Exciting news that has been brewing for the last few months: I'm delighted to announce that Sony Music Masterworks has made the music of my latest video, "Barbie Girl in the Style of 6 Classical Composers," available on all major streaming platforms! You can stream it on: Spotify: spotify.link/I35FbiGXEDb Other streaming platforms: SonyMasterworks.lnk.to/BarbieGirlVariationsAY

@mauriciocamara

8 ай бұрын

Congratulations @JosepCastanyerAlonso! BTW, I use to watch this video daily and I´ve been missing it on the last days. Congratulations and keep up your excellent work!

@atemdesfruhlings53

8 ай бұрын

Congrats!!! I watch this video every day for uplifting myself. I'm soooooo glad your video is back now after a few days break

@user-qu6vw6do4d

7 ай бұрын

This is great relief: We need this video for educational purposes!!! 🎉😊 Great news Josep - and keep it flowing. Looking on to what you come up with next.

@nloconductor7395

6 ай бұрын

That's a GREAT relief! Your talent should get as much exposure as possible! Congrats!!

@reassez

6 ай бұрын

you are magical, so talented! God Bless✨

This was insane

@Phoenix3568

10 ай бұрын

Are you going to make a custom keyboard keeb with tactile switches?

@sll0th511

10 ай бұрын

didn't think i would see u here

@renascitur7051

10 ай бұрын

Different keyboard

@supasayajinsongoku4464

10 ай бұрын

wrong keyboard buv

@nxyuu

10 ай бұрын

is my yt glitching out and showing me this comment on the wrong video, or is glarses actually commenting on a classical music related video?

Great, I wished there was a part 2 with Liszt, Satie, Rachmaninoff, Händel and of course Bach! 🎵🎶

@Maxley..

6 ай бұрын

Wow. I came here to name those exact five! And, as it's a wish-list, to tack on Scarlatti or Vivaldi and Wagner!

@HiCy2012

6 ай бұрын

Debussy

@anthonya9702

6 ай бұрын

@@HiCy2012 Debussy + 2

@h.seanhsu8965

6 ай бұрын

I wonder how Gershwin would do it…

@laurin__

6 ай бұрын

DABUSSSY??

Mozart is a happy little kid Beethoven is a funky goth auntie Schumann is a melanholic father Schubert is a relatively normal grandfather who enjoys walks in nature Chopin is a dramatic rebel teenager with many intrusive thoughts Ravel is a painter mother (Great video, immensely enjoyed, thank you 😊)

@alkautsarpurnamaagung1842

6 ай бұрын

Lol, so accurate. I cackled reading your comment.

@e-mo666

6 ай бұрын

@@alkautsarpurnamaagung1842 🫡

@Harrietmjones

5 ай бұрын

Perfectly described! Can just imagine those characters, each fitting the various composers. 💛

@e-mo666

5 ай бұрын

@@Harrietmjones thank you!

@1981stonemonkey

5 ай бұрын

Grandfather Schubert also terribly misses his wife, though...

The talent here is incredible. It's hard to imagine how someone can extemporaneously produce such elaborate stylistic changes from a single theme like "I'm a Barbie Girl". In my opinion, pure genius.

@sfmike711

20 күн бұрын

@higherresolution4490 : He did not "extemporaneously produce" this. "Extemporaneous" means "without preparation". Obviously he planned this out ahead of time, practicing to get everything down just so. And, yes, it's genius.

@clutchmatic

21 сағат бұрын

His Beethoven quoted heavily from the Sonate Nº 8 "Pathetique". And it was amazing.

Everything about this is unreasonably good. Absolutely exceptional quality of composition and production! I’m blown away!

@peters972

10 ай бұрын

Well put

@albertmademont

10 ай бұрын

Great comment! Comments like that should be pinned!

@keyconcept2023

10 ай бұрын

I totally agree 👍

@cooldebt

10 ай бұрын

Agree - even the captions were not just on point but also humorous

@elikintisch1046

10 ай бұрын

Amazing piece

bro is a genius

@hisky.

9 ай бұрын

omg it's you !

@TuneTemptation

3 ай бұрын

Hi, big fan❤

@gabrielwickley1048

2 ай бұрын

The innovation was done by other people, it's the dissection and mastery that made him more of an expert, rather

Impressive understanding of what gave those composers their special character! Fun fact: what this musician is doing is precisely what many of the great composers did in their time: take a simple "folk" or "popular" melody if the time and use as a theme or motif to expand and vary upon... Only this time the popular melody "I am a barbie girl".

Josep: Fantastic. I'm a concert pianist myself and this was perfectly executed and composed on the Barbie theme. Also great lecture into the styles of the composers picked. Very entertaining.

What’s amazing is that he is actually a cellist in his orchestra so imagine how good he is at that !!!

@jessicaann5641

9 ай бұрын

Came here to say just that - he describes himself as playing the piano "a bit" LOL!

@hetedeleambacht6608

8 ай бұрын

NO WAY !!

@williamstrachan

8 ай бұрын

He produces such a complete knockout of a video, not just the piano playing but everything else basically... and didn't even use his main professional skill. Absolutely amazing.

@thorr18BEM

8 ай бұрын

🤯

@ShinnoEli

7 ай бұрын

I want to leave some sort of reply, because that is basically the coolest thing ever, but the words just...are not there. x_x How can this possibly be a side gig for him?? Reminds me of the guy Hugh Gallagher claims to be in his college application essay... 😂

As a fellow pianist here your annotations literally made me CACKLE 😂😂😂😂🤣 I was so entranced by the actual compositions at first that I didn’t notice. Then had to go back to rewatch to experience the humor 🤣 thank you for such a great laugh!! I’m so happy to have found your channel

@k.c.3022

10 ай бұрын

God I can’t stop laughing, the text was just as genius as the actual compositions!!! Any pianist with a sense of humor watching this right now is absolutely dead 😂🤣

@louisegogel7973

10 ай бұрын

@@k.c.3022Likewise, I’m finding myself unable to stop smiling ever since I listened a couple of hours ago!

@A-Minor-Music

10 ай бұрын

My favorite was Chopin's "hit or miss left hand". 😅😅 Many practice sessions were spent on this issue 😆

@parantbellum

10 ай бұрын

I feel lucky I wasn't sipping coffee at "tendinitis incoming" 😄 overall great job, kudos!

@museislander

9 ай бұрын

I actually was drinking coffee at that very moment. It was a close call!

The AI set is mind-blowing 🤯 It also explains my listening preference... Mozart for working, Ravel for dancing in my living room like a clumsy ballerina, Chopin for driving... thanks for this! It was a feast for my ears 🥰

I love that you explain the elements of style for each composer. I like seeing why this sounds like bach and so on. Very well done.

Ohhh wow this amazing!!! And thanks for the shoutout, very flattered 😅 and obviously thanks for watching my videos through the years ❤

@DemirSezer

10 ай бұрын

More channels should adopt this structure tbf, both this video and your videos are amazing at showing these small nuances on each composers different styles

@Gallahaut

10 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh!!! My first thought was "oh wow it's a lot like Nahre Sol!" This NEEDS to be a thing! I am so inspired by all of this creativity 🥳🥳🥳

@JosepCastanyerAlonso

10 ай бұрын

What an honour! Thanks Nahre!!! ❤/Josep CA

@nezkeys79

10 ай бұрын

Imagine you admire someone for years and then they say "hi, you're amazing" 😮❤

@TheNat11

10 ай бұрын

i actually went to the comment section to say, whoever loved this as much as i did should go watch nahre sol! and there she already was!

Such a talent. This person not only has the ability to generate music with such a deep understanding and grasp of the unique characters of the composer he is emulating allowing him to integrate it with a famous, modern melody, but also has the technical ability to perform it on the keyboard. This is what I aspire to be able to do. I find it to be a shame such people do not get nearly as much recognition as they deserve probably because such things are not as palatable to the majority of people.

@happypiano4810

10 ай бұрын

@@CustardSpace Beethoven.

@Memories_broken_

10 ай бұрын

Music has evolved and classical music is not mainstream anymore. And thats the reason.

@TheElectricCheeseProductions22

10 ай бұрын

@@CustardSpace As if that's the only point that can resonate with people. What a piece of classical music can embody, represent, or communicate to someone is not restricted to class. And besides, the majority of people who could afford lessons for playing classical music probably don't care much for it either. And it's not as if elitism in music is not present today in mainstream music. Even though the music of, say, Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran does not with it contain the connotation of class superiority, there's still an elitist element to the success and prominence of these people and their music. These people are worth hundreds of millions of dollars with immensely powerful corporations behind them that propagate their work. It's at a point where I'd attribute their success more to that than their apparent talent. They're also the people who get to attend events like the Met Gala, incredibly famous people with voices and social influence, who can do things most people will never have the option to. These people are elites and their continued success is a product of that elitism. It's kind of the same thing without the air of superiority and things of that nature.

@TheElectricCheeseProductions22

10 ай бұрын

@@CustardSpace But with all that being said, I guess I can see and understand how someone, especially people who you could consider as in the lower rungs of society would have a harder time appreciating classical music when it does have that connotation of cultural or intellectual superiority. Especially when that's already the basic stereotype of it, people are likely to already be familiar with that stereotype even they haven't really engaged with the medium. So I guess even if I can go on about how how mainstream music today also has an elitist element, that doesn't really matter much because it's more of a matter of how people see it

@RaphThys

10 ай бұрын

​​@@CustardSpace'm not sure if it is because here in Belgium, the cost of music education is fairly low (music academy cost around 100€ per year and the conservatory is like 350/500€ per year for the public ones), and without counting the cost of the instruments (that can be rented but you still need to buy one at some point), but having myself study classical music in those schools, yes there is some people from rich family but it's really not a majority. And some of the most talented people I met came from average middle class families. And there's quite a lot of things that are done to make classical music more accessible to everyone. It's a universe still locked in so many old fashioned habits but trying to modernize, slowly. It seems it's not the same way in the UK so I can't really deny your opinion but I wanted to add this

The level of mastery this guy has of the piano is insane! Variations of the same song, all vastly different, and great captions to boot.

So this popped up in my feed and i thought, "Oh, this'll be cute". Yeah, right. This was the most incredible thing I've seen/heard in ages! Just absolutely brilliant musically and the fact that your ongoing commentary shows that your sense of humor is at the same level as your musicianship and creativity is just glorious!

The running snarky commentary is such a great touch: it entertains while simultaneously explaining the nuances that us laypeople can vaguely perceive, but don’t actually understand. Lovely video.

@LilLingLing6789

9 ай бұрын

We musicians from other genres feel the same way.. Most of us never reach this level of understanding nevermind apply it to other songs I think the equivalent is flamenco.. Classical guitar is a walk in the park compared to piano and composition pieces in terms of understanding and applying it all it's extremely advanced.. Jazz is my limit

@gabotron94

8 ай бұрын

* bonk *

You literally did everything correct for the perfect video right now. You found a current trend, applied lots of but not overwhelmingly much theory in it and made it sound enjoyable as well as relatable for anyone who is at least a little into classical music. You also chose 6 composers everyone has heard of and listened to and especially the twist at the end rounded the video off perfectly. 10/10

@louisegogel7973

10 ай бұрын

And made it very fun! I’m smiling and smiling long after having listened to and watched it. 😁

@davidcatabui2018

10 ай бұрын

I've never heard of the last guy, and I'm a professional classical musician

@NinjaCoto

10 ай бұрын

And the captions were also great

@M00nflowers

10 ай бұрын

You nailed it with your comment! ❤

@simonshepherd492

9 ай бұрын

​@@davidcatabui2018Maurice Ravel? Probably best known for Bolero, but also wrote Daphnis et Chloé as well as The Sunken Clock. Give him a listen when you have the time :)

Incredible! I learned so much from this. You really help to identity what characteristics these composers used to make them unique. And the Barbie girl melody was a nice and simple vehicle to help keep the focus throughout. And the AI reveal at the end. So cool! Blown away. You’re a master at piano and this was a beautifully made video.

So good! Love the humor. You nailed the characteristics of each composer so well.

This was an EDUCATION! I learned more music theory in 5 mins than I did in 3 years of private piano lessons as a kid. Outstanding video. You are a great teacher.

@ailinmc

10 ай бұрын

I don't think anyone learns Neapolitan sixths in 3 years of piano lessons.

@MaGaO

10 ай бұрын

​@@ailinmc Which is why he learned more 😅

@alisonrobinson675

10 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@AdelineCowgirl

10 ай бұрын

You must have had absolutely terrible teachers if this taught you more than 3 years of lessons 😂

@AdelineCowgirl

10 ай бұрын

@@MaGaOThis video doesn't teach you Neapolitan sixths either. It's just a demonstration.

The level of: 1) ASSIMILATED musical culture 2) creativity 3) pianistic mastery required to produce such a masterpiece is OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD!!! And I also looove the added analytic comments into the video!

@andrewpearce2562

8 ай бұрын

And his main instrument is actually the cello....

This was a music theory tour-de-force! Loved all the annotations!

this guys just nails the styles so well. The Beethoven commentary was so good

I was expecting either Brahms, Liszt, or good ol' Rach at the end, but Ravel was a marvelous choice. Exquisitely thought out and performed, by the way. Every style was on point, but the Schumann was on another level! Bravo!

@andersjohansson4734

10 ай бұрын

Bach, Debussy and Bártok would be nice too, and Händel.

@rafe7678

10 ай бұрын

Well considering they're not classical it makes sense

@quarkonium3795

10 ай бұрын

@@rafe7678 I mean, neither are Ravel, Schumann, or Schubert if you're arguing for composers strictly within the classical period. Even Beethoven is a borderline case as he could be considered romantic, especially in the middle period which is the style that's being represented here. Mozart is the only truly "classical" composer here if you distinguish the romantic period from the classical one

@rafe7678

10 ай бұрын

@@quarkonium3795 sorry my bad - I had only just started watching the video when I replied so had only seen Mozart

@jasperchance3382

10 ай бұрын

I was expecting Debussy.

Brilliant! Not only do you convincingly mimic their styles, you also identify the characteristics of each in spot-on snarky remarks! And you play beautifully. Bravo, and thanks!

this was the best six and a half minutes i spent on youtube. and every video from now on will suck because nothing could top what you just did there. i swear when the video was done i stood up and applauded to my tv. hope to see more of these in style videos in the future

Wow. This might be the best musical video I've seen for years. You've clearly studied and understood the compositional styles of these 6 composers to a high degree! I particularly enjoyed the Ravel one, with the reference to Scarbo at the end. Please make more videos like this!

I normally don’t like these types of videos, since most don’t really capture the styles of the composers they claim to be imitating - but this is fantastic! Especially impressed that you didn’t make Mozart sound like his simplest, least interesting pieces composed for beginners (like most of these types of videos do)!

@JosepCastanyerAlonso

10 ай бұрын

Hey Richard, I absolutely ADORE your videos and analyses. I am very flattered, thanks for your comment! 😊/Josep CA

@louisegogel7973

10 ай бұрын

❤

Not only is this a fun take on a modern pop song, but your understanding and your explanation of the different characteristics unique to each composer is also really interesting. When you hear it then you can understand how you identify but also what the differences are that you hear in each unique composer.

@Poeme340

10 ай бұрын

Fantastic!! The Ravel is killer!👍👍

This is musically hilarious xD. Your work is fricking amazing man! Like literally, your skill is off the frickin charts! The composition(the reimagination and the original bits) and the playing is magnificent, you are truly talented🤩

I have no words. I do not know how to express how im feeling and it got worse after the Chopin multitasking cos it became relatable. This is beyond amazing.

As a 62 year old classical music lover and a lifetime Barbie fan, this was absolutely magical!!! Ty so much!

@julia.vasilieva

9 ай бұрын

hahaha you're so funny :)

@kronoscamron7412

8 ай бұрын

h-how ?

@avosmash2121

6 ай бұрын

You guys do realize Barbie has existed since almost a century now and that there are collectors of the franchise the world over of many ages and genders for decades now?

Wait a min... This guy is a legend!!! The arrangement was already incredibly impressive, plus the fact that he animated all those little text and notes detail by himself, and the imagination of the shots that was preplanned to be generated by AI. Not to count the fact that he uploaded this so fast after the Barbie girl was released. I would imagine a video with this kind of quality to be made in a month, not days. Respect man...

@vari1535

10 ай бұрын

Completely agreed with everything; I was going to comment especially on the editing--absolutely insane to do all that in a few days.

@RoneryBob

10 ай бұрын

Why a few days? Where did he write that that he composed, aranged the music and built the video starting from movie premiere? The song I'm a barbie girl is from 1997 and he did a video based on it a year ago. Beside that, he did great work and deserves more than one thumbs up and a subsribe.

@violin3394

10 ай бұрын

And also, he's a cellist primarily..

@vari1535

10 ай бұрын

@@RoneryBob That's fair haha. I still think the quality of the music and the editing is insane, impressive, and worth noting, though, done in a few days or not.

@philip.stigaard

10 ай бұрын

Bruh piano isn’t even his first instrument and he plays in a good orchestra

One of those rare videos that deserves all the attention it got/is getting

I'm beyond blown away... "blown away" is an understatement. Absolutely amazing. The amount of work you put into composing AND THEN practicing what you made!!?? ... it shows. Absolutely wild!!!

A full semester course in composition delivered with grace, humor, and clarity in 6 minutes! If I were still teaching theory/comp, I would begin each semester with this video!

@anjagoller

6 ай бұрын

We watched this in analysis class...

Absolutely excellent ! Now we can't wait for "in the style of Satie, Debussy, Scriabine, Liszt, Albeniz, and Rachmaninoff" ! 😂

@albertperson4013

10 ай бұрын

Tchaichovsky too!

@jonathanwyble4227

10 ай бұрын

In the styles of Berg, Webern, Schönberg, Hindemith, Pärt, and Glass. 😂

@ErikaEmody

10 ай бұрын

Yes!

@JonasViatte

10 ай бұрын

Yes!

@charlottelabarbe

10 ай бұрын

Curious about Mendelssohn, too !

These were all spot on! Especially Beethoven. I absolutely loved it

This was beautiful, hilarious and ingenious! Thank you for this delightful surprise!

I think the Beethoven interpretation is superbly suitable in convincing your little girl that "I'm a Barbie girl" was actually written by Beethoven. And then convincing her she should take piano lessons.

@00bean00

4 ай бұрын

I laughed at 1:16 thereabouts

Masterpiece. Years of study summarized in six minutes of elegant irony. We want it more, for example Morricone remade by Bach or Metallica interpreted by Chopin.

@robertwilloughby8050

9 ай бұрын

Oh yes, Bacharach taken through the Romantic composers!

@lazarostossounidis9990

17 күн бұрын

Indeeed Hiw well expressed!!!!

Just... WOW. Everything is brilliant: the idea, the music, the playing, the graphics, the pedagogy... Well done!

It is absolutely incredible how you are able to use your knowledge in musical theory, modulations, and patterns of different composers!

That pianistic multitasking in Chopin part is magical, that’s probably why I find Chopin arrangements really fascinating and grande 👏🏼

@tomekdarda

8 ай бұрын

Indeed! He might have not written symphonies, but those piano works of his show you don’t really need to make it grandiose.

The never-ending modulation for Beethoven was PERFECT! 🤣 BRAVO!

@-ElevenStoreMindanaoAve

6 ай бұрын

I laughed so much with the never-ending modulation annotation! Sooooo Beethoven...

I so enjoyed this video w/ the same modern song played in the style & structure of the 6 famous composer. Your interpretation & adaptation was excellent. You captured each composer perfectly. I sending this video to friends & family! Thank you

What an excellent pedagogical exercise for grad school students! It shows they understand each composer's style and contributions to music. Absolutely brilliant!

Incredible! The shade thrown on Chopin was hilarious. The Ravel iteration was truly beautiful.

@hoon_sol

10 ай бұрын

What, you tellin' me you don't like flamboyant modulation that goes nowhere?

@TheNat11

10 ай бұрын

isn't that what we love about chopin?

@bluewren65

10 ай бұрын

@@hoon_sol I love it, but I love it even more with witty subtitles.

@animemusic8

10 ай бұрын

@@TheNat11 True! That's what unique about Chopin! ^_^ I love it!

@KyriosHeptagrammaton

9 ай бұрын

@@hoon_sol I seem to recall my piano lessons book saying something about him saying he threw those in there to wake people up.

Excuse me, but who are you? And why is this so good?! Excellent writing, playing, recording, and commentary!

@ami4511

10 ай бұрын

I was curious too so I looked at his profile page on youtube and it says he is a cellist who plays the piano a bit. I think he and the rest of the world may have different definitions of a bit. 😭

@philiphunt2065

10 ай бұрын

Yes

@autumnwinter1462

10 ай бұрын

@@ami4511 I just read that too. He can definitely play more than ‘a bit’ lol

@Sonomaniaque

10 ай бұрын

@@ami4511 I just can't imagine how he plays the cello ????

I remember that song back when it was first released. I cringed listening to it back then and had ever since. Never ever did I think anyone could give the piece any value at all. This wasnt just next level, but so many levels above that. I now have an appreciation for this music. That performance had me captivated from start to finsh; I wanted more! Well done and thank you for sharing with us all.

As someone who is music illterate, I'm sure I can't fully appreciate what you did, but that was incredible. I didn’t know it was possible.

I really loved Mozart's variation, it really sounds like something he woul'dve written!

@farfalles2665

8 ай бұрын

Beethoven too!

@mistymoonrose

6 ай бұрын

TOTALLY, he's my favourite composer and this was so very him!!

@user-tl6jr2ez7s

6 ай бұрын

The “you can touch, you can play” straight up sounds like Turkish March

I'm usually skeptical of these sorts of videos because they tend to be not very good but holy SHIT am I glad I watched this. you are absolutely fantastic, these pastiches are on POINT, and the way you write (and play) is also artful in and of itself. obsessed

@ev13191

10 ай бұрын

like I could genuinely listen to 100 more of these lol

@tig968

10 ай бұрын

This is exactly how I felt too! I've seen a fair share of these kinds of videos, but often find the arrangements very surface level and even caricaturistic. These are actually well done and quite accurate to the time periods!

BRILLIANT!!!!! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! It MUST be said that the song Barbie Girl will NEVER be my cup of tea, but I decided to watch this video due to my OBSESSION with Classical Music and the fact that you said that you arranged it in the style of 6 Classical Composers. Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.

I rarely comment but I enjoyed every aspect of this video. The animation, the witty remarks, and of course the music and performance. I used to play and listen to each one of them (except Ravel) many many years ago when I was a kid and so I immediately recognized all the quirks (?) these composers have even though I never really studied them in depth in terms of music theory. Thanks a lot for this video!

You're a classic man in a plastic world. And your playing is fantastic.

absolutely great ! very interesting to see how typical composer's phrases are called in the professional world my wish were Bach, Vivaldi and Shostakovich

wow, brilliant arrangement, brilliant playing, brilliant production

I don’t have the ability to articulate how impressive this is - so I’ll simply say thank you.

All of your interpretations are spot on! I could hear each composer's signature in each style change. My personal favorites were Beethoven and Ravel. Super impressed with your arranging skills. You took a simple song from the 1990s and created six individual masterpieces. Loved it!

@icanogar

10 ай бұрын

Agree, but Barbie Girl is anything but a "simple" song. Only such a well buildt theme allows for this display of bravura.

@aurinkotuliruusu9983

10 ай бұрын

Mein Favorit ist Schumann. Interessant wäre noch Bach gewesen.

@DanielPappasTV

10 ай бұрын

@@icanogar Well built theme, yes. But it's still a simple song. Many of the best songs ever written are simple.

That was just fantastic. I am familiar with Mozart and Beethoven so I easily recognized heir style.But I also found your descriptions helpful and explaining. Plus your magnificent skill on the piano. It was a blast. Simply wonderful.

Striking how the first style (Mozart) was the most sparkling and brilliant of them all. Mozart really created beauty like no one else! Nice work by the way. ❤

This has got to be one of the best videos of the year! The on-screen text commentary really helps highlight all the inventive ways you have adapted the Barbie Girl song to each composer's style. It also really shows how deeply familiar you are with their work and musical idiosyncrasies. It's clear that you've devoted a lot of time and effort to studying classical music, in addition to building your skills on the instruments themselves!

@cerebrummaximus3762

10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad he added the commentary. As barely even playing an instrument, I'd have never gotten in full without the commentary.

always love when composer renditions are done this way as if the composer wrote barbie themselves... it isn't just the theme slapped onto a popular piece

One of the best things I’ve ever watched, honestly. Thank you for creating 😃

this is so much fun! All the commentary with musical terms and observations just makes this extra delightful. You, sir, have an amazing talent.

This is SO BIZARRELY GOOD it's scary. Congratulations, my man. This is legendary.

I fully expected a mashup of Barbie Girl with Rondo Alla Turca and Moonlight mvt. 1, which is what these sorts of videos usually do, and instead got actual variations on the theme of Barbie Girl in the style of different composers, as advertised. Well done.

@sparklingmarxist6688

9 ай бұрын

Yet the rondo alla Turka was prominently featured. Well done indeed

@alyssaskier2656

9 ай бұрын

@@sparklingmarxist6688 Only in the sense that the verse section of Barbie Girl - see kzread.info/dash/bejne/jK2c1Luio5iWaaQ.html - sounds kind of like the A major section of the rondo, so ... sure, he used a somewhat similar scoring. But it's always actually a setting of Barbie Girl, not a mashup.

@thexalon

9 ай бұрын

And the Beethoven version drew heavily on the Pathetique.

I’ve seen the project a number of times and it delights me every watch!

This was so entertaining and exceptionally well done! Thank you!

This is unironically way better than the original. You also really nailed the styles in my opinion.

This is INCREDIBLE. Your composition and performance (and editing) skills are off the charts.

This is the best thing I have seen on youtube EVER. Hysterical and also beautifully done musically.

Absolutely magnificent, one of the best performances I have heard, combines not only expertise in piano and in the styles of all the musicians involved, but also a very fine humour with much good taste, which is rather uncommon. Congratulations.

It’s the written commentary throughout that brings the joy along with the virtuosity. “Unending modulation” and “incoming tendinitis” cracked me up. Brilliant on every level.

The Ravel was amazing! I can't express into words how much I loved the reference to the Rigaudon at 5:19 (which is one of the most beautiful passages of the movement and a personal favourite), and you captured the tenderness of much of his music in the "cute music box character" passage, previous to the one I pointed. It reminded me the beginning of the 4th movement of his trio and the celesta on both the aria of 'la tasse' in "l'Enfant et les sortilèges" and the very blatant music box moment in the introduction of "L'Heure Espagnole" in character. Great work, and thank you for sharing!

Astounding! Ingenious! I'd love to see/hear more! Congrats! I am in awe of your flair G Ire

So much talent and skill in a single video!! Mad respect

Really had me at "flamboyant modulation that goes nowhere" ^^

Dude is a cellist and can play the piano on such a high level? That's insane! On top of the that, you did the entire production of this video....damn! You are super talented and I hope your channel keeps growing. Since you're into film production and AI, how about filming yourself playing both parts of a work for Cello and Piano and then making it look like it was done simultaneously?

@Marcel_Audubon

10 ай бұрын

lose the dudetalk

@Daniel_Ilyich

10 ай бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubon why? To satisfy your elitist snobbery? I can assure you that my lexicon is so vast that I've forgotten more words than you'll ever know. My advice: take a chill pill....dude!

@Marcel_Audubon

10 ай бұрын

@@Daniel_Ilyich people talking about "chill pills" in 2023 have an awfully stale lexicon 🤣😂😂 regardless of you "assuring me" about how vast it is. Sorry to hear of your early onset Alzheimer's... all those forgotten words from your vast lexicon!, so, so sad. It appears it's everything post c. 1990 that you've lost coz chill pills and dudetalk are the vernacular of the past, baby!

It was stunning! I love it, Thank you for sharing your talents!

This is truely great what you did! I enjoyed every second of it. Looking forward to your next coup, Josep!

This is simply a masterclass for all aspirant composers (and arrangers) on how to grab a relatively simple melody and explore parallel universes on variations, voicings, rhythms, harmonies, etc., with it!!

I'll never listen to 'I'm a Barbie Girl' the same ever again. More importantly, I'll never listen to classical music the same way. Sublime ❤

@louisegogel7973

10 ай бұрын

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Wow this video is so high class I’m going to send it to all my friends. I enjoyed the music and the animations, the combination made me so happy! Thank you for putting so much work in creating it!

Wonderful. A talent and clearly a sophisticated sense of the music. Thank you. Please take on more!

Your Schuman's adaptation for this song was probably closer to him than if he played himself. Outstanding performances!

I grew up on classical music and trained classically for a few years - I'm speechless. This is spot on. Also, you play the piano "a bit"??? 🤯

@louisegogel7973

10 ай бұрын

lol, if I could play my ‘a bit’ of piano, I’d be so amazed and proud of the sounds that came out!

This is so great!! Of course and first your playing and arrangements. But the description of what is happening helps so much for understanding what happen! Thanks so much! And the editing of the video is really cool!

Oh I looooove that you explain the moves and mechanics!! Those captions are awesome … and funny 😅

Not only is this fun, but gets you more familiar with the various STYLES of the composers - what elements make their music THEIRS. As a casual listener of classical music, you get used to particular PIECES, and can often recognize unfamiliar compositions of certain composers, but maybe can't say WHY you know who wrote it. I'd love to see more - Debussy maybe, Liszt, and not sure if it would lend itself to Baroque composers, but those could be fun as well.

@trevandrea8909

6 ай бұрын

Yes!! Please do Liszt!!

Fantastic! You captured the composers' musical essence so well! ... But what about Bach, Grieg, Haydn, Händel, Vivaldi and Tschaikovskij? .. I'm greedy, I want MORE! =D

@ShinnoEli

7 ай бұрын

Yes, sequel please!! 🤣 Rachmaninoff would be excellent as well, but I'm not sure how that could be done...

@MozartAmadeus-fm5dd

7 ай бұрын

@@ShinnoEliLiszt, he should also play it

@thequietkid365

6 ай бұрын

He already wrote one for Bach

Now this video has various "levels" of hearing! It's deep, all the details are there. This is a challenge even for classical pianists, and how classical piano should be taught actually, enabling composition instead of mere "copy-paste-play".🐈beautiful

Absolutely enchanting

I love that you didn't just play it but also explained all the motives and what you were actually doing. Was really helpful to understand each famous composer! Congratulations!

Thanks for this excellent video. I hardly ever use superlatives as very few things in life are actually ever amazing or brilliant. But this is both. This is a masterpiece at every level! So clever - so well composed and performed. Love it.

@JosepCastanyerAlonso

4 ай бұрын

Hey Michael! Wow, thank you very much for this, it means a lot for me. Greetings from Stockholm, 😊/Josep CA

@00bean00

4 ай бұрын

@@JosepCastanyerAlonso Please, please do some Scarlatti variations some time! (Since he has so many varied styles and techniques)

Just fantastic, all of it! Have been coming back since the day i saw it for the first time!

I'm SOOOOO impressed with the skill involved in the making of this video!! From seeing the chords listed during play, to watching the skilled playing, to reading the amusing comments, to the clever video - and most of all - to hearing the distinctive differences between the styles! Thank you for the demonstration!