Pekka Kuusisto’s hilarious Proms encore - My Darling Is Beautiful

[@heidihamalainen]

For Laura Samuel, thank you for your music and humour. ❤ May you rest in peace. 3:07

[@Juanillo7100]

I met Pekka in Cartagena several years ago and he's a great connoisseur and even better person.

[@Motty1066]

I remember when he came and played with us at the Philharmonia. He was dynamite. He used to play with a bow which had black hair on it, usually reserved for double bass bows. He also introduced some of us to some Finnish death metal which was a revelation...

[@annderrs5159]

Pekka is not just a brilliant player, he is an artist :)

[@cesteres]

Best live musican I've experienced

[@phallberg]

Did he say anything about this symphonic metal piece where he featured: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d16nm6tsnr9qZsk

[@venla5375]

@@phallberg O_O Whyyyy I didn't know this?! Shame...

[@jairuki007]

Thank you Pekka!😊

[@robin-hr9up]

A good Finnish to the concert.

[@stranraerwal]

Nice !

[@TikiStanford]

Wow.🤦🏻‍♀️

[@PandaAndFazer]

This makes me proud to be a Finn.

[@soavemusica]

Kuusisto celebrates bad taste. Please, see Batiashvili playing the Finnish "Evening Song". That is true music.

[@MissTschukki]

he's hilarious, LOVE HIM!!!!!

[@Gibbetoo]

yes he is, this is how you transfer music all the others.

[@Gibbetoo]

trhee times :D

[@curaticac5391]

What an entertainer! Delightful.

[@lorenzohuamanchay7390]

Cool folk song from Beautiful Karelia. Admire her pristine lakes, berries, vast forests and sauna. Thank you Pekka.

[@GiacoC]

I've witnessed visual sensation from concert of Peter Gabriel, guitar precision and royalty of Eric Clapton, the boss show with hearth no one can replicate like Bruce Springsteen, energy of longtime runners from oldschool at 40 thousand stadium with Toto... But God I'd give anything to be part of this shows on Proms :D

[@JaakkoLahtinen]

LYRICS: KULLAN YLISTYS 1. Minun kultani kaunis on, vaikk’ on kaitaluinen, minun kultani kaunis on, vaikk’ on kaitaluinen. Hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on kaitaluinen, hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on kaitaluinen. 2. Silmät sill’ on siniset, vaikk’ on kieronlaiset, silmät sill’ on siniset, vaikk’ on kieronlaiset. Hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on kieronlaiset, hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on kieronlaiset. 3. Suu on sillä supukka, vaikk’ on toista syltä, suu on sillä supukka, vaikk’ on toista syltä. Hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on toista syltä, hei luulia illalla, vaikk’ on toista syltä. 4. Kun minä vien sen markkinoille, niin hevosetkin nauraa, kun minä vien sen markkinoille, niin hevosetkin nauraa. Hei luulia hah hah haa, hevosetkin nauraa, hei luulia hah hah haa, hevosetkin nauraa.

[@abacab54321]

Niin minä neitoset teille laulan, kuin omille... whats all the frowning?

[@annqml]

Kiitti :-)

[@isayousay]

Kiitti! Kaiken muun tajusin paitsi ton "syltä"-sanan, onneksi on google ja wikipedia. 1 virsta = 1/10 peninkulmaa = 600 syltä = 3 600 jalkaa = 1068,8 m fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanhat_suomalaiset_mittayksik%C3%B6t

[@valtterivuorinen9413]

abacab54321 Mikä vitun kipsakas

[@timomastosalo]

@@isayousay syli, syltä - niinku tuli, tulta

[@Opuskrokus]

Now that's an encore!

[@samirantanen707]

2 days ago we celebrate 100 years of Russian independence from Finland!

[@j-es4868]

Yes, I'm sure it is.

[@MrAatami]

*6.12.1917:* Finland got quite small, used to have like 10 time zones.

[@henriikkak2091]

Depending on the point of view, of course :D

[@dawidlaszuk]

Someone should make a choir of thousand people. Sounds great!

[@pauljmorton]

Is 10,000 enough? Here's Beethoven's 9th symphony with that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmfWZ4yBobmjnNk

[@timomastosalo]

He just did :)

[@dalangie]

I have a CD with a 10.000 male choir from South Africa.

[@annderrs5159]

Anne Wilson is correct. Our Southern neighbour´s song festivals are HUGE and I envy them! :)

[@annderrs5159]

Paul, you must be American? Any European would notice those tiny pronunciation errors... It sounded great though... :)

[@pauldelcour]

Brilliant! Wish I was there...

[@annderrs5159]

Oh Pekka! Brilliant!! :D

[@Pienimusta]

This is brilliant.

[@bobcherrypie5436]

Pekka is awesome

Oramo is such a great and gracious conductor. I had the pleasure of singing Erik Bergman's Rubaiyat Op.41 as part of the choir some years ago under his direction.

[@waltertheus3467]

I just heard about this on NPR. He's quite the entertainer.

[@eevacoleman2078]

Brilliant! Made my day.

[@arcana830]

How refreshing to hear a genuine folk tune and not. Bach partita for an encore

[@shengzhiguocello]

Almost exactly 4 and half min. Wow

[@coro35]

Amazing talent

[@janmuters3238]

Geweldig!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Dzonrid]

Pekka is dynamite!

[@719559]

loves finnish folk...

[@PeterPan-hw3ev]

Thank you this was great !!!!!

[@iipihiipi]

Loved it. Kiitos Pekka, ihan huippua. :D

[@ritvakoivu6153]

Iiris Paavisto 6

[@sacrilegioussasquatch]

Iiris Paavisto the finnish equivalent of thank you kanye, very cool

[@sariannedavidsson6597]

oh what fun ! kiitos niin paljon

[@kikka6051]

watch Pekka & Jaakko Kuusisto - 7 seinähullua veljestä... this man was amazing already as a little child.

[@HarriHautaniemi]

he's great.

[@e.sjolund4011]

This wonderful human and excellent musician! ❤😂 R.I.P 💔

[@marit1901]

What do you mean, RIP? He is alive!

[@thetrianglewaffle]

this is so awesome

[@henrikpettersson2886]

Hes great

[@janetozer6289]

Jane Tozer - I love Finland

[@moty6369]

social finn... iluminati confirmed

[@timomastosalo]

No - just rare species :)

[@bernardfuller8179]

St john of the cross

[@staffanolofsson8201]

After hearing this: Sorry that Sweden had its brexit from Finland already 1809!

[@SanoAnniVaan]

Swexit

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@SanoAnniVaan Yes Swexit, when Finland 1809 decided to go to Russia. Luckily they 1917 came to better thoughts and decided to be a free country. Finland has always gone its own ways, quite independent of the rest of the world. As we can hear in this song :-)

[@SanoAnniVaan]

@@staffanolofsson8201 Thank you for the free history lesson but I'm Finnish and as per my opinion every Fin should know our history, except lots of it has either not been documented or it has been tampered on history books.

[@SanoAnniVaan]

@Finnic Patriot Question is in this case, why isn't it popularized?

[@SanoAnniVaan]

@Finnic Patriot TLDR: People are sheep nowadays and have to be told what to think by media.😑

[@MrBergakungen]

Love From Svea rike

[@juken1242]

Brilliant

[@roriccunningham348]

I believe this is the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

[@YTantirungrotechai]

excellent!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Pekka Kuusisto’s hilarious Proms encore - My Darling Is Beautiful 16.7.23 2010pm he's conducting now..... at the proms. switch on to the BBC....BBC4. and just as he struck up the orchestra it decided to piss it down - very hefty rain it is. nice.

[@Hautalamargitk]

Wonderful

[@jimraynor3767]

I member seeing you live! 2007 or something. Hartwall Areena, The Siren.

[@timomastosalo]

Here's the same in KZbin made as a Western song with banjo. Lännen Jukka - Piupali paupali ('Western Jock - Pewpally Powpally')

[@jukkapeltomaa6261]

Very funny and right!!

[@tony6896]

Pekka played with Nightwish in Hartwall arena 2012.

[@Radaep1]

Oh Yeah !!!

[@jensmillgard]

Pekka rules

[@yorkaturr]

His mannerisms remind me of Devin Townsend

[@kuulesnyt2524]

Ah yes. The accent.

[@BalbirSingh-gr2qk]

👍👍👍👍

[@abcdecghijklmn]

Focking hell PEKKA!!!😀😁😂💪✌🤘👌👍👏

[@thebasisti2482]

Mandatory reference to Finland :D Just like Renny Harlin :D

[@Lumperi65]

Hei juu ja illalla!

[@ilesalmo7724]

If Russian Empire is a continuation of Bysantine and the province of Finland was the last area which surrendered to USSR: then Finland was the last province of Ancient Rome

[@seetaami5810]

Never part of the USSR, though. So we quite decidedly kicked ourselves out of the grand Roman civilization.

[@Avaarues]

Never was Finland part of the USSR, although it wasn't Stalin's fault for not trying 😎

[@SamuelMTA_]

Ancient Rome was a province of Finland

[@6pakki]

Fu*k. That was fun.

[@johnallcock8936]

wow

[@Lumperi65]

Its mean: Hi! and the evening (in english)

[@riittatoiviainen2681]

🤩😂🤣

[@tuuppas]

Hyvä )

[@charlessmith6917]

How he trained that principal violinist to play slightly out of tune and with no vibrato is simply astounding.

[@user-sd4dd4pn4s]

It was a unison double stop, meaning one string was open with the same note being fingered on another. This produces both that out-of-tune sound as you can hear very clearly the differences in intonation between the fingered note and the open and the no-vib because you can't use vibrato on an open string. It's a lovely fiddling technique, not used often enough in classical music. It sounds particularly good on a Hardanger fiddle.

[@moirbasso7051]

Bare bra! Thanks. I couldn't believe the question. It's fiddling. just fiddling.

[@henriikkak2091]

Hei luulia illalla / hevosetkin nauraa

[@mimosataipale392]

suomi mainittu TORILLE!!

[@timomastosalo]

Well, Pekka, actually her eyes are cross-eyed - not looking in the opposite directions (is there one word for that), but looking for each other. And with a mouth over a fathom, it's a nice contrast. ...or at least enjoyable, witnessed the horses, too.

[@seetaami5810]

Even if the sightlines cross each other, the individual eyes still look in 'opposite' directions. Well, definitely less than 180 degrees apart, but still quite opposite considering the positioning and purpose of human eyes.

[@420segg]

ei paremmin ois voinu mennä

[@PIPE3GUTI]

Qué droga utiliza?

[@eliasshaw3753]

Who told me that Finns are shy and not funny...

[@gyorgykadar7890]

Taneli, jos saan ehdottaa. Olet lahjakas älä mene halpaan äläkä ala pelleillä. Ehkä voisit lukea vähän lisää taideteoriaa. György

[@arturofuturo]

Sounds like röntyskä :-)

[@siisihqdaa]

Why does his English sound like half Finn half Swede talking at some points?

[@mikrokupu]

Swedish is the 2nd official language in Finland ,)

[@siisihqdaa]

​@@mikrokupu People who speak Finnish-Swedish pronounce Swedish and English the same as Finnish people. He might sound like that if he has spoken a lot of Swedish before he has learn't to speak English.

[@SamuelMTA_]

I'm a finn and I fake a swedish accent sometimes just because it makes it more natural/easier for me, for some reason

[@mikewalsh6168]

Russia could be part of Finland again if Putin keeps up his disastrous campaign

[@aintnonerd]

So people payed an entrance fee for this?

[@Metalmara]

This is the encore

[@Akmay-]

I mean, Kuusisto /is/ god-tier + comic timing even in another language. Panache, articulation, control -- bloody overachiever's got it all! 16.7.23 -- looks like fans outnumber detractors -- dude's back this year conducting, with Ale Carr on cittern -- "Like a Four Seasons mixtape" they're saying. That was...mad-brilliant.

[@AndrewSkinburn]

But he has a bakteria fobia, that´s what I´ve heard.

[@tapioturja6179]

So?

[@da96103]

Too much Finnish cheerfulness, time to cancel those out with Finlandia.

[@marcuscarrington3688]

Hilarious? 😑

[@Akmay-]

[At Marcus] Interesting...I thought the delivery was flawless, so was it the lyrics that were un-funny? I guess in the context of women getting judged on looks alone, over and over throughout history, 'haha, she's ugly af' might wear a bit thin...? [Edited for clarity]

[@seetaami5810]

@@Akmay- So we should go further censoring our national heritage -- even knowledge of it, perhaps? Get rid of any humorous folk songs and tales possibly poking fun of female characters? Please, don't be that kind of a person. That rabbit hole is sore enough. No civilized person would ever feign taking offence from this ancient folk song.

[@Akmay-]

@@seetaami5810 Nah, that's not what /I'M/ saying, I was replying to someone else who didn't seem to find it amusing at all, so I was trying think what could possibly be un-funny about it :)