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  • very very well done.

  • 3:52 watch the gal in the orchestra bending over laughing 8P

  • Man, I love this so much. The comedy is great, but I love the violinist so much as well. Bello!

  • wait, were the audiences aware of it??

  • @Israel9068 That's the first thing I thought! Were they aware at how amazing it was! :D

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  • this made me smile :)

  • Victor does the smart thing and lets the violin be the star of this performance.  His improvisation is just the bed on which the violin is built. Just amazing.

  • Best ever performance of Czardas!

  • Bless him...so funny...

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  • Great players can play almost anything easily, but only masters can make it funny.

  • This doesn't even sound like an improv.

  • @TheUberOmfg12333 If you have a discerning ear, there were four very tiny mistakes as his fingers hit four double keys throughout the 2nd and third movements. This was an improv, but God masters are masters.

  • @TheUberOmfg12333 not the melody, the piano.

  • Mesmerizing. I will never forget watching his videos when my family would go see my grandparents during holidays when I was little.

  • noooooooooo I clicked the dislike on accident. I got distracted.

  • @waitingformypopcorn That's a refreshing and honest admission. These things happen. Thanks for stating it; I'd like to think all 'dislikes' are made similarly - especially for this clip..

  • I love how Borge is so bouncy about it!

  • It's so much fun to watch true masters of their instruments just playing around.

  • The violinist's playing is so beautiful, I don't know how he kept his nerve with Borge pulling those funny faces!

  • not 2 like Victor borges

    really a master pianist

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    victor's face is amazing!

  • the never ending dream

  • There's just so much joy in his playing...

  • I love victor Borges concerts .. He is to funny.. :):)

  • This is utterly amazing

  • I love that ornament in the beginning!

  • 32 people are now, sadly, suffering a humour by pass

  • Have been introducing my elementary school students to Victor Borge. They ask every week to see a new video of him because he's "so awesome." Makes my heart warm. :)

  • It's so amazing that he improved this without ever playing the actual accompaniment! My favorite pianist :D

  • so freakin awesome

  • the violinist was excellent!

  • incredible! The violinist was very good too

  • Incredible, for sure a piece that's been performed 'on the spot'. Very cool how the 'mistakes' evolve like it's supposed to be played that way. That's only to be learned in experience of years and years. Great musicians, incredible performing.

  • Absolutely brilliant....

  • 3:46 - 3:50 fur elise!!

  • improvising to those that don't know what the word means is.....IT'S ALL MADE UP AT THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT.....Victor just through it all together with

    no practice......amazing man. I'm sure he asked "what keys are we playing in?"

    That's all you really need to know. The man is a genius.

  • Just joy!

  • Victor Borge may be one of the coolest musicians to come along, his style is inimitable and his talent is refined and raw at the same time. He reads the audience and makes his music work for him and with him! The Master at play!!

  • Shredders make guitars cry. Masters make instruments talk.

  • Yeah I think it was truely improvised. Almost anyone can play the piano and up to a high standard too, but few are MASTERS of the instrument. I believe Victor Borge was a master of the piano.

  • Simply outstanding.

  • @Otacon, (to revive an old subtext), I like to think of the difference between playing an instrument and making music. One can have virtuoso-level mastery of an instrument, and never acquire a tenth of the soul of the relatively sloppy Rubinstein. But I'd rather listen to Arthur. And this piece was packed chock full of sheer joy

  • @Chuck: I don't think they ran through it before: their discussion looked too much like the ones I've had discussing how to tackle a piece familiar but unplayed (a recent gig I played detoured from the blues to soul: I'd never considered playing Superstition from S. Wonder on steel, but the band didn't believe I'd never even attempted it). This makes me wonder if he'd ever ventured into jazz

  • Admittedly, I don't come from the classical world (my main instrument didn't exist til 1956), and don't know the piece. But as the piano mainly provides rhythm and "fills" (or at a couple points they were trading twos), I see no reason to doubt the claim. Both cats had the expression of jazzmen delighting in a jam going well.

  • lovely cute performers!

  • wonderful, absolutely wonderful. This is why I love youtube.

  • Victor was a RARE talent. How can you not like him?

  • omg. Lady Gaga based the violin part in the intro to Alejandro off this violin part, it's just a different key!!!!!!!!

  • I can never go back to the original Csardas now :(.

    At 3:16, anyone else notice the Wrong note etude?

  • 2:24 to 2:50 is amazing! God bless theese guys!

  • I loooove him !!!!

  • Que buenooo

    Si colega este es un pianista.

  • Que buenooo

    Si colega este es un pianista.

  • Awesome! :) 

  • Definitely was techical mastery, no doubt about that. I never said Mr. Borge "lied", i think he just stretched the truth a tad, meaning he probably heard the song hundreds of times, and maybe ran through "parts of the song", knowing at what poing the appropriate changes would be made. Both fantastic musicians. Good Luck to King at college

  • thank god he got out before hitler got his hooks into him

  • @Chuck88keys As a classical musician, I would tend to agree wholeheartedly with you, but I can also agree with KingSn0man as well. However, I would be willing to bet these guys are familiar with each others style as well as they probably have worked together at least once before. Did you notice how often Mr. Kontra threw off Mr. Borge? The thing that makes it truly amazing is that this is just a session of goofing off, and they exhibit extreme control and technical mastery throughout it all.

  • And you have how many years in playing keyboards "professionally"? Anything is possible, like i said before, but i'd still BET they ran thru it at least once before the performance "Guaranteed" Musicians normally do that, especially if they haven't worked together before, or if it's just to be sure to get the right "changes" when they occur. Yeah, it's July 2, and is it "possible" that it might snow tomorrow? of course. ( i hope not )

  • @Chuck88keys I definitely agree with YoungTrumpeteer. There are plenty of things suggesting that they did not play this piece perfectly in sync with each other. But I don't think Borge would lie about not having planned an encore and doing this act "spontaneously." And you are correct in assuming that I have not played professionally, however this Fall I will be majoring in college as a piano performance. (Although I also hope that it doesn't snow either)

  • Anythig is possible i guess We all know he had perfect-pitch ear  One thing i will say they "had" to have a discussion about the piece prior to playing it, but not very much We do know that the program was "planned" They could have done a 5-minute practise session before the show........and i think they did Still, it was enjoyable

  • @Chuck88keys I'm not sure how much you know about actually playing classical music, but with a strong background of music theory, its entirely possible to do something like this as long as he is familiar with how the piece goes and what key signature it is in. Also he has had 78 years of practice at that point so it is completely plausible that this was, in fact, his first time playing it.

  • absolute genius!!!

  • i play piano and violin. wish i was as good fidller as that :)

  • A great lesson for many musicians : PLAY, first of all! Have fun! 

  • Do you believe everything you hear? I just watched/listened to the video again I suppose i could agree that even though he may have not EVER played it, he is very familiar with the song to the point while he did a decent little intro and was right-on beat with the violinist.. Again, that's what he said. Believe it if you want to

  • @Chuck88keys Conspiracy theory, u like it?

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  • @Chuck88keys I think you underestimate Mr Borge`s knowledge off all types of usic and have you considerd that he just might have a good ear and can improvise with anything he hears ?

  • Chuck88keys, well... or he could just have heard it before... and possibly have a good ear

  • Whoever said Borge played Czardas with this violinist without ever playing this song first is dead "wrong" He knew what to do and when to do it. In order to do that, you have to know the song, or lie back a bit and play follow the leader with the violinist. I've played the song many times ( it's an easy one in D Minor ) Trust me, Victor knew it well.

  • @Chuck88keys He himself stated it in the DVD, just before this clip, so you're wrong.

  • my point was to clarify to people that did NOT know he was a child prodigy. Just because YOU said he was a Master on the piano does NOT necessarily make him a child prodigy. Some people learn to play when at a later age. Understand now?

  • When masters get together..!

    

  • How can this not make you smile? The world lost a great man when he died, but heaven is richer!

  • borge > gaga, btw what is the original called? the first song they play (alejandro tune)

  • @ansonwarrior ohhh, i tought i know it but i still didn't know of what.... thanks!!!! i am a big fan of lady gaga

  • Is he still alive and performing? Does anyone know where to get a dvd or something or his?

  • @twistersdude I think he's dead, but DVDs of him definitely exist. Try Amazon or other sites like that.

  • @twistersdude He died december 23th 2000. R.I.P

  • I agree with you all. Victor Borge was a true master pianist. Definitely one-of-a-kind. :) Here's a side bit of trivia: Did you know that the "timid page turner" was Victor's son Ronald? :)

  • Damn this is maybe the coolest improv i seen in a while.

  • The true gift of Victor Borge was his "ear" for music, coupled with an understanding of how the piano could be used for any purpose. Absolutely amazing.

  • 30 mensen hebben geen gevoel voor humor

    30 people have no sense of humor

  • @MultiRosie12 31?

    

  • @MultiRosie12

    Ik denk dat het er tegenwoordig 32 zijn!

    I think that nowadays there are 32!

  • @StraatkatJebus jep, ben je engels of nederlands...........

    ik ben nederlands

  • @MultiRosie12 that or they don't like Pianists.

  • This is brilliant

  • it makes me happy to just see this. I never get tired of it!

  • Not sure if I believe the story, but that was awesome regardless.

  • I love it when musicians play WITH their instruments/music and have fun with it.

  • 30 people don't know what funny is. I feel sorry for them.

  • this one always brings a smile to my face :)

  • That violin guys amazing and he only looks half interested in what his fingers are doing!

  • Sei Un GRANDE!!!! Grazie delle risate che mi hai fatto fare!!!!!

  • 1. Truly amazing!

    2. Truly beyond me how anyone would dislike this... ???

  • A-FRIKKIN-MAZING... I have got the largest grin on my face, this is sheer brilliance Mr Victor Borge was and for ever shall be a GENIUS of the first order... FABULOUS :0)x

  • what piece is the piano part at 3:43 from?

  • @microschrott50 It was an improvisation

  • Just gotta love this!!!!!! LMPO = laughing my pants off :))

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  • @alanafelix10 Nope, Alejandro's introduction looks like *this*

  • @dnine14 Sorry, let me explain, that’s not exactly what I mean. I kown that this came first. Thanks (:

  • The days of that type of aristocratic insouciant savoir faire are numbered. We are losing that old world and those brilliant people, and who is there to take their place??

  • @danandmary11 justin bieber.......

  • my god borge was a fucking genius

  • i cant believe someone with this much talent exists....

    i'd like to think i'm a good pianist, but i feel like theres galaxies-worth of distances in terms of talent.

    amazing.

  • @airbawl1 This is probably true. On the other hand, this guy just turned eighty in this video! Think of all the practice!

    We'll get there. Don't get discouraged.

  • Genius! 

  • amazing

  • someone can tell me the title of the song?

  • @Giravotaefurria84 Czardas

  • You've gotta love the 5 different endings when he thinks it's done, but picks up and keeps going! =D

  • hahah his face everytime he's like 'wait, there's more?!?'

  • maestro...

  • OMG!

  • dude..like wow

  • dude..

  • The progression of this video is what makes you truly appreciate the talent that Victor had, not just for piano but for performing in general. The video starts with Anton as the focus. Buy 2 minutes, Victor has the crowd's full attention. By 3:44 theres no doubting who the star is. Raw talent is one thing - what separates Victor is showmanship. Truly one of a kind.

  • @Kintarra I couldn't agree with your statement more.

  • Two genius.

  • I know that I'm selfish cause I never want this encore to end :D

  • This is what I call two master instrumentalists having a chat.

  • That facial expression's so cute xD

  • Victor was a genius!!

  • its like they're having a duel.

  • when Victor is smiling, I try not to piss my pants

  • r.i.p victor! danskernes stolthed.

  • why are Jews always so talented?

  • @danielcraig4ever I think many of them have an extraordinary work ethic. Talent is actually not rare. But talent combined with excellent training and very hard work IS rare.

  • @loydsheryl Brilliant comment.

  • @danielcraig4ever - What a daft thing to say.

  • Really the essence of cool.

  • woooonnderfuuuulll!!!!!!!!!!! makes me laugh without words, that's what music is able to, here is the best proof=)=) thank u for posting, just great=)

  • Wow.... I've never seen a Classical improvising before since its soo freakin rare nowadays.

    Thanks alot for this video.

  • Victor Borge was a true musical genius! the violinist was also very good

  • Victor Borge was a true musical genius!

  • Some men are musicians. Men like Victor Borge are songs.

  • @Otacon144 What bullshit is that :p I guess you expected some thumbs up xd

  • @t720745 - it can't be bullshit if it's true.

  • @Otacon144 I don't get it...

  • @L02T - Think on it a bit. It'll come to you.

  • @t720745 Actually I understand it now. Musicians plays instruments in a systematic way and produce songs. Victor Borge represents the song itself. He has not played this piece ever, but it seems he knows the song inside out. He then is not a musician playing the piano off muscle memory and recalling his sheet music. He is one with the song.....

  • @L02T - :)

  • @t720745 - Shh. Adults are talking.

  • Oh he´s my all time favourite piano player. So funny and great at improvising. I´ve seen him perform once in the 60´s in Sweden. He was just marvellous! This one must be playlisted straight away!

    Maggan

  • Imagine to BE THERE!

    :[

    Never going to happen.

    Music genius (GENIUS PERIOD) seems like a dying breed.

  • this is AMAZING!!!

  • i play both violin and piano- Borge is so cute with his fun here, but thats some damn good violinist :D

  • The Begining sounds like Lady Gaga's Alejandro

  • @kukoruzjezakon You are right!!!!!!! It does to me too.

  • @kukoruzjezakon Gaga sampled this Czardas piece for Alejandro, she didn't write it.

  • This is the pure magic!!!!

  • He's 80 in this video? I would have guessed 60's.

  • @Edwardcbiv

    Good job, you just thought that Anton is Victor.

    Congrats.

  • That is JUST BRILLIANT!!!!!! . a musical genius

  • I'm not sure if many people know that Victor B. (and Leonard Bernstein too) were two of the greatest pianists of the our time!

  • @radiokid2 So was Leonid Hambro who performed with Victor Borge on many ocassions.

  • That's 'improv' on the piano?? Oy vey! This genius Victor Borge was the cream of the crop!!!

  • cant understand 2 things: how can they play that and how can someone dislike this video

  • @borec250 Because some people dont recognize two masters in their own right having some fun.Got a lot of morons out there.

  • If I could favorite this 100 times I would, and I'd want to favorite it again.

  • @snapf00 Um- yes... I am so humbled right now...

  • this is how i hope to improvise in three years lol but WOW borge never ceases to amaze me. and good improv is always a plus, escellent performance :D

  • Oh my god this is so amazing.

  • Does anyone know where the source of this upload can be found? A higher quality recording in other words?

  • It must be staying active and filled with beauty that keeps musicians doing so well at fairly advanced ages!

    MrKipW -- good reminder!

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  • brilliant. The man is actually Danish you know..

  • I'm so relieved that this was filmed ;P

  • This is two professionals at such a high level that they can screw around with a very tough piece and make it something to remember for decades to come.

    This is a masterpiece in its own rite... both in a comedic way, but also a display of some of the best in their instruments.

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  • 1:41 kernel sanders i nhe background

  • love at 3:37 !! :D fantastic... ;)

  • Victor Borge, was pretty funny and great pianist also!!:).

  • Victor Borge, for all of his comedic genious, was a truly great pianist also.