Mompou is not an under-appreciated composer. All the pianists know his music and love it so much. If you don't know it and listen to it, you love it immediately and never forget it. The most beautiful music ever composed....
@@jfpary7336 He is definitely underappreciated. Comparing his popularity to other composers. To a name even that of Erik Satie, he is known exponentially less.
Beautiful landscapes and scenery transcribed into music. Never heard of this composer but now I fell in love with his music. It's like a blend of Ravel and Late music from Franz liszt. Just incredible.
I prefer this to all the works by the well known impressionists. Perhaps it's Volodos' playing that makes this so exquisite. The Mystery of Existence is plumbed.
I wasn't that much impressed with Mompou at first, but I gotta say, if you keep listening it slowly grows on you. Singable melodies, sparse notes, simple chords, and yet he managed to create magical atmospheres. I like the video description very much as well: "(..) A bell is not so much one metal dome, ringing with vibration, but rather every bell ever rung-wedding, funeral, sanctuary, or cow-with all their smiles and tears."... nice.
La realidad del paisaje radica en el sentimiento afectivo del espacio, estrecha comunión entre el ser y el lugar que nos embarga hasta volverse indisociable a lo que somos. La vega del Riaza marcó mi infancia. Lomas y parameras surcadas por una franja de verdor; aromas de trigales, viñedos, tomillo y ajedrea fecundados por manzanos, ciruelos, nogales e higueras; sonidos de alondras, palomas, tordos, gorriones y jilgueros punteados por pregoneras, gañanes y campanas sellarán para siempre las lindes de mis sueños. C’est au cœur des sons qui font jour ces paysages, au cœur des songes, au cœur tout court où les sentiments émergent .
El Lago is descriptive. At 4:28 does a kingfisher dive into the water? Something is thrashing. The poor fish? Battle of dragonflies? Placidity does return, momentarily causing one to forget "Nature is Raw in Tooth and Claw." Under the surface is quite different from above the surface. Humans are 75% water, as this piece demonstrates, and it is still a significant mystery how we ever were able to exile ourselves onto the Land. We DO still have inklings of our ancestry! Can you remember being a swimmer of seas? Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny, as this piece makes clear. (Incredible performance by Volodos!)
I love this music, and I play it too (amateur pianist here). In the middle of "El Lago" there is this accelerating section that I interpret very differently. There is this pattern of six notes that gets transposed around, and I play them rather slowly initially and accelerating very progressively. The pianist in this video gets fast really quickly and slows down towards the end, and I don't think that's the author's intention, even though it leads to a "Lento" section. The six notes should get faster and faster until they can be thought of as an arpeggiated chord, which is what they become in the "Lento" section. I find the resulting effect much more clever and interesting. I would love to hear how others play that part.
All three pieces seem to be about water, a strange substance! Unlike everything else, water EXPANDS upon turning hard. Most substances shrink under pressure and cooling. Thanks to this oddity oceans do not FREEZE from the bottom up, because the extreme heavy weight of water above causes H2O to remain liquid. Without this oddity, there would probably be no LIFE ON EARTH. This Music is as deep as the Marianas Trench!
Federico Mompou:Tájképek 1. La fuente y la campana (A szökőkút és a harang): Lento 00:05 2. El lago (A tó): Larghetto Placido 03:19 3. Carros de Galicia (Galicia kocsik): Lento - Poco piú mosso 07:28 Arcadi Volodos-zongora
A total SPELL is cast for 11:45 minutes. Extremely captivating, haunting, like Bill Evans. Rubato is very pronounced! Long quiet spells. Mompou outlived Evans, who died in 1980, even though Evans was 38 years younger.
@@charlesdavis7087 The French (and Catalonian) Impressionists knew about "mindfulness" before it became a hot topic. Let yourself be subsumed into your surroundings! Let go of Ego, Striving, Nationalism. Drift off into pure perception (As Aldous Huxley recommended.)
Fantastic. Played so very colourful! Although i do not so much like dramatic frasing.. in my ears it doesnt amplify the scriabin like mysticism but 'flattens' it. The frasing could be played more modest.
I think there must be something in the French language (the idiom) that enchants the piano into speaking French. Satie seems to have captured this first but a number of other contemporary French composers also have had this ability. I seem to hear people speaking French in the back ground slightly under the music. I first noticed this in Satie's Gnossiennes. Am I nuts or what? Thank you for sharing.
Gosh he's a proper Scriabin with that lack of key signature (bc its all so chromatic and dissonant and changing key that having a key signature will probably result in even more accidentals)
If you want drama, Mompou's not your kinda guy. His music is usually very still and placid, and this appeals to some people while it may not for others. Romantic composers pack way more drama into their music
Mompou is such an under-appreciated composer! His music is so seems simple, but it has so much color and depth.
Mompou is not an under-appreciated composer. All the pianists know his music and love it so much. If you don't know it and listen to it, you love it immediately and never forget it.
The most beautiful music ever composed....
@@jfpary7336 He is definitely underappreciated. Comparing his popularity to other composers. To a name even that of Erik Satie, he is known exponentially less.
@@mariki06 absolutely
Beautiful landscapes and scenery transcribed into music. Never heard of this composer but now I fell in love with his music. It's like a blend of Ravel and Late music from Franz liszt. Just incredible.
I'm filled with admiration for Frederic Mompou! Wonderful work!!
I prefer this to all the works by the well known impressionists. Perhaps it's Volodos' playing that makes this so exquisite. The Mystery of Existence is plumbed.
I always come back here to feel something I cant quite describe
First time hearing of this composer. A really simply but lovely piece!
I also love that we follow the score. More motivated to play it myself.
this music is wonderful...love that we can follow the score...Thanks for sharing
¡¡ Que maravilla de música !! Tuve el placer de tocar varias de sus obras !!
I wasn't that much impressed with Mompou at first, but I gotta say, if you keep listening it slowly grows on you. Singable melodies, sparse notes, simple chords, and yet he managed to create magical atmospheres. I like the video description very much as well: "(..) A bell is not so much one metal dome, ringing with vibration, but rather every bell ever rung-wedding, funeral, sanctuary, or cow-with all their smiles and tears."... nice.
The themes imagined here are nurtured very carefully and gently to a rich conclusion each movement, salt and peppered with comic diversion.
Such a beautiful and poetic piece, thanks for sharing!!
Una profunda y sensitiva ensoñación
Interesting and poetic. Bravo!!!
La realidad del paisaje radica en el sentimiento afectivo del espacio, estrecha comunión entre el ser y el lugar que nos embarga hasta volverse indisociable a lo que somos. La vega del Riaza marcó mi infancia. Lomas y parameras surcadas por una franja de verdor; aromas de trigales, viñedos, tomillo y ajedrea fecundados por manzanos, ciruelos, nogales e higueras; sonidos de alondras, palomas, tordos, gorriones y jilgueros punteados por pregoneras, gañanes y campanas sellarán para siempre las lindes de mis sueños. C’est au cœur des sons qui font jour ces paysages, au cœur des songes, au cœur tout court où les sentiments émergent .
Excellent performance (including the pedaling)! I'm just now discovering Mompou. Thanks for posting.
I once played this in a used car dealership as the customer signed the loan papers.
Which one in specific?
@@fryderyckchopin484 Honda Civic 2018
That's a beautiful story.
El Lago is descriptive. At 4:28 does a kingfisher dive into the water? Something is thrashing. The poor fish? Battle of dragonflies? Placidity does return, momentarily causing one to forget "Nature is Raw in Tooth and Claw." Under the surface is quite different from above the surface. Humans are 75% water, as this piece demonstrates, and it is still a significant mystery how we ever were able to exile ourselves onto the Land. We DO still have inklings of our ancestry! Can you remember being a swimmer of seas? Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny, as this piece makes clear. (Incredible performance by Volodos!)
wow i love this piece thanks for posting
I love this music, and I play it too (amateur pianist here). In the middle of "El Lago" there is this accelerating section that I interpret very differently. There is this pattern of six notes that gets transposed around, and I play them rather slowly initially and accelerating very progressively. The pianist in this video gets fast really quickly and slows down towards the end, and I don't think that's the author's intention, even though it leads to a "Lento" section. The six notes should get faster and faster until they can be thought of as an arpeggiated chord, which is what they become in the "Lento" section. I find the resulting effect much more clever and interesting.
I would love to hear how others play that part.
Wow! What a lovely discovery! ♥️
By now you have probably heard his Variations on a Theme of Chopin. Another wonder.
Really nice. Never heard of this Spanish composer before but glad I have now.
Catalan sadness feeling
@@caphaddock1126 lol
All three pieces seem to be about water, a strange substance! Unlike everything else, water EXPANDS upon turning hard. Most substances shrink under pressure and cooling. Thanks to this oddity oceans do not FREEZE from the bottom up, because the extreme heavy weight of water above causes H2O to remain liquid. Without this oddity, there would probably be no LIFE ON EARTH. This Music is as deep as the Marianas Trench!
Thank you for the video!! Beautiful
+Francisco Morello You're welcome!
Misteriosa,cautivante y bella como una exquisita mujer, es esta música.Tiene que ser revalorizado su autor como se merece.
+Julio Perez Leiva Yes, but luckily Mompou is more and more played in recitals these days, and deservedly so!
True, indeed. Still I'm amazed that a pianist like Volodos would find his way to FM, and deliver such an idiomatic performance.
@@olla-vogala4090 Glad to hear this!
no.1, sounds like Ravel's quartet
Magnifique...
Bravo !
Federico Mompou:Tájképek
1. La fuente y la campana (A szökőkút és a harang): Lento 00:05
2. El lago (A tó): Larghetto Placido 03:19
3. Carros de Galicia (Galicia kocsik): Lento - Poco piú mosso 07:28
Arcadi Volodos-zongora
The beginning of first piece here is a variation of the first piece in Musica Callada.
Terrific.
Mysterious...🌌
This is wonderful! I'm wondering where I can get the music.
IMSLP
A total SPELL is cast for 11:45 minutes. Extremely captivating, haunting, like Bill Evans. Rubato is very pronounced! Long quiet spells. Mompou outlived Evans, who died in 1980, even though Evans was 38 years younger.
No surprise there, Volodos loves Evans.
Yes, it does cast a "spell." I hear people speaking French... as if... off in the distance when I hear Mompou's music. Satie, too. Why, I wonder?
@@charlesdavis7087 The French (and Catalonian) Impressionists knew about "mindfulness" before it became a hot topic. Let yourself be subsumed into your surroundings! Let go of Ego, Striving, Nationalism. Drift off into pure perception (As Aldous Huxley recommended.)
Mompou is the latin Debussy, marvelous piece!
Debussy was french...
That's true that some Mompou's works make me think to Debussy's music. I can't pay a better compliment to Frederic Mompou..
He's saying Mompou is the latin version of Debussy
French being a romance language already makes Debussy a latino, Noah-kun.
Milton So, *unknown username*? I was just interpreting what the original comment said.
Tanks ola.
Volodos is my favorite Mompou interpret. Where can I find the score ??
Have your heard Mompou own recordings? He recorded nearly everything he wrote.
major chord first inv(3rd+root + b9) + same chord second inversion in the upper register, moving in m3(diminished chord tones)
😍😍👌
Fantastic. Played so very colourful! Although i do not so much like dramatic frasing.. in my ears it doesnt amplify the scriabin like mysticism but 'flattens' it. The frasing could be played more modest.
The first piece definetly got some ravel string quartet.
One needs some big hands to play this. Not that I can play it anyway but nice music
Volodos master race
based Mompou
Where on earth did you find the sheet music?!
rein.ddns.net/scores/index.php?path=M%2FMompou%2C+Federico/
olla-vogala Thanks!
Thanks for the link!
Wait... he died less than 90 years ago so it's probably illegal. I just got a book instead now I feel better.
olla-vogala pity, the link stopped working.
PAISATGES
I think there must be something in the French language (the idiom) that enchants the piano into speaking French. Satie seems to have captured this first but a number of other contemporary French composers also have had this ability. I seem to hear people speaking French in the back ground slightly under the music. I first noticed this in Satie's Gnossiennes. Am I nuts or what? Thank you for sharing.
well mompou was catalan so yeah
Something like the sensitivity of a primitive Chopin .... very appealing
Gérard Begni he is impresionist men and chopin isnt they differ very much
I do not find that his writing is so imprsssionist.
Gérard Begni yeah but check who was the composer of it on wiki or sth
Gosh he's a proper Scriabin with that lack of key signature (bc its all so chromatic and dissonant and changing key that having a key signature will probably result in even more accidentals)
mom pou
5:28 printing error?
What would the printing error be?
olla-vogala Only 3 and a half beats in that measure
Ah yes, good catch.
cineseria postoccidentale
Hay que reconocer que la música de Mompou suele ser bastante aburrida, por eso "no pica"...
he supported Franco lmaooooo bye 😒
This is really boring. Did he ever compose any dramatic stuff?(other than at 9:20)
Do you need drama?
@@albertomartin4812 he is a drama queen, maybe
If you want drama, Mompou's not your kinda guy. His music is usually very still and placid, and this appeals to some people while it may not for others. Romantic composers pack way more drama into their music
lol
Experimental bad, rly bad...sorry Mr Mompou
You mean you don't like the music?
This is not experimental.
oh boy. wait till you hear some Messiaen