Gabriela Montero, "Take 1" (album #1)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- "Take 1" is a series of improvised video-albums by the pianist and composer Gabriela Montero. Each video-album is composed and recorded in real time, in one single take from start to finish, and without interruption. There are no edits or corrections. Recorded at DD Studio, Barcelona.
This music is from another world - the world of goodness, beauty and truth. Thank you, Gabriela, for letting me spend an hour there.
0:00 Moderato, B-flat major in 3/4 (a la Schubert, but subtly different, more rhythmically complex)
3:17 Adagio in 5/8, B-flat major
7:22 Moderato, g minor in 3/4 with perpetual motion, first chromatic bass line (returns later!)
10:45 Berceuse in E-flat (3/4) my favorite of all, possibly the most delightful 3 minutes of music I've ever heard
14:13 Adagio in g# minor, alternating 3/4 and 4/4 another favorite, see transcription:
18:56 Allegretto in g minor, more contrapuntal, articulated, Bach-like, but with shifting meter
21:17 B-flat minor, meditative, wandering, lots of arpeggiations
24:33 E-flat minor, 9/8, also very meditative
27:20 More French, Debussy-influenced, wandering modal beginning, settling into B-flat major
30:12 Parisian waltz in E-flat major, exquisitely graceful and elegant
33:48 G minor for the RH alone, 3/4 (returning to chromatic bass from earlier),
36:14 G minor 3/4, combining the chromatic bass and the main theme from RH alone piece above
39:31 6/8 in E-flat major, again with French influence (but more counterpoint :))
43:18 Decorative and free, ambiguous tonally, metrically for the first half or so, rhapsodic, E-flat major
46:54 E minor! Spanish influence? Very dark, with a nod to Chopin (?) descending diminished chords at the end
52:18 4/4 Adagio in E minor, very meditative, perpetual motion in 8th notes, some cool harmonic shifts (F minor at 53:08??), fades off into nothingness...
57:22 an introverted waltz in E minor
Thank you man!
Thanks pal. I have to agree with you, that berceuse is just perfect. In love with it.
This woman has a world of music inside her; it seems that her heart, body and brain are linked in away which is denied to most people. I listen gratefully, and astonished.
Gabriele I walk a dog 4 times a week and your improvisations accompany us on the way to the wetlands. Then the birds take over. In these days of corona virus isolation music is balm
Please miss montero if you see this : take us through your process, how you work your improvisations, how many glasses of wine I need to drink to get to this level ??!! I love your style so much !
Thank you, Père. I wish I could tell you there was a process. But there isn't. In fact, I never studied harmony, theory, composition or any of it. I just started doing this when I was about three years old, and that's all I can tell you. I get out of the way, and let it happen. Definitely try after a couple of glasses of wine! Why not? Either way, just sit down and play, without questioning yourself. Just let go. Good luck! Gabriela
@@GabrielaMonteroTV I kinda feared as much as I expected this answer. You don't ask a native speaker how he/she speaks his mother's tongue, he just does :)
Anyway thanks for your kind answer, I look forward to hearing you in Belgium !
Obviously, @gabriela, the piano is your first language! :-)
I consider myself lucky to have seen in person such renowned pianists as Van Cliburn, Argerich, Thibaudet, Ax, and as of yesterday, Gabriela Montero. Why she chose to grace the little town of Amherst, Massachusetts with her gifts escapes me, but I am so very grateful that she did. As excited as I was to watch her perform, the event actually exceeded my expectations. It was an interesting program that began by contrasting Schumann and Corea pieces themed around childhood, and ended with a sublime improvisation on the Beatles "Yellow Submarine." As summed up well by another audience member, "What an experience!"
indeed from an
other world - centuries of music reinvented - incredible !!!
Simplemente maravillosa, que admirable tu don, quien sabe tu mente y alma se conecta con un plano que no comprendemos o con tu ser interno y aflora esta expresión increíble a través de la música que nos deja en un éxtasis. Eres un orgullo para Venezuela y un ejemplo para tus compatriotas. Dios te bendiga!
Vous êtes un génie bienveillant ! Votre talent est unique ! A vous seule vous relevez le niveau d'intérêt de l'humanité... Merci !
No es solo su gran tecnica sino lo que transmite con cada pieza. Orgullo de Venezuela y regalo para el mundo
Warm and gentle. So nice. Thank you.
This is heavenly, thank you so much for such wonderful music :) truly sent from above
Un pianismo estremamente raffinato ❣️ Semplicemente meraviglioso ♥️💚💛♥️❤️💚💛 Grazie per condividere questo video che fa bene all'anima!
Te admiro por todo, no solo musicalmente, sino por tu constante lucha por defender y poner en alto el nombre de nuestro país. Vine a este video a través de tu tweet, con los ánimos golpeados, estrés, la mente inquieta... Cargado de todo lo que se vive acá. Gracias por esto!
Incredible!! Best improviser I know
Sublime e inmortal
Gabriela, if only you knew how greatly you enrich our lives! I have been listening to you playing for years, constantly blown away. Yet, I have to say this format, does bring something new to the table: I can easily see many of these pieces be written down and used by piano teachers and students. Not only are they soul-touching and incredibly beautiful, but they are also pieces that demonstrate how to develop phrases and harmonics and I could easily see myself, as an amateur player, enjoy playing many of these, and learning a tremendous amount from them. Spectacular!
see comment above!
would be awesome if it could be transcribed
Marvelous! Thank you, Gabriela :)
EXTRAORDINARIA, RARA AVIS, CORAZÓN EN NUETRO GENTILICIO...
♪ ♪ Super ! Merci ☺
que de talent vous avez !
Prodigiosas manos signadas por la divinidad para inspirar hasta al más sordo de los escépticos y colmar de sublimes y depuradas vibraciones a los más fieles devotos de la mítica Musa de creatividad infinita, que tierra de héroes escoge de cuna para fugarse de sus esferas de Luz y bajar a jugar traviesa en el plano denso de los mortales…
(La 14, que comienza con una hermoso trino tipo L'isle joyeuse, me hizo sentir cosquillas en el estómago y me hizo sentir como un niño de 9 años de nuevo, me fascinó; un desborde de creatividad impresionante … Lo que le pudiese haber tomado a Debussy semanas o meses (tal vez mas) para componer, lo puedes hacer tú Gabi, simplemente colocando tus manos sobre el piano y permitiendo que tu corazón les digan lo que deben hacer … una ventanita a través de la cual Dios nos regala la mejor música que se puede escuchar en este planeta (de manera directa) y la que precisamente necesita esta humanidad escuchar para sensibilizarse, elevarse (valga la redundancia, humanizarse) … Porque sí, la Música y las Artes, bien canalizadas, definitivamente contribuyen inmensamente con (estimulan) el crecimiento moral y espiritual …
Desde la primera improvisación de exquisito aire clásico hasta la última en forma de vals melancólico (chopiniano-latinoamericano) todas son perlas que caen del cielo una tras otra bañándonos literalmente el alma de Amor… Gracias!
Awesome sound. Rounded warm voluptuous.
С ХХ века принято оценивать музыку почему-то по принципу новизны. Новизны больше было у Шёнберга, Айвза и др. А играют почему-то Чайковского, Рахманинова, и многих других, которых как раз и ругали при жизни за отсутствие новизны. Главное не в новизне применяемых средств, а в глубине и красоте музыкального образа. Всё остальное даже не вторично… В лучших Ваших импровизациях, Габриэла, Концерте N1… - воплощены КРАСИВО, ГЛУБОКО и ИСКРЕННЕ прекрасные состояния души. Эта музыка найдёт и широкие круги слушателей, в наше время люди нуждаются в красоте, гармонии и умиротворении. Благодарю Вас, Габриэла. В России нужна Ваша музыка.
Eres absolutamente maravillosa! Qué exquisitez de música. Nos dejas sin palabras. Un regalo. Gracias
Genial Gabriela!
I really really want to see those 2 people who put thumbs down
They are just frustrated gelous people!
Probably trolls
Sencillamente magnífico.
Great! 🎶❤️🎶
Hermosísimo, Gabriela...
genius, how I wish I could improvise like you!
Bravísimo!!! Gracias.
amazing
I went to school with you in Miami. We had to leave the main school to a building outside for Music class. You played the most Beautiful Music i have ever heard. YOU SAID, This is just practice, Wow!!!. I knew then that you had a bright future ahead of you. Your are and will always be an inspiration to me. your friend Ricardo.
Really amazing! Would love to have the chance one day to discuss with you about your techniques to approach improvisation of this kind.
Beautiful moods, wonderful harmonics. This music makes me happy though I am on a enervating chemo-treatment.
So beautiful...How, if i would like to replay your improvisations?
Maravillosa!!!
Now that Keith Jarrett is no longer able to play, Gabriela becomes the queen of improvistaional pianists...
Composing In real time could only Vangelis. And now Gabriela.
Just music making of sublimity!