Maurice Ravel: Piano concerto for the left hand
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2011
- Hélène Tysman, piano
Orchestra of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Conductor: Prof. Nicolás Pasquet
Maurice Ravel composed the piano concerto for the left hand in 1929 for austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm during WW I.
Website of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar: www.hfm-weimar.de
Concert recording on December 8, 2011 at the Weimarhalle, Weimar 
Видеоклипы
No standing ovation.? That was inconceivable. I have rarely heard this concerto played with such magic and passion.
Maurice Ehrlich IKR? I’m mad now.
Yes! And for a 20 minutes left hand Concerto☝️.
6:46 - 7:50 I freaking love that piano solo. Ravel was a genius!
This part is so good I don't even want it to end.
That contrabassoon solo at the beginning gave me chills
The left hand part was my favorite part in the piano
jajajajajaja, good one!
If you think of the performance as an art unto itself (which it is!), this is one of the best performances I have ever heard--not of this particular concerto but of ANY piece of music I have ever heard. The performance uplifts the music and only because of this can you begin to see what the music is capable of being. I've heard a number of performances of this piece (as a left-hander!), but this one is special. I come back to this video once or twice a year when I want to be carried away to another world.
The orchestra is not to be overlooked, either! The symphony orchestra is my personal pick for my favorite invention in human history. While the heart and soul lies in Hélène Tysman's performance at the piano, the combined performance of the entire assembly, with its flawless voicings and many a coy look exchanged between the young but masterful students, to me is the very picture of humanity at its best. The artistic genius of a long-gone composer, channeled through the exquisite marvel of a sprawling symphony orchestra, performed by young masters who don't just sit through a piece of music with dead eyes but actively react to it.
These twenty minutes are an amazing moment in history, and one can only be amazed that such moments are even possible, and thankful to bear witness to them.
Beautiful comment. Thank you.
can't believe this concert was someone's final exam at the university. cheers from the library!!!!!!! XD
I wonder if they allowed her to chose a piece or if she was forced to play this one?
godddd this cadenza is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written
Yes, yes... I agree wholeheartedly with you - though I get a similar feeling when I hear the beginning of a beautifully played version of Ondine from Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit... In the hopefully unreal situation of being restricted to a single piece of piano music, I would still choose Liszt's B-minor sonata (many great recordings - Andre Watts live 1988, Lazar Berman in Bonn in 1977 and Andre Laplante - to name just three available on RUclips)... But the Samson Francois recording of the Ravel Left Hand Concerto would be smuggled into my luggage too!!
The cadenza in this piece, jeux d'eau, barque and ondine are all so nice.
Excellent
One of the great masterpieces of 20th-century music and a heroic performance. Ravel would be proud!
I always thought that regular piano music was amazing. Now watching someone do this with one hand makes me feel really insignificant. It's a lovely piece, but knowing it is done with one hand makes it really unbelievable.
Excellent performance of this amazing work by Ravel (my favorite composer). It has everything: poetry, joy, melancholy, dramatic tempo changes, Spanish rhythms, etc. Hélène Tysman is a brilliant pianist.
Ravel & Debussy are my two favourite composers.
This is one of the most beautiful Piano Concertos!
This song is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I feel pretty sure about that right now.
Hélène, c'est clair, c'est net, c'est précis, c'est beau. Votre cadence est d'une grande finesse et d'une grande beauté. Vous surpassez nombre de "grands" concertistes d'aujourd'hui. Là, on est au niveau de Samson François. Merci.
Just a fantastic performance, by both orchestra and soloist.
I have never been able to listen to this piece, since first hearing it in a concert hall in los angeles decades ago, without weeping and shaking within. It is obviously so much more than a musical exercise, more of a spiritual triumph, an intense expression of dignity and courage and expression after loss. Anyone who has ever despaired of life's worth in the aftermath of senseless loss which seems to render it...unliveable...would do well to immerse him or herself in this. And if the execution of it led the original pianist for which it was written to bleed at the knuckles, I really do not think he would have minded, in this almost desperate attempt to reassert the mastery of the instrument in every way possible with limited means...
+CieTransAtlantique What a great comment stressing the "spiritual struggle" side of this magnificent composition. And I can go further and say that the actual one limb loss and struggle to win some balance again can be regarded here just as a metaphor of something that doesn´t need to be named. It´s one of the deepest and most emotional compositions I´ve known, one of the most shaking "stories" ever told by music.
+CieTransAtlantique a lovely comment, Thanks!
+Dave Johnson I would love to hear this played by Helene Grimaud. I think that would be...something on a whole other plane of being, with this material, and her almost otherworldly way of not just playing but being when she performs. But this, too, is clearly a performance where this young artist has simply played without limits which she might otherwise have, by dint of inspiration.
CieTransAtlantique..you GET it
What a comment! Thanks for saying this! On my side I love to listen to this concerto because for me it's utterly beautiful and when the marvellous Chopin or Debussy pattern starts from around 16:00, it's like beauty triumphs against all the dark, and the beauty goes crescendo until the final victory at the end.
And when I restart listening to this concerto from the beginning, it's like the first notes fight in the dark before harmony emerges step by step.
Everyone has his own feelings listening to music, that's also why music is so great..
Finally Hélène Tysman got a number of views that she deserves. She deserves much more still. Congrats to the orchestra too.
Those bass strings on the piano!! Wonderful orchestra....thank you to the bass viols for opening the door.I cannot say enough wonderful things about this. Thank you so much, all you musicians who have made this your life's work!!!! You bring joy to us all.
Watch the oboist in the middle. He's really trying to hold it together, you can tell he's really happy :D
ce concerto se joue avec la main gauche....point et j'adore tous ces jeunes artistes et la pianiste qui interprète de façon remarquable , cette œuvre magique de Ravel qui mérite d'être davantage connue . Une école de musique qui mérite son nom ! bravo à toute l'équipe
my favorite composer---
I watch loads of classical videos on RUclips, and this is one of the best, on numerous levels. The HD cameras are beautifully balanced -- you really feel "at" the performance, and the editing is superlative. Then there's the sublime composition itself, and this marvelous, fresh, inspiring, moving performance by all involved. Never mind that the original dedicatee wasn't wild about the concerto -- this is a testament to human ingenuity, passion, resolve and bravery. Bravo, Ravel! Bravi, tutti!
That cadenza stirs my soul every single time I hear it. Transcendental!
Respect, this technique is excellent! Congratulations for pianist!
Québec le 20 septembre 2014
Merci ! pour la mise en ligne de ce chef d'oeuvre de Maurice Ravel ( 1929 )
Mille **********
Renaud
It must be extremely difficult. But it is an absolutely wonderful piece - Ravel was a genius. God, I love him!
Actually it is easier than most people envisage, which is a testament to the composer himself. The chords are perfectly suited for the left hand to seamlessly move from one place to another. Not to say that it is not difficult, but let's move it from extremely difficult - t just difficult (as any concerto would be) :)
I love the girl you can see through the piano, the way she smiles slightly when the pianist pulls off certain feats. Ugh, I love this performance!
The violinist?
Sorry, I thought she was being disrespectful. She had something going with her boyfriend or whatever across the way. You don't see anyone else playing around! They give it the seriousness it deserves
@@sheaintmangy why wouldnt the performers be allowed to enjoy the music they're performing? Its quite common to see members of the orchestra listen to the soloist during cadenzas and such, and why shouldn't they? As long as they don't get distracted during their own playing, I think it is fine to listen around when you do not have to play.
Edit: you can also see other orchestra members do this, including the pianist
What an original choice for a final exam showpiece. I always admire anyone who has a go at this. Thanks for sharing.
Une excellente version accompagnée d'une prise de son très aboutie, beaucoup de dynamique, BRAVO.
Wonderful playing - fluent, accurate, beautifully shaded, spine-tinglingly atmospheric in the cadenza. Up there, in my book, with the wondrous Samson Francois and a very good Proms performance from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. She's their equal and enjoys perhaps the best recording of the three and excellent orchestral support. Magnificent.
Yes, I was reminded too of François. Very, very powerful performance.
In all the glorious constellations of great music, this work has remained at the top of my personal list for more than half a century, and this performance ranks as the best I've ever heard. And how Wittgenstein and Ravel fought over the music's original creation! Yet out of their battle emerged an unparalleled sonic miracle. Everything Ravel composed is exquisite, but this concerto surmounts them all. I was in tears the whole performance. Bravissimo to everyone involved!
Breathtakingly beautiful, stunning and inspiring. Great performance of such a difficult work. I love the composer's purpose and unlimited intent for the pianist for whom this was written. This work always reminds me not to accept limitations; our abilities can lift us into soaring into the heavens.
One of the best concerts I heard, you can really hear the orchestral parts very clearly here.
She played this difficult concerto beautifully. However, I noted that her left 3rd finger was bleeding, occurring sometime after the many glissandi she had to do. However, she finished the concerto like a "trooper" knowing that this was a time she had to shine, and she indeed did!
I've always hated glissandi, because they are murder on a modern grand piano.. for either hand.
sanjosemike
sanjosemike de acuerdo es lo único que reprochó a ravel
I notice that really only on Steinways. Yamaha pianos are better for glissandos, in my experience.
One of her fingers was bleeding from the glissando around 18:23 it is noticeable during the close up view.
Lovely performance both technically and musically. I had never heard this piece before, and it's now definitely one of my favourites.
I am in awe! Everyone else summed it up so very well. The audio recording is outstanding. Loved the attention to the instruments.
This orchestra is a student orchestra?????????????????????WOW!!!
This is what i call: Music in the making. Just Fantastic.
I really love how full orchesta sounds when piano finish just there 5:24
+Alberto “moracabanas” Mora exactly that part reminds me of some national geographic or documentary theme music.
This brought me to tears - A sublime piece of music and a great performance.
truly wonderful performance,wow. phrasing,tonecoloring,dynamics,articulation,tempi, absolutely great
Beautiful performance; energetic, yet very transparent. Tysman even hurt her middle finger in one of the glissandi
Excellent performance. Beautiful video. I could watch this over and over again. Thank you!
Ravel. Incredible. His influence on some jazz artists, indisputable.
An amazing masterpiece. Wonderfully performed!
Che meraviglia, suonata da una splendida orchestra di giovani musicisti. Applauso e bravissimi, in piedi!
impressive technique and musical feeling - i hope she got A+
i listened to this for many years without realising it was left hand only! astounding
Me too, but I assumed it was a saxophone!
Ravel recognized the importance of creating the illusion that two hands were playing in order to make the music "work" at all. He certainly succeeded.
That was the intention ! It’s great though that you discovered it !
Una esecuzione superba per intensità espressiva, senza cedimenti dall'inizio alla fine, con una cadenza mozzzafiato. Bravissima.
I am blown away! soloist AND orchestra,they play like they all know the piece inside out.
Beautiful phrasing ,climaxes and no rushing anywhere. I hope to hear more of this Tysman,
one hand or two,she is a true artist!
Wspaniały Koncert......znakomite wykonanie jedno z najlepszych jakie mogłam usłyszeć
dotąd....Dziękuję
What a fantastic performance. So incredibly faithful to the music and spirit of the piece - the sound Helene creates with those gashing bass notes for the war-like themes really stands against their orchestral appearances. Bravo to everyone ~
The concertmaster is so cute! :3
That entro blows me away every time!
It took me a while to hear the bass viols back in the olden days of recordings.
unbelievable... simply unbelievable
WONDERFUL performance of an amazing composition from my favorite composer.
I believe that to fully appreciate this beautiful music you need the whatch the episode Morale Victory from the 8th season of mash it really shows how important this music is to some people
I wish this was available for purchase. Thanks for putting this on RUclips.
My soul trembled when I heard your piano. Please hold a concert in Japan.
un très grand Bravo à Hélène pour l'interprétation parfaite de cette pièce de Ravel si difficile .merci à Nicolas Pasquet qui a dirigé l'orchestre de manière aussi positive avec des signes au pianiste qui n'a pas la partition sous les yeux .....
I LOVE RAVEL ITS FANTASTIC
WOW...BRAVO!!!!!
The orchestra intro in the beginning is so awsome!
Sumptuous. Thank-you Helene, orchestra and conductor, everyone involved. A wonderful experence.
This orchestra plays with strength!
What a joy to see so many dedicated young musicians obvously enjoying their privileged work, judging the smiling, happy faces. Unequalled phrasing in the soloist's play! And her refined fairytale dress!
love cadenza..amazing:) she's very emotional)
The conductor brought out a great many things in the orchestral part I never noticed before, and they are things which very much deserve to be noticed. My thanks for that. The pianist gave this quite a robust performance and I liked it very much (though I imagine Ravel might have quibbled with the rather frequent use of rubato which is not, of course, indicated the score itself. This did have the effect of making us hear the music somewhat differently by interrupting in some degree it's relentlessness, and I thought the approach worked well with the music). Altogether this was a very fine performance.
I'm loving the drama of the Orchestra intro.. a beauty and mood only Ravel could compose!
Those bass viols opening the door to a beautiful garden of sound.
Ravel would have listen with pleasure his composition in such great interpretation. I discovered Hélène today. I will not be surprised that she makes a wonderfull career...
Do you know the name of the pianist ? They didn't scribe it on the description.
I love this enthusiasm of the young students, great
Spectacular! A _real_ concerto makes you bleed when you play it! ;-)
True! It took two weeks for my toes to heal... ;)
bckm54 Hold on a minute there....
A great performance of a 20th Century masterpiece. Ravel must have been a really great man; he was a pacifist and drove ambulances in the WWI trenches. He wrote this especially for Wittgenstein as an act of true friendship. The opening bars of this work always send a shiver down my spine! The pianist, I presume, came through her exam with flying colours!
He tried to join the French Air Corps first but was rejected because of his age. They expected you to shoot at the enemy when in an aeroplane. That didn't seem to bother "pacifist" Maurice. He had to settle for ambulance driver.
Does being a pacifist mean you let the enemy destroy your country, economy and musical culture? Ravel lifted up the musical and cultural heritage of France to an extraordinary level, for which I say, "Bravo!"
Actually, Wittgenstein and Ravel were somewhat distant, and never close friends. Especially after W performed the work for Ravel and refused to play it exactly as written, which infuriated R. After hearing W's performance, R commented: "But that is not it at all!"
"Hey, here's the piece you asked for."
"Thank you for this piece, I've changed it a little, look how better it's this way!"
"But you can't just change the piece, you're supposed to play it the way I want!"
"But composers arent slaves!"'
"Composers are slaves!"
@@xYonowaaru Wittgenstein did come around in time. He'd just never encountered a piece structured this way before. He found the piano's early dominance in the introduction to be excessive, like starting a concerto with a cadenza. "if I'd wanted a sonata, I'd have asked for that", or something similar. He rewrote the piece, giving music assigned to the piano to the orchestra, and vice versa. One can see how the composer wasn't amused. It had been written specifically to give the exact impression it delivers to us today. W was from a more corseted musical background in terms of form. He eventually caught on, and played it as written
thank you for this wonderful video. i've never seen this work performed.. i ve now enjoyed it several times.. now,,, for the concerto for TWO hands.
I've watched this many times. Great performance.
Hear, within all the indelible melody, virtuosic technique, the honor given to the survivors, hear the triumph of hope over war. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, remember. The suffering on the ground is inconceivable to us now. But Ravel used his tools (melody, rhythm, surprise, and storytelling) to give us a memorial. And it's not a museum piece, it's a vital, living experience. One of my favorite works of art anywhere. And this performance is stellar.
My favorite interpretation of this piece, thanks to the pianist's superb accentuation and intelligent use of various shades of articulation in THE must minute details. Quite unique features, in today's piano-playing.
I am very glad to have uploaded this recording. The young instrumentalists communicate their inner feelings through their faces. It disintegrated in the original composition has slowed down, weightless units were serious, but it has advantages. Less pattern, more ad hoc motif display can be heard. The viewer, listener better understand the role of the original components.
Great performance of one of the great concertos. Should be required listening before anyone forms an opinion about war.
Amazing! Wonderful! Non brava,, BRAVISSIMA e meravigliosa.. Maurice Ehrlich has right! Standing ovation? One hour of standing ovation!!!
Fantastic performance! I wish I could study at this institution: these students/performers seem to be having a great time and so am I just listening and watching the video. Thank you for a great performance.
For me, one of the very best performances of this Concerto I have ever experienced. Strength, drama, and pathos. Too , too good to be missed. I'm so thankful I found it at this late date. Bravo! Bravo! Thank goodness for the video.
I never understood this piece until I watched Leon Fleisher play it when he lost the use of his right hand to focal dystonia.
If you get a chance, you ought to hear the Robert Casadesus performance with Eugene Ormandy. It's quite breathtaking.
This is stunning!!! A fabulous performance. I've watched and re-watched this, and love it.
WOW~ Beautiful. It feels like I am taking a mini vacation~
O, wow, beautifully played. What a brilliant performance. Well done. Vielen herzlichen Dank!
Thie piece sends chills throughout my body
video très émouvante...excellent jeune orchestre et adorable Hélène
With love from Greenland🇬🇱💙
What an enchanting interpretation by a gifted artist. Gorgeous piece, beautifully played.
Beautiful and touching.
What a marvelous performance for this divine piece! Congratulations!!!👏👏👏🥰
What a "BEAU GESTE,ravel composed this to honor a pianist friend
who lost his right arm in WORLD WAR I
stunning piece
Merveilleux ! Je n’ai même pas envie de chercher les mots, merveilleux …
Ravel certainly was a master orchestrator!
This is wonderful.
I learned of this piece watching a re-run of the TV show M*A*SH*!
Outstanding,Bravo.this music Is food for the soul.
Ça fait plaisir de voir de si jeunes musiciens bourrés de talent donner une si superbe interprétation du Concerto pour la main gauche de Ravel !! Fantastique !! :-)
Performance vraiment impressionnante...