As I imagined it would be, Satie is like waking up on your birthday on a rainy day and blowing out the candles on a cake you baked yourself, because everyone forgot it was your birthday.
This is a 12 month masterclass in composition, condensed into less than 20 minutes and with added humor for relief. Fantastic would be an understatement.
When I clicked on this video, I expected a few bars for each composer with some superficial and stereotyped flourish to distinguish them. That in itself would have been amusing and clever. This is so much more than that. I am astonished at the level of thought and effort this had to have taken, both in musical and production terms. Thank you. You've absolutely made my day.
I feel like no matter how much praise your videos get in the comments I cant help but feel that people are sleeping on just how incredibly talented you are. This one 18 minute video has no doubt countless hours of work behind it and we all truly appreciate you for making these available!! Keep going!
That's very well put. Some people seem to think you're just jamming at the keyboard, riffing on various composers. All the text flashes show you are doing anything but. Suspension here, augmentation there, you have thought these works through. I don't think you are mocking the composers. Instead you are picking out certain characteristics they favoured and exploring what you can do with them. That would be a labour of love requiring not only diligent study of the masters but also many hours of craft thereafter.
Speechless...I wonder how many people truly know the amount of talent, skill, and most importantly knowledge and understanding of various styles that went into creating and performing these arrangements. In all the time on youtube, I have NEVER seen anyone come close to THIS level when it comes to interpreting classical music styles. This is now one of my all-time favorite videos on youtube!
Exactly, they completely broke down each composer's style from the overarching similarities and signature trademarks to the tiny quirks and habits, and infused it perfectly into each interpretation.
Every moment brought out a strange and wonderful mix of excitement, genuine happiness at the beauty of the phrase, mixed with this kind of hilarious "oh you totally got Liszt on the chromatic mediant thing! He totally DOES do that!" parody. I am most definitely buying this sheet music.
The level of music education, chops, humor, imagination (what is a great Schumann pastiche without the manic depression?), and, of course, whimsy required to compose and play these loving parodies is world class. Standing ovation!
This young lady truly understands the "core" of every composer performed on this video. She is absolutely brilliant, and I hope to hear more from her in the future. Many people who try doing this just touch the tip of the iceberg, but Ms. Sol delves into the soul of the composers. Not only is she incredibly talented, but her technical skills are flawless. She reminds me of Hiromi!
I love both Hiromi and Nahre Sol, but that is a very weird comparison to me. How are they alike? Unless you're adding some sort of "asian" aspect with would be quite horrible, I don't see any likeness aside from being great and inventive pianists.
I only know Sol through her UA-cam videos-and there are a lot of them I haven’t watched yet. She’s clearly an amazing pianist and someone who has studied music at a very deep level. Hiromi-I don’t know, she’s an amazing technician, but I haven’t (yet) been moved by any of her compositions. She sometimes seems to me like someone who went out on her own too soon, when she would have been better off being in a great leader’s band, learning from him or her for a few more years before striking out on her own. (Kind of like Al DiMeola, who had amazing technique, but became a solo artist before he really had anything to say, other than, “Damn, can I play this guitar really freaking fast!”)
Remarkable...I've heard lots of clever pianists improvise "in the style of" this or that great composer, but the likeness is to a great extent superficial. This is far more complex and rich in both scholarship and imagination. A joy to listen to!
I'm a pianist and I cannot believe how well you replicated the EXACT mannerisms and terrain and architecture of Bach's, Beethoven's, Chopin's, and Rach's piano music. I hope I could meet you someday.😄 You should try Medtner's style. Or Ravel's!
Okay but nobody has commented on how good the editing is? Like the way the typography changes size and angles is super nice and fits the music really well and the way it’s done is entertaining, telling a story for any person with any knowledge of music
i wanted to comment abt it! then found your comment which speaks my mind. yes..i'm amazed with her video editing..excatly what i need. love the typography too!
Definitely. I kept getting so caught up in the graphics, I had to go back and listen without watching to appreciate the playing sometimes. The scene story for Schumann cracked me up.
This is by far the best " ___ in different classical styles" video I've seen. I've noticed many others rely on just implementing sections of those composer's existing songs (every "Beethoven style" song has für Elise excerpts 😒) whereas you break down every composer's style into core elements and you weave it into something truely unique and sounds like an original interpretation or piece that every composer would hypothetically write. My favourite part is that you even included labels for us too follow along as you play. Well done, subbed 💥💥🙏🙏
That is genuinely one of my pet hates - same with film directors... "Star Wars in the style of Tarantino!" "Jaws in the style of Wes Anderson!" but it turns out to be just a bunch of references instead. Han and Luke talking about burgers in Europe. It's so nice when it's real verisimilitude, when it's a genuine approximation of how they would've actually done it.
Just the piano was not in your level sadly.. Maybe that is just some cheap jazz piano but not suitable for high level classical performance. Anyway you are u n b e l i e v a b l e ! ! !
I agree, and yet nothing like the original. And yet, there is an original aesthetic quality inherent here in these sections of "deeply understood" music. Is this not like music school on drugs??? 😁 🎹 👏👏👏
I have watched this video so many times and it is the best and most comprehensive lesson on theory, composition, and history of western classical music I have ever experienced. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world in perpetuity. P.S. Since discovering your video I have made it somewhat a tradition to play it on my birthday. I am typically alone on that day and I enjoy celebrating briefly with your exquisite performance providing the soundtrack. Thank you again!
UA-cam: Wanna hear Happy Birthday? Me: Yeah, why not. Probably lame. Nahre Sol: Slaps you in the face with utterly brilliant musicianship and genius arrangements...
@@verstone2486 Yeah, me neither. Just saw Happy Birthday and classical composers. Thaught alright, whatever, entertain me UA-cam... And then BAM! Holy Moly. One banger after another. 😂
All of them sounded to me in that way. In one of her other videos, I initially thought that she just picked up a Rachmaninoff's piece and was giving analysis until I realized she was improvising in the style of the composer.
Your level of understanding and composing is astounding. I'm astonished. I know every one of these composers, and not only you managed to catch their essence, but the music you made out of it is on pare with the model you used. Formidable.
This is the best "Happy birthday" rendition I ever heard! It's because there's a deep harmony study over each musician: she decomposed note per note each style then recomposed all in a melody that not even the authors would have despised
Well noticed, tho kinda sad. Gonna quote Reich on this one: "Why do 200 years of music in one concrete place of the world has to make 99% of your information?" (not exactly quoted)
Debussy got to me listen to classical music, and even after having listened to so many different composer and having developed a taste for every style and era, Debussy still is my favorite by far. There's nothing like the way I feel listening to Arabesque no.1, as if I was floating in the clouds the instant that I close my eyes. His music speaks to me regardless of my mood, I can be happy, sad, melancholic, angry, depressed, proud, grateful, in grief, whatever, there is always a different way to appreciate his compositions. I fucking love Debussy.
I heard a lot of „in Style of...“ from many even professional players. Mostly they are funny, but bland, uninspiring and very simple structured. But yours? Wow! Smart! With technical expertise! And funny too! In my opinion the very best attempt on this subject that has ever been made!
Nahre's genius for channeling music-and explaining it-is boundless inspiration. She gets to the absolute heart of each composer's style and makes you aware of every nuance... the little quirks and flourishes that define each composer. My particular favorites are Satie and Reich, but honestly I could listen to Nahre Sol play the piano theme from Eyes Wide Shut. And that is saying something. Also: love seeing her dog peep out from beneath the piano!
If you’d been my piano teacher when I was 7 years old, my life might have been different in this grey Vienna of the 70th. Thank you so much for sharing your abilities, your knowledge, your fun... You are amazing.
Holy shit, i was listening to it and i read your comment and got such feels. I shed a tear. You fucking hit the sad nail on the head. I'm sobbing in the bathroom, thanks.
As someone who has studied piano his entire life, I've learned more on UA-cam this past month in microtonality from Jacob Collier, jazz theory from Adam Neely, and composition from this video than I've learned in ages. Thank you very, very much.
Tony Kinnett if you now get David Bruce and Rick beato into the game you’ve won. That’s what I did and I am now an expert on music theory if I do say so myself
Your understanding of these composers and their styles is so spot on and truly admirable! Wonderful to listen to! And you have brilliant technique too!
This is no joke amazing. As a student of piano for 8 years, this level of creativity, artistry, and even the technique is unprecedented. For their efforts, this person should be considered one of the best composers and improvisers of all time.
@@sleepyboi1964 it wasnt a hyperbole, the person writing the comment either lacks knowledge within the subject of classical composers, or then he just really overestimated the level of skill of the person who made the video. The video is still incredibly impressive though.
Pianist: Noooo, you just can't use a million of notes, beauty of the piece is not in the complexity!! Liszt: *Haha, piano go ascending diminished chord arpeggio*
Thats chopin, for Debussy you literally have to have a gnome pressing up and down on the sustain Pedal constantly because everything is sustained but also you have to retake every note
Rachmaninoff!!! Each of the renditions is like bringing out what a "birthday" means to each composer - and there is such variety of personality, so much layering!
I really appreciate how you've added John Cage and Steve Reich. This is a complete medley of landmarks in history of music! Thank you for putting this up!
This is absolutely brilliant. One of the most brilliant things I've ever seen. You really made some deep cuts in the essence of these composers' music. You can do that only if you have a huge knowledge and a huge intelligence. Congratulations. Absolutely brilliant.
This is... magnificent. Both your playing and your deep understanding of these composers are virtuosic. Plus: I was genuinely moved by a few of these pieces, and even liked the Cage bit, which can be a bit of a heavy lift for me. I laughed out loud during the Steve Reich piece: the Mr. Rogers clip. Perfection. Brava!
No that fugue was wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than people know. Like no that was perfect. Idk how everyone isn't talking about it and idk how she's not globally known as a the musical genius of the generation yet but all this was so amazing
As a perpetual student of the piano for some 70 years, I love your series of Happy Birthday in the style of these composers. I can instantly recognize those of my favorites such as that of Bach, Ravel, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Schumann. I have heard people composing like Chopin, but not the others. You are a brilliant teacher and performer. You should be invited to teach in the Moscow Conservatory or the Julliard.
@Daniel Thompson yeah. I was able to hear them too. Though some parts have been disintegrated to form a new arrangement based on the styles of the musicians.
@@eugenelayton5231 jesus christ dude sorry your life sucks but no need to take it out on this video, criticizing stuff that is literally the point of the video
Free speech is not the right to say whatever you want without facing any consequences and it's truly sad to see more and more people hiding behind the "free speech" label to justify being arrogant and hateful. You do have the right to criticize, but if it's just to feel better about yourself then what's the point? You're not suggesting anything to the OP so she can improve on her work. You're just attacking her because hurting her and what she does makes you feel better about yourself. And your only defense at the end of the day is that you do it because you can. Not fitting the talented musician you claim to be.
@@UserUser-xk7py Yes you are right. It's there, very often just the first notes and then applying the typical logic of the respective composer to develop the initial idea. The remaining notes are often hidden or played only after lengthy parts, often it's the composer just rambling (of course on a very high level). It's more of a humorous way of explaining and teaching classical composition to musicians. Nahre Sol is insanely good.
This drummer guy here in the comments said he feels like a musical caveman and that explains perfectly how i felt when watching this video. Also coming from a drummer
Seconded to this "seconded" statement. I even know, I'm not a bad Drummer and singer but watching this I just feel like: "Why do I even think, I'm doing something similar to this one. I make noises, this here is Music."
I feel like I I could take any motif and follow these directions to turn it into something that sounds like any of these composers. I am in awe of how well you broke down the unique compositional parts of music that made each composer and then created the piece. You are incredible.
"Third hand illusion..." yeah ... making it look easy too. This video is unbelievable. (The only thing left is to turn it into one of those demos for an arranging keyboard. LOL)
I literally watch hundreds of UA-cam-Videos of all kinds per month and also happen to listen to classical music - and this Video to me is one of the absolutely best videos I‘ve ever seen. Mindblowing how sophisticated and accurate these arrangements are.. Im genuinely impressed (which doesn‘t happen that often these days)
Absolutely breathtaking. Each composer's technique and style was carefully studied and beautifully interpreted. I will show this to my son who is learning to read music and play the piano. Thank you for sharing your love of music with your viewers. It actually means a lot to those of us that truly love it as well.
This is one of the most brilliant anythings I have ever listened to/watched. Playing and interpretation elegant, styles spot on. I can't even imagine the genius it took to assemble and perform this. I laughed, and I cried. Superb.
You are a GENIUS!! Not only you play wonderfully, but you have such a deep knowledge of composers' styles... I am a pianist, conductor, composer and Conservatory teacher... and you amazed me!
I searched “Different types of classical music” and this was the first video I picked to watch, dive in on to learn about pianists and etc; but this video here, absolutely incredible. Just I could go on But just flipping wonderful stuff.
@@yellowcactustvz4929 yeah hahah, i knew there would be confusion, yes, also 15 is odd number, but i meant odd as in, a number that is rare or not commonly used, because 15 is odd number but it is used frecuently because of 5-10-15-20-... Etc so even though i think 15 is good example, i just said that because i wanted to enfatize the oddness of Satié in everything xd
3 questions: 1) Which one of these pieces took the most effort to perform? 2) Which one took the most effort to write? 3) Which one do you like the most?
Not enough superlatives to define how amazing this video, and really, all your videos, are. Your knowledge and understanding of individual composers and their unique styles, is unparalleled. You are so talented, so well-schooled in the classic genre that I’m mesmerized. Thank you for studying and using your brilliance and understanding of music to help and inspire everyone who calls himself or herself a musician.
This is absolutely amazing. The arranger/pianist captured the essences of the composers' styles perfectly. I loved the notes that told you what was going on in each piece. It really showed why these composers are some of the greatest.
This video has rekindled my passion for learning music, especially piano. I love it because of the clearly amazing skill, attention to technical detail, and complexity of the pieces, but also because you demonstrate all of the little quirks and emotional beats that each composer would convey through their music. Bravo! And thank you for this beautiful, entertaining video!
I wish i felt the same way, i just feel like i would never be as talented as her, im a ignorant with no education in music,all i know is self taught and ¡its not enough!
00:00 J.S. BACH
01:17 BEETHOVEN
03:34 SCHUMANN
04:51 CHOPIN
06:34 LISZT
09:18 DEBUSSY
12:10 SATIE
13:30 RACHMANINOFF
14:29 JOHN CAGE
16:11 STEVE REICH
Thank you so much for all this videos, they help a lot to understand each composer and his style🤗
We need Rautavaara or Rzewski next please!
13:30 all the way!
Love it! Wagner would have been "funny"!
@@-antares- She didn't do Mozart yet. You gotta wait like I was waiting the whole time for Liszt
Watching your disembodied hands jump around on the keyboard, as if they were baby squirrels chasing each other, makes me smile. :-D
"Oh you play piano? That's cool! What can you play?"
"Happy Birthday"
Oof
Brilliant 🤣
and when they call you noob,you show them this video
That will do - for now... ;D
Excellent!!!.. LMAO!!!
As I imagined it would be, Satie is like waking up on your birthday on a rainy day and blowing out the candles on a cake you baked yourself, because everyone forgot it was your birthday.
Nice one! :D
So sad
that's so oddly poetic i love it
yet at the sane time it's quite nice, things are cozy and your cat is keeping you company while you're warm under a blanket
But it hits the point tho. It sounds really like Satie. He was a loner
This is insane. The accuracy, emulation, satire, performance and preparation of this is staggering.
🤤
This composition memes are lit!
everything, except accuracy. she still deserves tons of credits and compliments tho.
@@bottledpills, where are the inaccuracies?
@@solderbuff people like that guy cannot accept when someone is praised lmaoooo
This is a 12 month masterclass in composition, condensed into less than 20 minutes and with added humor for relief. Fantastic would be an understatement.
Yea, I'm absolutely blown away not only by how entertaining and impressive this was, but also massively in-depth and educational. Unreal
Agreed. Simply brilliant!
So true, and so well said.
When I clicked on this video, I expected a few bars for each composer with some superficial and stereotyped flourish to distinguish them. That in itself would have been amusing and clever.
This is so much more than that. I am astonished at the level of thought and effort this had to have taken, both in musical and production terms.
Thank you. You've absolutely made my day.
Check out the vids that this is a complication of for lots of breakdown
me to didnt saw the minute mark when i clicked, but stayed the whole thing, and again and again...
Your level of thought is really incredible, and that is what I love about you!
I feel like no matter how much praise your videos get in the comments I cant help but feel that people are sleeping on just how incredibly talented you are. This one 18 minute video has no doubt countless hours of work behind it and we all truly appreciate you for making these available!! Keep going!
That's very well put. Some people seem to think you're just jamming at the keyboard, riffing on various composers. All the text flashes show you are doing anything but. Suspension here, augmentation there, you have thought these works through. I don't think you are mocking the composers. Instead you are picking out certain characteristics they favoured and exploring what you can do with them. That would be a labour of love requiring not only diligent study of the masters but also many hours of craft thereafter.
Exactly. She makes.it look so easy bit this is real craft and professionalism. No comparison at all with random jammers.
Hassaan Bangash I agree! This is fantastic.
ok
I'm your 1,000th like! 👍
This must be the hardest earned "like and subscribe" content ever.
I have subscribed to three channels before. Now I NEED to be bothered by my phone to see and hear what might happen next on this chick's keys!
Speechless...I wonder how many people truly know the amount of talent, skill, and most importantly knowledge and understanding of various styles that went into creating and performing these arrangements. In all the time on youtube, I have NEVER seen anyone come close to THIS level when it comes to interpreting classical music styles. This is now one of my all-time favorite videos on youtube!
Exactly, they completely broke down each composer's style from the overarching similarities and signature trademarks to the tiny quirks and habits, and infused it perfectly into each interpretation.
Every moment brought out a strange and wonderful mix of excitement, genuine happiness at the beauty of the phrase, mixed with this kind of hilarious "oh you totally got Liszt on the chromatic mediant thing! He totally DOES do that!" parody. I am most definitely buying this sheet music.
Agreed. Extremely gifted!
agree
I was thinking the same thing
This lesson in composers styles will stay unsurpassed for long time.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!! And the wonderful humor along with it - priceless 😁
Perhaps forever! Thank You Nahre.......love you so!❤❤
This is the most powerful flex I've ever seen.
True
Let's not forget or overlook all the EDITING and typography that was done in this video, made it even more impressive and delightful! thank you!
I really loved that - it gave a lot of depth and helped me understand what was going on.
yes! i want all classical music to have this format so that on repeated listenings we appreciate it more!
The level of music education, chops, humor, imagination (what is a great Schumann pastiche without the manic depression?), and, of course, whimsy required to compose and play these loving parodies is world class. Standing ovation!
Puro encantamento!!!
Amei!
Standing ovation it is.
The whole time I was listening I was like: ok this ones my favorite. No no, this ones my favorite. This is the best one yet! Now this ones my favorite
Thank you ☺️ !!
Swear this deserves way more views
Bach feels offended
Felt exactly the same! Brilliant done!
@@decafcoffee0935 lmaooo
In 40 years as a musician, I’ve never felt this humbled. Wow.
Now that's a compliment.
That is indeed a compliment
That's a real compliment right there
Lizst was Best
@@chezbe
Liszt was a straight beast with fire in his eyes!
This young lady truly understands the "core" of every composer performed on this video. She is absolutely brilliant, and I hope to hear more from her in the future. Many people who try doing this just touch the tip of the iceberg, but Ms. Sol delves into the soul of the composers. Not only is she incredibly talented, but her technical skills are flawless. She reminds me of Hiromi!
I love both Hiromi and Nahre Sol, but that is a very weird comparison to me. How are they alike? Unless you're adding some sort of "asian" aspect with would be quite horrible, I don't see any likeness aside from being great and inventive pianists.
Yea I don’t really see that much similarity besides “asian”
I only know Sol through her UA-cam videos-and there are a lot of them I haven’t watched yet. She’s clearly an amazing pianist and someone who has studied music at a very deep level. Hiromi-I don’t know, she’s an amazing technician, but I haven’t (yet) been moved by any of her compositions. She sometimes seems to me like someone who went out on her own too soon, when she would have been better off being in a great leader’s band, learning from him or her for a few more years before striking out on her own. (Kind of like Al DiMeola, who had amazing technique, but became a solo artist before he really had anything to say, other than, “Damn, can I play this guitar really freaking fast!”)
I am a pianist and would never have figured out all of the elements she gives to each composer’s style. This is like a mini master class!
She reminds more of a classical version of jimin park
What a display of musical prowess and deep musical understanding
when a professional pianist gets booked for a kids party
lmao!!
You mean an elitist
Well, it is a professional composer actually.
@@josephinelauren4608 How?
@@josephinelauren4608 uwu
I learnt more about composition in 18 minutes than the previous entire lifetime.
same and i have a music degree...
Remarkable...I've heard lots of clever pianists improvise "in the style of" this or that great composer, but the likeness is to a great extent superficial. This is far more complex and rich in both scholarship and imagination. A joy to listen to!
I'm a pianist and I cannot believe how well you replicated the EXACT mannerisms and terrain and architecture of Bach's, Beethoven's, Chopin's, and Rach's piano music. I hope I could meet you someday.😄
You should try Medtner's style. Or Ravel's!
Throwing some stupid names
Okay but nobody has commented on how good the editing is? Like the way the typography changes size and angles is super nice and fits the music really well and the way it’s done is entertaining, telling a story for any person with any knowledge of music
i wanted to comment abt it! then found your comment which speaks my mind. yes..i'm amazed with her video editing..excatly what i need. love the typography too!
Chill there. We can compliment the creator without dissing on the other fans 😁
Definitely. I kept getting so caught up in the graphics, I had to go back and listen without watching to appreciate the playing sometimes.
The scene story for Schumann cracked me up.
@@iamdodgepodge LOL
This is by far the best " ___ in different classical styles" video I've seen. I've noticed many others rely on just implementing sections of those composer's existing songs (every "Beethoven style" song has für Elise excerpts 😒) whereas you break down every composer's style into core elements and you weave it into something truely unique and sounds like an original interpretation or piece that every composer would hypothetically write. My favourite part is that you even included labels for us too follow along as you play. Well done, subbed 💥💥🙏🙏
Skills!
Can't disagree with that
This is one way to avoid getting copyrighted by the owners if the birthday song
Yes! This is extremely epic!
That is genuinely one of my pet hates - same with film directors... "Star Wars in the style of Tarantino!" "Jaws in the style of Wes Anderson!" but it turns out to be just a bunch of references instead. Han and Luke talking about burgers in Europe. It's so nice when it's real verisimilitude, when it's a genuine approximation of how they would've actually done it.
"Just a simple, small Happy birthday, please."
Liszt:
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean... How simple can you really get?
@@ManuSankaran2410 The question is, how complex can you get?
@@GabsARV Depends on what I want to do to it.
@@ManuSankaran2410 you fool
I think people do not realize how talented and creative you are, it feels like you've composed new songs for each genre !!!
Just the piano was not in your level sadly.. Maybe that is just some cheap jazz piano but not suitable for high level classical performance. Anyway you are u n b e l i e v a b l e ! ! !
I do... 😢
When youtube algorithm hits the right note.
Voila!
YES
700th like!
take a moment to appreciate that there isnt a single ad in this entire video
I had one
But it didn't matter anyway compared to the quality I'm getting out of watching the video :)
Same, didn't have an ad. Weird for an 18 min vid (is it weird?).
I mean, that pesky a d blo ck e r really is just too much work, amirite?
Only one, at the end.
In music, drawing, architecture, writing, exercises "in the style of" are an excellent way to deeply understand art.
I agree, and yet nothing like the original. And yet, there is an original aesthetic quality inherent here in these sections of "deeply understood" music. Is this not like music school on drugs??? 😁 🎹 👏👏👏
I have watched this video so many times and it is the best and most comprehensive lesson on theory, composition, and history of western classical music I have ever experienced. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world in perpetuity.
P.S. Since discovering your video I have made it somewhat a tradition to play it on my birthday. I am typically alone on that day and I enjoy celebrating briefly with your exquisite performance providing the soundtrack. Thank you again!
UA-cam: Wanna hear Happy Birthday?
Me: Yeah, why not. Probably lame.
Nahre Sol: Slaps you in the face with utterly brilliant musicianship and genius arrangements...
omg I didn't even realize this was nahre until reading this
@@verstone2486 Yeah, me neither. Just saw Happy Birthday and classical composers. Thaught alright, whatever, entertain me UA-cam...
And then BAM! Holy Moly. One banger after another. 😂
But didn’t play happy birthday
I wasn’t expecting much but ended up not skipping a second.
This is incredible. With Beethoven and Bach, I felt as if I was listening to a piece written by each respective composer.
All of them sounded to me in that way. In one of her other videos, I initially thought that she just picked up a Rachmaninoff's piece and was giving analysis until I realized she was improvising in the style of the composer.
This is NOT in the style of composers....THIS IS REALLY COMPOSED BY THEM!!!! Absolutely fantastic!!
The Chopin captions had me dead "trill, trill, more trills, trill-y things"
Chromaticism did it for me...
I was waiting for Aussie man reviews 'spinny shit'!
*Leave trill-y Chopin alone😭*
My favorite captions were for the Schumann. "Oh no! It's going to RAIN! TRAGEDY!"
Your level of understanding and composing is astounding. I'm astonished. I know every one of these composers, and not only you managed to catch their essence, but the music you made out of it is on pare with the model you used.
Formidable.
The dog politely listening to the Satie version is so delightful
Thank you for pointing that out! Cute
This is the best "Happy birthday" rendition I ever heard! It's because there's a deep harmony study over each musician: she decomposed note per note each style then recomposed all in a melody that not even the authors would have despised
This is like an entire semester of music theory in twenty minutes!
For me it would be four semesters indeed at least
Ehm? Semester?
Right. A couple of decades haha
@@fernandolucero_9 semester -but not only one - yes, after two decades of practicing and studying
Well noticed, tho kinda sad. Gonna quote Reich on this one: "Why do 200 years of music in one concrete place of the world has to make 99% of your information?" (not exactly quoted)
Debussy is so good, even when is not him writing. Magnificent.
*There's nothing better than Debussy*
@@UnchartedThoughtsMusic Agreed.
Mi favourite composer 😍🇫🇷
Debussy got to me listen to classical music, and even after having listened to so many different composer and having developed a taste for every style and era, Debussy still is my favorite by far. There's nothing like the way I feel listening to Arabesque no.1, as if I was floating in the clouds the instant that I close my eyes.
His music speaks to me regardless of my mood, I can be happy, sad, melancholic, angry, depressed, proud, grateful, in grief, whatever, there is always a different way to appreciate his compositions. I fucking love Debussy.
@@haaxeu6501 have you listened to his etudes? They are amazing especially no 8.
I heard a lot of „in Style of...“ from many even professional players. Mostly they are funny, but bland, uninspiring and very simple structured.
But yours?
Wow!
Smart! With technical expertise!
And funny too!
In my opinion the very best attempt on this subject that has ever been made!
Nahre's genius for channeling music-and explaining it-is boundless inspiration. She gets to the absolute heart of each composer's style and makes you aware of every nuance... the little quirks and flourishes that define each composer. My particular favorites are Satie and Reich, but honestly I could listen to Nahre Sol play the piano theme from Eyes Wide Shut. And that is saying something. Also: love seeing her dog peep out from beneath the piano!
Glad you, too, noticed the little pup…..and the white cloth and white bracelet. White, of course, because Satie only ate white foods!
I love the description of the musical moments "glitter", "arpeggio cascade", "noble restatement", all that.
These are the technical terms, right? LOL
If you’d been my piano teacher when I was 7 years old, my life might have been different in this grey Vienna of the 70th. Thank you so much for sharing your abilities, your knowledge, your fun... You are amazing.
As my original piano instructor, my so called life would have been so much better, I cannot imagine!
The Reich variation was spot on. I can definitely imagine him composing a piece like this. "Birthday for Nine Pianos"
I deeply appreciate the Cage one. I was fully expecting a tired 4:33 joke, but instead got what might as well be a new piece for prepared piano!
Same here. I was relieved and contented to hear something that actually reflects Cage's prepared piano works, which I love.
I also was expecting LESS from john cage. 4:33 is his best known work and the only one I'm reallly familiar with.
Haha, same, I was totally waiting for silence.
erik satie: what birthdays feel like as an adult
Holy shit, i was listening to it and i read your comment and got such feels. I shed a tear.
You fucking hit the sad nail on the head. I'm sobbing in the bathroom, thanks.
What birthdays feel like when you get old. . . 😥
Yes that is probably it !!! But love it anyway!!!
Erik Satie lived alone most of his life.
Also check out his piece called Crooked Dances if you really wanna feel melancholy
As someone who has studied piano his entire life, I've learned more on UA-cam this past month in microtonality from Jacob Collier, jazz theory from Adam Neely, and composition from this video than I've learned in ages.
Thank you very, very much.
Tony Kinnett if you now get David Bruce and Rick beato into the game you’ve won. That’s what I did and I am now an expert on music theory if I do say so myself
That's sound insane! How could it be?
UA-cam is changing the game, isn't it?
Tony Kinnett the holy trinity of modern music
Your understanding of these composers and their styles is so spot on and truly admirable! Wonderful to listen to! And you have brilliant technique too!
I'm actually convinced you're a genius.
Yes she is definitely
*Ingenious, I would have said :)
That's because she is
Yes!!
Geniale!!!👏👏👏👏👏
This is no joke amazing. As a student of piano for 8 years, this level of creativity, artistry, and even the technique is unprecedented. For their efforts, this person should be considered one of the best composers and improvisers of all time.
Watch the videos where she explains them
Calm down buddy, while what she has done is impressive you cant be calling her one of the best composers ever😂😂
Special Person Hyperbole, heard of it?
Rensi it was unintentional hyperbole
@@sleepyboi1964 it wasnt a hyperbole, the person writing the comment either lacks knowledge within the subject of classical composers, or then he just really overestimated the level of skill of the person who made the video. The video is still incredibly impressive though.
Pianist: Noooo, you just can't use a million of notes, beauty of the piece is not in the complexity!!
Liszt: *Haha, piano go ascending diminished chord arpeggio*
Lol 😂
This is the most classical music nerdy thing I have heard in a while
😂
@@apug296 how is this classical music nerdy?
*Haha Hungarian Rhapsody 2 go Chromatic Broken Octaves*
I feel like these are all real compositions, they are so accurate especially the Satie one!
so true!
Satie was very diverse, this was very much in his Gnossienne style
bro i lost it at "perhaps a birthday gathering in the meadows" 🤣
Paulina from PaQuHeLiCh for me it was “We can still be happy in the rain!”
*Debussy*: put a brick on the sustain pedal and go to town
Thats chopin, for Debussy you literally have to have a gnome pressing up and down on the sustain Pedal constantly because everything is sustained but also you have to retake every note
Debussy is also fond of the middle-pedal (sostenuto)!
@@lcozzarelli yeah but mainly just the regular pedal
You always finish on the Bach. You never finish on Debussy.
@@eugenelayton5231 as much as I'd love to take credit this genius was from FamilyGuy but I digress. Shit was hilarious.
I play the drums, watching this I feel like the musical equivalent of a caveman. I hit things and they make noise...
Pancreas Dragonheart Quiet, beat counter.
(Also a fellow drummer)
"And what do you do after you hit them?" Glod asked. Lias, one of nature's true percussionists, said "Then i hit them again.".
You don't contribute to the harmony. It's ok.
That's what a pianist does aswell
you must love the cage & reich variations then, i think
Rachmaninoff!!!
Each of the renditions is like bringing out what a "birthday" means to each composer - and there is such variety of personality, so much layering!
As if it’s their essence existence expressed in music.
a simple 'like' is not enough. I need to write in comments how amazing I think this video is. Thank you for making it
00:00 It always amazes me that Bach is possible to imitate/emulate, and when it's done well it's so fun. Kudos!
Only on the surface!! 😂 thank you though
@@NahreSol On the surface, you wipe the floor !
@@InXLsisDeo and the floor is a surface!
I - a dedicated fan of Bach - have heard Bach imitated a few times before, but only rarely this well.
I really appreciate how you've added John Cage and Steve Reich. This is a complete medley of landmarks in history of music! Thank you for putting this up!
You understand the composers’ styles very well, and have amazing playing. On top of that, the editing is very nice. Such a brilliant video!
I would like to hear Happy Birthday in the Style of Nahre Sol.
YES!
She plays her own "complex" version in a video on the channel WIRED
I was about to comment this!
go watch her series in WIRED!! they made one!
I’m pretty sure this video in and of itself is exactly that
This is absolutely brilliant. One of the most brilliant things I've ever seen. You really made some deep cuts in the essence of these composers' music. You can do that only if you have a huge knowledge and a huge intelligence. Congratulations. Absolutely brilliant.
you know she's good when she did 't pull a 4'33 for john cage
Steve Reich too !!!
I was just thinning that!!! 4’33 is the most overwrought joke in classical music
Would be good for memes, but not accurate. There is a lot more to Cage than 4‘33
@@jessewarren817 and the piece itself isn't even a joke
@@jessewarren817 Thats the one and only joke unfortunately
The Debussy section was so beautiful.
This is... magnificent. Both your playing and your deep understanding of these composers are virtuosic. Plus: I was genuinely moved by a few of these pieces, and even liked the Cage bit, which can be a bit of a heavy lift for me. I laughed out loud during the Steve Reich piece: the Mr. Rogers clip. Perfection. Brava!
I Hope this series will continue Forever!
So do I!
😀🙏
Baroque and Classical composers: detailed music theory terminology
Romantic era and beyond: s p a r k l y s t u f f
Lmao
What can i say? It's very *Romantic.*
Exactly my thoughts
Just a little glitter and it's all done!
*throws the entire stock*
Ah yes, and I’d like to give props to Liszt. *whispers* Mozart isn’t there!
No that fugue was wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than people know. Like no that was perfect. Idk how everyone isn't talking about it and idk how she's not globally known as a the musical genius of the generation yet but all this was so amazing
Nahre understates her enormous talent. Sorry girl, I cannot do that! ❤❤
You have my standing ovation. I can barely comprehend the amount of work that went into this. Thank you so much!! Cheers.
As a perpetual student of the piano for some 70 years, I love your series of Happy Birthday in the style of these composers. I can instantly recognize those of my favorites such as that of Bach, Ravel, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Schumann. I have heard people composing like Chopin, but not the others. You are a brilliant teacher and performer. You should be invited to teach in the Moscow Conservatory or the Julliard.
Tchaikovsky would’ve been like: “Happy Birthday? Well, I guess it’s time to bust out the cannons again.”
Wow!! As a pianist myself, i just adore your talents!!
Them: rock on!
Me: trying to find where the happy birthday is. 😂
@@eugenelayton5231 Which conservatory did you attend?
@Daniel Thompson yeah. I was able to hear them too. Though some parts have been disintegrated to form a new arrangement based on the styles of the musicians.
@@eugenelayton5231 jesus christ dude sorry your life sucks but no need to take it out on this video, criticizing stuff that is literally the point of the video
@@eugenelayton5231 you can make criticisms but people are also allowed to criticize you for that, free speech works both ways.
Free speech is not the right to say whatever you want without facing any consequences and it's truly sad to see more and more people hiding behind the "free speech" label to justify being arrogant and hateful. You do have the right to criticize, but if it's just to feel better about yourself then what's the point? You're not suggesting anything to the OP so she can improve on her work. You're just attacking her because hurting her and what she does makes you feel better about yourself. And your only defense at the end of the day is that you do it because you can. Not fitting the talented musician you claim to be.
Did anyone else just kinda forget what song they were actually listening to at some point throughout this video?
Ive just started to read the comments and aprreciate the music xd
Not just once
Because it doesn’t sound anything like happy birthday
@@UserUser-xk7py Yes you are right. It's there, very often just the first notes and then applying the typical logic of the respective composer to develop the initial idea. The remaining notes are often hidden or played only after lengthy parts, often it's the composer just rambling (of course on a very high level). It's more of a humorous way of explaining and teaching classical composition to musicians. Nahre Sol is insanely good.
I must have.....they were so beautiful, I lost track!!
I can just imagine these composers sitting on a big cloud and smiling what a great job this video is ☺️
The text annotations just killed me (^^;). What an amazing and fun journey through so many styles.
In Corona-Virus times
Me: "How long should I wash my hands, mummy?"
Mum: "It's easy: just happy birthday twice, darling."
Me:
If there is one good thing at these dark times, it is people sharing their humour! Bravo!
That was funny.
Wait what? Do people say that?
What does it mean? Like the amount of time it takes to sing the song twice?
@@sanny8716 yes
*I'm gonna end this man's whole hands*
the first 15 seconds and i would have believed that bach's composition was newly discovered. superb!
This drummer guy here in the comments said he feels like a musical caveman and that explains perfectly how i felt when watching this video. Also coming from a drummer
Take on Vibraphone! :)
Coming from a pianist too!
Guitarist agrees
Seconded to this "seconded" statement. I even know, I'm not a bad Drummer and singer but watching this I just feel like: "Why do I even think, I'm doing something similar to this one. I make noises, this here is Music."
Ditto :v
I feel like I I could take any motif and follow these directions to turn it into something that sounds like any of these composers. I am in awe of how well you broke down the unique compositional parts of music that made each composer and then created the piece. You are incredible.
The Debussy was especially pretty.
"Third hand illusion..." yeah ... making it look easy too. This video is unbelievable. (The only thing left is to turn it into one of those demos for an arranging keyboard. LOL)
Youre an incredible player, despite the speed and accuracy its also tender and emotive with every note, congratutlations!
I literally watch hundreds of UA-cam-Videos of all kinds per month and also happen to listen to classical music - and this Video to me is one of the absolutely best videos I‘ve ever seen. Mindblowing how sophisticated and accurate these arrangements are.. Im genuinely impressed (which doesn‘t happen that often these days)
I reclaim the right to like this video more than once!
😂 thank you 🙏
agree
10 times would be a fair amount
@@NahreSol yeah me too your a very talented young man but can you play my hammer klavier.
Man you can take this video down.
Absolutely breathtaking. Each composer's technique and style was carefully studied and beautifully interpreted. I will show this to my son who is learning to read music and play the piano. Thank you for sharing your love of music with your viewers. It actually means a lot to those of us that truly love it as well.
This is one of the most brilliant anythings I have ever listened to/watched. Playing and interpretation elegant, styles spot on. I can't even imagine the genius it took to assemble and perform this. I laughed, and I cried. Superb.
There! So glad someone else said it!!
You are a GENIUS!! Not only you play wonderfully, but you have such a deep knowledge of composers' styles... I am a pianist, conductor, composer and Conservatory teacher... and you amazed me!
You have such a deep knowledge of music itself.....I find myself in awe! You are marvelous!
I searched “Different types of classical music” and this was the first video I picked to watch, dive in on to learn about pianists and etc; but this video here, absolutely incredible. Just I could go on
But just flipping wonderful stuff.
The Steve Reich was genius - and I was especially impressed by the Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff -so fantastic! 🤗
Not to mention the Mr. Rogers.
It was as if the Chopin was a newly discovered authentic piece. I'm sure it could have fooled many on a panel.
Willow Winkle i was especially impressed by the whole thing!
You should make a “How to sound like Nahre Sol” video. I still don’t have a clue what your birthdate is.
Yes hopefully this year haha
Nahre Sol YESSSS
Nahre Sol I, too, hope that your birthdate is this year and that you’re not, in fact, an eternal being
@@NahreSol your birthday?
:)
@@NahreSol I distinctly remember your birthday being last year...
I was expecting a played out 4'33 joke for the John Cage version, thank you so much for not doing that
You perform a series of wonderful music and melody of 10 genius, and sure you are also a genius musician. Excellent work and many hurrays to you.
Thank you for this work of art. Impressive how you imitate these legends so well.
Thank you!!!
I see on every video! How are you always there?
I must surpass you.
Satie: I bough the whole piano. I’m going to use 15% of it.
Lolllll that's more funnier than the original joke
You mean 17%? (satié liked using odd numbers xd)
@@pabloduarte1722 xd
@@pabloduarte1722 15 is an odd number, do you mean prime?
@@yellowcactustvz4929 yeah hahah, i knew there would be confusion, yes, also 15 is odd number, but i meant odd as in, a number that is rare or not commonly used, because 15 is odd number but it is used frecuently because of 5-10-15-20-... Etc so even though i think 15 is good example, i just said that because i wanted to enfatize the oddness of Satié in everything xd
3 questions:
1) Which one of these pieces took the most effort to perform?
2) Which one took the most effort to write?
3) Which one do you like the most?
I'm curious too @Nahre
Beethoven
1. Liszt
I'm partial to how you play from Chopin and Liszt on wards like they're given more time to show off some of their peculiarities and strengths. 😍
I’m curious too!
Not enough superlatives to define how amazing this video, and really, all your videos, are. Your knowledge and understanding of individual composers and their unique styles, is unparalleled. You are so talented, so well-schooled in the classic genre that I’m mesmerized. Thank you for studying and using your brilliance and understanding of music to help and inspire everyone who calls himself or herself a musician.
No wonder that cute puppy showed up for the Satie version.
Loved the doggy!
Ja, i saw the little eyes and nose under the bass octave patiently listening for Satie.
Anarcho-Cymry?
@Schwer Dunkel Es ist eine sehr kluge Beobachtung
@Schwer Dunkel Ah, eine klassische Referenz. Wenn ich mit dir rumhänge, werde ich kultiviert oder gebildet.
This is absolutely amazing. The arranger/pianist captured the essences of the composers' styles perfectly. I loved the notes that told you what was going on in each piece. It really showed why these composers are some of the greatest.
This video has rekindled my passion for learning music, especially piano. I love it because of the clearly amazing skill, attention to technical detail, and complexity of the pieces, but also because you demonstrate all of the little quirks and emotional beats that each composer would convey through their music. Bravo! And thank you for this beautiful, entertaining video!
I wish i felt the same way, i just feel like i would never be as talented as her, im a ignorant with no education in music,all i know is self taught and ¡its not enough!
This is way too good. YOU are way too good, and damn do you work hard. Thanks for always sharing Nahre