Thank you. Finno-Ugric or Uralic languages. We love TSV to pieces, even when their general knowledge is lacking. That’s entirely due to their practicing 40 hrs a day, so it’s easily forgiven. 😊❤

The more you know . . .

I thought that, but particularly the folk music traditions are really distinct from each other. Finland was so heavily influenced culturally by Scandinavia (and a little bit by Russia), and Hungary by central and southern Europe (especially think about how much of Bartok's stuff was studies of like Romanian and Macedonian folk tunes). The linguistic connection is really far in the past, far enough that if you don't know it you'd be unlikely to see it without a really deep dive.

@@jelenakatic1778 When I first got into them, their lack of general knowledge (esp geographic knowledge) annoyed me a bit, but now I just find it a bit adorable. At least they're kind of self-aware about it

So true!

I prefffered it with the punishment/reward, gives it more excitement

nah I didn’t… feels basic and a bit childish to stay on the same punishment thing forever

lol to a certain extent. they were also orchestral musicians for quite some time as well

As Dave Hurwitz would say, "you mean all six of them?" I KNOW there are more violin concertos than that, but his point is the repertoire is limited, so the same concertos are played and recorded over and over again.

Yes, but how did they miss the Sibelius??

oh, wow, what a coincidence! 😂

Bestimmt. Hätte er “Du warst falsch!“ gesagt…..

G'day! It's actually from Psalm 130:1 "Out of deep anguish I call to You."

@@lindacowles756 Thank you! Added a note for interested ppl to my comment!

Oh, interesting. Hearing him pronounce the German title, I was like "That sounds pretty good, has he studied German in the past?"

Well Brett may be listening like a normal /person/ but Eddy is acting like a normal /musician/ - slowly turning into a musical instrument while listening to music is in fact the typical action of a normal musician ^^

These comments might be offensive to Brett because he is a musician like Eddy.

​@@youngkyJprolly not

I honestly wouldn't mind them redoing previous games. There are so many I don't remember a lot of them and it wouldn't detract from viewing enjoyment at all if they redid some of their games.

YESS they’re so fun to play along with

I love your profile picture omg

And longer videos too❤

Rogerina

I immediately knew it was Chopin as well For me, there are like 3 composers I’ll immediately recognize on listening even if I hadn’t heard the piece before, those being Beethoven(drama, motivic development, sudden dynamic shifts), Chopin(lyrical virtuosity), and Bach(complex counterpoint). Then there’s pieces where I’d have a pretty good idea who wrote it, but not 100% certain if I hadn’t heard the piece(Mozart, Schubert, Liszt), those where I have absolutely no idea if I hadn’t heard it(lots of composers from Romantic and 20th century eras), and those where I often think "No way, sounds like a different composer to me"(Domenico Scarlatti for example, his keyboard works sound so similar in style to Haydn that I generally guess Haydn when I hear Scarlatti in a "Guess the composer" video)

i know, it sounded so Chopin-y to me I even started to doubt myself when they were so unsure

Those chromatic runs into the melody made me immediately think Chopin. And the fact that nearly all of Chopin's works were for solo piano.

It sounded so Chopin to me that I suspected a trap!

It sounded like Liszt to me, like his more Chopin-like pieces. The chromaric runs in the right hand delt more like Liszt than Chopin, the melody in octaves, and the #5 chords... and I've studied piano for 10 years. Overthinking it, I guess 😅

Same, ballet knowledge actually helps lol

@@isra9862 Also, the Chopin La Ci Darem variations were used by Frederick Ashton in one of his ballets.

Same lol

Immediately I was like, this has such distinct Tchaikovsky piano vibes; it really echoes his first one in how the piano soars above the orchestra

And it’s literally the music for Balanchine's Allegro Brillante 😂

That is totally my favorite part. It's like a crash course in classical musical education!

twoset isn’t just funny, they educate their audience too!

Have you been practicing?

Bit of a late reply here, but same! They taught me so much about classical music

*Mussorgsky

I also recognized the Chopin from Bruce Liu's performance at the Chopin competition - but actually the style is typical Chopin, too.

Bless you for not putting spoilers! It was nice to read your input as I watched

Beethoven always sounds kinda off to me :P

Not gonna lie, I, too, found this Beethoven piece to be a bit off, maybe because it sounded like a mixture of so many of his works…from Coriolan, Leonore, even to his 5th!!!

Unfortunately, the music world will always be driven by where the money flows towards.

For example, Beethoven's piano sonatas. Actual greater masterpieces there are the 8th, 21st, 23rd, 29th, 30+...but all that's hyped, overpopularized and overplayed is the 14th Moonlight... Even Beethoven himself said "... I have truly written better... " in a letter to a friend.

Listen to Louise Farrenc 3rd symphony you will love it

I agree, when I put on classical playlists this is what I’m expecting to find. Not “play the hits”

Brett's style is how I play Wordle. but in other things I'm an Eddy

I agree 100 percent with what you said about eddy.

especially more since I know the piece from memory after having relistened to hyuk lee, bruce liu & yunchan lim play them in recent competitions

"is it bad that every piano thing sounds like Chopin to me" looooolll

Lol same it was so easy for me

@@TunedNoiseas a pianist that hates classical music, I agree with them 😂 I guess I’m a disgrace to my instrument

@@nightrock4713 nah. That's why piano is the best instrument: it has a presence in pretty much every genre 😤

Petition signed!!

I agree !

So do I

Yes please!❤

Ya! It was fun to play along!

SO TRUE THATS WHEN I KNEW

Wow good for you! I got 2 right and a couple close guesses.

Yeah same I got 6 lol

The same. I was ashamed but if you too 😅

i find stravinsky and shastakovich both really have their own unique sounds. i almost immediately can tell.

@@themike97_58 Yes, they are both horrible. To me at least.

Do you need perfect pitch to recognize a key signature? Brett's done it before I'm pretty sure.

​@Humble Sparrow I think so, because if I remember correctly, in one of their videos with Singapore youth orchestra, Brett said that Eddy can figure out the key signature first, that's why he can guess the piece faster. I could be wrong though.

@@humblesparrow You need eyes to recognize _key signature,_ because it's only something that exists in written music (and it also doesn't define the key of the piece)... But I know you actually mean key. In that case, the answer is kind of yes and no at the same time. Technically speaking, recognizing a key has to do with absolute pitch, because theoretically all keys (of the same type) sound the same (like, there's no clear difference in sound between playing the same piece in E major and Eb major for example). But there are certain things that may give you clues about the key, like the way that certain instruments sound (for example on guitar, the open chords have quite distinct sounds to them, so if there's a guitar, it wouldn't be difficult to hear the key just from the chords that the guitar plays). And also, it isn't rare for violinists to have the sound of the open strings in their mind, even if they don't actually have perfect pitch. This is called pitch memory, and I would assume most people have it to some degree. How reliable one's pitch memory is, is another question (I know that my pitch memory is not very reliable - sometimes it's spot on, but other times I'm way off). But even if you don't have perfect pitch, you can do that stuff purely by ear. You may not know the key, but you do still hear the way that the notes relate to the key. So, you could listen to the functions of the notes and chords, like "that's a V I progression in minor, and then it modulates to the relative major and does the same thing". You don't know which specific minor key it is, but you still know all of the relationships, so you still essentially know it. You could tell that "if the song is in D minor, then the chords are A7 Dm, C7 F, and if it's in B minor, then the chords are F#7 Bm, A7 D" (or whatever - you would be able to transpose it to any key). You could also use your voice as a reference point. For example I know the lowest comfortable note I can sing, so I could figure out the key by singing my lowest comfortable note over the song, and figuring out how it relates to the key. My lowest comfortable note is F#, so let's say I sing it over a song that is in D major. I would hear that the note I'm singing sounds like the major 3rd, and that's how I would be able to tell that the song is in D major.

@@MaggaraMarine Yeah, that's what I meant, hehe. Thanks!

What a beautiful comment and heartfelt story. I agree this community and twoset are so supportive and encouraging. I am glad to hear you have a newfound interest in playing again. Good luck!

I literally didn’t know any of them😭😭💀

haha i only got the stravinsky and i don't even like his music :)

I guessed Chopin, then second guessed, and got it wrong. It’s interesting that Brett formed a first impression each time, and mostly went with it, but Eddy struggled through many and eventually deduced the correct answer, both good techniques

@@LesserMoffHootkins lol it fits their personalities though because Brett is more like “fuck it” and eddy is like “wait is that right?”

Yes yes and yes! :D

I agree, fun, educational and some very interesting ‘new’ pieces to listen too

Agree 10000%!!!!

I agree! I know so much about classical music, but this video is a great way to introduce classical music to someone else!

Non-musician here, but I do like listening to classical music. I really learn a lot when Twoset play this kind of game. Educational and entertaining.

Good job 👏 Ling Ling is proud

I was scrolling to hopefully find this comment. :) I think this knowledge is somewhat common in Europe but not further away.

so did you guess as well as Eddy or better? :-)

Yes, a new playlist, I'm looking forward to it !! 😀 Thanks for all that you do 💖

I agree !!!

For the curious, some really cool composers to check out: Francesca Caccini, Béatrice de Die, Barbara Strozzi, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger (personal fav, Eddy would love her!),

Yeah, lily Boulanger would be really fun to see

@@Elophee thanks, I'd also say check out Leokadiya Kashperova who is very unknown despite having been an incredible composer and teacher of Stravinsky!

@@octaviamarshall1266 thanks! So sad that such great composers aren't more known!

Hey, that's pretty good! For me it sounded like Rachmaninoff because of the build up and crescendo; it's like his piano concertos that I love very much

...and yet, it sounded nothing like Rachmaninoff. I don't think it was unmistakable. Neither Eddy nor Brett thought so either.

@@maryvallettakeith6146 well to me it was but maybe that’s because I’ve played a good amount of his music. That climax is definitely a signature sound of his in his piano literature which would make sense why Brett and Eddy wouldn’t know who wrote it. Rachmaninoff wrote awesome symphonies but he was obviously primarily a pianist, a lot of his signature sounds appear in his piano works, in fact the climax sounds super similar to one of his concerti I think either the third or the rhapsody. To me it was clear who wrote that as soon as the climax came.

​@@maryvallettakeith6146 It's very early Rachmaninoff, before his voice became strongly defined. It sounded more like Wagner to me.

Wagner is famous for exactly that if nothing else.

I agree! He is also my favorite, and it was the one I was most certain of!

Yes! That's what I thought. I've just checked it to be sure. More precisely he used it in the trio of the scherzo (2nd mov), but in a flat minor instead of a minor

Yeah, that's how I recognized it.

I rearched for this comment! When I heard the first few notes, I immediately recognised the melody and I was 100% sure about it being part of his Trio for French Horn, Violin and Piano. My next thought was : this is not so rarely known as the other pieces mentioned in the video...and then I realised that the Horn and the violin are not coming in ...so I was about to check it, too. But you proved me right! And cool that I am not the only one that knows the gorgeous Trio!

Also, respect for working on the Trio. It has a beast of a piano part.

@jb1980ist Thanks :) It's a lot of work, especially in the last movements (those left hand octaves are killing me), but the piece is so much devine and beautiful.

Like so they can see if you want this too

btw the reason i guessed Sib was bc I saw some parallelisms w the violin concerto

wow, was it the whole Passion? if so, you have endurance, lol. i like it too. was disappointed when i went to a concert that was suppose to play excerpts but they only sang 2 arias and 3 choruses. 20 minutes out of almost 3 hours! i felt cheated.

@@oxoelfoxo I went to a full performance! It was a very long indeed haha, in the end I couldn't really pay attention that well anymore, but I loved it, it was beautiful!

Goodness, I don't think even I can pay attention to the entire thing, and I've been listening to classical music for 25 years!

Wow what a great piece to start concert going to with.

Congrats on jumping in at the deep end and not drowning. The St Matt Passion never fails to move me to tears. Just stunning stuff.

Feel the same way here