1:35-1:51 is just pure genius. What really gets me about this phrase is how at 1:35 he has the bass going down a fifth (A to D) and then has this really cool little rhythmic idea leading to a rising fifth (D# to A#) at 1:40. Everything about this is just pure genius. The crazy thing is Ades probably doesn't even see this as one of his "serious" pieces, since he basically took the Chopin mazurkas and turned them upside down and inside out. I'm losing my mind over this.
I know this is question of likings but, mazurka is a dance style of Poland characterized for having accentuation on the second beat of the bar, and thomas ades wipes out any sensation of it in one of the pieces, the issue is to create something innovative based on a prestablished form, because style is restriction. So i don't see any mazurka here.
@@raymundovergararoman2473 -- Oh, don't be so pedantic and picky. Adès brilliantly conjures the Notion, the Concept and Frissón of la Mazurka....and all this Spontaneously.....BRAVO from Mexico City!
@@steveegallo3384 see i am not pedant but my music composition professors were very strict with me and i say it because i would never write mazurkas, mazurka are a rythm from Poland, it's European better to write a rythm from Latin America like the danzón or the huapango for a solo instrument but that's the question, if i write a danzon and of this one is not identifiable like a danzon, then it's not a danzón, then what were are talking about?. If he writes a mazurka them he must fulfill with it that's all
@@raymundovergararoman2473 -- Stop blaming your professors: You're not a sophomore anymore. Sure, you "may never write mazurkas in the classic Polish style" but I suspect that you write NO mazurkas at all...or create anything ELSE of merit, for that matter. If you'll just put down your Hendrick's Martini or crack-pipe, get off the day-couch...yes....ROUSE YOURSELF!....and actually Compose CREATE one single Cumbia, Milonga or Vallenato of your own....then you'd have become an Artist...a Man....and no longer an object of ridicule and opprobrium. Listen to this...and LEARN: th-cam.com/video/qYTinlS1hjk/w-d-xo.html......overcome Hubris....and LEARN! Best regards from Mexico City!
@@raymundovergararoman2473I assume you're talking about the 2nd piece, because I agree the 2nd beat isn't very emphasized, that I can tell. Would it be at all accurate to call that one a Fantasia?
I always saw Chopins Mazurkas had extraordinarily bizarre moments in them on many levels - this is like an accelerated version of where Chopin was heading brilliant !
Exquisite stuff! Ades is always startlingly original yet decorously eclectic.
isn't it just exquisite!
gorgeous work. thank you for uploading!
1:35-1:51 is just pure genius. What really gets me about this phrase is how at 1:35 he has the bass going down a fifth (A to D) and then has this really cool little rhythmic idea leading to a rising fifth (D# to A#) at 1:40. Everything about this is just pure genius. The crazy thing is Ades probably doesn't even see this as one of his "serious" pieces, since he basically took the Chopin mazurkas and turned them upside down and inside out. I'm losing my mind over this.
2:24 tasty 😋
Brilliant work. I wonder if he was familiar with Szymanowski's Mazurkas.
I mean, Thomas Adès isn't a caveman, how would he not be familiar with Szymanowski's mazurkas...
@@arielorthmann4061 Oh yeah totally like Szymanowski's mazurkas who doesn't know Szymanowski's mazurkas pfff
Dat vibe tho
These pieces are so beautiful.
I know this is question of likings but, mazurka is a dance style of Poland characterized for having accentuation on the second beat of the bar, and thomas ades wipes out any sensation of it in one of the pieces, the issue is to create something innovative based on a prestablished form, because style is restriction. So i don't see any mazurka here.
@@raymundovergararoman2473 -- Oh, don't be so pedantic and picky. Adès brilliantly conjures the Notion, the Concept and Frissón of la Mazurka....and all this Spontaneously.....BRAVO from Mexico City!
@@steveegallo3384 see i am not pedant but my music composition professors were very strict with me and i say it because i would never write mazurkas, mazurka are a rythm from Poland, it's European better to write a rythm from Latin America like the danzón or the huapango for a solo instrument but that's the question, if i write a danzon and of this one is not identifiable like a danzon, then it's not a danzón, then what were are talking about?. If he writes a mazurka them he must fulfill with it that's all
@@raymundovergararoman2473 -- Stop blaming your professors: You're not a sophomore anymore. Sure, you "may never write mazurkas in the classic Polish style" but I suspect that you write NO mazurkas at all...or create anything ELSE of merit, for that matter. If you'll just put down your Hendrick's Martini or crack-pipe, get off the day-couch...yes....ROUSE YOURSELF!....and actually Compose CREATE one single Cumbia, Milonga or Vallenato of your own....then you'd have become an Artist...a Man....and no longer an object of ridicule and opprobrium. Listen to this...and LEARN: th-cam.com/video/qYTinlS1hjk/w-d-xo.html......overcome Hubris....and LEARN! Best regards from Mexico City!
@@raymundovergararoman2473I assume you're talking about the 2nd piece, because I agree the 2nd beat isn't very emphasized, that I can tell. Would it be at all accurate to call that one a Fantasia?
Oddly terrifying... The mazurka as seen in a cracked funhouse mirror
I always saw Chopins Mazurkas had extraordinarily bizarre moments in them on many levels - this is like an accelerated version of where Chopin was heading
brilliant !
sodelicious.............................
the second one has fragments of chopin mazurka op 24 no 2
David Bruce has a good video about the sources of inspiration for these mazurkas
worse than AC/DC.