Enjoy Вивальди "времена года" Лето-3часть, the Russian boy accordion genius. It's all in the head shake. Once you get that down, the rest is easy.
Previously:
- Afghanistan: Peace Through Accordions - Boing Boing
- Video of accordion player from Minority Orchestra - Boing Boing
- London Monument to disppear into the guts of monstrous accordion ...
- Digital Accordion - Boing Boing
- Brian Biggs' accordion site - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Terrorizing popstars with an accordion
- Accordioning sofa - mindblowing video - Boing Boing
- Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" - Boing Boing
- 25 minute composition: "The Most Unwanted Song" - Boing Boing
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Oh man... If this kid ever comes to the international accordion festival here in San Antonio, I'm there. maybe I can get him to play that song while I give my girlfriend a diamond ring.
"Accordian" and "genius" in the same sentence. Interesting.
I'm a longtime fan of accordion music and have heard and seen more awesome players than I can count. But this guy is astounding. Great find. I've tried to play the Russian push-button accordion before and could only get it to wheeze and fart. It's a very difficult instrument to play and make sound good.
This is awesome. Somebody knows if he has an album out, or if there are mp3s around?
I would seriously buy this kid's album. Drop dead serious. I absolutely love the orchestral sound of his playing. Wow. Just...wow.
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Vivaldi, from "The Four Seasons" for those who can't read Russian (or recognize the classics.)
Considering Вивальди = Vivaldi, looks like that's the name of the piece and not the name of the boy wonder. But man, I wish I could play an instrument that well.
As someone who has played accordion and concertina (though not bayan, which is the proper name for this variety of button accordion), the only thing I find frustrating about this video is that YouTube's audio and video synch are often not very good. Makes trying to watch the details of his fingering rather more difficult than it should be.
Remember, accordion was the synth of its time -- a portable keyboard with multiple voices.
That is some serious talent!
Weird Al was seen crying after watching this.
pssst, that russian text isn't his name, it's the name of the music he's playing (Vivaldi's four seasons, as the comment above me says).
#5) Yes, Vivaldi, but the Russian term is just "the seasons" - it must be assumed that everyone knows how many there are.
My wife walked in when I was playing this clip, and said "My god that's and accordion?, I thought it was an organ!"
Kid's crazy good I would love to hear him wail out Rach 3!
Jeez, looks like this kid plays mostly classical music-- some of his other videos are Bach, Albinoni, Rachmaninov, and (of course) Tchaikovsky.
But it's the balloons that make the video, face it.
"Играй, мой баян!"
I prefer the lilting, expressive and rapid style of Alexander Dmitriev.
Seen here playing Figaro from The Barber of Seville:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIMWNNY2LY
i bet he could wail on a pair of iPhones with Guitar Hero
Awesome, amazing. God I love the world
@14 Gainclone: Did you check out the same guy's Flight of the Bumblebee?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVbuIZ-5-8o&feature=related
pretty spectacular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUxVrbWwkc
As soon as he gets laid, he'll stop caring about the accordion and all this will be but a memory. One day he'll be at his job at the beet cannery, and someone will say, "comrade, are you the accordion genius from the American website the YouTube", and he'll say "once upon a time, comrade".
Maybe he could try playing a harmonic at the same time
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2874/accordionfarsidecartoon.gif
Give that boy a Nintendo!
First of all, this is not accordion. This is a bayan. Second, I spent 8 years in music school playing bayan. Playing stuff like this was rather normal. On my final exam you had to play 3 pieces like this. My choices were Bach - toccata and fuga in d minor, Flight of the bumble bee (a 59 seconds peice), and Moonlite sonnata
That was astounding.
That's one heck of a bar mitzvah.
"As soon as he gets laid, he'll stop caring about the accordion and all this will be but a memory. One day he'll be at his job at the beet cannery, and someone will say, "comrade, are you the accordion genius from the American website the YouTube", and he'll say "once upon a time, comrade"."
Hee Hee Hee
If he is the same guy Bilsko, he looks about 30 years older and isn't as good - maybe its the years in the beet cannery that have taken their toll.
Up until seeing the first video, I'd liked the look of accordions, just not the sound. Now, however, I can see they have their uses. And I don't mean that as snarky as it sounds.
@#23 Dear Buzz Killington,
99% of us don't spend 8 years in Bayan school. So it is amazing.
#23 - perhaps you can point us to your accordion, sorry bayan YouTube video?
He's good, I'll give him that; but for my money, Artem Nyzhnyk is the bad boy on the block. Anyone with the immense brass cojones to take on performing Olivier Messiaen's 'Dieu Parmi Nous' on a bayan is either barking, or possessed of a prodigious talent. In view of the link appended below, I'm inclined towards the latter :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8rErqsxvE
He's mad, I tell you... quite mad!
=:~)
Re: my previous post
For comparison, the following link is a performance of the same piece, played on the very organ upon which it was composed and played by the organist who took over the organist's chair at Sainte Trinitie after Messiaen's death, a post he held for over sixty years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGAfTuJQD4
=:~)
Whether or not he's a 'prodigy', and although this is a 'bayan', this performance is way better than "Oleg Sharov plays "Flight of the Bumblebee" on accordion"...
An entire orchestra in a box! My appreciation for this instrument has been boosted immensely. I really like the description of it as a classical synth.
Incidentally, the performer's name is Александр Хрустевич, or Alexander Hrustevich (exact latinized spelling may vary). And that's his youtube account, so just look for other videos from the same user.
Freebird!
To be exact, it's the Winter part of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.