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@aashishharijan1780

27 күн бұрын

Okies

@cbgeary

24 күн бұрын

DO BALLETS RUSSES BY SERGEI DIAGHILEV NEXT, PLEASE!!!

@robertmatch6550

23 күн бұрын

The world creates a needed niche for autistic percussionists.

@TristanMA

21 күн бұрын

@@cbgeary More importantly try Firebird and Petrushka next.

@kirstendonovan4092

7 күн бұрын

I hope it works ​@@TristanMA

the smoke cloud at 0:25 is hilarious bc i know it would have been ***very painful*** to actually animate that

@nxcromxncer

27 күн бұрын

Fr

Ravel's Bolero is, in essence, a backstory to Bizet's Carmen, and an Outer-Space ballet in the manner of Holst's Mars from The Planets.

@scaper8

29 күн бұрын

I wish I could like this comment more than once.

@minnieyuyantung

29 күн бұрын

so ravel wrote a prequel fan fiction base on bizet's Carmen?

@partituravid

21 күн бұрын

uh, what? Definitely not Carmen-related.

@scaper8

21 күн бұрын

@partituravid Not directly, no, but the idea of a sexy, enchanting Gypsy woman doing a seductive dance certainly calls to mind _Carmen_ to a moder listener.

I red that Ravel was so tired of people wanting to hear Bolero that he got angry and said something like "You know, I have written other things!"

The Horns, Celeste and Piccolo aren't playing in completely unrelated keys. The transpositions are derived from the overtone series .... similar to an organ mixture, as you mentioned.

I LOVE another episode of classics explained. Benjamin is such a great narrator. I love his voice 😍😍😍

@rufuscove1443

11 күн бұрын

I agree with you! I recently discovered this channel and I am a super fan now 😊 Benjamin you are a genius

Babe, wake up. New classics explained just dropped

@uriahlegutki2257

28 күн бұрын

Npc copypaste ahh comment ☠️

@huailiulin

28 күн бұрын

@@uriahlegutki2257 ngl idc

@LISZT-

26 күн бұрын

​@@uriahlegutki2257you said this comment is NPC, bur you use the most NPC words

Poor percussionist has to just play the same rhythm for 16 minutes over 100 times

@user-gi8pk9uc7q

Ай бұрын

Yeah, i can see why that would be rather boring!

@ceejay0137

28 күн бұрын

With a very, very slow crescendo. The volume of the snare drum has to increase otherwise the rest of the orchestra would drown it out.

@robertopatino6646

28 күн бұрын

In crescendo

@yddra1732

28 күн бұрын

Well actually it changes a little bit with the modulation, for like 20 bars before the end..... So you are graced with like 40s of diversity after 13mins of playing the same 4 bars on repeat and the chance to fuck it up because you forgot!

@davidwalterhall

28 күн бұрын

Almost every musical tradition in the world features some kind of repetitive percussive rhythm most of the time (I'm including strumming), with Western Classical being a rare exception. Most drummers are playing a beat. Bolero is one of the exceptions to the exception. I suppose your point is that there aren't any fills. In any other musical tradition the drummer would play some fills, even if they weren't written. Again, Western Classical is a curious outlier.

Funfact, Koji Kondo wanted to use Bolero as the title theme of the first Legend of Zelda game back in... checks notes... 1985/86!

@XtTapelatakettle

28 күн бұрын

And the funny thing is that it was only about a month away from the public domain as well.

@TheMovieCreator

28 күн бұрын

@@XtTapelatakettle That's a little bit of a stretch tho, the "about a month" claim is assuming the International release date and Japanese copyright laws. The Japanese release was in February 1986, one and three quarters of a year before it would have become public domain in Japan (and Japan only).

@gab_v250

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, the Legend of Zelda main theme is heavily inspired by Bolero for this reason (down to the rhythm)

Brandenburg Concrtos next please!

@jddrew1000

22 күн бұрын

YESSSS

@TristanMA

18 күн бұрын

@@jddrew1000 The Third Brandenurg Concerto belongs in Christmas , along with Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Christmas Oratorio, Pastorale in F Major for Organ, Variation on Vom Himmel Hoch, Sheep May Safely Graze, Sleepers Wake, & Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland.

I've heard the dementia explanation too. I'm glad that there's more to it than that!

Some absolutely stellar animations here, beautifully abstract while telling the story of the piece perfectly.

I showed this to my mom and she said the following: "I have always had a hard time understanding what got into Ravel to create this looong piece. This historical personal background and the animation featuring multiple assembly lines made it all make sense for the first time ever! Brilliant!". I pointed out to her that it has the same ostinato as Holst's Mars in The Planets, and now we are both wondering if there is a connection there.

This channel deserves way more viewers and subscribers. the quality of the animation is really good and the narrator continues to do an amazing job.

This is the first classical piece I heard as a child - played on the Moog synthesizer. I was fascinated. Then a few years later when it came to be associated with a nude Bo Derek, I took a rather different sort of interest in it. I heard Bolero was meant to simulate rising sexual tension, with rhythmic movement reaching a moment of climax. Maybe that was a line from 10? I don't recall. But I never forgot Bolero.

Thanks for pointing out the horns - celeste - piccolo section. It's one of my favorite parts, too, with how eerie it sounds. That and the trumpets coming in fortissimo near the end are the sections I most anticipate when listening to the piece.

"His father was an engineer" And suddenly everything falls into place

@mouf725

14 күн бұрын

They forgot to mention that he was Swiss as well, so that might also explain the love for meticulous design and timekeeping as I have heard described before!

I guessed it!🎉 The image from community looked soooo iconic that made me think immediately about Ravel.😊

Very nice piece of modern music. I remembered when I was in highschool and I brought a CD with famous classical music pieces to school and we all listened to Ravel's Bolero during a French class. My French teacher told us that Bolero is such a popular piece of music, that every 3 minutes someone in this world is listening to it. Its that true?

RAVEL!!! YES!!!!!!!

1970s and 1980s saw the the rise of Tintinabulation under Arvo Part, John Rutter's mature carols, and John Tavener's Holy Minimalism.

This is your second Ravel survey after his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel also did Mother Goose, Pavane for a Deceased Princess, Tombeu de Couperin, and La Valse. Ida Rubinstein performed the role of Zobeide in Fokine's version of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

@Hailey_Paige_1937

29 күн бұрын

You forgot Daphnis et Chloé!! Fantastic work of his.

Absolutely wonderful as always. Get this important content in schools.

I love this piece, probably the first classical piece I ever went out of my way to listen to. I'd read in a completely unrelated context that they used the piece in the show Digimon of all things, and, having been a fan of that show as a child, got curious and gave it a listen, and got hooked. It's inspired me to listen to other classical pieces since then, so I'm really happy to see that you've done a video on it.

BASQUE MENTIONED RAHHHHHH💪💪💪💪 No but for real, love me some ravel

This is an amazing concept! Please keep making more.

My memory of this song is listening to it while my father drove us to his old stomping ground to visit his friends. My father would usually play classical music & I distinctly remember him "singing" along with the beat snare drum.

Isn't it disappointing that RAVEL has composed a lot of other works, much more elaborated than BOLERO, and that people only know him for BOLERO???

@emilyglass5313

16 күн бұрын

Makes me wonder how Holst felt when he composed other suites (e.g. The Japanese Suite), but people only recognize him as the guy who wrote The Planets.

You mentioned Toscanini. He was at the premiere of Puccini's Turandot (completed by Alfano) and conducted the American premiere of Respighi's Pines of Rome.

I love Bolero so much in can’t wait for this video!

Yeah this piece is really popular among figure skaters!

I didn't expect Max Rebo of all the cameos! Still, excellent job as always Classics Explained. Bravissimo!

One of my favorite pieces! The simplicity of the theme being repeated for 15 minutes yet it is always interesting from it's build and you never get bored of it makes it truly a masterpiece. Also think Shostakovich has a symphony that does a similar thing, but cant remember which one.

@erind9535

27 күн бұрын

The first movement of Shostakovich's Symphony #7 does something similar.

@liamannegarner8083

25 күн бұрын

​@@erind9535Leningrad, right?

@erind9535

20 күн бұрын

@@liamannegarner8083 Yes

I love the whimsical animations! I wish you had done Gaspard de la Nuit, though! My daughter Ondine would be so pleased haha

Bravo! A Most Brilliant Explanation of this Piece. Thank You Ever So Much. 💙😊

Lol Nintendo reference at 6:27

You mentioned Shostakovich. He wrtoe the Second Piano Concerto (whose first movement was set to an animated Adapation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Steadfast Tin Soldier), and the Seventh Symphony "Leningrad", among other works.

I would've loved to see Maurice Béjart's exquisite solo ballet piece included here but, well, T&D's Sarajevo performance may well take the cake! Wonderful video.

Yeah!! You’re back!! And you brought Ravel with you this time!! Woow!!

Excellent, as always. However, I believe it was Bo Derek's character that introduced Dudley Moore to Bolero, not the other way around.

Wonderful video as always, keep up the amazing work, and have a fantastic day!

This is a very entertaining synopsis of both Ravel and Bolero. Thank you.😁🎶🎹🎶Play On

i love this piece, thank you for making a video about it!!!

I first remember Bolero from the movie 10. Having Bo Derek running down the beach was a bit of MTV before MTV. Would have been viral if it happened today. A whole generation of teen boys realized that classical music was ok actually... lol.

Love it!

Oh, I wish I could've just watched Classics explained instead of being forced into a classroom to "learn"! Those lessons in frustration taught me classical music is boooooring. Turns out I love a lot of classical music. Cheers!

I loved it! ❤ Sooo great!🎉🎉 Congrats!🎉🎉🎉

Ravel is one of my favourite composers next to debussy mozart etc… And ravel is sooo cute on this animation :3

Just discovered your channel recently! I really enjoy your videos! Thanks! 🎉😊

Brilliant!!!

I really appreciate all the work you put into these videos. They're both entertaining and educational.

Another amazing video! Thank you for this wonderful content🙏🏻

Love this video, love this channel ❤

This is your best animation yet! Funny, informative, brilliant artwork. Bravo!

Exquisite. What a treat for the ear and the eye!

Thank you! Brilliant, as usual! Plase, find it in your heart to do Pärt's Cantus in memoriam of Benjamin Britten next. It's one of the saddest pieces of music ever imo, and I would love to see how your comic style would tackle it.

I love this video to bits

Some Bruckner next!

Let’s get you to 100k, your work is valuable and I’d show it to my kids if I had any, listened to Bolero the first time last month after I heard Bernstein say it’s an orchestrational masterclass, at first the piece pissed me off but now I replay it just for its experience I can just let go of the music a bit and let the thing ride higher 😎🙏🥇

This is soo awesome and adorable 😸👏💖

I actually cant wait 😍😍😍

Great video 🤵🏻‍♂️👏🏼

Awesome animation! Love your content!

Brava-Bravo!!!,.... Bolero!!! Tim

Excellent video as always! Boléro was one of the first classical music pieces I've listened to when I seriously started exploring the genre back in 2016, and it has been one of my favourties even since. Loved the parallel between the music and the precise machines; made me wonder about Franz Kafka for a minute there. Never knew about the Toscanini bit though; that was absolutely hilarious!

@lisys511

28 күн бұрын

I discovered classical music earlier when i was a baby :3

This is your best video so far

@ClassicsExplained

9 күн бұрын

Thank you so much

I'm curious about what will happen. I'm really excited. ❤

This was a great explanation!

I live the Little Book of Calm (Black Books reference?!)

Second. Fantastic vid! Keep them comin’!

I love Bolero. I think it's such a daring and subversive composition because of its structure. It's still not as crazy as Satie's Vexations though...

Brahms Requiem would be a great animation. Its beautiful

Always fun and educating content. Please do Darius Milhaud’s Saudades do Brasil!!!!🎉🎉❤❤❤

Can you please do a video about his string quartet? I beg

I saw a video saying that this was the worst piece of classical music ever. I cannot understand how anyone could think that. This piece captivates me from start to finish and the ending always gives me shivers.. even just the snippet at 8:28 was enough to give me goosebumps!

Great video like always, but can you please explain Mahlers 2nd symphony or his 9th symphony?

Goldberg variations next pls

Finally! :D

In the commentary you keep referring to "the melody" as if there was only one. In fact there are two different melodic themes in Bolero. The first one opens the work and is repeated, then there is a second theme which is jazz-based, also repeated. The repeated pairs occur (I think) eight times in total, before the final dramatic outburst. There is also an underlying rhythmical 'bom bom, bom bom' which moves around the orchestra like the other themes, as well as the snare drum rhythm which stays the same throughout. There is a fantastic performance of the piece by the Polish film & television orchestra (AkademiaFilmuiTelewizji) on KZread, well worth watching.

@ClassicsExplained

28 күн бұрын

The melody comprises two melodic themes is the way I’d put it :)

Nicely done, very well explained, but ¿where’s the E major? The chords in that section are E7 and Bm, there is only a D# in the flute, but the whole passage is full of C natural and D natural, and it clearly sounds E dominant, V7 of A (major or minor).

Do you think you could do one on Brahms Hungarian Dances? They are such a bop! :)

Can you talk about Rossini's Barber of Seville next, please?

Thinking about doing the Roman Trilogy next????

Nutcracker next please!

So Ravel was on the neurodivergent spectrum. Awesome!

I was lucky enough to see the episode on time. Just one question. Why is it unlisted? Is it because the music or something is copyrighted? Are you going to delete the video eventually?

@ClassicsExplained

Ай бұрын

Just technical hiccup on our emd. You were lucky to get an advance screening! The episode will be released as usual very soon.

@einsteinvivaldi8152

Ай бұрын

Thank you. PS: I first saw your videos in 2020!

@teodoragradinaru8572

29 күн бұрын

​@@ClassicsExplained I hope you will explain Beethoven's 7th next. The 2nd movement is my favorite and I'm curious about the story behind it. 🧐

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought the video was going to be about 4'33'' by John Cage.

Suggestion: Charles Ives Country Band Suite. Had to play that in college.

@lisys511

15 күн бұрын

Ives entered the public domain in the EU this year since he passed away in 1954

His precision and perfectionism surprises me, didn t Emile de Combes say that Ravel was the laziest student he ever had?

@ClassicsExplained

28 күн бұрын

That was Satie he was talking about :)

@victorfontaine2739

28 күн бұрын

​@@ClassicsExplainedthanks! Your videos are extraordinary by the way

Yuuuuuuh

I love this song

@lisys511

Ай бұрын

Piece* not song

@kirstendonovan4092

7 күн бұрын

Me too.

Love your videos! Just to let you know that there's a small error at 8:45 where the subtitles say "tantrum" instead of "tam-tam"

@ClassicsExplained

28 күн бұрын

Thank you for picking that up - it's been corrected

@meganlewis2377

28 күн бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained Is Bartered Bride, Barber of Seville, Pines of Rome, Finlandia, Bells across the Meadow, Rigoletto, Scottish Fantasy, Kinderszenen, Hungarian Rhapsody and Appalachian Spring coming soon?

@ClassicsExplained

28 күн бұрын

One of those is coming up next! An additional two of those are in the making!

@meganlewis2377

12 күн бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained Don’t forget Norma!

ada scene kawan sia la ehem

Chopin's Ballade no. 1 next pleeeeeaaaase

Mahler 2 pls 👉🏼👈🏼

@georgeluft7881

13 күн бұрын

Mahler is number 2 MUST be next! We've been waiting for far too long! 🙏 🙏

"Gaspard..." We need.

Brilliant, as usual 🙄🤣

The Boulez recording is good, but why not the Abbado? Sure, it's a little fast, but I'm not listening to Bolero without everyone screaming at the end.

Ah yes that music that played in a Digimon movie once

Please do Bizet’s L’arlesienne Suite next

@TristanMA

28 күн бұрын

This is one of Bizet's Lighter works and is a fitting choice for Epiphany.