Deckard became the machine & Rachel, more human than human. The poetic irony is what’s enduring about both this piece & the masterpiece - Blade Runner.
How very sweet. I watched. blade runner with my first husband. This transcendent. Piece of music captivated my attention right away. I am now in my early sixties and I still am swept away... ✋
I think this is the best version of this on UA-cam. It seems it's very difficult to make it sound like the original by Vangelis because you must get so many things right, the pace, the timing, raising and lowering the volume, playing slowly and speeding it up. That's part of what makes it so evocative and so sad, what stirs our emotions, not just the melody. What a beautiful piece he wrote and how beautifully you play it.
I've been listening to this for years and I feel like you're the only person on UA-cam who has covered this so accurately; with such emotion, desire and devotion with every note you play. Beautiful.
It’s been 9 years since I last posted on this, and wow, how beautiful still. This will always be in my heart as well as us alls heart. You find peace with your playing. I hope you know how significant you are
Some years ago I have listened to this cover a lot while I have worked. I have said some years ago "Thank you" to the pianist because this cover is so special to me. Today I need to listen to this cover again to relax my soul and to work in my room. My dog is now older and has cancer, but he is still by me and listening again like in the past. I needed the peace that this cover gives to me today to do my work. I have to say thank you again for sharing. Art makes life better. No doubt.
I just watched Blade Runner for the first time a couple days ago. All I can say is what a masterpiece it was. But In particular this piece of music stuck out for me. How melancholic it sounded in such a dreary dystopian world. Especially from 1:00 to 2:05. You played this so beautifully
Watching these 10 masterful fingers transmuting this writing into this wonderful sound just makes me cry and think, “I need to get closer to God while there is still time”!
I have listened to the Blade Runner soundtrack for decades as my bedtime soothing music. And yet somehow I’ve never stumbled upon this incredible cover until tonight?!. How is that possible?. 🤩 This is simply perfection. 💖🙏🏼
This is the best version on UA-cam. I've watched and listened to a few versions and I always keep coming back to this one. Beautifully emotive sound and just beautifully played. It inspires me to want to learn this fantastic piece of music but also a tune to just be loft away on some sonic clouds and drift away into a blissful chilled out mood.
It's as if im listening to the master himself. You're not just playing but also feeling the music. Beautiful. The best word I can use to describe this piece and many others of Vangelis is saudade.
I listen to this song at least once a day and sometimes many times. My job (though less difficult, perhaps, than a poor fit) stresses me out and this song helps take away my cares. Thank you.
You played this song so perfectly it seems like you had imagine it yourself. The emotion you give with is Incredible. I wish I learn piano just to be able to play this one. Respect dude
wow. Beautiful and timeless. the subtlety and timing is perfect. i love Blade Runner and Vangelis, but this came out before the film and i love what you've done with it
this is my favorite movie ever made & this is one of my favorite songs from it. you’ve brought tears to my eyes, this is so incredibly beautiful ❤️ Thank you for sharing this
Jon Tisdall Thank you for bringing me back here! I didn’t know it but this is exactly what I needed to hear again. There is something really special in the way he coaxes more magic out of this song. I don’t know how to explain it but I think everyone here commenting understands it. It’s like it’s been stripped down to the heartbreaking beauty of its essence. Or something like that.
This music will be listened to all the people that reach the Beyond. When we stay with the Divine, withe the Father, Son and The HOLY Spirit will hear some music like that.
What gets me about this piece is that the timing of the notes is like one of Bach's arias married to Satie's Gymnopedies with some soulful Debussy thrown in to boot. Its as unique as Vangelis was.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion and... this! This is the best piano rendition of memories of green I have came across in youtube. Kudos!
AnotherSchmoe?? Amateur??! You've freed this exquisite piece from all the studio- added background racket and brought all of the poignant intensity back - thank you, and PLEASE take credit where credit is due -Mr. Vangelis would be tres pleased!
@@mateovalentine1 yes I did. The part at 2:58 is still a bit sloppy but I really enjoyed it. I meant to upload it but I can't seem to get it all the way through with no mistakes on camera. It's harder than it looks!
Agreed. I cheated and cut away to film clips to hide edits - I couldn’t get through it mistake free either. Love to hear your version! Happy practicing
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music ever written and this Gentleman's performance of it . . . well I find so very inspiring. After a 15 year hiatus from learning piano I find myself at age 60, wanting t dive back into it. This video may have done more to motivate me than any other stimulus. Thank you so much for this "Gift" you may not even begin to know just how much it has affected the world. I would give most anything to play this well and as I say . . . you have inspired me !
I love Vangelis his music and love your version. Without the synths you bring us to the core of the songs beauty: Piano. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I keep coming back to this piece every few months. The more I hear it the more I like it. It's the best piano version on UA-cam. Thanks for the upload and please don't take it down.
ive listened to this album for two decades and this is the best rendition of this song I've ever heard. So accurate, not overdramatic, even the wooden piano and look of the video fits, I can just hear someone playing this in the abandoned lobby of the Bradbury Hotel.
So glad I found this (10 years later). I loved this song, and most of the others on the original soundtrack, but I really wanted to listen to only the piano music, and most YT versions all have the synth stuff. This was and is the best version out there. So beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I've been listening to you playing this for years now, and it never ceases to evoke for me the blissful, haunting melancholy of the movie itself. I can't thank you enough for your beautiful rendition of it.
A beautiful piece played beautifully. My crush for more than two years and a half now (so more than a crush I guess) recently played it to me, so expressively and delicately that I just fell deeper in love. Tears came up so naturally…nothing like music and love can make us feel so magically alive and free, out of space and time. It was a beautiful moment. I will treasure it to remind me, when things get hard, how much life is worth it, even if my feelings are only one-sided and I know I shouldn’t think of him. I’ve tried not to but I just can’t help it. I sometimes feel we’re close and similar, but I guess it’s only me feeling that way. I often despise myself for being too shy to muster the courage to tell him how I like everything about him. You only live once and our time is so precious and too short. On the other hand I know I shouldn’t and it makes me feel so depressed, torn apart and lost… He seems to be already so happy and that’s all I can wish for him. If he ever reads this, I just hope that he won’t get offended, feel embarrassed or avoid me, but will keep smiling to me as openly and warmly as usual because it makes my day, and helps me recharge so much. I’m just grateful that we’ve met and would peacefully watch and listen to him play this wonderful music again and again, even on a sinking boat.
this is one of my favorites piano songs. Every time I want to listen the perfect cover I come here. I've heard many versions from many talented players across these years, but the timing and cadence of this version is 100% accurate. Still the best. I hope you keep playing piano. Love it.
I have to say ' this guy has all the ingredients of skilled fantastic musician in and out smoothness' and his gratefulness' and timing' are so pure, 10 out of 10, I solute you, and appreciate your skilful talent ❤️ ,,Richie in Ireland 🇮🇪
I was looking up Chariots of Fire, so I "accidentally" found this song! I played the first page of the sheet music - I can't stop playing it! I like all the cool arpeggios and chords. Definitely one I'm planning to finish learning. Great performance!
Truly amazing!! I could just sit there and watch this over and over again and again... Its just so peaceful to relax and be alone with your thoughts! From a truly amazing movie. You play so well! :D Very very well infact! Well done! :)
Such a great job brother! I listened to your version a million times and learned to play it myself (just posted on YT) - I'm a novice but the music speaks for itself and nourishes the soul. Especially your version - Cheers.
Even though the movie is years back the piano in Memories of green make me sit and think and it is pure Fantastic. It also make it's tribute in Some one to watch over me. I love it, especially when i need to just calm down from a stressful day
Amateur? With ability like this you should really being doing it professionally. Time to re-think your life. Beautiful, just incredible. Beyond professional. Magical. I hope I can play that well someday.
This is just superb. Very well played and pretty much identical to the original version. Possibly my favourite tune from the bladerunner soundtrack. One of the best films ever made and a science fiction masterpiece.
I played this at my mums funeral, I come here to listen when I want a moment with her, such a beautiful piece, thank you
É una musica che adoro 💖
My apologies
It's what she would've wanted
Hope your feeling better
@@obamasinladen5222 Thank you.
When humanity reaches its end, it's stuff like this that will be lost...like tears in rain. close your eyes and absorb this moment.
"You've done a man's job sir......"
"It's to bad she won't live....but then again, who does"
Lost in time, like tears in the rain
Deckard became the machine & Rachel, more human than human. The poetic irony is what’s enduring about both this piece & the masterpiece - Blade Runner.
RIP vangelis. One of my favorite music.
I cannot listen to this without crying. My dad would play this when he was feeling down and it was a song after a midnight swim with my first love.
How very sweet. I watched. blade runner with my first husband. This transcendent. Piece of music captivated my attention right away. I am now in my early sixties and I still am swept away... ✋
your version is so perfect that I can hear the special effects in the background
I was thinking the same. I hear that synthetic buzz while listening to this guy.
@@SebastianMeikle i was thinking the same thing!
Well that makes three of us!
4 of us ah ah
Count me as the lucky 6th.
No synth required, this is beautiful. You've done a man's job, sir.
I think this is the best version of this on UA-cam. It seems it's very difficult to make it sound like the original by Vangelis because you must get so many things right, the pace, the timing, raising and lowering the volume, playing slowly and speeding it up. That's part of what makes it so evocative and so sad, what stirs our emotions, not just the melody. What a beautiful piece he wrote and how beautifully you play it.
You play beautifully.
Nice 1.
Perfect reply :) You are a genius :)
I'm scared, for the player, where this is headed
poleag great response!
reallly amazing. Thank you for up
I've been listening to this for years and I feel like you're the only person on UA-cam who has covered this so accurately; with such emotion, desire and devotion with every note you play. Beautiful.
I totally agree. When he falls in to that classic verse we all love at 1:07, he gives us that feel. The tempo and touch is so lovely. So beautiful.
Totally agreed.
Agreed. Beautifully played
Totally agree!! ❤
It’s been 9 years since I last posted on this, and wow, how beautiful still. This will always be in my heart as well as us alls heart. You find peace with your playing. I hope you know how significant you are
This piece just takes me away. It's really something else.
When this song played in the film that was when I realized i was experiencing probably my favorite score in any film ever
i watched it today and i thought exactly the same thing
Some years ago I have listened to this cover a lot while I have worked. I have said some years ago "Thank you" to the pianist because this cover is so special to me. Today I need to listen to this cover again to relax my soul and to work in my room. My dog is now older and has cancer, but he is still by me and listening again like in the past. I needed the peace that this cover gives to me today to do my work. I have to say thank you again for sharing. Art makes life better. No doubt.
Thank you! :)
The timing and mood completely captured. Enormous film for cinema, RIP Rutger.
I just watched Blade Runner for the first time a couple days ago. All I can say is what a masterpiece it was. But In particular this piece of music stuck out for me. How melancholic it sounded in such a dreary dystopian world. Especially from 1:00 to 2:05. You played this so beautifully
Watching these 10 masterful fingers transmuting this writing into this wonderful sound just makes me cry and think, “I need to get closer to God while there is still time”!
Read The Lost Book of Enki. We are gods.
I have listened to the Blade Runner soundtrack for decades as my bedtime soothing music. And yet somehow I’ve never stumbled upon this incredible cover until tonight?!. How is that possible?. 🤩 This is simply perfection. 💖🙏🏼
This is the best version on UA-cam. I've watched and listened to a few versions and I always keep coming back to this one. Beautifully emotive sound and just beautifully played.
It inspires me to want to learn this fantastic piece of music but also a tune to just be loft away on some sonic clouds and drift away into a blissful chilled out mood.
That sounds so beautiful, Vangelis at his best,and how he makes you feel like the music came from your soul aswell as his
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe...I’ve heard things too. Like, your exquisite playing. It’s as beautiful as Vangelis.
RIP Vangelis.
Came her for respects. RIP
It's as if im listening to the master himself. You're not just playing but also feeling the music. Beautiful. The best word I can use to describe this piece and many others of Vangelis is saudade.
I'm speechless! I can sense the exact feelings as if I had heard the original one. Thanks!
Simply mesmerising, If I could sell my soul...would love to able to play...so beautifully.
I listen to this song at least once a day and sometimes many times. My job (though less difficult, perhaps, than a poor fit) stresses me out and this song helps take away my cares. Thank you.
You played this song so perfectly it seems like you had imagine it yourself. The emotion you give with is Incredible. I wish I learn piano just to be able to play this one. Respect dude
Perfect. Just perfect execution of this song. Exactly like Vangelis played .... and you say an Amateur? YOu are brilliant. Bravo!!
wow. Beautiful and timeless. the subtlety and timing is perfect. i love Blade Runner and Vangelis, but this came out before the film and i love what you've done with it
this is my favorite movie ever made & this is one of my favorite songs from it. you’ve brought tears to my eyes, this is so incredibly beautiful ❤️ Thank you for sharing this
@Coleman Ganoe, my sentiments exactly.
Jon Tisdall Thank you for bringing me back here! I didn’t know it but this is exactly what I needed to hear again. There is something really special in the way he coaxes more magic out of this song. I don’t know how to explain it but I think everyone here commenting understands it. It’s like it’s been stripped down to the heartbreaking beauty of its essence. Or something like that.
Beautiful. Who can't help but love that chord sequence at 2:00 eh?
This music will be listened to all the people that reach the Beyond. When we stay with the Divine, withe the Father, Son and The HOLY Spirit will hear some music like that.
What gets me about this piece is that the timing of the notes is like one of Bach's arias married to Satie's Gymnopedies with some soulful Debussy thrown in to boot.
Its as unique as Vangelis was.
I've now listened to 2 different renditions and this one is the best. Has the best touch.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion and... this! This is the best piano rendition of memories of green I have came across in youtube. Kudos!
AnotherSchmoe?? Amateur??! You've freed this exquisite piece from all the studio- added background racket and brought all of the poignant intensity back - thank you, and PLEASE take credit where credit is due -Mr. Vangelis would be tres pleased!
Excellent point :) I'm with you!
You’ve captured the essence of this beautiful piece. Thank you for the chance to see you perform it. Really beautiful.
I'm learning this for lockdown and this is the best version on UA-cam.
did you learn the song?
@@mateovalentine1 yes I did. The part at 2:58 is still a bit sloppy but I really enjoyed it. I meant to upload it but I can't seem to get it all the way through with no mistakes on camera. It's harder than it looks!
Agreed. I cheated and cut away to film clips to hide edits - I couldn’t get through it mistake free either. Love to hear your version! Happy practicing
Dear God, it's so beautiful.
beautiful ! indeed... such emotional beautiful music... vsngelis RIP.. :[ thank you for playing this master piece AnotherSchmoe... its perfect!!!
This the most beautiful rendition of this song I have ever heard. Such talent and emotion. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
You're just being shy. How on earth can you call it a limited ability? Your playing is perfect and flawless! Gosh, it's shiver inducing.
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music ever written and this Gentleman's performance of it . . . well I find so very inspiring. After a 15 year hiatus from learning piano I find myself at age 60, wanting t dive back into it. This video may have done more to motivate me than any other stimulus. Thank you so much for this "Gift" you may not even begin to know just how much it has affected the world. I would give most anything to play this well and as I say . . . you have inspired me !
Thank YOU for the gift that is your comment. Words like yours do more to brighten my day than you can know. I wish you all the best!
@@AnotherSchmoe May I ask how long you have been playing? You seem to possess a great deal of natural talent !
Excellent- it captured the spirit of the tune.
I love Vangelis his music and love your version. Without the synths you bring us to the core of the songs beauty: Piano. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I keep coming back to this piece every few months. The more I hear it the more I like it. It's the best piano version on UA-cam. Thanks for the upload and please don't take it down.
Your "limited abilities" are remarkable. Thanks for the video.
ive listened to this album for two decades and this is the best rendition of this song I've ever heard. So accurate, not overdramatic, even the wooden piano and look of the video fits, I can just hear someone playing this in the abandoned lobby of the Bradbury Hotel.
It brings me to tears Everytime I listen. I can't explain why. It's haunting and beautiful
Ugh, I love the part at 3:09 to 3:21. Painfully beautiful.
So glad I found this (10 years later). I loved this song, and most of the others on the original soundtrack, but I really wanted to listen to only the piano music, and most YT versions all have the synth stuff. This was and is the best version out there. So beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Beautiful! My favourite piece from that film. You've got it spot on.
this song is probably the most beautiful song ive ever heard played on the piano...
Exelente interpretación de una obra maestra de Vangelis, propicia recuerdos de tristes despedidas
So great. Thanks. (I'm tearing up right now [honestly])
This piece always gives me next-level goosebumps and you played it brilliantly. Bravo sir, you have a gift!
I've been listening to you playing this for years now, and it never ceases to evoke for me the blissful, haunting melancholy of the movie itself. I can't thank you enough for your beautiful rendition of it.
Que tema.. Más profundo y entregado a las más reconditas fibras del alma...felicitaciones.. Gran tema
You have such beautiful sensitivity and intensity in perfect measure throughout the piece! Thank you for sharing this.
I have wanted to hear this piece without all the technical noise from the soundtrack for years!!! Thank you, oh thank you for this!!!
you've done it so perfectly , i can see some scenes of the movie by just listening this .
absolutely beautifully played
This is my favorite UA-cam video of all time. Thank you, sir.
A beautiful piece played beautifully. My crush for more than two years and a half now (so more than a crush I guess) recently played it to me, so expressively and delicately that I just fell deeper in love. Tears came up so naturally…nothing like music and love can make us feel so magically alive and free, out of space and time. It was a beautiful moment. I will treasure it to remind me, when things get hard, how much life is worth it, even if my feelings are only one-sided and I know I shouldn’t think of him. I’ve tried not to but I just can’t help it. I sometimes feel we’re close and similar, but I guess it’s only me feeling that way. I often despise myself for being too shy to muster the courage to tell him how I like everything about him. You only live once and our time is so precious and too short. On the other hand I know I shouldn’t and it makes me feel so depressed, torn apart and lost… He seems to be already so happy and that’s all I can wish for him.
If he ever reads this, I just hope that he won’t get offended, feel embarrassed or avoid me, but will keep smiling to me as openly and warmly as usual because it makes my day, and helps me recharge so much. I’m just grateful that we’ve met and would peacefully watch and listen to him play this wonderful music again and again, even on a sinking boat.
this is one of my favorites piano songs. Every time I want to listen the perfect cover I come here. I've heard many versions from many talented players across these years, but the timing and cadence of this version is 100% accurate. Still the best. I hope you keep playing piano. Love it.
God, this is heartrendingly beautiful and so well played!
I have to say ' this guy has all the ingredients of skilled fantastic musician in and out smoothness' and his gratefulness' and timing' are so pure, 10 out of 10, I solute you, and appreciate your skilful talent ❤️ ,,Richie in Ireland 🇮🇪
I was looking up Chariots of Fire, so I "accidentally" found this song! I played the first page of the sheet music - I can't stop playing it! I like all the cool arpeggios and chords. Definitely one I'm planning to finish learning. Great performance!
This is perfect. Sounds exactly like the Vangelis version. Wow. Stunned.
Best version I've heard that gets very close to the gentle, wave-like tempo of the original.
I wish I could play this the way you did. Very well played!
I get goosebumps everytime I listen to this. Thank you for the brilliant performance❤️
Truly amazing!! I could just sit there and watch this over and over again and again... Its just so peaceful to relax and be alone with your thoughts! From a truly amazing movie. You play so well! :D Very very well infact! Well done! :)
Such a great job brother! I listened to your version a million times and learned to play it myself (just posted on YT) - I'm a novice but the music speaks for itself and nourishes the soul. Especially your version - Cheers.
Congratulations. I have listened to your performance so many times that if it were an old acetate, it wolud be worn down by now.
A beautiful tune, played sublimely. I replay it whenever it comes up on You Tube.
Even though the movie is years back the piano in Memories of green make me sit and think and it is pure Fantastic. It also make it's tribute in Some one to watch over me. I love it, especially when i need to just calm down from a stressful day
Thank you for bringing this to life so well ...
One of the best songs by Vangelis...Blade Runner + Vangelis ...Epic.
Amateur? With ability like this you should really being doing it professionally. Time to re-think your life. Beautiful, just incredible. Beyond professional. Magical. I hope I can play that well someday.
R.I.P. Vangelis I weep every time I Listen to this music.
Same.
Masterful recreation of a phenomenally underappreciated piece of music.. Thank you for this, wherever you are today in 2021.
You covered preciselly as Vangelis had intended. Perfectly. Bravo!!
Beautifully played, best cover I've heard :)
This composition absolutely aches. Yearning, Longing. Great job. Thanks
I wouldn't have expected this as being able to compare to the original, but it did. Amazing.
Indescribable how you have made feel. This song is a part of me.
Your cover made me teary and emotional for some reason. It made me think about purpose in life, existence, dreams....love
The last minute and ten is ‘outstanding’
I love this song!! I have since I was a little kid. I want this to be played at my funeral!! Vangelies is a beautifull artist!!
Este es el mejor cover de Memories of Green, la música, los tiempos, todo perfecto.
you clearly are modest, that was perfection. well done. i felt the same emotion in your performance as i do in vangelis'. thank you for sharing.
Keep coming back to listen.....wonderful
Best version on YT
Vangelis really made art
I listen to this beautiful cover every year, and every time its perfection amazes me once again. Thank you. ❤️
First notes immediately made me get my guitar and jam with you. Beautiful.
Your performance was magnificent, thanks a lot!!!
This is just superb. Very well played and pretty much identical to the original version. Possibly my favourite tune from the bladerunner soundtrack. One of the best films ever made and a science fiction masterpiece.