I feel like I need to clarify something here since this blew up without me noticing: I originally meant this account/video to exist for archival purposes. I'm in no way affiliated with Albert, Ray, or Lily. I do sincerely want you all to check them out though, as they're all incredible individuals. Ray's KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info/love/-oPgEuX6iwJucvVGEmQL7Q Albert's KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info Lily's KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info Albert and Lily released a cover yesterday which you definitely should check out as well: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLR9qJB6lp6YqZ8.html

You can see that Ray is traumatized by the word of "improvise"

Ray Chan: "I can't improvise" *Improvises beautifully anyway*

Ray plays a piece to perfection Ray: "something like that" Lily and Albert: :0

Extremely talented musicians packed into a room for 35 minutes

Lily and Albert: just improvise Ray: I can’t improvise *improvise beautifully* Ray: wow! Ur such a great teacher! Lily and Albert: your trolling

i think it goes something like... uhm.. *proceeds to play the song perfectly*

“Improvise” Ray: look of pure terror

I got so distracted I'm watching this instead of practicing. Ling ling will be disappointed.......

It's so nice to see a musician of Ray's level just playing like a kid, not taking himself too seriously and being so friendly with everybody. I think he'll make a very positive impact in keeping interest on classical music, attracting a younger public to the style. Fantastic, Ray! By the way, I've seen you playing in Brussels, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. It's time again for the QEC.

a classicaly informed/trained musician tries playing and improvising modern music... what a great job.

Ray: *picks up otomatone* Lily and Albert: *visible confusion* Also Lily and Albert: *improv?* Also Ray: *extreme visible confusion*

Poor Ray looked like he was about to just...BOOM.

Ray: I must improvise an entire concerto Everyone else: just play something lol

ok, but their casual playing is so beautiful. its not professional or severely practiced or staged or anything, its so casual and pretty and i can relax and jam to this. i love it.

15:57 Albert is freaking looking at Ray's fingerboard to find out what chord he should be playing to harmonize. What is this man.

Hey guys, here's a list with (almost) all songs played in the video: 0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto Something like that ;)

Ray Chen speaking for all classical musicians about improvisations 😂

when all of them started playing at the same time like 40 seconds in it sounded like it was the end of an anime fight and everyone is happy again

When you hear two violins and a piano playing together, you start feeling some type of way, I love it.

Sh-t, that improv was good! Maybe classically trained should do more sessions like this.

ray chen is such a virtuosic musician.

When you realize ray chen’s violin is worth more than the entire offline tv networth

That sadness and sorrow cover really made me feel a type of way

Ive never heard of lily and albert until recently and it just makes me cry listening to how beautiful they sound together and knowing that their relationship ended so horribly.

Now, Let's not forget how much skill it is needed to play the piano too. Lily was underscoring 2 amazing violinists. She is none less than a prodigy herself. The word Genius is an insult honestly.

*has perfect pitch Everyone: WE MUST TEST HIM

I know who could help with those chord clusters... EDDYY..

two set violin: ray chen is a god 2011 winner 2012 winner 2013 winner 14 15 16 17 18 winner albert: this is another adult student that shouldve picked up violin when he was a child

I have only recently started listening to lily and albert play together so that's unfortunate timing.

rip good times

get yourself someone who looks at lily and albert the way ray does.

i never thought that a bunch of musicians messing around in a live stream would be so entertaining

this so impossible to not rewatch by the sadness and sorrow not scuffed version starts at 21:36

I love how Lily is just in the back doing her own little thing half the time

Really enjoyable session. it does sound incredible that a touring classical violinist with years of training says he cannot improvise. I haven't dealt a lot with that level of musicians, but I've had someone who's taken lessons, sight reads music and plays piano really well tell me, "I can't improvise or play by ear, because to me, when I read the music I think of it as a key I press, not a musical note". My jaw sort of dropped because at that time I only played by ear and could just figure out chords and melodies of songs. I couldn't understand how a guy could play Beethoven and Chopin and not figure out stuff by ear. On the other hand, I think Ray can but perhaps because of exclusively classical training 1) he has almost never been asked to improvise and never practiced it and 2) being used to playing the most excellent music ever composed perfectly he thinks whatever he improvises is comparatively so crappy that he says he can't. Anyway, it's an interesting phenomenon.

It was in the description but since so many people don't, here ya go. 0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto

Love this: Ray: can't improvise. SECONDS LATER *Pulls out a breautiful movie-grade comp* Ray: See I told you, can't do it

OMG he never heard the Ysaye's Chopin Ballade Arrangement before? This is an absolute masterpiece of a transcription!!!

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That's where practising 40 hours a day will get you!

Ray Chen sounds so fucking good when hes playing Rondo Capriccioso and the other classical music. That's his shit

This is exactly the kind of fun everyone should experience in school as a music major.

This is amazing, I can't get enough of these videos and now there's one with Ray Chen!!!

That girl is representing for the violin beginners give her an around of a applause

This is such a pleasant watch. So chill, and with great tunes!

HOW DID I NOT KNOW OF THIS VIDEO?! This is amazing

I keep coming back to this video it's too precious this is like the 5th time I rewatch it this year

When classical musicians use the word "improvise", they are thinking complex stuff. Who knew it was so easy to improvise "easy" music ;)

The beginning was so beautiful wtf?

I think I've watched this about 7 times, it's so good

22:58 oh my god when Ray does his little wholesome smile at that final chord omfg i cant get enough of it

Ray Chen was so happy when he played A Whole New World

Can we stop and mention how ADORABLE LILY VOICE IS OMG THAT THREW ME OFF IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO

This was great to watch! Seeing musicians enjoying and playing their instruments like this is very good...

Thanks for posting. Great to watch their interaction. Love sadness and sorrow.

0:47 my soul needs a full song of this

I saw this video for the first time. Amazing. Its amazing how they can harmonize their play. And they are enjoying it. Its just stunishing. Sometimes I forget my passwords, but these guys can memorize hundreds of melodies...

I really enjoyed this. Three great musicians just having together. All three seem like genuinely down to Earth sweet people.

she SOUNDS SO CUTE AWWW!! Yall are so good btw:3

albert having the balls to play in front of ray has me shook hello imagine playing for a world class violinist

This is so beautiful, I am really impressed

Wow, this is such a heart warming moment! Thank you for uploading💕

17:16 look at the joy on Ray's face

NOOOO WE GOT SO CLOSE TO RAY IMPROVISING BREATH OF THE WILD

I didn't know I needed this. Thank you

I can watch this every day and not get tired. I love the violin.

25:47 can we just appreciate Lily releasing her inner jellyfish? It’s fricking adorable!!!

I luv her cute squeaky high voice!! She's so cute!!❤️❤️❤️

We will miss all this jam session, hope we could see more :D

Such a treat 🥳😭😭😭 quarantine has never been better

So many emotions when they played sadness and sorrow.

Ray when he heard albert improvise *AMAZING*

its so relaxing listening to you guys. i just let it play while doing something else and i love it. much better than whats being played in the radios nowadays.

Man all three of you were great, wow how impressive!

aw man the good days

In the beginning, Ray is reminding me of a strings student coming back after summer break after not practicing and is like remembering in the middle of a song.

ugh this is absolutely beautiful

That IU cover was beautiful, I could listen to that for days

0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto

Actually improvisation is a classical music lost art sadly, most baroque to late classical composers and performers knew how to improvise and some were really good at it. Of course in a different lenguage than what modern jazz and popular music improvisation works but they did nonetheless, the principles are the same, use the music vocabulary you already have to instinctively build a new composition that works, like a conversation. In the romantic period music became more composition focused than ever, but soloists were often asked to improvise, Cadenzas in concertos for instance are meant to be improvised with the material already displayed during the first movement, but even that eventually changed and as is nowdays, great players wrote down cadenza parts and those became famous and the standards, like Jascha Heifetz, Tchaikovsky's concerto cadenza, and no one improvises anymore RIP but as we can see im the video, you can't be deeply familiar with a musical vocabulary and be completely unable to improvise.

That improvised song at the start though!!! I could listen to that for hours...

It's Fantastic, I love your work :3

oh my gosh cover of through the night-IU was amazing

dudeeee the Awaken part ! WTF he's so goood

I just found this channel and Im so glad I did, you guys are so amazing and I hope I can be just as great at the violin and piano as you all are.

It’s so great just seeing them have FUN with it

Damn they should make a soundtrack or something it sounds amazing 😮

Ray: **Plays classical music** Albert: o o ۝

Wow... This is my first time watching this vid and it makes me so happy. Just how well Lily and Albert can improv together is amazing and teaching their friend how to improv as well. Very bittersweet.... ;n;

Watching this while waiting my fish soup is ready, wonderful session, thanks for sharing this! 😊

When Ray started harmonizing on sadness and sorrow. Wtf that tone selection. incredible

as a classical musician, it's so hard to improvise cuz nothing we come up with can ever compare to the masterpieces the og composers did >.

This is simply amazing!

I fangirled so much at Bruch Violin Concerto!! Such an amazing piece XD

Ray: I don’t improvise Me: AND I OOP-

also i find it absolutely stunning that theyre learning from eachother. ray has his own entire style while the other two have their own as well, and they both get to show off their strengths and weaknesses with music. ray isnt comfortable with improvising, and the others arent as comfortable with the heavy/fast classical. i love everything about this

Two of my favorite musicians to watch on yt in one video :000

This is so beautiful!

For those who wants to know the notes for the improvising , it is: C G Am F for the last note do a c chord on second scale for guitar it is on the 12th string 👍