Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, orchestration complète
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Composée entre 1914 et 1917, donnée en première audition en avril 1919 par Marguerite Long, la suite pour piano Le Tombeau de Couperin comporte six morceaux, Prélude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Menuet et Toccata, dédiés à la mémoire d'amis tombés au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ravel orchestra par la suite quatre de ces pièces, entendues pour la première fois sous cette forme en février 1920 et se jouant dans l'ordre suivant : Prélude, Forlane, Menuet et Rigaudon.
Près de 80 ans plus tard, le pianiste et chef d'orchestre hongrois Zoltán Kocsis entreprit d'orchestrer les deux pièces restantes, la Fugue et la Toccata. C'est cette version orchestrale complète qu'on peut entendre ici, interprétée par l'Orchestre Philharmonique National Hongrois dirigé par Zoltán Kocsis (l'image sur la vidéo est une vue partielle d'un dessin de Ravel ornant la partition originale).
Se succèdent ainsi :
[00:00] Prélude ("à la mémoire du lieutenant Jacques Charlot");
[03:08] Fugue ("à la mémoire du sous-lieutenant Jean Cruppi");
[06:20] Forlane ("à la mémoire du lieutenant Gabriel Deluc");
[12:23] Rigaudon ("à la mémoire de Pierre et Pascal Gaudin");
[15:24] Menuet ("à la mémoire de Jean Dreyfus");
[20:32] Toccata ("à la mémoire du capitaine Joseph de Marliave").
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on en pleure de joie et de fierté qu'un être humain ai pu atteindre ce degré de perfection.
Oh que vous avez raison....
The Prelude is probably one of the most magical pieces in music history.
It was a dynamic discovery! My favorite composer.
Ignacio Hernández it is indeed it is, i feel like flating in the sea and flying at the same time
In my opinion, that would be the symphony renditions of 'prelude to afternoon on a faun' or 'reverie', both by Claude Debussy.
La verdad que si
The toccata also!!
I had an outer body experience listening to the end of this. I was stoned.
+Taner Kemirtlek - The term is out-of-body. Just thought you might like to know.
Dave Smith: Yes, quite right. Also sometimes abbreviated (or "acronymized") as an "OBE".
Yes, this music, while not overtly declaring itself as such, is indeed "transcendental". Just amazing, nearly indescribable, in fact. An extraordinary work by a most unique composer. None of the usual appellations really fit, do they? "Impressionist" (which he is often referred to as), "Post-Romantic", etc., etc. -- none of these seem quite suitable. Ravel simply defies categorization; he is his own genre, all unto himself. A truly remarkable composer who doesn't get anywhere near the recognition he deserves, nor the number of performances, either. In the annals of musical history, he stands alone as a peerless original, a truly unique voice. There's simply no one else like him. One of the all-time greats. Brilliant!
I purchased a laptop online recently which, when it arrived in the post, would not boot. Round and round I went, trying to choose my language and add my microsoft account to get it started, all to no avail. After a day spent trying to sort it out with a bot on the Microsoft online chat support, I sent the laptop back to the vendor, who wrote on my file that the laptop was returned owing to a 'faulty OBE'. Knowing this only as either (a) an honour bestowed by the Sovereign, or (b) an experience one has when listening to RVW when stoned (Cf, this thread), I was happy to learn the third definition relating to products, both working and (more usually) kaput: (c) out-of-the-box. Now I know.
Pebbledash Wales: Thanks for sharing your "out-of-the-box experience". That was really funny! 😁
@@davesmith6815 actually I think Tanner May have had an outer body experience.
Le orchestration est plus que beau et comme si chaque mouvement ! Chapeau a Ravel que est un grande maestro ! Mon favori pour Ravel.
One of the little things I love about this piece: some of the single chords that end the various sections are so beautiful that I'm like, "I want to hear more of this!!!"
OMG!!! what a great job Kocsis!!!
J'aime trop cet enregistrement! Tu vois, je commence par trouver un morceau sur youtube comme ça, puis je finis par l'acheter sur iTunes après. Pour moi au moins je trouve que RUclips est un bon outil pour trouver des morceaux à acheter après
Toute façons merci de mettre ça en ligne pour nous. Nous l'apprécions, vraiment
Great music and great orchestration!
Marvelous suite.
20:20 Oh wow I do believe Ravel might have been the first person in history to have used a major 7 + 9 chord! My favorite kind!
Claude in Nocturnes: Nuages (1899) +11 +13
In August 1984 I was living and working at Grand Canyon National Park. During the Perseid meteor shower I worked until midnight and walked home to my little apartment. It was a warm evening and a cloudless night. The sky was clear and the moon was nothing more than a thin crescent. There were so many meteors that when I got home I pulled my living room sofa into the yard, put my Sennheiser headphones on, and watched as hundreds of meteors each hour streaked through the sky. And all while playing Ravel and Debussy. A magical night I will remember with joy until I draw my last breath.
Thank you so much, James Farrell, for this very fine and striking evocation!
It's good to share such memories ... many, many years ago I was a kid playing hooky, went to main library in Brooklyn, over to turntables, put on earphones and, somehow, played a recording of this piece ... changing my life forever, so help me ...
gotta go with the sennheisers!
Lucky you 😊🍀
This is what makes music is all about; this kind of universality. Music allows us to experience what you did that night better than any shared words could.
I recorded part of this to a cassette tape as it was playing on the radio back in the early 1990's and couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was called, who it was by.. then by chance i recently discovered my old cassette tapes! and the only word I could make out from the half taped over description was *"tombeau!"* .. 2 hours later.. found it! ..and love it as I did all those years ago, a beautiful piece of music.
I love this story. Something about cassette tapes feels already like relics from a forgotten world.
When asked why his piece wasn't as somber as much of the memorial music produced in the aftermath of the Great War, Ravel is reported to have said: "The dead have sorrow enough". Ravel was mourning the deaths of his friends, but also grateful that they had lived at all. Which may be why this music is so sprightly and optimistic.
Michael Hopcroft Ravel never wrote a sad piece of music in his life. Sombre and reflective works perhaps, but everything Ravel wrote always contained a Ravelian sense of life and spirit.
That is incredibly profound,I’m grateful for you sharing that.Ravel goes even higher in my estimation
Yes, thank you for the shared Ravelian sensibility. A great trait to possess, by the way.
@@TomCL-vb6xc There is one thing. In 1917, shortly after coming back from the Battle of Verdun, and shortly after his mother died. He made Frontispice. It's a terrifying composition.
@@TomCL-vb6xc pavane for a dead princess is kinda sad
This piece works so well with the orchestral texture, that I find it hard to believe that it was ever written for just the piano.
Captain Stingray That’s because Ravel was a masterful orchestrator. The original piano version is pretty bare-bones in comparison, but Ravel really brought out the colors to fit the orchestra.
Ravel didn't compose many original works for orchestra: La valse; Daphnis et Chloé, a ballet score for chorus and orchestra; Shéhérazade Ouverture for orchestra; Shéhérazade song cycle for mezzo-soprano (or tenor) and orchestra; Rapsodie espagnole for orchestra; a ballet score, Boléro; Piano Concerto in G; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; etc. Ravel orchestrated many of his and other composers' piano pieces: Ma mère l'Oye; Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Une Barque sur l'océan; Menuet antique; Valses nobles et sentimentales; etc.
I prefer it on piano because normaly ravels music is very discrete and with full orchestra there is yes more colors but in piano, it's very discrete and light, sometimes a bit cold, but like ravels music.
very hard to separate after u master both
Personally, I think the piano and orchestra pieces are totally different. The piano piece has a quality to it that's very specific to the piano, and is completely lost in the orchestra version. This is in contrast to something like the Pavane, which is rather similar in both versions.
This music feels as if I am stepping into an enchanted place.
Well put , Dorothy. It's magical music.
+Dorothyellen w French composers power ! ^^
+Dorothyellen w I feel the same too...
We aren't in Kansas any more, are we Dorothy?
You stepped into RUclips, where all dreams come true.
Elegant, witty, beautiful....yet somehow elusive --- music that never quite gives up all its secrets.
magnifique analyse ! bravo ,
so very well said.
There is magic in this sense of mystery.
I love how it soars!
Ravel should be taught in every public school. Seriously.
I so agree. World peace = Ravel.
Fully agree !!
Ravel is just used at school to get children running away far from music.
DEI should so be replaced with Ravel
@@chrispiazza9544 yes thank you
The prelude makes me feel like a butterfly
When George Gershwin was in Europe he took lessons from Ravel. Ravel asked Gershwin how much money he made. After Gershwin told him Ravel said, "Perhaps I should be taking lessons from you."
Apparently Gershwin went around asking everyone for lessons. Ravel turned him down, supposedly saying "Why be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin?"
It's Stravinsky who was supposed to have made the "taking lessons from you," quip, but according to The Atlantic (citing Gershwin biographer, Charles Schwartz), all of these stories were probably made up by Gershwin.
@@asym52 There's a similar quip attributed to Billy Wilder and Godard: "You have something I greatly envy, Monsieur Godard: artistic freedom." / "And you have something I envy: money." (I believe it's Wilder / Godard)
This is most likely made up, as many such quips are. I couldn't find confirmation in reliable sources. In any case Gershwin, regardless of his talent (and flair) is not in the same league as Ravel. He was a poor orchestrator and left most of the "arrangements" (sic) to people like Grofe.
Ravel > Gershwin
@@ruperttmls7985 always
To write such joy on the face of loss and destruction is only a sign of an absolute genius.
This music should be prescribed listening for depression.
Dorothyellen w best comment ever!
Music should be prescribed for depression.
The music has an ethereal (escapist?) giddyness about it, yet it's easy to tell just from the music alone that the subtext is profound sorrow and loss. It was written in wartime, in part to memorialize the war dead (perhaps to play for them as the name suggests), but there's no hint of "rally round the flag" or "we're all in this together" . It seems like the feeling Ravel wanted to convey was a desperate wish to be happy, to remember some idealized past or imagine a life affirming future, in spite of the very real present.
I've been listening to this for too long now. It's just too good.
Lol listening to this is my way to self medicate.
R.I.P Zoltán Kocsis who orchestrated the Fugue and the Toccata in this suite.
Are these the movements that were initially left out of the orchestral version?
KenKen3593 Yes
Why was it left out? Maybe it was either too hard to orchestrate or he just didn’t get around to doing it
@@KenKen3593 Only the Fugue and Toccata were left out. The first two movements are really one, considered as a Prélude and Fugue of a Baroque suite :)... The remaining four are in the orchestral version- in a different order (the minuet and rigaudon are switched. The difference between Prelude and Fugue in e - Forlane in e - Rigaudon in C - Menuet in G - Toccata in e , and Prélude - Forlane - Menuet - Rigaudon is pretty substantial in _effect_, though (when the menuet is as ethereal and the Rigaudon as robust as these are.)
@@LandOnBolts I don't know. It can't have been just that. After all, he switched two of the movements in the orchestration, and that after leaving out the finale (which means the orchestral version ends in C whereas the piano version ends in the tonic - e/E - which matters, it does. Practicality? Don't know.)
écouter la musique de Ravel c'est comme entrer dans un monde féerique rempli de magie. On ne s'en lasse pas.
Claire: magnifiquement dit!
C'est exactement ça !
Si vrai.
@@conradsabatier5223 Conrad à raison, il y a chez Ravel cette (grosse) part de féerie ... indispensable à moi-même ...:)
Wow! Kocsis did a great job. I think he captured really well the soul of Ravel's orchestration.
I agree.
Hear, here...
YouBet!
Some of the most refined and beautiful music ever written.
Ravel was a true genius.
one of my gods
Far more than a genius....
how so?
@@spactickbecause of his understanding of music theory, he didn't need piano in front of him to compose he had an entire orchestra fit inside his head. The greatest musical genius mankind can ever witness and still he is overshadowed by Debussy
@@chrispiazza9544 x2
Maurice Ravel nous a donné dans " Le Tombeau de Couperin" une oeuvre d'art d'une véritable élévation qui n'échappe pas à une dimension spirituelle . Il y a une douce et joyeuse présence qui habite ces danses de l'âme qui nous transportent délicatement avec infiniment de respect . Mélancolie non systématique qui n'est pas affectée mais elle témoigne d'une douleur présente qui a absorbé le deuil , en porte les traces , mais il y a en profondeur comme une résolution virile et vivifiante d'un accord avec les veines de ce qui palpite en positif dans la Vie . Ravel , le musicien des profondeurs nous réenchante, non de spectres illusoires mais nous prend doucement par la main , nous suggère , comme si l'on nous racontait de belles histoires qui éveillent de nobles sentiments et ces musiques propres à confronter avec l' univers de la nature ,sont comme une prescription de bonheur pour un coeur que l'on invite à s'emplir de simple beauté non tonitruante mais en teintes aquarellées qui soulagent l'âme et le regard parfois superficiel que l'on porte sur les choses de l'existence .
+remi xuereb vous avez bien résumé le propos de Ravel il me semble. Je dirai (ma modeste contribution au débat...) : une musique sans pathos et tellement "française"....
Maurice Ravel était extrêmement différent des autres artistes compositeurs, on sent dans ses musiques qu'il débordait d'imagination, Le Tombeau de Couperin est une musique où l'on constate la saveur de l'imagination de Ravel. On sent aussi qu'il avait tellement d'imagination qu'il fallait réussir à tout incarner dans une musique sans qu'elle soit trop longue, alors il a pris ce qu'il lui semblait le plus beau, le plus délicat possible et c'est ce qui fait de cette musique une musique riche sans l'être forcément. Ravel restera l'un des plus délicat compositeur français que j'ai personnellement écouté, Debussy avait un goût tout aussi délicat, ils partageaient le même avis et le même ressenti sur La Musique. En tous cas, grosses appréciations et félicitations à Maurice Ravel pour cette magnifique oeuvre libre d'imagination.
Une magnifique explication! Merci beaucoup!
@@wendyscott8425 Merci à vous avec le retour heureux de votre avis encourageant !
Composed between 1914 and 1917, given in first hearing in April 1919 by Marguerite Long, the suite for piano The Tomb of Couperin comprises six pieces, Prelude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Menuet and Toccata, dedicated to the memory of friends fallen during the First World War. Ravel later orchestrated four of these pieces, heard for the first time in this form in February 1920 and played in the following order: Prelude, Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon.
Almost 80 years later, Hungarian pianist and conductor Zoltán Kocsis set about orchestrating the two remaining pieces, Fugue and Toccata. It is this complete orchestral version that can be heard here, performed by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zoltán Kocsis (the image on the video is a partial view of a drawing by Ravel on the original score).
Follow one another as follows:
[00:00] Prelude ("in memory of Lieutenant Jacques Charlot");
[03:08] Fugue ("In memory of Second Lieutenant Jean Cruppi");
[06:20] Forlane ("in memory of Lieutenant Gabriel Deluc");
[12:23] Rigaudon ("in memory of Pierre and Pascal Gaudin");
[15:24] Menuet ("in memory of Jean Dreyfus");
[20:32] Toccata ("in memory of Captain Joseph de Marliave")
Thanks! I wondered about those two pieces Kocsis had orchestrated. Beautiful!
Merci ! Thank you also for mentioning the names of those for whom the pieces were dedicated.
Listening to this music three days before Remembrance Day is particularly moving.
Damn, that final climax from 23:48 though, goosebumps every time. What incredible orchestration from Zoltán Kocsis.
Both this and daphne et chloe are completely stunning
The Pavane and Ma mere l´ oye are also great musical works
Totally agree
Sonatine. The second movement of The Piano Concerto in G Major and The String Quartet in F Major. All three are brilliant.
I've been listening to this recording for years; still pulls on my heartstrings. Timeless masterpiece!
This music brings me joy, not unlike seeing something wonderful in nature.
ron genauer f
Agreed, I always felt music grew like plants. Perfect expressions of the world around and before them. This one is so exotic and spell binding. Reminds me of the ghost orchid from Adaptation.
Sounds like a fast-moving stream. Very lively! This has always been my favorite recording of this piece.
Yes!
This and The Moldau are my favorite pieces, maybe because they have that certain flow, I dunno...
Plutôt que de pleurer, Ravel a choisi de célébrer ses compatriotes et amis morts pendant la Première Guerre mondiale ! Pour surmonter le chagrin, nous devons remplir notre esprit de la joie que nous avons vécue naguère avec nos proches disparus 💖
LOVE all these comments......I learned so much.....
This piece plays much better as a piano solo, rather than orchestral. G Nussbaum, Casselberry, Fl
Me too
I just found out about this a month ago and I still haven't gotten it out of my head since.
Do listen, if you haven't, in its original form, for the solo piano
But you will still have this piece in 10 years
I appreciate all of Ravel's music except Bolero. The first couple of times you hear it its exciting, but its played so often it becomes hackneyed. I once read that it was written in time to the average length of sexual intercourse. Well, whatever.
Diana Phoenix He himself even hated it. It was composed as a bet.
JJay Berthume Funny, and thanks. I did not know this.
Diana Phoenix 'Tombeau' and 'Pavanne' are my favorites. Also his 'Rapsodie Espagnole'. Have you heard 'Gabriel's Oboe' from the 'The Mission'? Written for a film, so I suppose it is considered pop, but to me it's music for the soul. My favorite and I think the best is the oboe solo, which is on RUclips.
Re. 'I'm not even close', ha ha, what's sex?
Diana Phoenix hahahahaha, well yes but it is still a great music dont you think?
Ravel was a great composer. I find his music to be is by turns gentle, mystical,mischievous,,and full of energy. As stated though, I just don't care for Bolero. As a child, I heard it played all the time on a classical music station. After those early exposures,I have found it to be boring. .
I have this on CD. Some weekend mornings, if the light is right in my living room, I'll listen to it while browsing a large volume of impressionist paintings which I own. It is one of the chief delights in my life.
You sound like someone who gets roasted in a modernist novella
Ravel is amazing. From 20:09-20:28, just this outro of the Menuet is so beautiful it managed to publicly put me in tears, the way the melody just trickles down and rests, then to come up again in resolution, gives me serious goose bumps, and all in just 19 seconds, damn.
Try listening at x75 speed, it transforms the music
this makes me feel like i'm in a magical fairy tale... i feel very inspired to draw something like that listening to this
I love both the piano and the orchestral version. The prelude feels to me like a walk on the hills on a windy day...
The two piano pieces that Ravel chose not to orchestrate--the fugue and toccata--have been arranged previously for small woodwind quintet and saxophone ensembles, but Kocsis' orchestral additions, although not quite as brilliant as the composer's, do seem to fit. As this is one of the most gorgeous pieces in the repertoire, famed for its oboe solos, let's hope more conductors add Kocsis to their performances. Twenty four and half minutes of enchantment!
Kocsis did a spectacular job.
Nobody will ever be able to have the same touch that Ravel seemed to have for orchestration in my opinion, but I do agree Kocsis still did a great job
Totally exquisite orchestration!
Yes, indeed!
I played it many years ago but had not heard the fugue (orch.) before (not orchestrated by Ravel) and the orchestration is so effective and touching with woodwind and harp. The coda is magical.
The Menuet is the most perfect wake-up music. Just sublime! Ease you gently into the day. 😊
Part of this sounds mischievous to me, & I've enjoyed it since I was a child.Bravo, Mr. Ravel! You are among my favorite composers.
Me too ..i've enjoyed Ravel since i was a teenager but i discovered this piece of music later..Pure poetry.I have gooseflesh each time i listen to this music and i can imagine a bird which flies happily and then struggles to go on living and becomes a bird from heaven singing gloriously . .The clarinet is awesome!
Merci, Frenchie. Very exciting music. I love it!
21:10 What's this Wagner doing in my Ravel?
Some years ago I was walking in the hall of a Railway station and a pianist was playing. I recognized 'Le Tombeau' immediately. The orchestration is beautiful and exquisite.
Merveille d'entendre orchestrées la fugue et la toccata en plus des autres pièces ! Ravel est si magique, si parfait et a relativement peu écrit, exigeant comme il était.
Never heard the orchestrated Fugue and Toccata before! I wonder why Ravel didn't do those himself? Menuet is one of my favorite pieces EVER by anybody. It embodies the French countryside itself, even though it had different intentions.
Ravel is the peak of music.
The joy versus the memory of death is only conceived in genius. This has been my perfection since I first heard it 43 years ago.
Forlane sounds like a dungeon from Dragon quest. Love the whole piece.
I hear Ravel in a great many of Sugiyama's orchestral works. It's the cadences, the orchestration and the tone. Lots of touch points there.
That prelude is absolutely magical... I haven't even finished the whole piece yet, but I have a feeling it's gonna feel magical 😂💖
I can see where Joe Hisaishi gets some of his inspiration for conducting Studio Ghibli films!
Yep
Soooooo true!!!! Wow!!!
@@superlimone Best example is the second movement of Sonatine from Ravel, you'd swear it's from a Ghibli film !
Cette œuvre magnifique transcende l'horreur de la Guerre 14-18. L'art triomphe de la barbarie.
How could this have been written a century ago?
with a pencil and a lot of paper, not with computers ... ;)
@@mlkoln The implication being.....
Europe died somewhere within the time period 1914-1918
@@concars1234
No.
European and German culture was killed by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.
It is true that the period between 1900 and the First World War brought many new impulses in all artistic directions, but destruction of (European) culture took place in the period from 1933 to 1945.
Some emigrated artists have gained a foothold in America and have enriched the culture there, e.g. Kurt Weill, who influenced the song style. Others, however, could not build on their successes in the old world ...
One also thinks of "degenerate art", book burnings and also many artists who were killed in the concentration camps.
Because 100 Years ago the music was alive
I didn't know about Zoltán Kocsis' additional 2 arrangements for this suite. But he has done a fantastic job - it stands up with Ravel's own sublime orchestration!
I can honestly say of no composer other then the sublime Ravel that he wrote not a single note of which I disapprove. His entire oeuvre a wondrous gift.
Yes agreed, I am always aware that his music has an self-assurance borne of near perfection.
You like his eggs?
Have you heard about Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto 3 ?
Bach?
Bach and Mozart have always sounded kinda boring to me i think its because of the limited Orchestra they had to work with.
A wonderful performance of a matchless work... Thank you!
Un merveilleux spectacle d'une œuvre incomparable ... Merci!
A masterpiece! Un chef d'oeuvre tout simplement pour qui aime la musique classique et la poésie..
oboe audition excerpts!
2:22 that final crescendo is so magical, you feel like you are about to fly!!
Where has this piece been all my life? I've been sitting at my computer, bored out of my mind, looking up music for a listening class. And then this came on and I actually started laughing to myself because of how cool it was.
+MyChannelsNameIs Maurice Ravel is one of a kind. Often admired, emulated, adored, etc. But few composers really are of his stature and imaginative genius... His music is SO unique and unmistakable.
and he ADORED Siamese cats!!! His house is filled with toys....oh blessed man...
+MyChannelsNamels - You appear young so, you have many experiences just like that awaiting you if you keep exploring. I'm 58 and I still have those amazing moments! Keep it up.
What the hell is a 'listening class'?
A silent class? What are they listening to then? Is this a John Cage concept?
So wonderful to hear these beautiful pieces orchestrated! Love the harps! In his piano compositions, Ravel was capable of making pianos nearly sound like harps.
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A pure joy to listen to this magnificent piece of art. I very much adore Maurice‘s work. His music does good things to my body and soul.
Me alegra ver que esta obra de Ravel es más apreciada hoy en día. Ravel era mucho más que solo el Bolero. Personalmente esta obra ha sido una de mis favoritas desde la primera vez que la escuché por accidente en la radio.
Woodwinds are my love.
Ravel's music is a marvel and delight, rigor and depth - all at once. What is buffling - this undying idiotic notion present in academic assessment of his oevre that it lacks in feeling. What he does is hard to pinpoint and categorize. Habitually he is lumped with Debussy, but he is not impressionist per se - there is a lot of structure in his writing. He is fluid, unpredictable and unexpected - annoying qualities for academic handling. That is exactly what I love about him! Ravel is atypical in everything - he was a dandy, a worldly sophisticated if remote man, he was discreet and exceedingly polite, though opinionated and professionally he was a thoughtful perfectionist insisting on compositional and sonic polish of his every piece. That is an image that induces envy in clumsy bohemian types and uptight academics. The utmost elegance of expression in his writing is so compelling and moving. I agree, he was ahead of his time and remains so relevant in my opinion due to the brilliance of compositional structure and innovative approach to harmonics. Bach was after the same things. That's a very good company.
What a beautiful understanding and writing about Ravel Eugene. I could not have written it better!! Bravo!
@@jtdumee Yes, a great appreciation of one of the greatest composers ever! It's such a shame that he's not more well-known and appreciated.
A thorough, well-researched assessment.
we need more comments like this in youtube.
There is no category for him. How sad it drives the categorizers crazy. Oh well.
It's great to have a complete orchestration of this wonderful piece. I have loved it since I was first introduced to it as a child by way of an lp recording of Ravel's works with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande. I am surprised that this orchestration of the Fugue begins with a solo oboe, as David Diamond reported that Ravel told him that the piece should begin with a solo flute, and that is how Diamond orchestrated it in the recording with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Interesting point. Listening to Ravel's version, the first thing that would come to mind is that perhaps the clarinet should start things off. At least so I felt when I first heard this after being already familiar with the piano original.
And yes, I have actually played this piece.
This reminds me of running happily through Ross Bay Cemetery on a bright Saturday afternoon, occasionally pausing to inhale the fragrance of the boxwood, and perhaps sitting down on one of the tombs to enjoy a chocolate cookie and a soda.
On that note, I need to go do that ASAP, probably tomorrow, actually. It has been way too long and I am torn and frayed.
the oboe solo gives me life.
Not when you've got to learn it though
:D love it
I could see that going either direction... The music "gives" life, but the oboist quite literally may be "expending" life, dependant on getting rid of that stale air buildup... :-D
I comprehend that, Ms. Gao. ~ So mellow that it stirs the depths of one's soul. Heaven on earth! ~
Jenny Gao. So, you play the oboe...
Amazing suite! The rigaudon is very uplifting and has an 'instructing' vibe, which I love. Thanks for sharing this majestic pieces with us all and I wish a fantastic time to anyone reading this!
This peace of Ravel is one of the saddest and most profound music pieces ever written, and nevertheless comforting and life assuring.
6:20 The Forlane (Furlana) is a Venetian/Friulian dance, so it's interesting that it appears here, considering Saint Pius X, a Venetian pope, was outspoken in his appeals for peace - and also recommended this dance instead of tango. Perhaps, if it weren't for his efforts in this regard, the furlane might have remained a forgotten dance for at least a little longer, and this really lovely musical section would perhaps have never existed.
Wow. I had no idea there was a connection there (to St. Pius X) Where did you learn about this??
@@RafaelGarcia-ue6uc Ravel probably had little, if any, idea that St. Pius X existed, so there most likely is little, if any, actual connection - it's just that the Forlane reminds me of him. We shall probably never know exactly why Ravel chose to incorporate the Forlane here.
this piece was my companion when i sat alone at lunch in 9th grade. lunch was just long enough to almost listen to this twice, and by the time the toccata started playing for the 2nd time i knew lunch would be over soon
love this piece to death and especially the fugue its just. so good
The fugue was written in such a way that it would be difficult to replicate the exact feel of it with an orchestra. Much prefer the piano version for that but the others are brilliantly orchestrated
Actually, the orchestral version of the fugue enables one to hear the entrances and exits of the fugue subject.
I forgot how cheeky the forlane is
I can't hear the prelude without crying. This really is the pinnacle of orchestration
Algo tiene esta obra que llena de encanto. No lo sé que es . Es simplemente maravillosa.
La he escuchado 1 millón de veces.
Entiendo que quiere decir.
ses amis morts au cours de la guerre peuvent reposer en paix , avec cet hommage musical si tendre.
domage que ils ne peuvent pas ecouter
This orchestration strangely and very often makes me think of ... Strawinsky ! Does anyone agree ?
Yes, reminds me a little of Petrushka at certain moments.
Thanks for reply !
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My favorite piece is the Forlane. I don't know why. Maybe because its softly bittersweet flavour. Or maybe because its not only rhytmic but also harmonic jumps :S
It's so beautiful.
Me too. And I also don't know why. But I could listen to it over over and again again endless endless... some kind of joy.
I think I disliked this piece when I first heard it. Now I love it. I think I've listened to it at least 10 times this week. Music has a weird effect on my brain.
Ravel extracted everything from the Orchestra on this fine piece of Music.
Came here today to listen it after a lonh while...
What a beauty Le Tombeau encloses...
Ici toute la délicatesse de la musique à la francaise,
If you want to know why Ravel didn't orchestrate either the fugue or the toccata and put them into the suite, you can now understand. Ravel was a masterful orchestrator, but some of his music is so extremely pianistic that it can;t be orchestrated.
I just listened to both! You are right! That's why other orchestral recordings delete them. Thanks for the intel. :)
I think that's the case for the Toccata, but, and I know this is sacrilege, I actually prefer this orchestra version of the fugue. The individuals lines shine a bit more. It's quite beautiful I think. And even the Toccata has an impeccable orchestration here. Very nice given the challenge!
seems they could be orchestrated though.
Jon Bash It seems to me to be the contrary: the toccata would be a piece better orchestra, even if too pianistic; perhaps at a tempo slower than the original. The percussion and strings are utterly brilliant.
Haha bla bla bla you dummy
Why is the piece/composer not more famous? I've never heard of him & yet I've stumbled upon a most beautiful masterpiece like no other
Ravel is quite famous actually, but I guess you meant not as famous as Beethoven or Mozart.
Angela Wilson Most composers born after the mid 1800s are pretty unknown in general. There are a few exceptions of course but for the most part, “classical composers” are generally seen to consist of composers from the baroque, classical and romantic periods.
Ravel's Bolero is one of thd most recognized pieces of music. But his other compositions are not as well known.
Please, absolutely give more of Ravel’s music a listen if you haven’t already! Some pieces to try:
Daphnis et Chloé (The “Sunrise” Movement is STUNNING)
La Valse
Miroirs
Gaspard de la Nuit
Ma Mére l’Oye
His two Piano Concertos
Introduction et Allegro
String Quartet in F Major
Piano Trio In A Minor
You are right, people are stuck in Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin while the greatest musical genius Ravel is unknown. They were kids in front of him whether in terms of technique Or in knowledge of harmony. The man was an entire orchestra
Rigaudon SLAPS omfg
The funny thing about Forlane is that the slightest change in tempo can turn it from dark, alienating and mystical to buoyant and optimistic. I prefer the former, myself, and was a bit disappointed at the speed of this one. Beautifully orchestrated either way, though. First I've heard it. I think... I THINK, it has, for me, just become definitive.
Plaintive might be a more apt description.
whoa! I didn't know all six movements were orchestrated!
Ravel only orchestrated four of them, someone subsequently orchestrated Fugue and Toccata
第１次世界大戦で亡くなった仲間たちを追悼した作品集
もの悲しい
気品がある
I love this rendition, and have listened to it here many times, but the ads are very distressing. Having such sublime beauty interrupted by commercials saddens me greatly. I'll have to search RUclips and see if anyone else has posted this rendition sans ads.
@@minatzendforestier8911 I intalled an ad blocker about two years ago; it's great. Merci!
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written ! ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely nobody:
Not a single soul:
Literally every oboist ever while warming up: 00:00
hahahahhaahaha i'm dying
Pablo Díaz Sánchez hahaha i mean he needs a clarinet to fill and add that bublle underwater magic sound
Many thanks to Ravel for giving oboists a piece of their own. What a pleasure and privilege to play.
great to hear the fugue and the toccata!
クラシックなんて全く聞かないんだけど小学生の頃ハマってた太鼓の達人に入ってたこれだけはずっと好きで今でも聞いてる。
What a incredible job Kocsis did with Toccata, just amazing.
I LOVE this rendition!!!!
I've loved Ravel ever since I started learning to play piano.
I have since done recording/engineering...and this is an absolute aural delight!
Thank you for sharing.
Traducir por favor!!..😢😢😢😢
Los comentarios ,me ayudan mucho😊❤