Ysaÿe/Kvitko: Piano Transcription of Solo Violin Sonata No. 3 "Ballade"

[@ravenmischke8905]

Who else is getting strong Rachmaninov vibes because of the way this is arranged? Really cool by the way, thanks for sharing!

[@itamarbar9580]

I don't know how strong, but definitely Rachmaninoff.

[@rainchen7846]

I'm not familiar with rach's way of transcribing pieces, can you explain for this is rach's style?

[@ravenmischke8905]

@@rainchen7846 I'm also not familiar with Rachmaninoff's style of arranging (don't know if he did any). What I meant to say was that the way this arrangement sounds it could have been an original piece for piano by Rachmaninoff. This piano arrangements adds lots of notes (tastefully, in my opinion) like contrary motion in left and right hand, some two against three motions, and cascading arpeggio's. Not an expert at Rachmaninoff, nor at piano, but it was just my impression. :)

[@fyliao]

That “vibe” sounds more Scriabin than Rachmaninoff to me.

[@griffinhaltom8144]

@@fyliao I think that's Ysaye's composing. The extensive use of melodic chords and in general the more maximist pianism makes me think of Rachmaninoff's piano writing.

[@CalmeEtVolupte]

...now hold on one minute! Actually, being a violinist and pianist this is a great idea. It only further displays Ysaÿe's compositional variety and genius. A harmonic richness that only violinists were privy to knowing. And quite a few sections benefit from the polyphonic fleshing out that the piano affords. Bravo.

[@samialfakir3669]

CalmeEtVolupte this post was made by “I am a musician” gang

[@mawreena-]

2:07 AHHHHHHH YEEEEEES

[@johnfrank3984]

2:15 those 5 sort of echoing notes in the left hand... unghhhh. This sparks so much joy.

[@pace_18]

I've always thought that ysayes 3rd sonata was a better fit for the piano. This is a brilliant arrangement. I'm speechless

[@itamarbar9580]

Truly a piece between the ages and styles. Starting with Expressionism, then trying desperately to hold on to Late Romanticism, a brief impressionistic interlude, and then back to firmly re-establishing the piece itself in late romantic tonality.

[@wiktorialatos1157]

Also a strong Bach influence!

[@mawreena-]

Literally got goosebumps at 2:13, beautifully transcribed

[@zerois2801]

MONEY STORE PFP AAND YSAYE ENJOYER WWW

[@Bunnysinger]

Ever since I heard this piece for the first time (rendition of Vengerov), I absolutely adored it. However, I did have some trouble understanding the underlying harmony starting at 3:36. This arrangement with the added harmonies in the left hand at 3:44 makes so much sense and so beautiful, I prefer this piano arrangement over the violin one. (I am a pianist so I may be biased).

[@ScytheMeter]

Everything sounds better on piano 🤩

[@Capybara78]

Your transcription is beautiful. I always thought Ysaÿe's music as full of "chopinesque" vibes, it becomes even more obvious here. The great belgian virtuoso is too often underrated as a composer, so you do him justice here. Great work and interpretation !

[@jobterhaar]

Great playing and wonderful transcription! So interesting to hear this on piano. It underscores how unique Ysaye's language as a composer was.

[@reggiefrank]

Interestingly enough this piece was specifically written to emphasize and celebrate one of ysaye's contemporaries at the time, so maybe you should check out George Enescu too! Ysaye actually did this with with all 6 of his sonatas to pay homage to different European composers of his time and their unique sound.

[@coloraturaElise]

I completely understand what you mean about needing to play this on your instrument; I've only discovered the piece in the past month, and I keep listening and searching for someone who will play it the way I hear it! (I'm a clarinetist and opera singer.) I think your version is very successful; it works so well that it almost sounds like Ysaye really meant to write it for piano.

[@DiegoCaetanoPiano]

Where can I get the Sheet music for this? Thank you

[@maxlee5714]

Hi guys! Since nobody seems to find the piano sheets, I just asked a professional transcription service. It would cost around 68$ per minute to transcribe the whole thing. Would be amazing if we could get together and fund the whole piece. Let me know who's in! :)

[@snickydoodle4744]

@@maxlee5714 transcribe into score by ear? is that what you mean by transcribe?

[@maxlee5714]

@@snickydoodle4744 yes it's done by professional musicians

[@TheModicaLiszt]

I could do it for free using MuseScore and just typing it in.......

[@maxlee5714]

@@TheModicaLiszt that would be awesome!!!! will you do it?

[@corner559]

Wow. This piece really works well on piano. Great transcription and performance.

[@vickywesterfield288]

Awesome. I love both versions. Piano really opens it up harmonically.

[@mikekushnir3950]

That is beyond amazing, the Ysaÿe 3 sounds stunningly haunting and beautiful transcribed for piano. Congratulations, I'm buying the sheet music and hoping I have enough skills to learn it :)

[@arturtarnowski4023]

Wow, so refreshing listening to the piece I played thousands of times in this new piano version. Big thanks:)))

[@bachouvenn430]

5:30 damn those tenths

[@mikekushnir3950]

The transcription is magnificent but terrifyingly difficult. I bought the sheet music but I'm pretty sure it is beyond my abilities.

[@marialuisa0712]

Mamma mia che bella riduzione per pianoforte... complimenti davvero!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Gum_cobbler]

This is insanely good, and the superb videography actually adds to the flow and the tension of the music as you’re listening. Epic work all around👏

[@kahahabahaha]

I bought the transcription and I've been practicing it. Putting the whole thing together is probably a bit beyond my reach right now, but it's so much fun to play

[@fyliao]

I have only heard the violin original for the first time this year, as an arranger I thought I would write the piano transcription for the piece, this piece would be very fitting. Online search led me to your video (...sigh) you have already beat me to it. Brilliant arrangement!

[@johnfrank3984]

dear lord dude. Excellent work.

[@Barnaldomort]

Man please share the link to your transcription, I would love to purchase it!

[@maxlee5714]

Hi guys! Since nobody seems to find the piano sheets, I just asked a professional transcription service. It would cost around 68$ per minute to transcribe the whole thing. Would be amazing if we could get together and fund the whole piece. Let me know who's in! :)

[@varunsathya1912]

@@maxlee5714 bruh you want me to sell my house to get some fuckin paper?

[@melange28]

i cant remember if I've commented on this one already, but it just popped up and I've watched again... same reaction i recall having the first time i saw it.. wow. just wow.

[@daniellee5062]

Incredible, beautiful job!

[@marmer1038]

Please, where can I get the sheet music of this piece?? I would like to perform it. Thank you!!

[@maxlee5714]

Hi guys! Since nobody seems to find the piano sheets, I just asked a professional transcription service. It would cost around 68$ per minute to transcribe the whole thing. Would be amazing if we could get together and fund the whole piece. Let me know who's in! :)

[@notash2724]

@@maxlee5714 I'm in!

[@enochkavelin7960]

He released the sheet music!!! Check the description!!!

[@ericrouach]

Great transcription! Thanks!

[@mikebizyhd1486]

Where can I get the sheet music?

[@maxlee5714]

Hi guys! Since nobody seems to find the piano sheets, I just asked a professional transcription service. It would cost around 68$ per minute to transcribe the whole thing. Would be amazing if we could get together and fund the whole piece. Let me know who's in! :)

[@Ace-dv5ce]

MAX LEE Offer still upp?

[@mybirdsmells]

In the description, as of 2021

[@joelrw1]

Thank you for transcribing this music so effectively! I'd love to see the score, though I couldn't play it because of the stretches. If you ever decide to sell the sheet music, please let us all know! Also, for your information: the composer Ronald Stevenson transcribed all six of Ysaye's Solo Violin Sonatas for piano. The first two are on a CD played by Murray McLachlan, and can be heard on KZbin. I don't know if the sheet music is available.

[@duongnguyenngoc9160]

Is there any performance on the 3rd one?

[@voxkey]

why do the transcription? because it is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talents here. your transcription and playing are inspiring.

[@CdnArtSongPG]

Genius! and beautifully filmed as well

[@saipathak8011]

The way you played is amazing

[@rajanisinha9518]

Ysaye would be proud of you

[@TheBirthology]

Gorgeous playing!!! Loved it!!!

[@nananan101]

Brilliant transcription. That dramatic ending..

[@apianoadventure]

I absolutely love this arrangement and would love to play on my channel as well ! I know that professional transcription services are expensive so why not all participate to pay the whole thing ! I'm more than willing to do it :))) Congrats ! I'm surprised this channel does not have a million subscribers

[@mitchell-bt3tj]

Please do

[@enochkavelin7960]

Check the description! He released the sheet music for it!!!

[@noriji4730]

Omg. How splendid ..

[@nickylouch7155]

Bravissimoooo!!!!!!!!!

[@5kyfall2017]

Is there any sheet music for this? I'd love to see the score!!!!

[@maxlee5714]

Hi guys! Since nobody seems to find the piano sheets, I just asked a professional transcription service. It would cost around 68$ per minute to transcribe the whole thing. Would be amazing if we could get together and fund the whole piece. Let me know who's in! :)

[@enochkavelin7960]

He's released the sheet music!! Check the description!

[@angelopasquinuzzi4329]

Geniale, null'altro da dire, Geniale

[@bestchen9069]

wow! great job! i play violin , the 6 sonatas of ysaye are my favorite pieces next to Bach's. your transcription gives me the same pleasure as Busoni's transcription of the chaccone . just a little idea : maybe you could sometimes use the left hand to bring out the main melody line to create more symphonic effect though that would distract the original score.. blessing!

[@kahahabahaha]

The score is slightly different than what is played here. Should I assume the performed version is the later version? A few sections have a little more going on for both hands, and notably, the sempre dolce at 3:43 only has the first note of each bar on the left hand notated

[@gesh92]

That sounds disappointing. I also bought the score hoping it's this exact arrangement. :(

[@kahahabahaha]

@@gesh92 It's very close, i think only two or three sections have some missing things on the left hand, but I haven't learned the whole thing yet so maybe a few more I haven't noticed. I emailed Blue Griffin asking about this very thing, and Mr. Kvitko himself responded saying that he wrote this many years ago, and even lost one of his original transcripts at some point. He also said that he played this from memory, and therefore changed some things, as one does.

[@johnchessant3012]

Amazing.

[@shuvshif]

БРАВО! СПАСИБО!!! Русью пахнет!!!

[@geometricart7851]

this is fn brilliant. I feel so inadequate now.

[@chloeeumiepark]

this is amazing i would love to play this

[@Historia_]

7 years ago? Still no sheet music?

[@enochkavelin7960]

Check the description! He just added it a week ago!

[@Historia_]

@@enochkavelin7960 yep, just saw it

[@ITMSNIPER]

BRAVO!!!!! WOOO HOOOOO

[@samuelfowler2305]

Genius!

[@vincents.8447]

2:07

[@eugeneysaye3625]

Ya yeet.

[@arianswets8513]

Trying to play this rn, anyone got any tips?

[@gesh92]

I knew it was difficult. After I bought the sheet music, it seems 5 time more difficult than expected :( So simple answer is - lots and lots of practice

[@arianswets8513]

@@gesh92 yeah kinda figured that out, the music is so complex and indeed is more difficult than it seems at first

[@svetlanabarantseva647]

Do sin por net otveta, gde dmozhno kupit noti? Esli bilo napechatano... Mne ochen ponravilos, mnogo raz slushala. I ispolnenie zamechatelnoe.

[@MCerchio]

Це просто неймовірно

[@lucasaltamore]

Espectacular

[@coqdorysme]

Admirable effort, but not the first Ysaÿe arrangements - Ronald Stevenson arranged the first two.

[@gdkabsbdkwkwm4187]

You are genius

[@goldviolinist1]

That was amazing @.@

[@Rexily13]

This reminds me of early Prokofiev

[@vishnuhalikere2151]

That ending part especially sounds a lot better on piano

[@AlejandroDrago]

Zamechatel'naja aranzhirovka! Pozdravljaju ot serdca. Ja uzhe postavil na svoem FB. Esche raz, congratulations!

[@JosuéDavidPalomino]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[@louisrelf5903]

I wonder what it would sound like on a pipe organ 😊

[@Yue117]

Did you do Malinconia ??????

[@qalaphyll]

nice

[@ForeverFall]

there were some parts that I feel you changed the harmony a bit too much, and hence changed the mood. Too little dissonance in some parts

[@itamarbar9580]

Ysaye would have liked this.

[@rainchen7846]

yeah no way in years would I be able to reach the 10ths

[@geometricart7851]

I’m guessing this isn’t in 4/4 lol

[@snickydoodle4744]

there is 44, 54, 38 and basically very confusing time signatures

[@varunsathya1912]

@@snickydoodle4744 so 4/4 and 3/8 is confusing

[@みつるぎ-i9h]

6:10

[@brickhead9779]

@twosetviolin

[@mybirdsmells]

DUN DUN DUN DUN DAN DUN DEEN DOOM 5:59

[@rajanisinha9518]

A violinist should have played with him

[@practicboi40hrs46]

Some parts kinda sound like rachmaninoff

[@northmanproductions5319]

Beethoven and rach vibes

[@acedelos2656]

啊哈哈手太小，打扰了告辞~

[@joshleon1339]

1v1 me

[@hh-dr4db]

Hey I hope the camera man is OK. Pretty nasty seizure.