Note: these are NOT the cheapest disposable ones we had in elementary school. Money was invested here that's why they're in tune with each other and not excruciating to listen to. Bravo, sir!🎉
@KrisHughes #truth I teach recorder in music class every year. And every year, without fail, someone always asks, "Mrs. G., how do you play that so well?" Practice, patience, listen, repeat.
It's the PRACTICE, stupid. This guy ain't in elementary school. It's practically insulting that you say it's the money spent on good recorders, as if this guy didn't spend hours and hours, years and years practicing to achieve this level of skill? No, just spend sume duh... money. My GOD what shallow consumers some people are!
Keep in mind that ANY wind instrument can sound terrible if played improperly. Those kids are usually over-blowing, causing the pitch to be way off, nevermind the horrible shrillness that causes as well.
@@davidhunt6508I have a SATB consort, they are all so fun and I'd like to get some recordings done this summer. I'd love to have some more of the lower ones like groß bass, contra, and sub contra. You can cover almost the entire orchestral range.
@@thepotatoportal69 And the reason most people hate soprano recorders is they are shrill/squeaky, somewhat challenging to play well, and have no cool factor.
Yes. This is why we teach recorder. My great-uncle was a flautist with the Sydney symphony orchestra, a wonderful, kind, loving, funny man. Those times he rewarded us by playing his flute are etched in my mind forever.
Having been a former recorder player in the 60s and my husband a lutenist I can appreciate the work that's gone behind these productions to exhibit all these instruments in one family. I owned 4 recorders by the best makers sopranino to tenor. We would have gone into Early Music as a career but life took us in another direction. Very good work. Sir.
Wow, you must have a fortune invested in recorders. What a great sound!! Thanks for spending what must have been many hours in creating wonderful recording.
Of course they look the same because they are the same guy layering separate recordings over each other as his own accompanist but with different types and ranges of recorders. He does a great and difficult job.
OMG! I got tears in my eyes that was so beautiful!! And it does sound like an organ. A beautiful angelic organ. I can’t believe you played every single part!! oh that double- tongueing or triple tongueing that was utterly amazing. I used to play the flute.
This man is a hell of a musician. I started following him years ago when he was playing all kinds of crazy on Hohner keyboard harmonicas (whatever they are called). I wonder what other instruments he plays. Brilliant!
…only thing missing… HUGE standing ovation at the end!! Marvellous, Beethoven himself would be leading the huge applause… (lasting at least 9 minutes!!)
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed but all these players look the same. I mean the uniform I understand, it makes them look like they belong to a group. It is the physical appearance. It is almost as though there were something genetic about recorder players. Am I the only one who thinks this?
Sometimes looks aren’t deceiving… 👀 Maybe it’s not the clothes that make the man, it’s the man that makes the man. Indubitably it’s the man that plays the recorders. Since the universe would implode if the same man played all the recorders at once, clearly, the same man must have played the recorders individually. Just not at the same time. Technology had a hand there by recording (!) and playing back the parts as required. Make sense now?
I am a Composer and Arranger. I think that the most arguous process for this project was the re-orchestration. As in, taking the score for orchestra and figuring out what notes belong on what recorder. From there a process of recording each Recorder part was straightforward.
im not sure why you would need to reorchestrate anything seeing as this is a meme project. just go through each part and pick the recorder type that matches the range best
Thank you for introducing me to how GOOD real recorders can sound! I am especially delighted by how the tiny one sounds a lot like a piccolo, and yet softer, because it's wood, and how that GINORMOUS end one sounds! I had NO idea anything other than an organ could make such a lovely deep tone! I have considered a wood recorder for a few years, perhaps I should get serious about it! ❤
I love the sound of the recorder. So warm and yet very Renaissance. The reason no one likes to teach them is because in public schools they are treated like a joke. When I went to college I was introduced to real recorder music - with lovely wood recorders as opposed to the plastic junk sold for classrooms. As someone already pointed out, no school will buy wood recorders, as they are expensive.
So awesome! I especially loved how your interpreted the accelerando at the end. Sometimes it can feel jarring when it switches from eighth notes to quarter notes but the way you did it happens so naturally!
Its just cause they gove them to little kids in music class. When an actual professional plays them they are fine, but people have only ever heard 8 year olds doing squeaky recitals 😆
Beautiful work! It’s important to note that the fingerings are different for several of these recorders. That’s a significant body of knowledge and skill!
Mr. Young, you do magical things with your recorders. If I had to limit myself to just one kind of instrument to hear, it would certainly be your arrangements for recorder. It seems that just as one becomes tempted to think that nothing new can ever happen again in the world of music, here comes someone like yourself to prove it's not true. To me, the harmonies you bring us in your recordings are kind of like going into a bakery early in the morning and finding enchantments of the olfactory sort. It's something mere mortals like me cannot even dream of until the experience is allowed to soak in....mere words utterly fail to call to mind the sweet fragrance, as it were, of the tones and overtones that make these recordings something to savor for all time to come. Thank you once again!!
This is just... UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE!!! Absolutely one of my favourite moments of the limited Beethoven I've listened to as well! You smashed it AGAIN! 3:09 is such a great moment
I do NOT find it the LEAST BIT funny!!!!! It's LOVELY!!!!!!!!!! I too remember the first one I had when I was at school. It was a plastic, brown Aulos descant with white trim and a white mouthpiece. The brown is SO dark, that it looks as though it's black instead! I'm 49 now and I still have it! Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.
This is an awesome job ! This would have been painstakinly crafted by a very good flutist, but seeing your mastery, I guess this has represented a considerable amount of work ! The result you’re offering us is simply lovely 🎉😊❤
This is absolutely nothing short of miraculously incredible beyond all measure. Bravissimo!!! Although I could maybe have suggested the final piccolo solo with the long G-A trill could have been played on descant from just before the trill (or the passage preceding it given the mere 2 bar rest!) right up to the final Presto then swap back to the sopranino for the coda.
Awesome playing… if I were still teaching I would use your videos to show my kiddos how beautiful the recorder could sound when played correctly. Brovo❤❤
Some of them sounds just a little bit to airy, but overall I like it. Would be AMAZING if you could actually get 30 recorder players to play this live on stage for a concert!
This was top recommendation on YT for me this morning and I think it has set the mood for the day. Beautiful performance and a heck of a lot of work both in playing and editing! Thank you.
This is so funny. When you put so many recorders together it begins to sound like an organ.
And why not? An organ is just a bunch of pipes with driven oscillation, little different from a recorder.
@@majkus yes, I did realize that. I still found it surprising.
Plus the reed stops!
And interestingly, there is a stop called Blockflote on some organs to sound like a recorder (because blockflute is recorder in German)
My first thought was “calliope” but I dismissed that as iPhone low fidelity… 🙄
Note: these are NOT the cheapest disposable ones we had in elementary school. Money was invested here that's why they're in tune with each other and not excruciating to listen to. Bravo, sir!🎉
The degree to which recorders are in tune with each other has at least as much to do with the skill of the players as it does the recorders.
@KrisHughes #truth
I teach recorder in music class every year. And every year, without fail, someone always asks, "Mrs. G., how do you play that so well?" Practice, patience, listen, repeat.
It's the PRACTICE, stupid. This guy ain't in elementary school. It's practically insulting that you say it's the money spent on good recorders, as if this guy didn't spend hours and hours, years and years practicing to achieve this level of skill? No, just spend sume duh... money. My GOD what shallow consumers some people are!
Keep in mind that ANY wind instrument can sound terrible if played improperly. Those kids are usually over-blowing, causing the pitch to be way off, nevermind the horrible shrillness that causes as well.
Should be shown to all music teachers who are in despair with their junior classes.
Maybe if more schools had the giant recorders, more people would be into recorders/music.
@@davidhunt6508I have a SATB consort, they are all so fun and I'd like to get some recordings done this summer. I'd love to have some more of the lower ones like groß bass, contra, and sub contra. You can cover almost the entire orchestral range.
@@davidhunt6508 Only problem is those recorders are really expensive, and the reason schools use recorders in the first place is that they're cheap.
@@thepotatoportal69 And the reason most people hate soprano recorders is they are shrill/squeaky, somewhat challenging to play well, and have no cool factor.
Yes. This is why we teach recorder. My great-uncle was a flautist with the Sydney symphony orchestra, a wonderful, kind, loving, funny man. Those times he rewarded us by playing his flute are etched in my mind forever.
Having been a former recorder player in the 60s and my husband a lutenist I can appreciate the work that's gone behind these productions to exhibit all these instruments in one family. I owned 4 recorders by the best makers sopranino to tenor. We would have gone into Early Music as a career but life took us in another direction. Very good work. Sir.
The Likeness of your Clone army is astounding and they ALL play !
Wow, you must have a fortune invested in recorders. What a great sound!! Thanks for spending what must have been many hours in creating wonderful recording.
This must have taken so much work. The result is amazing.
Very cool.
I have never heard Recordrers sound so nice.
To be fair, these are all very good wooden ones that are being played very well.
Of course they look the same because they are the same guy layering separate recordings over each other as his own accompanist but with different types and ranges of recorders. He does a great and difficult job.
OMG! I got tears in my eyes that was so beautiful!! And it does sound like an organ. A beautiful angelic organ. I can’t believe you played every single part!! oh that double- tongueing or triple tongueing that was utterly amazing. I used to play the flute.
This man is a hell of a musician. I started following him years ago when he was playing all kinds of crazy on Hohner keyboard harmonicas (whatever they are called). I wonder what other instruments he plays. Brilliant!
@@infledermaus do you mean a melodica?
…only thing missing… HUGE standing ovation at the end!!
Marvellous, Beethoven himself would be leading the huge applause… (lasting at least 9 minutes!!)
This man has mastered the art of being in many places at the same time.
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed but all these players look the same. I mean the uniform I understand, it makes them look like they belong to a group. It is the physical appearance. It is almost as though there were something genetic about recorder players. Am I the only one who thinks this?
Sometimes looks aren’t deceiving… 👀
Maybe it’s not the clothes that make the man, it’s the man that makes the man. Indubitably it’s the man that plays the recorders. Since the universe would implode if the same man played all the recorders at once, clearly, the same man must have played the recorders individually. Just not at the same time. Technology had a hand there by recording (!) and playing back the parts as required.
Make sense now?
@@joerosenman3480nah they're just tregintuplets
Hey, now that you mention it, they do kinda look alike...maybe it's some sort of evolutionary adaptation that makes recorder easier to play?
@@eugeneimnotgonnatellyoumyl5513their mom is the real hero, here.
They are the same person! He is recorded playing each part and then they’re played together making for this wonderful result!!!❤❤❤
I am a Composer and Arranger. I think that the most arguous process for this project was the re-orchestration. As in, taking the score for orchestra and figuring out what notes belong on what recorder. From there a process of recording each Recorder part was straightforward.
im not sure why you would need to reorchestrate anything seeing as this is a meme project. just go through each part and pick the recorder type that matches the range best
Thank you for introducing me to how GOOD real recorders can sound! I am especially delighted by how the tiny one sounds a lot like a piccolo, and yet softer, because it's wood, and how that GINORMOUS end one sounds! I had NO idea anything other than an organ could make such a lovely deep tone!
I have considered a wood recorder for a few years, perhaps I should get serious about it! ❤
I imagine it must be incredibly satisfying when you listen to the final version.
Marvellous! A brilliant musician with a sense of humour. Delightful. Thank you. ❤❤
I love the sound of the recorder. So warm and yet very Renaissance.
The reason no one likes to teach them is because in public schools they are treated like a joke. When I went to college I was introduced to real recorder music - with lovely wood recorders as opposed to the plastic junk sold for classrooms. As someone already pointed out, no school will buy wood recorders, as they are expensive.
You are right but, plastic recorders can sound beautiful. Of course it depends on the make and who plays them.
I have no idea why this was recommended to me but I’m glad it was. Bravo Sir! Bravo 👏
Same 😅
I have to say this was truly fantastic, thank you.
So awesome! I especially loved how your interpreted the accelerando at the end. Sometimes it can feel jarring when it switches from eighth notes to quarter notes but the way you did it happens so naturally!
Sounds glorious! Great to hear all the voices. Sounds like an organ. Thanks!!
I consider the recorder to be among the most underrated of instruments. I wish I had the talent.to play it.
Its just cause they gove them to little kids in music class. When an actual professional plays them they are fine, but people have only ever heard 8 year olds doing squeaky recitals 😆
Amazing how you can play all those different types of recorders and then blend everything together!
I can barely believe this has only 3.5K or so views....absolutely deserves a wider audience....Bravo!
He certainly has his way with all the winds; BRAVO!
It made me instantly Happy!
Me too!!
Bravo! Next project: Gaspard de la nuit.
Coming soon: Le sacre de printemps.
Oh yes please! Stravinsky on the recorder would be outstanding!!
When you have money, time AND good taste. I didn’t know they made recorders that big!
Extremely clever and musical
Those tremolos are 👌👌 perfection
Your intonation is actually mind blowing, phenomenal work
It is -- enough to make me wonder whether these are pitch-corrected.
@@5pp000I’m sure there’s a bit of that, but it’s such a technical feat regardless.
Marvelous rendition of the finale of the 5th
Wow! That was pretty cool and amusing at the same time. I've never seen those really deep recorders before!
Beautiful work! It’s important to note that the fingerings are different for several of these recorders. That’s a significant body of knowledge and skill!
30 recorders, one man!
Great!
Also a beautiful arrangement of this overshadowed movement by Beethoven... I love it on recorders! THANK YOU!
Ole Beethoven single-handedly mastered ALL genres of musical expression. Up in here! LOVE IT! PWG
Mr. Young, you do magical things with your recorders. If I had to limit myself to just one kind of instrument to hear, it would certainly be your arrangements for recorder. It seems that just as one becomes tempted to think that nothing new can ever happen again in the world of music, here comes someone like yourself to prove it's not true. To me, the harmonies you bring us in your recordings are kind of like going into a bakery early in the morning and finding enchantments of the olfactory sort. It's something mere mortals like me cannot even dream of until the experience is allowed to soak in....mere words utterly fail to call to mind the sweet fragrance, as it were, of the tones and overtones that make these recordings something to savor for all time to come.
Thank you once again!!
Impressive. Keeping all those parts together in time leaves me wondering which of them you recorded first (and how).
Thank you! I use a click track as a basis until I have enough parts laid down to remove the click track and use the other parts as an anchor.
It just works so well....
Beethoven in Heaven: 🥰😍😘💕♥❤😍
This is truly a recording.
This is just... UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE!!! Absolutely one of my favourite moments of the limited Beethoven I've listened to as well! You smashed it AGAIN! 3:09 is such a great moment
I love this. It made me smile, it made me laugh, it made me appreciate both Beethoven and all the work that goes into playing the recorder. Great job.
It's pretty amazing you got 30 different recorders, but it's even more amazing you got 30 identical people to play them.
Fantastic. I wish David Munrow was alive to hear this!
Brilliance at its best. What skill and talent, just mind blowing.
My cat really liked this. Me too.
BRAVISSIMO 14 volte.
I was expecting a round of applause at the end, honestly.
Those crazy Norther Europeans that like to make crazy instruments on youtube should make a recorder organ.
How does something like this go a year with only 40,000 views. That's even more remarkable than the video.
The opposite of “Where’s Waldo?” Bravo! Beautiful….
must have took many hours to do. Was really great.
what an amount of work and time has gone in this. Congratulations on this masterpiece,
Wow. Never knew I could be amazed at the sound of recorders!
James that was absolutely brilliant, an incredible achievement,
one of the most creative postings I have seen on youtube this year.
A softer and more rounded sound than the original, but so enjoyable. Well done, lad(s).
I do NOT find it the LEAST BIT funny!!!!! It's LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!
I too remember the first one I had when I was at school. It was a plastic, brown Aulos descant with white trim and a white mouthpiece. The brown is SO dark, that it looks as though it's black instead! I'm 49 now and I still have it! Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.
This is an awesome job ! This would have been painstakinly crafted by a very good flutist, but seeing your mastery, I guess this has represented a considerable amount of work ! The result you’re offering us is simply lovely 🎉😊❤
This is absolutely nothing short of miraculously incredible beyond all measure. Bravissimo!!!
Although I could maybe have suggested the final piccolo solo with the long G-A trill could have been played on descant from just before the trill (or the passage preceding it given the mere 2 bar rest!) right up to the final Presto then swap back to the sopranino for the coda.
I haven’t played a recorder in a long time, but this makes my lips hurt! 😅
Great! Innovative!
Awesome playing… if I were still teaching I would use your videos to show my kiddos how beautiful the recorder could sound when played correctly. Brovo❤❤
Goosebumps!
I defy anyone not to marvel at this...
Awesome! Just absolutely AWESOME!!!
It is consistent work that requires effort, support, and progress. Congratulations and good luck in the future! 😇
Wow! Incredible arpeggio in the bass at the end!!!
Bravo bravo
Hace 2 días que lo conozco, IMPRESIONANTE, que buen laburo, no hablo de este solo, recomiendo las obras de Bach, tremendas. Felicitaciones
Thank you! This is totally unexpected but awesome! I absolutely love it. 🎉😊💕
Some of them sounds just a little bit to airy, but overall I like it. Would be AMAZING if you could actually get 30 recorder players to play this live on stage for a concert!
I could still pick out which recorder is playing which instruments part, and I haven’t played this in 15 years. Extremely cool!
Speed this up to 1.25 and it sounds like an orchestra in the Land of the Fairies.
Absolutely marvellous. I enjoyed it so much! Thank you.
it literally sounds like an organ
Beethoven would not be amused. I was.
He would be
Nah, Beethoven would have loved it... if he could hear it!
Oooooh, Beethoven 5!! I love that movie.
Beautiful 💚🎶🙏
I am in awe every time I hear this, I gotta hear a recorder orchestra! 🤩
Very beautiful indeed, both composition and performance. Thank you!
Adorei!!! Parabéns!!!! 💓💓💓
Thank you Mr Young! This is one of my favorite pieces of music and you enabled me to hear and experience it in a new way!
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Absolutely brilliant!
I love this version of Beethoven’s 5th.
I have now subscribed to.
This was top recommendation on YT for me this morning and I think it has set the mood for the day. Beautiful performance and a heck of a lot of work both in playing and editing! Thank you.
bro puts the link to scores in the description like someone just happens to have a sub-contrabass recorder lying around
Absolutely fabulous
Great! Fantastically well done! Thank you! 😃
Glorious! Thank you!
Mesmerizing. Bravo!
Bravo!
It's so in tune!
This is absolutely wonderful
This is fantastic, really beautiful! Thank you!
Astonishing. Thank you very much.
Super!!! 💖 Bravo bravo!!
this was incredible thank you, love Beethoven
Recorders definitely worth recording. Cheers!
Great playing, i have never knew there were recorders that large.
This almost as good as the version of Rite of Spring for two accordions.