My heart still hurts even after 5 years. Keith is a genius and I have to rely on videos to see him play. I could watch him play all day. Keith is my hero and my crush, will love him forever. Rest in peace, your music will live on.

@paulborkman9617

2 жыл бұрын

He was the Angel at the keyboard. His music defined Grace and beauty.

@michaelgalligan7089

Жыл бұрын

Thank God 4 videos. I prefer memories. Greg once said I saw the group more than anyone .

@elivertoeliver762

Жыл бұрын

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@elivertoeliver762

Жыл бұрын

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A true pioneer of progressive rock, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks all wrote truly inspiring music in the 70s, but nothing that these 3 wrote was anything like each others music. We were blessed with 3 geniuses in the same decade.

It's sad to think how his life ended. This piece of music got me through some many dark times. All 3 pieces are incredible. I wish that he would of been able to see the light out of the darkness the way that I did with this music. RIP Keith. You are sorely missed. I hope you are in a safe happy place where you can write and enjoy what you are doing and I hope that your audience enjoys your music as well.

What an amazing talent, musician, keyboardist and composer Keith Emerson was! He'll always be remembered as one of the greatest of our time.

@steveoconnor926

Жыл бұрын

Modern day Beethoven

@timcoakley5498

2 ай бұрын

@@steveoconnor926 I think that’s a bit of a stretch mate.

Montreal 1977 was the finest concert of all time.

@VallinSFAS

3 жыл бұрын

The High Water Mark of Western Civilization!

this beautiful musical situation will be unrepeatable. Keith Emerson was the last great keyboardist and composer in rock history. No one in popular music today would be able to play and write this music.

How can someone put a thumbs down to this. An angel at the keyboards. Keith , you are mine and millions more hero.

Little known fact Piano Concerto is not a sit down knock it out in one nite piece. It was composed and put together over several years. Often Keith would reach back into his vast collection of unfinished pieces to pull inspiration and finish a current work. The motivation partly for this concerto was a response to critics who kept moaning " a rock musician cant write classical pieces ! " In 1975 when Emerson was finally trying to finish this classic, he he was living in Sussex England. His house caught fire and burned to ground. hence the 3rd movement where you can hear his anger frustration etc in it.

I was fortunate enough to see them during this tour, what a great experience. RIP Keith, you will be sorely missed.

@odmusicman

10 ай бұрын

You were indeed blessed

This is so amazing....i had the LP in Grade School... now seeing years later...now I know why I played this to death....it is 2024....i love it...even more...now I can see it done..wow... what happened to music 🎵🎶....they are not like this anymore.....😮

I love this piano concerto. Have heard Keith’s and Jeffrey Biegel’s versions many times. Aaron Copland meets Alberto Ginastera but totally Keith Emerson.

@fulltongrace7899

Ай бұрын

I love it too. Have heard both recordings. Too bad he didn’t write a second one.

The conductor definitely deserves the props given him by Keith, putting your own touch to the music while keeping it faithful to Keith’s original can’t be easy! I wonder how much freedom Keith gave him?

@optimus163

Жыл бұрын

Not much . The orchestra is dedicated to accurately play the charts. I know this piece note for note. There are only one or two very short moments where they play a quick line differently.And those would have been either by Emerson's choice or agreement with the Conductor Godfrey Salmon.

I saw these guys in 1970 and 80 at the age of 62 I am about to learn the piano because of this genius RIP Keith an Greg. Gd fromthe uk

Wonderful Keith.

@eisbaerbel

3 ай бұрын

He made my life...

What a genius.....What a _genius_!

Love this piece of music! So British with all of it's pomp, glory, grit, majesty and sentiment. Love.

Keith Emerson is one of the most underestimated composers!

My friend. His inspiration lives on.

@99Grigor

6 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Biegel Mr. Biegel, your performance is also wonderful and a great hommage to Keith's great concerto!

This is one piece of ELP I have not heard before, it's incredible, will be listening to it a lot in future. Genius musicians .

I am so enthralled by this incredible soul. The more I listen to this piece, it's almost like I'm hearing his direct connection to the Three Fates

An epic piece of music 🎹

I am out of words. Keith IS the greatest ever. And this is AMAZING beyond words. Wherever you are, dearest Keith , we miss you and we ❤ you!!!

Cool that Carl Palmer was in the percussion section.

Immensely moving. The composition is wonderful, but the fingering by Emerson is a thrill to watch.

marvelous EMERSON INMORTAL¡¡¡¡

I love this, it's so chaotic! The energy being put out by the musicians is just incredible.

I was there. Unbelievable show.

@vesosobot4094

Жыл бұрын

It must have spectacular. And probably an event never to be repeated in rock n roll history.

Everything about ELP screams talent!!!

I remember seeing Emerson Lake and Palmer with the Orchestra in 1977 . One of the great concerts ever !

I adore this piece and can ‘hum’ along to it, I’ve listened to it so many times over the years. It’s perfect for impromptu modern dance, too!

Great music ,fantastic , addictive with a very solid fabric !! The best !!!!!

Keith Emerson, grande pianista, organista, tecladista. Hasta la vista

Unbelievable great!!! RIP Keith!!

It makes me feel emotion again

bloody terrific if a little meaningless being perfectly honest. Of it's times though and a joy to watch this amazing talent

The greatest keyboardist of all time. My heart breaks for him

I loved this performance from the first time I heard it. It's amazing.

This piece strikes me as "Piano vs Orchestra". I love it!

And he has it all in his head. Not one sheet of music in front of him.

Masterpiece!! RIP Keith Emerson...

Que milagro. ..talento....experimentación. ...actuación. ..Que afortunados los que los vieron en vivo.😀😚😘💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

If you can hear me Keith......you're playing still astounds and excites......chapeau to you.....

I'm lucky to have your albums. Your music and playing will live on. Vale Keith.

I caught this tour in Detroit in 1977. It was awesome!

Wonderful piece, truly epic. Thanks for sharing!

Best keyboardist of all time!!!!

Just fantastic!!!!

This is so unique!

I have this on LP.. GREAT!!!The whole concert is fantastic!!!

Muchas gracias por compartir esta música maravillosa

Keith will be for all of eternity the master.

Magnific! :)

He was (is) the best!.

Il MAESTRO: Keith Emerson!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ imprecionismo en estado puro al estilo d claude debussy impresionante Keith un abrazo al cielo☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️😔😔😔😔😔😔

Espetacular

omg .....pure love

heaven!!!

I can hear distant threads of the Inferno soundtrack in the flute and some of the strings.

genios!!!!!

Emerson.tu ya ESTAS en EL CIELO.SIEMPRE HAS ESTADO.🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

My dad was here. Wish I was there with him ahhhhh

Genio assoluto non ce né e non ce ne sarà mai per nessuno...manchi✌

Fierce love

❤❤

I can hear a lot of Tarkus here.

Wow

Keith 👑

Blue Devils drum and bugle corps did a marvellous adaption of this in their 1985 show at DCI.

Seems that the whole orch was giving it 100% on this . I saw it live in UK the fellow watchers were speechless, all classical music fans

@davidkyle2073

9 ай бұрын

I believe most players were university students who even offered to play for free but were told “no” by the musicians’ union.

Vladimir Horowitz said that Keith Emerson was his favorite rock pianist.

@JanosKenyeresJunior

3 жыл бұрын

favorite at all

@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy

3 жыл бұрын

lie

@thewordofgord

3 жыл бұрын

No, really? Wow, high praise.

Awesome! I would've loved to know what Frank Zappa thought about this extraordinary piece of music.

Que barbaridad, lo que se pierden los oidos reguetoneros

Their 1st album was their finest; and half of Tarkus. After that it was Keith imitating Bartok, Gershwin Stravinsky, Bernstein et al. Parts of this sound like Five Bridges Suite by The Nice. Also West Side Story. I like 60% of it though. Thanks Keith for your pioneering musicality. You should have written movie scores and not pulled the trigger. Intelligent people like you don't usually kill themselves. 👍 🇬🇧

It's a shame they didn't perform the whole piece

Remembering Keith Emerson born on November 2, 1944. He was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and composer. He was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock super-groups. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Emerson

And the drums from hell in the background haha

👎thumbs down to the 4 dislikes !!! Hearing aids are cheap now !! You seriously need real good ones. !!

the last modern classic

@JanosKenyeresJunior

3 жыл бұрын

ment composer of course

Далеко не каждый способен сделать такое, а Кейт мог

4:48!

I love Keith Emerson, and I love this performance! But this is him without his bandmates, of course. So don't call the show "Emerson, Lake & Palmer", because it isn't true.

@encarnacioncuenca3016

8 күн бұрын

I can see Palmer playing as well

@encarnacioncuenca3016

8 күн бұрын

But I prefer the recorded version.

Where is lake?

Cool. Where's Greg?

Too bad the whole piece wasn't available here.

A masterpiece! Filming atrocious!

7 times from The Nice to Brain Salad - just too much

I love his musics, but this music it is a pandemonium.

No lo entiendo, no se que es.

I like chopsticks

ANYONE can write discordant music! The REAL trick is writing something melodic and tuneful! ELP never realised this, a lof of the time. As far as this piece goes, I don't even acknowledge it till around 4:50 !!!

@markherbert4799

3 ай бұрын

??

i was there , the sound was horrible. the music stinks, a disastrous pompous full of pretence night...Gimme VDGG

@markdarnell614

6 жыл бұрын

Talk about Pompous, and pretense (Yeah! - it's spelled with an "S"! - Moron!) - and from someone whose last name is PHENIX! Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

@snuppssynthchannel

6 жыл бұрын

Its you that stink of pretence! VDGG is great, but Emerson outclasses them tenfolded when it comes to talent!

@0patience4flz

3 жыл бұрын

Keith Emerson borrowed from...Lets see....Don Shill..Dick Hyman...King Crimson..Peter Sinfield...Modest Mussorsky Bela Bartok Aaron Copeland...Without the support of Greg Lake and Carl Palmer..the uninventive Emerson would not have taken off. Emerson was in a rut from the mid 70's.

@0patience4flz

3 жыл бұрын

Listen to Dick Hyman's The Minoraur..(it came before Aquatarkus)...Keith nicked it..

@snuppssynthchannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@0patience4flz Interesting, thanks for your uninformed opinion. Its like you have completely forgotten of the Nice, from 1967, it was hugely influential and is broadly considered to be the first prog band, that went onto inspiring lot of other acts like Egg, Renaissance, Genesis, Triumvirat, Renaissance, PFM and so on, and Emerson already had a presence among keyboardplayers in the British underground from the early/mid 60's and onwards and the man was considered as quite the phenom. Also, its very common for composers to borrow and take influence and cite other musicians and this was very much a part of the concept that made ELP what it was. Both Grieg, Bartok, Stravinsky borrowed folk melodies and made original music composed from that as an example, only that Emerson actually commonly cited his influences most of the time, sometimes the pieces that ELP interpreted like allegro Barbaro, Was fairly well known, so it was always in the cards that people would realize it was a Bartok interpretation anyways. Dick Hymans sounds nothing like Tarkus by the way, it has resemblance with Keiths moog playing on Lucky man, but that is largely due to the modular synth sound being used on that recording is a pulse wave with glide/portamento on it. Emerson redefined rock and prog rock keyboards and synthesizer playing, it was not just the sound he played, but how he orchestrated them and managed to make something new and really interesting, stuff like minoraur is merely a curiosity vs what is essentially genre defining piece and is far more complex and elaborated. Also the way Emerson utilized fourth voicings/quartal harmony was really idiosyncratic and original. Jordan Rudess still cite Emerson as an influence for this, and I think I have heard over a dozens of prog bands/fusion bands, especially from Japan, that has been influenced by Emerson's tonal choices and way of applying fourth voicings, also in video game music and Emerson is cited as an inspiration on the music of both Koji Kondo and Noebu Uematsu, two of the greatest eastern video game composers, and the former is considered the greatest video game composer all time. I was just discussing great keyboard icons like Kerry Minnear and Eddie Jobson/Rudess with a keyboard player friend this morning and I think his take summarizes Emerson strong suits really well; "Keith Emerson was not only amazing in his playing and as a performer. He deserves much credit in taming a giant synthesizer that was never meant to leave a studio. But as a true keyboardist also in re imagining his roles for each of his hands. Which is something many piano players that start playing keyboards seem to not get. Turn your left hand into a second right hand. Keith also brought in a lot of inspiration from modern classical composers and incorporated techniques used in classical piano playing. In the big league everyone can play fast. But he brought in octaves, extended jumps with either hand, double notes and fast repeated notes on one key which are things classical pianist run into all the time. He was the pioneer in so many ways". Also, My former music history professor Bjørn Ole Rasch could not understate Emerson's influence on popular music/progressive music and even to some extent classical music, video game music and soundtrack music. All out from academical sources. Your take is merely a highly biased interpretation against Emerson, that exist on the premises of half truths. Your views are not shared by music historians nor are they recognized in the fields of musicology or music history. Emerson's influence when taking all sources into consideration, is overwhelming, he is among the greatest electric keyboard players of all time alongside Chick Corea and his contributions to all things related to modern music should not be understated and will only become more celebrated as time goes.

TOTAL MONSTER!!!!!

This piece strikes me as "Piano vs Orchestra". I love it!