I would love to find someone else who could play very well in the music department to play the planets on two pianos... It would be wonderful... I have to say this is probably my favorite of the movements I've heard from orchestra to piano... starting at about 1:50 or so going on has such an amazing since of beauty with a very open spacial feeling to it that gives it a wonderful drifting affect.
ARTalive01 It's not actually orchestra to piano, the composer wrote the 2 piano version before he made the orchestrated version which is probably why it's such an amazing piece compared to other versions.
Johnny-Cake lpolpolpo Ahh i see... From a number of different sources I've read you would be right... All of the movements except Neptune by the sources were originally written for piano duet... Thank you for that piece of knowledge... I would hate to have not known that little detail.
ARTalive01 I don't see what you mean by "All of the movements except Neptune by the sources were originally written for piano duet", there are a number of preformances of Neptune for two pianos and I even have the sheet music for it.
Johnny-Cake lpolpolpo I kind of worded it badly what i meant to say was that Neptune was composed for Organ rather than piano like the rest of the pieces. piano duet kind of sounds bad too maybe for two pianos would sound better...
Is it just me, or does the version on the piano sound even more serene than in the orchestra version? Also, listen to the version by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Their performance shows a concert band arrangement that sounds very faithful to Holst's orchestra version.
i feel like the pianos version sounds a lot better and much more peaceful than the orchestra version this sounds like beautiful raindrops and stuff, in my opinion, in the orchestra version the horns, oboes and flutes at the beginning don't really sound as peaceful as the piano version, same for a few other parts in the movement
I could sleep forever beneath a heavy blanket by a glowing fire as the never ending snowflakes gently drifted down between the blue spruce branches in the early morning.
There are errors in the printed music ( not in the performance, though) on the second page, in piano 1, bar 3. The chords in both pianos should be all A flat 6 chords. But the right hand of Piano 1 has the first and third chords playing G and B flat, whereas they should be A flat and C, like the second and fourth beats ( and like piano 2's right hand). It's a lovely performance!
There are no errors. Close inspection of the score reveals that those polychordal passages were indeed intentional. The entire measure functions in a full Fm13 sonority (F Ab C Eb G Bb D) before resolving to a Bb9 sonority (Bb D F Ab C) in the first beat of the following measure. This same figure reappears two measures after rehearsal numeral I in the score (1:21 in the video). A variation of this passage appears two measure after rehearsal numeral V in the score (4:22 in the video), this time transposing the first compound sonority to Bb13 (Bb Db F Ab C Eb G) and resolving to a C9 sonority (C E G Bb D). This figure is also used as a motivic device in various sections, most notably iin rehearsal numeral VI in the score (5:17 in the video). Even the first page contains a transposition of this figure on m. 8 (a Dbm13 sonority resolving to a Gb9 sonority). ~*~*~ Don't mean to come off snobby, but no analysis of individual measures of a composition is complete without cross-reference to other parts of the score. We do agree on one thing, though: this is indeed a lovely performance!
Indeed Debussy is a strong influence here (and in all the XXth century music after him) but the voice of Holst is also so strong that after some measures it is clear this is not a Debussy work.
@@Poempedoempoex i can’t remember who said, tongue in cheek, that Debussy is all cadences but they are unresolved as they unresolve into the nest unresolved cadence. Harsh, but there is a germ of truth in there. That is part of Debussy’s style.
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I would love to find someone else who could play very well in the music department to play the planets on two pianos... It would be wonderful... I have to say this is probably my favorite of the movements I've heard from orchestra to piano... starting at about 1:50 or so going on has such an amazing since of beauty with a very open spacial feeling to it that gives it a wonderful drifting affect.
ARTalive01 It's not actually orchestra to piano, the composer wrote the 2 piano version before he made the orchestrated version which is probably why it's such an amazing piece compared to other versions.
Johnny-Cake lpolpolpo
Hmm i never recalled that being the case but I'll look it up... Thanks for the insight.
Johnny-Cake lpolpolpo
Ahh i see... From a number of different sources I've read you would be right... All of the movements except Neptune by the sources were originally written for piano duet... Thank you for that piece of knowledge... I would hate to have not known that little detail.
ARTalive01 I don't see what you mean by "All of the movements except Neptune by the sources were originally written for piano duet", there are a number of preformances of Neptune for two pianos and I even have the sheet music for it.
Johnny-Cake lpolpolpo
I kind of worded it badly what i meant to say was that Neptune was composed for Organ rather than piano like the rest of the pieces. piano duet kind of sounds bad too maybe for two pianos would sound better...
Is it just me, or does the version on the piano sound even more serene than in the orchestra version?
Also, listen to the version by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Their performance shows a concert band arrangement that sounds very faithful to Holst's orchestra version.
i feel like the pianos version sounds a lot better and much more peaceful than the orchestra version
this sounds like beautiful raindrops and stuff, in my opinion, in the orchestra version the horns, oboes and flutes at the beginning don't really sound as peaceful as the piano version, same for a few other parts in the movement
Your "Planets" transcriptions are *exquisite* -- and so very, VERY well performed!
This is Holst's own piano duo version, written before the orchestral version even came to be.
The andante at 1:48 gets me every time.
Venus by Holst is my favourite piece of music!
It honestly reminds me of star wars because that modulation sounds so heavenly.
I could sleep forever beneath a heavy blanket by a glowing fire as the never ending snowflakes gently drifted down between the blue spruce branches in the early morning.
Fav part is from 0:38 to 1:12
There are errors in the printed music ( not in the performance, though) on the second page, in piano 1, bar 3. The chords in both pianos should be all A flat 6 chords. But the right hand of Piano 1 has the first and third chords playing G and B flat, whereas they should be A flat and C, like the second and fourth beats ( and like piano 2's right hand). It's a lovely performance!
There are no errors. Close inspection of the score reveals that those polychordal passages were indeed intentional.
The entire measure functions in a full Fm13 sonority (F Ab C Eb G Bb D) before resolving to a Bb9 sonority (Bb D F Ab C) in the first beat of the following measure.
This same figure reappears two measures after rehearsal numeral I in the score (1:21 in the video).
A variation of this passage appears two measure after rehearsal numeral V in the score (4:22 in the video), this time transposing the first compound sonority to Bb13 (Bb Db F Ab C Eb G) and resolving to a C9 sonority (C E G Bb D).
This figure is also used as a motivic device in various sections, most notably iin rehearsal numeral VI in the score (5:17 in the video). Even the first page contains a transposition of this figure on m. 8 (a Dbm13 sonority resolving to a Gb9 sonority).
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Don't mean to come off snobby, but no analysis of individual measures of a composition is complete without cross-reference to other parts of the score.
We do agree on one thing, though: this is indeed a lovely performance!
Wow! The 2 piano version sounds like something by Debussy or Ravel.
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I actually like the two piano version as much as the very familiar orchestral version. Do you have a recording of the entire suite for sale?
the part starting at 2:10 gets me
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Sounds like a debussy piece in it is played on a piano.
Way too many cadences to be a Debussy piece
Indeed Debussy is a strong influence here (and in all the XXth century music after him) but the voice of Holst is also so strong that after some measures it is clear this is not a Debussy work.
@@Poempedoempoex i can’t remember who said, tongue in cheek, that Debussy is all cadences but they are unresolved as they unresolve into the nest unresolved cadence. Harsh, but there is a germ of truth in there. That is part of Debussy’s style.
lol
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