Rachmaninoff Plays "The Flight of the Bumblebee" on my piano

[lukefenderrhodes]

thats the grooviest thing ive sawr in a long time

[mr0speaker]

Great vid. Very eerie!

[30inventionman]

ty for this post, it is exactly what i was looking for.

[FingerMyFinger]

lol the related videos all have to do with fast speed

[HotRatsAndTheStooges]

Wow. I'd love to see some more of his playing recreated on modern pianos!

[BaLaylaLerina]

oh ein poltergeist ^^

[hilliuno]

ninja player

[eidco]

@KievanTiger So are you saying the other 11 pieces in Rachmaninoff's book of Transcriptions are his, but this one is not, or are all 12 pieces forgeries?

Do you have a link to what you claim is Rachmaninoff's true version or didn't he do one?

Are you saying he didn't record any of the 35 piano rolls that have been documented, or only this one? I have Disklavier versions of all 35 pieces of his performances.

How far do you want to take this?

[eidco]

@KievanTiger OK, I'll have to concede that everyone else is wrong. It must be nice to be the only one who's right.

[eidco]

@KievanTiger If you read my comment, you'd realize Wikipedia was just one of 3 sources verifying this version. Do you dispute the other two?  Is one out of three "way too much"?

[KeyAfterTouch]

And next will be Paganini ? huh ?

[jschoo1115]

wow just imagine the ghost is Rachmaninoff who plays on this piano

[TheMasterBT]

I WANT A PIANO LIKE THIS! :D

[artymowycz]

somewhat slow for Rachmaninoff's play

[IcyScythe]

creepy to watch 

[neighborhaber]

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[jonito223]

ok... THTATS creepy...

[satualm]

Rachmaninov haunts!

[10UnderScore10]

This isn't rachmaninoff's version -.-

[eidco]

@10UnderScore10: If you're right, then Wikipedia, Warner Bros. Publications, and the publishers of Immortal Pianists Series are all wrong.

As stated in the description above, this performance was recorded by Rachmaninoff on an Ampico reproducing piano.  It is note-for-note the same as the version in Warner Bros. book of Rachmaninoff's transcriptions.

A full description of Rachmaninoff's piano roll work is on his Wikipedia page in the paragraph beginning "From 1919 he made 35 piano rolls..."

[0530pianist]

W.....what???Ghost Rachmaninov?Unbelieveable.

[tagnshare1234]

that is CREEPY

[Nicchelsea]

I can't stop listening. His playing is phenomal and it is with proofs like that that we can understand why he was regarded as the piano god by most pianists of the time

[oterdverg]

how can you get your piano do play by itself?

[Santosificationable]

Rachmaninoff performed this? That piano looks too new!

[klik13]

the sheet doesn't show bass notes at the beginning but the piano plays them :X

[eidco]

@klik13 Wow, very observant. I never noticed that. Well, it's Rachmaninoff's own arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's piece. I guess if he wanted to change it on the fly, he can. Nice ears.

[bachmaninoff]

Really cool !  I hope you upload some more of his recordings !

[robbie19371]

It has been said that Rachmaninoff was paid $1000 for this piece by Ampico. It is a very short piece and he apparently was thrilled to gull them out of that much cash.

[sallyos06460]

I want his gohst to play mine. I stink. Oh boy. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful. Namaste.

[Pandemonium2050]

The Ghost of Rachmaninoff plays! Scary piano!

[kingjc44103]

@Darwinknowsbetter lol that would be the coolest piano ever

[mosprime2]

Ouch on the hands if you had to play it.....

[eidco]

@Darwinknowsbetter Ha ha...no, sorry. The sheet music is in the shot just because I have it and play it myself. It's Rachmaninoff's arrangement.

The piano is playing a file that was transferred from a piano roll of his performance of his own arrangement back in the 1940's.

[Rimskyfarby]

Good to have indeed

[natetitus52]

Omg!

I didn't knwo Rachmaninoff wrote this song!

I've never even heard of him until last year.

He's my favorite composer!

[wks1978]

@natetitus52 He didn't write it, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the original form. Rachmaninov made the arrangement for solo piano.

[Szotyka]

:(

Rachmaninoff not performed to a recoding! I guess...

Play by the music sheet is not enough.

[rtuiy9898]

Ghost piano O.o great vid.

[gunxxes]

the part between 0.40 and 0.44 is rubbish. not wrong but complete rubbish. written in a confused mood.

[enray0514]

@gunxxes I think it really captures what bumblebee is like.

[RuiLimbo]

lol its one of those kinda pianos where you slot a disk in and they play? i saw one of those before

[gunxxes]

i recall bernard black. good weird bernard black : she thinks i am the renaissance :)

[AphroditeEros33]

Bravooo Rachmaninoff(?)/ the Invisible Man!!! Amazing & fantastic performance*^-^* Really great & I luv it!! Thank you so much for making and sharing this scary ghost piano video!!!*^-^*

[asterissima]

Brilliant!

[Angelblood96]

I want that for my exams!

[arnihl]

wow rachmaninoff had brutally big hands.

[elgeo12345]

its a ghost

[BeMyFirst]

wait wait. where is the player??

[eidco]

@BeMyFirst ...er ah....six feet under.

[stephaniepianomusic]

@BeMyFirst READ - THE - DESCRIPTION

[arnihl]

Was this piano in the belonging of rachmaninoff?

[BlackWWidow]

This is magical ,AWESOME !!! 10000000 stars my friend ,hugs ,Sofia.

[dorong48]

omgg,,how doess that work!!!!!!

[paraulataviajera]

Very impressive, I love classical music in general but also like the Bee Gees, hugs.

[pligana]

it's amazing! very impressive

[chsgdss]

***** GOLD STARS *****

[DarkRaimundo]

Rachmaninov was a genius!

[jadeevalley]

I love this piece. It's beautifully executed. If perfection existed in such a state of fluidity of our life flow, it would be in musical compositions just as this. Thanks for posting :)

[JupiterIV]

Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the audio recording, and the lightbulb, said this of Sergei Rachmaninoff:

"He's merely a pounder, nothing more."

[wks1978]

What would Edison know about music?

[JupiterIV]

Well, I think it *would* help to also know that Edison was partially deaf in both ears, which was caused by his days as a railway telegraph operator.

[THS33]

Wow! Thats just soo freakin awesome. I want your piano :) Im actually learning this song right now.

[kbtokyo]

cool!How much does that piano cost?

[eidco]

Disklaviers can sometimes be found for as little as $10,000 or less for used uprights. The larger, more expensive grands cost much more.

[JupiterIV]

Speaking of pianos:

Have you ever seen the new Doppio Borgato? There's a few videos of it here on YouTube.

[damianwrx]

Definitely cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.