Maurice Ravel - Daybreak (Daphnis et Chloé)
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- Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" (choreographic symphony). The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD. Scott Goddard published a contemporary commentary that discussed the changes to the story that Fokine made to prepare a workable ballet scenario.The story concerns the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé. The ballet is in one act and three scenes.
Ravel began work on the score in 1909 after a commission from Sergei Diaghilev. It was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes on June 8, 1912. The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloe. Léon Bakst designed the original sets.
The work is written for a large orchestra consisting of piccolo, 2 flutes (2nd flute also doubling piccolo), alto flute, 2 oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, tam-tam, wind machine, triangle, bass drum, field drum, castanets, tambourine, celesta, crotales, glockenspiel, 2 harps, wordless choir and strings in eight parts.When Diaghilev took the ballet to London in 1914, he omitted the chorus, which prompted Ravel to send an angry letter to The Times newspaper (see editions of June 9, 10 and 17).
At almost an hour long, Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel's longest work. In spite of the ballet's time length, a small number of musical leitmotifs gives musical unity to the score.The music, some of the composer's most passionate, is widely regarded as some of Ravel's best, with extraordinarily lush harmonies typical of the impressionist movement in music. Even during the composer's lifetime, contemporary commentators described this ballet as his masterpiece for orchestra.He extracted music from the ballet to make two orchestral suites, which can be performed with or without the chorus. The second of the suites, which includes much of the last part of the ballet and concludes with the "Danse generale", is particularly popular. When the complete work is itself performed live, it is more often in concerts than in staged productions.
Performed by:Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:Geoffrey Simon
Artwork :Remedios Varo "Revelation or The Clockmaker".
Imagine being the first people to ever play this wondrous music. Or the first people ever to hear it.
...or even be the composer before it is heard but only imagined in his mind?!
@@georgealderson4424 Imagine thinking this piece for the first time. The beauty
I'm blessed to do this right now
That would suck
Imagine the people who listen this 100years after and can't Tell something intelligent about it..lame soo lame..:(
Songs like this represent the best of humanity. Our creativity, our sense of wonder, our discipline, and our ability to dream.
Ravel was a gift to this troubled world, as are all artists who struggle with muses, poverty, and madness to enrich the world they live in.
Songs like this
Could you give me other ?
Was MR struggling with poverty and/or madness?
Instablaster.
Well said
@@AAAAhmed0 i know I'm like incredibly late but literally any other piece by Ravel (the composer of this piece) is pretty similar. Debussy La Mer is also very nice.
I'm so happy there's so much more music in the world for me to explore, places I've never been, feelings I've never known. Daybreak.
Ohh,yes all is from the God!!!:)
Where has this song been all my life!?
This I'm learning. I'm sort of been on a lesser known classical music binge.
Thanks for the tip!
tomtriffid I think it was Paul Wittgenstein (brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein) who lost his arm in the war ...
RebeccaETripp you need to get out more. it's been around longer than you have.
RebeccaETripp You have keen eye for beautiful passages, Ms. The "song" have been inside your heart all along, just not crystallised to that degree of tangible expression yielded by Monsieur Ravel.
Is it normal to cry while listening to this?
+daniela carrera Yes many of classical music enthusiasts put this work at the level of the 9th,bachs masses or mozarts requiem.I think this work is the most complete music you can listen in terms of tonality and composition,you can feel all the rainbow colours bursting out when you close your eyes
+daniela carrera Totally normal. Different meanings for each listener but for me it tells the story of the human condition yearning for something it cannot reach. Intense sadness and joyful at the same time. A masterpeice.
+daniela carrera I'd say that is a proper reaction. ^_^ If a human being can't cry for sheer beauty, they're not in full emotional health.
Joe Rogan says: You need to go to a doctor.
La versión con coros es también demasiado potente.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music every written.
It makes you feel you got wings, and all the eternity to fly with them.
The act of listening for the first time is in itself a moment of creation. You don’t have to imagine being someone else (even the creator her-himself) to appreciate the discovery of beauty. Everytime you listen to something new you participate in the act of creation. You just have to open your mind to the music.
The first time I heard this, I had chills and shivers all over, and then my eyes started filling with tears. That is incredible. I have never been so touched by a piece of music before. This was beyond incredible to listen to. I can't stop listening to it now.
***** Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I wasn't allowed to comment something about a beautiful piece of music, especially when my comment wasn't hurting anyone. I guess being a douche bag to other people is the way to go. By the way, nice job liking your own comment.
Appreciated your comment, H.D. Never mind B.S.
I had the same reaction to it as you, HD, decades ago when I first heard it. It has been my favorite orchestral piece ever since. About 10 years ago I had the opportunity to go to the symphony and hear it performed live. We had tickets for the balcony and when we got to the Will Call window somehow we were given tickets a few rows from the stage. I guess we got upgraded. Anyway, as this piece began, the swell of the music was mesmerizing and it brought me to tears. I was able to mark off an item on my bucket list. I've already left instructions that this is to be played at my funeral.
So many of us can understand. Although we aren't compelled to tears. Tears, while being seemingly irrational, give us a way to be able to transcend music. Sometimes it's so beautiful and divine that you wish to synchronize with it; to become closer, but you can't. Emotion is a way to cope with this, I suppose. To know beauty in the form of sound exists is not surprising, but to some it is overwhelming knowledge, and I suppose it does drive us to tears. Being human, both irrational, and flawed in our ways, and merely being capable of perceiving such beauty, we were able to (absurdly) conceive, and create such seeming perfection.
So many of us can understand. Although we aren't compelled to tears. Tears, while being seemingly irrational, give us a way to be able to transcend music. Sometimes it's so beautiful and divine that you wish to synchronize with it; to become closer, but you can't. Emotion is a way to cope with this, I suppose. To know beauty in the form of sound exists is not surprising, but to some it is overwhelming knowledge, and I suppose it does drive us to tears sometimes. Music is simple, and so natural, that you cannot make sense of it, yet it feels so complimentary. With us being human, flawed and irrational in our ways, we were still able to conceive and create such seeming perfection. And that is key. Seeming perfection. There is no perfection in music, just flow, and nature... which we find so deeply alluring. This is perhaps why it drives us to tears, to our innately irrational selves...
In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful pieces of music (and one of the greatest). Ravel had such a fantastically gorgeous imagination! 😍😍
This is the most beautiful thing in the world.
This might be the best piece of classical music I’ve ever heard. It makes me wanna learn every orchestra instrument just to play it myself.
The background picture is by Remedios Varo titled "Le Revelacion o el Rolejero"
thanks for being wise enough to post this info. you answered my question :)
Yes thanks. Now I can look at more of her genius
I was just gonna ask for this. Had to delete my comment when i saw you answered it! Good on ya!!!
How divine of you to have posted such meaningful information! Thank you ever so much.
Anyone at 2021? This is gorgeous, no words can describe how amazing this music is.
Yep I’m here in 2021 sup bro
In 2022, I’m a time traveler baby
2022
Here in 2022!! This will forever be one of my favorite pieces. ❤️ Ravel is my favorite composer in general.
Im here in 2023
One of the most Beautiful classical music pieces ever created ! Just imagine how beautiful this song would sound if played live with an orchestra !!!
phenomenal !!!
Try it on a pipe organ…
at 2:00 the goosebumps came in and by 2:48 my eyes got watery
after hearing this piece I would really like to watch this ballet
czcams.com/video/VrLRHXxKIZ0/video.html Here is the ballet on CZcams. I hope you enjoy it.
“The Lost City of Z” brought me here.
That film had such a gorgeously lush arrangement, but this wasn’t listed on the soundtrack; it took listening to the director’s commentary where he spoke of his love for ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ and how he literally storyboarded one of the final scenes around the score of this ballet. Simply amazing music man
I just finished watching that movie and focused on the end credits, where it is listed, to find the name of this wonderful piece which I had heard before (I mistakenly first thought it was from Debussy's La Mer).
I remember the first classes at the conservatory of music one of my enusiastas teachers, was devout and fervent admirer of Ravel, but also he was fascinated Debussy and 5 big Russian, I for one admire Chopin, but this piece proves beyond doubt the extreme delicacy of the teacher.
I just discovered Ravel a couple of nights ago because it appeared after listening to Erik Satie. After listening to this and Miroirs all I can say is "Amazing."
Funny, I just heard the Oiseaux tristes movement of Miroirs. Mesmerized.
so utterly beautiful.. ones soul floats away on the notes
The best climax in the history of music so far!
One of the most beautiful pieces the world has ever known. Simply sublime.
Everybody is crying, I'm just listening like, good job maurice
shut the fuck up little bitch
@@AttitudeIndicator aight
Ravel really pays attention to indvidual notes.. this piece is beautiful beyond anything.
This is what I imagine it feels like to break free of addiction. Not just be out of your "depression" as people think they have nowadays. But literally to step off a plane or a boat in a new world leaving your addiction behind and the misery.
Wow
So precise about it
I thank you for that comment
All great Hollywood composers owe a great deal to Ravel. For example the power of David Raksin's great score for "Laura" is ultimately grounded in D&C.
alnot01 it’s funny you say that... there’s so many parts of this that remind me of a scene from a hitchcock film or something.. a very dramatic suicide or kiss..
Can’t stop listening to this through the years. One of the favourite pieces.
so so spiritual .. i can feel the morning break like flower blooming in slow and jerkless motion.... the ray of the first sun piercing through the gloom and dim .... magnificent ..... reminds me of the time when my mother passed away ... the dynamism of the piece was likened to her leaving this earthly surroundings
Yo no podría definirlo mejor que tu ese momento cuando la Luz aparece en el cielo matinal
So religious, so delusional. Just like every listener of ravel's or any other modern """music"""
What a knowledge of the subtleties of the orchestra !!!
This Piece is the Introduction to Part 3 of Daphnis et Chloe...
The scene seems to dissolve. It is replaced by the landscape of the first part at the end of the night. There is no sound but the murmur of rivulets produced by the dew that trickles from the rocks. Daphnis is still stretched out before the grotto of the Nymphs. Gradually the day breaks. The songs of birds are heard. Far off, a shepherd passes with his flock. Another shepherd crosses in the background. A group of herdsmen enters looking for Daphnis and Chloe. They discover Daphnis and wake him. Anxiously he looks around for Chloe. She appears at last, surrounded by shepherdesses. They throw themselves into each other’s arms. Daphnis notices Chloe’s wreath. His dream was a prophetic vision. The intervention of Pan is manifest. The old shepherd Lammon explains that, if Pan has saved Chloe, it is in memory of the nymph Syrinx, whom the god once loved. Daphnis and Chloe mime the tale of Pan and Syrinx. Chloe plays the young nymph wandering in the meadow. Daphnis as Pan appears and declares his love. The nymph rebuffs him. The god becomes more insistent. She disappears into the reeds. In despair, he picks several stalks to form a flute and plays a melancholy air. Chloe reappears and interprets in her dance the accents of the flute. The dance becomes more and more animated and, in a mad whirling, Chloe falls into Daphnis’s arms. Before the altar of the Nymphs, he pledges his love, offering two sheep. A group of girls enters dressed as bacchantes, shaking tambourines. Daphnis and Chloe embrace tenderly. A group of youths rushes onstage. There is joyful commotion.
Daniel Ard Jesus Christ, dude that’s deeeeep
Ito pre may libre na tayong reflection
I have loved this piece for 60 years. Absolutely brilliant. I have always thought this is what seeing Gods face would be like.Charles Munch has a 60 year old recording of this with a choir, it is perfection plus.
Ravel's genius, his passion, his humanity will only encourage future generations to do and be as well.
This is amazing, makes me dream while I'm awake!
nice but not for me ;)
tomtriffid Bolero is ok
Irving Harrison i love your comment.. this is exactly what classical music should inspire within us!
Ravel é magnífico
certamente!
The most beautiful piece of music these ears have heard. I want this played at my funeral.
I thought exactly the same thing . But there is no emergency . Let me finish to pay my mortgage ! 🤣
Escute a música - The creation bytes Yoko Kanno
"Every fucking thing has to be about me"
I come here every few days to relax my mind. It’s a work of genius.
I love this part, mysterious, emerging, glorious, spectacular...the birth of morning and blast of the sunwarmth...the creatures of the Earth share for one brief moment...the same joy....the unified happiness....for one....so brief...moment 😪
It sounds very like Debussy to me
Some people say it's a creepy song, but to be honest, I find it quite... Invigorating... I don't know, I love to listen to this while watching the sunrise.
from 2:23 - 2:43 - gets me every time.. Oh, and 3:23 also.
Cette musique m'a sauvé la vie !
Feels... Magical, Like you Just Discovered a Mystical world
been searching everywhere for this piece! amazing that ravel had such a talent to write such coloristic works! I think alot of film composers owe a great deal to this man, as well as debussy, and strauss for example.
Wonderful musical. To the listeners, this is music and not a song. Songs have words! Beautiful music like this, however, does have imagery for the imagination.
This is total emotion translated to paper. I can't think of any words to decribe this music.
that part is absolutely gorgeous 4:00
Beautiful! Anybody else hear a nod to Stravinsky's Firebird (in the basses) in the opening of this section? That ballet, also put on by Diaghilev and also choreographed by Fokine, premiered just two years before Daphnis et Chloe. Other echoes I hear are from Ravel's own Ma mere l'oye, especially from the Fairy Garden.
This is the most beautiful thing my heart has ever listened to
This is deff on my funeral playlist
Nice painting. I am observing the real painting right now in a museum and listening to this song. Cheers
I'll eat my Steven Spielberg DVDs if John Williams isn't the biggest Ravel fan in the film scoring business today.
Stole more from Holst tbh
@@NostraFnDamus and Shostakovich/Prokofiev.
this makes me feel like everything is going to be okay
Simply Divine... what a beautiful piece of music. Soothes the heart and soul xxx
The most beautiful part of the whole Daphnis et Chloé composition!!!!!
The most beautiful piece of music I've heard.
Sublime , l'un des plus grands moments de l'histoire de la musique . Le mouvement favori de mon oeuvre préférée .
When I hear this piece I tend to visualize some sort of space travel or a sea voyage..
I visualize a WW2 era P-51 Mustang pilot who is somehow separated from his squadron after an intense dogfight. He is low on fuel and is finding a place to land his plane . When it hits the crescendo, I imagine him seeing something, and he decides to follow it. When it hits the climax, he breaks through the clouds and sees a lost paradise in Central China. He is blown away and takes a few pictures. As the music quiets down, he sees the paradise fade away as he reenters the clouds and his plane runs out of fuel. He lands safely on grass but never returns home. I imagine some Chinese farmers finding his plane, and his pictures of the long lost paradise in the late to early 1970's.
Sunrise from space for me :)
C'est une très belle musique. Je m'imagine en train de regarder un film d'amour américain des années 50. Indémodable!
It reminds me a lot of Jeremy Soule's work. Really gorgeous.
***** Yea, when I heard this recording for the first time, the first thought I had was "Jeremy Soule was inspired by this"
+Doctor Pazuzu fuck man FUCK feels good somebody remembers that OST still
wow I never put that together before even though this and Oblivion OST are two of my all time favorite peices of music. You are absolutly right there are a ton of similarities....
I think Ravel is one of his main influence, I even suspect that J.S. likes to hide parts from his favorite composers into his pieces, as a nod to.
Into Ravel's "pavane for a dead princess" there is a melody pattern you can find into some tracks of the Oblivion OST, same for Gustav Holst - "The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity", where at a moment a new theme comes and its nearly Morrowind's main theme.
There is a OSV called "dawn reflection" which is literally a paraphrase on this marvelous work.
this is so beautiful..even more so when you read about the ballet that ravel composed this to..the story of young love
This is my first time listening to Ravel. Is revelation too excessive a word? I have found the florid, exotic secret garden I was looking for in music... I must explore!
Thank you very much for sharing these pieces of incredible music, this is real art.
Love the surrealism painting
This piece would've been awesome in the Midsommar film.
omg i think so too. the last track in the movie (i believe it's called 'fire temple', as it was where the song played) does remind me of this piece!
cleaner yup exactly
Maurice Ravel is the best composer in the history, his way tô express is too soft and great, the best, contrata, Ravel 🎉
The entry of the strings gives me goosebumps
I want 1:00 to be my theme song so I can be a dreamy badass upon waking up, entering the cubicle, and talking with my supervisor because I'll just be riding away from the negativity on my sassy golden unicorn.
maybe your sassy unicorn doesn't flee negativity at all. Perhaps it cuts right through the stress like a graceful diver, splitting the contiguous water apart like a perfect maul. Negativity flees from your sassy unicorn, its pace steady, its path direct and leading on toward your goals. It helps you help your bosses, in spite of themselves, and thereby helps you win the game called Joy in Work.
Es tan placentero escuchar esta hermosa melodía 😌👌🏻✨🍃😍
So pretty! I’m falling in love with this dude’s music
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever
Oh heavenly day ...
To bring this forward ...
I love this piece. So beautiful...
This is one of my favorite pieces ever. If you also enjoy piano, then you should listen to the arrangement of it for two pianos.
Out of everything that has ever been created musically below heaven - this is my favorite.
Utterly flawless.
Featured in the film "The Lost City of Z" - I had forgotten how much I enjoy this piece.
This composition reminds me of a sparrow flying through a forest over the canopy at the break of dawn looking for worms for its children. Towards the middle where the theme gets a little darker, I imagine there being a sudden storm or rainfall.
I'm so glad I found this, what a gift. Now I must search for the performance.💞😘💞
Just got up....... lovely day, what a lovely way to start the day.
This guy is an alien. So good. Divinity lives here. God is good
A brilliant re-orchestration by Ravel for concert presentation as a suite, but IT IS SO !NOTHING! WITHOUT HIS ORIGINALLY INCLUDED FULL CHORUS!
This music is so beautiful I don't even feel like I can fully comprehend it. How can a world of such ugliness produce this? Or maybe we live in a beautiful world with ugliness in it. This music gives me hope someday I will be far far away from my troubles. This is the kind of music that affects your soul. I will listen again...
This music plays perpetually in heaven
Welcome to the club! If I had to choose a favorite musician/composer, I would certainly pick him!
Masterpiece
I listened to this piece dozens of times before learning its title was "Daybreak", The scene I had
always imagined was the hero wandering through the forest and witnessing the apatheosis of a beautiful goddess.
She is the guardian of the forest and represents all that is magic and unseen. He is mesmerized, filled with awe.
Very beautiful piece of music
Haha someone would connect the Remedios Varo feels with Ravel feels. Perfect.
Daphnis et Chloe is without one of the if not the greatest work of orchestral music ever written. Even in terms of judging it purely technically, it is a masterpiece of orchestration. But the beauty, richness, profundity, expansiveness, the orgiastic finale...Ravel didn't write many pieces for full orchestra, but he didn't need to.
ce bruissement un ravissement musique impalpable evanescente delicieucement soparifante merci Ravel pour tant de beaute
With love from Greenland🇬🇱💙
My god this is beautiful
🇬🇱💙listen to it everyday
Add to my favorites
Words can't describe this one.
2022 still here..
Spectacular!
I love your channel, so far the videos that I have seen are of excellent quality. Congratulation! Keep going on 👏🏽❤️
Daphnis et Chloe is one of the most beautiful works in existance, however I fail to understand why anyone would omit the chorus; you wouldn't omit any other section... I am not surprised Ravel wrote a letter to The Times, it waters down the piece.
I lose count of the amount of truly beautiful recordings of Lever I have listened to only to reach the choral passages and find no chorus. It is a terrible shame =[
Hi, can u tell me what music style is this?
@@aeralaydee impressionism (although ravel hated the term) look up Claude Debussy and Ravels other works
Is there a recording with the choir version on CZcams?
try Simon Rattle, Birminghamd symphony. Probably the best version of Daphnis et Cloe @@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5
Beautiful
First time listening to Ravel, I've never experienced something like this, I am not making that up.
I feel you, this almost feels like an orgasm but in a non sexual way, damn I'm floating