Mussorgsky-Chernov - Night on Bald Mountain

[quintron3]

superb virtuosic playing.

[themelodyinme]

Well... I can play the ending... Honestly the hardest part is those darn triplets near the beginning. What a great piece music though, everyone gets really excited when they hear it!

[roxasmanable]

I could imagine something like this on Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts. :D

[Ragtime44Films]

@roxasmanable

Funny... it actually was in Kingdom Hearts 1, haha. But it was the orchestral version, so it sounded different.

[marcohorowitz8]

Which monster is playing this?? Not Berezovsky by any chance?

[filozofka1]

Genius...

[AdamKuczynski]

3:00 until 4:23 is absolutely brilliant.

[TheSebastianfan]

This orchestra piece by Mussorgsky is one of my favorites. This is my first time to hear the piano part, and this is great, and awesome as the orchestra. I hope the orchestra, or band I'm gonna be in plays this song.

[csportalcomua]

listen to perfomance from lastest Tscajkovsky competition. better transcription and MUCHHH better perfomance

[darkblueangel1956]

Chissà come l'avrebbero eseguita Vladimir Horowitz o Sergio Fiorentino !!!

Sono sicuro che avrebbero inserito nel proprio repertorio questa trascrizione !!!

[darkblueangel1956]

SEMPLICEMENTE ECCEZIONALE QUESTA TRASCRIZIONE !!!

Chissà come l'avrebbe esguita Vladimir Horowitz !!!

[TheFanwindow]

The pianos (softs) really make me happy. =) So controlled.

[974mederic]

someone please can make midi files for that !

[stripedman201]

This is so legit, is this played on 2 pianos?

[xAnonymousss]

@stripedman201 no.

[stripedman201]

@xAnonymousss I later found that out like 1min within the video... Sorry for the stupid XD

[xAnonymousss]

@stripedman201 no problem ;D. sorry for the way i answered the question.

[StopTheMoti0n]

as a bass player, i'm very pleased to see that all of my parts made it into the piano score :)

[mcgoergl]

where can i get the sheet ????

[romulo560]

Great job synchronizing the music with the sheets! Very clever way to do it. I haven't seen this done before.

[erty768]

I play trumpet and I'm trying to figure out how a pianist would be able sightread all of that music at once...

[Aleskies]

@erty768 It comes with practice, first you learn individual notes, and then you learn the intervals between notes and eventually you dont even have to try anymore. =]

[atee12321]

God this looks damn hard, but fun as hell!

[crbrico]

Chernov transcription and Berezovsky interpretation are absolutely incredible. Ten fingers spelling with extreme precission what a whole orchestra struggles to express. I am completely speechless.

[Piggywarz]

it looks rather impossible

[BIoodBath]

at 00:25 how are the bass notes supposed to be played? As alternating 32nd notes or as fast as the player can?

[ELITEMIKY99XX]

I am  an experienced piano player and this song blows my mind it rocks

[MegaMrDT]

jeez that looks hard..,

[AlexandreJdB]

Who is playing?

[OverFjell]

@AlexandreJdB Boris Berezovsky, I think, there's a video of him floating around on Youtube playing this.

[semiserioussam]

This is the most 'metal' piano piece ever!

[ostrorawr]

@semiserioussam if you think this sounds metal, try Prokofiev's Etude op 2 no 1 (interpreted by Freddy Kempf)...

[OverFjell]

What's your opinion on Berezovsky's playing, Hexameron? 

[PIAN0PLAYER5]

Hi people. I was wondering what you guys think. Would this be a good piece to enter in the MTNA competition? Please and thanks.

[dixiegirl0017]

i'm going to arrange this for a flute choir...shortened a bit...maybe without all the repeats....but i love this sooooo much =) 

[arsenicrice]

Is it possible to top this genre of thrilling yet dark music?!? I loved this song since I first heard it on Fantasia when I was three

[darkzeraalldp]

 Fantastico, bellissimo

[paulr00]

nice

[awsomedrummer100]

Whats the BPM on this song

[Haeronthegreat]

Dear lord, how does he play those open arpeggios so fast!?

[grrrr17]

@Haeronthegreat

whats open arpeggios

[robertweriksen18]

@Haeronthegreat Lots and lots of practice I would assume.

[JakaAce]

@robertweriksen18 if you're right, the pianist should be 2500Y.O today o_o

What an awesome playing.

This(ese) composer(s) are much worth knowing !!

Incredible.

[robertweriksen18]

@JakaAce I'm not quite sure I know what it is you are talking about. I'm saying that the pianist had lots of practicing...

[CharlotteElbourne]

@Haeronthegreat I know I was like daaaaaamn x.x

[Violascry]

Sublime!!!

[airbear906]

4:13 game me goosebumps... bravo!

[zabuzato]

is it possible to get parts of it ?like pdf ?

[LeoOrnstein]

@zabuzato Did you check out the IMSLP?

[fhood]

A lot of this reminds me of Liszt's "Totentanz".

[nicoletje111]

beautiful, but some pieces you just can't play well at the piano. This really is a piece of music for orchestra.

[catrulerofdeath]

I wonder if i can still play this on my flute...

[CesarAmadeus]

Thanks for the video can u send me the score please?

[maxtanz]

thnx Hexameron for sharing!

[violinistx100]

2:33 is the BEST and FUNNEST section of the piece!!

[evifnoskcaj]

@violinistx100 Agreed.

[tapesan09]

great piano version of night on bald mountain. could be use in transformation scenes like american werewolf in london.

[ApsisApocynthion]

THe section of peace at the end always takes my breath away.

[tapesan09]

Always does.

[DJdisaster55]

go to wikipedia, type in a composers name, at the bottom of the article there is a link to hundreds of scores in the imslp library

[Zawicki1]

*plays elevator music* AAAH! LAWYERS! lol Nice song. I like the adaption in EWJ from the level What The Heck.

[Darthnut92]

This is so fun to play on the piano, but my hands are dead by the end of it

[unknownkingdom]

I bet it would be fun to play it! It is way beyond my level.

[patricioapaez]

didnt berezovsky himself transcribed this??

[5610winston]

No, it was Konstantin Chernov (1865-1937).

[tapesan09]

Wrong. It is Modest Mussorgsky, who did "Pictures At a Exhibtion".

[Ragtime44Films]

@patricioapaez

No, Chernov transcribed it to piano. Berezovsky made an adaptation of it I guess.

[alreadytaken334]

I'm fucking amazed that people can actually read and play music like this.

[AdIgnorantiam]

This takes on such a different feel on the piano. I like it.

[sitnam44]

My grandpa used to play this at family get togethers on his grand piano it was a big attraction as he was so charismatic when he played it.

[thothbaboon]

fucking insane. love this

[5610winston]

I enjoyed the posting and the transcription. Plan to share it with friends fir All Hallows' Eve.

[PlyMood]

WoooooW it's very very hard LOL I felt so dumb..it's crazy!

[fengyuanli]

at 3:52, isn't it supposed to be a D-natural?

[Walrusesque]

This sounds intense on piano! It's even worse on a violin, you have to get two hands moving in absolutely perfect harmony to pull this off... And I'm playing it in a high school orchestra! Blasphemy!

[Darthnut92]

Alas, I have no camera, or I would record myself.

[Darthnut92]

of course it took me two years before I could play with out the sheet music

[Darthnut92]

I can play this even better

[Hexameron]

Is it possible for you to record your performance? I'd like to hear it.

[maxtanz]

@Hexameron ;-)

[zabuzato]

@Hexameron lol, Darthnut92 is a troll. Awesome performance ^^ and sheet.

[Zawicki1]

@Darthnut92 be quiet. He did great. I didn't notice many mistakes. This song is hard. So how about you back off and before posting how about you upload yourself playing this?

[Ragtime44Films]

@Darthnut92

It's all based on opinion. And it's your opinion that you're better at playing this than Berezovsky. But we haven't heard you play it, so we can't really trust you when you make that statement.

[Litawyn]

@Darthnut92 We're waiting. Where's your stellar performance? Upload it already . . .

[222725945]

@Darthnut92 That's what I want to hear!! Common and upload...

[f1f1s]

05:43 - I wish I could do the same madness with my left hand! Inhuman precision! Mussorgsky is a bit standing in the shadow of Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, etc., but some of his pieces are virtuous, the same!

[5610winston]

@f1f1s Looks like simple-enough arpeggios----played impossibly fast!

I'll bet the pianist had blister pads on his fingers for a month after this performance!

[123eldest]

@5610winston 'The pianist' !!? It's only Boris Berezovsky!! :D

[Starbirdy9999]

Those tremolos at 0:29 are not just plain weird sounding, like a bee, but they must be a huge pain.

[sureiguess1]

i would love to meet the person who could play this song exactly like this LOL. my conclusion = IMPOSSIBLE

[JupiterIV]

Someone needs to choreograph this! It'd do great as a ballet showpiece!

[dmalantic]

Incredible energy, endurance & virtuosity

[tundrasretreat]

Those trills at about 7 minutes are incredible. I can't believe anyone can move their hands that quickly!! *laughs* If I ever attempted those octaves at that speed I'm break my fingers, I'm sure of it!!

Well, I suppose it's something to aspire to!!! And that's what I love about music like this.

[vincenzopollini]

oh my god....berezovsky i love you! amazing

[DarkRaimundo]

I agree! One of the great pianists of our time.

[EuriskoLontano]

I am dismayed that Mussorgsky doesn't get as much credit as he should. Very rarely do we ever hear his ORIGINAL version of this work before Rimsky made the rather radical reformation of it that we all know. The original is far more rugged, and not as brilliantly orchestrated, but it was (I believe) what Mussorgsky had in mind, and that would make a very interesting piano arrangement as well as this one. The 2 men were close friends, so (had he lived) would have not begruged Rimsky's make-over.

[kempff95]

good.

[123eldest]

why does he add an extra bar at 1:34

[robbiethemann]

the single notes?

[123eldest]

the two repeated notes of a and d he just assds an extra bar of them...

[123eldest]

really nice performance

[fitzpatrick2005]

Great job, to uploader.

An idea who's time has come. ...How many centuries man has envisioned exactly what we're living through now.

I will be back to view/ hear all of these!

[klavigen]

above all be glad to habe this transcription- there is no need to select which one would be better because we habe the piano and orchestra version- and though the piano we geet to know the piece even better because of more transparent listening to harmoc structure- if you study first the pianio version with effort you will get a lot of kniowledge about the music and how it is made

[volodya2]

I prefer the orchestra.

[Ad0IfHitIer]

no one cares

[Pianisteny2k]

I'm so going to ask my teacher to let me play this!

[John11inch]

I hate this transcription. I just don't feel the voicing allows for the dramatic power the orchestral version has.

[Pianisteny2k]

I don't think it's anything reallyn wrong with the transcription, but some glissandi. I think the pianist is.. well, good enough. He's obviously got the technique, but it's kind of boring. It's bald mountain, he plays it like if it were some hill in what ever-land

[John11inch]

Ahaha... I don't think it's any fault of *Boris Berezovsky* if we're complaining about lack of power. That guy breaks keys like Midori breaks strings.

I just feel that a lot of the writing is fairly superfluous in all the wrong places, empty in the wrong places, particularly in the first half of the piece. The chords in the RH marked staccato, with the extremely simple and sprase melody line in the LH just can't convey the sort of temultuousness the orchestral version can.

[matarocieros]

This transcription is great, but I dont know why in this video Berezovsky doesn't play it how it must be. There are another vidoe in youtube where he plays it better, and some other pianists do it better than Berezovsky.

[5610winston]

We must remember that when this was written, there were no iPods, or even phonographs. If you wanted to hear this music, you had to wait for a local orchestra to play it, or else find a transcription and thy to plow through it.

This performance is nothing short of electrifying!

[Zawicki1]

lol when you said phonographs it look like something else at first...but good point.

[scriabinwasmydad]

let me comment again : f*****g superb!!!! I was listening to the orchestral version today on LP, no words to describe it!

thank you !

[JCHBONNET]

I agree. The writing is extremely precise, nervous and Berezovsky's sound is as "dry" as it should be. Liszt would not have done better !

[ThaSchwab]

Perfect transcription.

[scriabinwasmydad]

love it! xD

[lensherr82]

Excellent! Thanks for posting!