etudes are as perfectly worked out and polished as anything from Ravel or Rimsky-Korsakov, but infused with Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, etc. As for the playing - Kapustin's performance of his own music is meaty, juicy, satisfying.
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I agree. Hearing this recording is like biting into a beefsteak tomato.
4:55 final chords are so beautiful and dreamy
Feels like a happy ending to a 1950s film
*cuts to credits*
that's exactly the image i have when i play that fr
Tom n jerry
5:20 That melody captured my ears. Genius without doubt.
0:49-1:08 평박 잔잔하다 활기찬 분위기
4:01-2장 비극 끝까지 가면 조금 먹먹한 엔딩 평박-비극 인트로 +박수소리
모니크는 그대로
7:24- 갈매기 인트로
추억 마지막 0.75배속
15:06-15:21 변주 3
15:22-15:51 진지-조금 활기 전환
15:52-16:07 변주 4
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2:10 moderato -2:52 조금 어두운 느낌 부드럽지만
2:56 -3:05 국면 전환
3:07-4:08 재미난 부분
3:20-3:30 /3:42- 진지에서 다시 2번 처음과 비슷하게
육 번 초반은 평등 박애
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13:41-13:57 기본 6번
13:58-14:13 변주 1
14:14-14:48 진지-활기로 가는 전환
14:49-15:05 변주 2
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16:12-16:54 느린 템포의 분위기 있는
16:55-17:13
17:14-17:35
17:36 천천히 다시 시작하며 조금씩 분위기 업
ㅋㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ ♥
I just found out about this wonderful man's death. Rest in peace, Maestro.
Kapustin is one of the rare exceptions of a composer who is the best performer and interpreter of his own music. I can think of Beethoven, Liszt, Paganini, Chopin and Brahms in the 19th century and Prokofiev and Rachmaninov in the 20th century who had this extradorinaiy ability.
Mahler piano rolls!
You've forgotten about the master of masters and the foundation of all composers that is Johann Sebastian Bach who was more admired as a performer and improviser than a composer.
Medtner
In some of these Etudes M.A.Hamlin did an even better job than the Author himself, but obviously this recording by the Composer remains great...
Another excellent Kapustin interpreter is Daniel Crespo. Check out his "Obsessive Play" album!
Finally 1m views😭 a big milestone 🎉 so glad that this set of etudes reach more and more listeners.
This is true!
Kapustin is the most underrated composer of all ages!
Intermezzo...OMG. How could one compose such great music?????
Man I love ALL of these etudes so much, but Reverie is absolutely STUNNING. The chord progression beginning at 3:49 leading up to that climax at 3:59 melts my heart. And the coda and those final chords are just so unique and peaceful.
Ha!! Seeing your Mario Paint profile picture made me go down memory lane to when I remade Kapustin's 3rd etude on MPC! And lo and behold, you commented on my video of it :) Glad to see that his music still resonates with us over a decade later haha. Hope you've been well during that time :)
I swear man that Eb 7b9 #11 13 chord that goes to the Abmaj7 9 #11 at the end of the second concert etude gives me shivers everytime.
4:53
The prelude is just like a jazz tune and I am HERE FOR IT. His soloing can also be studied, as it is quite different from other soloists. For instance, in the first solo loop, I do not hear a hint of the blues scale!
Although seems like, for this etude and the next, that his soloing is mostly diatonic and pentatonic, with some quartal harmonies.
The Reverie sounds like a perfect etude for all devilish romantic pieces: Schumann Toccata, Liszt Feux Follets, and many more.
The third starts as this sort of funk, maybe rock bit. as you start to say "okay, this is the repeated notes etude, not important" this Chick Corea line hits you HARD, like, "Damn I didn't know there was melody in this!". In short, the etude blossoms in Fusion, with a touch of Liszt to cap off the tune. Something else one should note is how long Kapustin's tunes are.
I think the Intermezzo should be called "Goddamnit, Tatum".
He does use it quite a bit later. Outside of these etudes, I’m certain the blues scale appears in his 24 preludes Op.53 and his 2nd piano sonata. He also starts using the so what voicing quite a bit in those, see the 4th prelude and the scherzo of the aforementioned sonata. Incredibly well crafted music that’s also a joy to play and listen to.
What is tatum
@@a-ramenartist9734Look up Officer Tatum
Playing these concert etudes is one thing, but how can anyone even conjure up this kind of music in their minds to write as a composition?!
@@teacoffee42 I feel he accomplished what Gerswhin wanted to do but couldn't finish due to his short life.
Kapustin is a genius. This music gives me shivers (unfortunately not this low sound quality) The amount of detail in here will only be truly noticed by piano players who dive in (I'm not being elitist, just pointing out the level of musical depth he puts in: the LH patterns are constantly changing up, the "solo" sections.."
Super pumped Kapustin seems to be getting recognition in recent years. My favourite living piano composer, as soon as I heard his music I kind of became uninterested in playing much else tbh.... These Etudes are hard!! trust! (But seek out a better quality sound of this same recording :)
@@samaranumber98goofypoodleq29 I truly feel with you!
@Jaewon Shin Crazy! I checked it out. Reincarnation might be real after all.
Because he was a genius !
Never heard of this piece or the composer but I’m loving it! Love all the jazz influence. Parts remind me of Vince Guaraldi’s works.
@@NickOleksiakMusic s n o r t
I hear a lot of Oscar Peterson as well.
Definitely true for #7.
Nikolai Kapustin should be a 'household' name, up there with Rachmaninov. Every classical radio station in this country should devote time to this magnificent composer. Maybe he didn't produce the number of pieces of other Russian composers, or in the same style, but my lord his work is wonderful.
Friends,
Well this music may seem coming to the layman's ear, quite complex and virtuosic, it is actually quite simple, harmonically speaking, and really, at most a transliteration of many of the greatest jazz stylists in notated format.
Alas, what most of these starstruck commentators are actually impressed by, is something none of them could really hum or whistle at the close of this frenetic fingerizing. The composer is, yes, technically gifted, but musically or should I say compositionally, quite compulsive. But present day mines are very easily taken in by complexity, which masquerades as brilliance.
If anybody has the depth of interest and power of attention to truly encounter a 20th century masterpiece for the keyboard, with memorable content as well as Virtua 6 displays, then listen well and often to the parent surprise winning piano sonata by Samuel Barber
! Musical diarrhea!
@@josephmarcello7481 I am literally a classically trained composer, Kapustin had the chops. He's had serious talent. You're just being a contrarian snob. I imagine you hate Gershwin for the same reasons. It's got a vibe to it you can't like overlook it. And I think you should really open your mind rather than gatekeep music. Venture out into the wilderness of New Music for example if you haven't
Sorry to disappoint, but I adore Gershwin for the very reasons that I do not adore Kapustin... In Gershwin, there is no pretension, no compulsiveness, but only a boyish genius joyfully celebrating its love of music, melody, harmony, leaving its impression in the soul long after, and often, forever after, it's hearing - with enough creative juice to give birth to unforgettable and exquisite melodies, m buoyed up by the most ingenious and elegant of accompaniments, which the world seems never to get enough of.
Indeed, I regard his Opera porgy and Bess as a complete masterpiece from beginning to end, both in song, register teeth, Aria and chorus, and I have gone so far as to procure in the legal copy of the orchestral score through private memes in order to study it more fully and deeply, four, as you must know if you love Gershwin as much as you imply, and have attempted to see that Opera in orchestral score, you have been unable to, because it has never been published, and is only available in vocal score for piano and voices.
But rather than further attempt to share a painful truth with you, I would invite you to have the opportunity to abandon your prematurely adopted self-assurance, and to take up my invitation to share a CD or two with you in order that you see or rather hear, the consciousness, the musical mind and soul, from which the initial comments which seemed so to distress you first emerged. And then, if you are man or woman enough to admit, that my musicality actually is of a level sufficient to have made the remarks I did more authoritatively or perceptively, then, who knows?, you may actually find yourself embracing a humbler frame of mind. Just text your land address to 413-475-4072, and, lo and behold, you will find a human being who, unlike most on the planet, will actually honor his promises by providing the goods.
But try not to be so terribly impressed by mere virtuosity and dazzling, dizzying note-spilling. It won't be there, lingering in your memory, like a Gershwin classic or an exquisiteBarber melody, when you lay your head down to sleep.
A composer of some 60 years who has actually received various awards for his works, if not ready popular notice, and who loves both sides of the musical world, The lowbrow and the highbrow I alike, with degrees both undergraduate and graduate in the art of composition, who has been called upon to restore film soundtracks whose manuscripts have been lost purely by listening to them by ear, and notating every single part of the entire orchestra, who has written four operas, 15 stage musicals for summer theaters and performance schools, whose work has been cited by octogenarian jazz pianist Emery Smith as the most unique hybrid of classical and jazz idioms in his long career, and as the music journalist for the Greenfield Recorder and other newspapers for some 10 years, as well as the author of an article you can access online at a site called the new music box, entitled,' The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Music', the friend of many classic film composers, such as Alex North and Hans J S,alter, with a large collection of never published, privately procured film scores, and thousands of classical works from antiquity to contemporary times, more than a few of which he can write down note for note by memory, whether it works by Bach or Gershwin for that matter, I would gently suggest that, like all in the virtual world, you have sadly, badly, underestimated your unknown friend on the other end of the wire.
Cheers
@@josephmarcello7481 how can you call #6 Pastorale or #7 Etude Intermezzo musical diarrhea? do you have ears?
Это как глоток свежего воздуха в музыке! Просто невероятно! Удивительно!
I've never heard of the composer, but I A D O R E these pieces. I simply love the way they sound, I cannot describe it with words.
If music could be described with words, there would be no purpose for music!
@@TheTucsonJeff Well, nothing can really be described with words by that criteria
@@awelotta : I'm sorry that you apparently don't understand the point I was making.
Kapustin was a great composer and has tons more works on UA-cam, for example his many piano sonatas
they are the kind of pieces that you can listen for hours and never get old... only he can write things like this
Never heard of this guy until hearing he died. That’s a damn shame
My friend recommended me him about two months ago. I never listened. He recommended me him again. I feel bad for not listening now
my friend recommend me it like 12 h ago and im very positively surprised!
found kapustin by looking at the abrsm list, then found out that he just died..
@@unnamed_boi what abrsm grade is he on lmao or is it diploma
What does a guy gotta do to get your attention, and now we've lost him. Are you happy? it's all your fault Sean
Tuve la gran fortuna de escuchar los 2 ultimos estudios en vivo, de manera casual mi maestro comenzo a tocarlos. Le pregunte cúal era el nombre y heme aquí. Son demasio dificiles y estoy agradecido de haberlos conocido de manera tan directa. Dios bendiga a los pianistas y músicos.
What a spectacular set of études. I'm filled with regret that I have spent so many years of my life unaware of them.
I am learning 2 (Reverie) right now. It is a difficult but rewarding piece and I highly suggest anyone to play these etudes!!
Sitting here listening to it and trying to decide if I like it...then a few minutes go by and I realize much of it is quite mesmerizing. Might not love all his work but certainly respect the hell out of it and aspects are amazing.
I’m basically a good friend of Kapustin’s since my piano teacher talked to him on the phone one time.
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This is not Music, THIS iS A MIRACLE.
This music makes me feel so happy, as I am sure it does for many others too! Rest in peace Maestro.
The sheets look absolutely terrifying
rip in pepperonies you are correct lol
Still quite a walk in the park compared to Hamelin’s etudes.. though you’re right; I find No. 4 to be the most challenging of this set
Batzorig Vaanchig I think they provide a little more value to the repertoire than the Hamelin set, which lacks depth and is just an obnoxious exercise book lol
BS that Hamelin’s is only an obnoxious exercise book. I’ve had the privilege of chatting with Hamelin 4 times and getting his book published by Edition Peters signed twice, as well as another item signed. He has worked hard on these etudes and of course some may be personally seen as more musical than others. Subjectively though, all perspectives are different and can count for what they are. (:
@@vnwa7390 I don't know, I think when it comes to composing Kapustin is leagues ahead in terms of style and originality, and I'm not sure if that is purely subjective. I mean some people dedicate their life to composing (like Kapustin) and some more to the stage (like Hamelin). Both are fine of course, but I do think there is some merit of truth in Nic's comment.
I was greatly saddened by Kapustin's death; his work is wonderful. These etudes are masterpieces, I have re-considered my choice of music.
This is some of the coolest piano music I’ve ever heard. Rest In Peace Kapustin ❤️❤️❤️
damn the pastorale is a bop
yea
tru
the pastorale segment at 15:36-15:48 gives me shivers all the time
can't get enough of the pastorale and intermezzo
Reverie has such a magical quality about it. Toccatina on the other hand is perfectly performed here.
Yes, I haven't found a better recording of the Toccatina than this one, aside from Shan-shan Sun's which is different enough that I think it ties for the top. Hamelin's version is only slightly below though.
Check out Cateen's version of Toccatina, its pretty flawless!
Rest In Peace );
This has changed everything I know about music, piano and the universe
This is seriously amazing and one of my favorite jazz style pieces I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot of jazz
Oh goody thanks for doing this one! 😊
Wow thenameisgsarci!
I just noticed how he breaks the tenths at 18:52 & 19:00. All the more impressive when you realise he's able to do all this without that stretch.
I love that he wrote that knowing he himself couldn't play it.
@@looney1023hes actually able to play tenths, i think he just chose to roll them for aesthetic purposes
@@integer9590nah he had small hands
@@stravinskyfan ua-cam.com/video/gFefmXsnzMc/v-deo.html 2:27, 3:22
ua-cam.com/video/eWj8Yyb95aQ/v-deo.html 14:10, 14:47
ua-cam.com/video/vDWeGp4UE6M/v-deo.html you can clearly see him playing tenths comfortably
need i say more ?
@@stravinskyfan No, in the book "Conversations with Nikolai Kapustin", he mentioned that he had an average hand, which was enough to hit tenths, furthermore, he clearly played tenths in Reverie, etc.
Just discovering him today, right now. Love this mix of jazz and classical!
9:24 to 9:49 is my favourite part absolutely unbelievable amazing stuff
ДАЖЕ И НЕ ЗНАЛ ЧТО У НАС ЕСТЬ ТАКОЕ МЫШЛЕНИЕ , СПАСИБО БОЛЬШОЕ АВТОРУ И ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЮ ❤❤❤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤩🤩🤩
Fantastic composer!!!
Грандиозно!
Светлая память,Маэстро! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Absolutely great work, OMG, I am a classical piano lover and I like this piece
Brilliant composer, top tier 21st C.composers. For me, it was love at first hearing, never tire of his music. Yeol Eum Son played in competition--she nailed it! Still does!
I doubt anyone can play these breathtaking pieces better than the composer himself. Interesting above all from a rhythmic and thematic perspective.
This man is so good for making beautiful chords
臨時記号の多さにビックリします。
これ弾ける人すごいと思います。
この曲はそんなに音符詰まってないなと思ってもすごく速い。速すぎて今どこを弾いてるのか分からなくなる時が。
とにかくかっこいい、いい曲です。
THE 3RD PIECE IS THE MOST FASCINATING ,
JAZZY & MODERN
PLENTY OF MODULATION , UNPREDICTALE HARMONIC THOUGHT
AND GIVING ME A LOT OF ENERGY WITH THE TUNE
7:05 IS THE BEST PART
BRAVO KAPUSTIN
No. 4 is a nightmare! Must be the most difficult of the set, 15 pages of that lol! How you remember it all too... Godlike memory required.
Do you mean no. 5?
@@dhamaryder no
Hmm, without actually playing them and only following along with the music no. 4 seems to me like it would actually be the easiest. Sparse chords in left hand and mostly arpeggiated chords in right.
As a pianist can confirm No. 4 is stupidly difficult, it’s not written intuitively
My teacher gave me this one - I’m currently 13. PLS REMEMBER TO ATTEND MY FUNERAL ITS HARD AF.
This is the most Nintendo-y sounding piece of "classical" music, that I have ever heard in my life.
I love it!
Mario Kart
Yeah
one of legendary etude. thank you Kapustin.
One of the most great Genius of 1900 and 2000
All of these are masterpieces!
Glorious!!! Art Tatum level and BEYOND!!! (I never thought that I would get to say such a thing.)
Art Tatum? I totally agree, so much energy and excessive notesl, but just the right of excess
@@spactick I for one love the excess (most of the time) :))))
I heard "the lick" several times in the first piece. A really nice surprise.
0:28
They’re just perfect for Mario Kart music. They definitely should adopt this.
Leiki Ueda KIRBY😂😂
rainbow casino race track
Especially at 19:48.
딱 들으면서도 뭔가 일본인들이 좋아할거같은 느낌들엇음 우에하라 히로미생각도 나고 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Oh gosh, that's so true!😂
So full of life. So joyful. So exuberant.
No. 1 has to be my favorite modern piece to listen
I keep coming back to Kapustin.
14:54 that rhythm...
But that chord progression at 15:39 - 15:48 is beautiful!
This stuff is a drug. The progression is just going down the circle of 5ths but with a lot of chord extensions. Surprised to find how simple it is with how beautiful it sounds.
@@ilikeplayingffftonecluster851 Yes! It's an ingenious principle: minor chord -> major subdominant -> double subdominant -> minor -> major subdominant... I love it!
The best jazz player and composer of all times! It would take me a year just to master one concert etude coz it looks really difficult. Love the melody themes especially with the slow tempo movements!!
Learn music history please. This is not jazz. It is Jazz-inspired classical.
To be quite honest, I learned etude 6 while it was way above my skill level and it actually did take me a year! I didn't expect to find such an accurate comment lmao.
사랑하지 않을 수 없는 곡 ,, 💜
My first experience of this composer and what a wonderful introduction, thank you so much. I particularly enjoyed 3, 5 and 8!
They are a wonderful set.
For me, 3, 6, 7 and 8 stand out as really special.
There is nothing cooler than this. Omg.
Nikolai Kapustinの曲は明るくて聴きやすいな
第三楽章、RPGの旅立ちのBGM的なワクワクがあってすき
I feel like I'll be happy with these for a while🤣
the loveliest etudes ever💝
I absolutely love this music - so full of wonderment
God bless you, oh god bless you so much.
I screaaaaamed after the first one and shouted WOW!! after second one wow...im thankful i found this crazy guy
He is a fucking GENIUS. Of a composer as well as a pianist. I got to know his music through the brilliant South Korean virtuoso Yeoleum Son’s recent, more polished and refined performance of his music, but I am afraid to mention I actually prefer this raw-er, more impulsive, rough-and-tumble approach. Can‘t be wrong, performed this way by the composer himself!
Well, 170,000 got here before me so I feel like a real late comer. I found this video quite by accident. Thank you UA-cam. This stuff is so musical and entertaining, it leaves smile on your face.
What I love about no 5 is at first you think what is that ? As it’s very “notey”
This is in no way a bad thing but I may make it harder to appreciate at first
Until you start hearing that it’s just a bogstandard blues progression ! And then it all flows and makes sense !
Then it becomes up there with the others !
역시 1번이랑 2번, 7번이 제일 좋음. 속도감 있고
재즈풍 음악 그 자체 카푸스틴..R.I.P
My God. So much James P. in No. 7… love it!
Who are these etudes intended for? God?
monolyth421 For his own study, probably
yeah this is the famous 1999 recording of god on deutsche grammophon. back when he regularly toured around the world
The greatest, virtuosic, living composer and pianist. His music is yet to be discovered by pianists at the top of their career. Hamelin has recorded a whole CD or two of Nikolai Kapustin. Some pianists have played then as encores. Opus 100 is an Abrsm Grade 8 piece.
@Józef Hofmann Yes, you're right. Steven's Osborne CD cover looks like a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring Kapustin's Op. 39, 53 and 54. Very similar to one of Dave Brubeck'sVinyl LP record cover. I could listen to them over and over. These CDs were only available on the internet. There were some CDs performed by the great man himself, published under some strange (Russian) record label. Perry
@Józef Hofmann do also check out Su n Hee You, her Kapustin album is one of the best from the new pool of talent, her approach to the music is spot on and are among my favorite recording of each piece features on that album.
I'm actually not a jazz fan but the intermezzo is just amazing.
man I'll tell you what, pastorale be JIVIN'
It's basically most Art Tatum if you want something similar
@@birddoesnottalk1032 tbh changed my mind a month after writing the comment. I'm a huge jazz fan and jazz pianist now. But thanks!
corny
@@r0mmm that literally warms my heart, do you know Django Reinhardt yet? If not, start with Manoir de mes Rêves :-)
A professor of mine showed me these pieces a few years ago and I've never been able to find them (on account of not remembering the composer name) until this randomly showed up in my recommended. I couldn't forget the sound of that second etude though. Thank you.
1. 평등박애 (2) 3:09 4:10
4. 갈매기 (4) 7:24 , 9:56
(6) 15:50 (뚱땅 fade in)
(7) 18:17 18:28
He basically was a jazzer turned into a classical composer, and it shows - And I mean it in a positive way!
Brīnišķīgas etīdes!Kapustins kļūst aizvien populārāks,jaunie pianisti viņu iekļauj konkursu izvēles programmās.Aija
Heard Number 1 for the first time live at the Aberdeen & NE music festival Finale played by Hengyu Lu and I was hooked! What a piece of music!
He is such a talented composer!
I am learning No. 8, which is the first piece in this video. For me, it is the most exciting one!
Николай Капустин это уникальное, космическое Явление!! Я назову его музыкальной энигмой!! Это машина по созданию джазовых шедевров, вдохновляемая свыше неким сознанием более высокого порядка!! Очень похоже на то, как сочиняет музыку искусственный интеллект!! Поэтому такие скорости, не свойственные человеческому мозгу! Капустин это человеческий приёмник, ретранслятор!! Так высший Разум, непостижимо мощный, пожелал поиграть с людьми, проявившись в той сфере, которая ему близка!! Это сверхтворчество! Транслируется с уровня ментального поля, более энергетически насыщенного и динамичного!!
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Look like you knew a lots about AI
15:36 CEO of goosebumps
Единственное и неповторимое правильное звучание этого этюда. Спасибо, Николай Гиршевич!
Last week at Brevard Music Festival Trevor Hyun played two of these - I. Prelude and VI. Pastoral. I almost started crying for joy to hear them, sounding somewhat familiar yet new. Exhilarating!
Precisely!
Rest in peace, composer. Your music was awesome
i want to transcribe this on the drums and play along with the prelude. amazing piece
¡Brava! energia e técnica fantásticas, sabor soberbo