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Scriabin's Chopinian miniature
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Today we are presenting an analysis of a piano miniature from Alexander Scriabin’s Op. 45 collection. In this brief piece, Scriabin explores some characteristically Chopinian harmonic constructions while still maintaining his own idiosyncratic style.
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 1, Feuillet d'album.
Piano: Mikhail Pletnev
Video made by MomentsMusicaux.
Today we are presenting an analysis of a piano miniature from Alexander Scriabin’s Op. 45 collection. In this brief piece, Scriabin explores some characteristically Chopinian harmonic constructions while still maintaining his own idiosyncratic style.
www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 1, Feuillet d'album.
Piano: Mikhail Pletnev
Video made by MomentsMusicaux.
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Stravinsky’s neoclassical march
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. Today we are presenting an analysis of the marche royale from Igor Stravinsky’s l'histoire du soldat. In this brief excerpt, Stravinsky oscillates between irony and the grotesque to produce an original neoclassical take on the march style. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) L...
Strauss' transliteration of Nietzsche
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. Today we are presenting an analysis of a passage from Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. In this brief movement, Strauss makes extensive use of his large harmonic palette including augmented sixths, linear chords, distant modulations, and mediant transformations. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation...
Mussorgsky's oxcart procession
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. Today we are presenting an analysis of Bydlo, the fourth piece from Pictures at an Exhibition. In this brief movement, Mussorgsky depicts the slow and clunky movement of an oxcart employing the low register and brooding minor and Phrygian colours. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1 Modest Mussorgsky (18...
Ravel's vast musical fresco
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments! Today we are presenting an analysis of a passage from Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, 2ème Suite. In this expansive interlude, Ravel presents an orchestral tutti with a chorale texture accompanying a bright trumpet melody with fleeting hints of pentatonicism. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1 Maurice...
Ravel's miniature harp concerto
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the introductory passage from Maurice Ravel’s Introduction et allegro. In this slow introduction, Ravel presents a responsorial texture where the woodwinds and the strings colourful melodic lines are interrupted by the harp with expansive octatonic arpeggios. www.youtube.com/@-Mo...
Sibelius' naturalist miniature
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of a characterpiece titled “Le Sapin” from Jean Sibelius’ Op. 75. In this brief work, Sibelius poetically depicts the spruce tree (a staple of the Finish boreal forest) through a rich tapestry of recitative-like declamations and fantasy arpeggios, all underpinned by colouristic exte...
Brahms' tender introspection
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the A section of the Romance from Johannes Brahms’s Op. 118. In this tender lullaby-style section Brahms explores some delicate textures underpinned by occasional flashes of modal colouring. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Romance...
Brahms' late style craftsmanship
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the B section from the second Intermezzo of Johannes Brahms’s Op. 118. In this gloomy, yet tender, middle section Brahms looks back at the history of German music and explores invertible counterpoint and chorale textures within the context of a lyrical Charakterstück. www.youtube...
Debussy’s sensuous ambiguity
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the A section from the third movement of Claude Debussy’s string quartet. This slow and tender section reconciles the genre’s formalist tendencies (highly organized motivic and formal logic) with the composer’s impressionist and modernist tendencies (sensuous harmonies and expand...
Rimsky-Korsakov’s vision of the Orient
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of “The Young Prince and the Young Princess,” the third movement from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. This slow movement is characterized by a gentle melodic line decorated with abundant arabesques and colourful chromatic harmonies. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmatio...
Gershwin's french blues
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the melancholic blues from Gershwin's An American in Paris. This "rhapsodic ballet" (so called by the composer) is filled with bluesy melodies, extended chords, and modal colours. Years later it was adapted into an Oscar winning classical film starring Gene Kelly. www.youtube.com...
Ravel’s jazzy interlude
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Follow us for a weekly analysis of some of our favourite musical moments. This week we are presenting an analysis of the brief jazzy interlude from the first movement of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, a passage riddled with octatonic sonorities producing a unique blend of bluesy licks and modernist harmonic materials. www.youtube.com/@-MomentsMusicaux-?sub_confirmation=1 Maurice Ravel (1875...
Liszt’s shimmering vision of paradise
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Liszt’s shimmering vision of paradise
Love this piece
sorry for asking, what does the "!" signify in figured bass?
in the end I expected something like "Chopin is greatest romantic and I am God " - Scriabin, 1902 in a letter to his wife or whatever.
finally! Scriabin. very interesting you chose to write "Chopinian" instead Chopinesque.
Amazing!
Please never stop
That's sweet! Thank you, we love this kind of comments. MM
Beautiful
My sister has performed this piece a bunch and it's a very lovely one
WOAHH
fire song
Wow, that trumpet can really play quintuplets.
I don’t like this recording at all. There’s rubato and there’s being over the top, which this very much is. There is no rhythm to speak of.
Love this movement for its delayed harmonic resolutions!
Oh I still have nightmares about trying to conduct this correctly in my conducting class back at university 😅
It seems we are accidentally awakening some bad memories in our community! 😅
I remember I've had a hard time playing this in conducting class of grad school when I was undergrad student. I've put lots of hours in practicing it but it wasn't really work, because of complex rhythm and time signature. The professor just have told me to play only left hand when you cannot play in both hands. It's good to see you again, Histoire du soldat.....
"musical theory and language II" flashbacks incoming
Carusiello vibes
Sind euch zum Schluss die Noten abhanden gekommen?
Most people, including myself, love his symphonies. However, his piano music is severely underrated.
Muy buen video y excelente contenido!
Great stuff ! Juste a little correction the book was written in 1883 not 1833. Cheers !
Oh dear! Of course! That was a typing error, I’ll put it on the description. Thank you!
I'm so happy you did an analysis on this! This is my all-time favourite moment in the classical repertoire. Great work as always!
We are so grateful you wrote this back to us! Thank you!
I always loved Sibelius music... 😍
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Hello, love this video, it brought me to tears Which recording is this, specifically? I see a RUclips recording of a live performance dated 2020 and an album released 2023 (R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & Metamorphosen) from Concertgebouw / Jansons Or did you perform any additional processing on the audio from one of these two? I ask because here when the strings enter they sound "fuller" (almost like they are playing tutti), whereas in the other recordings I listed + those from other recordings it doesn't have the same effect (and as a result, I keep returning here ;) )
It's in the Video Description.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Right, Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, - Recording: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons. And there is a live version of this orchestra/director performing this on RUclips from 2020 as well as a recording from 2023 and both sound different to this snippet
Hi! The audio we use is from the live performance, recorded on 10 May 2012 in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Strauss' chromaticism is so beautiful that it takes me to somewhere heaven-like place. Thank you for your great analysis, as always.
Many thanks for your feedback!
Great video as always... This piece reminded me of Metamorphosen, also by Strauss, and like this one a very interesting piece to analyze harmonically. Constantly fluctuating tonality and a whole assortment of modulation tricks.
Thanks Andrew ;)
Butter
at 1:22 the Aflat turns the chord into a Ger. 6+ in C minor.
Well spotted!
I think the Credo is a quote from Bach’s Mass in B minor.
That's right, and same pitches too! Strauss liked to make quotations.
amazing
have you considered doing Scriabin?
Of course! We will share a beautiful miniature from the Op. 45 soon.
@@-MomentsMusicaux- that’s great! Love your videos!
@@-MomentsMusicaux-Scriabin 😮 I’m really looking forward to it!!
"In which key are you in?" Strauss: "Yes!"
Haha, but in this way, they actually manage to compose some of the most touching music ever (Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Mahler as well :)
I wish I'd had access to analysis videos like this when I was teaching myself harmony
God is dead.
He will remain dead.
this section in particular is my fav of this work. love your videos!
Glad you like them! Thanks for the feedback.
Is this piece marked molto rubato? The pianist takes a lot of liberties with the 3/4 ryhthm.
I was thinking the same thing. I wanted to hear a bit stricter tempo to give it a bit of a fancy feel but with just a bit rubato to give a bit more emotion to it
True it kinda drags, great playing nonetheless
I’m certainly used to a quicker and“neater” interpretation so to speak, but I absolutely enjoyed this. I think this piece lends itself to expressive liberties and it was pretty helpful for the musical breakdown for me personally
Always makes me think of tom and jerry. Love this piece so much!
You're trippin if you don't think this is the greatest piece of music ever written. Don't @ me bringing up some Beethoven or Mahler symphonies on some bullshit.
The fact that you mentioned malher or Beethoven Symphonies as candidates for the greatest pieces of music shows you don't know much about music.
The voicing of thirds in the bass add SO much to the texture
It is almost as if Mussorgsky did not want us to hear the harmony but a muddy, heavy wheel.
I really can't like the orchestral version proposed by Ravel, particularly with this passage. On the piano we can really convey the heavy and laborious aspect of the animal which slowly drags its burden day after day, season after season, until death. The orchestra is too fast to give us that pesante feeling imho.
Using the original piano version juxtaposed with Ravels orchstration shows how much intervention he did. It starts with the dynamics. Ravel's version is a crescendo to diminuendo. Mussorgsky starts fortissimo right at the start.
Not only Pictures at an Exhibition but much of Mussorgsky's work was edited and "corrected" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, including that fortissimo. Mussorgsky's original idea was for the procession to be in the foreground from bar 1, but it was changed by Rimsky and on this edition Ravel based his orchestration. There is a very interesting paragraph where Rimsky talks about this in his autobiography "My musical life": "For the next year and a half or two years my work on my dead friend's compositions went on. Mussorgsky's manuscripts were in exceedingly imperfect order, there occurred absurd, incoherent harmonies, ugly part writing, illogical modulation, ill-chosen instrumentation. in general; a certain audacious self-conceited dilettantism, at times moments of technical dexterity and skill but more often of utter technical impotence. Publication without a skillful hand to put them in order would have had no sense save a biographical-historical one." Regarding this, there's also this great video from the LPO comparing the original and the corrected version of Night on a Bare Mountain: ruclips.net/video/2x_c8nXCyMQ/видео.html
background color that you use for quotes is so unique and amazing, I think, it makes what is said more memorable , is that theme color for this channel overall?
Thank you! We put a lot of effort into both the editing and the analysis.
Never forget to mention Ravel, because this work would never have shined that much if it wasn’t for him. And now, we can enjoy the best music suite ever wrote, thanks to them.
The truth is that Ravel's transcription is superior to the original. And that's a rare thing.
C'mon that's not fair, Mussorgsky's original is super good, I like the original version better than any other transcriptions made... To say things like because of Ravel this work would never have shined is just not fair, sure it became quite popular after it, but that doesn't mean people would not have recognized it for its beauty and orginality...
Pictures at an exhibition are in my opinion the best suite there is, i can really feel all the images they want to convey. Amazing.
can't believe Tchaikovsky was such a fan of Mussorgsky
That letter doesn't sound like he was a fan. He admired the talent and results he gets, but he clearly calls him out for wasting that talent. And I agree. Mussorgsky could have been the greatest of the russian composers if he hadn't been such an amateur who didn't see the need to improve his craft and such a drunkard.
Ravel was one of the greatest composers of all time.
This piece is my favorite piece in all of music!
ok now show me his minimalist nature
Btw, great branding of the channel right off the bat. Kudos
Thanks!
The heir of C. Debussy.