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!
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.
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 ;)
This concerto was commissioned by Russian Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who worked on the score with Rautavaara. There is a UA-cam video of their discussions around the concerto. Quite interesting. I will try to put a link here at some point. Love this work
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.
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 :)
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.
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 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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Check out Ravel's piano concerto (D - major), and piano concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams - they are equally beautifull and touching (personal opinion).
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
"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.
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.
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?
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...
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 😁
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.
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!
@@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.
Great music and I really thank the channel for letting me know of him. But me and many people still wonder why he preferred more homophonic full chords language than using counter-point. It really lack in his music. He barely uses any texture rathar than strings full chords and the woodwinds are only there for melodies and brass only when he needs him. Very advanced composer when it comes to tonal harmonic language with a language of his own, that wrote in a pretty simple way his orchestrations for some reason. But it's surprisingly still a great music though. So maybe... Who cares?
I wouldn't call it basic because he does wtites interesting textures in some other pieces of him, and his sonic is very interesting. BTW I wanted to ask you for a long time, do you buy this scores and uploads them, do you copy them to a notation software, or do you actually transcribed this pieces? @@Cmaj7
@@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
00:01 Movement I - Tranquillo
10:04 Movement II - Adagio assai
21:59 Movement III - Energico
thank you for blessing us with the beauty of Rautavaara's music
Where can I get this piece exactly?
How does Ashkenazy play the piano solo and conduct at the same time?
I've listened to this about a thousand times already and the Adagio still knocks me over every time.
@@portmantonalthank you for notifying me to return to this recording. I forgot what I was missing!! It's so good. Never gets old
Bliberty Bluberty
19:40 the return of the opening theme of the second movement, transcendentally beautiful
3:36 - 4:00 such a beautiful chord progression
What a magical journey. Rautavaara never disappoints.
I’m astounded. Rautavaara is my favorite composer and I’ve never heard this recording.
Ashkenazy actually commissioned this concerto
bcortale Incredible... He's probably going to be my new favorite pianist.
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!
You're delusional.
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.
A gold channel is 99% of good music + 1% of math video
Ok mr ravel
Rivers100 Music is the sound of Math
Maurice Ravel thaths right.i love also this music
Totally agree. I listen a lot of times in the day the first concerto, its complexity and beauty is beyond any other era.
Rautavaara, a true genius.
The arrival at 13:10 on that Dbmaj7#11 chord is absolutely amazing. Perfect voicing too.
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.
My favourite of the three concertos. So warm, beautiful and emotional.
I think this one is turning out to be my favorite of the three though there's so much beauty in each of them.
Holy hell you're the best person in this universe
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 ;)
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
Impressionnant concerto. À la fois si différent et si proche de nous. Musique angélique!
love this composer there are moments of Ravel and Bartok in the quiet parts very much his own composer
Extraordinary piece, love the fact that it's tonal but not too tonal, the chord progression is very surprising and interesting!
The first movement literally sounds like the gate of Heaven opening in front of me. what a Marvelous composition from Maestro Rautavaara.
This concerto was commissioned by Russian Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who worked on the score with Rautavaara. There is a UA-cam video of their discussions around the concerto. Quite interesting. I will try to put a link here at some point. Love this work
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.
@@mysterium364 all of this is true, Rautavaara is unfortunately not as famous as he deserves....
I woke up the other night hearing this perfectly in my sleep.
one of his most beautiful composition works. Amazing!
This is indeed a gift. and it does indeed sound dreamy. it had a purpose and it fuffiled it
The harmonies are masterful throughout--extremely colorful and ethereal, it's incredible
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 :)
The second movement is so gorgeous.
Holy crap. Dude you are a God for uploading this.
It does not necessarily always have to be intense in order to create mood.. so lovely, truly music to the ears.
This is no doubt on top of my favourite UA-cam channels. And this piano concerto? I'm speechless.
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.
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!
what do you think of the second movement?
@@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?
Love.Recuerden,la musica lleva angelitos,Einojuhany lo tiene presente,en su musica lo percibimos.Dios te bendiga por estos contenidos.Gracias.
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
Well said!
@@stacia6678 Merci l'ami, j'y suis sensible ! ;-)
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.
Was about to comment the same! The harmony in the strings sounds like a more consonant version of the harmony in Ives' piece
Reminded me of Bartok piano concerto 2 2nd movement first, but I do see the resemblance to Ives as well
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.
Einojuhani Rautavaara has become one of my favorite composers thanks to this channel. Edit: listening again!
It’s such a beautiful piece.
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.
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.
This is threateningly beautiful...
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!
He wrote like 8 concertos
I am so happy that your channel exist here on youtube!
I could listen to this on repeat forever
This truly is a gift. Love his style! If anyone knows any composers that sound like him, shoot a reply my way.
Edmund Burke thanks, it sounds amazing. Good recommendation!
@@1Steins What was the recommendation?
Steins; Ga Kill check out the Yoshimatsu symphonies, he seems to take great influence from Rautavaara
Check out Ravel's piano concerto (D - major), and piano concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams - they are equally beautifull and touching (personal opinion).
Tomek Gargól sounds lovely, thanks for the suggestion!
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
Just discovered this brilliant composer. Thanks
thank you for the score and this lovely recording :)
"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.
hell yeah i love that chimes part
Your channel is perfect. Always something fresh and exciting. Thanks :)
why is this so good
Oh my God yes thank you so much!
Thank you so so so so much!!!!
25:25 gottem
B A S S
L I C C
DAMMIT
impressive find lmao
@@PepekBezlepek I don't get it :(
I totally agree with you caption that this is the most beautiful piece written!!
Some tempests landed me here, please help me, my ears are chained to this world :)
ein wirklich großes Werk. Vielen Dank!
GENIUS!
Thanks for continually uploading interesting music like this. The recording is superb.
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.
THANK-YOU FOR PUTTING THE ADS IN-BETWEEN MOVEMENTS. I still hate ads...but this is pretty great.
so good...
Yes yes yes I have been waiting for this!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Beautiful
incredible
Rautavaara is trully an original composer!
You're the best person of the world my friend, thank you a lot for uploading such as quality content.
6:09 космически и небесно...действительно, Дар Мечты!
yassss, living for this.
Rautavaara - the iron steeled against rust.
Funny how this sounds almost Romantic...Great piece !
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.
check out Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd movement. It's like an older sibling to the first movement of this concert
My favourite Rautavaara concerto!
YES
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THANK YOU SO MUCH
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?
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...
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 😁
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.
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!
David Neese Of course there is geniousness in Dissonance.. Even Mozart used polytonality!
I just got the 2 piano reduction!
@@MajorAndMinor 9790550113329, this is the product number.
@@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.
Is there a recording of it?
울고 갑니다 감동이네요
Nice work
That ending. God damn
3:36 is so amazing
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
conradthe2
It's a gift of dreams.
Every dream needs to be waken from...
The end fits perfectly and is prepared ingeniously!
Dreams are not only beautiful :)
Great piece. Just couldn't get into the last movement
😍
Amazing！
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23:46 I refuse to believe this isn't a purposeful reference to Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony
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.
Hi,can i send you an audio file whit my orchestral music and if you want you uplod on your chanel?
Great music and I really thank the channel for letting me know of him.
But me and many people still wonder why he preferred more homophonic full chords language than using counter-point. It really lack in his music. He barely uses any texture rathar than strings full chords and the woodwinds are only there for melodies and brass only when he needs him.
Very advanced composer when it comes to tonal harmonic language with a language of his own, that wrote in a pretty simple way his orchestrations for some reason.
But it's surprisingly still a great music though. So maybe... Who cares?
Yeah I really have the same feeling about Rautavaara haha. His harmonic language is great but his orchestration is very basic
I wouldn't call it basic because he does wtites interesting textures in some other pieces of him, and his sonic is very interesting.
BTW I wanted to ask you for a long time, do you buy this scores and uploads them, do you copy them to a notation software, or do you actually transcribed this pieces?
@@Cmaj7
올바른 방향
based Rautavaara
Does anybody know why he writes at some parts one hand in g flat and the other hand in f sharp? Looks kinda weird
Where
@@WEEBLLOM 3:37 for instance
@@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
An ad in the middle of the music? Unwatchable, beautiful music but unwatchable.
Cry
Qu'est-ce que JS Bach aurait dit en regardant cette partition ?
하.. 개좋다
😀😀
3:10 7:07 21:59 23:45
My dog loves this and he usually abhors the modernists, preferring primarily the baroque and romantic periods. Silly schnauzer.
ok
Real fine
Agreed