The fairy garden stirs something of my youth to the point of tears thankful for my schooling and the music I was taught. I love Debussy in particular and was thankful for all the choral singing we did. Days long ago but still with me
The sheer beauty, grace and loveliness of this music is such a strong tonic, after following news these days of monstrous, soulless, alleged ‘human beings’ inhabiting Washington DC. And my heart and thanks go out to these fresh young musicians, who sometimes sway to their music as sea grass might in the tides of the sea.
💖 Revisiting this music after too many years away...hearing, as well as seeing every real instrument/musician...🥹 brought me to tears...music like this used to transport me to a different world...still does 💕🌌 TY 🙏
REALLY?? It always reminded me of a mother's smile, kind and adoring but bittersweet with knowledge and understanding of the hardships ahead, but glorious in all the effort because the love she bears for you. I love the ending it makes me cry happy tears
It DOES have a sense of finality to it, but always remember: in its orchestrated version, it is vastly more powerful than it is in its rather trite pianisitic version. I'm am grateful for that.
What an extraordinary orchestra. Could not be better. Bravo. What a treat to hear this great piece performed by these young masterful musicians. Better than most professional orchestras i hear, including the New York Philharmonic. The contrabassoonist is extraordinary. What a great and wild sound she got. And the violinist bird sounds are perfection. All of this is so impressive.
Who are the 37 tactless people who 👎this composition and performance? No accounting for bad manners and lack of appreciation, is there? Ravel is an outstanding composer - nobody can ever take that from him, or from us.
" tactless " " bad manners and lack of appreciation ". What utter drivel. So, only your viewpoint matters, plus those who agree with you. No room in your cloistered world for alternative opinions then ? From where I'm sitting it's you exhibiting the " bad manners ", etc.
@@MOGGS1942 Speak for yourself. Oh golly, here we are! There are people who downclick for lots of reasons *other than* an honest assessment of the content. These are the types who also laugh-react a non-humor post, for example, to downplay the veracity of what another says because they simply don't "like" it or don't "agree" with a discussing and are being petty, though too cowardly to do much else, like have an honest dialog. Unless there is something truly objectionable to content here on YT (real and actual violence, harm, hatred expressed, etc), I refrain from 👍 or 👎 in that case if content merely doesn't appeal to my personal aesthics. Art and its appeal is always extremely individualistic. Even a piece which isn't appealing to my personal aesthitic doesn't mean it deserves 👎 if the skill, talent, execution of a performance, etc., still has technical merit, for example. That would apply to any performance, really. Credit where is credit due, even if it isn't personally something I'd select for myself to see/hear more of. But there are many who don't think very far past their own narrow criteria, and their reactions are very obvious, too. If something isn't appealing to their aesthetic, they are quick to diminish, regardless of other merits. That's the point. Speaking of reactions, you might want to rethink yours in relation to clear-eyed realizations of human behavior.
Very heavenly flautist that is shown often, thanks! It helps the music. I don't know why or how, but her being an attractive flautist makes me want to keep listening....
C'est probablement une des plus belles interprétations de Ma Mère l'Oye de Ravel sur You Tube par la délicatesse du jeu de ces jeunes interprètes menés par un chef inspiré : Bravo en particulier aux solos du premier violon !
Ravel is one of the three "R's" of great orchestraters: Ravel, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov. Maurice Ravel transformed his own "Pavane for a Dead Princess", (originally scored for piano). He took up orchestrations for Mussorgsky's original piano work, "Pictures at an Exhibition". Listen to the transformation of all works placed in Ravel's most capable hands..
Haven't heard this piece in years and years. What a nice balance between neoromanticism and neoimpressionism. There are moments when a mystical feeling swept over me. You, too?
Excellent performance by these young people. The future of orchestral music repertoire will be safe in their capable hands. Kudos to Madame Contrabassoon!
Sad that Ravel was an atheist, as was our marvellous Ralph Vaughan Williams, who studied under him. Aaron Copland too... My feeling is that the Holy Spirit reached them anyway, well Williams and Copland surely.
Amazing! Just found this while doing score study for my grad program. I hope as many of these players as possible go on to have great careers. Fantastic, beautiful, so well done! Congrats on such a fine performance!!
I respect and humbly adore all those lovely beings takin action in this session. P. S. : Now all what's left, is to wonder, if a classic music ladies are all that pretty... ;) Mystery to solve)) P. P. S. : Thank you, oh Artists. It is Truly - a Miracle. In every way.
Thank you for this. So beautiful. Years ago, I lived in North Michigan USA, and wrote down a list of 'Musical Loves' I'd heard over Interlochen Public Radio. Forgotten, I just found this list two weeks ago! Your beautiful presentation shows why I included this music on my list in the first place. Thank you!
Pretty good! Much better than a lot of famous versions... what a shame for some little mistakes of the wind players and is not possible to hear the harp... it was a little bit insufficient the magnificent at the end, but in general excelent job...
"Mi madre la oca", una obra maestra de Ravel. El último movimiento, "Le Jardin feerique", (El Jardín encantado), es una larga y contemplativa melodía, hermosamente hilada con armonía y contrapunto, que te eleva fuera de este mundo.
Nice - Soo nice - Excellent performance - Excellent conducting. Just a masterfully sensitive and skilled performance. - I'm listening now - 3rd mov. - mid-section - BEAUTIFUL. SOO well done. End of 3rd - Nice!
Very nice, but this is not FULL, as described above- it is the SUITE. The FULL ballet contains about 10 minutes more music. Top recommendations: Boulez with the BPO or the great Martinon recording. Both on youtube.
!6:15 me too. There was a ballet duet called Beauty and the Beast choreographed to this music and I had the great joy to dance in it in 1974 as a graduate student of the Royal Ballet School.
This probably shouldn't be a surprise, but there are echoes here of Pictures at an Exhibition, as at about 6:58 or so, with the tall brassy sounding of the French horns.
The real problem being that it was conceived as for pianoforte duet but listen to how the orchestration of every nuance can lead us away from Mother Earth into an ethereal place. Allowing for the Beast, of course, I cannot think of any comparable work in the orchestral repertoire - apart from perhaps Respighi?
One camera work criticism. The principal cello had important obbligati in this piece, yet not once were they seen on camera. The camera operator was very smitten with the blonde flautist.
Music supposedly inspired by the Pagodas of the forest of Rambouilette...only nobody outside France seems to know what those things are. Not towers -- they're some kind of fairy creature. No other information from the internet is forthcoming. Has anybody else heard of these things?
James Millen Yes, hard to replace, and perhaps impossible on the DG vinyl offering of Debussy's," Sonata for "Flute Viola and Harp." But good grief… these folks are nailing it. For me, it's one of the most sensitive performances.
Very nice performance. One minor criticism, though. Tympanist! You had ridiculous amounts of time to get the tuning right for that last movement. Why is the higher drum so obnoxiously sharp?? It's the last thing we here in the piece, it has to be spot on! Other than that, brilliant performance!
Not a part of classical top 40; I'd say, more like classical top 140. So yes, it is a bit overplayed on Classical stations; but great stuff nonetheless.
Ravel was one of the greatest orchestrators!
The fairy garden stirs something of my youth to the point of tears thankful for my schooling and the music I was taught. I love Debussy in particular and was thankful for all the choral singing we did. Days long ago but still with me
This must be among the most magical, in every sense, of musical works. A wonderful performance by these young people.
This is excellent. I'd also recommend The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Totally agree .. it’s wonderful ❤
Le tombeau de Couperin!
The sheer beauty, grace and loveliness of this music is such a strong
tonic, after following news these days of monstrous, soulless, alleged
‘human beings’ inhabiting Washington DC. And my heart and thanks go
out to these fresh young musicians, who sometimes sway to their music
as sea grass might in the tides of the sea.
This is an impeccable and heartfelt performance. I could watch and listen over and over. And I do.
💖 Revisiting this music after too many years away...hearing, as well as seeing every real instrument/musician...🥹 brought me to tears...music like this used to transport me to a different world...still does 💕🌌 TY 🙏
My 6-year old daughter loves this performance and asks me to play it every week :)
It’s magical ✨
Ain't it the Truth ! You said it Perfectly!
Le jardin féerique always makes me feel sadness and loss. The music is so beautiful.
REALLY?? It always reminded me of a mother's smile, kind and adoring but bittersweet with knowledge and understanding of the hardships ahead, but glorious in all the effort because the love she bears for you. I love the ending it makes me cry happy tears
It DOES have a sense of finality to it, but always remember: in its orchestrated version, it is vastly more powerful than it is in its rather trite pianisitic version. I'm am grateful for that.
@@thefamilyname1 It is both
Amazing work!
The soloists alone; wow!
This was awesome.
These kids deserved a standing ovation.
I 0:12
II 2:00
III 5:46
IV 9:28
V 13:50
Thank you!!! I was just saying to my husband that I wished the timestamps were given for these.
No problem. I think you're the first one to thank me for any timestamps I've made for any video, so thank you for your thank you, means a lot.
What an extraordinary orchestra. Could not be better. Bravo. What a treat to hear this great piece performed by these young masterful musicians. Better than most professional orchestras i hear, including the New York Philharmonic. The contrabassoonist is extraordinary. What a great and wild sound she got. And the violinist bird sounds are perfection. All of this is so impressive.
The 3rd movement gives me chills everytime I hear it. Timeless. This is so majestic ❤️❤️❤️
16:14 the anticipation of dropping into that C sus just makes me melt 😭 It's so beautiful, I can't stand it!
I know exactly what you mean. It's heartbreaking how beautiful that moment is. *sniffles
The best impresionist composer
With Debussy in tow....I agree.
@@IloveChrome846
I'm amazed that these are "student" musicians. They sound wonderful!
Who are the 37 tactless people who 👎this composition and performance? No accounting for bad manners and lack of appreciation, is there?
Ravel is an outstanding composer - nobody can ever take that from him, or from us.
" tactless " " bad manners and lack of appreciation ".
What utter drivel. So, only your viewpoint matters, plus those who agree with you.
No room in your cloistered world for alternative opinions then ?
From where I'm sitting it's you exhibiting the " bad manners ", etc.
@@MOGGS1942 Speak for yourself. Oh golly, here we are!
There are people who downclick for lots of reasons *other than* an honest assessment of the content.
These are the types who also laugh-react a non-humor post, for example, to downplay the veracity of what another says because they simply don't "like" it or don't "agree" with a discussing and are being petty, though too cowardly to do much else, like have an honest dialog.
Unless there is something truly objectionable to content here on YT (real and actual violence, harm, hatred expressed, etc), I refrain from 👍 or 👎 in that case if content merely doesn't appeal to my personal aesthics.
Art and its appeal is always extremely individualistic. Even a piece which isn't appealing to my personal aesthitic doesn't mean it deserves 👎 if the skill, talent, execution of a performance, etc., still has technical merit, for example. That would apply to any performance, really. Credit where is credit due, even if it isn't personally something I'd select for myself to see/hear more of.
But there are many who don't think very far past their own narrow criteria, and their reactions are very obvious, too. If something isn't appealing to their aesthetic, they are quick to diminish, regardless of other merits.
That's the point.
Speaking of reactions, you might want to rethink yours in relation to clear-eyed realizations of human behavior.
It's as if you were able to walk into a Monet painting and stroll around at your leisure.
Well said. Beautiful concept.
lovely 💗🙏🤲
Absolutely magical ❤
I wept at the beauty of this.
Same here my friend. The last section always brings me to tears over a love lost a long, long time ago...
Very heavenly flautist that is shown often, thanks! It helps the music. I don't know why or how, but her being an attractive flautist makes me want to keep listening....
C'est probablement une des plus belles interprétations de Ma Mère l'Oye de Ravel sur You Tube par la délicatesse du jeu de ces jeunes interprètes menés par un chef inspiré : Bravo en particulier aux solos du premier violon !
Ravel is one of the three "R's" of great orchestraters: Ravel, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov. Maurice Ravel transformed his own "Pavane for a Dead Princess", (originally scored for piano). He took up orchestrations for Mussorgsky's original piano work, "Pictures at an Exhibition". Listen to the transformation of all works placed in Ravel's most capable hands..
This video is great, I love the smiles on their faces at certain points. Truly skilled musicians and a conductor communicating the right way.
Haven't heard this piece in years and years. What a nice balance between neoromanticism and neoimpressionism. There are moments when a mystical feeling swept over me. You, too?
many times
Piece subtle tones and shades are blissfully beautiful.
Excellent performance by these young people. The future of orchestral music repertoire will be safe in their capable hands. Kudos to Madame Contrabassoon!
So true. This is one of the best student orchestras I've ever heard. Maybe THE best.
lovely recording
what an endearing piece of music
What a wonderful suite of songs. Simply gorgeous.
Like the gates of heaven opening. One of my faves!
Sad that Ravel was an atheist, as was our marvellous Ralph Vaughan Williams, who studied under him.
Aaron Copland too...
My feeling is that the Holy Spirit reached them anyway, well Williams and Copland surely.
Masterpiece still & forever
Fresh and delightful - what a treat from these young musicians and the conductor!
The concertmaster is a talent of the first class.
I would love to play the contra in this when I'm older! So far I'm still on bassoon but I love this music for everything!
Amazing! Just found this while doing score study for my grad program. I hope as many of these players as possible go on to have great careers. Fantastic, beautiful, so well done! Congrats on such a fine performance!!
Wonderful, heartfelt performance!
this is fantastic
I love this charming work however it's performed. And these student musicians give this work a truly impressive professional performance.
Oh my gosh! The violin from 12:00 on is perfect on those high F's! AMAZING!
Absolutely takes me to a higher spiritual place
Masterfully felt and conducted
They don't sound like students. They sound very pro
Amazing performance!
Wonderful.
Great performance!
I respect and humbly adore all those lovely beings takin action in this session.
P. S. : Now all what's left, is to wonder, if a classic music ladies are all that pretty... ;) Mystery to solve))
P. P. S. : Thank you, oh Artists.
It is Truly - a Miracle.
In every way.
The third movement is my all time FAV in the Mother Goose Suit.
Good performance.
Cor Anglais!, the final mvt is exquisite
Excellent!
Beautiful, poignant, and magical.
Thank you for this. So beautiful. Years ago, I lived in North Michigan USA, and wrote down a list of 'Musical Loves' I'd heard over Interlochen Public Radio. Forgotten, I just found this list two weeks ago! Your beautiful presentation shows why I included this music on my list in the first place. Thank you!
stunning!
Pretty good! Much better than a lot of famous versions... what a shame for some little mistakes of the wind players and is not possible to hear the harp... it was a little bit insufficient the magnificent at the end, but in general excelent job...
"Mi madre la oca", una obra maestra de Ravel. El último movimiento, "Le Jardin feerique", (El Jardín encantado), es una larga y contemplativa melodía, hermosamente hilada con armonía y contrapunto, que te eleva fuera de este mundo.
Nice - Soo nice - Excellent performance - Excellent conducting.
Just a masterfully sensitive and skilled performance.
- I'm listening now - 3rd mov. - mid-section - BEAUTIFUL. SOO well done.
End of 3rd - Nice!
what a beautiful playing, concertmaster!!!
watched the left hand concerto and this and I am very moved by the musicianship and care of these players.
The harpist is so lovely.
The Concertmaster is so pretty!
+Constellations Agreed, she also looks like a young Delia Smith (the famous British cook)
Very nice, but this is not FULL, as described above- it is the SUITE. The FULL ballet contains about 10 minutes more music. Top recommendations: Boulez with the BPO or the great Martinon recording. Both on youtube.
Oui, the Pierre Boulez and BPO is to die for!
!6:15 me too. There was a ballet duet called Beauty and the Beast choreographed to this music and I had the great joy to dance in it in 1974 as a graduate student of the Royal Ballet School.
Can someone link it for me? I keep finding the wrong one I think
10:34 That Contrabassoon
Yassss
儿童~ 拉威尔： “我写这部组曲，目的是要唤起童年时代的诗意，因此手法就必须单纯，一切表面的效果只好摒弃不用。”
Omg🥺
Excelente! A parte 5 me emociona muito.
Again, the camera man is in love with certain musicians. This time, its the harpist.
Superb Contra solos.
8:50 Violinists counting rests: "Ugh I'm so bored, wake me up when I get to play again..."
Beautiful.
perfect tempo!!
9:23 La belle clarinette française ... IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
Conversation of Beauty and the Beast
This probably shouldn't be a surprise, but there are echoes here of Pictures at an Exhibition, as at about 6:58 or so, with the tall brassy sounding of the French horns.
The real problem being that it was conceived as for pianoforte duet but listen to how the orchestration of every nuance can lead us away from Mother Earth into an ethereal place. Allowing for the Beast, of course, I cannot think of any comparable work in the orchestral repertoire - apart from perhaps Respighi?
You are a genius.I got here looking for something indefinable after hearing Respighi's Botticelli Triptych.
Such a slow performance! Je dors.
Clannad?
Here! Came right away after seeing the song title.
One camera work criticism. The principal cello had important obbligati in this piece, yet not once were they seen on camera. The camera operator was very smitten with the blonde flautist.
E Mack yes I think she was too 😂
I thought this was a wonderful performance and extremely well directed too. Very moving. Well done to the orchestra and conductor 👏👏👏
+Alessio Lapponi It's a contrabassoon
what is the instrument that make "la bete" in 10:34???
Contrabassoon, plays an octave lower than the bassoon beside it.
10:05
5:43 Ⅲ 9:25 Ⅳ 13:48 Ⅴ
Cest bien
Hermoso, lástima que no es "full", está incompleto, falta el preludio que fue agregado posteriormente por Ravel.
Music supposedly inspired by the Pagodas of the forest of Rambouilette...only nobody outside France seems to know what those things are. Not towers -- they're some kind of fairy creature. No other information from the internet is forthcoming. Has anybody else heard of these things?
Go to the Scott Brothers (piano) duo of this piece and read about the pagodes and pagodines of that forest!
Great performance ! Too bad you can't hear harp...
Nice recording but I miss the BSO with Doriot Dwyer as principal flute. Hard to replace.
James Millen the principal flutist doesn't have Ms Dwyer's signature vibrato.
James Millen Yes, hard to replace, and perhaps impossible on the DG vinyl offering of Debussy's," Sonata for "Flute Viola and Harp." But good grief… these folks are nailing it. For me, it's one of the most sensitive performances.
10:10 A page turn is being picked up by a microphone. (right channel)
OCD trigger
4:30
5:52
Very nice performance. One minor criticism, though. Tympanist! You had ridiculous amounts of time to get the tuning right for that last movement. Why is the higher drum so obnoxiously sharp?? It's the last thing we here in the piece, it has to be spot on! Other than that, brilliant performance!
Indeed, it is sharp by quite a bit. And he never corrects it.
Not a part of classical top 40; I'd say, more like classical top 140. So yes, it is a bit overplayed on Classical stations; but great stuff nonetheless.
5:45
მუსიკა კარგია თვითინ ოროსტა კლობაააა😢😢😂
When in this video does the 3rd mvt. begin?
Is it so hard to watch the rest first?
0:14
I came here just for the contrabassoon solo at 10:34
So rare! Much appreciation here, also!
9:31 married life ?
13:50
what an uptight audience though...Jesus
anybody think at 9 30 it sounds like the love story from up?
I feel for the percussionists - pretty dull gig. xD
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