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I'm going to play the 'Mozart' version as some incidental music in church just before Christmas. Those folk who are too old to recognise 'All I Want for Christmas' will enjoy the classical music , while it will put a smile on the faces of those who do realise what I'm playing! Thank you for the inspiration!
I can't imagine how much time it took to be able to create this video (composing and memorizing all for playing and recording and then adding the funny comments...). That is a BIG gift!
I‘m OBSESSED with this style of video ♥️ As soon as you started playing Tchaikowsky I was like “this sounds like nutcracker“ and then came the sugar plum fairy 😂 And you’re so real for Bartoks “ugly ass chords“ lol. Rach was perfection, he‘s one of my favourite composers ☺️ so ✨dramatic✨ I can‘t imagine the time and effort you have to put into composing, practicing, recording and editing this, so thank you!
Not everyone can really pull this off convincingly as good as Nahre Sol. You absolutely did. Captured the composers so perfectly and really came up with inventive variations on the melody and harmony!!!
@ I agree that the animation and humor is uniquely entertaining compared to a lot of the other videos in this format!! I actually noticed and thought to myself “wow… somebody spent hours animating all these little graphics….” while I was watching. But I’m very partial to Nahre’s composition skill and style 😊
The Brahms and Bartok were my favorites as most closely approaching the original styles of those guys. Wish there had been Chopin and Philip Glass versions.
How can one person be so gifted in so many ways? A superb pianist *and* a talented composer (of parodies anyway!); he's very conversant with music history, theory and analysis -- and he seems to have discovered how to teach those subjects without the students even noticing that they're being educated! He appears to have all the skills needed to record, edit, and produce professional-quality audio and video (unless he employs a 20-person team of sound engineers, lighting technicians, make-up artists, camera operators, etc.!). I'd say he's a bit of a graphic-design genius! Plus he has a delightful sense of humour and a way with words... he's young, slender, well-featured, and has good skin... and all he wants for Christmas is... me??! ;-)
I am not a musician but I love and listen to all these composers. The cheeky commentary is brilliant and breaks open the musical content to help me understand
As someone who plays a few of these composers, it's almost as if you sat down with them and knew them personally. I just can't get over how the last one was absolutely 100% Bartok. And the funny thing is that he actually did stuff like this: he took simple folk melodies and changed them into... Bartok. If he was alive today he would have probably transcribed Mariah Carey himself. Awesome job man
Rachmaninoff hat er wirklich gut getroffen. Einige Elemente hat er sich vom Liebesleid, der Cellosonate und der zweiten Sinfonie geborgt und sie fantastisch auf das Thema angewendet. Dazu noch die schönen Sequenzen mit sehr melancholischen und einfühlsamen Akkordfolgen. Mir hat es auf jeden Fall das "Rachmaninoff-Gefühl" gegeben, was bei mir ein sehr gutes Zeichen für Authentizität von Sergej Wassiljewitsch ist.
Very impressive! Usually this sort of pastiche just uses a recognizable accompaniment or rhythmic feature from a well-known piece by the composer and pastes the popular tune onto it. These actually analyzed the compositional techniques and preferences. Well-done, sir!
This is SOOO JOYFUL and quirky and I'm here for it ❤ I laughed the whole video 😂 Your notes are also great! Mozart's loop, Beethoven's pathetique and hammer, Marx as Brahms etc. Glad the UA-cam algorithm brought you to me. I didn't know you were all I wanted for Christmas, but I'm glad I got it! Happy Holidays
My God this guy is genius! Love love love this! Equally amazing composing and narrating skills😁 its also a great fun way to learn styles of composers!!! Who is this guy??? Teaching somewhere improv? Or composition? Id take his class! 😊 thanks for such sofisticated fun. Gonna watch one more time. And then maybe few more😍 Genius!
"secondary dominant buffet"gave me a good laugh. I really feel like I'm learning so much on these different composers thanks to your note. I look at them and then rewatch just to enjoy the beauty of your arrangements. Thank you Josep and a merry Christmas to you!
I didnt know how much I needed this to calm myself down (well Barok didn’t help but LOL) so thank you and please keep doing this videos, as a former pianist I can imagine how much effort and dedication you poured yourself into this
This is just breathtakingly perfect. Thank you. Would you maybe consider doing an ‘in the style of’ for ‘happy birthday’ please, so that we can share the love far and wide as a birthday treat! Qué pasada, as they say. You get MVP for the whole Internet.
If you liked this video I'm sure you'll also like Nahre Sol's "in the style of __ composers" videos. She actually made one for the "Happy Birthday" song! ua-cam.com/video/ToO7OXDiV04/v-deo.html
Some of the most truly exquisite piano playing this world's ever heard - and some of the most adorably creative improvisational talent!! Numerous pianists who would be specialists in musical paraphrasing could learn whole volumes of talent from this excellent young virtuoso!
that is a really great video. i feel like everyone is saying the rach worked best because it was the easiest to potentially use more of the original song chords, which you did tbf. nice work
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you. I had commented about Barbie girl that it was a whole semester of music theory/ comp in 6 minutes. This is second semester. You gave us a full year sequence in 12 astonishingly enjoyable minutes.
Epic. M’encanta la edició del video, el teu humor, que vagis explicant la teoria/harmonia (acords, progressions, etc) que hi ha al darrere… i ja ni parlar-ne de la teva habilitat al piano!! Felicitats!
I think Mariah Carey can do what she wants. I agree with you that Josep did an amazing job. But I think it is a little bit humiliating that this song is next to I am a barbie girl and angry birds. Also the description says not a lot more about the song than that it is a pop song. To me and to many others Mariah Carey is not just some ordinary pop singer, but an icon with an inhuman talent and All I want for christmas is you is more than just a pop song. To me at least, and I know I am not the only one. I think she deserves more praise than this! We are lucky to have Mariah still in our midst and for the huge amount of impeccable work she made which is still growing.
@@MissMichele1993 I see your point and yes, Mariah is an icon for sure with All I Want For Christmas being one of the most beloved festive songs nowadays. But if you view the song from a classical, strictly analytical aspect, then it is still a pop song in the end. That does not mean that she is being disrepected here, and her popularity is probably bigger than entire hours of classical music alltogether. But a pop song stays a pop song, no matter regarding its popularity, and it is simply incredible how much Josep developed her song by using all kind of various classical composition techniques. Again, I am not saying that this video will become more popular than Mariah’s original, but quality should not be solely measured on popularity either, and the quality here is undeniable from classical aspects, surpassing Mariah’s original rhythmic-harmonic-melodic structure.
@@jiangyilin_official Hi, I did not mean to compare his piece to the original song, but to compare the song choices for his covers with each other. And piano skills and singing skills are very different skills and in my opinion not really appropriate for comparing. Some people will always say classical music is better. This is just an opinion (as is mine of course). The skill used in the songs Mariah sings is not often (or ever) duplicated with the same quality by someone else (also she wrote all of her songs except the covers). I think she deserves some respect and you can't put her songs in the same lane as I am a barbie girl and angry birds. As you already understood, I am a fan of her, and you are probably a big fan of classical music. Let's agree to disagree (if that is still the case) and enjoy music. Music is amazing!
@@MissMichele1993 I am a professional classical musician myself, but I enjoy other music genres a lot, especially in my free time so I can have a better life balance overall 🙃 I can relate to your opinion that Mariah’s songs should not be associated/compared with some other songs. What I usually try to do then is focusing on the music itself: if it stands on its own with absolute greatness, then there will be no need for comparisons to enhance the quality, and I always try to blend out those comparisons as much as possible. So in this case, maybe you can blend out Angry Birds and Barbie Girl as Josep’s artistic freedom 😅 (because I honestly don’t think he chose those songs as comparisions, classical musicians usually don’t work in this way), but admire Mariah’s artistry instead that even made it to the classical music world? 😇 And YES, music is absolutely amazing, I happily agree on that 🤜🏽🤛🏽
🎶 Get Your Score Here: bit.ly/ChristmasScores
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you're too good
i was just going to ask for Bach, Schubert, and (Tallis or Vittoria)
This man’s description says “I also play the piano a bit”.
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Me that’s played piano 4 my whole entire life:👁️👄👁️
And if he plays the piano so well that imagine what he is like on the cello😭
He is right, isn’t he? Or would you say he doesn’t play the piano one bit?
Average perfectionist pianist (all of us/them)
Oh snap it’s the guy with unreasonably good editing
Reminds me of the videos of Octopus Contrapunctus
So this was how it was, working retail in the 1800s, huh?
Ye olde Dickensian purveyors of trinkets’ playlist is not at all unpleasant. 😉
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I'm going to play the 'Mozart' version as some incidental music in church just before Christmas. Those folk who are too old to recognise 'All I Want for Christmas' will enjoy the classical music , while it will put a smile on the faces of those who do realise what I'm playing! Thank you for the inspiration!
LOL @ "more notes than fingers" for Rachmaninoff. This is devilishly clever as usual!
😅
The Rach is perfect
Yes I agree. It was sublime. I could just listen to that all day.
"diabetes incoming" hahahahah.... Happy that he put Bartok last, as a player cleanser
Epic! All amazing but the Bartok - oh my! Love it! I remain flabbergasted to know that piano is not your primary instrument.
Same!
They were all absolutely incredible. I wish I had the ability to write this well.
Agree! I mean they were all amazing, but the Rach and the Bartok had me laughing
@@diegomaranan3571Same, I can totally feel the “MAKE MY WISH COME TRUUUEEE 😭” 😂
Same😂
Love this! Not only is the talented playing fantastic, but the written commentary is SO clever, educational, and hilariously funny. You are a genius.
Like in the Barbie song. That was also great and funny.
I can't imagine how much time it took to be able to create this video (composing and memorizing all for playing and recording and then adding the funny comments...). That is a BIG gift!
Agreed!
Dazzling! Sure, the arrangements and the playing are amazing but the onscreen text and graphics really sends the whole thing over the top!
That’s true 👍🏽
It’s a full package
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make an extended version of the Rachmaninoff-style parody !! 🙏🙏🙏
Couldn’t agree more! That one gave me goosebumps it was so good!
Same
I need this one aswell!!!!!!
I‘m OBSESSED with this style of video ♥️ As soon as you started playing Tchaikowsky I was like “this sounds like nutcracker“ and then came the sugar plum fairy 😂 And you’re so real for Bartoks “ugly ass chords“ lol. Rach was perfection, he‘s one of my favourite composers ☺️ so ✨dramatic✨
I can‘t imagine the time and effort you have to put into composing, practicing, recording and editing this, so thank you!
The Rachmaninoff is my favorite but also the Tchaikovsky. The text overlay definitely had me laughing 😂. Great pieces, well done! 👏🏻
I absolutely love this channel because it's actually "in the style". So many creators just do mashups with most basic classical themes
This is so funny, skilful, beautiful and witty it’s upsetting
I just love that "adorable looping" and the "innocent myxolydian swaying" makes me very warm overall 😇
The Bartok one made me laugh out loud. Brilliant - bravo.
Me too! I laughed the whole way through it!
Not everyone can really pull this off convincingly as good as Nahre Sol. You absolutely did. Captured the composers so perfectly and really came up with inventive variations on the melody and harmony!!!
It’s not at all a competition but I actually think that Josep’s animation and composition skills are significantly more sophisticated!
@ I agree that the animation and humor is uniquely entertaining compared to a lot of the other videos in this format!! I actually noticed and thought to myself “wow… somebody spent hours animating all these little graphics….” while I was watching.
But I’m very partial to Nahre’s composition skill and style 😊
You don't post a lot of videos, but omg, when you post one, it is something!! Your work is amazing. I love these "in the style of". Thank you!!!
I loved the Bartok! I think it actually quite excellently captured his style.
I love your flash card notes almost as much as your incredible playing, style and skill.
That Brahms was beautiful, the half diminished 7th ascension 👌
The Rach one is magical
Agree!!!
The Brahms and Bartok were my favorites as most closely approaching the original styles of those guys. Wish there had been Chopin and Philip Glass versions.
Thumb up for Chopin, down for Glass, down for Glass, down for Glass, down for Glass, down for Glass (ad lib until the copier runs out of toner)
@geckofeet I had imagined the Glass going last. So he could gradually fade out the picture and sound. Like the end of Neptune in Holst's Planets.
How can one person be so gifted in so many ways? A superb pianist *and* a talented composer (of parodies anyway!); he's very conversant with music history, theory and analysis -- and he seems to have discovered how to teach those subjects without the students even noticing that they're being educated! He appears to have all the skills needed to record, edit, and produce professional-quality audio and video (unless he employs a 20-person team of sound engineers, lighting technicians, make-up artists, camera operators, etc.!). I'd say he's a bit of a graphic-design genius! Plus he has a delightful sense of humour and a way with words... he's young, slender, well-featured, and has good skin... and all he wants for Christmas is... me??! ;-)
I kind of expected a Schubert Erlkönig-esque intro, but i can't be disappointed with what we were given.
I am not a musician but I love and listen to all these composers. The cheeky commentary is brilliant and breaks open the musical content to help me understand
Yes it does
Always saving the best til last! The Ravel in the Barbie was the best, and the Bartok here, so good!
Yeah he always puts the really fun wild card at the end
This is actually so underrated! quality editing ,quality music ,quality video!!!!
!!!!!PHENOMENAL!!!!! Your TALENT is completely off the scales!!!! THANK YOU for sharing your INCREDIBLE GIFT!!!❤️❤️❤️
Petition to make a longer music vid of the Rachmaninoff version!
As someone who plays a few of these composers, it's almost as if you sat down with them and knew them personally. I just can't get over how the last one was absolutely 100% Bartok. And the funny thing is that he actually did stuff like this: he took simple folk melodies and changed them into... Bartok. If he was alive today he would have probably transcribed Mariah Carey himself. Awesome job man
WOW!!!! Great 👍🏽
Absolut großartig.
Der Rachmaninow hat mir am besten gefallen. Da war die Melodie am einfachsten rauszuhören.
Stimmttt!! Und die Begleitungen waren einfach perfekt nh? 👌
Rachmaninoff hat er wirklich gut getroffen. Einige Elemente hat er sich vom Liebesleid, der Cellosonate und der zweiten Sinfonie geborgt und sie fantastisch auf das Thema angewendet. Dazu noch die schönen Sequenzen mit sehr melancholischen und einfühlsamen Akkordfolgen.
Mir hat es auf jeden Fall das "Rachmaninoff-Gefühl" gegeben, was bei mir ein sehr gutes Zeichen für Authentizität von Sergej Wassiljewitsch ist.
Very impressive! Usually this sort of pastiche just uses a recognizable accompaniment or rhythmic feature from a well-known piece by the composer and pastes the popular tune onto it. These actually analyzed the compositional techniques and preferences. Well-done, sir!
Danke!
This is SOOO JOYFUL and quirky and I'm here for it ❤
I laughed the whole video 😂
Your notes are also great! Mozart's loop, Beethoven's pathetique and hammer, Marx as Brahms etc.
Glad the UA-cam algorithm brought you to me. I didn't know you were all I wanted for Christmas, but I'm glad I got it!
Happy Holidays
Woukd like to hear Chopin's version...
and Schumann too.
and Bach!
I MUST add: This virtuoso's humorous treatment in each style is truly Divinely Hilarious!
The rach was absolutely perfect ❤
OMG this is absolutely BRILLIANT
This is so perfect I can’t even explain
beautifully done. Pleasure to listen to and read the animated text. killed it
Thank you so much! ❤
Huge numbers of heartfelt appreciative words
for your spot- on clevernesses.
Bartok really did it for me. Well done! Now I want even more of this 😊
BRILLIANT as always... the hammers in the Beethoven variation completely cracked me up!!! 😁 Thank you for your talent, humor, and obvious charm!
🔨. 😂
5:18 That left hand reminds me of the middle part of Chopin's Ballade No. 1
thanks mate, it was phenomenal
A clear reference do Symphony No.2 Adagio from Rachmaninoff: 4:29
the bartók is SOOOO good
These videos are always very good, but for a second or two you captured the full magic of Rachmaninoff and it nearly brought a tear to my eye
Loved it! The Commentary really adds.
how is the editing for this, this good? not to mention the terrific piano playing oh my god
Extraordinary! Loved every minute! Thank you for this wonderful, inspiring medley. 🙏 I also laughed so hard with the on screen comments! Brilliant!
For the Rach, the inspiration seems to be the Adagio from his 2nd Symphony if anybody was wondering and couldn't remember
Extremely talented!!! 🌟 Thank you and love your Barbie girl 🎶🎶❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏
Wowwww, this was so well conceived and performed! Clever and on point!
"More notes than fingers..." 😂 They were all perfect, but the Rach especially so.
There are few videos that bring me as much enjoyment as yours. Bravo maestro ❤
Oh my gosh! Thank you for all this work. In addition to enjoying the variations, I learned something about each composer.
This should be put on Spotify, UA-cam music and all other streaming platforms
Absolutely amazing stuff! Solid variations each in their own right, the Bartok is fabulous.
My God this guy is genius! Love love love this! Equally amazing composing and narrating skills😁 its also a great fun way to learn styles of composers!!! Who is this guy??? Teaching somewhere improv? Or composition? Id take his class! 😊 thanks for such sofisticated fun. Gonna watch one more time. And then maybe few more😍 Genius!
Love the Tchaikowsky-Style! And all the lovely visual effects!!🤩
This is genius, congratulations!!!
First time watcher, immediate sub.
The creativity! The skill! The editing!
Wow! That’s brilliant. Also insightful that old Sergei would not be able to resist the melody. 😅
Wow, I can't imagine the amount of effort it would have taken to make this video! Amazing job, and excellent performances!
"secondary dominant buffet"gave me a good laugh.
I really feel like I'm learning so much on these different composers thanks to your note. I look at them and then rewatch just to enjoy the beauty of your arrangements.
Thank you Josep and a merry Christmas to you!
Oh, boy! Rachmaninoff and Bartok were extraordinary! Thank you!
I didnt know how much I needed this to calm myself down (well Barok didn’t help but LOL) so thank you and please keep doing this videos, as a former pianist I can imagine how much effort and dedication you poured yourself into this
"Accompanyment as elaborate as the melody." I love you Rachmaninoff.
5:10-5:14 is from the third movement of Rach’s sonata for cello and piano, towards the end. Gorgeous piece y’all should listen to.
This video is absolutely insane! Really amazing work, man!
"Diabetes incoming." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ROFL! So much sugar! Love this channel. One of my favourites. Great work.
This is just breathtakingly perfect. Thank you.
Would you maybe consider doing an ‘in the style of’ for ‘happy birthday’ please, so that we can share the love far and wide as a birthday treat!
Qué pasada, as they say. You get MVP for the whole Internet.
If you liked this video I'm sure you'll also like Nahre Sol's "in the style of __ composers" videos. She actually made one for the "Happy Birthday" song! ua-cam.com/video/ToO7OXDiV04/v-deo.html
Thank you! That’s brilliant!! !
Some of the most truly exquisite piano playing this world's ever heard - and some of the most adorably creative improvisational talent!! Numerous pianists who would be specialists in musical paraphrasing could learn whole volumes of talent from this excellent young virtuoso!
You did it again! A masterpiece, and very funny at the same time ❤
that is a really great video. i feel like everyone is saying the rach worked best because it was the easiest to potentially use more of the original song chords, which you did tbf. nice work
'Your emotional support composer'.....absolute class!!
Oh, the Rach Cello Sonata reference was spot-on
Querido Josep, me sigues deslumbrando con tu talento y sabiduría! 🤯 bravo y gracias
Gracias Sergio! Espero que estés bien. Y muchas gracias por escuchar mis vídeos, es un honor. Espero que toquemos juntos algun día! 🎻🎹 /Josep CA
A well-designed, painfully-constructed and well-arranged video. this is art in itself. Love particularly the Rachmaninoff part
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you. I had commented about Barbie girl that it was a whole semester of music theory/ comp in 6 minutes. This is second semester. You gave us a full year sequence in 12 astonishingly enjoyable minutes.
I wish you were in this room with me to hear my applause. Bravo, thank you and a very merry Christmas!
Absolute genius! There is no other word. Season's greetings all
I lost it at 2:45 when he pulled Karl Marx 😂😂
😂😂😂
Epic. M’encanta la edició del video, el teu humor, que vagis explicant la teoria/harmonia (acords, progressions, etc) que hi ha al darrere… i ja ni parlar-ne de la teva habilitat al piano!! Felicitats!
Amazing! Would you consider putting this on Spotify? I need these styles 24/7! Thank you so much!
every single one is perfect. I aspire to be able to compose stuff like this one day.
I need a full brahms version ❤!!!!!!
Amazing. My favourite sections were 1,3,4 and 5.
OMGGGG YOU are my HEROOOO 😍😍 you are insane Josep 😂😂
Thanks Dorran! 🎉
Truly creative and skillfully done! The annotations were brilliant and hilarious! Loved it!
Brilliant and hilarious. Literally laughing out loud. Please do the older guys too, you know, like Bach.
GÉ NIAL !!! 👍🎹👍 Et les commentaires sont très marrants ! 😆
Absolutely AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIING ❣❣❣❣❣ From now on, you have a new fan in Italy!!!!! With all my admiration 🎵🎶🎹
What great and beautiful versions you game my ears to hear! Thank you!
Mariah should acknowledge this amazing achievement … congrats to your fantastic work of art!
I think Mariah Carey can do what she wants. I agree with you that Josep did an amazing job. But I think it is a little bit humiliating that this song is next to I am a barbie girl and angry birds. Also the description says not a lot more about the song than that it is a pop song. To me and to many others Mariah Carey is not just some ordinary pop singer, but an icon with an inhuman talent and All I want for christmas is you is more than just a pop song. To me at least, and I know I am not the only one. I think she deserves more praise than this! We are lucky to have Mariah still in our midst and for the huge amount of impeccable work she made which is still growing.
@@MissMichele1993 I see your point and yes, Mariah is an icon for sure with All I Want For Christmas being one of the most beloved festive songs nowadays. But if you view the song from a classical, strictly analytical aspect, then it is still a pop song in the end. That does not mean that she is being disrepected here, and her popularity is probably bigger than entire hours of classical music alltogether. But a pop song stays a pop song, no matter regarding its popularity, and it is simply incredible how much Josep developed her song by using all kind of various classical composition techniques. Again, I am not saying that this video will become more popular than Mariah’s original, but quality should not be solely measured on popularity either, and the quality here is undeniable from classical aspects, surpassing Mariah’s original rhythmic-harmonic-melodic structure.
@@jiangyilin_official Hi, I did not mean to compare his piece to the original song, but to compare the song choices for his covers with each other. And piano skills and singing skills are very different skills and in my opinion not really appropriate for comparing. Some people will always say classical music is better. This is just an opinion (as is mine of course). The skill used in the songs Mariah sings is not often (or ever) duplicated with the same quality by someone else (also she wrote all of her songs except the covers). I think she deserves some respect and you can't put her songs in the same lane as I am a barbie girl and angry birds. As you already understood, I am a fan of her, and you are probably a big fan of classical music. Let's agree to disagree (if that is still the case) and enjoy music. Music is amazing!
@@MissMichele1993 I am a professional classical musician myself, but I enjoy other music genres a lot, especially in my free time so I can have a better life balance overall 🙃
I can relate to your opinion that Mariah’s songs should not be associated/compared with some other songs. What I usually try to do then is focusing on the music itself: if it stands on its own with absolute greatness, then there will be no need for comparisons to enhance the quality, and I always try to blend out those comparisons as much as possible.
So in this case, maybe you can blend out Angry Birds and Barbie Girl as Josep’s artistic freedom 😅 (because I honestly don’t think he chose those songs as comparisions, classical musicians usually don’t work in this way), but admire Mariah’s artistry instead that even made it to the classical music world? 😇
And YES, music is absolutely amazing, I happily agree on that 🤜🏽🤛🏽
This is oh so clever and musical. Loved listening and appreciated the stylistic charm for each and the humour in the text. 'hold my sonata" [teehee]
Holy macaroni... what did I see and hear just there? 👏👏👏👏