Jean Cras - Piano Concerto (audio + sheet music)
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2016
- Grand flourishes by the piano and the answering orchestra (mainly the brass) make up the first gestures of this piano concerto. The work seems to proceed in 'awkward' idea-blocks. It is quite different from his Legend for piano and orchestra - at once more arresting and of serious mien yet splendid in an out-flowering of display to be found also in the five Saint-Saens piano concertos.
There is a darkly reflective meander of a central movement - a typically Celtic night-scene.
The finale's 'call to arms' is in the form of a rapid light-tongued fanfare touched with sea and a pastoral contentment which has not lost sight and sound of the dance.
The work, oddly enough, served to call up memories of catchy Portuguese folk dances as in the orchestral music of Joly Braga Santos and Luis de Freitas Branco.
(musicweb-international.com)
Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480p if the video is blurry.
Original audio: classical-music-online.net
Original sheet music: imslp.org - Hudba
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Thank you Mr. Khachaturian
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third movement is definitely the best here
Dommage , en France Jean Cras n'a obtenu aucune reconnaissance et pourtant quel grand artiste ! Il devrait être au moins autant un peu célèbre ainsi que les Albert Roussel , Vincent d'Indy ou Jacques Ibert . Jean Cras , c'est le voyage et la richesse des choses vues très loin qui viennent à votre portée , avec le "confort moderne" . Le dernier mouvement du concerto pour piano de Jean Cras possède un vrai et beau relief , il est enchanteur et revient toujours à la modestie , et par vagues , il vous ravit . C'est une vraie perle de la grande et magnifique musique classique française qui va de Guillaume de Machaut à Henri Dutilleux .
Thanks for posting. What a gem - great sense of the piano. To think he had a full time military career and still had the time, motivation, talent and skill to compose works like this!
You're welcome. :)
It's been over a year since I have listened to this. So beautiful.
I have found that if a work makes it to CZcams, somebody thought it was good enough to record, and someone thought enough of it to upload it. I very seldom don't like it myself. So I confirm I like this work. It has gotten impossible for me to keep up with all the new pieces I am seeing. I simply mark them so I can revisit them.
Bravo! Delightful concerto! This one should be mainstream, no hidden from sight. Magnificent!
Yes....a swarthy virile concerto that doesn't relent for a minute....Bravo desde Mexico!
Thanks for posting it. Great concerto and great performance, really. I actually don't understand why this wonderful symphonic piece is not yet known and performed as well. But thanks a lot
Glad you liked this one. :)
Thank you for your sharing ! His music is so beautiful！
HAPPY FATHERS' DAY TO ALL THE FATHERS!!! :D
De facture plus "standard", ce concerto est dans la ligne de ce qui se faisait à l'époque, sans plus. Le motif principal est on ne peut plus simpliste. Je lui préfère de très loin le Quintette pour harpe, flûte, violon, alto et violoncelle dont l'écriture est plus personnelle et recherchée me semble-t-il ! De toute façon , Jean Cras mérite d'être plus connu et je suis très content de pouvoir l'écouter grâce à CZcams.
the finale was very good indeed
love the brass at the beginning
OH GOD LOVELY
The video description was funny imo. It's a well written piece, but the critic was right lol
Thanks for uploading!
You're welcome. :)
Nice! It's good to see that some composers weren't following that path of serialism during this time.
The overwhelming majority of composers weren't writing dodecaphonic music in in 1931, or after. Still, that in no way argues for the exhumation of of this DOA concerto and its ilk.
I think it's nice that more obscure composers are being performed, if only to just provide an historical record. Also (while this composer doesn't apply) if this didn't occur (regardless of 'quality') we'd be left with 3 centuries of only dead beaugouis white men to listen to
Thank-you for sharing. For the sake of correctness I think you mean the Legend for Cello and orchestra.
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Hey.
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yes YES! "Yoix! Off to the Hunt!" Hounds, foxes and fanfares....What do you make of it all?
Encore un grand oublié de la musique française, comme Ibert, d'Indy, Magnard, Milhaud et tant d'autres.
Notre problème, en France, c'est que nous sommes "trop riches" de musiciens de très grand talent voire génie.
Fauré, Debussy, Ravel et même Poulenc ne pouvaient que faire de l'ombre à ces compositeurs...
18:25 ;)
The kind of piece you listen to once out of curiosity( what or who is Jean Cras?), but never bother to listen to again....
No, please, don't say that... the guilt is coming back to me... ; _ ;
But I'm not talking about this piece, I'm talking about something else...
You mean "you" - not me :) I love this and all of his works.
I agree. I can hear why he is not so celebrated in this piece.
That's what I thought the first time I listened to it. Then on second hearing I quite liked it.
I respect the work...but I don’t find this very pleasant to listen to. I’ll just say it’s not my cup of tea.