I'm reading the following on wikipedia: "He wrote it at breakneck speed, as he had to complete it before embarking on a boating holiday with friends. Ravel omitted the Introduction and Allegro from the catalogue of his works, made no mention of it in his autobiography, and referred to it in only two of his letters." That's insane!!!

@iankemp1131

4 жыл бұрын

Seemingly not unusual for Ravel though, given that he wrote Bolero basically by accident and again at breakneck speed when the piece he had intended to orchestrate turned out to be under copyright ....

@HenrikBergpianorganist

4 жыл бұрын

@@iankemp1131 Bolero doesn't contain as many musical ideas though ;) Unless you count different orchestral colours...

@markhughes7927

4 жыл бұрын

Where did his knowledge of harp technique come from - it seems a little ‘transcendental’?

@jadeliu1462

4 жыл бұрын

@@markhughes7927 ravel learned from the most respected music education in france, I'm sure he learned a lot about orchestration there.

@signearenkiel1208

3 жыл бұрын

@@markhughes7927 I was actually just wondering this. I played it while I was studying, and although it's really difficult, he really knew how to make it work to the technical advantage of the harpist.

its crazy how this sometimes feels like a full orchestra playing...

@TheSummoner

4 жыл бұрын

Ravel was probably the best orchestrator of all times

@haizenn1974

4 жыл бұрын

Urizen He IS

@mojeo522

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSummoner He is probably the best orchetrator, but orchestral composer was Stravinsky.

@adamjones7701

4 жыл бұрын

Urizen I keep holst and ravel as a tie for best orchestrators, that’s hands down. Idk if there is a best composer that’s really subjective

@barbavassilis

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSummoner this is Just oversaying...

Who's here after twoset? Thank u two set for introducing me to another ravel piece.

@hmmph

4 ай бұрын

is this from the among us video with a harp in round two??

@toxiboi5771

4 ай бұрын

@@hmmph yeah

How can a person create such a beautiful piece in his mind? The interplay between the various instruments blow me away. Ravel was incredibly gifted.

@chrissahar2014

5 жыл бұрын

Tons of singing, ear training which means notating music by ear and checking against a written score, study orchestration --- and in his day WITHOUT HAVING RECORDING TECHNOLOGY --- so you tried whenever you could afford it to go to concerts. One thing about composers then - they had to perform or conduct. They need not be the best but good enough to get the chance to hear how these instruments sounded ensembles. I think for many aspiring composers, they should be VERY careful using modern technology. I would try NOT to go to a recording when studying a work. Yes if you have heard a recording before great but put that aside and study carefully what the composer actually provides in the score - it can be quite revealing. Here is one example, I love the Brahms 3rd and the 3rd movement is well-known. But when I study the score I try to get away from recordings and sing the inner lines or at times the melody and bass. It is a great way to internalize a piece. Finally, in Ravel's time many people studied an instrument to at least play folk and popular melodies as well as some music to play together (early on for instruments it was called "consort music"). And of course there has been for thousands of years opportunities to sing and dance together with people providing percussion. Too many simply are plugged into their headphones (heightening their risk for deafness) and treating music as a sonic wallpaper to their lives while they scroll mindlessly through pictures and headlines- half-aware.

@helcioj.tagliolatto3214

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrissahar2014 You defined why we did not have more composers as we had until very recently!

@phyllispetras2181

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrissahar2014 Thank you!

@artherladett442

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrissahar2014 Maestro!

@askshadowboltmoon1476

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrissahar2014 can confirm: when i'm listening to music I don't 'listen' to it.

Harp: Skaila Kanga Flute: William Bennett Clarinet: Andrew Marriner Violins: Kenneth Sillito, Malcolm Latchem Viola: Stephen Shingles Cello: Denis Vigay

@tomasandr

2 ай бұрын

wena shoro

Ravel has a very keen sense of melody and 'tonal wash'. His orchestrations are literally (along with Stravinsky) the modern standard. I've learned a lot from him over the last 50 yrs.

@stynway59

5 жыл бұрын

So did a few hundred Hollywood score-writers. Not to diminish at all your writing, but I hear his music everywhere now. Daphnes et Chloe must echo in a hundred scores from the 30s to the 50s. Of course, they should pay homage also to Holst, Shostakovitch, Rachmaninoff, Hovannes, Copeland..

@stephenbeale4765

4 жыл бұрын

David Randall not to mention Mahler and Strauss...

@brownie3454

4 жыл бұрын

@@stynway59 is that not exactly what he meant by the "modern standard"? also I'd throw bartok and dvorak in there too

@photo161

4 жыл бұрын

And were you to live 10 times as long you would still only be beginning to learn...

@andyfield7397

3 жыл бұрын

I would stick Delius in with that bunch and laterly Les Baxter

I didn't even realize this had such few instruments, Ravel really knew how to make beautiful and ethereal music

The introduction to this piece is so beautiful. Harmonically intelligent, and beautiful at the same time without compromising each other.

@andyfield7397

3 жыл бұрын

nail on the head there, absolutely beautiful !

This is one of only a few pieces that can successfully make ne cry. I remember showing it to my ex, who wasn't a musician but liked classical music, and I couldn't believe he didn't like it. This piece is so gorgeous and expertly crafted. I never pass up a chance to perform it with colleagues

One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. I can't help but picture a garden.

@verslaflamme666

7 жыл бұрын

Ravel can do those things to u

@marcandrews7097

6 жыл бұрын

I see rolling green fields and England in summer, trees swaying gently in the breeze...and a garden too.

@lydia129

5 жыл бұрын

@Jordan Schlansky merci beaucoup

@nourishheallove

5 жыл бұрын

I see a dear or two grazing and leaping through your garden 🙃

@charlesdavis7087

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. A sonic garden will appear in the mind's eye. Masters like Ravel and Chopin can make us see pictures... if we choose to see.

came from TwoSet, stayed for the masterful writing that Ravel is known for and absolutely does not disappoint with this piece

I don't know how many countless times I've listened to it. I used to wake up at early morning, plug in my headphones and listened to it while studying, for months. And i still do it. This piece has a certain calming sense to it, like it soothes your soul and your body at the same time. The harp and woodwind remind of sparkles, dew drops, the cool breeze of a morning, wind cutting like a sharp knife. The strings remind of grass, soft with distinct pleasant odour, that makes you want to lie on it forever. This piece is one of the closest pieces to my heart

@TheModicaLiszt

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@signearenkiel1208

3 ай бұрын

It's not soothing to play, I can tell you that much 🤣🤣🥵🥵

Every now and then there appears a piece that has it's own identity and mood that rewrites the rules, Ravel steps out here and creates another world where the harp holds us spellbound.

@windstorm1000

9 жыл бұрын

david manze wonderful analysis of this wonderful work---totally agree--this piece goes its own way and delightfully so...

@stynway59

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not even a fan of the harp.. not sure why.. but this Ravellian excursion captures me every time

@musisavante6036

3 жыл бұрын

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Transcendent, How can life be more beautiful? Please take this piece to every hospital in the world to the recovering, this could heal each and everyone of us! Thank you for posting this here for us to stumble across. Thank you.

@windstorm1000

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.healingmusicits power

@adamsmith7058

4 жыл бұрын

@@windstorm1000 Even more relevant in this time of Covid 19.

I can not help but listen to this jewel again and again and again, this is just too overwhelmingly beautiful, beautiful in a way this is not heartbreaking or painful, beautiful in a very serene and transcendental way, it just grips my heart, I think I'm obsessed with this piece...

It's like Ravel decided - let's see how over the top beautiful I can make this piece - especially considering how ethereal the instruments flute and harp can be.

What a talented.......Very creative composer.....He makes unprecedented sound like magic in an elegant manner.....

The opening page or two might be the most ravishing music he ever wrote. I wonder if he consciously recalled Debussy's opening to Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.

@colet1096

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's too obvious not to be the case

@robertoa.m.3984

3 жыл бұрын

Ravel was his own genius, but held Debussy’s Apres midi to be the most beautiful piece ever written.

@andyfield7397

3 жыл бұрын

yes there is a similarity in style.

Taking a bath with this music is magic

@solarean

3 жыл бұрын

i just took a shower while this was on loop so amazing

I assiociate this piece with spring, life emerges in a very serene and beautiful way

One of my favorite Ravel compositions. Appreciate the addition of the score.

8:10 - 10:30 One of the most INCREDIBLE moments in music composition history!!!

@jacobtapianieto9655

5 жыл бұрын

And with just seven instruments!! Ravel is a true magician. A incredible composer and an unbeatable orchestrator!

@stynway59

5 жыл бұрын

And he didnt even include this in his biography. He thought it was a commissioned throwaway!

@jonathanweissmusic

5 жыл бұрын

@@dhliebowitz Hi!!

@czhu1729

5 жыл бұрын

@@dhliebowitz Wait a minute...

@GnarlyBroMr

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not about the ending it’s about the whole thing leading up 2 it

That is some of the most French music I've heard in a long time.

He is one of the greatest orchestrators ever. Small or large sets of instruments. Live long and prosper.

I have tears . I have tears that shed when I was moved . I was deeply moved to learn recently that this favorite masterpiece of mine was played at the funeral of the French great author Marcel Proust in a church as his favorite piece . And Ravel is a contemporary of Marcel Proust , and had talked to him . This song has impressed me . I was listening to this song while remembering the kindness of my late mother .

@elijahvalongo9528

4 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace may she

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@@elijahvalongo9528 Sorry the very late my reply I couldn't notice your wonderful comments because without information from 「 you tube 」 Thank-you so much to your wonderful comments Debussy was a contemporary of French great author Marcel Proust Both of them are an integral part of my life Take care of yourself Good luck ！ Someday please come to Japan Japanese delicious foods , heartfelt hospitality , exotic atmosphere peculiar to Japan , and many amazing and marvellous things wait for you Take care of yourself Good luck ！ By the way I was deeply moved to learn recently that my favorite masterpiece 「Pavane pour une infante defunte 」was played at the funeral of the French great author Marcel Proust in a church as his favorite piece . I can't remember this scenery without tears I deeply love Marcel Proust's masterpiece

@elijahvalongo9528

3 жыл бұрын

@@shin-i-chikozima I love pavane too and debussy is a huge part of my life as well. I am going to Japan, i'm joining the US navy so I will definitely get a chance to go there

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@@elijahvalongo9528 Thank-you so much to your wonderful and impressive comments Hang in there ！ Japan waits for you Good luck ！

INTRO: -Theme 1: --1st motif: (0:00) --2nd motif:(0:12): -transition -Theme 1 (now restated a whole-step down) EXPOSITION: -theme 3: (1:13) -transition: (1:28) -theme 4: (1:56) --motif 3: (2:05) --motif 4: (2:11) -theme 3, restated I'll get back to this soon :D

@aaronmueller1560

3 жыл бұрын

“I’ll get back to this soon” *Last online 2 years ago*

@victorfelixcpsr

3 жыл бұрын

WBABAS WHERE ARE YOU BRO

This is the perfect composition manual for harp

This piece is breathtakingly beautiful, especially the harp part.

@steinway33

8 жыл бұрын

+Brendon Phillips You're right but it was composed to showcase the harp. I believe Ravel wrote it for a commission for Playel, the harp manufacturers.

@Yotam1703

7 жыл бұрын

Claude Debussy oooh debussy, jealous much?

@jvegaalbela

7 жыл бұрын

proof magic is real

@stynway59

5 жыл бұрын

I rarely find music written for the harp very engaging for long.. its ethereal quality is usually over-exploited for me. Ironic isn't it that the consummate craftsman Ravel created this as a possibly commercial (is that true?) showpiece for an instrument he wasn't trained in, but of course studied in the way he analyzed every instrument before he wrote for it (including the human voice) and created one of its best showcases. This features the harp's evanescence yes, but also its potential for muscularity, pure melody, rhythmic drive, and all in one glorious unified package of sonic delight which shines on its own musical merits

@xavipercu

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's the most difficult part!

Genuinely one of the coolest, most beautiful, and most mind blowing pieces I've every heard.

Ravel will always be relevant. His influence on film composers, modern jazz and the future of "classical" music is self sustaining. His ability to create so much with so little is astonishing.

@Whatismusic123

11 ай бұрын

So terribly incorrect. While he may have been influencial, in influencing garbage, when the world stops with this religious outlook on music he will fall far into irrelevancy. He is very incompetent in all that isn't orchestration. A minor subset of music.

@ravelness

10 ай бұрын

​@@Whatismusic123you must be a Chopin fan, what do you know about music. Ravel can singlehandedly take down Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach and all your shitty composers combined.

@themobiusfunction

10 ай бұрын

This person is a troll, just ignore them ->@@Whatismusic123

@1banez

9 ай бұрын

@@Whatismusic123 Are you seriously implying that Ravel isn't important as a composer, only as an orchestrator? If that's what you mean, that's absolutely the worst take in music I've ever read on youtube.

@Whatismusic123

9 ай бұрын

@@1banez not implying, saying.

I had never heard this piece. Obviously my loss!

as a jazzist at 1:35 I WAS GONNA COME NGL WTF IS THAT SO BEAUTIFUL???!!

Bliss, love, courtship, lust, temptation, confusion, intensity and tranquility...... life. This piece is a journey and I love it!

@phyllispetras3369

2 жыл бұрын

XXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOO

One of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Magical

The harp part starting at 1:55 is such a beautiful melody... Also the string and woodwind part at 2:50. Such a wonderful piece.

Quelle belle musique mon Dieu. Merci.

I really appreciate that you synchronize the notes with the music, musicanth! Its often a more powerful experience as a musician to hear the music while following the notes. Thanks!

On y entends Daphnis et Chloé - C'est une musique de chambre absolument sublime

Tis is definitely one of the most successful chamber works of early 20th Century

I've never thought the harp was all that great. Ravel just proved me so wrong.

Une merveille. La harpe est une cascade de notes c'est un plaisir a l'écoute.Quel talent Ravel****

BRAVO to the musicians who can read this.....BRAVO RAVEL!!!

While there are many composers who I like or even love, the two who are at the very top of my list are Ravel and Puccini. They have both struck such a chord in my soul. This piece by Ravel is spectacular.

@Hailey_Paige_1937

9 ай бұрын

For me, it’s Ravel and Schubert!

How can it be possible, how could it be allowed, that I, as a Ravel lover and a romantic music lover, could never have discovered this masterpiece?

@Hailey_Paige_1937

9 ай бұрын

What other Ravel pieces have you heard? If you need any recommendations, I’ve got plenty!

Utterly exquisite. He was a true master!

The sumptuous sound world Ravel creates in this gem of a piece is gorgeous. It's a chamber music masterwork with the most ravishing melodies and virtuoso writing for the harp. This is my favorite Ravel piece.

A delicate piece as such could always evoke a strong resonance in my mind.

Highly sensitive interpretation...so completely informed by a deep understanding of Ravel's unique musical sensibilities... very beautiful

feels like being in a Medieval castle 1:57 and walking through the castle grounds and gardens 8:51

Classic Ravel. I love his style.

Merveilleux, Magique, Féérique ! Moi-même en tant que musicien, j'ai pu être influencé par lui sans le savoir entre 1989 et le début de ce siècle..... ;-)

Ravel's orchestration skills were otherworldly. Just look and listen to the harp cadenza...

Stunningly beautiful. Amazingly pretty. So innocent and yet so guilty of tremendous genius. It's 1905 and Einstein and Ravel are doing incredible things.

Thank you so much for uploading this. A masterpiece indeed.

A eargasm for the ears. Brought you to magical journey. It is so wonderful!! I guess I cant write all the words of how good music is.

This sound so beautiful. I think there is water or air in htis sound.This cords are perfect and the themes are expressive too. But the interpretetion is also wunderful.

Superbe,piece inspiratrice de la bo du dernier tango a Paris

absolutely magical

@starxsirius1429

5 жыл бұрын

I agree.

A phantasm, featuring holistic harpage to profess his preeminant proficiency for every orchestral orfice

Talking about the colouring of musical pieces, Ravel’s works always gives me the sense of great “extraordinary”, but still, fairly rational, those colours he used are so distinctly differed from others, it feel like something from a different dimension, I guess he must be a strange person, a man abstruse to read. One of my favorite work (feel like it’s a representative work of his style ) of my favorite composer.

@stynway59

5 жыл бұрын

I find that his his extraordinary ability lies often in the rare talent to take a simple melody, as he was always melody, and exploit it through color, surprise, rhythm, and ultimately, the most gratifying.resolution. Had he only lived longer..

Delightful indeed. Ravel’s beautiful music !

Incredible. Listening to this is pure bliss. Thank you for uploading this beautiful work of art.

Beautiful!!! Thank you for this upload!!!!!

A masterpiece, I'm so amazed, a true master of composition.

This is Ravel in his simple, "go for the heart" idiom which seems to permeate most of the music he wrote. It is so beautiful (and simple), it brings tears because it reaches into the heart so completely with very simple means!!! It is this kind of "too beautiful not to cry" quality that even permeates his tumultuously difficult and extremely popular later music: "Daphnis et Chloe" as one example that seems to drop down from a heaven eliciting tears and an awareness that perfection exists outside of heaven. Ravel is a composer of the heart!

There are 2 words to describe this masterpiece: Ethereal and Euphoria

C'est vrai, mais je dirais même que le moment qui commence à 0:01 est absolument magnifique...

This is my favorite Ravel. So emotional, so beautiful, so revealing.

The last mvmnt of Mahler's 4th Symphony is supposed to be a child's impression of heaven. I believe this Ravel piece nails it even better.

@zoink5484

4 жыл бұрын

spotted

Un rêve éveillé.... Sublime!!

Just absolutely groovy and beautiful.

This piece still transports me to an incredible state. I first fell in love with it due to it's use by PBS for the credits - The Golden Bowl back in the late 70's. Then found it here about 4 years ago, and it still haunts so evocatively, plays with such grace, and contains such diverse moods within itself. What could have inspired Ravel to compose it?

A superb performance !!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for uploading this amazing video !!!!!

Beautifully thought out interpretation filled with lovely nuances that add immeasurably to the pleasure but never draw attention to themselves.

Wow. I haven't see the sheet music for this since I was in high school. What a trip down memory lane. What a treat to stumble upon this unexpectedly.

Beautiful ! Many thanks for upload.

For you Twosetters :] Round 1 ~ 0:00 - 1:55 [Cello & Clarinet] Round 2 ~ 2:20 - 3:11 [Harp & Clarinet] Round 3 ~ 3:11 - 4:34 [Flute & Viola] Round 4 ~ 5:24 - 6:36 [Harp & 2nd Violin] Round 5 ~ 8:22 - 9:31 (9:46) [2nd Violin & 1st Violin] Round 6 ~ 9:46 - 10:30 [Flute & 1st Violin]

@Gio2321_

6 ай бұрын

Heyyy you’re here cuz of them too??

@wathanisasillynerd2767

6 ай бұрын

@@Gio2321_ yess :),ik u weren't talking to me but yes I'm here cuz of them too

@rebroke_violinist

6 ай бұрын

hyungs solo was so funny😂

@invinciblehorizon4599

5 ай бұрын

Two set Gang 🎻

So incredibly beautiful.

❤️... this just amazing...

Thank you so much for posting this. Sometimes, I can't just understand how Ravel can create such magnificent music.

RAVEL was a great composer, very well played, thank you for posting

So perfect... Thank you for uploading.

j'adore...je viens d'assister à une représentation de ce morceau...sublimissime!

" L'effet suprême de l'art, c'est d'éveiller le sentiment de la grâce.

so wonderful!

My favourite piece of music

My god, the colours are soo beauty, i Will never understand how someone its capable to come out with majestic textures like this out of his mind, amazing

Favorite song of all time possibly!

This so beautiful! Harps are really neat instruments on their own!

You are absolutely right! Music can surely heal people! I believe this totally. Music is magic and is good for everyone.

C’est parfait

Merveilleux !

the harp part is so...enchanting...wow!!!

O how this harp transports me to beautiful visions!

Thank you Erard

Magnifique !

Cette musique de Ravel, c'est de la magie pure qui vous fait voyager dans le plus beau pays de l'extase et du rêve..

This work is a 20th century classic and this is a top quality performance of it!

Wow. Something that actually made me want to go practice just from the sheer enjoyment of music.

Thank you! years ago, I listened but didn’t pay attention to the name of composer. It was always my first choice of my intimate music, one day I heard a friend mentioned how much he likes Ravel, I searched, instantly I knew he was that composer ( a decade ago), but I don’t remember the name of this piece, I am very happy I found it.