Ravel: Jeux d'eau [Laplante]
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Jeux d'eau is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed in 1901 and given its first public performance the following year. The title is variously translated as "Fountains", "Playing Water" or literally "Water Games". At the time of writing Jeux d'eau, Ravel was a student of Gabriel Fauré, to whom the piece is dedicated. The work is in a single movement, typically lasting between four and half and six minutes in performance.
The piece is known for its virtuosic, fluid, and highly evocative nature, and is considered one of Ravel's most important works for piano. The piece is characterized by its fast, shimmering, and cascading piano figurations, which are meant to evoke the sound of flowing water. The overall atmosphere of "Jeux d'eau" is one of lightness, playfulness, and sensuousness, and the piece is often described as a musical depiction of the joy and beauty of nature. "Jeux d'eau" is considered a masterful example of Ravel's distinctive style, which is characterized by its clarity, precision, and sensitivity to color and texture.
In 1901 Maurice Ravel was aged 26 and had yet to make an impression on the French musical scene. He had failed to win any prizes as a student at the Paris Conservatoire and was expelled on that account. As a former student he was permitted to attend the classes of his teacher Gabriel Fauré, who thought highly of him and encouraged him. Ravel dedicated Jeux d'eau and his String Quartet "à mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré".
Jeux d'eau represented what Ravel's biographer Gerald Larner calls "a sudden surge in Ravel's imagination" after the mostly unremarkable compositions that preceded it. The piece was partly inspired by Franz Liszt's Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este (from his Années de pèlerinage). Another inspiration may have been the poem "Fête d'eaux" by Ravel's friend Henri de Régnier. It contains the line "Dieu fluvial riant de l'eau qui le chatouille" ("river god laughing at the water that tickles him"), which at the composer's request the poet inscribed on Ravel's manuscript, and is the heading in the printed score.
Ravel gave the first performance of the work at a gathering of the avant-garde artistic group Les Apaches of which he was a member. The pianist Vlado Perlemuter quoted one of those present as saying, "There was a strange fire, a whole panoply of subtleties and vibrations which none of us could previously have imagined". Perlemuter commented that the piece "opens up new horizons in piano technique, especially if one remembers that Debussy's Jardins sous la pluie was not written until two years later, in 1903". The work was published by Eugène Demets in 1901. It was quickly denounced by musical conservatives, including Camille Saint-Saëns − who dismissed it as "total cacophony" − and most of the faculty of the Conservatoire.
The first public performance was given by the pianist Ricardo Viñes in a concert presented by the Société nationale de musique on 5 April 1902, at which Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte was also premiered. Pierre Lalo, the music critic of Le Temps (who later became persistently hostile to Ravel) was favourably impressed. After commending Viñes's "singular virtuosity and delicacy" he praised the two Ravel works as "orderly, composed with great clarity and measure, while keeping the same refinement in harmony". He continued:
The ideas have grace, and they are extremely dextrously and pleasingly written. We can see here and there the influence of Chabrier, and more often that of M. Debussy; it is natural that M. Ravel is still being influenced. But the progress he has made is worth noting.
The piece, in E major, is in a single movement. It opens "tres doux", with a metronome marking of ♪=144. The duration of the piece varies considerably in performance, from 4½ minutes to more than 6. Orenstein summarises the structure: "the opening and closing sonorities of Jeux d'eau are the chord of the major seventh, which enjoys a privileged position throughout". In Orenstein's analysis the work is based on two themes, the second of which is pentatonic, "treated quite freely". After an extensive development section, the two themes return and the work ends in "a sweeping cascade" of hemidemisemiquavers. Ravel makes pronounced use of the higher and lower register of the keyboard.
Source: wikipedia.org
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This is my favorite recording of Jeux d’eau. I think Ravel would approve. He follows the score exactly, which is as close to perfection as you can get. Ravel knew what he wanted in the performance of this piece, and Laplante delivers. A moment of sheer beauty in a world of hate and trouble looming. A beautiful, transcendent 5 minutes. Thank you for the post.
How is it humanly possible to play this ? I'm not a piano player, and although I would like to be one, this is the kind of marvel that cuts loose any ambition. My hands are wild, my fingers are wooden, my brain is slow. These people have a Qualcomm CPU in the head or what ?
epic
My favorite recording of this outstandingly gorgeous work
It's been a few years since I played this. I had so much trouble playing it clearly and lightly, otherwise I'd have covered it too. Maybe I should go back to this. It's too nice to pass up
Hope you upload that someday!
Yay new flaming piano ravel video
@@xiguan5156 Not anytime soon sadly, but I'd love to relearn it when I'm much less busy
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dp u think this is harder then une barque? couse im learning that one piece from rave and tbh jeux d'eau looks way harder
Absolutely stunning. This piece is so well composed, it must be so satisfying to play it on piano.
De toute beauté !
The piece I performed recently! Hard indeed but so much fun indeed!! Ravel really does magic, and you can really hear water at many times!!!
This is an amazing piece and pretty fun to play!
My favorite recording of this piece ever.
Wonderful syncing! Not a huge fan of the color combination, I think that blue it's a slight bit too dark for such a light-sounding piece. Great recording choice and effects though!
I used "default" colors as in the classical synthesia videos. I had no idea about the colors here, but it could be dark blue with light one
Excuse me everyone, I challange myself to play this song and....😂 I struggl so hard to understand the basics of piano,
But lets imagine that I can play it at 50% the speed do you guys have tools for the hands and the fingers position ?
So I gess blue is right hand and green left hand ?
Thanks a lot
1)Its a piece, not a song
2) You shlouldnt learn from this type of format, you should learn from sheet music
3)dont play such a hard pieces when you are a begginer
4) green is right and blue is left
@@duryi6399 Learn from sheet music ? Yeah. It's just chinese for me. I'm amazed by people who can read and play simultaneously, when I need ten minutes to figure out where is the A. What ? You tell me that the A is not the same on the bass clef ? Ahh, you must be kidding me.
Very nice. Is this transcribed or synced, or hybrid?
It was synced. I wasn't expecting you here, you were always my biggest inspiration!
@@BeMusical. thanks! Is it an automatic method or manual?
Halfly manual, because I found interesting api on github, which converts mp3 recordings to midi file. But it still requires a lot of editing
@@BeMusical. Interesting, thank you and good luck with your channel. I am now following!
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Nice!
It sounds almost like gamelan like. I love it!
Amazing! And I've just noticed the pedal input is also present! Such good work, keep posting!
magical work
marvellous visuals as always
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