Allen Vizzutti performs The Carnival of Venus at the 2012 National Trumpet Competition at George Mason University
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@canadianbacon27116 жыл бұрын
Now that he's warmed up
@BillSmith-rx9rm4 жыл бұрын
I haven’t noticed any comments about the variation he played starting at about 6:28. He is playing the theme in both the lower and upper octaves. Normally this song is played with the last variation having the theme being heard in one octave. However he is doubling the theme in two different octaves and is the most incredible thing I have ever heard. I have been a trumpeter for 50 years and have never heard anything like this before. I have heard the carnival of Venice and many arrangements and variations of it, but this double octave stunt playing, I don’t know if anyone else can duplicate it. I bow to the master.
@C.B23 жыл бұрын
Holy shit
@immortalmecha87703 жыл бұрын
Honestly incredible. I can’t really comprehend what’s actually going on, it’s like sixteenth notes an octave apart of the theme? I don’t know.
@fizztrumpet14963 жыл бұрын
There will never be another player like him.
@devonchristopher58372 жыл бұрын
Never thought I would see staggered octaves on trumpet.
@BillSmith-rx9rm2 жыл бұрын
@@immortalmecha8770 Those aren't 16th notes. They're 64th notes!!! Seriously. Look up the sheet music sometime.
@alonshofar12 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard Mr. Vizzutti play Live He played this piece and handed out copies of the trumpet part to most of the audience members, He then proceed it to play this virtuosic work with NO FLAWS (musically or technically) this was more than 15 years ago and I have never heard anything smilar.
@TheSproutarian Жыл бұрын
look up Gary Curtin Euphonium and you'll hear him playing this piece. He had a quick look at it for the first time over lunch and played it almost perfect. Plays the high notes better than Allen too.
@ghp7382 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSproutariantook a look. Not 1 millionth as impressive
@sebastianograsselli8 ай бұрын
can you pass me the score?
@Marduk-np5gq7 ай бұрын
in my tiny experience of trumpet i think this ws for sure an off day for him but still great playing i could never! (atleast now)
@G83X4 ай бұрын
@@Marduk-np5gq nah he was quite sick here. There's a studio recording you can find of him playing this and it's absurd.
@Pixelpie4204 жыл бұрын
I played with him tonight and he signed my trumpet
@Pixelpie4204 жыл бұрын
Pi r Cubed no cap
@marksnschwartz71904 жыл бұрын
Allen is gifted with an amazing sense of humor, as well as endless musical talents, honed to a level virtually without peer. The Carnival of Venice is challenging enough that professionals have to practice it, even after years of performing it. When you add insane octave jumps, range demands few can match, and embellishments that only Allen can accomplish with such dexterity and musicality. Of course, it is meant as a parody of the Carnival of Venice. It is not meant to be performed perfectly. It is meant to be fun and astonishing. It succeeds!
@BJisALIVE8 жыл бұрын
6 years later and people don't understand this piece is basically a parody/joke.
@cam65377 жыл бұрын
Jordan Mitchell wdym a parody?
@gertnood7 жыл бұрын
He built his own mountain, and climbs it because it is there. The piece is a compendium of the amazing pyrotechnics he is capable of, and I bet he would say it is feat of bravado to play it live and whatever happens will be fun, so why not? That's the way I see it. Got to play with him once and had a private session.. he's the real deal and a wonderful guy.
@gertnood7 жыл бұрын
His wife is a killer piano player too, and might I say with all due respect "rather attractive".
@rickbourdier14087 жыл бұрын
The purely objective and incontrovertible reality is that she's beautiful. She looks like a princess. It's debatable whether any guy is every really worthy, buhahahaaaaa,. Allen seems like such a good guy in the many videos I've seen, and is such an absolute monster of a player and musician, so she probably deems him worthy.
@jeantaylor23087 жыл бұрын
Jordan Mitchell Well, this guy is a clown, that is for sure.
@FreakoftheArts7312 жыл бұрын
What a classy guy. Not once does he take the spotlight to himself. He bows WITH his accompanist at the end, steps to the side of the stage and claps for her, and then - once again - bows with her. As if she were the featured soloist and he were the accompanist. No wonder he's such a master at his craft.
@svenax2 жыл бұрын
He'd better, since the accompanist is his wife. 🙂
@thomassicard37332 жыл бұрын
Yeah, svenax... and whether or not she is/was his wife... She did a PERFECT job accompanying. Try it sometime.
@anniesamuel4787 Жыл бұрын
I feel like this essentially is a sonata because she has so much time playing parts on her own. In that case, it is musician common courtesy to bow together because you are equal...or at least that is what they taught us to do at Sydney Conservatorium.
@calebadeleye Жыл бұрын
@@svenax Oh so that is his wife, no wonder..there is so much chemistry in the performance
@djfatman6324 Жыл бұрын
If you ever see him live he always mentions on every song that it is a duet more than it is an accompaniment. So he always shows the pianist off
@samzheng58034 жыл бұрын
I come from Twoset video. This man is very good at making the trumpet sound amazeballs.
@gh0stGD4 жыл бұрын
What video
@trenchiano4 жыл бұрын
@@gh0stGD "The Paganini of Every Instrument" i think
@Mster_J2 жыл бұрын
Y’all need to check out Adolph Herseth
@AshtynBloese4 ай бұрын
I’m going to give Laura five stars for her piano playing. She is awesome.
@katiekilgore69188 жыл бұрын
I'm currently in the middle of my fourth semester as a trumpet major in college, and it is my dream to be able to play that effortlessly across such a wide range like that. That blew my mind, even with the imperfections in his playing. That made it more realistic in my ears. :-)
@ryangreen93788 жыл бұрын
+Katie K Best of luck
@katiekilgore69188 жыл бұрын
+Ryan Green (SSM) Thanks. :)
@6ftcheeseburger3843 жыл бұрын
its not "imperfections" on trumpet, its call accidental improve
@65strad3 жыл бұрын
Yes, he is a monster. Lovely pianist
@ftn55468 ай бұрын
I have no idea how Mr. and Mrs. Vizzutti kept straight faces through this. Brilliant comedy, brilliant showmanship, and brilliant technical playing on both parts.
@nedferris39336 жыл бұрын
He wrote me a letter as part of my Eagle Scout achievement when asked. Incredible. Kept the love of music in my heart when I thought all was lost
@canadianbacon27116 жыл бұрын
My parents haven't even conceived me and I play this for warm up at 69 beats per microsecond
@egg92066 жыл бұрын
I'm going to think about this every day for the rest of my life
@cAvAlEiRode5 жыл бұрын
If you can play it slowly you can play it fast. #understanders
@mistuhmiles4 жыл бұрын
Not real
@tristabrown75684 жыл бұрын
Vinícius Santos I am here
@johndixont74294 жыл бұрын
Wesley King size k
@wythetrumpet64196 жыл бұрын
Allen is incredible, I don't know how he does it, I just accept the fact he can! Certainly one of the finest trumpet players of our time!!!
@saxunltd Жыл бұрын
I met Allen several years ago when he was on the faculty at University of Washington. We were at a recital of one of his students. I introduced myself and he invited me to sit with him as we were both there by ourselves. He was so kind to me, and to his student! And he has a great sense of humor! At the end of the recital I felt like I'd known him for many years! Natural, easy going and such a nice fellow! Amazing virtuoso, too!
@marksnschwartz71902 жыл бұрын
Allen and Laura regularly blow away the rest of us mere mortals with virtuosity bordering on the impossible. If it were just fast fingers; or extreme ends of the trumpet range; or his impeccable tone; or his impossible multiple tonguing technique; or his bebop phrasing that is precise enough to fit in with a classical performance; or Flexibility between and among the various registers - any one of those skills would be astonishing and worthy of a complete drop of our collective jaws. That Allen combines them all in a cohesive and impossibly sublime whole is ridiculous. That he and his beautiful wife, Laura, make that entire performance thoroughly musical and not just an egotistical display makes what they so uniquely do worthy of careful study and a commitment to live in the woodshed for - oh, about a decade! Goodness, what an inspiration Allen is!
@bd1845 Жыл бұрын
I’ve had the CD of this for years and thought it was bonkers impossible to record. seeing him play it live is just astonishing.
@El_Bueno3 ай бұрын
Flawless arpeggios… monster player. Love it.
@safetysizzerz35307 жыл бұрын
The most intense Carnival of Venice Variation ever
@GeorgeRawlintrumpet11 жыл бұрын
I'd love to love to hear more of these honest performances than hear all the overdubbed, EQ'd and autotuned. These guys have class (Doc and Allen) to put it all out there day after day with humility. I'm impressed!
@PuertoricanPatriot19 жыл бұрын
What an amazing pianist as well as trumpet player. Wonderful performance.
@paigedmunck83247 жыл бұрын
Both of them living legends - I had the life changing pleasure of hosting them back in 2010 - there is no trumpeter in the world that can play like this.
@Goodfood717 Жыл бұрын
This man was always a gentleman, very glad to know him and his kids.
@wernertrptube10 жыл бұрын
Carnivore of Mars.
@BillSmith-rx9rm4 жыл бұрын
Ha Ha! I get what you're saying. It's out of this world!
@braylee.bassoon. Жыл бұрын
he played this BY MEMORY last week at the wtamu band camp along with 12 other pieces throughout the week also by memory
@waltband91006 жыл бұрын
I have been out of things for a few years -- his performance of this on CD has astounded me for years -- this is the first time I have seen him perform it -- what guts it takes to play this in public - things like this on You Tube are the very best thing about it -- this may not be an uuhhh perfect performance but SO WHAT -- It is a truly most amazing thing! WOWOWOW!
@jandpsdad11 жыл бұрын
Seems like you've never seen/heard him in concert. I'm sure you would have the exact opposite reaction. Gracious, professional, articulate, humble, expert showmen and player.
@MonkeyFocker-v3z16 күн бұрын
Vizzuti is beyond mastery level, virtuoso is the only description close to appropriate. The accompanists are great in their own right. Every music school I attended had someone who accompanied every recital an they were always incredible. One rehearsal or less and bam perfect accompaniment.
@MrOptomai4 жыл бұрын
Allen is a total treat. Both as a human and one of the best players around. The pianist is cute and plays well!!!🎼🎶🎵🎺🎺♥️♥️
@bachstrad199411 жыл бұрын
I love this dude, he's such a relaxed teacher. Going to be really sad after this semester when he leaves. Love my lessons with him
@joshuastegall6186 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal player! Hearing him live was a jaw-dropping experience...SO SO SO much color and excitement in his sound. When he plays the whole room is filled with a palpable, almost electric, energy. And, of course, has unbelievable control of his instrument! And makes it look easy!
@CHICHI-vn9kd6 ай бұрын
He makes hard stuff looks easy. Tribute to Mr. Allen Vizzutti for effortless playing 🎉
@samscott543 жыл бұрын
amazing embouchure - crazy and lots of fun
@user-js9vp3dn4m8 жыл бұрын
Это исполнение просто фантастика! Такой техники за всю жизнь можно не достигнуть! Браво! Крепкого Вам здоровья и дальнейших творческих побед!
@maxtrumpet79344 жыл бұрын
Очень талантлив, но это не музыка, а самолюбование
@MrDrewball12347 жыл бұрын
I'm 4 years old and I can play this an octave up at double speed. This guy needs to take more lessons.
@nistorrdavid5 жыл бұрын
Aha , sure
@nistorrdavid5 жыл бұрын
You can shut up .
@hugothompson3379 Жыл бұрын
Funny 😁
@crefmag4 ай бұрын
I play this on a bugle using just bending to get the notes
@sammy28407 жыл бұрын
Was a trumpet major in college. Never had the chops this guy has! Effortless! Wow!
@shalom.27x4 жыл бұрын
I love this so much
@thomassicard37332 жыл бұрын
So wonderfully transformed.
@jdrom55226 жыл бұрын
This piece is extremely difficult..Public play equals monster Player!!That what he is!!!Well done!!!!I’ve only heard this piece on his CD!!Now in public Well done Allen!
@BJ-bd5fc3 жыл бұрын
He performed the real version of this piece in the early 90s at Eastern Arizona College, and it was flawless. It makes this version (20 years later) that much more awesome! LOL...
@garywatson2964 Жыл бұрын
OK, so I am a trombonist who can also play the baritone horn. I cannot understand how anyone can play Carnival of Venice on any instrument. My favorite has always been Rafael Mendez. But this version is great. Allen's performance was great. But what impressed me the most was the pianist accompanianist. Most people do not realize how important the accompianist is, but I do. If this woman would accompany me, I just might get out my long unplayed classic 1955 Conn 70H trombone. I think that it was way back in 1958 when I won the best trombonist and the best brass player in the three states contest of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. Well, I had an excellent accompianist. Would you believe, I got lost and had to repeat part of my difficult piece. My accompianist followed, and I won two Blue ribbons. I then proceeded to go through 4 years of engineering school on a music scholaship. I would like to meet Allen, but I would love to meet the pianist. My stepdaughter in law in law is a good pianist and a piano teacher, but the accompianist in this recording has no equal.
@gw63797 жыл бұрын
我以为只能在mp3里听,没想到能看见,太震撼了!amazing!!!
@brackenan4 жыл бұрын
My girlfriend studied trumpet under Vizzutti for a bit. She says he was so much fun and even complimented her on her tone.
@TrumpetManinNC4 жыл бұрын
Funny, talented, hard-working, guy. An inspiration.
@natMMI5 жыл бұрын
Every. Damn. Trumpet demo. Its carnival of Venice by Arban. What I like about this piece is that it sets the bar higher by making fun of Carnival of Venice and its tendancy to be a piece people "flex" with.
@juancarloscasella9252 жыл бұрын
Es maravilloso, realmente admirable y único!!! 👏👏👏
@comicbook32511 жыл бұрын
awesome, this guy is a trumpet god
@Trololololololooo12 жыл бұрын
Allen Vizzutti was having a bad day i guess... That would explain the 10 or so notes he missed out of a song with probably over 2 thousand
@stephenkenny16474 жыл бұрын
I let him off the first nine, but how dare he split ten ;)
@calencrawford21954 жыл бұрын
This song _was_ a joke....
@reverend3414 жыл бұрын
Calen Crawford the comment was a joke...
@BillSmith-rx9rm4 жыл бұрын
Yes, he did in fact miss a few notes. However, what he did is virtually impossible for almost every other trumpet player. The interval jumping was just incredible. It doesn’t matter if it was meant to be humorous or serious, it was one hell of a performance. What other trumpet player would even consider attempting this live in front of an audience? His career speaks for itself.
@BillSmith-rx9rm4 жыл бұрын
@@TheRjjrjjr you got that right. only someone with incredible talent that has proven himself over many years can "joke around" like this. He was playing it for fun. It wasn't like he was in a solo competition.
@ernestoghersi46897 жыл бұрын
maestro de los maestros. sr. de la trompeta.
@dhst954011 ай бұрын
Gran Master of trumpet.
@arpdl12 жыл бұрын
Truly AMAZING!!!
@WhalerGA12 жыл бұрын
You have to recognize also that any of his own challenging songs or arrangements tend to be 9+ minutes long (just like this one). And this likely wasn't the only tune he played. That's brutal even for a world-class player. Besides that, it's not like he practices this tune on a regular basis. I imagine he's kind of moved on but everyone wants to hear it and he's glad to play it, even when he knows he'll make mistakes. You have to admire that. It his mind, it's not about him.
@silviostilinovic7 жыл бұрын
totally Fantastic!
@jamman110311 жыл бұрын
41,000 views and I think I am at least 12,000 of them are mine.
@Bento7912 жыл бұрын
This piece is so challenging!
@djclarkcant9880 Жыл бұрын
He’s the only trumpet legend I know can miss half the notes and still be a legend LOL and also..my money is on that they smashed 😂
@louspagnola629311 жыл бұрын
Heck, it takes practice to be mediocre! Allen Vizzutti is one of the finest there EVER was.
@andrewfyakim5255 жыл бұрын
These two are pure genius; he is amazing and so is she (and , very easy on the eyes! ☺)
@kaywelder3 жыл бұрын
Only Vizzutti can pull this off.
@canadianbacon27116 жыл бұрын
If it ended at 6:06, I would have cried it was so beautiful, the pompous beginning to the soft and relaxing resolution, but then I got a huge smile from the following minutes.
@sbwyo19665 жыл бұрын
Find a dictionary and look up the word pompous.
@edouardbarseghian5966 Жыл бұрын
FANTASTIQUE !!!
@louspagnola629311 жыл бұрын
...and he's 60. I mean REALLY! Allen Vizzutti is a treasure.
@stresspress14 жыл бұрын
Allen is the Arturo of cornet soloists
@bach211711 жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@calebjames95724 жыл бұрын
i never realized he played multiphonics during this piece
@stefano245212 жыл бұрын
amazing , bravo !!!
@thesecondfeliks51527 ай бұрын
Allen Vizzutti is just having loads of fun
@coolaxe-dw48407 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@davidcastillo3944 жыл бұрын
With out words.
@MyCirineo11 жыл бұрын
Excelente, la belleza es tan elegante y espectacular
@user-ss5su5gh3j5 жыл бұрын
アレンビザティーさんのテクニックは世界一です
@tim126598711 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, is when he cracks a note, people bring down the criticism hammer, yet it is written in the music.
@stephanboos94326 ай бұрын
all my love
@gentrywalker7 жыл бұрын
Is it true he wasn't feeling well during this performance?
@quinnparker61115 жыл бұрын
Gentry Walker Yes he forgot to take his meds and was confusing note octaves
@gabe.t20304 жыл бұрын
Quinn Parker I cant tell if this is a jokr
@reverend3414 жыл бұрын
Gabe.T it’s a joke. this piece is just written to be stupid difficult
@BillSmith-rx9rm4 жыл бұрын
@@quinnparker6111 HaHa! Now I understand how he did. Every time he would sneeze, he would jump an octave! It wasn't talent, it was hay fever! LOL
@jp1177110 жыл бұрын
This is great I am laughing so hard right now.
@jesusdiosdado85339 жыл бұрын
I think this is beast
@katebuelow55133 жыл бұрын
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING TO LISTEN TO THIS IS MY HOMIE
@user-fb3vd8yn5i5 ай бұрын
Amazing.
@MasterSweetz11 жыл бұрын
He's done well!!!
@gioletta67285 жыл бұрын
The best
@jachymhernych3943 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@louspagnola629311 жыл бұрын
As you said...He doesn't practice that much anymore...He does it for the the audience. Still...He is amazing...and what a beautiful cat. He wrote it...He's played it a million times...You guys do it now...GOOD LUCK! Vizzutti is prolific. This is just one thing he did to show off chops. He is amazing.
@sylviaknutcecily11 жыл бұрын
He married his accompanist. Wise man. I did the same thing!!
@eclipses10033 жыл бұрын
Josh Peterson For a second there I thought you married his accompanist… My apologies 😂
@sylviaknutcecily3 жыл бұрын
@@eclipses1003 LOL. I married my own accompanist, not his! :-)
@eclipses10033 жыл бұрын
Josh Peterson I’m able to tell that now haha Oh and congrats!!🍾
@joshmartin77255 жыл бұрын
The Vizzutti Caprice
@preachernick22265 жыл бұрын
Those intervals...
@johnwilder85174 жыл бұрын
He is not my friend. Not a big fan of his pyrotechnics. But, I have to say you should know he is a great man and trumpeter. He is one of us. Truly
@victorumrikhin99547 ай бұрын
VIRTUOSO!!!
@1111pianoman2 жыл бұрын
i always knew this song as "the carnival of venice"...
@earljones34816 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know Jan levinson played piano
@edouardbarseghian5966 Жыл бұрын
TAYFOUN DE VENIZE !!! BRAVO !!!
@traspiggi6 жыл бұрын
bravissimo.....sei un fenomeno
@patrick158010 жыл бұрын
His bad (used lightly) performance was still pretty fantastic and it just shows that he's actually human haha
@serjbondjazz11 жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@Artariastein7 жыл бұрын
Der Allen bläst dem Teufel ein Ohr ab! :-)
@rmp37694 жыл бұрын
Soul Cleansing
@adriandiosdado64299 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! I play the trumpet and thats really hard.
@chestermarcol3831Ай бұрын
I'm convinced that Vizzuti isn't human.
@Life4Sing10 жыл бұрын
Still a monster
@Trololololololooo12 жыл бұрын
I was being gratuitous with the numbers I guess haha. And you saw him perform it? How lucky! I've been looking for a live version of this song for a while... Didn't know he did it live since it's so difficult. However I'm sure all the trumpet players were crawling under their seats during this performance anyways, hahaha.