Rachel Geraci There are other wonderful composers, but only Ravel approaches perfection in every work, only Ravel is truly timeless, only Ravel can touch us with poetic wondrousness in every bar.
00:00:00 Serenade Grotesque 00:03:20 Menuet Antique 00:09:31 Pavane Pour Une infante defunte 00:15:55 Jeux D'eau 00:21:43 Sonatine : I. Modere 00:25:50 Sonatine : II. Mouvement de Menuet 00:28:57 Sonatine : III. Anime 00:32:57 Menuet En Ut Diese Mineur 00:34:11 Miroirs: Noctuelles 00:39:16 Miroirs: Oiseaux Tristes 00:43:26 Miroirs: Une Barque Sur L' Ocean 00:51:23 Miroirs: Alborada del Gracioso 00:58:04 Miroirs: La vallee des Cloches 01:04:05 Gaspard de La Nuit: I. Ondine 01:11:00 Gaspard de La Nuit: II. Le Gibet 01:18:27 Gaspard de La Nuit: III. Scarbo 01:28:28 Menuet Sur Le Nom de Haydin 01:30:09 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:31:27 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:34:03 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:35:28 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:36:38 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:37:51 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:38:31 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:41:11 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales 01:45:28 Prelude 01:47:44 A La maniere de ...: Borodine 01:49:28 A La maniere de ...: Chabrier 01:51:28 Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude 01:54:41 Le Tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue 01:58:11 Le Tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane 02:04:46 Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon 02:08:08 Le Tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet 02:12:37 Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI Toccata
My attitude of gratitude, Compels me, frequently, To thank beauty makers. To shout "Thanks!" even if they, eloquently, Only got one opus out, Prior to checking out.
He had many years to write more, but he was a perfectionist always trying to perfect even a small thing that made him very slow as compared to other composers but i am satisfied with this much music because it's the greatest ever written by any man. For me he is the God of music.
Mon Cher Maurice, Je souhaite que vous êtes dans la joie totale, partout où vous êtes maintenant, proche au plus Haute, j'imagine. Merci mille fois pour l'ecstase que vous avez laissé pour nous, vos enfant musicales. On vous embrasse fort avec une immense gratitude!!!
I can’t help but listen to Ondine every morning, on a yoga mat. From time to time, I casually jump to Sonatine I & II, and then back to Ondine. When I started listening to all of Ravel’s music for an exam, I thought all of them sounded like moths flying in the air. 7 years after graduating with a piano performance degree, I’ve finally learned to appreciate Ravel. He is my favourite along with Debussy.
Ravel's combining of impressionism and classicism is a happy mix. Particularly striking in these interpretations, where post-romanticism and exoticism feel less prominent.
Ravel, my all-time favourite musician! "Noctuelles" will never be anything short of breath-taking, always something new to hear and it truly captures the cuteness of fluttering moths!!!!
When I hear this music, my mind is completely blown away. I can’t figure out how Ravel was able to compose music that could transport people to other places, it feels unreal! When I compare it with the music I hear on your local pop music radio, I’m not able to feel moved at all. I guess that’s how I got into classical music. I think this interpretation of Ravel’s pieces is utterly beautiful. Thank you for inspiring me😊 I hope I’ll be able to play those pieces in a few years and be able to inspire others like you did.
Tell all your young and old friends to throw away the junk of the 21st Century: to burn it. Reach for the vision behind the stars of infinite constellations in Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky.
Utterly enigmatic, from the shimmering Jeux D'eau to the nostalgia of Le Tombeau. One can look at the moon, listen, and ask, "Ravel, what are you telling me?" Excellent recording.
When I think of one of my "possible pasts", Paris appears between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, "the city of novelties" (Alexandre Dumas son). I am a bohemienne painter, with a workshop in Montmartre. I spend my life in bistrots and brasseries, and prostitutes are my models. I try to imitate the impressionists, I have few clients and very little money, but every day I thank God for the gifts he has bestowed on my existence, even if I have wasted many of them. I know Debussy and Ravel because my best friend plays the piano and I can enter his performances for free. Those notes speak to my soul about the mystery and incomparable Beauty of life. I can close my eyes and feel that no gift has ever been wasted and that my life, like everything else, is perfect just the way it is.
Unbelievable collection to have in one spot. Dazzling and transcendent are words that come to mind. So many great examples to pick. You could try the perfectly paced and balanced Minuet from the Sonatine. Or the incendiary repeated notes in Alborado del Gracioso. The reverberant sound world of the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, which take the melodic journey as freshly as if it had just been written. Yes, youtube, I'll forgive you the head-banging ads for now. Especially after I'm able to get the CDs.
I truly love you for this upload. I truly love Michelangelo Carbonara for this breathtaking interpretation. I truly love Maurice Ravel, for taking me out of the quarantine in this awful period and wherever I want whenever I need to. Thank you all :)
Ravel is the only composer who was also serving in war and I like it the fact that a composer doesn't need to lock himself up in a chamber, obsessed with rhythms like Mozart. Ravel's compositions mainly revolve around mystical beings and fairy tales. Out of all composers, his style was the most unique and easily recognizable with these patterns + Doubles (Scarbo, Jeux Deau) + Inharmonious chords to evoke mysteries + Impressionistic feeling (a music movement both he and Debussy denied) that usually evokes an atmosphere rather than espressing a clear melody. A prime example is Le Gibet and Pavane Pour Une infante defunte + One-Note below jumping: this is the effect I only observed in Ravel. Before starting a bar with a usual melody, Ravel would add a note far below left hand. This makes the left hand has to jump very fast from that notes to the following melody in the bar. This is found in Ondine and Jeux Deau. + Repeated notes (Scarbo, Toccata in Le Tombeau de Couperin) + Tinkling sound: Ravel was an experimenter with melody as well. I dont know but he seems to be obsessed with water, thus Ondine, Jeux Deau and Une Barque sur l'ocean were born. This tinkling sound was created by fast appergios of high notes. To my Ravelian fans, his collection is minute compared to other major composers, but each of his pieces are so detailed to the extent of a "swiss clock". There is no such thing as an impromptu to Ravel. Stick with it as it is already a masterpiece. Enjoy Ravel while we are still alive
Spring Nuance Ravel was notably distressed as he began to realise his impending death in his final days. He was devastated and embarassed at how little music he had actually produced in his lifetime compared to the greats he so admired like Mozart and Beethoven. What I would give to simply let him know how important of a figure he was in the history of music and that his desperation for perfection had paid off and then some. For a man who so enjoyed childlike innocence and the art of fantasy, his life itself is something out of a Roahd Dahl novel. A small, awkward French man with pain-staking attention to detail in both his fashion sense and even more so in his music. A man who lived for writing music that expressed his love for imagination itself. The world could never thank you enough, Maurice.
A strongsuit of Ravels, and perhaps a sign of the times, is his reliance on music theory to appropriate music to his own style, instead of the discovery of inventive harmonic arrangements which classical music is so strongly characterized by. And on the topic of atmosphere it may be that so called impressionism emerged percisely because the further developing of harmonic structure began stagnating, and in order to reach beyond past limits, harmony´s relationship to melody which maybe hindered it from becoming more complex had to be compromized. Composers of the 20th century are infact tentatively disjointed from the rest of the classical canon.
Yes, he's lovely. But "Obsessed with rhythms like Mozart?" One of the greatest melodists of all time? (I bet you could hum an aria or two right now.). If you'd said that about Beethoven, I might have agreed!
This is an absolute triumph for Michelangelo Carbonara. His performances here are so well-thought-out and astute; his technique is brilliant, especially in the Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo, as well as,Alborada del Gracioso, with exactness, yet incredible sonorities that I haven't heard elsewhere in any other performances. Evidently Mr. Carbonara's pianistic experiences and temperament suit him perfectly to perform Ravel's oeuvre, which he accomplishes astoundingly well. Thank you Brilliant Classics for posting these gems!
Ravel only wrote 34 piano pieces--a small output compared to many other composers(Debussy wrote close to 100, if i am not mistaken, Chopin and scriabin over 200 etc) but what a great body of work! Everyone of them is good. Proof that you don't need a large output of music to be considered great. Better to focus on the best of what you can offer and make those pieces perfect, as Ravel did.
anyone who drove a ambulance during WWI certainly witnessed soul shocking proof of mankind's ability for pure evil. And M. Ravel is more proof. His compositions run the gamut of emotion and sensation more so than most noncombatant composers. If any good came out of that meat grinder of a war, then it is surely His gift of music.
Ravel is one of my top favorites as well. Although there are a handful of composers I admire even more, Ravel is perhaps the only one whose every composition I enjoy.
These ads between the pieces of music are just vulgar. The rest is heaven. Michelangelo Carbonara is excellent. Not pretentious at all. His tempo is perfect (a little below the usual, which is great to appreciate each note). Great interpretation, without showing off, laid back, Ravel would have loved it.
At the same time Ravel is known to want you to play exactly tempo and what he writes in the score. Most interpretations actually take his music too fast. I think this is close to tempo on most pieces.
There will be few, if any, other pianists on youtube (or anywhere else) who dare to play "Le Gibet" that slowly, which is exactly what Ravel intended. And it's a perfect performance by Michelangelo Carbonara. Many thanks for this.
Ravel dedicated each piece of Tombeau de Couperin to a male soldier he knew. Nothing is known of his personal life. Perhaps the answer can be found in his music. What refinement, delicacy and exquisite feeling is to be found in Ondine. And in his Pavane!
A couple of anecdotes: He was a little annoyed at the outsized popularity of Bolero compared with that of his other works. He remarked: "I've written only one masterpiece - Boléro. Unfortunately there's no music in it." George Gershwin practically begged him to give him composition lessons. Ravel asked him what fees he commanded for his works. When Gershwin named the considerable sum, Ravel replied, "In that case it is you, Monsieur, who should be giving ME lessons." A dry, tart Gallic wit. You can can hear it in his music, too. But then there's the tender, sentimental side, as in the Pavane or L'Enfant et les sortileges. At those moments I think of his deep emotional attachment to his mother, which is something we DO know about his personal life.
"Jeux d'eau" always make me feel like crying. "Dieu fluvial riant de l'eau qui le chatouille" I listened to this as a kid. I guess you can't go upstream life like you could in a river unfortunately.
Would be more pleasant if the scoring was ethical and truly accurate, without lies, without self contradiction but instead based on facts provided by qualified professionals and dealing strictly with self control issues. Never
Sonatine : III. Anime Miroirs: Alborada del Gracioso Gaspard de La Nuit: I. Ondine Gaspard de La Nuit: III. Scarbo Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI Toccata These are my personal favourites
I was lucky enough to find a compulation of vinyl for free on the internet. Most of it were trash, some of it were some 80s hits. Tho the most prized among them was a ravel vinyl. I have been a fan eversince.
I'm pretty sure he missed a couple ties in the Toccata Wow, how amazing I just pointed out a mistake in a song I couldn't hope to play in a hundred years I am so proud of myself
Wunderschöne und kultivierte Interpretation dieser ein bisschen impressionistischen und perfekt komponierten Klavierwerke im fließenden doch gut phrasierten Tempo mit anmutigem doch gut artikuliertem Anschlag sowie mit perfekt und effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Das letzte Werk klingt besonders schön und echt eindrucksvoll. Der geniale Pianist ist alles!
I'm inclined to agree with that. I think that Ravel took care of form and structure more than Debussy. It is worth digging deeper on this. I bet there are a few papers out on this. I find both composers just riveting to listen to..in their own way.
I'm likin these confusion-type classics a lot more these days- because they express more the reality of life- compared to a lot of romantic-type classical.
Thanks for posting this. There are some pieces here I haven't heard before! One gripe, though: the recording is not technically complete. Missing are (at least) Ma Mere l'Oye and the piano transcription of La Valse.
I think that they are not included because Ma Mere l'Oye was originally composed for piano 4 hands and La Valse is a transcription of the orchestra work. So this is complete works of Ravel originally composed for piano 2 hands.
Only partially true: Ravel even stated himself that he used the piano to primarily compose La Valse, and the transcription took minor tweaks to create (mostly in condensing the instrumentation). But yes, *technically* (very technically) it was written for orchestra first.
@@Andresa0397 To digress even further from Ravel's solo piano works: The Rapsodie Espagnole began as a separate piece for piano solo (the Habanera, unpublished on its own but incorporated in the final orchestral suite). He then transcribed the orchestral work for two pianos. I mention this only to put in a plug for Nelson Freire's and Martha Argerich's amazingly vibrant rendition on an old DG recording (I'm sure you can find it online). They don't just play it, they re-orchestrate the transcription in pure piano language.
There is a rare mental case where the person's senses are somewhat jumbled, meaning they can "taste shapes" or "see smells" I really want to know what they see or taste or smell or feel listening to this
I had this playing in the background while I'm studying but I had to stop it bc every piece just SO good that I can't help but actively listen to it lmao I can't focus on the class notes
I think Sonatine no 2 is one of my favorite interpretations from Michelangelo. I personally think others have done better Jeux D'eau. It's a very hard piece to get right afterall.
Ravel and Debussy----my favorites. I almost think Ravel was the better of the two for piano tho(Tho I love Debussy's piano music ) But truth be told, Ravel had a sophistication in his piano music--technique, harmony and rhythmical that's a notch higher then Claude .Many people always assume ravel was an imitator of Debussy because he was born later, but many of Ravels early piano pieces (Jeau deux,The Miroirs, & Gaspard La nuit sets etc) are more advanced then anything Debussy had written at that time, and Debussy actually imitates HIM in many of his preludes from 1910'/1913. So in this case, the student inspired the teacher and surpassed him on some occasions.
never perfect we are......... as notes say the one s we are.......... but the feel is always there.......... trying to figure us out........... still a liv e d one when we blunder.................. the hear we want to hear ....... still show s up...... as we play us in an awkward way......... no mess up jus t being real........... as we learn us......... always imperfect.......... what living is........ a mess of us.......... trying to b e perfect.............. in whose eye s........... only one that can love us as we are................ never making sense............. but we still show up to play........... with you....... that love we feel........... trying to make every note........... you hear perfect.......... the one s we are ...... always trying to b e the melody............ that make s you fall for us......... as we play us to you..........
I just woke up from a nap hearing this thinking "Where is this beautiful music coming from!" Then I looked at my tablet and saw it was Ravel and rushed to my piano trying to play what I had just heard.
Ravel is honestly my favorite. No other classical music touches me like his does.
I know what you mean Rachel :)
he's not a classical musician, he's an impressionist
I would recommend you all give Rachmoninov's piano concertos (1-4) a go if you haven't already
He just beats Ned Rorem by a nose but he beats him just for richness.
Rachel Geraci There are other wonderful composers, but only Ravel approaches perfection in every work, only Ravel is truly timeless, only Ravel can touch us with poetic wondrousness in every bar.
00:00:00 Serenade Grotesque
00:03:20 Menuet Antique
00:09:31 Pavane Pour Une infante defunte
00:15:55 Jeux D'eau
00:21:43 Sonatine : I. Modere
00:25:50 Sonatine : II. Mouvement de Menuet
00:28:57 Sonatine : III. Anime
00:32:57 Menuet En Ut Diese Mineur
00:34:11 Miroirs: Noctuelles
00:39:16 Miroirs: Oiseaux Tristes
00:43:26 Miroirs: Une Barque Sur L' Ocean
00:51:23 Miroirs: Alborada del Gracioso
00:58:04 Miroirs: La vallee des Cloches
01:04:05 Gaspard de La Nuit: I. Ondine
01:11:00 Gaspard de La Nuit: II. Le Gibet
01:18:27 Gaspard de La Nuit: III. Scarbo
01:28:28 Menuet Sur Le Nom de Haydin
01:30:09 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:31:27 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:34:03 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:35:28 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:36:38 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:37:51 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:38:31 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:41:11 Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
01:45:28 Prelude
01:47:44 A La maniere de ...: Borodine
01:49:28 A La maniere de ...: Chabrier
01:51:28 Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude
01:54:41 Le Tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue
01:58:11 Le Tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane
02:04:46 Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
02:08:08 Le Tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet
02:12:37 Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI Toccata
obrigada. Um abraço do Brasil
Thank you!
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Ravel is such a master. I always find myself wishing he had the years to have written just a bit more.
@Ryan Bradshaw That's heartbreaking.
Too many cigarettes and cabaret perhaps. Intensity of creation overwhelms the most disciplined narrators of the quixotic visions.
My attitude of gratitude,
Compels me, frequently,
To thank beauty makers.
To shout "Thanks!"
even if they, eloquently,
Only got one opus out,
Prior to checking out.
You may disparage his habits all you like, but a serious brain injury from a traffic accident did him no favors
He had many years to write more, but he was a perfectionist always trying to perfect even a small thing that made him very slow as compared to other composers but i am satisfied with this much music because it's the greatest ever written by any man. For me he is the God of music.
Transcending time and space and races,
Ravel‘s music continues to be loved .
The comfort and wonderfulness of Ravel‘s music are irreplaceable
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Thankyou
I hope you are well
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I just love Ravel's use of minor 9th chords. Minor 9th chords are just so magical and melancholy
Yes, very acute observation.
Mon Cher Maurice, Je souhaite que vous êtes dans la joie totale, partout où vous êtes maintenant, proche au plus Haute, j'imagine. Merci mille fois pour l'ecstase que vous avez laissé pour nous, vos enfant musicales. On vous embrasse fort avec une immense gratitude!!!
I can’t help but listen to Ondine every morning, on a yoga mat.
From time to time, I casually jump to Sonatine I & II, and then back to Ondine.
When I started listening to all of Ravel’s music for an exam, I thought all of them sounded like moths flying in the air. 7 years after graduating with a piano performance degree, I’ve finally learned to appreciate Ravel. He is my favourite along with Debussy.
Him and Debussy are also my faves
Martha’s Ondine >
The wonderfulness and comfort of Ravel’s music are unrivaled by any other music
I’m sorry, did you mean un*Ravel*ed?
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Ravel’s is of Ravel
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My first afternoon listening to Ravel's music. I am taken.
It's the beginning of a beautiful journey, Lovethearts....
Gaspard de la nuit is my favorite piece of all time, so mysterious and beautiful.
You have good taste
Fully agreed on that one
This is a travesty to have to deal with commercials while meditating on this wonderful music.
It really is. CZcams is out of control with this nonsense.
Ravel's combining of impressionism and classicism is a happy mix. Particularly striking in these interpretations, where post-romanticism and exoticism feel less prominent.
Ravel, my all-time favourite musician! "Noctuelles" will never be anything short of breath-taking, always something new to hear and it truly captures the cuteness of fluttering moths!!!!
When I hear this music, my mind is completely blown away. I can’t figure out how Ravel was able to compose music that could transport people to other places, it feels unreal! When I compare it with the music I hear on your local pop music radio, I’m not able to feel moved at all. I guess that’s how I got into classical music. I think this interpretation of Ravel’s pieces is utterly beautiful. Thank you for inspiring me😊 I hope I’ll be able to play those pieces in a few years and be able to inspire others like you did.
It's the french music, the most beautiful, I think ;
with classical Russian music of course
Tell all your young and old friends to throw away the junk of the 21st Century: to burn it. Reach for the vision behind the stars of infinite constellations in Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky.
@@henrimachuel5389 plus germanic composers like Schubert, Schumann or Brahms, strauss, wagner, malher, beethoven, etc
@@abigaildelpech1279 Add Spanish; Albeniz, Granados, Tarrega :) (although the last one composed for guitar)
@@therealmusician off course thank you for reminding me those composers
Utterly enigmatic, from the shimmering Jeux D'eau to the nostalgia of Le Tombeau. One can look at the moon, listen, and ask, "Ravel, what are you telling me?" Excellent recording.
Outstanding comment! I have always wondered myself!
I could sit down looking to a landscape and listen to this the entire day.
I'm so impressed by this music.
yes...it leaves an...impression...
When I think of one of my "possible pasts", Paris appears between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, "the city of novelties" (Alexandre Dumas son). I am a bohemienne painter, with a workshop in Montmartre. I spend my life in bistrots and brasseries, and prostitutes are my models. I try to imitate the impressionists, I have few clients and very little money, but every day I thank God for the gifts he has bestowed on my existence, even if I have wasted many of them. I know Debussy and Ravel because my best friend plays the piano and I can enter his performances for free. Those notes speak to my soul about the mystery and incomparable Beauty of life. I can close my eyes and feel that no gift has ever been wasted and that my life, like everything else, is perfect just the way it is.
Le Tombeau de Couperine always impress me every time I hear it. Its like time travel and I`m walking quietly through the corridor of a big manor.
Unbelievable collection to have in one spot. Dazzling and transcendent are words that come to mind. So many great examples to pick. You could try the perfectly paced and balanced Minuet from the Sonatine. Or the incendiary repeated notes in Alborado del Gracioso. The reverberant sound world of the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, which take the melodic journey as freshly as if it had just been written. Yes, youtube, I'll forgive you the head-banging ads for now. Especially after I'm able to get the CDs.
I truly love you for this upload.
I truly love Michelangelo Carbonara for this breathtaking interpretation.
I truly love Maurice Ravel, for taking me out of the quarantine in this awful period and wherever I want whenever I need to.
Thank you all :)
Ravel is the only composer who was also serving in war and I like it the fact that a composer doesn't need to lock himself up in a chamber, obsessed with rhythms like Mozart. Ravel's compositions mainly revolve around mystical beings and fairy tales. Out of all composers, his style was the most unique and easily recognizable with these patterns
+ Doubles (Scarbo, Jeux Deau)
+ Inharmonious chords to evoke mysteries
+ Impressionistic feeling (a music movement both he and Debussy denied) that usually evokes an atmosphere rather than espressing a clear melody. A prime example is Le Gibet and Pavane Pour Une infante defunte
+ One-Note below jumping: this is the effect I only observed in Ravel. Before starting a bar with a usual melody, Ravel would add a note far below left hand. This makes the left hand has to jump very fast from that notes to the following melody in the bar. This is found in Ondine and Jeux Deau.
+ Repeated notes (Scarbo, Toccata in Le Tombeau de Couperin)
+ Tinkling sound: Ravel was an experimenter with melody as well. I dont know but he seems to be obsessed with water, thus Ondine, Jeux Deau and Une Barque sur l'ocean were born. This tinkling sound was created by fast appergios of high notes.
To my Ravelian fans, his collection is minute compared to other major composers, but each of his pieces are so detailed to the extent of a "swiss clock". There is no such thing as an impromptu to Ravel. Stick with it as it is already a masterpiece. Enjoy Ravel while we are still alive
Spring Nuance Ravel was notably distressed as he began to realise his impending death in his final days. He was devastated and embarassed at how little music he had actually produced in his lifetime compared to the greats he so admired like Mozart and Beethoven. What I would give to simply let him know how important of a figure he was in the history of music and that his desperation for perfection had paid off and then some. For a man who so enjoyed childlike innocence and the art of fantasy, his life itself is something out of a Roahd Dahl novel. A small, awkward French man with pain-staking attention to detail in both his fashion sense and even more so in his music. A man who lived for writing music that expressed his love for imagination itself. The world could never thank you enough, Maurice.
@@TomCL-vb6xc I felt so relatable to Maurice
A strongsuit of Ravels, and perhaps a sign of the times, is his reliance on music theory to appropriate music to his own style, instead of the discovery of inventive harmonic arrangements which classical music is so strongly characterized by. And on the topic of atmosphere it may be that so called impressionism emerged percisely because the further developing of harmonic structure began stagnating, and in order to reach beyond past limits, harmony´s relationship to melody which maybe hindered it from becoming more complex had to be compromized. Composers of the 20th century are infact tentatively disjointed from the rest of the classical canon.
Um, the Pavane is the most melodic of Ravel’s compositions, with a clearly expressed and singable melody throughout.
Yes, he's lovely. But "Obsessed with rhythms like Mozart?" One of the greatest melodists of all time? (I bet you could hum an aria or two right now.). If you'd said that about Beethoven, I might have agreed!
This is an absolute triumph for Michelangelo Carbonara. His performances here are so well-thought-out and astute; his technique is brilliant, especially in the Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo, as well as,Alborada del Gracioso, with exactness, yet incredible sonorities that I haven't heard elsewhere in any other performances. Evidently Mr. Carbonara's pianistic experiences and temperament suit him perfectly to perform Ravel's oeuvre, which he accomplishes astoundingly well. Thank you Brilliant Classics for posting these gems!
Keep in mind that's only published work. Who knows how much ravel randomly jotted down etc...
ravel is my favourite classical composer of all time.
Gotta love Ravel, so easy to listen to,especially in the mornings...just something to wake the mind, man was a genius, like Debussy...beautiful !!
Ravel only wrote 34 piano pieces--a small output compared to many other composers(Debussy wrote close to 100, if i am not mistaken, Chopin and scriabin over 200 etc) but what a great body of work! Everyone of them is good. Proof that you don't need a large output of music to be considered great. Better to focus on the best of what you can offer and make those pieces perfect, as Ravel did.
anyone who drove a ambulance during WWI certainly witnessed soul shocking proof of mankind's ability for pure evil. And M. Ravel is more proof. His compositions run the gamut of emotion and sensation more so than most noncombatant composers. If any good came out of that meat grinder of a war, then it is surely His gift of music.
Ravel is one of my top favorites as well. Although there are a handful of composers I admire even more, Ravel is perhaps the only one whose every composition I enjoy.
Une barque sur l'ocean is my favourite.
im listening to that one rn XD
This one and Jeux d'eau, M. 30 are unreal!!
It reminds me call me by your name
Same!
Mine, too, Lar M!
These ads between the pieces of music are just vulgar. The rest is heaven. Michelangelo Carbonara is excellent. Not pretentious at all. His tempo is perfect (a little below the usual, which is great to appreciate each note). Great interpretation, without showing off, laid back, Ravel would have loved it.
At the same time Ravel is known to want you to play exactly tempo and what he writes in the score. Most interpretations actually take his music too fast. I think this is close to tempo on most pieces.
There will be few, if any, other pianists on youtube (or anywhere else) who dare to play "Le Gibet" that slowly, which is exactly what Ravel intended. And it's a perfect performance by Michelangelo Carbonara. Many thanks for this.
Le gibet is pretty much my favourite piece of all time - many compete, but I listen to it so much- this version here, Martha’s - my favourite
Ravel dedicated each piece of Tombeau de Couperin to a male soldier he knew.
Nothing is known of his personal life. Perhaps the answer can be found in his music.
What refinement, delicacy and exquisite feeling is to be found in Ondine. And in his Pavane!
A couple of anecdotes:
He was a little annoyed at the outsized popularity of Bolero compared with that of his other works. He remarked: "I've written only one masterpiece - Boléro. Unfortunately there's no music in it."
George Gershwin practically begged him to give him composition lessons. Ravel asked him what fees he commanded for his works. When Gershwin named the considerable sum, Ravel replied, "In that case it is you, Monsieur, who should be giving ME lessons."
A dry, tart Gallic wit. You can can hear it in his music, too. But then there's the tender, sentimental side, as in the Pavane or L'Enfant et les sortileges. At those moments I think of his deep emotional attachment to his mother, which is something we DO know about his personal life.
"Jeux d'eau" always make me feel like crying. "Dieu fluvial riant de l'eau qui le chatouille"
I listened to this as a kid. I guess you can't go upstream life like you could in a river unfortunately.
My dream is to live in a fancy house playing ravel and debussy all day long
I second this.
Wow!
Would be more pleasant if the scoring was ethical and truly accurate, without lies, without self contradiction but instead based on facts provided by qualified professionals and dealing strictly with self control issues. Never
You forgot Erik Satie
Trihardious Maximus where is the relation between sexuality and his comment?
Listening to this while looking at the full moon. Petals floating from a birch tree on a warm spring night. ♥️
Sounds great!
Honestly one of the best recordings of many of the pieces I have found to this date. Amazing! Miroirs and jeux d'eau are real gems
아름다운 피아노 연주곡 잘 들었습니다~감사합니다~🎵🎹🌿🍀☘🌹🌹☘🍀🌿❤❤
Ravel is the shadow peering over my shoulder any time I try compose anything
Absolutely EXQUISITE performance, lovely repertoire!!!! Gorgeous playing.
Ravel è un grande compositore ! ed ha anche un grande pianista !!!!!!!!!!
Sonatine : III. Anime
Miroirs: Alborada del Gracioso
Gaspard de La Nuit: I. Ondine
Gaspard de La Nuit: III. Scarbo
Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI Toccata
These are my personal favourites
It’s calm, clear, relaxing 😌 🥰 Iove it!!! Heard it at least 300 times starting from last year! Love Jeux d’eau 2x 🙏 thanks
I was lucky enough to find a compulation of vinyl for free on the internet. Most of it were trash, some of it were some 80s hits. Tho the most prized among them was a ravel vinyl. I have been a fan eversince.
I listen to these works like swimming in the music ocean
I'm pretty sure he missed a couple ties in the Toccata
Wow, how amazing I just pointed out a mistake in a song I couldn't hope to play in a hundred years I am so proud of myself
I've listened to this way too many times
It can never be too many!
@Daily Dose Of Stupitity ?
This is one of the best.. I just found out about him now...
Fabuloso. Muchas gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ravel's music.... magnificent
Such a beatiful music
Wunderschöne und kultivierte Interpretation dieser ein bisschen impressionistischen und perfekt komponierten Klavierwerke im fließenden doch gut phrasierten Tempo mit anmutigem doch gut artikuliertem Anschlag sowie mit perfekt und effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Das letzte Werk klingt besonders schön und echt eindrucksvoll. Der geniale Pianist ist alles!
yes, it was played excellently. Beautiful as you say ☺.
I am assuming you are a pianist by your superb comments.
@@andyfield7397 Thanks for your affirmative and kind reply. I really wish I were a pianist.
@@notaire2 Keine problem. Danke zehr.
@@andyfield7397 Bitte sehr.
@@notaire2 es tut mir leid fur mein schlecht Deutsch ! 😲
ah, wonderful music by this great composer!
2:16:48. Then press replay and all ads are gone. Welcome!!!.
Make sure to install Ublock origin if you're on PC
such a beautifully and elegantly done performance!
曲の名前あんまり知らないけど、7年間聞いてもあきない。尊敬します
What a fantastic interpretation!
Ravel's harmonic language is life
He wrote some of the most beautiful Piano Music.
What comes to my ear when I listen to the music of Ravel is the ghost of Mozart. Debussy the baroque impressionist, Ravel ever the classicist.
haha interesting comment
I'm inclined to agree with that. I think that Ravel took care of form and structure more than Debussy. It is worth digging deeper on this. I bet there are a few papers out on this. I find both composers just riveting to listen to..in their own way.
I'm likin these confusion-type classics a lot more these days- because they express more the reality of life- compared to a lot of romantic-type classical.
Thanks for posting this. There are some pieces here I haven't heard before!
One gripe, though: the recording is not technically complete. Missing are (at least) Ma Mere l'Oye and the piano transcription of La Valse.
I think that they are not included because Ma Mere l'Oye was originally composed for piano 4 hands and La Valse is a transcription of the orchestra work. So this is complete works of Ravel originally composed for piano 2 hands.
Ah, yeah, you're probably right.
Only partially true: Ravel even stated himself that he used the piano to primarily compose La Valse, and the transcription took minor tweaks to create (mostly in condensing the instrumentation). But yes, *technically* (very technically) it was written for orchestra first.
@@Andresa0397 To digress even further from Ravel's solo piano works: The Rapsodie Espagnole began as a separate piece for piano solo (the Habanera, unpublished on its own but incorporated in the final orchestral suite). He then transcribed the orchestral work for two pianos. I mention this only to put in a plug for Nelson Freire's and Martha Argerich's amazingly vibrant rendition on an old DG recording (I'm sure you can find it online). They don't just play it, they re-orchestrate the transcription in pure piano language.
Usually dont like Impressionistic music, but love the painting style. Music wise I'm more of a romantic myself as I compose in that style aswell.
What is this masterpiece?
Excellente interprétation merci
The double glissandi of Alborada... RIP my fingers
use a stick!
@@drcool56 double stick.
There is a rare mental case where the person's senses are somewhat jumbled, meaning they can "taste shapes" or "see smells" I really want to know what they see or taste or smell or feel listening to this
I had this playing in the background while I'm studying but I had to stop it bc every piece just SO good that I can't help but actively listen to it lmao I can't focus on the class notes
Oh ravel.. my ravel
my is to build fancy house and swinging on a high swing inside listening when someone is playing to my Ravel, Satie and Debusy all day long
Prelude 1:45:58
The thumbnail is amazingly illusory. It makes it seem the tower is very close to La Defense when in actuality it kinda far. I miss Paris 😪
Absolutely beautiful
私は古風なメヌエットと水の戯れが好きです。よく聴きにきます。
ラヴェルは、音が非常に多く、演奏するのが難しい曲も多いと思っております
Brilliant Classics piano my favorite pieces of music 👍💖😍🎶👏
🤩
ラヴェル様はずっと聴いてられるな…
a genius. i think he inspired a lot of other geniuses: Jobim, Joao Donato. Is Ravel from this planet? ❤
Thanks for uploading!
Браво Морис Равель !
Creative pianist!!!
I think Sonatine no 2 is one of my favorite interpretations from Michelangelo. I personally think others have done better Jeux D'eau. It's a very hard piece to get right afterall.
Lovely.
Ravel and Debussy----my favorites. I almost think Ravel was the better of the two for piano tho(Tho I love Debussy's piano music ) But truth be told, Ravel had a sophistication in his piano music--technique, harmony and rhythmical that's a notch higher then Claude .Many people always assume ravel was an imitator of Debussy because he was born later, but many of Ravels early piano pieces (Jeau deux,The Miroirs, & Gaspard La nuit sets etc) are more advanced then anything Debussy had written at that time, and Debussy actually imitates HIM in many of his preludes from 1910'/1913. So in this case, the student inspired the teacher and surpassed him on some occasions.
Debussy was just as good
Very good... I think Ma Mère l'Oye suite is missing, even is for four hands is a piano work
Grazie.
never perfect we are......... as notes say the one s we are.......... but the feel is always there.......... trying to figure us out........... still a liv e d one when we blunder.................. the hear we want to hear ....... still show s up...... as we play us in an awkward way......... no mess up jus t being real........... as we learn us......... always imperfect.......... what living is........ a mess of us.......... trying to b e perfect.............. in whose eye s........... only one that can love us as we are................ never making sense............. but we still show up to play........... with you....... that love we feel........... trying to make every note........... you hear perfect.......... the one s we are ...... always trying to b e the melody............ that make s you fall for us......... as we play us to you..........
Фортепьянное волшебство
We come here for love,peace,tranquility, and REAL music.
1:53:18, oh yeah
00:43:26 Elio and Oliver. CMBYN
I just woke up from a nap hearing this thinking "Where is this beautiful music coming from!" Then I looked at my tablet and saw it was Ravel and rushed to my piano trying to play what I had just heard.
Jeux Deaux has the greatest opening.
Nice guy, Ravel. Met him in a brothel last year he asked me to produce some techno remixes of these prime cuts...
Belo!
1:52:58
Obrigada
1:04:06
I would only suggest that Mr. Carbonara try dancing to his own performance of that minuet -- he's taking it much, much too fast. Other than that . . .
最後までありがとう
who's the player? love this version of alborada