Ravel - Introduction et allegro pour harpe, flûte, clarinette et quatuor à cordes (1905)
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- Introduction et allegro pour harpe, flûte, clarinette et quatuor à cordes (1905)
[Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet]
A delightful piece of chamber music by French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). He composed this work in 1905 on commission from the harp manufacturer Érard.
Harp: Skaila Kanga
Flute: William Bennett
Clarinet: Andrew Marriner
Violins: Kenneth Sillito, Malcolm Latchem
Viola: Stephen Shingles
Cello: Denis Vigay
(Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble)
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!!!
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 ....
@@iankemp1131 Bolero doesn't contain as many musical ideas though ;) Unless you count different orchestral colours...
Where did his knowledge of harp technique come from - it seems a little ‘transcendental’?
@@markhughes7927 ravel learned from the most respected music education in france, I'm sure he learned a lot about orchestration there.
@@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...
Ravel was probably the best orchestrator of all times
Urizen He IS
@@TheSummoner He is probably the best orchetrator, but orchestral composer was Stravinsky.
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
@@TheSummoner this is Just oversaying...
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.
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.
@@chrissahar2014 You defined why we did not have more composers as we had until very recently!
@@chrissahar2014 Thank you!
@@chrissahar2014 Maestro!
@@chrissahar2014 can confirm: when i'm listening to music I don't 'listen' to it.
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.
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..
David Randall not to mention Mahler and Strauss...
@@stynway59 is that not exactly what he meant by the "modern standard"? also I'd throw bartok and dvorak in there too
And were you to live 10 times as long you would still only be beginning to learn...
I would stick Delius in with that bunch and laterly Les Baxter
Harp: Skaila Kanga
Flute: William Bennett
Clarinet: Andrew Marriner
Violins: Kenneth Sillito, Malcolm Latchem
Viola: Stephen Shingles
Cello: Denis Vigay
wena shoro
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. I can't help but picture a garden.
Ravel can do those things to u
I see rolling green fields and England in summer, trees swaying gently in the breeze...and a garden too.
@Jordan Schlansky merci beaucoup
I see a dear or two grazing and leaping through your garden 🙃
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.
Who's here after twoset? Thank u two set for introducing me to another ravel piece.
is this from the among us video with a harp in round two??
@@hmmph yeah
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.
nail on the head there, absolutely beautiful !
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
Indeed
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.
david manze wonderful analysis of this wonderful work---totally agree--this piece goes its own way and delightfully so...
I'm not even a fan of the harp.. not sure why.. but this Ravellian excursion captures me every time
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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.
Absolutely.healingmusicits power
@@windstorm1000 Even more relevant in this time of Covid 19.
What a talented.......Very creative composer.....He makes unprecedented sound like magic in an elegant manner.....
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
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.
I think it's too obvious not to be the case
Ravel was his own genius, but held Debussy’s Apres midi to be the most beautiful piece ever written.
yes there is a similarity in style.
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 .
Rest in peace may she
@@elijahvalongo9528
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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
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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
@@shin-i-chikozima I love pavane too and debussy is a huge part of my life as well.
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One of my favorite Ravel compositions. Appreciate the addition of the score.
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.
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]
Heyyy you’re here cuz of them too??
@@Gio2321_ yess :),ik u weren't talking to me but yes I'm here cuz of them too
hyungs solo was so funny😂
Two set Gang 🎻
Taking a bath with this music is magic
i just took a shower while this was on loop
so amazing
This piece is breathtakingly beautiful, especially the harp part.
+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.
Claude Debussy oooh debussy, jealous much?
proof magic is real
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
I think it's the most difficult part!
Stunningly beautiful. Amazingly pretty. So innocent and yet so guilty of tremendous genius. It's 1905 and Einstein and Ravel are doing incredible things.
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...
Une merveille de tous les instants...les idées mélodiques s'envolent d'une fleur à une autre, tel un printemps au paradis.
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.
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.
@@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.
This person is a troll, just ignore them ->@@Whatismusic123
@@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.
@@1banez not implying, saying.
I assiociate this piece with spring, life emerges in a very serene and beautiful way
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.
This is the perfect composition manual for harp
8:10 - 10:30
One of the most INCREDIBLE moments in music composition history!!!
And with just seven instruments!! Ravel is a true magician. A incredible composer and an unbeatable orchestrator!
And he didnt even include this in his biography. He thought it was a commissioned throwaway!
@@dhliebowitz Hi!!
@@dhliebowitz Wait a minute...
It’s not about the ending it’s about the whole thing leading up 2 it
Genuinely one of the coolest, most beautiful, and most mind blowing pieces I've every heard.
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
“I’ll get back to this soon”
*Last online 2 years ago*
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One of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Magical
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!
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?
What other Ravel pieces have you heard? If you need any recommendations, I’ve got plenty!
Harpists and flutists are an orchestrator’s dream. They are so incredibly proficient that you can basically write something as difficult as you can imagine, and they’ll just execute perfectly. Ravel was brilliant at exploiting musicians’ technical prowess in general, but damn he knew how to write for harp.
Quelle belle musique mon Dieu. Merci.
Une merveille. La harpe est une cascade de notes c'est un plaisir a l'écoute.Quel talent Ravel****
I had never heard this piece. Obviously my loss!
I've never thought the harp was all that great. Ravel just proved me so wrong.
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..
Delightful indeed. Ravel’s beautiful music !
This so beautiful! Harps are really neat instruments on their own!
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.
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.
For me, it’s Ravel and Schubert!
Tis is definitely one of the most successful chamber works of early 20th Century
永遠聽不膩的曲子,這應該可列入能留芳百世的曠世巨作之列 !
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.
Superbe,piece inspiratrice de la bo du dernier tango a Paris
Highly sensitive interpretation...so completely informed by a deep understanding of Ravel's unique musical sensibilities... very beautiful
Classic Ravel. I love his style.
absolutely magical
I agree.
On y entends Daphnis et Chloé - C'est une musique de chambre absolument sublime
This is my favorite Ravel. So emotional, so beautiful, so revealing.
❤️... this just amazing...
A delicate piece as such could always evoke a strong resonance in my mind.
RAVEL was a great composer, very well played, thank you for posting
BRAVO to the musicians who can read this.....BRAVO RAVEL!!!
Utterly exquisite. He was a true master!
feels like being in a Medieval castle 1:57 and walking through the castle grounds and gardens 8:51
as a jazzist at 1:35 I WAS GONNA COME NGL WTF IS THAT SO BEAUTIFUL???!!
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.
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...
Un rêve éveillé.... Sublime!!
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.
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..
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.
1:13 and forward. Beautiful nature kind of music
4:19 this cadence is absolutely magical.
A phantasm, featuring holistic harpage to profess his preeminant proficiency for every orchestral orfice
My favourite piece of music
C'est vrai, mais je dirais même que le moment qui commence à 0:01 est absolument magnifique...
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.
j'adore...je viens d'assister à une représentation de ce morceau...sublimissime!
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?
"So how many notes do you want in the harp part?"
Ravel: *yes*
Isaac Skey Ravel desrves to be in the wave of the trolling era.
Well, the piece was supposed to feature the harp, so it only makes sense
I don't understand this comment. Who are we to imagine is asking the question? Is Ravel asking himself?
If there is a harp part obviously there are going to be notes, otherwise there wouldn't be a harp part.
@@devindevon it's a joke '_'
" L'effet suprême de l'art, c'est d'éveiller le sentiment de la grâce.
Incredible. Listening to this is pure bliss. Thank you for uploading this beautiful work of art.
A superb performance !!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for uploading this amazing video !!!!!
I had to do a double take at rehearsal 6 because flute and clarinet duet almost gives off the timbre of melodic bassoon. Brilliant composition, and brilliant players to bring such a work to life.
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.
spotted
The absolute top music about harp.
O how this harp transports me to beautiful visions!
5:32 that's the Vertigo theme. Interesting to see that inspiration.
Thank you Erard
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
A masterpiece, I'm so amazed, a true master of composition.
What a wonderful introduction to you, Musicanth. Years ago, living in N Michigan, USA, I wrote down a list of 'musical loves,' heard over Interlochen Public Radio. This evokes such fond memories of that time. Thank you very much.
I'm pretty sure composers like those who did Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, have been inspired by this piece. The harmonies, the spirit, the instruments, even some parts of melodies, everything reminds me of these games. And I'm not a specialist of the impact that modern occidental music, if it existed, has brought to the Japanese modern music but Takashi Yoshimatsu also seems to have been inspired by Ravel's works and universe.
I was just thinking the same thing! Hidden Land!
@@geitekop507 and Northern Desert
Excessive flute vibrato, ensuring that the 2 winds sound as though they're playing different pieces.
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.
It incredible what timbre colours he manages to achieve with just 7 instruments
"Just"? 😂😂
the harp part is so...enchanting...wow!!!
So incredibly beautiful.
Thank you so much for posting this. Sometimes, I can't just understand how Ravel can create such magnificent music.
J'adore l'histoire de Ravel où il assiste à un concert avec des amis, à la fin de sa vie alors qu'il était atteint de démence. Il s'est assis avec eux, écoutant la belle musique et finalement, après une longue période de pleurs, il a dit : « C'est beau. Qui l'a écrit ? Ses amis ont répondu, bien sûr, "vous l'avez fait." Je ne sais pas s'il écoutait ce sublime quatuor, mais cela ne m'étonnerait pas.
One of his final concerts was an attendance to his own « Daphnis et Chloé » - where he also cried afterwards and said: “I had much more to say, much more music in my head… And it shall remain there. I have said nothing. It’s over.”
And it was more than dementia. He was in a car accident in 1932, and suffered severe head trauma. Because of this, his brain started deteriorating. He lost most of his motor skills, he had memory loss, and he could no longer compose. The last five years of his life were immensely heartbreaking. The last piece he ever wrote was a Song Cycle, « Don Quichotte á Dulcinée. » It’s a poignant, somber piece, but also very fun and purely Ravel’s signature style. You can also hear Gershwin’s influence in it; the Cycle is only 6 minutes long altogether, and it took Ravel almost two full years to write it because of the severity of his injuries. It’s truly sad. He was only 62 when he died from an unsuccessful brain surgery in 1937.
His Opera, « L’enfant et les Sortilèges » was performed in his honor after his death.
Merci de toutes ces infos l'ami, vraiment 🤠@@Hailey_Paige_1937
che meraviglia!!!
Lovely.
You are absolutely right! Music can surely heal people! I believe this totally. Music is magic and is good for everyone.