As awesome as the piano part is, I never cease to be awestruck by Ravel's masterful orchestration, especially from 1:36 until the piano's entrance. Just indescribably magnificent!
I have listened to a lot of performances and read many attempts to curate this this unique composition. Perhaps it means something special to me as a pianist for whom Ravel's work struck me at an early age, perhaps as someone who met as a child a French relative who survived the horror of WW1 in a nearly vegetative state, perhaps because I'm drawn to the art and music that emerges in the transitions between ages and styles, those fertile moments when every mode of expression Is in flux. In sum, I have watched charismatic performers put their best into this difficult work, and the pleasure of watching a talented performance of any work can be seductive, and I love that. But I think tonight that even without the visual stimulation of the performer's struggle, even with the not-sexy ( but intriguing to a pianist) mere display of the score, this will be the version I will return to many many times. Here is clarity, reflection, passion, caution, prowess, and a visceral respect for the author, the time, the meaning, not at all slavishly, but with a beating heart.
10:24 - 12:33 How Ravel makes this section so pensive and terrifying while being so damn groovy is out of this world. Not to mention those alien-like viola and cello harmonics at 10:54 too!
The first recording I ever heard of this, and still my favourite, perhaps not the absolute best performance, but wonderfully over-engineered, with the piano (when it finally comes in at 2:05) 20 feet wide, bass-heavy as a pipe organ, and louder than the full orchestra! Turn up the volume and stick your head between the speakers! Can you spell e-a-r-g-a-s-m? (Does anyone know if the piano was a Bösendorfer?
. Ravel, left hand concerto . Rach, third piano concerto . Rach, Paganini Rhapsody . Liszt, Totentanz . Tchaikovsky, first piano concerto . Schnittke, Piano Concerto my personal preference currently
A bit too literal for my taste. I find that the preparatory passages for the piano's magical melodic entries were too much 'in your face' leaving little opportunities for the melody to shape its contours or colours with the yearned-for frissons of delight.
Molto damono 8:13
As awesome as the piano part is, I never cease to be awestruck by Ravel's masterful orchestration, especially from 1:36 until the piano's entrance. Just indescribably magnificent!
I have listened to a lot of performances and read many attempts to curate this this unique composition. Perhaps it means something special to me as a pianist for whom Ravel's work struck me at an early age, perhaps as someone who met as a child a French relative who survived the horror of WW1 in a nearly vegetative state, perhaps because I'm drawn to the art and music that emerges in the transitions between ages and styles, those fertile moments when every mode of expression Is in flux.
In sum, I have watched charismatic performers put their best into this difficult work, and the pleasure of watching a talented performance of any work can be seductive, and I love that.
But I think tonight that even without the visual stimulation of the performer's struggle, even with the not-sexy ( but intriguing to a pianist) mere display of the score, this will be the version I will return to many many times. Here is clarity, reflection, passion, caution, prowess, and a visceral respect for the author, the time, the meaning, not at all slavishly, but with a beating heart.
10:24 - 12:33 How Ravel makes this section so pensive and terrifying while being so damn groovy is out of this world. Not to mention those alien-like viola and cello harmonics at 10:54 too!
4:43 love LOVE Those harmonies
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The first recording I ever heard of this, and still my favourite, perhaps not the absolute best performance, but wonderfully over-engineered, with the piano (when it finally comes in at 2:05) 20 feet wide, bass-heavy as a pipe organ, and louder than the full orchestra! Turn up the volume and stick your head between the speakers! Can you spell e-a-r-g-a-s-m? (Does anyone know if the piano was a Bösendorfer?
1:25 Violas are playing in Unison w/ the English Horn/F Alto Oboe
5:20 is it Ravel concerto in G?
He did compose them concurrently.
This is my favorite orchestral song with a piano. Ever. 2nd and 3rd are probably Hungarian Fantasy and Rhapsody In Blue.
sorry but it’s a piece
. Ravel, left hand concerto
. Rach, third piano concerto
. Rach, Paganini Rhapsody
. Liszt, Totentanz
. Tchaikovsky, first piano concerto
. Schnittke, Piano Concerto
my personal preference currently
song
2:10
How can you even play a 3/2 polyrhythm in one hand
Magic
Practice
10:53
14.40 ❤
SOLO Ravel poteva far fare un solo al controfagotto 🙂
M*A*S*H brought me here
french bassoon
A bit too literal for my taste. I find that the preparatory passages for the piano's magical melodic entries were too much 'in your face' leaving little opportunities for the melody to shape its contours or colours with the yearned-for frissons of delight.