Nimrod

[Gae41]

Thanks for all the comments. Just to clarify though....the music is taken from the Novello Edition of Elgar's Variations Opus 36 Piano Solo. It is also available as a Solo version of Nimrod from Novello. It is not my own arrangement.

[swmorrow]

Just stunning. I loved your arrangement.

[Alexe2damoney]

sounds great man...a little fast at points but i think with some parts of this piece thats not necessarily a bad thing. i get the chills when i hear nimrod played well and i just got 'em!

[lionhearte1]

Are you an organist by any chance...?

[Jinglelegs]

You play this gorgeous piece with true feeling and musicality. Its yearning quality certainly brings a lump to my throat.

[giacolle]

Good version on a piano!

[poshaholic]

Amazing, a bit too fast but still amazing!!!

[horngeek8D]

maybe phrase the line and not punctuate every single note...

[Harlequin374]

@horngeek8D He does. How can you not hear it?

[horngeek8D]

@Harlequin374 to my personal view, there are times it just does not reflect the flow that is in the orchestral part. if you listen around 32 sec. and building to the climax it just feels too separated. idk I just love the orchestral piece, I just don't feel that it is the same on piano.

[edwinli227]

Good job. Kinda hard to play like mairzyd said if its on an electric piano.

[Infloresence]

not wishing to be too harsh but it sounded too 'punchy'...

[billace90]

Bravo, excelente. Magnifica interpreatcion de Nimrod, felicitaciones. Cinco estrellas.

[antissan]

Waw!! I like it very much! This is a very personal expression, congratulations!

[Subass32]

I had never heard this on piano, but you did a really nice job!

[werewethere]

Excellent job, especially given that this is hard to capture the majesty of it on a keyboard.

[LittleMan171]

the tempo is just a bit to fast tbh but there technical side is really good

[andrewsurtees]

makes you proud to be british..

[AsSomedayItMayHappen]

Also, this is very good tempo wise and in terms of accuracy. The only flaw here is that its on a digital keyboard. With full volume, that buildup would be so much more effective.

[romandhug]

merveilleuse interprétation, bravo!

[yellownocturne]

Um, could you possibly tell me the tempo you played at?

[clhscabandgeek32]

i think the tempo for this piece is 60. at least when i played it thats the tempo we took it at.

[MomijiLover93]

the tempo on our sheet music is like 54 xP

but on a piano you'd probably have to take it faster considering the technical aspect of it...

we're playing some enigma variations in orchestra =D

NOBODY MSG ME WITH RANDOM CRAP ABOUT YOUR CHANNEL

[Maasikas77777]

My favourite piece. Makes me cry.

[yaketyzax]

Loved it broseph. Keep up the great work. Let me know whose arrangement that is, would you? I'd like to get my paws on it. Love love love this piece. :)

[passacaglia28]

Well done. :D

[socinneide]

I enjoyed this alot, i've been looking all over the web for free sheet music of this piece do you know is there any available?

[AsSomedayItMayHappen]

If you would like a transcription of this piece, I have one, just send a private message.

[saqmatit]

i like this a lot. thank you for posting it.

[germanmusician]

I will agree that it's a bit fast, but as far as the mechanical aspect of it, I wouldn't say it's half as bad as most say here. 1 - you're on a digital keyboard, explaining the majority of it, and 2 - You're playing with SOME expression, to say the least.

Thanks for the post, and please send me a link or a copy of the music if at all possible!

[jim45879]

Maybe the tempo was a bit higher than normal, but lovely none the less.

Such a unique piece of music.

[WOLFSTEINERMANN]

To fast!!!!

[letsgetrocked89]

agreed!.. played very well, but would be a lot better if played that little bit slower.

[redbullhead]

OH MY GOD

You murdered it

[FugginBarstod]

He was doing a trance/house tempo version

Just needed to play it using a pad sound or synth strings rather than a piano

[petebj123]

A Percy Grainger arrangement!!!

[kshell11724]

Well played.

[ofbullet]

an extremely valiant attempt.

nothing can compare to the way it was meant to be played (orchestral), but that was a damned good effort..

bravo

[christopherbreach]

Have you got a tutorial of this?

[78timothy]

It is always a sign of great music when it is:

1/ Well performed

2/ Stands the test of time

3/ Beautiful

4/ Noble

This piece has all 4 of these traits. It will never go out of fashion or become old.

Always immortal. That is what Elgar gave this world as his testament.

Whether he knew it or not.

[pajuila998]

nimmrrrrrooooddd corrraaaddooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zimbelstern62]

Very nice.  Digital piano sounds really nice too. Thanks!

[1234raindrop]

lovely. Please if possible send me music score.

[stepasb]

Excellent work. Where to find the music to be? Thanks in advance :-)

[Xavier34111]

if you feel like it can you send me this music please?

[Moles76p]

Noa had 3 sons Sem(semitas)Kam, and Jafet. Kam's son was Kus who's son was Nimrod (NIBURTA)

Nimrod was the First (sumerian)king on the world and also was the greatest hunter.NIMROD was the father of Hunor and Magor!Their ancestors slill living in the heart of Europe in Hungary. They call theirselfs Magyars. Nimrod was the (Babel)tower builder and in those times all the people spoke Nimrod's language.

But fom that point God mixed the language. Hungarians still speaking the ancient Magyar language

[brachj]

beautiful. this is a beautiful interpretation of a beautiful piece. Nothing else to say

[88SPIKE]

My last comment was directed at Linz748916

[johnnynoirman]

hey nimrod

keep up the good work!

[arcturian627]

You could use a little more rubato to make it sound less mechanical. Otherwise, great, you nailed most of the chords ^w^

[Puddingloves]

Is this a digital piano? It can explain why the piece sounded mechanical.

[robertlouisdunn]

A bit methodical,as though it was being played blind off sheet music,instead of from the heart.IMO.

[Keytaster]

sorry, but bloodless and mechanical

[jamesnorman1981]

That's a bit harsh! It can't be easy to express a full orchestra on just one instrument. However, if and when I learn this (sometime in the next couple of years or so on piano) I would try and put a bit more emotion into the rendition. Still, it's a fantastic transcription of a very difficult piece of music - I've tried it on the guitar and it certainly isn't easy!

[Keytaster]

you're right, it's harsh, but true. It's so difficult to give music emotion and that's at least for me crucial if you want to play any piece. Regarding this wonderful music I think you have to play it gracefully and with elegance. and of course with grandeur. it's music that can raise you. you have to play it like that. good luck for learning this piece

[mairzyd]

I agree: bloodless and mechanical playing, too marcato and also too fast. This music should be noble, profound and spiritually uplifting. However, because Gae41's written interpretation, posted below, is so much more expressive of this piece, his/her playing might simply be a function of clumsy technique, rather than any lack of musical feeling. He/she gets points for recognizing the beauty of the music, and for being brave enough to post it at all.

[Olibutters]

Tempo is too fast, and you should let the sound "ends" (vanish in a way, in order not to mask the next theme by the precedent one, makes the melody confusing).

But good pianistic skills however !

[hjiuhfhrehui]

great

[softballchick174]

we are playing this is our marching band show, its hard, but fun

[Linz748916]

Ignore the comments about speed and rejoice in the fact it's being played by so many people around this fucked up world we live in!

A constant reminder of my home country which is now so saldy fucked up

[88SPIKE]

I wonder why, when such a serious piece of music is being played, why single brain cell inarticulate morons like you have to use words like that. If you are unable to express yourself without resorting to foul mouthed grunting then I suggest you crawl back under your stone, form a scab and drop off

[henriquebotelho]

This is the most beautiful song ever composed by a human being. This person has no expression at all to play it. He/she has the "technique", but no feeling at all. When you play a song like that, you MUST give your soul to it, and not just simply "press the keys".

[11wahiba12]

Elgar wrote a series of pieces inspired by or dedicated to some friends. this piece was written for a friend named Jaeger, which translated into english (from the German) is "hunter".

10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. Genisis 10.9

[withnailweevil]

...erm Dre97 Elgar wrote the Enigma Variations in 1898-9 and died in 1934...

[mensuur]

Very well done! Perhaps it'd sound better on a real piano! People seem to be saying it's way too fast but I think it's a good speed, seeing as we don't have an orchestra, just a soloist. It'd sound quite dull if it were slower.

[jkhalsa]

I am a violinist who has fallen in love with this piece again after having played it 40 years ago in an orchestra. Can you as a musician say what makes this piece so special? I hear some church cadences in the harmonies, like in some hymns and amens. But can you say more? I consider this the most beautiful piece I've heard in a long time and have begun playing it wherever I go visiting friends and serenading them. Sometimes I fiddle the piano harmony and sing the melody best as I can!

[Gae41]

jkhalsa...good question. I think it has that yearning quality within the rising and descending intervals. At first the music is tentative as though testing the water. Every time we strive for new heights, illustrated by rising 6ths, we fall back further i.e. descending 7ths. We are brought down to Earth as a reminder of our fragility. Finally though, we reach ourgoal as the music reaches the triumphant climax. The constant striving and yearning of the human soul to reach new heights.

Gae41

[jkhalsa]

Thanks for the elegant words. Well put! I"m going to copy them onto my score so I can tout the gospel of Nimrod when I introduce it to people.

[jkhalsa]

The Barenboim/CSO version has been a lightning rod for political comment. I quoted your answer here up there, I hope you don't mind. I want people there to know solidly that there is so much to talk about this music per se, and the emotions and feelings it evokes, that there should be no tolerance for petty bickering over which country of the world or which race is supreme. I don't claim this Elgar is a panacea for what's wrong in the world, but it has given me hope and solace.

[edwinli227]

@Gae41 do u think u can get send me sheet music of this song????

[ASAngelo]

Well put!

A.

[bobareebop]

@jkhalsa Yes, that yearning quality and the nobility that pervades so much of Elgar's music. You are communing with Elgar's soul when you play this. Speaking of singing it, I once heard the St. Olaf Choir do a choral version of this with words.

[Tamothi]

beautifulm, but u really gotta slow that down. It sounds good but u its WAY to fast

[barbrossa21]

I wish i had a keyboard set up like that.

It is played beautifully, i agree, its a different way of playing it. It was written to be played about half that speed however.

[billcampa]

People writing about the tempo...really, it is wonderful and I don't know what they are talking about. You did a beautiful job, and I am in tears as I write this. Well played.

[mvca5]

that is nonsense!

[AlwaysReading2]

This is amazing...great job.

[russhargreaves]

briliant

[YogaNate79]

I wonder what this would sound like on a pipe organ. Does anyone know why Edgar's 9th Enigma Variations is played on Remembrance Day in England every year?

[blindpugh12]

Yes it would sound great on a pipe organ, No, I don't know why we play it on Remembrance Day, only  that to me, a 56 year old Brit, this piece just seems to fit the bill perfectly, rather like Barber's Adargio for Strings. BP

[Dre97]

Im pretty sure it is because this is Edwards last song, he wrote it on his death bed.

I wish I was in England to hear it.

[Gae41]

Thanks fivemanual...its the Kurtzweil RG200 digital Piano. I bought it because I loved the "Grand Piano" sampled sound and at the time I lived in a flat and wanted to practice into the early hours without bothering the neighbours...lol. I still love playing it but with the depreciation of electronic instruments, I couldn't afford to upgrade to as equally good a sounding Acoustic even if I wanted to. I'm very happy with this digital piano at the moment and it suits my needs.

Cheers

Gae41

[fivemanual]

OK, Gae41! You seem to be in total control. I've been teaching and performing for over 50 years, and I say, the tempo of this piece(within reason) is up to the player depending on the instrument used. I recognize your top keyboard as a digital, but aren't you play on an acoustic? If not, you've got me fooled. What is it? By the way, great job!

[joeslifeyork]

nicely done, but you need to slow it down quite a lot. it looses it's meaning when played fast. but thanks for posting mister.

[flashdestroyer]

lol too fast...use damper or something and make it slower

[Ravenelvenlady]

Well played. Thank you.

[himmy0169]

awesome...... I love it....

[Kelsy323]

i'd have to say this is AMAZING.

i'm playing this in orchestra right now, though not as fast.

it sounds beautiful with an orchestra, as well as a piano.

good job.

:)

[jannokas85]

WOW, you play this very well! You have the perfect technique...such clarity in your touch!

[Gae41]

Thanks meggabigpants, you hit the nail right on the head. This is a piano performance of "Nimrod" and the piano doesn't "sustain" like the strings of an orchestra. If I'd played it at the tempo of the orchestral version people would be saying its "way too slow" for the piano. I guess you cant win with some people.

Gae41

[amadeus2490]

Well, a sampled digital instrument isn't going to have sustain, or resonance; it's just going to be a looped, stretched sample that unnaturally fades, or even worse: just stops. I think if you had a very well crafted piano with a good soundboard. . .you'd have a very rich sustain and overtones that would probably carry this tune.

[meggabigpants]

I play this and its hard to go as slow as written, the piano doesnt flow like bowed strings, he is really good though, got me trying to get mine better, nice piano sound too. Great respect for you.

[tubatubatubatub]

omg WAY to fast

[hedgehod]

too fast

tooooooooooooo fast.

[detectiveconan1]

i love this piece!

[richmondboyz]

Gae41,

Great job. I cry every time I hear that great piece of music. Thanks, man. You play it well with the passion and dynamincs just as Elgar meant it to be played. Did you ever try it on the organ? It's hard to play but but sounds great with the foot pedals playing the bass notes; I know you can do it.

[nimordo]

nice ^^

[richmondboyz]

It's in E flat I think

[richmondboyz]

The digital/electronic keyboard can never sound as good as the real thing, but Gae41 plays this piece really well and does it justice. I'm just picky because I'm a pianist/organist. This is one of my very favorite pieces of music. Thanks

[15hotel]

Rly good. This piece sounds good on the organ as well.

[landtecland]

an excellent piece of music, as haunting as ever

[Harry81sx]

An electric piano will never reach the intensity of soud of a "real" piano, it always souns somehow mechanic...

[Readd1]

Know what you mean - you can really hear that on the recording. Good arrangement though and well played!

[pooljunkie2]

Is this your own arrangement? I only ask because I came up with a piano arrangement some years back....

[Gae41]

The music is taken from the Novello Edition of Elgar's Variations Opus 36 Piano Solo. It is also available as a Solo version of Nimrod from Novello. I found it easily at Musicroom. Mine is an old copy I picked up second hand many years ago.

Gae41

[ejiblabahaba]

Someday I'm going to play piano that beautifully.

[Gae41]

Thank you very much ejiblabahaba.

Its never too late to learn or get better with your own playing.

Gae41

[richmondboyz]

I'm curious - is that a 2-manual synth, or an acoustic piano with the synth on top? Anyway, you play that beautifully. I love that piece of music. It's great on the pipe organ, too. Keep up the great work.

[Gae41]

Thanks Richmondboyz. It's actually a digital piano with a keyboard resting on top. I have both midi-ed up to a computer for recording/saving of music.

[richmondboyz]

Of course you will. Keep loving music and keep practicing.

[Timms86]

lovely work, was it a difficult one to learn??

[jimchenko]

beautiful. sounds great on piano. i'm only just getting into elgar

[cris750]

I like this very much in Symphonic form. The Pianist rendition is excellent. Unfortunate that it is now used for a tragic event rather than a potentially uplifting event or change in the world. Anyway, this I used to keep me motivated before ppl started playing it out after 9/11 events. Controlled my rage within and keeped it focused. Ofcourse, brilliant.

[SlugThumper]

Interesting point. For me (if this makes sense) this music is about both sadness and happiness at the same time - sadness that someone has gone, but happiness that they lived. Of course, it is different interpretation for everyone.

[todddutton]

Thank you for playing this piece of music so beautifully.

[SmiertSpionem]

Oh seriously good!

[alibum83]

i just watced crush and also felt like i needed to hear it again! such a beautiful piece.

[Linz748916]

I'm glad I'm not the only person to have seen the wonderful Film4 film Crush. Beautifully payed by Andi McDowell, Anna Chancellor & Imelda Staunton. I'm not afraid to say I cried through most of it. The scene where AM is looking wistfully out of the window at school assembly with Nimrod playing in the background is heart breaking. Best regards Simn in Germany

[CarlyDillon51]

Nice, I enjoyed it

[callywallydoodle]

i Love this song, it makes me cry.

its on the fiml crush really beautiful :)

[neil73]

Nice work. Is this available (sheet music) online anywhere?

[Gae41]

The music is taken from the Novello Edition of Elgar's Variations Opus 36 Piano Solo. It is also available as a Solo version of Nimrod from Novello. I found it easily at Musicroom. Mine is an old copy I picked up second hand many years ago.

Gae41

[amme9nowlin]

That was beautiful. Well done!

[EnigmaComposer]

i am salivating....

[CynicdarK]

...brilliant

[joness105639]

nice but a bit too fast. Slow it down a bit and put more feeling into it and start quiet and then let it build to a crescendo.

[xFata1xGh0stx]

Nice. Our high school band played the Theme, five movements including Nimrod, and the Finale of Engima this year. It's an awesome piece but one of the hardest I've played.

[ArchieWW]

Superbly well played - and an excellent clear video picture too.

[RomoGreenEyez05]

very nice...i love this piece...my orch is doing this piece (full orchestra) its amazing...

[davetoone12]

nice version loses the key a bit early but makes a good recovery

[philosoful]

Can't believe this hasn't had more views/responces unless it's been uploaded recently, that was brilliant.