The melody is really beautiful, but what is even more fascinating for me is the rhythm: The piece is written in 3/4, but you hear in the first bar in the left hand 6/8. When the melody starts in 3/4, the ear can't tell what time signature we're in and that gives the whole piece its floating quality...
Absolutely brilliant video! Ravel is my favorite composer for sure, and you do his works a great justice! The Adagio Assai helps me to unwind after a stressful day, so it’s nice to see you analyzing it! ☺️
Thanks for analyzing the beginning of this masterpiece. That's a pity you haven't mentioned the magic moment when the orchestra starts after this long solo. The increasing tension during the solo makes one wonders how can Ravel manage to introduce his orchestra. And he does not disappoint us. His solution reminds me of the orchestra answer to the marvelous piano introduction in the Adagio of Mozart's famous A-major piano concerto.
Always nice to have the complete passage with notation played at the end so the viewer can review what he/she has just learnt. Enjoyable video all the same. Many thanks sir.
Thanks for this great video. Ravel is by far my favorite composer and his music is truly amazing. I enjoy watching your analysis videos, it helps me understand the music better !
Hallo Lim, your video is so great. It helps me a lot by playing Ravel. And this pattern of the second movement in the concerto reminds me the „Rigaudon“ in the „le Tombeau the Couperin“. And I am playing this piece now. It would makes me very happy, if I can find some video of analysis of „le Tombeau the Couperin“ in your channel 😊 Thank you so much!
Nice that he gives this melody to the cor anglais later on in this movement. I reckon Ridley Scott should've used this in 'Blade Runner' in the scene where Rachel is playing the piano.
In transcendent beauty it rivals' the Rachmaninoff Adagio from his second piano concerto. As slow as they are they signal a subtle desperation a tragic anguish of the soul.
Very interesting lecture. Thank you. To me, Mozart is still too much Baroque and so far from Ravel that I don't know how to compare these. This piano concerto is one of the most touching pieces of music there are. Mozart only does that to me in his requiem, but that, in its essence, is based on church tradition. As to Ravel, let's not forget he called his Bolero a piece for orchestra without music and a with a mechanical conductor. Yes, "melody" as in "music" (to our ears, brains, hearts) was important to him and that's why he answered a Gershwin to not want to teach him because he should stay Gershwin and not become a variant of Ravel.
it was more so the aesthetic and spirit of mozart that ravel admired so much - the simplicity and perhaps perfectionism; not saying more than what needs to be said
I don’t get why every time ravel or Debussy comes up SOMEONE has to choose and destroy a side. Debussy was a more different type of composer. Don’t compare the two. Their friendship ended because of people like you in their day
@@WhiteAssassion677 You guys are really something else, people will fight over stupid stuff like who the better composer out of two ones was or who the best ever was but only mentioning a limited amount of composers and you can't help but to bring Bach up, it's so utterly irrelevant lol and the debate was stale to begin with so really you're only making it worse 😐
@@WhiteAssassion677 Do you realize just how ridiculous you sound and yes I can argue with it, like many many people with musical minds much more acute than either of us possess have, the best musical minds seem to come to general consensus with some level of precision but certainly not enough to declare a particular composer better than all the others, and many very fine people have different opinions
This 2nd movement of the Piano Concert in G is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written!
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The melody is really beautiful, but what is even more fascinating for me is the rhythm: The piece is written in 3/4, but you hear in the first bar in the left hand 6/8. When the melody starts in 3/4, the ear can't tell what time signature we're in and that gives the whole piece its floating quality...
couldn't have put it better myself!
Maybe brahms’ 76 5
Absolutely brilliant video! Ravel is my favorite composer for sure, and you do his works a great justice! The Adagio Assai helps me to unwind after a stressful day, so it’s nice to see you analyzing it! ☺️
I recommend the Michelangeli recording - timeless.
Thanks for analyzing the beginning of this masterpiece. That's a pity you haven't mentioned the magic moment when the orchestra starts after this long solo. The increasing tension during the solo makes one wonders how can Ravel manage to introduce his orchestra. And he does not disappoint us. His solution reminds me of the orchestra answer to the marvelous piano introduction in the Adagio of Mozart's famous A-major piano concerto.
FRRRRR. I feel like I ascend every time the wind and strings come in. What a masterpiece
Nice, but VERY frustrating to not hear the whole melody played in its entirety even once.
Agreed
i'll keep that in mind thanks!
Yeah, like an itch you can’t scratch. Now I need to listen to the whole movement. I’ve always loved it so much!
Always nice to have the complete passage with notation played at the end so the viewer can review what he/she has just learnt.
Enjoyable video all the same.
Many thanks sir.
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Thanks for this great video. Ravel is by far my favorite composer and his music is truly amazing. I enjoy watching your analysis videos, it helps me understand the music better !
Give Francesca's theme from Tchaikovsky's Francesca di Rimini. Boy, it's long and utterly sublime.
Ravel’s genius.
It reminds me of the continuous long melody you can fin in Beethoven's Op.101 (1st mov.).
Hallo Lim, your video is so great. It helps me a lot by playing Ravel. And this pattern of the second movement in the concerto reminds me the „Rigaudon“ in the „le Tombeau the Couperin“. And I am playing this piece now. It would makes me very happy, if I can find some video of analysis of „le Tombeau the Couperin“ in your channel 😊 Thank you so much!
Very interesting ; it would be great to hear about the rhythmic ambiguity (6/8 3/4) too! (well I know it's all in 3/4 but you see what I mean)
Nice that he gives this melody to the cor anglais later on in this movement.
I reckon Ridley Scott should've used this in 'Blade Runner' in the scene where Rachel is playing the piano.
I never realized how this was in major (regardless of the name) with how sad it is, crazy
goated
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In transcendent beauty it rivals' the Rachmaninoff Adagio from his second piano concerto. As slow as they are they signal a subtle desperation a tragic anguish of the soul.
Skylar Lim dropping knowledge!
Please have your piano tuned.
Very interesting lecture. Thank you. To me, Mozart is still too much Baroque and so far from Ravel that I don't know how to compare these. This piano concerto is one of the most touching pieces of music there are. Mozart only does that to me in his requiem, but that, in its essence, is based on church tradition. As to Ravel, let's not forget he called his Bolero a piece for orchestra without music and a with a mechanical conductor. Yes, "melody" as in "music" (to our ears, brains, hearts) was important to him and that's why he answered a Gershwin to not want to teach him because he should stay Gershwin and not become a variant of Ravel.
it was more so the aesthetic and spirit of mozart that ravel admired so much - the simplicity and perhaps perfectionism; not saying more than what needs to be said
great content, thank you
Very nice, but could you have the piano tuned?
beautifully presented!
very kind of you! thank you
Brilliant
Nice!
foot off pedal in Chopin until otherwise written
A little obvious / basic but nice vid . Don’t stop the music every two bars it’s very frustrating people can’t appreciate the piece like that..
Debussy couldn't be any more wrong, Ravel is the greatest of them all; for with piano and orchestra and entire music, he discovered everything
I don’t get why every time ravel or Debussy comes up SOMEONE has to choose and destroy a side. Debussy was a more different type of composer. Don’t compare the two. Their friendship ended because of people like you in their day
not entire music, bach is strongest contender for best musician of all time
@@WhiteAssassion677
You guys are really something else, people will fight over stupid stuff like who the better composer out of two ones was or who the best ever was but only mentioning a limited amount of composers and you can't help but to bring Bach up, it's so utterly irrelevant lol and the debate was stale to begin with so really you're only making it worse 😐
@@_Athanos really, i just ended the debate by providing only accurate answer, can’t really argue with Bach as best.
@@WhiteAssassion677
Do you realize just how ridiculous you sound and yes I can argue with it, like many many people with musical minds much more acute than either of us possess have, the best musical minds seem to come to general consensus with some level of precision but certainly not enough to declare a particular composer better than all the others, and many very fine people have different opinions