This guy is super creepy and talks like a serial killer.

What's public domain 2025?

Merry Christmas bro! Beauty cover! Sounds like Vince on the keys!

I love all of Vince's compositions, but "Christmastime is Here" holds a special place in my heart. Thank you!

Merry Christmas. 🙂

you've forced me to have a cocktail for breakfast!

delightful!

pretty!

Thanks for making this video! This is my favorite fugue as well, potentially my favorite piece full stop. I'd never noticed the perfect numerical balance of entries between the four voices and two orientations, so I really appreciated how you illustrated that. I was really excited to find another fan of this fugue. A couple more cool features I've noticed in my years of obsessing over it: Both the subject and countersubject are predominantly scalar, which not only links the two themes conceptually but also makes for especially recognizable inverted forms. The subject's ascending scale is minor, climbing in fits and starts, while the countersubject's is chromatic. The end of the subject begins to work its way back down to the tonic but doesn't quite get there, an unresolved quality which (to my ear) is grappled with in many of the episodes which seem fixated on the final gesture of the subject. It's as if the fugue keeps trying to return "home" to the tonic and undo the ascent built into the subject (the inverted subjects could be an expression of this corrective descending impulse). This is finally achieved in the last two measures, when the subject in the soprano is followed by an immensely satisfying descent to the tonic-the gap has been filled at last. There's a lot of impressive foreshadowing in the fugue which it took me years to notice. For example, the episode in m. 37 introduces the countersubject in inversion, subliminally preparing us for the ensuing inverted subject-and-countersubject. The episode in m. 62 subtly works in an important tertiary motif (first heard in m. 63 as Bb-Ab-Gb-Ab in the soprano) which then insistently repeats over and over in the bass under the stretto at 67, and recurs through the rest of the fugue both right-side-up and inverted. (I believe it may be carried over from the accompanying prelude, although it's hard to tell with so brief and generic a motif.) In mm. 74-75, the soprano's A-Bb-E-F evokes the non-inverted subject, prefiguring the return of this form of the subject at 80. The buildup to the final four-voice stretto is pretty extraordinary. Starting halfway through 89, the tenor cycles through a sort of syncopated augmented inverted countersubject, then an augmented version of the tertiary motif, then what sounds like an inverted subject entry but ends up being another augmented inverted countersubject, then finally the tertiary motif at full speed. Meanwhile, the soprano and alto pass back and forth the little turn from the end of the countersubject. It's as if every one of the little secondary and tertiary motifs that have supported the subject throughout converge to propel us into the final reconciliation of the normal and inverted subjects. None of these motifs appear again-they have done their work and have no place in the climax, which is entirely about the subject achieving its long-awaited resolution. I'm probably overthinking this somewhat, but that's what I love about Bach: that this kind of quasi-conspiratorial speculation about compositional intent and motivic relationships is actually plausible given the extent of his genius.

Might I ask if you intend to play any other french suite? The 3rd is a delightful one.

Sehr hervorragend! 👍🏼

Super geeky, super fantastic! Bravo!!!!!

Congratulations. You are Very knowledgeable and have exceptional piano skills.

thanks for this cool presentation! I found the comparison of cadenzas to authors writing prefaces to each other's books very illustrative!

Bravo

😆That was funny. Thank you!

I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved this piece. As a pianist, seeing this played in Ben’s style is something else. His style is so aggressive and ethereal that it entraps me endlessly. From the first time I saw this video about 3 months ago(when I discovered this channel), I just assumed he was some alien bc he’s so good at piano. Every time I watch this video, I always rewind certain parts without fail because it’s just done so well! This recording in particular has been weirdly calming on me for the past few months. Might’ve been one of the few things that kept me glued together enough to walk across that stage and into the real world today.

You’re hell of a pianist! This channel deserves a LOT more views!

Suddenly I have an urge, brb

Mi aspiración es llegar al nivel de como tocar el piano, parece tan simple, pero sabemos que no es simple! Admiro tu gran trabajo! Me gustan tus interpretaciones! Me llena el alma al oírte! Ojalá puedas llegar aún más lejos!

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Fabulous!!

Sir Arthur never sounded so good! Thank you for this great performance!

Thank you for this; it made my day.

Great video man! Very knowledgeable on the subject and then killed the piano!

That Godowsky tune is a fantastic example of why copyright, if it exists at all, should be much more limited in its time scope.

Kids an absolute beast 👌

It is so fitting that you have hung on your wall a photo of the emperor of film music. Awesome version!

Amazingly played, well deserved subscription!

you got the lovable type of autism homie, I love you

this was so lovely to watch! thank you for this video

Lobos' sounds PERFECT for Tom and Jerry

Cool... thanks for sharing.

I'm so glad that artists like Rachmaninoff are able benefit from their extended copywrite, even today! Afterall, the lengths of copywrites were extended to benefit the individual artists, right? right?

u let me have new background music lol bless you, after listening and taking names man I feel a bit inadequate lol wow thanks again, incredible and going to check out the list huge

Wonderful performance! Question- what size piano are you playing? And what size is the one pushed off to the side? Just curious.

I really liked your dynamics. I had feeling in last movement that you played two manual harpsichord.

This video was on my recommendeds. I know close to nothing about classical music or music history but I have quickly subscribed. I love how you share the stories behind the pieces and the artists. I thought this would be a list and a quick sample of it. It ended up being so much better 💕It is unbelievable wholesome that they would name their compositions after friends or people they admire. That is way too cute. Now I want to read a historical fiction book about queer famous pianists who are secretly in love with each other and name the same specific part of their compositions after the other. Does the other ever find out it is out of love? Do they become “best friends” or do they love from afar? I do not know. If a book like this exists, please feel free to leave recommendations 😅

Wonderful video and channel! Subscribed. I didn't even know about Medtner, thank you.

bro just give us a list

So nothing good huh?

That is an absolutely brilliant interpretation of the Italian Concerto. I've heard and listened to it hundreds of times (if only I could play it!). Meanwhile, you have a great energetic presence and mastery at the keyboard, but if you smiled a bit, it wouldn't hurt!

First time your channel gets recommended to me, and from just this one video your skill and passion for music is clear to see! Beautiful playing and super insightful how you went into the backstory for each piece! I especially loved the story about Villa-Lobos and the piece he composed for Rubinstein :^) you’ve earned yourself a new sub!! uwu

The last piece is thrilling

Bravo! I could really hear different orchestral parts in the 1st movement, I didn’t even know it could be played this way. Thank you for sharing this wonderful performance. Looking forward to watching more of it!

I really like the bright sound of that piano (and of course, I'm amazed at your playing and enjoyed the entire video so much).

This is giving “California’s Gold” vibes! But it’s Floridas gold 😄 This guy either has a very well written script or he’s going off the dome. I’m impressed regardless!! Thanks for showing us the very cool trees. I’d love to visit a mangrove forest 🙂

i already love this guys vibe, and insane skill too