A pop song in classical dress

November 26, 2024 10:39 AM

"All I want for Christmas is you", but in the style of 6 classical composers (slyt)
posted by Gyan (21 comments total)

I’m not enough off a classical music expert to recognize the styles, but the fact that there can be such differences is amazing. And the humor with the graphics adds to it.
posted by jvbthegolfer at 10:49 AM on November 26 [1 favorite]

Mariah Carey as Rosetta Stone and I am here for that! :D
posted by mazola at 10:52 AM on November 26

this was so great, I really enjoyed the explanations of why he'd done which bits!
posted by peppercorn at 11:12 AM on November 26

So good! The Rachmaninoff was my favorite. Wish he'd done Chopin and Bach.
posted by dbx at 11:14 AM on November 26 [1 favorite]

This is pretty clever, and displays a deep knowledge of what makes those composers' styles so distinct.
posted by fortitude25 at 11:21 AM on November 26 [1 favorite]

Cynically, this is the kind of prompt that AI can spit out in a half-second, so was pleasantly surprised to see it was at least performed live.
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 11:29 AM on November 26

Although it's been done many times, many ways (Hampton String Quartet:What If Mozart Wrote "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas") the explanations of the differences in styles is what made it work.
posted by dannyboybell at 11:45 AM on November 26 [3 favorites]

> Wish he'd done Chopin

*cracks left hand*
posted by lucidium at 11:48 AM on November 26

We all make jokes about this song, but it's honestly the last great original Christmas pop song anyone has bothered to write, or at least the only one that got popular enough to make it into the canon.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:36 PM on November 26 [4 favorites]

This is amazing, thanks for bringing it here. The fact that this guy is a professional cellist with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and just happens to "play the piano a bit" blows my mind. What a talent!
posted by fight or flight at 1:10 PM on November 26 [2 favorites]

Now do Schoenberg!
posted by Omon Ra at 1:40 PM on November 26

I don't care what anyone else says about the song DOT, it's one of my absolute favourites for the season.

Classical music is also my jam so thanks for the link Gyan.

It's still November-not-Christmas in this house, so eagerly awaiting December 1 to crack this out.
posted by freethefeet at 1:41 PM on November 26 [1 favorite]

What an amazing demonstration of the composers’ different styles! I wish I had listened to it once prior to watching to try and guess the composers. I agree that the annotations made it even more enjoyable.

Does anyone know of an actual AI tool available to produce music like this? I would love to try it out.
posted by Emmy Noether at 4:06 PM on November 26

This was great. I loved the comments explaining what he was doing. Thanks for posting
posted by AMyNameIs at 5:43 PM on November 26

Along the same lines: The Twelve Days of Christmas in the style of 12 (13) 20th-century composers
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:52 PM on November 26

How to play "Happy Birthday" Like Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Bach and Mozart
posted by DreamerFi at 2:47 AM on November 27

This cellist is a darn good pianist. And the captions are hilarious.

Beethoven - left hand zoomies

Tchaikovsky - grumpiness returns

Bartok- Hungarian folk rave

Rachmaninoff - More notes than fingers. (I thought that was Liszt. Oh wait, he's chords too wide for normie hands.)
posted by NorthernLite at 8:00 AM on November 27 [1 favorite]

I've been a regular listener for years to the weekly Piano Puzzler in which pianist and composer Bruce Adolphe plays a popular song in the style of a classical composer. You have to guess the song and the composer. It's part of the Perfomance Today syndicated classical music radio program and is available as a podcast. It's been around for decades; right now the online archive goes back to April 2021. Adolphe has published 2 books of the sheet music.
posted by neuron at 1:52 PM on November 27 [1 favorite]

Bartok: “ugly ass chord”

lol
posted by caviar2d2 at 3:20 PM on November 27 [1 favorite]

That was awesome!!!
posted by freethefeet at 5:51 PM on November 30

HUNGARIAN FOLK RAVE
posted by capricorn at 3:28 PM on December 3