When I listen to the second movement, it makes me question how anything vile and corrupt can exist in the same world where such music is written and performed.
+Egor Ananyev Please, if you ever come up with an answer, let me know. It is such a morsel of perfection in writing and performance. It is unlike anything that comes from today. Then the cor anglais and piano duet comes and it gets totally sublime. My God!
+Egor Ananyev: "anything vile and corrupt". Mind you, Ravel (7 March 1875 - 28 December 1937) lived through WW I, traveled the USA with its beautiful nature. And when writing this, composed between 1929 and 1931, was a relatively old man looking back on his life and time. At the time, populism in its dark nazi guise was already popping up. How do you set that to music with Debussy, Picasso or impressionism as fresh memories? The allegro assai then captures the bittersweet moments to think of in beautiful spring times. And next the reality of hectic everyday life hits back again. In my imagination.
Today... having come back to this wonderful performance, I saw a glimpse of Ravel busy composing it during the 2nd movement. Such emotion! I think this is a wonderful performance... Martha's composure and beauty... her dress and the inimitable Charles Dutoit and the entire orchestra, it's all fab. I don't listen to it critically and don't play an instrument. I just used to know automatically what note would come out of the piano's keys... that's all. :) Oftentimes that's a good thing.
Really favorite music. It was impressed although it was you tube.. It was truly impressed by the performance of Ms.Martha Argerich. I wanted to listen to live music truly.. Thank you.
What a great performance! Bravo!!! This is such an interesting piece from Ravel. After the flute fanfare intro, when he first features the piano at 1:26 there is such a strong Spanish reference which soon seemingly becomes rhapsodic/bluesy nod to Gershwin. I know Ravel is quoted as nodding to Mozart in this work with the trills in Movt 1& 2, but to me, this 2nd Movement unfolds as a most beautiful and nostalgic homage to Erik Satie. Around 12:30 the piece starts getting dark and culminates at about 14:30 with one of the most beautiful climaxes ever composed in the history of music. Then, at 16:30 it becomes reborn into a positive beauty with the descending scales and of course - The Trills!!! Sheer beauty, from the great maestro Ravel !
MARTHA: Extraordinary, unique, the best living pianist, and she has always been perfect since her youth. Can we preserve Argerich in a capsule and keep her forever with us? And it is so easy for her, like drinking a glass of water.
Not True! Come on! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Emil Gilels Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Argerich
More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Argerich's technique!!
The second movement is about anticipation and waiting and faith, that the one being waited upon will return. A little sadness, but there's always hope when one reminisces the joyful past. How refreshing.
This interpretation is exceptional by its tact and its distinction. I have the legendary Samson François / André Cluytens in mind i.e. the bar is set very high. There is perhaps a little lost in terms of intensity and passion (and, yet, this is Martha Argerich at the piano.................) but the refinement is extreme. The musicians exhibit a class that, to the best of my knowledge is second to none and perfectly aligned with Ravel's aesthetic vision. What a gem ! Thanks for posting.......
It's first time I just listen and tears our of my eyes with no reason. Music is the reason, sure. I am so happy I was born and got a chance to listen to Martha's art. I wish I have a chance to listen her piano live.
Vielen Dank fuer diese wunderbare Aufnahme! Masterful composition Masterfully conducted Masterfully played Masterfully photographed And Martha Argerich - one of my most favorite pianists - powerful, sensitive and pleasantly unpretentiously charming! ☆☆☆☆☆
If this is divine, listen to her play this concerto in 2021 on You Tube. Each note is like a newborn baby's breath. I didn't think such timbre was possible coming from a piano. Just otherworldly.
Man, listening to this while reading Nodame Cantabile Chapter 122 is real fantastic! Thanks for this great video. Now I've come to understand how beautiful chapter 122 is.
I came here because of "Nodame Cantabile: Paris", I really love it all: the anime (its creativity, its musics, its unic theme, and for been unique in its kind) and all this world of the Classical Music, and its own beauty betwen the differents kinds.
The second movement... I discovered it on one of my father's records in 1983. I stayed with my parents the last few weeks before I was off on a major adventure to South Africa (with the intention to immigrate). I was on edge. This movement put me at ease, and I played it virtually to death (listening to it on the headphones!) So now I close my eyes and it still does exactly that.
Again: that smile at 17:32 saying "sorry, love, that darn thrill would not evaporate tonight as I normally do it!" What an artist, what a pride of a compatriot, a true Queen Midas!
Jose, let me tell you what I think: "Sorry man, I could not look at you for that final note, the music wouldn't let go...".. you have to be really big to do that. and she is!!
Yes, JL, I can see some of that sentiment in her look. But I think the putting down of the head and the expression from about 17:24 to 17:32 also says to me, Damn, I nailed this; I got just what I wanted at least in this part. :-) A Titan of the century playing one of her signature pieces. Bloody terrific to witness.
Many years ago when I was on the verge of making an enormous 'jump' in my life, during the weeks that led up to it, the second movement always completely dissipated any peace-wrecking thoughts I might have about my near future. As a result it has always remained very special, but I also quite like the entire concerto, even though it is a little neoclassical in places - not something I'd reach out for, but I dig Ravel. :)
The blues influence from George Gershwin is definitely present here. Gershwin had asked Ravel if he could study with him, and Gershwin said something about studying with Ravel would make Gershwin only a second-rate Ravel, and he was already a first-rate Gershwin. I think we should be grateful to Ravel for insisting that Gershwin follow his own path in music.
Awesome performance by Argerich! My favorite interpretation of this concerto is by the late and Legenday Madame Yvonne Lefebure who studied with the composer himself. She brings out some of the darker elements of the score. It's different from Martha's but they are both my favorite to listen to!
Gracias por compartirlo; se ha vuelto uno de mis favoritos de Ravel. Desde Puebla, México, un saludo enorme, esperando más aportaciones tuyas; haciendo que youtube valga la pena.
L’an 1928 apporta plusieurs expériences musicales très enrichissantes à la vie de Gershwin : il eut premièrement la chance de rencontrerMaurice Ravel au mois de mars, compositeur qu’il admirait grandement ; lorsque George lui demanda s’il pourrait lui enseigner la composition, Ravel lui répondit : « Pourquoi seriez-vous un Ravel de seconde classe alors que vous pouvez devenir un Gershwin de première classe ? »14. Trois jours plus tard, Gershwin partait pour l’Europe avec sa sœur, Frankie, ainsi qu’Ira et sa femme. Il y fit la connaissance de Prokofiev, Kurt Weill, Lehár et Berg, parmi d’autres ; c’est également à Paris qu’il compléta la composition de An American in Paris, une musique à programme incluant dans la partition quatre klaxons de taxis français. La première de cette œuvre eut lieu au Carnegie Hall à New York, le 13 décembre de la même année.
Come on! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Argerich's technique!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen With due respect, you understand little about music, my friend, regardless of how many years you've spent with it if you think that this is an olympic game. You mention all great players, why "better" and not just different? You compare them like this is a 100m race...
Oh man I will hear Lise de la Salle(who holds only 20 concertos per year) perform this with the Icelandic symphony next Thursday. Can't wait to hear this fantastic piece.
This concerto is great. I've always loved the grandioso return of the expressive theme in the first movement, where the strings and piano rise in register at 7:23 until they hit the climactic top of the melody, and then ravel takes it all away instantly.
When I 1st see Ms Martha (not in this video) my feeling was really on her fingers, moving very gently yet the sound is mysteriously great and loud...some say her fin😅gers r moving like b😊u😅t😮terflies, oh myGod...
personalmente preferisco ,del secondo movimento, la versione eseguita da Michelangeli con Celibidache , una cadenza molto precisa , gli altri due movimenti eseguiti magistralmente dalla Argerich ...10 alla grande personalità !!!! straordinaria esecuzione !!!!!BRAVO!!!
My latest piece 'Diegem' was influenced by Ravel and Messiean. Can be heard on my videos, though I think it is more contemporary sound. Diegem is a Belgian town.
I wish Ravel had lived longer! He was really one of the greatest.
God, I love watching and listening to Argerich play. Fiery, technically perfect and soulful.
When I listen to the second movement, it makes me question how anything vile and corrupt can exist in the same world where such music is written and performed.
+Egor Ananyev That's what I ask myself too, Egor!
+Egor Ananyev Please, if you ever come up with an answer, let me know. It is such a morsel of perfection in writing and performance. It is unlike anything that comes from today. Then the cor anglais and piano duet comes and it gets totally sublime. My God!
there is no darkness without light, and no richard clayderman without martha argerich :) (looks like a joke, but if you go deeper...no + without -).
+Egor Ananyev: "anything vile and corrupt". Mind you, Ravel (7 March 1875 - 28 December 1937) lived through WW I, traveled the USA with its beautiful nature. And when writing this, composed between 1929 and 1931, was a relatively old man looking back on his life and time. At the time, populism in its dark nazi guise was already popping up. How do you set that to music with Debussy, Picasso or impressionism as fresh memories? The allegro assai then captures the bittersweet moments to think of in beautiful spring times. And next the reality of hectic everyday life hits back again. In my imagination.
Wagner composed many beautiful pieces and he was... well everybody knows what the kind of things he thought.
Today... having come back to this wonderful performance, I saw a glimpse of Ravel busy composing it during the 2nd movement. Such emotion!
I think this is a wonderful performance... Martha's composure and beauty... her dress and the inimitable Charles Dutoit and the entire orchestra, it's all fab.
I don't listen to it critically and don't play an instrument. I just used to know automatically what note would come out of the piano's keys... that's all. :)
Oftentimes that's a good thing.
Really favorite music. It was impressed although it was you tube.. It was truly impressed by the performance of Ms.Martha Argerich. I wanted to listen to live music truly.. Thank you.
What a great performance! Bravo!!! This is such an interesting piece from Ravel. After the flute fanfare intro, when he first features the piano at 1:26 there is such a strong Spanish reference which soon seemingly becomes rhapsodic/bluesy nod to Gershwin. I know Ravel is quoted as nodding to Mozart in this work with the trills in Movt 1& 2, but to me, this 2nd Movement unfolds as a most beautiful and nostalgic homage to Erik Satie. Around 12:30 the piece starts getting dark and culminates at about 14:30 with one of the most beautiful climaxes ever composed in the history of music. Then, at 16:30 it becomes reborn into a positive beauty with the descending scales and of course - The Trills!!! Sheer beauty, from the great maestro Ravel !
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MARTHA: Extraordinary, unique, the best living pianist, and she has always been perfect since her youth. Can we preserve Argerich in a capsule and keep her forever with us? And it is so easy for her, like drinking a glass of water.
Not True! Come on! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Emil Gilels Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Argerich
More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Argerich's technique!!
I can't get over how beautiful this piece is...
The second movement is about anticipation and waiting and faith, that the one being waited upon will return. A little sadness, but there's always hope when one reminisces the joyful past. How refreshing.
This interpretation is exceptional by its tact and its distinction. I have the legendary Samson François / André Cluytens in mind i.e. the bar is set very high. There is perhaps a little lost in terms of intensity and passion (and, yet, this is Martha Argerich at the piano.................) but the refinement is extreme. The musicians exhibit a class that, to the best of my knowledge is second to none and perfectly aligned with Ravel's aesthetic vision. What a gem ! Thanks for posting.......
"What a gem!" is exactly what I mean... Mrs Argerich was (and fortunately still is) ex-cep-tio-nal...
8:52 The Adagio Assai: One of the most fantastic moments in the history of music.
divine and revelatory rendition of Ravel
この曲の最高レベルな仕上がりです！特に3楽章は、アルゲリッチの楽しげにリードする演奏にオケがピッタリとくらいついている、そんな構図が垣間見れて、ラヴェルの過不足ないオーケストレーションが室内楽的にまとまってる感覚すらなります。
I. Allegramente 0:41
II. Adagio assai 8:57
III. Presto 17:54
It's first time I just listen and tears our of my eyes with no reason. Music is the reason, sure. I am so happy I was born and got a chance to listen to Martha's art. I wish I have a chance to listen her piano live.
What a beautiful adagio
YESSSSSS
I listened to this piec a budded times and this one is the best
Vielen Dank fuer diese wunderbare Aufnahme!
Masterful composition
Masterfully conducted
Masterfully played
Masterfully photographed
And Martha Argerich - one of my most favorite pianists - powerful,
sensitive and pleasantly unpretentiously charming! ☆☆☆☆☆
I love how the first movement paints pictures of hidden canons in a field of daisies one bright spring morning. Ahhhhh.... it's too beautiful.
This is so... wonderful, splendid, magnificent! I love this piece!
If this is divine, listen to her play this concerto in 2021 on You Tube. Each note is like a newborn baby's breath. I didn't think such timbre was possible coming from a piano. Just otherworldly.
Quel plaisir de jouer avec cette immense artiste!!
Pascal Saumon, hautbois solo
I could listen to this forever. So abstract and beautiful!
i can feel the emotions in the way she plays, truly wonderful
Her face from 5.01 to 5.06 has the answer to why she rocks and rolls! wow
it cracks me up every time :)
She is simply the best! Bravo, Martha!!
Man, listening to this while reading Nodame Cantabile Chapter 122 is real fantastic!
Thanks for this great video. Now I've come to understand how beautiful chapter 122 is.
Martha is brilliant as always!
Awesome performance. Like the glissandos at the start, and the 3rd movement. Brilliant work of music!
Very good interpretation of this great pianist. Thanks Martha
I came here because of "Nodame Cantabile: Paris", I really love it all: the anime (its creativity, its musics, its unic theme, and for been unique in its kind) and all this world of the Classical Music, and its own beauty betwen the differents kinds.
Incredible, so moving.
J'ai des frissons!
Amazing. I just love Argerich!!!
Excellent piano concerto!
II. Adagio Assai one of the most sublime passages in all of the classical repertoire
The second movement... I discovered it on one of my father's records in 1983. I stayed with my parents the last few weeks before I was off on a major adventure to South Africa (with the intention to immigrate). I was on edge.
This movement put me at ease, and I played it virtually to death (listening to it on the headphones!)
So now I close my eyes and it still does exactly that.
Again: that smile at 17:32 saying "sorry, love, that darn thrill would not evaporate tonight as I normally do it!" What an artist, what a pride of a compatriot, a true Queen Midas!
I’d blame the instrument … seems a little too bright, glassy.
Wow
I just happened to open this video today, on its 30th anniversary... 😊
haha her face at 17:30 was like " Hey, Dutoit. I may be Martha Argerich but this passage was a bitch even for me".
Jose, let me tell you what I think: "Sorry man, I could not look at you for that final note, the music wouldn't let go...".. you have to be really big to do that. and she is!!
but u might be right, she might look like not happy of getting the sound she wanted for that long thrill...
Yes, JL, I can see some of that sentiment in her look. But I think the putting down of the head and the expression from about 17:24 to 17:32 also says to me, Damn, I nailed this; I got just what I wanted at least in this part. :-) A Titan of the century playing one of her signature pieces. Bloody terrific to witness.
+porcospino289 Could be too "gosh, I am so relieved that I did not butcher this exquisite part with my by fingers".... :o)
"Was that good for you tomorrow?"
Many years ago when I was on the verge of making an enormous 'jump' in my life, during the weeks that led up to it, the second movement always completely dissipated any peace-wrecking thoughts I might have about my near future.
As a result it has always remained very special, but I also quite like the entire concerto, even though it is a little neoclassical in places - not something I'd reach out for, but I dig Ravel. :)
That piece so good!
... that a great orchestra! -
Ravel ♥
What a gorgeous second movement!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!! Bravo!
The blues influence from George Gershwin is definitely present here. Gershwin had asked Ravel if he could study with him, and Gershwin said something about studying with Ravel would make Gershwin only a second-rate Ravel, and he was already a first-rate Gershwin. I think we should be grateful to Ravel for insisting that Gershwin follow his own path in music.
Awesome performance by Argerich! My favorite interpretation of this concerto is by the late and Legenday Madame Yvonne Lefebure who studied with the composer himself. She brings out some of the darker elements of the score. It's different from Martha's but they are both my favorite to listen to!
Impressionante! La parte finale del primo tempo è roba mai vista ne sentita!
❤
♡
I like how she smiles benignly when the trill does not work in the end of the 2nd movement.... :)
Gracias por compartirlo; se ha vuelto uno de mis favoritos de Ravel. Desde Puebla, México, un saludo enorme, esperando más aportaciones tuyas; haciendo que youtube valga la pena.
Great to see the orchestral musicians applauding the soloist, as well they might.
...Beautiful...
That third movement was mind-blowing tempo wise!
That first movement! From the cadenza to the end of mov1 is the most epic I’ve ever seen.
Magnifique !
I love how Dutoit and her had a relationship...and a daughter! Get it Martha ;)
gosh i love this piece
Por favor Martha quiero escucharte algún día tocar el segundo movimiento en vivo!! ese día puedo morir en paz
what a lovely piano concerto ! :' )
lol her expressions trying to hack out the endless trill are priceless
Una joven Martha Argerich en camino de convertirse en un mito. Brava !!!
Her performances are unexcelled.
i love this piece
Lovely!! thank you
L’an 1928 apporta plusieurs expériences musicales très enrichissantes à la vie de Gershwin : il eut premièrement la chance de rencontrerMaurice Ravel au mois de mars, compositeur qu’il admirait grandement ; lorsque George lui demanda s’il pourrait lui enseigner la composition, Ravel lui répondit : « Pourquoi seriez-vous un Ravel de seconde classe alors que vous pouvez devenir un Gershwin de première classe ? »14. Trois jours plus tard, Gershwin partait pour l’Europe avec sa sœur, Frankie, ainsi qu’Ira et sa femme. Il y fit la connaissance de Prokofiev, Kurt Weill, Lehár et Berg, parmi d’autres ; c’est également à Paris qu’il compléta la composition de An American in Paris, une musique à programme incluant dans la partition quatre klaxons de taxis français. La première de cette œuvre eut lieu au Carnegie Hall à New York, le 13 décembre de la même année.
The way it was played in Nodame was similar to a small river stream in the forest. Ravel has become my most favourite composer after that.
Gorgeous adagio!
This is how the piano should be played. Period
Come on! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Argerich=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Argerich=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Argerich=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Argerich's technique!!
@@RaineriHakkarainen With due respect, you understand little about music, my friend, regardless of how many years you've spent with it if you think that this is an olympic game. You mention all great players, why "better" and not just different? You compare them like this is a 100m race...
Einfach super! Bestimmt die beste Aufführung dieses anspruchsvollen Klavierkonzertes.
Absolut der beste Ravel Piano Concerto.
@@MM-111 Stimmt.
@@notaire2
Sie ist auch brillant.
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@@MM-111 Ja, brillant und intelligent zugleich.
esos trinos del primer mov me erizan la piel !!!! SUBLIME!!!
Third movement :
Martha : 🚀🚄🚅
Charles : 🙄🙄🙄
The Bassoonists : 😓😰😭
Beautiful...
I known this piece before that but when I heard this piano concerto in Nodame I go fastly in UA-cam for earing.
Regardez les mains de cette pianiste : C'est prodigieux ! Je ne trouve pas le terme approprié. pour exprimer mon admiration, Dutoit est parfait aussi.
thank you
My childhood memory destroyed by this type writer lady
Yes, I did after hearing Rui play it with Chiaki
17:29 she bows her head, 17:32 she smiles, "am I the greatest or what?"
Extraordinaire!!!
Oh man I will hear Lise de la Salle(who holds only 20 concertos per year) perform this with the Icelandic symphony next Thursday. Can't wait to hear this fantastic piece.
incomparable...ageless! Tx M
This concerto is great. I've always loved the grandioso return of the expressive theme in the first movement, where the strings and piano rise in register at 7:23 until they hit the climactic top of the melody, and then ravel takes it all away instantly.
super, danke
Hear a blues strain in this piece. Nice!
When I 1st see Ms Martha (not in this video) my feeling was really on her fingers, moving very gently yet the sound is mysteriously great and loud...some say her fin😅gers r moving like b😊u😅t😮terflies, oh myGod...
this woman is pretty amazing! wonderful!
personalmente preferisco ,del secondo movimento, la versione eseguita da Michelangeli con Celibidache , una cadenza molto precisa , gli altri due movimenti eseguiti magistralmente dalla Argerich ...10 alla grande personalità !!!! straordinaria esecuzione !!!!!BRAVO!!!
3rd movement just blew my mind.
É uma maravilhosa peça .... dá vontade de sorrir =D
Who else searched for this beautiful piece on UA-cam when they heard it playing in Nodame Cantabile?
Amazing french horn solo at 06:00!
Brilliant!
This movement reminds me of New Orleans Square in Disneyland haha, a bunch of jazzy tunes flying around with fireworks popping in the sky.
LOvely work !
SOMOS UNOS AFORTUNADOS AL COMPARTIR ESTAS MUSÏCAS ; vale
la pena la vida solo :por escuchar esta GENIALIDAD """
My latest piece 'Diegem' was influenced by Ravel and Messiean. Can be heard on my videos, though I think it is more contemporary sound. Diegem is a Belgian town.
I love glissando(s)! Goose bumps! >.
i love this piece it's so allegro