This was one of my great grandmother's favorite pieces! Every time I hear it I remember sitting in her living room playing board games with my cousins and eating junk food. The harmony is so moving and the ending still speeds up my heartbeat.
Prior to WW1 Ravel wrote festive waltzes, after the Great War he wrote this last one. It is the most savage and heart breaking indictment of the self immolation of Old Europe. It is a brilliant piece of music.
When I was just discovering classical music, I bought the boxed set of the Minnesota Orchestra playing Ravel. This is the piece on that album that really twisted my head around. It never fails.
This is my single favorite composition musically of all time - What a majestic opening piece for a film to open to in a ballroom in Vienna pre World War One - as opening credits rolled on screen :)
Favorite? It really is great, but it seems to me that a favorite musical piece would stand out a bit more than this one does in comparison to other similar pieces. It really is good, but what exactly makes it that superior in your opinion?
preacher of nothing Sometimes a piece just speaks to you. The first time hearing a piece like this, you might remember it more for it's impact on you. Nostalgic, sort of.
Ravel was asked about Bolero later in life and he considered it a joke. It's popularity was unexpected. Ravel's music is layered, deep, and heavily nuanced. The fact that a joke to him turns out to be excellent in it's pacing and use of tension is a testament to Ravel's abilities.
La première fois que j'ai entendu le Boléro, j'avais 12 ans et c'était au Radio City Music Hall à New York; à 20 ans, ce fut Bach, en Autriche au Monastère Ste -Croix, près de Mayerling; un moine jouait Toccate et Fugue aux grandes orgues...Puis vinrent les compositeurs russes, avec le pianiste Emil Gilels, à Québec; j'avais des réservations pour toutes les représentations et j'y suis allée. J'y ai mêne amenée Tante Gemma, pianiste et Bacho en musique. Tante Gemma avait habité mon adolescence avec Chopin, Liszt, Schubert et tous les grands romantiques. La Valse de Ravel et Debussy sont arrivés tard dans ma vie. Mais ils y sont restés ancrés profondément. Mon enfance complète a été bercée par le Jazz que mon père jouait et écoutait. L'homme de ma vie (30 ans) était chanteur de Jazz. Alors, ne venez pas me parler de Pop, Rock ou Heavy Metal, tout ce que vous aurez de moi sera un petit sourire...
And he didn't even intend for that. How crazy is it that when Ravel writes a simple, plain orchestral piece you can find all of these complex parallels to WWI? Ravel was a genius even if by accident.
The information available doesn't totally invalidate the theme of destruction, though. If you're interested, you might want to check out Michael Puri's book, "Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire." He reinterprets the piece as ecstatic, Dionysian destruction in the vein of Nietzsche. Extremely interesting read.
Well it's anything but simple and plain. "While some discover an attempt at parody, indeed caricature, others categorically see a tragic allusion in it - the end of the Second Empire, the situation in Vienna after the war, etc.... This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion... pushed to the extreme. But one should only see in it what the music expresses: an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement." -From a letter Ravel wrote.
Could you please, tell us who is performing this work? Music need composers but need performers as well, she doesn't play by herself spontaneously. It would be great, thank you by anticipation
This music is superb and it isn't shit..It is stupid to write that "la valse"was a shit and mediocre..it is the fact of people who cannot appreciate the classic music and if they dislike this music why do THEY LISTEN TO IT ? I find this waltz incredibly beautiful and i have the sensation to see people dancing and a bird and a fountain ..It is magical!!! I just adore this symphony and the progression in the waltz.People who dislike this piece of music have no sensitiveness and no poetry inside of them..
And, furthermore who cares if somebody says this or any other music in any genre is "shit" or "mediocre". You like the music, so there's no need to worry what anyone else thinks. For the record though, I agree whole heartedly with you, I think this music is superb as well.
This performance was recorded by Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra in 1974. I recommend this conductor and orchestra's performance of Ravel's orchestral works, which is excellent overall. If you are so inclined, listen to their performances of ''Daphnis et Chloé (Suite)''. It's a pity that it's a small-scale suite version, but it includes the chorus, which the composer considered important in the composition.
This performance was recorded by Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra in 1974. I recommend this conductor and orchestra's performance of Ravel's orchestral works, which is excellent overall. If you are so inclined, listen to their performances of ''Daphnis et Chloé (Suite)''. It's a pity that it's a small-scale suite version, but it includes the chorus, which the composer considered important in the composition.
In her tummy ...what were they doing? Many times the whole album both sides. Ravel, why? Not born yet ! Maybe creating a type of creature, creative ? Not sure , it has a je ne sais quoi nevertheless its somewhat sensory cerebrally interesting. Sweet dreams.
This version is pretty mediocre but I can not find the best version bye far ever. On HBO there used to be this music show with Dudley Moore and one episode was With the great George Shulti conducting a youth orchestra doing this piece. They bring this piece of music alive like I have never heard it. It is disorientating, dizzying. It is like being on a psychedelic ferris wheel. Someone out there has to find this episode and post it please! I would but I don't know how ti do either of those things. :-) Oh P.S. Don'T even bother with the Leonard Bernstien version. It's flat boring and dead It sucks ass in other words.............CHEERS.
You are a moron! You 'll never be like Ravel and you will never appreciate classical music.Why do you write shit? Nobody told you to listen to this so GO AWAY PLEASE..you are a boring and stupid man..Who are you to criticize Ravel and this music?Pff! You are pathetic!
Frenchie séverine Translation: "You're a moron for not liking a version of a piece." That was pretty moronic, honestly. Also, where the heck in the entire comment did he ever criticize Ravel (who happens to be my favorite)? He only spoke about the interpretation. You're just being a jerk for no reason. There are so many things outright wrong with what you said that I'm not going to point them all out.
The reason is because this piece is extremely difficult to play and not many conductors put interest on it. I believe it's harder to play than the Rite of the Spring, that's a very high difficulty. You won't find a really good interpretation, and if you do it will be a miracle or just a interpretation made with a music program.
I just love how Ravel completely murders the waltz by ending it in 4/4 time.
This was one of my great grandmother's favorite pieces! Every time I hear it I remember sitting in her living room playing board games with my cousins and eating junk food. The harmony is so moving and the ending still speeds up my heartbeat.
I would also call this piece my favorite classical work ever. I just love the progression and the harmonic style.
Its from impressionism.
This is one of a number of pieces that brings me to tears.
Prior to WW1 Ravel wrote festive waltzes, after the Great War he wrote this last one. It is the most savage and heart breaking indictment of the self immolation of Old Europe. It is a brilliant piece of music.
When I was just discovering classical music, I bought the boxed set of the Minnesota Orchestra playing Ravel. This is the piece on that album that really twisted my head around. It never fails.
This is my single favorite composition musically of all time - What a majestic opening piece for a film to open to in a ballroom in Vienna pre World War One - as opening credits rolled on screen :)
Favorite? It really is great, but it seems to me that a favorite musical piece would stand out a bit more than this one does in comparison to other similar pieces. It really is good, but what exactly makes it that superior in your opinion?
preacher of nothing What other pieces would you suggest might be better?
For my own benefit-
preacher of nothing Sometimes a piece just speaks to you. The first time hearing a piece like this, you might remember it more for it's impact on you. Nostalgic, sort of.
What a beautiful performance!
Un morceau de génie! C'est grandiose,majestueux,impérial..le milieu monte en puissance et la fin est un feu d'artifice puissant..merci!!
What a coincidence. This is the exact recording I heard when I was a child.
Ravel is my favorite classical composer.....sheer genius. And this is my favorite of all his compositions.
Heard this on the radio while I was driving home. Made everything around me feel much more than just a simple trip.
I think I prefer this to 'Bolero'.
Bolero was never intended to be as popular as it became
Eoin Allen
Very True Eoin!!!
Happy Christmas and New Year to You and All Your Family!!!
Cheers - Mike
Ravel was asked about Bolero later in life and he considered it a joke. It's popularity was unexpected.
Ravel's music is layered, deep, and heavily nuanced. The fact that a joke to him turns out to be excellent in it's pacing and use of tension is a testament to Ravel's abilities.
Is there no other composition, by any composer, songwriter, or tuneweaver, whereto you prefer this. Don't name just one. That is unfair!
You're right. Boléro is now almost on the Hit Parade. But, quiet in your living room...
Ravel is my favorite, too. He makes music like I would if I could!
Who could dislike this version? It's perfect. Not too fast but not too slow either
That trumpet part is glorious.... I really enjoyed that solo. But I always love how Ravel ends his pieces.
Thanks to my father when i was young always ear classic music during travels by car. I know Ravel when i was 5 years. Mitic was Bolero.
Heerlijk met die dynamiek en intervals!
La première fois que j'ai entendu le Boléro, j'avais 12 ans et c'était au Radio City Music Hall à New York; à 20 ans, ce fut Bach, en Autriche au Monastère Ste -Croix, près de Mayerling; un moine jouait Toccate et Fugue aux grandes orgues...Puis vinrent les compositeurs russes, avec le pianiste Emil Gilels, à Québec; j'avais des réservations pour toutes les représentations et j'y suis allée. J'y ai mêne amenée Tante Gemma, pianiste et Bacho en musique. Tante Gemma avait habité mon adolescence avec Chopin, Liszt, Schubert et tous les grands romantiques. La Valse de Ravel et Debussy sont arrivés tard dans ma vie. Mais ils y sont restés ancrés profondément.
Mon enfance complète a été bercée par le Jazz que mon père jouait et écoutait. L'homme de ma vie (30 ans) était chanteur de Jazz. Alors, ne venez pas me parler de Pop, Rock ou Heavy Metal, tout ce que vous aurez de moi sera un petit sourire...
And he didn't even intend for that. How crazy is it that when Ravel writes a simple, plain orchestral piece you can find all of these complex parallels to WWI? Ravel was a genius even if by accident.
I Love this version !!!!!!!
Magnificent
monde enchante monde leger monde fantomatique que belle musique
Is this interpretation played by the french Orchestre de la Société des Conservatoires, and leaded by André Cluytens, recorded in 1962 ?
Thank you for your answer :)
Fantastique!
The information available doesn't totally invalidate the theme of destruction, though. If you're interested, you might want to check out Michael Puri's book, "Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire." He reinterprets the piece as ecstatic, Dionysian destruction in the vein of Nietzsche. Extremely interesting read.
You are exactly correct. I believe even in his private letters he said as much. I made my assumption based on emotion, rather than information.
you nailed it.
mettete sempre i conduttori! e orchestra, prego
Well it's anything but simple and plain.
"While some discover an attempt at parody, indeed caricature, others categorically see a tragic allusion in it - the end of the Second Empire, the situation in Vienna after the war, etc.... This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion... pushed to the extreme. But one should only see in it what the music expresses: an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement."
-From a letter Ravel wrote.
Anyone just loves the notes the trumpets make :) 10:58
I've heard people say this is a downer, I think it's fabulous!
great way to put it!
May I know whose version is this?
I like this version very very very much.
No.1
No idea why bolero is his most popular piece 😐
Whose version this is?
De quién es esta versión?
Orchestra, Conductor, year.
Thanks!
Could you please, tell us who is performing this work? Music need composers but need performers as well, she doesn't play by herself spontaneously. It would be great, thank you by anticipation
This music is superb and it isn't shit..It is stupid to write that "la valse"was a shit and mediocre..it is the fact of people who cannot appreciate the classic music and if they dislike this music why do THEY LISTEN TO IT ? I find this waltz incredibly beautiful and i have the sensation to see people dancing and a bird and a fountain ..It is magical!!! I just adore this symphony and the progression in the waltz.People who dislike this piece of music have no sensitiveness and no poetry inside of them..
He/she actually said the performance was bad, not the music.
And, furthermore who cares if somebody says this or any other music in any genre is "shit" or "mediocre". You like the music, so there's no need to worry what anyone else thinks. For the record though, I agree whole heartedly with you, I think this music is superb as well.
Music has nothing to do with sensitivity.
P. S. Learn to write English.
Please, The Name Of Conductor And Orchestra, Please
This performance was recorded by Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra in 1974. I recommend this conductor and orchestra's performance of Ravel's orchestral works, which is excellent overall. If you are so inclined, listen to their performances of ''Daphnis et Chloé (Suite)''. It's a pity that it's a small-scale suite version, but it includes the chorus, which the composer considered important in the composition.
Me llevo del romance a la ezquisofrenia
Trombone chromatic phrases are the best chromatic phrases.
hi may i know whose version is this? its really nice!
Variations. :)
conductor / orchestra/ year please. Thanks.
Karajan, Philamornic Orchestra of Shawinigan, 2009.
@@Neuroneos Karajan was already dead in 2009. ._.
@@Ivan_1791 I know... and there's no such thing as a Philarmonic Orchestra of Shawinigan hehe
He didn't intend for that? Everyone program note/cd liner note about this piece I've come across says otherwise.
Who conducted this rendition?
This performance was recorded by Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra in 1974. I recommend this conductor and orchestra's performance of Ravel's orchestral works, which is excellent overall. If you are so inclined, listen to their performances of ''Daphnis et Chloé (Suite)''. It's a pity that it's a small-scale suite version, but it includes the chorus, which the composer considered important in the composition.
Well....I don't know who's conducting.....
Everytime you feel like making a YT vid, use Ravel's music what's he gonna do? Give you Coyright Strike?
like valse
2:00
^-^
The only version y like... the composer's. The only one that sounds impressionist to me...
He denied that he wrote it as a relfection of Europe after the war though.
Grade 10 students studying here be like👀😂
In her tummy ...what were they doing? Many times the whole album both sides. Ravel, why? Not born yet ! Maybe creating a type of creature, creative ? Not sure , it has a je ne sais quoi nevertheless its somewhat sensory cerebrally interesting. Sweet dreams.
What?
This version is pretty mediocre but I can not find the best version bye far ever. On HBO there used to be this music show with Dudley Moore and one episode was With the great George Shulti conducting a youth orchestra doing this piece. They bring this piece of music alive like I have never heard it. It is disorientating, dizzying. It is like being on a psychedelic ferris wheel. Someone out there has to find this episode and post it please! I would but I don't know how ti do either of those things. :-) Oh P.S. Don'T even bother with the Leonard Bernstien version. It's flat boring and dead It sucks ass in other words.............CHEERS.
You are a moron! You 'll never be like Ravel and you will never appreciate classical music.Why do you write shit? Nobody told you to listen to this so GO AWAY PLEASE..you are a boring and stupid man..Who are you to criticize Ravel and this music?Pff! You are pathetic!
Frenchie séverine Translation: "You're a moron for not liking a version of a piece." That was pretty moronic, honestly. Also, where the heck in the entire comment did he ever criticize Ravel (who happens to be my favorite)? He only spoke about the interpretation.
You're just being a jerk for no reason. There are so many things outright wrong with what you said that I'm not going to point them all out.
Frenchie séverine that`s a cheap comment
The reason is because this piece is extremely difficult to play and not many conductors put interest on it. I believe it's harder to play than the Rite of the Spring, that's a very high difficulty.
You won't find a really good interpretation, and if you do it will be a miracle or just a interpretation made with a music program.
Not the best version ever, yes, too polite.