Fascinating Flight of the Bumble Bee performance!

[•ÇØM]

This topic probably does not belong here but...the first time I watched this I couldn't stop watching it over and over again.

-Chidi

[tompilk]

lol... i think that lot should not get free steinways
They only hjave tp play a FIFTH of the original piece! lol... apalling... and they get payed... pfft...
Tom

[Kassaa]

It does sound 100000 times better than the one-piano version though

[le_poete_mourant]

It is impressive how well coordinated they are, in terms of playing together.  They don't seem to have to look at each other because they either know their parts so well or they listen well too.  I must say that arrangement has a great effect. 

above is a related link, from the Verbier Festival with a lot more pianos.  Unfortunately the quality is terrible and it's not the entire thing. 

[ihatepop]

I have to say that that video was really magnifico! It has been a long time since I enjoyed a full out performance of Flight of the bumble bee!

[bananafish]

The Five Browns. I heard them on radio once. They were promoting their concert around my area. If I remember correctly. These are five siblings, they all were/still at Juilliard at one time or another. One or two actually switched to Manhattan School of Music. (So.. hmmm, "would you choose Manhattan over Juilliard?" I think on some obscure level, that question should be included in a personality test.)

Some time ago I went on their website. I was sort of weirded out to see five people looking similar on various degrees. It was as if my high school biological probability charts came alive. Anyway, I like them. Five pianists together can make so many encore sounding pieces without them actually being encore pieces.

[donjuan]

that was a fun recording!  too bad it cuts out before the end tho..

I like the version for 8 pianos that was played at on that piano extravaganza concert