My mother learned this concerto for her university final year; I can't begin to imagine how devilish it was, but also how beautiful. Years later, we went to see our local symphony orchestra playing this live with a soloist. Talked to a friend afterward; all of us still had shockwaves going through our systems from the piece. Friend's reaction summed it up: 'During the second movement, I wanted to cry.' There's nothing else to say - it's just sublime.
6:35 this is an example of peak mastery of piano technique. To be able to play this passage where the piano mimics a human voice singing with vibrato and the soft undulating waves of arpeggios in the left hand requires immense technical prowess along with vocal knowledge. This is one of my favorite passages in all of piano repertoire, because it almost tries to defy the natural attack and decay of striking a note on the piano. It is also a return of the melody at 2:14, which is such a tender and vulnerable moment.
It's quite avant-garde with lots of #dissonance, so I'm not sure it's beautiful, like #RachmaninovsPianoConcertoNo2. It's haunting, eerie and spooky. I hate #AvantGarde music normally, but the 'bum notes' in the 2nd movement have real meaning.
@@zachguo6372 sometimes you run into people that just haven't heard much yet, their frame of reference is small but the idea that they know what is good is rigid
I think the opening of this concerto is my favorite opening of any piano concerto ever :) Even better than the chords from Rachmaninoff 2, or Brahms 2...
No need to compare it to the opening of Rach 2, both 2 of the most amazing concerts of all time, both completely different style, both great openings...
I have to say that the Adagio Assai is one of if not the most transporting music piece I’ve ever listened to in my life. I closed my eyes and I saw a disabused leave from the city to a road boarded with trees, I saw a walk from the road through a plain with lush green herb, dancing with the wind under an old windmill touching a now calm and cyan puddle. I saw a fairy taking steps from the top of it, turning around while reaching the soil then disappear without her foot ever touching the ground. I saw a walk towards the mountain under rain, under snow, with a mantle menacing to fly away under the storm. I saw a peaceful village with familiar faces. I saw a maiden waiting for her beloved to return, walking alongside him, greetings friends, visitors and neighbors on the way, and then reaching a soft wooden house. I saw the vision disappear as the movement ended. Man, I love music. I cannot help but wonder how the humans managed to find something in our world that fitted so well with our own emotions, as if it was there just for us to hear, create and be amazed by.
@@goatlips8127 awww poor baby cant wrap its brain around dissonance and atonality? Also, there's no comparing Rach to Ravel. They're at opposite ends of the spectrum.
@@goatlips8127 give me thought out reasons why you consider this bad music. If you can actually convince me, then ill agree. Though, if all you can do is spread purposeless vitriol about amazing composers, then your insults mean absolutely nothing.
This is the kind of composition that vastly expands the vocabulary of music. Like Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, Debussy's Etudes, and other visionary pieces from the marvelous early 20th century musical minds.
Thank you for saying this, instead of the retarded garbage most other people say about how they can feel the universe calling them from the deepest depths of their soul or some shit
Many years ago one of my students in an introductory class of psychology asked me to listen to the flute solo in the adagio asai starting at 10:00 and continuing on til 12: 30 or so. I have never forgotten that moment and it is etched into my frontal cortex until I die. Ravel is a genius and I am proud to say his music is the most extraordinary of all.
I really think this version's pianist nailed the section from 20:17 to 20:54, they made the build up very worthwhile when they hit that high part, and it makes the entire piece very satisfying.
To think I despised studying this when I was in school. After becoming obsesed years later with classical music I finally return to it and my mind has been melted by the raw striking genius. Infact the genius is so outrageously intense it's overwhelming, my life is a lie and my heart bleeds with fury and passion. Classical music is THE music.
Ezra Nixon Ravel is indeed an incredible genius. The two piano concertos, his string quartet, Daphnis et Chloe - he truly created unique sounds, colors and moods that are so characteristic and yet completely different from each other. He has an unbelievable harmonic language that engulfs the listener in a fantasy world beyond your imagination. I believe Daphnis et Chloe is the best work of art created by man kind.
@@liriking11 I recommend listening to Debussy's String Quartet as well. Ravel's String Quartet is based off of Debussy's string quartet and Debussy's is actually better in my opinion.
The piece to crown all piano genres in one. Classical, baroque, medieval even at times, romantic of course, jazz, and just general 20th century. Later 20th century as well (because Ravel was way ahead of his time - some of it sounds like bernstein or something at times.)
@@jostimromerovargas8364 the influence was definitely mutual... after they met, Ravel composed somewhat jazz concerto (this one) and Gershwin somewhat classical one. This concerto reminds me American in Paris a lot :)
Being a hindustani classical singer.. since 14yrs... And then coming to playing classical piano for 8yrs.. and playing ravel and hearing it works.. makes me amaze and wonder how classical music is rich... Beautiful music... Technically hard but not impossible... Love ravel...
Ravel's jazz-influenced compositions 1923-27 Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano 1929-31 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand 1929-31 Piano Concerto in G / Per wiki /
For the Left Hand? Really? That concerto sounds more folk inspired to me. Then again, i haven't really researched it. In G though for sure. There are parts of this concerto that sound like they were written by Gershwin lol
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Not sure if it’s specifically a reference to the dies irae but it’s definitely there. The b flat down to the a back to the b flat then down to the g. Only difference is in rhythm.
"not really" - I genuinely laughed out loud. "You can't play Ravel's G Major any better than Michelangeli" is something both Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter are on record as saying
Right, and you can't really hear the discrepancy. But there are lots of concert grands that have several additional keys below A0. Perhaps it was less common when Ravel wrote the concerto?
Dennis Chiapello I think Ravel himself had a Bosendorfer grand imperial, and in pieces like Le Barque sur l'ocean or Miroirs, you can notice how some extremely low notes are played in A0 instead of the real note notated
I don't know if Bosendorfer Imperials were produced at the time, and from some photos I saw that Ravel composed using an upright piano. I think he had an "ideal" sound in mind but at the time it was impossible to play.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli lives in this concerto as he plays it. Every pause he takes before playing in rhythm shows his intense feeling for this piece. No better performance and his performance in 1957 is ageless! Bravo, Arturo!
Mine extends a bit into the time after some of those composers, most notably Nikolai Kapustin. I honestly feel that I'm the only impressionist-jazz period liker. haters back off
The 2nd movement's dissonance makes it really eerie and fascinating. But normally avant garde compositions have no meaning and no musical value. I don't know of Rautavaara, Ornstein or Kapustin, but if they could've written #RachmaninovsPianoConcertoNo2 they would have, LOL!
13:34 The psychological maneuvering and the artistic design it took to achieve such a profound sense of reassurance and peace. I'm speechless. Again at 14:16
I can't even express all the emotions that are running and expanding and flowing in my mind with this masterpiece. It feels as if it takes me to a previous life or through my whole life at the same time... devastating and exhilarating at the same time.
It's wonderful but the great Nadia Boulanger's performance tops it... (this one is the closest I've heard to her interpretation). I had that recording in the 70s but cannot find it anywhere now. Of course Nadia was a student of Faure's and a classmate of Ravel, so she knows how the master wanted it to be played...
Yes, and it's of interest to note that while in New York, Ravel saw a Gershwin musical and was so "enchanted" by it that he sought to meet Gershwin. When they met, Ravel heard Gershwin play his Rhapsody in Blue, and maybe the Concerto in F. We often hear the famous story of Gershwin coming to Ravel to ask for orchestration lessons and upon finding out how much money Gershwin made in the music business, he said perhaps Gershwin should be giving HIM lessons, but Ravel was quite clearly influenced by Gershwin's work, as well as American Rag and jazz music.
That's what I was thinking throughout this whole piece lol :) But actually that melody from the piano is echoing the Clarinet at the beginning of the movement, the piano is just bringing it to light.
@@aerohydra3849 Oh that's interesting... You know, it's difficult for me to understand late romantic and modern music, that's why I rather listen to Schubert and Beethoven, whose music I can identify with.
First Ravel declined to teach George Gershwin in a not nice way. Then he imitated "Rapsody in Blue" which is 100% Gershwin. Is that concert a hommage or is he kidding about him? I love Ravels music and I love Gershwins music, too. But this thing I cannot understand.
Why does Michelangeli delay the top line in the second movement, does that help bring out the left hand waltz? I love it whatever it's meant to do. Excellent expression there and throughout the piece.
Despite all of its differences, I can't help but feel this concerto was made to have to same 'attitude' as Liszt's first work of the genre: they're both marked by moments of ecstasy, diabolical gestures, indulgent slow movements, and as complete works they both achieve order out of extreme chaos and impulsiveness. (I really love them both).
I've been listening to this piece recently. I used to have it on an old CD (or perhaps just the 2nd movement?) and am enjoying getting acquainted with it, altho it's quite a lot of music and very erratic. Really enchanting too. Last year my piano project was rhapsody in blue, this might be this year's 👍
It is odd. Despite the beauty of the second movement, I never cry until the third movement begins. It's as though the second movement is the hardship, and the third movement is the relief
This is an amazing work, especially that calm middle movement which must rank as one of the loveliest pieces of writing for the piano ever. The outer movements pack a real punch.
My mother learned this concerto for her university final year; I can't begin to imagine how devilish it was, but also how beautiful. Years later, we went to see our local symphony orchestra playing this live with a soloist. Talked to a friend afterward; all of us still had shockwaves going through our systems from the piece. Friend's reaction summed it up: 'During the second movement, I wanted to cry.' There's nothing else to say - it's just sublime.
6:35 this is an example of peak mastery of piano technique. To be able to play this passage where the piano mimics a human voice singing with vibrato and the soft undulating waves of arpeggios in the left hand requires immense technical prowess along with vocal knowledge. This is one of my favorite passages in all of piano repertoire, because it almost tries to defy the natural attack and decay of striking a note on the piano. It is also a return of the melody at 2:14, which is such a tender and vulnerable moment.
I knew it reminded me of something vocal! It's so operatic. That's absoultely amazing. I love Michelangeli.
00:00 I Allegremente
08:37 II Adagio assai
18:02 III Presto
The second movement is one of the most beautiful movements I have ever heard.
It's quite avant-garde with lots of #dissonance, so I'm not sure it's beautiful, like #RachmaninovsPianoConcertoNo2. It's haunting, eerie and spooky. I hate #AvantGarde music normally, but the 'bum notes' in the 2nd movement have real meaning.
you're damn right about that
@@goatlips8127 avant-garde??? are you living in the 19th century? avant-garde is like ligeti and crumb stuff
@@zachguo6372 sometimes you run into people that just haven't heard much yet, their frame of reference is small but the idea that they know what is good is rigid
Goat Lips That’s impressionist harmony nothing near to avant-garde what the fuck
2:52 7:00 13:24 15:00 (16:26)
Genius melodies.
Schumann used a melody similar to 15:00 in his op. 56 no 1.
What a genius this guy was. A human being capable of coming up with music like this is a miracle.
2:52 my favorite part, so beautiful
I believe that every great composer would take their hat off to Michelangeli for his trills.
Michelangeli and Gilels have the greatest trill technique imo. Truly outstanding geniuses
Trills are probably the hardest piano technique. Especially on an upright
@@aldoringo439now they are not😂
Damn those F# against G major arpeggios at the start... are just miraculous
I think the opening of this concerto is my favorite opening of any piano concerto ever :) Even better than the chords from Rachmaninoff 2, or Brahms 2...
No need to compare it to the opening of Rach 2, both 2 of the most amazing concerts of all time, both completely different style, both great openings...
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It sounds really Spanish
I have to say that the Adagio Assai is one of if not the most transporting music piece I’ve ever listened to in my life.
I closed my eyes and I saw a disabused leave from the city to a road boarded with trees, I saw a walk from the road through a plain with lush green herb, dancing with the wind under an old windmill touching a now calm and cyan puddle. I saw a fairy taking steps from the top of it, turning around while reaching the soil then disappear without her foot ever touching the ground. I saw a walk towards the mountain under rain, under snow, with a mantle menacing to fly away under the storm. I saw a peaceful village with familiar faces. I saw a maiden waiting for her beloved to return, walking alongside him, greetings friends, visitors and neighbors on the way, and then reaching a soft wooden house. I saw the vision disappear as the movement ended.
Man, I love music. I cannot help but wonder how the humans managed to find something in our world that fitted so well with our own emotions, as if it was there just for us to hear, create and be amazed by.
who asked
@@hello-rq8kf Who said someone had to?
@@hello-rq8kfyou're such a moron
That regularity is amazing, such mastership and magical sound! At 6:14 and more at 6:34
The piano pieces that are the hardest to learn to play usually sound the best. Amazing piano concerto.
On ne peut imaginer plus belle interprétation de ce chef d'oeuvre.
Certissimus.
One of the greatest of all piano concertos. It never grows old. Ravel was a genius.
LOL, it's fairly awful either side of the 2nd movement. Ravel wishes he could've written melodies like in #Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2.
@@goatlips8127 LOL, you're a total moron. 😂🤣😂
@@goatlips8127 awww poor baby cant wrap its brain around dissonance and atonality? Also, there's no comparing Rach to Ravel. They're at opposite ends of the spectrum.
@@cobblestonegenerator #autistic spectrum. I can compare non-musical shite with musical melody if you cannot.
@@goatlips8127 give me thought out reasons why you consider this bad music. If you can actually convince me, then ill agree. Though, if all you can do is spread purposeless vitriol about amazing composers, then your insults mean absolutely nothing.
Wow, that second movement, just wow.
7:00 is a quick peak into heaven
15:00
we like a jazzy Ravel
This is the kind of composition that vastly expands the vocabulary of music. Like Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, Debussy's Etudes, and other visionary pieces from the marvelous early 20th century musical minds.
This is such a bop
Imagine vibing to this before decade+ of economic decline and the greatest war ever
Thank you for saying this, instead of the retarded garbage most other people say about how they can feel the universe calling them from the deepest depths of their soul or some shit
The economic decline had just started
Many years ago one of my students in an introductory class of psychology asked me to listen to the flute solo in the adagio asai starting at 10:00 and continuing on til 12: 30 or so. I have never forgotten that moment and it is etched into my frontal cortex until I die. Ravel is a genius and I am proud to say his music is the most extraordinary of all.
Why frontal cortex?
The flute solo begins at 11:40.
Are you still alive?
3:51 ... Some metal guitarist should pick up (from measure 17) as a complete necro riff. I love runs like these.
I really think this version's pianist nailed the section from 20:17 to 20:54, they made the build up very worthwhile when they hit that high part, and it makes the entire piece very satisfying.
Will Smith’s favourite concerto.
Yeah sex is cool, but have you tried 14:04?
To think I despised studying this when I was in school. After becoming obsesed years later with classical music I finally return to it and my mind has been melted by the raw striking genius. Infact the genius is so outrageously intense it's overwhelming, my life is a lie and my heart bleeds with fury and passion. Classical music is THE music.
Ezra Nixon Ravel is indeed an incredible genius. The two piano concertos, his string quartet, Daphnis et Chloe - he truly created unique sounds, colors and moods that are so characteristic and yet completely different from each other. He has an unbelievable harmonic language that engulfs the listener in a fantasy world beyond your imagination. I believe Daphnis et Chloe is the best work of art created by man kind.
@@liriking11 I recommend listening to Debussy's String Quartet as well. Ravel's String Quartet is based off of Debussy's string quartet and Debussy's is actually better in my opinion.
It's funny, I have the same thought for modern and contemporary music. By the way, Ravel is considered a modern musician ...
Well, I guess, I only have one thing to say: Welcome home.
LOL, it is talentless, tuneless garbage outside of the 2nd movement.
This concerto is full of wonderful passages. But i'm just in love with 2:14 , he harmonized that melody so beautifully.
It is said that Ravel and George Gershwin had talks together when the "American" was "In Paris".
Who was in Paris.
Cmon
Say it
Seems logical to me.
I'm amazed at how good the recorded sound is--from 1957!
I can't get over how happy the little section from 8:12 to 8:18 makes me feel.
7:23 based little toccatina section, wonderfully bombastic!
Very bombastic!
The piece to crown all piano genres in one. Classical, baroque, medieval even at times, romantic of course, jazz, and just general 20th century. Later 20th century as well (because Ravel was way ahead of his time - some of it sounds like bernstein or something at times.)
no wonder Gershwin wanted to study with Ravel
I can see the gershwin's influence in this piece
Jostim Romero Vargas somehow similar to the rhapsody in blue
Also Copland's Rodeo.
On the contrary: Gerswin was influenceed by Ravel. Take notes that Ravel was solder.
I think the influence was mutual
@@jostimromerovargas8364 the influence was definitely mutual... after they met, Ravel composed somewhat jazz concerto (this one) and Gershwin somewhat classical one. This concerto reminds me American in Paris a lot :)
11:40 best orchestral intro ever.
Thank you for the score!!
Probably the greatest interpretation ever recorded.
It is a great interpretation. Closest I've heard to Nadia Boulanger (can't find it anywhere now), who was in my opinion the best...
Being a hindustani classical singer.. since 14yrs... And then coming to playing classical piano for 8yrs.. and playing ravel and hearing it works.. makes me amaze and wonder how classical music is rich...
Beautiful music... Technically hard but not impossible...
Love ravel...
Ravel's jazz-influenced compositions
1923-27 Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
1929-31 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
1929-31 Piano Concerto in G
/ Per wiki /
For the Left Hand? Really? That concerto sounds more folk inspired to me. Then again, i haven't really researched it. In G though for sure. There are parts of this concerto that sound like they were written by Gershwin lol
L’enfant et les sortileges to an extend as well.
I wish Ravel had written more music.
I wish Gershwin had written more music as well…
@@Dylonely42 So do I.
The 2nd movement is the most beautiful thing I've heard in my life, sounds like a fairytale!
The second movement is a tender breath between piano and orchestra after a passionate night.
Brilliant!
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The room benefactor is real nice.
Wow that bassoon part at 20:00!!
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard!
Other composers’ piano concerto:
💧🌳🌹🎼⛰💎❤️🥲
Ravel’s piano Concerto:
🌈🍭🎪🎡🔮🎉🎈😆
4:57 that sounded like dies irae
It is Petroushka
Not sure if it’s specifically a reference to the dies irae but it’s definitely there. The b flat down to the a back to the b flat then down to the g. Only difference is in rhythm.
One of the greatest recordings ever of this fantastic concerto
+bubffm not really
"not really" - I genuinely laughed out loud. "You can't play Ravel's G Major any better than Michelangeli" is something both Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter are on record as saying
ok then
+Miles Shore pwned
bubffm I like Zimerman's recording with Boulez lol
First movement makes me think of Magnolia Star, that one ILMEA piece, especially at around 5:00
I'm hearing a bit of the theme from the Tombeau de Couperin's minuet at 13:22 and 14:05.
I can never listen to the first movement without pretending to conduct it! Ravel was an utter genius and legend
21:00 Godzilla's theme O.o
I cant believe I never noticed that before!!
Heh, the very last note has to have the A0 key instead of G0 because the piano can only reach that low.
Right, and you can't really hear the discrepancy. But there are lots of concert grands that have several additional keys below A0. Perhaps it was less common when Ravel wrote the concerto?
Dennis Chiapello I think Ravel himself had a Bosendorfer grand imperial, and in pieces like Le Barque sur l'ocean or Miroirs, you can notice how some extremely low notes are played in A0 instead of the real note notated
I don't know if Bosendorfer Imperials were produced at the time, and from some photos I saw that Ravel composed using an upright piano. I think he had an "ideal" sound in mind but at the time it was impossible to play.
I don't have words to describe my feelings. Happiness, astonishment, ravishing music! The second movement . . .. !
How on earth did this lovely piece end up at #300 on the recent 2018 Classic FM ‘Hall of Fame’?
Well Classic fm is absolute garbage, that might have contributed
I guess there must have been 299 better ones.
18:44 rigaudon?
Also, while it may be to late, can you upload ravel's concerto for orchestra and left hand? I would greatly appreciate it.
+Vacillation Jr. Hm, there always was a score-video on YT of Ravel's LH concerto, I guess it has been taken down... I'll put it on my to-do list!
olla-vogala Thank you very much!
*****
Could you please try Bartje Bartmans if he's willing to do it? That is a very long piece and my to-do list is very long already...
that second movement gets me everytime. I wish it never ends.
20:18 - 20:42 IS SO INTENSE HOLY SHIT
True! Ironically, the whole passage is relatively easy for the pianist, who gets a break from the hard stuff for a while.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli lives in this concerto as he plays it. Every pause he takes before playing in rhythm shows his intense feeling for this piece.
No better performance and his performance in 1957 is ageless! Bravo, Arturo!
I admire your taste in music greatly, as it matches mine. Modern Ravel, Rautavaara, Ornstein, Prokofiev, I love it all.
Mine extends a bit into the time after some of those composers, most notably Nikolai Kapustin.
I honestly feel that I'm the only impressionist-jazz period liker.
haters back off
Do exists haters of impressionist composers or Kapustin???
Some, yes. I personally know a classmate of mine who hates Kapustin but likes Ravel and Debussy.
Shostakovich no? Yeah, he can be leaning towards neo-classical.
The 2nd movement's dissonance makes it really eerie and fascinating. But normally avant garde compositions have no meaning and no musical value. I don't know of Rautavaara, Ornstein or Kapustin, but if they could've written #RachmaninovsPianoConcertoNo2 they would have, LOL!
Every piece ravel makes sounds like water and i cant get over how pleasing that is to the ear!!
evidently you have not listened to Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit also sounds like water in a way
@@btk-3780 Well Ondine is a water nymph
13:34 The psychological maneuvering and the artistic design it took to achieve such a profound sense of reassurance and peace. I'm speechless. Again at 14:16
19:03 "who lives in a pineapple under the sea"
STOP YOU RUINED IT LOL
I can't even express all the emotions that are running and expanding and flowing in my mind with this masterpiece. It feels as if it takes me to a previous life or through my whole life at the same time... devastating and exhilarating at the same time.
Secound Movement is a Lonliness in the Abslute Zero Temperature, I think always.There is only a frozen sound.
Michelangeli interpretation of this concert is just sublime; the best of all times by far!! Michelangeli was one of the greatest pianists ever!
Ive got this recording on vinyl and cd coupled with Rachmaninoffs 4th, incredible performances
Alongside his performance of Rachmaninoffs 4th
It's wonderful but the great Nadia Boulanger's performance tops it... (this one is the closest I've heard to her interpretation). I had that recording in the 70s but cannot find it anywhere now. Of course Nadia was a student of Faure's and a classmate of Ravel, so she knows how the master wanted it to be played...
I'd be amazed if George Gershwin wasn't influenced by this . Move over concerto in F .
Eb clarinet not heard at all in this ancient recording
the piano is what makes people think it's cool but it's the orchestra who has the harder job
I hear some Tombeau de Couperin in there at 18:45 :)
I hear a Gershwin like motif like at 1:30 and thrown in the mix from time to time.
Yes, and it's of interest to note that while in New York, Ravel saw a Gershwin musical and was so "enchanted" by it that he sought to meet Gershwin. When they met, Ravel heard Gershwin play his Rhapsody in Blue, and maybe the Concerto in F. We often hear the famous story of Gershwin coming to Ravel to ask for orchestration lessons and upon finding out how much money Gershwin made in the music business, he said perhaps Gershwin should be giving HIM lessons, but Ravel was quite clearly influenced by Gershwin's work, as well as American Rag and jazz music.
Thanks
Easy Aspi True! I think it is from "An American in Paris"
Ah yes...sounds like the Rigaudon part.
Jolie citation de la Rapsody in Bleu de G Gerschwin. On adore
I am 100% in love with the first movement ending!
The second movments so good that even on a first listen its amazing.
Yes... Is so much beautiful... Do you have heard the 2nd movement of Piano Concerto by Francis Poulenc?
What a great work! -- The jazzy bits, aren't they influenced by George Gershwin?
Sure sounds like it to me.
I can laugh, cry, and dance to this. Thanks Olla.
The second movement, and especially the passage from 14:24 to 15:00, is so beautiful.
20:42 - 20:55 how do you even compose something like this?
That's what I was thinking throughout this whole piece lol :) But actually that melody from the piano is echoing the Clarinet at the beginning of the movement, the piano is just bringing it to light.
@@aerohydra3849 Oh that's interesting... You know, it's difficult for me to understand late romantic and modern music, that's why I rather listen to Schubert and Beethoven, whose music I can identify with.
First Ravel declined to teach George Gershwin in a not nice way. Then he imitated "Rapsody in Blue" which is 100% Gershwin. Is that concert a hommage or is he kidding about him? I love Ravels music and I love Gershwins music, too. But this thing I cannot understand.
Why does Michelangeli delay the top line in the second movement, does that help bring out the left hand waltz? I love it whatever it's meant to do. Excellent expression there and throughout the piece.
Despite all of its differences, I can't help but feel this concerto was made to have to same 'attitude' as Liszt's first work of the genre: they're both marked by moments of ecstasy, diabolical gestures, indulgent slow movements, and as complete works they both achieve order out of extreme chaos and impulsiveness. (I really love them both).
7:04 - nah this shits almost as good as a rach concerto....
First movement sounds a lot like a Gershwin piece
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fantastic..Michelangeli's performance is mAGICAL!!!
I agree, just the added high B note in the very end of the 2nd mvmt doesn't hit my taste...
15:00 best
OMG yes. Goosebumps everytime. Plus 16:14 16:49
11:38
Classical logic: If there are three movements in one category, the third one is the highest chance being the most devilish.
I've been listening to this piece recently. I used to have it on an old CD (or perhaps just the 2nd movement?) and am enjoying getting acquainted with it, altho it's quite a lot of music and very erratic. Really enchanting too. Last year my piano project was rhapsody in blue, this might be this year's 👍
I absolutely adore the 3rd movement
Its basically jazz
You've gotta be mad
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@@SevenEyesofGod wdym "so" i didnt make any points
I really appreciate the combination of music and score! Thank you.
Movement 1 and 3 underrated
8:27 which mode ?
Ravel mode :)
Chord planing G - F# - E - D - Cmin - Bb - Ab - G
Just wondering that myself! I think its some sort of altered scale but idek never learned this stuff in theory class lol
Is it just me or is the sound higher than what’s written by about a half tone?
The bit from about 3:15 onwards is really like scriabins sonata no.5
It is odd. Despite the beauty of the second movement, I never cry until the third movement begins. It's as though the second movement is the hardship, and the third movement is the relief
13:06 Excerpt from the film "annie"
I agree the second movement is Beautiful,touches me everytime,love Ravel a genius,Bye for now love Alan
This is an amazing work, especially that calm middle movement which must rank as one of the loveliest pieces of writing for the piano ever. The outer movements pack a real punch.
20:42 No problem for Arturo
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the English Horn solo is blissfully long, but not hear easily in this recording
Now I'm taking a look... is that F#5 easily doable? 😳