Thalberg Fantasia on 'God Save the Queen' Op 27

[@realezabritanica]

Brilliant! And.. What a surprise to listen "Rule Britannia" in the end! WHAT AN AMAZING VIDEO!!!

[@Gydinglight12]

in the 60s movie about Liszt Song Without End Thalberg was ready to play to an empty theatre in Paris one night and was told that Liszt was playing down the street. So Thal said Lets got hear him, and walked down the street to join the house packed for Franz L.

[@Sherlock_Violin]

I think this is probably my favourite of the variations done of this piece! I'm doing my own currently for two violins and I feel like I need to pay homage to this in some way...

[@joshroberts4281]

So few people in our day can even play this music and I include myself in that designation, nor could compose such a work as this. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Jtking3000]

8:20 - 9:05 is just fantastic.

[@diapasonabsolu]

Vous avez parfaitement raison, il s'agit d'un passage tout-à-fait génial !

[@Liszthesis]

god save the queen!!!!

[@AEPMUSlC]

@@Liszthesis god shave the queen

[@goldberg72]

True

[@goldberg72]

Tutto bello

[@Liszthesis]

8:44 holy moly

[@Liszthesis]

@@russellsteapot4997 lol

[@diapasonabsolu]

Dire que Thalberg était génial revient à affirmer une vérité évidente par elle-même ! c'est-a-dire un axiome .

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo bravo bravo bravo super brilliance fantastic grandiose music

[@AcusticRock13]

Thalberg is quite well known and revered, but not nearly to the extent of his contemporaries. He represented a style of music that was in no way progressive, while Franz Liszt was making leaps and bounds. Thalberg's music pleased audiences at the time, but he certainly has not entered the musical canon the way Liszt or Chopin have. It appears that 1984ekul may be informed after all.

[@isaacroachford-gould9349]

I always felt A Flat Major was one of the best keys. It has a majestic quality that befits a song such as God Save the Queen.

[@laertesdd]

Do different keys really sound different? Here's the answer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJTCfZh_jdetd80

[@mouf725]

@@laertesdd Great video, was actually my first introduction to Adam Neely's awesome channel

[@laertesdd]

@@mouf725 Happy to hear that 🙂

[@z.a.4801]

Obviously different keys sound different, it's literally different notes...

[@laertesdd]

@@z.a.4801 No. They don't. Only relative to each other. But there is no unique sound of any key. It's all relative.

[@KreeHhf]

classical Music is not to be compared. Each was made to suit an individual.

[@gale5393]

tbh I love fantasia. it's a very lovely video and the soundtracks are amazin.

[@Will170392]

This is one of the most bizarre and hilarious pieces of music I have EVER heard in my life!!!!!!!!

[@musiclover148]

Wishing that this had given the date of composition. The music gets more fun when "Rule Brittania" comes in - maybe he should have based his piece on that. Was this written for a British tour or was he just hoping to sell sheet music to the English? Otherwise, why would he become so gung-ho for the British monarchy?

[@gislim]

Hmm, the end is quite similar to the end of Beethoven's sonata op. 110, also in Ab major.

[@diapasonabsolu]

Quel est donc le nom de ce pianiste extraordinaire qui joue ? Merci !

[@Curocko]

8:44, I never really understood why people called it the "three hands" effect until that LOL

[@MEpianist]

Seems like an artifact of an older time, of piano virtuousi. I'm not sure I would have missedit.

[@musiclover148]

I like the section starting at about 10:40 or at least the first part of it. Too bad he didn't do more in that vein. Anyway, it's interesting to hear real-life examples of what we've always read about Thalberg, ie., his use of the melody in the middle of the piano with terraces of sound above and below it.

[@musiclover148]

(Speaking of different places in the music.)

[@draco4569]

What you speak of is called the 3-hand effect. It's played with 2 hands, but gives off the aural illusion that 3 hands are playing at once. It's very beautiful when done right, but sections that utilize the 3-hand effect are often difficult.

[@giovannismartini479]

The original piece is not the British National Anthem but "Dieu sauve le Roy" or God save the king, the former French sacred national anthem

[@alexandergrant2420]

No, absolutely incorrect.

[@giovannismartini479]

@@alexandergrant2420 yes. Absolutely correct.

[@alexandergrant2420]

@@giovannismartini479 I should elaborate- the tune is derived from an English plain song chant that developed into a modal folk tune, which was in turn adapted in the 18th C into the current version. The clam I think you are making originates from one French musicologist in the 19th C, and it is just a hoax.

[@arturozeballos1]

interpreta STEVEN MAYER, pianist

[@adrianzamora3541]

Chopin es el romanticismo mismo; el poema y no la pirotecnia es lo importante. Lizst es un seguidor de romanticismo, lo siguió sin ser un romantico puro. Thalberg fue un virtuoso con una extraordinaria educación, pero que no entendió el romanticismo.

[@d3sired]

Learn history and don't bark your ignorance as if it had any truth at all. Thalberg became a very rich man because of how good his music was and how well it was received in the world. Not only did he play in Europe, but he even travelled to America, that's how much his music was worshipped. He hasn't disappeared either, he is well known compared to many other composers. Although he is not as famous as Liszt because of the vast amount of imitators he had, which eventually overshadowed Thalberg.

[@christianwouters6764]

I feel pity for the piano after such a beating.

[@Sandonrl]

A rare blend of pleasant and utterly ridiculous.

[@boyarvalishin9565]

A bit bitter aint'ya.

[@FluttershyOakley]

Harsh. Um...perhaps ill informed and harsh; Thalberg is quite well known and revered. I hope you're well. Xxx

[@barockmusik5443]

the whole piece sounds like silent film music... imo Beethoven has the most beautiful variation

[@EmuwuNora]

This is way better than Liszt's version.

[@d3sired]

In no way progressive? Thalberg was a massive influence at his time, so much that there were countless imitators. Rossini, Mendelssohn and several others worshipped Thalberg above Liszt. "Moscheles, Kalkbrenner, Chopin, Liszt and Herz are and will always be for me great artists, but Thalberg is the creator of a new art which I do not know how to compare to anything that existed before him ... Thalberg is not only the premier pianist of the world, he is also an extremely distinguished composer."

[@p-y8210]

Liszt only imitated the three hand effect.

[@AEPMUSlC]

Whose quote is that?

[@charliegold3227]

@@p-y8210 yes Thalberg is Great, but Liszt made the way for the impressionistic music by using atonal tones.

[@willemmusik2010]

@@AEPMUSlC Berlioz

[@AEPMUSlC]

@@willemmusik2010 dankie bro

[@mckernan603]

Is 13:33 a reference to something?

[@JramLisztfan]

The last few minutes has material from Rule Britannia but idk

[@fyrexianoff]

@havenotname Sorry, i am not sure.

[@calatria2949]

Who's the pianist?

[@SepKeyhani]

+calatria2949 Steven Mayer (?) I'm not sure.

[@achoacho46]

you know it Liszt's version is transcription, and it is free fantazy.

[@alexandreblanc9294]

Rival of Liszt for moving fingers, but not for composing...😕

[@RedZed1974]

Seems more forced than his opera transcriptions. Still GD impressive...

[@oahola237]

I am not deeply moved by this. To his own.

[@Seleuce]

I had a hard time hearing any structure in this, really. I want to like it, but...

[@davorsaric8041]

Showing off.

[@Manx123]

Much better than Liszt's but both fantasias are fairly mediocre.

[@FluttershyOakley]

Thalberg may not have pushed music onwards, but is that what being a good composer is? I don't know...um...perhaps we simply have different notions behind what constitutes an "awful piece". I just struggle to buy the argument that all good composers are remembered...I hate to seem so confrontational, just look at Alkan, Roslavets, many others...I'm just not 100% convinced that Liszt or Chopin can compare...but that *is* only my opinion, of course.

[@lunchmind]

Thalberg was certianly an excellent pianist but not the visionary that Chopn or Liszt was.

[@lunchmind]

He was proabaly a better composerthan he was given credit for but I would not say, a genius. I'm glad he made his mark in history.

[@robertcook7429]

You forget Alkan. How can you preach Thalberg and forget Alkan? Thalberg has some great contributions, however I feel ranking these 4 people just degrades them.

[@lunchmind]

to be sure.

[@1984ekul]

Terrific pianism, but talk about an awful piece. There's no thematic development whatsoever. Some composers got sucked into the vacuum of history for a good reason...

[@funicon3689]

dreadful