Most amazing thing I have seen...musically!

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[rlmorel]

I have seen some amazing musicians, but this kid's performance ranks. I can't remember last time I saw something musical that made my mouth hang open in astonishment, but this one did.

This guy plays Vivalid's Concerto In G Minor (for Violin, String Orchestra and Continuo, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer): III. Presto) on Accordion)

And it isn't just that he plays it...he absolutely smokes it! You have got to see this (linked to YouTube: Kid nails Vivaldi on an accordion!

[rlmorel]

Just Wow.

[rlmorel]

Gaaahhhhh! The other link didn't work...click here to see it.

[GeronL]

an accordian?

[tumblindice]

(Borrowing from a Gary Larson cartoon) I’m convinced that when our friends on the other side of the aisle die and go to Hell, greeting them is a band made up of thousands of bagpipers, banjo players and accordionists.
And they are playing “Baby Elephant Walk.”

[rlmorel]

Actually, I had to look this guy up, and it is a ‘concertina’. I have no idea what the difference is, but...I’m gonna find out...:)

This is a little snippet I found:

Aleksandr Hrustevich, Internet Accordion Star
On the Internet can you become a star overnight; just ask Ukranian accordionist Aleksandr Hrustevich. Late last week, this video of Hrustevich performing the third movement of “Summer” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” swept across the Internet faster than his fingers across his bayan (Russian chromatic button accordion). From NPR to Digg, viewers raved about his performance, mostly along the lines of “Wow, I never knew an accordion could sound like this!” Indeed it can.

[GeronL]

Its been up about a year now. Sounds like an orchestra.

[Humbug]

Yes, amazing. I had no idea the accordion was capable of being played like that.

[rlmorel]

LOL...one of my favorites is the one where the devil is opening the door and says something like “Here is your room, Maestro” and it contains a bunch of kids wearing glasses holding banjos...:)

[proudpapa]

Amazing!

I bet he can play some mean Polka’s!

[rlmorel]

LOL...I definitely don’t see the things that burst onto the Internet scene, that is for sure. It takes me a while...:)

[Yardstick]

Okay, I’m impressed.

[rlmorel]

Heh, I have a vision of a bunch of elderly polka dancers trying to keep up with his polkas...

[rlmorel]

It made my mouth drop open.

I had to look extra careful to make sure it wasn’t some kind of hoax video.

[Jet Jaguar]

Amazing.

[Steelfish]

Thanks!

[firebrand]

Someone told me there is a guy who plays “Flight of the Bumblebee” on a tuba.

[silverleaf]

bttt

[SamAdams76]

Sounds more like a Bach organ piece.

Anyway, why is it that we are only copying what was composed 300-400 years ago? Nobody ever composes anything new anymore.

[Gargantua]

I hate the accordion, but that was no ordinary accordion. Instead of a single row of 24 piano-style keys (as most "accordians" have), this thing had a couple hundred buttons that he was smoking on.

Ridiculous. Amazing. Inhuman.

;-/

[GeronL]

ditto, I am far behind too.

Did ya see the dancing baby? /sarc

[T Minus Four]

Wow! That ain’t no polka!

[colinhester]

Thanks for sharing.....C

[Frantzie]

Unbelievable. It almost sounds like the entire small orchestra used during Vivaldi’s era. Staggering.

[DeFault User]

And now for something really different!

http://fschnell.net/WordPress/?p=1094

[Blind Eye Jones]

He’ll be do Hendrix next.

[MaxMax]

This mans wife will have a very happy life.

[maine-iac7]

Thanks - just the break the doctor ordered -

[papasmurf]

Two amazing things. First, of course, is the ability of this guy. Second, I was just sitting here listening to Vivaldi (Vivaldi's Greatest-The Seasons-LSO), and then I check in at FR, and see your post.

Did you read the comments? I found one that was especially good...

(setup: Some had been belittling his playing an Accordian_

Poster responds:

"What do you do?" she asks, feigning interest...
"I'm a musician..." he replies.
"OH! What do you play?" she asks, trying to feign disinterest.
"The accordion." he replies.
"Oh." She states, not feigning at all.
"Yea, I'm kind of a virtuoso..." he says, picking up his accordion.
.
.
.
By the third measure, she is his.

I'm still smiling.

[shibumi]

OK, ok, but can he make you got to get up and can’t sit still so you gotta go dance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjWZ9OyYdj4

(Laissez le Bontemps Roulez!)

[rlmorel]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I first started watching, I thought “Oh no...they don’t know their mike is picking up the tractor...”

[ThomasThomas]

The Canadian Brass do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_GVUWllP4

[ottbmare]

Fabulous! Who would have dreamed that an accordion could have such an expressive range or produce such sounds? This boy is very talented to have achieved such a performance.

[rlmorel]

"...I was just sitting here listening to Vivaldi (Vivaldi's Greatest-The Seasons-LSO), and then I check in at FR, and see your post. ..."

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm...."

[rlmorel]

LOL...Damn Sam! You ARE hard to please...:)

[papasmurf]

I don't know about that, but if you want to see/hear a great rendition of it on a Guitar, go to youtube and watch Jose Feliciano nail it in his own inimitable style. (only 1:49 long)

[papasmurf]

Things that make you go mmmmm-hmmmm. LOL

[Liberty Valance]

[berdie]

I did the same..I thought it had to be a hoax.

I just think the young man has amazing talent.

It was like he was playing a synthesizer...on his chest!

[BunnySlippers]

“Use an accordion, go to jail”.

[Charles Henrickson]

"He is. . . the lost Shmenge!"

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

bfl

[BunnySlippers]

The father daughter accordion duet at my local German pub will play “Stairway to Heaven” if you ask.

[MHGinTN]

Wow indeed!

Kind of like this.

[freebilly]

Jaysus...!

[FrdmLvr]

That was pretty cool. When I sent it to someone, the subject line is question marks!

[rlmorel]

Pretty impressive, but this comment further down on that made me burst out laughing!

"...I wonder if that expression on his face prevents him from missing a note..."

[paul51]

That's pretty amazing. I never saw an accordion without the keys. Where have I been?

[firebrand]

That was cool.

[BunnySlippers]

[FrdmLvr]

Ah, the Schmenge Brothers! SCTV was one of the best, even better than SNL most of the time back in the day.