If you play this backwards, It's the entire history of the universe from the Big Bang to the Heat Death

Probably the greatest young pianist of our time.

Ravel: writing a schizophrenic, tonally-unstable ending to the waltz Also Ravel: haha lets return to d major in the last two bars

I cannot believe that he played it like this at the age of seventeen! Just amazing!

I love this. So dreamy..

the way the voices, sometimes so many, fit together so well is astonishing.

Incredibly difficult to play. Well done.

One of the hardest transcriptions ever written after 1920

This is simply the greatest performance of this piece.

This pianist and that piano are a great combo

1:44 I am melting.. wow

Such tremendous articulation and phrasing! Following the score with my eyes is not easy let alone playing this on the piano. Ravel would have been so much pleased to hear Seongjin play La Valse like this.

Best Ravel La Valse for sure 🎉

Wow unbelievably well played and not to mention that a lot of effort must have gone into deciding which bits of the additional instruments could be added in. This is a performance of the highest standard to say the least.

This may be a matter of personal preference but I literally can't find a more beautiful performance of this piece.

That is so explosive of playing the lowest A and Bb on the piano suddenly in the middle section

best interpretation i've ever heard

Marvellous ! I could barely breath during the eleven and a half minutes.

My favorite Ravel piece for sure

blows my mind every time

OMG! This is the definitive interpretation of this most exciting composition. Bravo senor!

Mind-blowing

"Bravo!"

악보를 보면서 들어도 모르겠네요 저는..ㅜㅜㅜ 대체 저걸 어떻게 저렇게 들리게 치는 걸까요 정말 신비롭단 생각이..ㅠㅠㅠㅠ 호그와트가 따로 없어.......

This music is so magnetic and engaging because of Ravel's harmony blending of broken chords and the melody sounds romantic and sensual. Started studying the piece but with separate hands coz its really difficult😃😰

Thanks for uploading!

3:27 is like a jump scare in music...

Incredible feat in sound and color

라벨의 라 발스에서 왈츠 느낌을 이렇게 뽑아내다니 정말 신의 경지에요….

This video reminds me of that video where the student goes into math class late and sees two problems on the board and assumes they are homework. He then goes home and eventually solves them. The professor later tells him this was not homework, but instead were previously unsolved problems.

I saw an unexpected performance of this at my university and my goodness, it was so spectacular. I had never heard the piece before. I was in shock.

Loved how you posted the piano transcription along with the music. I can visualize his performance this way better. Good work!

wow~~ so amazing

My favorite

조성진은 진짜 레전드다

진짜 전설이다..

3:38 my favorite moment

아 미치게좋으네❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥✨✨✨

Pure magic!

Holy moly thats how you do it

집에 앉아서 공짜로 성진님 연주를 듣다니 감개무량하네요..

Tremendo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravooooooooo!!!!!!

the intro reminds me of the beginning of Rachmaninoffs Piano concerto 3 cadenza!

Bravo!

레전드인듯

I feel like I'm hearing a hallucination

one day...maybe one day!

goals

And people say flight of the bumblebee is the hardest piece… Pfft.

That deserves a fucking like

yup he definetly needs a big bravo

This is what I imagine Tchaikovsky would sound like if he had lived a century later.

Having heard this, I forgive Ravel for his Bolero.

How does he play the beginning so quickly and softly?

같은 해 조성진의 한달 전 연주 영상을 본 후 이 연주 들어보니 이게 좋네요. 실황 연주는 아니고 녹음이지만 백혜선의 라 발스도 꼭 들어보세요.

Knowing that this was supposed to be a dance, and the change to society around him had to be very much on his mind, that despite Ravel rejecting idiomatic interpretation of this piece, I think there is something idiomatic in it, that being the Waltz as the heartbeat of life.

wow...............

Although it’s obviously not as good as the original version (orchestral), it’s still an outstanding transcription from the legendary composer.

On the second bar of the lower system at 0:41, is that meant to be a septuplet?

8:36 How do you play that tremolo at that speed?

어떤 곡을 쳐도 완성도가 높구나! 라발스는 제대로 치는 피아니스트 몇 명 안되는 듯~특히 더블 연주는 각자 쿵쾅거리고 시끄러워서 저런곡이 맞나싶을정도... 조성진연주를 들으니 너무나 매력적인 곡

❤❤❤

Advice on trying to play tremolo at 8:35?

정말 궁금한게 있는데 외국에서는 라벨 작품을 많이 다뤄도 이 곡은 많이 안 다루던데 왜 우리나라에서는 라 발스가 라벨의 대표곡처럼 간주되죠?

역시 조성진이랑 임동혁이 최고닼ㅋㅋㅋ

Those difficult chords can drive the listener to madness. Impressionistic music is modern music and conveys a foggy window where images look blurred😐

6:10 9:35 글리산도

8:36 Is this part required for 3 hands or what?!

The guy saying “bravo” at the end is so pick me

How do you play the part with 3 staffs and the chromatic scale ? You only have two hands...

Hola donde puedo encontrar el link de esta partitura hello where can i find the link of this sheet music

"Bravo" lol

I've heard this piece is supposed to represent the by gone era of aristocratic parties with waltzes and pleasure music, the solo piano transcription helps with that aspect imo

1:54

09:34

3:27, 5:50, 9:30

3:33 How on earth do you play that glissando? Even ignoring the fact that it's a chromatic glissando, don't you have those other chords in the way?

Omg

2:15

1:25

Who did compose this piano score of Ravel’s La Valse?? As I know, Ravel composed orchestra version La Valse, and then someone made this piano score, not Ravel. c.u.r.i.o.u.s lol

Damn, more difficult than Islamey and Scarbo if you want to ask me.

10:14 _The Simpsons_ theme.

2:51

9:35

5:35

#ugottalisten2b4udie By 1906, the composer had drafted a symphonic poem entitled “Vienne,” but only returned to his initial sketches after the conclusion of his military service in 1918. By then, the impresario Serge Diaghilev asked Ravel to write La Valse for the Ballets Russes, to be featured on the same program as Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Ravel introduced the finished composition to Diaghilev in a version for two-pianos in 1920. The composer described the work in the following way: “Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees at letter A an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the fortissimo letter B. Set in an imperial court, about 1855.” For one reason or another - probably stemming from an earlier disagreement over Daphnis et Chloé - Diaghilev was not impressed and rejected the work. He refused to have it choreographed, and Stravinsky who was also present, maintained absolute silence.© 2019 Interlude All Rights Reserved

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My response after my mom told me to clean your keyboard: 9:43

I am so inspired by this Valse brilliante. That I transcript it.

1:45~2:23

Learn from 2:16

3:27

Vivaldi la folia

The bravo guy ruined it for me

I cant even read this…

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2:00

L'ultima battuta nella partitura è errata: deve essere quartina in tre! altrimenti il valzer sarebbe quello canonico ;)

Ravel is kinda like Liszt in the young days