Virkato Wahmaninof Piano Concerto No 1 - ala Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos -solo?

[49410enrique]

this thing is strange, but i like bits and parts of it, haven't decided how i feel about it as a whole...
thoughts?


sometimes called Anti-Ares sometimes called Scorpion Fire, it's actually very pretty in spots.
This song has quite a complex history, and too many names. Officially, it is known as ピアノ協奏曲第1番”蠍火” literally “Piano Concertino No. 1 Scorpion Fire”, although some translations including the LED marquee’s translations reference the name of the song as Anti-Ares, a reference to the star Antares, also known as Scorpii, and its red flame in the sky – the origin of the translation and more commonly used name “Scorpion Fire”. It is from Beatmania IIDX 11 IIDXRED​ (ビートマニア ツーディーエックス, Bītomania Tsūdiekkusu) from One More Extra Stage, known as hell.
 
The artist is Jun Wakita, one of Konami’s in-house composers, whose work is primarily for Beatmania IIDX and Pop’n Music. His alias for this composition is 脇田潤 (Wakida Zyun; “Virkato Wakhmaninov”). The pseudonym should have been a hint of the song’s true age; it’s a pun on the name of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. “Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘Anti-Ares’” is itself a pastiche of Rachmaninov’s piano concertos.
 
© 2004. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment. Published and distributed by KCET as part of the beatmania IIDX & Bemani series for arcade and PlayStation 2.
 

the full length score to the yt video can be downloaded

https://music.geocities.jp/gakufuup/index.html
(transcription as I believe offical scores where never published but this is one of the better versions, it is also longer than Sebastian Wolf's version which is also free out there but a bit shorter by some 10 pages or so!)

apoliges for the 'machine' i cannot find a live performance of this,alt version w 'instrumentation'

unfortunately the video of sabstian's version is no longer available on yt

there are some decent  live bits and parts but have yet to see anyone tacke this thing in its entirety

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[49410enrique]

i went ahead and converted the png files to jpg then to pdf, then did a pdf merge and uploaded them. i think this will work...

[natalyaturetskii]

Woah... I have to say, it scared me a little! Having said that, I think it is actually quite cool, and is definitely a piece in its own right, although the Rachmaninoff in it is very prominent. It sounds really good, it is the sort of piece that grabs your attention immediately, but yeah, a little strange too...

Natalya