Einojuhani Rautavaara - Piano Concerto No. 3 "Gift of Dreams" (1998)

Composer: Einojuhani Rautavaara (October 9, 1928 - July 27, 2016)
Pianist: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
00:00 Movement I - Tranquillo
10:04 Movement II - Adagio assai
21:59 Movement III - Energico
I think this is the most beautiful piece ever written.
Score available from Fennica Gehrman: www.fennicagehrman.fi/compose...
Program I develop for this channel: github.com/edwardx999/ScorePr...

Пікірлер: 260

  • @Cmaj7
    @Cmaj75 жыл бұрын

    00:01 Movement I - Tranquillo 10:04 Movement II - Adagio assai 21:59 Movement III - Energico

  • @aramkhachaturian8043

    @aramkhachaturian8043

    3 жыл бұрын

    thank you for blessing us with the beauty of Rautavaara's music

  • @theoneandonly3520

    @theoneandonly3520

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where can I get this piece exactly?

  • @stacia6678

    @stacia6678

    2 жыл бұрын

    How does Ashkenazy play the piano solo and conduct at the same time?

  • @acceptedsugar
    @acceptedsugar Жыл бұрын

    I've listened to this about a thousand times already and the Adagio still knocks me over every time.

  • @acceptedsugar

    @acceptedsugar

    4 ай бұрын

    @@portmantonalthank you for notifying me to return to this recording. I forgot what I was missing!! It's so good. Never gets old

  • @mojeo522
    @mojeo5223 жыл бұрын

    3:36 - 4:00 such a beautiful chord progression

  • @pawdaw
    @pawdaw2 жыл бұрын

    19:40 the return of the opening theme of the second movement, transcendentally beautiful

  • @noraazemog
    @noraazemog3 жыл бұрын

    The arrival at 13:10 on that Dbmaj7#11 chord is absolutely amazing. Perfect voicing too.

  • @scriabinismydog2439
    @scriabinismydog24395 жыл бұрын

    THIS. IS. WHY. YOUR. CHANNEL. IS. PURE. GOLD. Man, thank you... I discovered this composer (in this channel) some months ago and now I can't get enough of him I'm so grateful, really thanks again.

  • @rivers1005

    @rivers1005

    5 жыл бұрын

    A gold channel is 99% of good music + 1% of math video

  • @LiamFlahertyCounterpoint

    @LiamFlahertyCounterpoint

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ok mr ravel

  • @scriabinismydog2439

    @scriabinismydog2439

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rivers100 Music is the sound of Math

  • @hanshorst871

    @hanshorst871

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maurice Ravel thaths right.i love also this music

  • @alejandrom.4680

    @alejandrom.4680

    5 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree. I listen a lot of times in the day the first concerto, its complexity and beauty is beyond any other era.

  • @m.p.3musicstudio411
    @m.p.3musicstudio4113 жыл бұрын

    The first movement literally sounds like the gate of Heaven opening in front of me. what a Marvelous composition from Maestro Rautavaara.

  • @PentameronSV
    @PentameronSV5 жыл бұрын

    What a magical journey. Rautavaara never disappoints.

  • @yowzephyr
    @yowzephyr4 жыл бұрын

    Rautavaara believed that when he was a child he was visited by angels when he slept. I wonder what he thought of Joan of Arc. Of course she claimed angels spoke to her. She led victorious armies. Rautavaara wrote beautiful music.

  • @anttivirolainen8223

    @anttivirolainen8223

    Жыл бұрын

    He didn't actually believe that he had been visited by an angel. At least not in any other form than as a product of his subconscious.

  • @LFont
    @LFont Жыл бұрын

    Rautavaara, a true genius.

  • @mattnorman4292
    @mattnorman42925 жыл бұрын

    Rautavaara's music has that ever continuous flow of Darkness to light with such respect to there appropriate functions, it really is music of the Universe!

  • @Whatismusic123

    @Whatismusic123

    Жыл бұрын

    You're delusional.

  • @BassoProfundoRombola
    @BassoProfundoRombola5 жыл бұрын

    I’m astounded. Rautavaara is my favorite composer and I’ve never heard this recording.

  • @basilecortale8076

    @basilecortale8076

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ashkenazy actually commissioned this concerto

  • @scriabinismydog2439

    @scriabinismydog2439

    5 жыл бұрын

    bcortale Incredible... He's probably going to be my new favorite pianist.

  • @josed.vargas3961
    @josed.vargas39615 жыл бұрын

    This is threateningly beautiful...

  • @Devoid1_
    @Devoid1_2 жыл бұрын

    My favourite of the three concertos. So warm, beautiful and emotional.

  • @orgue2999
    @orgue29995 жыл бұрын

    Holy hell you're the best person in this universe

  • @PeterLunowPL
    @PeterLunowPL3 жыл бұрын

    I think its time that every really great pianist should play this concerto, to me it is one of the most beautiful concertos of the 20th century

  • @efs797
    @efs7973 жыл бұрын

    I think this one is turning out to be my favorite of the three though there's so much beauty in each of them.

  • @benflint
    @benflint4 жыл бұрын

    I woke up the other night hearing this perfectly in my sleep.

  • @oscargill423
    @oscargill4232 жыл бұрын

    "I would also like to think that my compositions are rather like ‘English gardens’, freely growing and organic, as opposed to those that are pruned to geometric precision and severity." -Rautavaara, on his 1999 composition "Autumn Gardens". Both Rautavaara's process and music are inspiring. Also, I have to imagine that Jacob Collier must have heard this at some point in his life, the similarities between it and Djesse Vol. 1 are too significant to be coincidence.

  • @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819
    @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais88193 жыл бұрын

    love this composer there are moments of Ravel and Bartok in the quiet parts very much his own composer

  • @EdwinCulverMusic
    @EdwinCulverMusic5 жыл бұрын

    This was the first piece I heard by Rautavaara, and the ending had a profound impact on the trajectory of my own compositions. Thanks so much for bring this full circle for me so I could finally see the score ;)

  • @Eden_Rubin_Music
    @Eden_Rubin_Music2 жыл бұрын

    Extraordinary piece, love the fact that it's tonal but not too tonal, the chord progression is very surprising and interesting!

  • @renaldtremblay8333
    @renaldtremblay83332 жыл бұрын

    Impressionnant concerto. À la fois si différent et si proche de nous. Musique angélique!

  • @user-km4me8yh1z
    @user-km4me8yh1z3 жыл бұрын

    one of his most beautiful composition works. Amazing!

  • @mrturtle1128
    @mrturtle11282 жыл бұрын

    It does not necessarily always have to be intense in order to create mood.. so lovely, truly music to the ears.

  • @zanexiao4488
    @zanexiao44884 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this upload. Young composers like me cannot afford to purchase every score we want to study and I have been spending hours after hours studying & playing this piece from your video :)

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es3 жыл бұрын

    The second movement is so gorgeous.

  • @jiricevela3822
    @jiricevela38225 жыл бұрын

    The beginning of the piece slightly reminds me of Ives' Central Park in the Dark, the timbre of strings is just so similar. However, another great composition by Rautavaara with majestic yet mysterious feeling. Thank you for uploading it.

  • @kmrdknrd

    @kmrdknrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Was about to comment the same! The harmony in the strings sounds like a more consonant version of the harmony in Ives' piece

  • @PeterLunowPL
    @PeterLunowPL4 жыл бұрын

    my favourite of the 3 piano concertos. He truly has his own voice in this one, cutting out all the complexity and getting to the core of his wonderful talent and soul.

  • @todd3386
    @todd33863 жыл бұрын

    This concerto was commissioned by Russian Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who worked on the score with Rautavaara. There is a KZread video of their discussions around the concerto. Quite interesting. I will try to put a link here at some point. Love this work

  • @mysterium364

    @mysterium364

    Жыл бұрын

    Ashkenazy... isn't he one of the most legendary pianists of the 20'th century? Didn't realize Rautavaara was that famous. Or maybe Ashkenazy just had good taste.

  • @asdfasdf-s7m

    @asdfasdf-s7m

    8 күн бұрын

    @@mysterium364 all of this is true, Rautavaara is unfortunately not as famous as he deserves....

  • @acceptedsugar
    @acceptedsugar4 ай бұрын

    The harmonies are masterful throughout--extremely colorful and ethereal, it's incredible

  • @gustavoarevalo2701
    @gustavoarevalo27012 жыл бұрын

    Love.Recuerden,la musica lleva angelitos,Einojuhany lo tiene presente,en su musica lo percibimos.Dios te bendiga por estos contenidos.Gracias.

  • @nicholas72611
    @nicholas726115 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap. Dude you are a God for uploading this.

  • @jodikirsh
    @jodikirsh Жыл бұрын

    I once knew someone who couldn't stand Rautavaara. She said his music was like a neverending spiral. It's true... and I love it! Hypnotic music.

  • @Darrylizer1
    @Darrylizer14 жыл бұрын

    Einojuhani Rautavaara has become one of my favorite composers thanks to this channel. Edit: listening again!

  • @stotoluca
    @stotoluca3 жыл бұрын

    This is no doubt on top of my favourite KZread channels. And this piano concerto? I'm speechless.

  • @rogernichols1124
    @rogernichols11242 жыл бұрын

    I wish I'd discovered Rsutavaara's music long before recently. His sound world is immensely impressive and he has a hallmark of his own that is so suffused with a primitive Nordic earthiness and singular to him. His symphonic compositions are sensory rollercoasters.

  • @josephfiddes60
    @josephfiddes605 жыл бұрын

    25:25 gottem

  • @CalamityInAction

    @CalamityInAction

    4 жыл бұрын

    B A S S

  • @zeroblizero

    @zeroblizero

    4 жыл бұрын

    L I C C

  • @slateflash

    @slateflash

    3 жыл бұрын

    DAMMIT

  • @PepekBezlepek

    @PepekBezlepek

    3 жыл бұрын

    impressive find lmao

  • @jashepoon

    @jashepoon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PepekBezlepek I don't get it :(

  • @gretareinarsson7461
    @gretareinarsson7461 Жыл бұрын

    It’s such a beautiful piece.

  • @MartinSmithMFM
    @MartinSmithMFM3 жыл бұрын

    The first movement is the most beautiful thing I have heard for about 40 years! Dare not continue for fear of losing this superbly tuneful late 20th century work!

  • @PeterLunowPL

    @PeterLunowPL

    3 жыл бұрын

    what do you think of the second movement?

  • @MartinSmithMFM

    @MartinSmithMFM

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PeterLunowPL Peter - the first was so wonderful, I was unable to continue. Here I am arguing about Britten and Tippett in the UK (I mean intellectually, in the UK, I am in Georgia). Here is a work to which either would have genuflected! And where are you?

  • @somonerandom706
    @somonerandom7065 жыл бұрын

    Yes yes yes I have been waiting for this!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @plb863
    @plb8635 жыл бұрын

    thank you for the score and this lovely recording :)

  • @sluukkonen
    @sluukkonen3 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to this on repeat forever

  • @Piucci
    @Piucci5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so so so so much!!!!

  • @zanexiao4488
    @zanexiao44885 жыл бұрын

    Oh my God yes thank you so much!

  • @sandronebieridze4134
    @sandronebieridze41345 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for uploading this, I didn't even know the Rautavaara had a 3rd concerto... You're definitely one of the best classical music channels and please keep going like this!

  • @donnytello1544

    @donnytello1544

    3 жыл бұрын

    He wrote like 8 concertos

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse3 жыл бұрын

    Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen

  • @stacia6678

    @stacia6678

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said!

  • @MegaCirse

    @MegaCirse

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stacia6678 Merci l'ami, j'y suis sensible ! ;-)

  • @MichaelConwayBaker
    @MichaelConwayBaker4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for continually uploading interesting music like this. The recording is superb.

  • @sebskelly
    @sebskelly5 жыл бұрын

    Your channel is perfect. Always something fresh and exciting. Thanks :)

  • @milgaru
    @milgaru2 жыл бұрын

    hell yeah i love that chimes part

  • @saraondo2698
    @saraondo26983 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered this brilliant composer. Thanks

  • @1Steins
    @1Steins5 жыл бұрын

    This truly is a gift. Love his style! If anyone knows any composers that sound like him, shoot a reply my way.

  • @1Steins

    @1Steins

    5 жыл бұрын

    Edmund Burke thanks, it sounds amazing. Good recommendation!

  • @hai-mel6815

    @hai-mel6815

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@1Steins What was the recommendation?

  • @jackcurley1591

    @jackcurley1591

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steins; Ga Kill check out the Yoshimatsu symphonies, he seems to take great influence from Rautavaara

  • @Tomek.adagietto

    @Tomek.adagietto

    3 жыл бұрын

    Check out Ravel's piano concerto (D - major), and piano concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams - they are equally beautifull and touching (personal opinion).

  • @1Steins

    @1Steins

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tomek Gargól sounds lovely, thanks for the suggestion!

  • @5StringTheory
    @5StringTheory Жыл бұрын

    I am so happy that your channel exist here on youtube!

  • @jensrayz5018
    @jensrayz50182 жыл бұрын

    ein wirklich großes Werk. Vielen Dank!

  • @WillzUQ
    @WillzUQ5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!!!

  • @jaimesmirandavisuals6083
    @jaimesmirandavisuals60834 жыл бұрын

    yassss, living for this.

  • @SpaceMalakhi
    @SpaceMalakhi Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this piece. I comment a bit late since i’ve been listening it on your channel for 4 months. I know it sounds cliché, but this (-how to call this piece of brilliant creativity, marvel, and transcendental grandeur) masterpiece changed my life in a way. I love it very much, and without you, i probably wouldn’t have discovered Rautavaara. Thank you very much

  • @user-it5ew3uj5v
    @user-it5ew3uj5v5 жыл бұрын

    why is this so good

  • @qsarkiss6672
    @qsarkiss66725 жыл бұрын

    Some tempests landed me here, please help me, my ears are chained to this world :)

  • @yeetthebeet
    @yeetthebeet2 жыл бұрын

    GENIUS!

  • @bazingacurta2567
    @bazingacurta2567 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @nanahyakuman
    @nanahyakuman3 жыл бұрын

    incredible

  • @machida5114
    @machida5114 Жыл бұрын

    so good...

  • @alejandrom.4680
    @alejandrom.46805 жыл бұрын

    You're the best person of the world my friend, thank you a lot for uploading such as quality content.

  • @qalaphyll
    @qalaphyll2 жыл бұрын

    🤩

  • @vine2197

    @vine2197

    2 жыл бұрын

    😍

  • @qalaphyll

    @qalaphyll

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vine2197 yes!!

  • @GUILLOM

    @GUILLOM

    Жыл бұрын

    🥑

  • @qalaphyll

    @qalaphyll

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GUILLOM ..yes???

  • @vine2197

    @vine2197

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GUILLOM palta

  • @somonerandom706
    @somonerandom7065 жыл бұрын

    I totally agree with you caption that this is the most beautiful piece written!!

  • @alejandrolenin93
    @alejandrolenin935 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU SO MUCH

  • @chrisbyman
    @chrisbyman2 жыл бұрын

    THANK-YOU FOR PUTTING THE ADS IN-BETWEEN MOVEMENTS. I still hate ads...but this is pretty great.

  • @user-hw6ut8dx2s
    @user-hw6ut8dx2s Жыл бұрын

    6:09 космически и небесно...действительно, Дар Мечты!

  • @davidmehnert6206
    @davidmehnert62064 жыл бұрын

    Rautavaara - the iron steeled against rust.

  • @jiricevela3822
    @jiricevela38222 жыл бұрын

    18:00 this is from his Adagio Celeste, or vice versa... Have never caught it before, though I have heard this beauty like hundreds of times.

  • @somonerandom706
    @somonerandom7065 жыл бұрын

    I just got the 2 piano reduction!

  • @somonerandom706

    @somonerandom706

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MajorAndMinor 9790550113329, this is the product number.

  • @somonerandom706

    @somonerandom706

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@paeffill9428 it's the link I have on the comments above, also boosey and hawkes just put it up for sale last month or so. It comes to a total of about $110 if your in the U.S because it takes 3 companies to get it to the U.S.

  • @phosphor3617

    @phosphor3617

    2 жыл бұрын

    Is there a recording of it?

  • @l2084
    @l20843 жыл бұрын

    Funny how this sounds almost Romantic...Great piece !

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    That ending. God damn

  • @YorikasMusic
    @YorikasMusic4 ай бұрын

    Rautavaara is trully an original composer!

  • @user-uw3xl2ob6v
    @user-uw3xl2ob6v4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @hanshorst871
    @hanshorst8715 жыл бұрын

    Nice work

  • @vittoriaadel7949
    @vittoriaadel79493 жыл бұрын

    😍

  • @splatproductions99
    @splatproductions993 жыл бұрын

    2:15 3:59 6:09 8:59

  • @December-sm7cn
    @December-sm7cn3 жыл бұрын

    울고 갑니다 감동이네요

  • @PaulSmith-qs1es
    @PaulSmith-qs1es2 жыл бұрын

    Amazon needs to put together a comprehensive Rautavaara album. I just bought their ones for Ligetti and Imants Kalnins. I'd love to but one for Rautavaara. They just sell them like CD's, still, though, with one or two symphonies per album.

  • @blakecarterpiano
    @blakecarterpiano3 жыл бұрын

    Listen to music like this for a week straight and all of a sudden triads sound like octaves

  • @notgonnadoxxmyself2219
    @notgonnadoxxmyself2219 Жыл бұрын

    3:36 is so amazing

  • @matiasocarez
    @matiasocarez Жыл бұрын

    check out Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd movement. It's like an older sibling to the first movement of this concert

  • @davidneese5422
    @davidneese54225 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for uploading this (for uploading all that you do really). Over the past few years I've been journeying deeper and deeper into the realm of underplayed and forgotten art music, and this composer has been one of my favorite recent discoveries. Every once in a while I come across a composer who I adore, but I don't know why I do - Rautavaara is one such composer. There's something in his music I'm quite fond of but can't really articulate. I'm not terribly well versed in music theory, but can anyone explain to me how someone can write something so seemingly unlistenable like this and make it sound good? What style other than contemporary would this be called?

  • @davidneese5422

    @davidneese5422

    5 жыл бұрын

    Something that just struck me - his piano parts in this and his first piano concerto do remind me a bit of Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant jesus...

  • @scriabinismydog2439

    @scriabinismydog2439

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well first of all, his entire musical compositonal style is based on the harmonincal techniques involved in the 1st piano concerto. Also he uses frequently modal writing (idk which modes) and some bits of politonality between major/minor chords: for example the first piano concerto starts with an arpeggio of d major over d minor in the LH while the RH does some cluster chords to add chromatic dissonance and delete complete diatonicism (also the clusters form the basic motif). He uses also distant chord progressions and spice up the harmony adding minor seconds to the top of each chord and also adding non-octave extensions (9ths,11th etc.) like in the percussion concerto. Basically what Rautavaara is doing is pushing tonality to his maximum limits 😁

  • @scriabinismydog2439

    @scriabinismydog2439

    5 жыл бұрын

    David Neese also I refer to his style as "neo-impressionism" because his work often present imaginative/dreamy moods to create pictures in the listeners head.

  • @davidneese5422

    @davidneese5422

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the replies 'Maurice Ravel' - that's pretty interesting! Neo-impressionism definitely fits, especially considering his pieces like Vincentiana. His blending of major/minor chords really creates a rather cool effect - it's always crazy when you realize there can be so much genius in purposeful dissonance!

  • @scriabinismydog2439

    @scriabinismydog2439

    5 жыл бұрын

    David Neese Of course there is geniousness in Dissonance.. Even Mozart used polytonality!

  • @user-jh1ty3dk7m
    @user-jh1ty3dk7m2 жыл бұрын

    올바른 방향

  • @ZewenShifu
    @ZewenShifuАй бұрын

    based Rautavaara

  • @dfkfgjfg
    @dfkfgjfg3 ай бұрын

    23:46 I refuse to believe this isn't a purposeful reference to Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony

  • @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji
    @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji2 жыл бұрын

    My favourite Rautavaara concerto!

  • @GUILLOM

    @GUILLOM

    2 жыл бұрын

    YES

  • @ValzainLumivix

    @ValzainLumivix

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ok

  • @mox9076
    @mox9076 Жыл бұрын

    Great piece. Just couldn't get into the last movement

  • @sihyunlee6400
    @sihyunlee64003 жыл бұрын

    하.. 개좋다

  • @hi7559

    @hi7559

    3 жыл бұрын

    😀😀

  • @TheChazzyC
    @TheChazzyC Жыл бұрын

    19:35

  • @Iumine
    @Iumine Жыл бұрын

    3:10 7:07 21:59 23:45

  • @gtarippro4774
    @gtarippro47743 жыл бұрын

    Hi,can i send you an audio file whit my orchestral music and if you want you uplod on your chanel?

  • @RanBlakePiano
    @RanBlakePiano4 жыл бұрын

    Real fine

  • @stacia6678

    @stacia6678

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @conradthe2
    @conradthe25 жыл бұрын

    Lets talk about that ending Why so bleak with the split chord in F? I love this piece so much, but I don't understand why he ended like this

  • @10mimu

    @10mimu

    5 жыл бұрын

    conradthe2 It's a gift of dreams. Every dream needs to be waken from...

  • @horsthans7959

    @horsthans7959

    5 жыл бұрын

    The end fits perfectly and is prepared ingeniously! Dreams are not only beautiful :)

  • @JJC333
    @JJC333 Жыл бұрын

    I think this piece sounds like Sibelius would live longer about 133 years old and Debussy would live longer about 136 years old to compose a concerto.

  • @TempodiPiano
    @TempodiPiano3 жыл бұрын

    Qu'est-ce que JS Bach aurait dit en regardant cette partition ?

  • @Luca-yg5qx
    @Luca-yg5qx2 жыл бұрын

    Does anybody know why he writes at some parts one hand in g flat and the other hand in f sharp? Looks kinda weird

  • @WEEBLLOM

    @WEEBLLOM

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where

  • @Luca-yg5qx

    @Luca-yg5qx

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WEEBLLOM 3:37 for instance

  • @WEEBLLOM

    @WEEBLLOM

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Luca-yg5qx If you play it in your piano you'll inmediately notice why. The note G#3/Ab3 is the axis of symmetry and both hands move symmetrically, so sharps in one hand become flats in the other and vice versa

  • @Juliushenrykim
    @Juliushenrykim Жыл бұрын

    2:13