Performances are rare, where after the last akkord the complete audience raises and shouts BRAVO like in an secret appointment - and this performance is such one!!!
Hello Ben, I'm a french pianist, I perfectly know that piece, for orchestra obviously but also for 2 pianos (amazing transcription from Viacheslav Gryaznov), but this one I didn't know : let me say, I falled from my chair when I eared you ! You perfectly understood this piece, your technique and your sound are incredible, and I love your look (with a hole on your left sock, whatever 🤣), huge congratulations and all my respects for this video !!!
Me being awestruck is an understatement. You would think this gargantuan orchestral piece would be beyond the technical limits of any pianist. But you have just proved that wrong. And your performance is beyond breathtaking. Bravo!! And Thank you!!
Ben, this is simply a stunning performance. Maurice Ravel and Maltempo would be in awe of your emotion and meticulous technique that you apply to this brilliant arrangement for solo piano. Great to hear it in the empty auditorium which enhances the acoustics. Thank you for posting this, one that I will return to again and again.
I'm speechless, this is fantastic, didn't know there was such a good 1 piano transcription of this masterpiece. Just bought it, i know what i'm going to work in the next few weeks :-D Thanks a lot for the discovery.
Riveting. Not just Ravel, Maltempo, and Ben Austin, but the wonderful outfit Ben is wearing. There is a juicy juxtaposition between the romantic, celestial music of Ravel with the rough boy causal wear of Ben Austin. It looks like a guy just came in off the street from playing basketball and knocked off, almost effortlessly, a piano solo masterpiece. Maybe shorts and tank top next.
difficult to keep clear at the beginning of the Lever du jour whith 2 hands only!!! never the less good effects of bird whistle (with the left hand!!) bravo a Ben et au transcripteur Maltempo!!!...... 🙏🙏🙏
There is no doubt, this is one of the most difficult piano compositions ever written because it takes a complete orchestral score and rewrites it for two hands. (An impossible task on the face of it!) The impossible task of making two hands do the work of a symphony orchestra makes this almost too difficult to play. Maltempo's arrangement is fabulous, but limiting because he could have reconceived it for piano and rearranged the orchestration to fit the limits of two hands. Maltempo avoids being pianistic in his conception and chooses to duplicate the orchestral masterwork in its entirety and doesn't leave anything out. This happened in three other excerpts from the complete ballet, probably done by Ravel himself that I was able to learn quickly and play comfortably. (I also play a "La Valse" one piano arrangement that did exactly that.) Now I have the Maltempo arrangement and for someone at my level of pianistic ability, I will need to rearrange the impossibly unpianistic portions of the Maltempo arrangement and reconceive it for piano: two hands. Maybe Maltempo's brilliance as a concert pianist did not allow him to realize that pianists of different abilities would be playing his arrangement and he needed to make it more playable.
@@random_ice1219 Thank you!! Especially because I gave the first performance of it, I'm embarrassed to say that I borrowed it from my university's library 😅 it seems like you can buy it here! www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/daphnis-et-chloe-sheet-music/19897665
@@DanSatoPiano thank you for the closure. I went on a wild goose chase looking for the exact sheet music and sadly there was a lot of scams and misleading products and I wanted to make sure I was getting what I intended to buy for such a hefty price lol. I can tell the suite wasn’t exactly made for a piano solo version until I can only assume maltempo made proper arrangements. Beautiful piece, you earned a subscriber!
@@random_ice1219 My pleasure, and thank you very much! It is a very challenging piece to learn, but Mr. Maltempo really does marvelously in translating the score into the pianistic idiom. I learned so much from the experience and it helped me when I worked on my own Ravel arrangement!
I would love to get Ravel's own piano version of this. Yes, Maltempo's arrangement is brilliant and orchestrally precise, but when you try to include every voice of an orchestral composition, it is no longer pianistic. His arrangement is purely for the higher level pianists, leaving pianists at my level in the cold. I am able to play brilliantly Ravel's transcriptions from Daphnis which are available: "Danse gracieuse et legere de Daphnis", "Fragments symphoniques", and "Scene Daphnis et Chloe." I am quite sure that Ravel transcribed his own first version of Daphnis which was obviously for piano. I am quite sure that some of this was lost and Maltempo came to the rescue. Again, don't get me wrong: Maltempo's arrangement is brilliant, but I just want to be able to play it conceived for piano as Ravel might have envisioned it.
Another comment, sorry! Ben Austin, you are a brilliant pianist. Your performance is beyond virtuosic! You have ingested the score and your fingers play like members of an orchestra. Complete control of the score and your fingers. Ravel would have been thrilled with your finesse, drama, and control! Do you ever come to the US? San Francisco! Would love to hear you!!! Have you recorded? Would love to get your recording.
Ben: Wow! Brilliant performance technically and musically!! You have conquered one of the hardest piano scores never played by anyone out there. There is Beethoven, Chopin and light years away: there is Ravel. Not in terms of them as composers. Ravel's piano score is very orchestral and not exactly pianistic. Your rendition is absolutely orchestral and the fact that you play if from memory is miraculous! Please come to San Francisco, California for a recital and play the Ravel. Just a thought!
@@leoinsf It's not too hard to find. A simple google search gave me a couple of options. I believe I got mine from Sheet Music Plus. Good luck! It is very challenging. I'm about half way done learning it. www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/daphnis-et-chloe-sheet-music/19897665 shop.rieserler.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p3220_daphnis-et-chlo---suite-nr--2-for-piano--pdf-download-.html
@@tfpp1 Kevin, thanks for your response. I have just learned a piano arrangement probably done by Ravel himself of three pieces from Daphnis and Chloe. The Maltempo arrangement of the the Suite #2 is fantastic. It includes music not included in the Ravel arrangement. I got the Ravel arrangement from Sheet Music Plus. Thanks for the response!
Bro you are insane, I just finished la valse and was looking to tackle this next…you played this so damn well…greetings from the USA keep it up bro I’d love to hear more of you
Tocar a Ravel no es sólo eso. Él era un dandy. Hay que saber vestirse. Su música era el símbolo de una época y de un arte. En el Modernismo la estética es fundamental . Por lo demás, felicidades.
I have to write another comment! Is there any more romantic love music than in Daphnis and Chloe. It is sex, it is true love, it is passion, it is sophistication, it is langour, it is complete bliss, it is simplicity, it is complexity, it is purity, it is complete sexual abandonment, it is soul, it is flesh, it is the embodiment of true love. Ravel achieved something completely non-verbal with his Daphnis and Chloe music and traveled a completely new territory in this ballet. Why can't we see this as the ballet it was conceived for? We are cheating Ravel and his most original masterpiece!! Shame!!!!!
Tuan: I just ordered it from Sheet Music Plus. With mailing, it was $50 bucks, way too expensive especially if it turns out to be the wrong arrangement (orchestra instead of piano). It was a bit of a problem to get to the score since Sheet Music Plus caters mostly to elementary music teachers and not pianists like us. Good luck!
Not only can this guy play Ravel brilliantly, but he hits legday like a pro
He is wearing his gym clothes because playing this is such a workout! 😳😯
No lie, if you ever do any concerts that should 100% be your getup. I want to see more pianists in shorts.
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I forgot to dress up and ended up performing my own transcription of Daybreak in shorts and a tee shirt haha!
Performances are rare, where after the last akkord the complete audience raises and shouts BRAVO like in an secret appointment - and this performance is such one!!!
can't even begin to imagine how much hard work went into this, or fathom how much talent and passion this man has.
Hello Ben,
I'm a french pianist, I perfectly know that piece, for orchestra obviously but also for 2 pianos (amazing transcription from Viacheslav Gryaznov), but this one I didn't know : let me say, I falled from my chair when I eared you ! You perfectly understood this piece, your technique and your sound are incredible, and I love your look (with a hole on your left sock, whatever 🤣), huge congratulations and all my respects for this video !!!
Me being awestruck is an understatement. You would think this gargantuan orchestral piece would be beyond the technical limits of any pianist. But you have just proved that wrong. And your performance is beyond breathtaking. Bravo!! And Thank you!!
70 Subscribers, 11k views, yet I think this is one of the most impressive performances on UA-cam...
Ben, this is simply a stunning performance. Maurice Ravel and Maltempo would be in awe of your emotion and meticulous technique that you apply to this brilliant arrangement for solo piano. Great to hear it in the empty auditorium which enhances the acoustics. Thank you for posting this, one that I will return to again and again.
I can almost feel clearly each instrument of ravel's orchestration in your interpretation, great fidelity of gestures, bravo!
I'm speechless, this is fantastic, didn't know there was such a good 1 piano transcription of this masterpiece. Just bought it, i know what i'm going to work in the next few weeks :-D
Thanks a lot for the discovery.
This is completely insane, huge congrats
Riveting. Not just Ravel, Maltempo, and Ben Austin, but the wonderful outfit Ben is wearing. There is a juicy juxtaposition between the romantic, celestial music of Ravel with the rough boy causal wear of Ben Austin. It looks like a guy just came in off the street from playing basketball and knocked off, almost effortlessly, a piano solo masterpiece. Maybe shorts and tank top next.
Trop beau
Please upload more stuff, youre great
Whoa, this is awesome! Maltempo is indeed a phenomenal virtuoso, but you are quite the virtuoso as well!
I will hire you to play this at my funeral.
difficult to keep clear at the beginning of the Lever du jour whith 2 hands only!!! never the less good effects of bird whistle (with the left hand!!) bravo a Ben et au transcripteur Maltempo!!!......
🙏🙏🙏
There is no doubt, this is one of the most difficult piano compositions ever written because it takes a complete orchestral score and rewrites it for two hands. (An impossible task on the face of it!)
The impossible task of making two hands do the work of a symphony orchestra makes this almost too difficult to play.
Maltempo's arrangement is fabulous, but limiting because he could have reconceived it for piano and rearranged the orchestration to fit the limits of two hands.
Maltempo avoids being pianistic in his conception and chooses to duplicate the orchestral masterwork in its entirety and doesn't leave anything out.
This happened in three other excerpts from the complete ballet, probably done by Ravel himself that I was able to learn quickly and play comfortably. (I also play a "La Valse" one piano arrangement that did exactly that.)
Now I have the Maltempo arrangement and for someone at my level of pianistic ability, I will need to rearrange the impossibly unpianistic portions of the Maltempo arrangement and reconceive it for piano: two hands. Maybe Maltempo's brilliance as a concert pianist did not allow him to realize that pianists of different abilities would be playing his arrangement and he needed to make it more playable.
Thank you for all the time, practice, and dedication that brought your talent here to me today.
この曲ピアノで弾けたんですね(汗)驚愕です。素晴らしい演奏。
Bravo!!!!! I love all the drama and colors in your playing!!
Also, I think gym shorts are fine! I was wearing some old jeans when I made my video 😂
@@DanSatoPiano I just saw your video and it was amazing. Where did you get the sheet music for it?
@@random_ice1219 Thank you!! Especially because I gave the first performance of it, I'm embarrassed to say that I borrowed it from my university's library 😅 it seems like you can buy it here! www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/daphnis-et-chloe-sheet-music/19897665
@@DanSatoPiano thank you for the closure. I went on a wild goose chase looking for the exact sheet music and sadly there was a lot of scams and misleading products and I wanted to make sure I was getting what I intended to buy for such a hefty price lol. I can tell the suite wasn’t exactly made for a piano solo version until I can only assume maltempo made proper arrangements. Beautiful piece, you earned a subscriber!
@@random_ice1219 My pleasure, and thank you very much! It is a very challenging piece to learn, but Mr. Maltempo really does marvelously in translating the score into the pianistic idiom. I learned so much from the experience and it helped me when I worked on my own Ravel arrangement!
What a BANGER PERFORMANCE, especially in one single take … you absolutely deserve a world career! 🎹🔥👏🏽
Whoa this is an amazing performance of a true masterpiece well done.
great playing, fantastic You're a genius! Please do more vids!
This is AMAZING. Thanks.❤️
Amazing playing. One of my favourite pieces. Well done!!
Returned to listen again. Ben, you do a spectacular job. Masterfully done.
Your performance is breathtaking! Bravo!
Amazing performance. Never seen anything so incredible.
This is phenomenal!
Extraordinary! Bravo sir, you are as gorgeous as your playing and your transcription!
Im truely in love. You really understood the piece...
The pinnacle of it all, bravíssimo!
I would love to get Ravel's own piano version of this.
Yes, Maltempo's arrangement is brilliant and orchestrally precise, but when you try to include every voice of an orchestral composition, it is no longer pianistic.
His arrangement is purely for the higher level pianists, leaving pianists at my level in the cold.
I am able to play brilliantly Ravel's transcriptions from Daphnis which are available: "Danse gracieuse et legere de Daphnis", "Fragments symphoniques", and "Scene Daphnis et Chloe."
I am quite sure that Ravel transcribed his own first version of Daphnis which was obviously for piano. I am quite sure that some of this was lost and Maltempo came to the rescue.
Again, don't get me wrong: Maltempo's arrangement is brilliant, but I just want to be able to play it conceived for piano as Ravel might have envisioned it.
Amazing technique, yet musicality supreme.Bravo !
Another comment, sorry!
Ben Austin, you are a brilliant pianist. Your performance is beyond virtuosic!
You have ingested the score and your fingers play like members of an orchestra.
Complete control of the score and your fingers.
Ravel would have been thrilled with your finesse, drama, and control!
Do you ever come to the US? San Francisco!
Would love to hear you!!! Have you recorded? Would love to get your recording.
This is incredible… Thanks for sharing!
Where did you find the sheet music I wanna learn this so bad
Ben: Wow! Brilliant performance technically and musically!!
You have conquered one of the hardest piano scores never played by anyone out there.
There is Beethoven, Chopin and light years away: there is Ravel.
Not in terms of them as composers.
Ravel's piano score is very orchestral and not exactly pianistic.
Your rendition is absolutely orchestral and the fact that you play if from memory is miraculous!
Please come to San Francisco, California for a recital and play the Ravel.
Just a thought!
Bravo et Merci from France ! 10:35 👍
Brilliant playing! Where can I get the Maltempo score? I would love to play it.
Fantastic!
A genius at work...
I'm currently learning this transcription! =D I'll report back in eighteen months when I have it learned LOL
Kevin, where can I get the Maltempo arrangement of Daphnis et Chloe?
@@leoinsf
It's not too hard to find. A simple google search gave me a couple of options. I believe I got mine from Sheet Music Plus. Good luck! It is very challenging. I'm about half way done learning it.
www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/daphnis-et-chloe-sheet-music/19897665
shop.rieserler.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p3220_daphnis-et-chlo---suite-nr--2-for-piano--pdf-download-.html
@@tfpp1 Kevin, thanks for your response.
I have just learned a piano arrangement probably done by Ravel himself of three pieces from Daphnis and Chloe.
The Maltempo arrangement of the the Suite #2 is fantastic. It includes music not included in the Ravel arrangement.
I got the Ravel arrangement from Sheet Music Plus. Thanks for the response!
HOW’S IT BEEN? What’s your level at piano?
@@leoinsf could you link the 3part arrangement?
This is incredible dude 👏
Bro you are insane, I just finished la valse and was looking to tackle this next…you played this so damn well…greetings from the USA keep it up bro I’d love to hear more of you
this is fucking beautiful
Amazing!
本当に１人で弾いるのか？？
視覚と聴覚のバランスが整理できず混乱します。ただ言えることは素晴らしすぎる！！！ということです😂
in tears, went to buy score to practice.
Wonderful job on an almost unplayable score
make more please
Fantástic 🎉🎉🎉
MORE
WOW!
1:02 - I mean, just LOOK at that extension! LOL
Where can I get the score for this?
Tocar a Ravel no es sólo eso. Él era un dandy. Hay que saber vestirse. Su música era el símbolo de una época y de un arte. En el Modernismo la estética es fundamental . Por lo demás, felicidades.
holy molly
I have to write another comment!
Is there any more romantic love music than in Daphnis and Chloe.
It is sex, it is true love, it is passion, it is sophistication, it is langour, it is complete bliss, it is simplicity, it is complexity,
it is purity, it is complete sexual abandonment, it is soul, it is flesh, it is the embodiment of true love.
Ravel achieved something completely non-verbal with his Daphnis and Chloe music and traveled a completely new territory in this ballet.
Why can't we see this as the ballet it was conceived for? We are cheating Ravel and his most original masterpiece!! Shame!!!!!
ラヴェルに聴かせてあげたいな。
you hella cute hold up
he did that without any sheet music....
Where can I get the score? Thanks you!
Tuan: I just ordered it from Sheet Music Plus. With mailing, it was $50 bucks, way too expensive especially if it turns out to be the wrong arrangement (orchestra instead of piano).
It was a bit of a problem to get to the score since Sheet Music Plus caters mostly to elementary music teachers and not pianists like us. Good luck!