Handel: Largo (Transcription from 'Xerxes')

[bigcity233]

This piece blows me away. Very beautiful - almost other-worldly.

[Mervyn12104]

Absolutely delightful! I have sat and listened to this in a country church grounds and what more can be said - it really is beautifully played.

God bless you

David.

[Kamibambiraptor]

@Mervyn12104

Thank you so much! :-)

[MarryWitch94]

Very beautiful and moving. Well done!

[LexxLemon]

this is my absolute favourite thing to play on the piano, its so beautiful!

[Hakaori]

Thank you so much for posting this! brought back memories from my youth when I played this song in the most primitive fashion on my 30 keys keyboard... do you happen to have the sheets for this piece or can you name the arrangement? Thanks god bless

[Pierricou]

Thank you for this interpretion vhich lead me to play this transcription on my piano!

[Kamibambiraptor]

You're welcome! I am glad to have introduced you to this beautiful piece of music. :-)

[pomberolata]

absolutelly, i put the name to my son xerxes, becasue of this song!!!!!

[ShakespeareHamlet]

absolutely beautiful piece. aside from

"Hallelujah Chorus," "For Unto Us A Child Is Born," & "I Know My Redeemer Liveth" fom

"Messiah" & "Royal Fireworks Music," this is one of Handel's most famous pieces. really good. relaxing, along with "Air" by J.S. Bach. Sad that these two brilliant composers never met, though lived in the same town.

[Kamibambiraptor]

This is a very relaxing piece, very dignified, and grand in the best sense of the word.

[beyondhere]

WONDERFUL.....thank you....my Grandmother used to love playing Largo on our piano....you brought some wonderful memories back to me.

[Kamibambiraptor]

It's a lovely piece, and I'm so glad the performance brought back good memories for you! You will probably be glad to know that the music book I am playing from was my own grandmother's (though I never heard her play this piece). :)

[beyondhere]

You did a wonderful job.....sounded like my Grandmothers version which was fantastic.....thank you again.

[s0701275]

I love this piece :) well played :)

[Kamibambiraptor]

Thank you very much! :)

[TheJoyfulPianist]

what a lovely piece

[Kamibambiraptor]

Yes it is; one that that's brought me a lot of comfort.

[PhosphorDigital]

Lovely, Kami. I'm just blown away by how many things you've posted, and I'm thrilled for you that you have better recording equipment, and that you're really learning how to get the best quality posted to YouTube.

Like Steve said, those river shots remind me also of places where I played and explored growing up. I ought to take the inspiration and revisit those idyllic locales. It's something I miss.

Niiiiiiccccce. :)

[Kamibambiraptor]

:)

It's been a long time waiting, but I am thrilled, too, to finally have some decent sound! Glad that the pictures brought back fond memories for you; it is really quite a nice little river. When the leaves are out, I can almost pretend I am off in Ireland or some such place, & forget I am in a biggish city.

[PhosphorDigital]

Do you mind a suggestion? Too bad, I'm gonna give you one anyway... ;o)

You have a brilliant piano, and a good mic.

Both of them are built for making and capturing good sound.

When you have a fadfing chord or note....please let it fade naturally, as captured by the mic, and don't rollit off in softwarer.

Or, if you do a software fadeout...make it VERY slow. Personally, I love listening to those trailing overtones as the strings come to rest. It kinda hurts to hear them unnaturally cut off

[PhosphorDigital]

...(Continued, cut off because of character limitation)...

...Unless, of course, the sheet music calls for it.

Summonamitch, I wish I could play on keyboards.

Again:

Niiiiiicccce.

[Kamibambiraptor]

I think I DID prematurely trim this video (it cuts off too soon), but I don't do anything with software to the sound other than to trim it (hey, you know I'm a bit of a luddite! ;) ). I agree that a natural fade is much preferable. I like listening to the strings come to a rest: I occasionally just play a chord & listen to it fade until the piano is silent (takes over a minute with this piano). Overtones & resonances...... mmmmmmmmmmmm. :)

[steviejv]

Great playing as usual, Kami. The new mic makes so much difference.

Love the pictures too, they look so much like the rivers and creeks around my part of the world (just north of Sydney N.S.W. Australia)

[Kamibambiraptor]

Glad you liked the video. The new mic does make so much difference! :O

I'd probably like your part of the world; I like little rivers and creeks (they're so much easier to relate to than great rivers ;) ).

[sagalat]

Gorgeous video + music. And YOU are the FIRST to associate The Largo with Handel's many "working visits" to the rivers of South Georgia and North Florida, which informed so much of his music, The Fitzwilliam Sonatas in particular. Well done, Kamibambiraptor -- The Condor has Landed!

[Kamibambiraptor]

Thank you so much! (Doesn't the concert grand sound so much nicer now with a decent mic?? :) )

[sagalat]

Do you insinuate that YOU were playing the concert-grand? You're killing me

[Kamibambiraptor]

Yes, that is me. :) (I only post my own stuff.) I'm probably one of the only YouTuber's with their own concert grand. (I'm not rich at all, but I had a good opportunity, which I took.) My camera doesn't have a mic-in, so I can't have a good recording AND a video at the same time, not yet anyway. What I MIGHT do is take a 'silent' video while I record & do some splicing. (*I did post this piece, earlier, BTW, but with much poorer sound. I've also re-posted Brahm's Intermezzo in A).