I've heard this piece I don't know how many times. And every time tears come to my eyes. The first 5 minutes of this piece is probably the most beautiful music of all times. Remembering my childhood, actually my entire life, my late parents, my late wife. All those beautiful moments of the past that will never ever happen again. At least nobody can take my memories. Still, it hurts so much.
I'm so sorry about your grief. So many things, especially certain pieces of music can trigger the deep emotions. I understand; I too, have lost my parents and husband. Some pieces help, some trigger deep weeping. Stay well. All the best for 2024.
@@musicalme27 Thank you so much for your words! They do help indeed. Yes, some pieces do trigger very deep emotions. It's good to know that some people out there share the same emotions. I also wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024!
My granddaughter played this with a symphony in Vancouver, BC. Was the first time I heard this and became an instant Ravel fanatic. However, this arrangement with full chorus ....well.......it's exquisite. Simply divine. BTW....my granddaughter plays the viola. She also is divine and quite exquisite.
Finn: Daphnis et Chloe has become a passion for me that is completely out of bounds. Your comment is right on! This piece is as sacred as any work of art created by man. Beauty, your name is Daphnis et Chloe.
Stravinsky would've said that this music came out of the mind of God. Because Stravinsky believed that all music was created by God, and "discovered" by humans; similar to mathematics.
Then it slowly falls down like a leaf, and that deep, introspective melody follows to knot the heart with melancholy... This is as vibrant and subtle as the kind of natural scene I chose to put with the music here, overwhelming.
Wow Mark. First time I heard this piece, it was the background to a David Attenborough docu', " Kingdom of the Ice Bear. I was so enchanted by it. I searched and searched, it took me a few years to find it. Such rapture!! I particularly like that crescendo, with the ascending vocal accompaniment. It is reminiscent of a scene in Black Narcissus, and I completely agree with your summation, of how i makes you tear up, a very emotive piece🤔😂😊💜💖
I have recently developed a great appreciation for the orchestral works of Ravel and have now fallen in love with the beautiful masterpiece that is Daphnis et Chloé. Here is the second suite conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
It is the sound of the endless sea.....and there is little in this world more beautiful than this music...it speaks to the soul, as anything of value does, dear ones......
For all the imperfections among humans, chief of which is the incredible cruelty we install on one anther and animals, we can produce such uplifting beauty.
Я чувствую себя в раю, когда слушаю эту музыку. Она божественна! Как жаль, что сейчас такую музыку мало кто слушает. Надеюсь, что такая ситуация все же не навсегда.
I just heard the Cleveland Orchestra play this at Severance Hall. I think the huge pinnacle of the opening "Daybreak" part (around 4:30) may have been the most simply and stunningly beautiful thing I have yet heard. It made me shiver and cry..
The liquidity, flow, and exquisite sound of this magnificent piece still and evermore will transport me. Thank you for posting this inspired piece and done with such grace and detail by Ozawa and those he leads
There are many recordings, both before and after Ozawa's, that feature the wordless chorus. It's part of the original score (though Ravel *may* have declared it "optional").
@@brownie3454I think it's compulsory on the complete Daphnis & Chloe but optional on this, ie. Orchestral Suite no. 2, which is to all intents and purposes part 3 of the complete Daphnis & Chloe. There's footage on TH-cam of Simon Rattle conducting the suite without the wordless chorus parts, for example.
It's not a shame at all. I personally agree that DeC is a much superior and more epic piece, but Boléro is great as well and I can see why it would be more popuar among the general public.
@@Methylglyoxal Bolero was indeed popular at the time. It just goes to show how versatile Revel was, all that pounding passion, then something like this, that touches you deeply, and profoundly. Truly haunting. It took me some years to find this piece of music, having only heard it as a background to a documentary before then.😊😂💖🌄
The bolero was written by Ravel for his students, it was just supposed to be an orchestral excercice, nothing more than an excercise for his students....that's why all the instruments are coming one by one in the song. it was just a pedagogic piece. but it was such an extraordinay song that it became a real classical...classic. that''s the story of Ravel's Bolero.
The opening Lever du jour is so breathtaking it moves me to tears. I can't understand why some are so deaf to Classical music they don't understand the incredible power it has on human emotion.
It’s not that difficult to understand. People have different sensitivity. Some will be stirred by the sound of singing birds, others will feel strongly at seeing a sunset, a painting or a photograph. The sense of smell can bring back memories and emotions from childhood. Touching a sculpture or a tree is the height of emotion for others. We are all different and enjoy different things. This is what *should* make us richer as a civilisation. People who are not touched by the same things as you are not deaf or in some way inferior. They are different and could maybe teach you about something you “don’t understand”.
@@fyvewytches Actually, I believe it's because many people are not even aware of what's happening in classical music, so they're not being sensitive to it; which is why it has little or no effect on them.
I sang this recently with the RPO, and I must say as challenging as it was to learn, it was of the most rewarding experiences I've had musically. It was definitely the most difficult piece of music I've sung, but the grandeur of the sound that we produced made all of my troubles melt away, and it was too beautiful to ignore. I'm just so glad it came out the way it did, and how positively our rendition was received.
Just sang this piece with an orchestra. The chorus section at the end is hilariously difficult...6-8 parts chromatic harmonies in a super-fast 5/4, not to mention needing to be heard alongside an orchestra going full blast.
Im not really a diehard classical music checker, but this shit comes till the bottom of my heart! Never heard a beatiful sensitive piece of music like this before.... seriously amazing!
This is only a suite of a marvellous ballet which lasts more than one hour. The most beautiful sections are included in this suite. The version by Ozawa is gorgeous.
The Daphnis et Chloe is the absolute apotheosis of orchestral music: when God visited Maurice Ravel one day and allowed him to capture the glories of heaven itself in music. I get the feeling that instruments of the orchestra were never better featured and for the instrumentalists to play it under a great conductor must be a heavenly experience.
As a clarinettist and flautist (principally clarinet), Daphnis sounds like absolute hell to play; Incredible piece but the tempos mixed with the chromatics which aren't quite chromatic make for one hell of a challenge both musically and technically.
You can wedge the left hand Db/F# lever with folded paper/rubber to help with the 12th notes at 155 if you are preparing that bit - all of the clarinet parts are nasty, the Eb solos especially. Best of luck for your audition.
This music mines the depths of emotions within while staggering the mind in wondering how one person could imagine a composition like this and create it it , like an aural painting which while invisible, stimulates each listener to create their own vision from it's fluidity and swirling currents of notes, delving deeper into the psyche - can hear the strains of 40's film noir soundtracks being born...
Art Pepper - Straight life brought me here. This is Art Pepper (very famous jazz saxophonist of the 50's-70's) favorite piece of "classical" music, he describes it as one of the greatest piece ever written. I do recommend his book to everyone, it gives a great insight into the crazy life that many jazz musicians lived during the 60's in the west coast (drugs, jail....) and is extremely powerful and touching.
+Mats Lindborg I'm amazed by that, too. The voices make the music more evocative. The best version I've found for Danse Generale is by the Seattle Symphony Chorale; a touch more rhythmic (which I prefer) than other readings, and with an enthusiastic and very powerful chorus that can induce goosebumps.
homeystary1 Beware the singularization of epic moments in musical history! Invariably such moments gain significance in direct proportion to their precursors and denouements. The way this music breathes requires inhalations and exhalations. Both are in abundance, breathing life into this piece. Planned, gradual crescendos are living things, and they usually require more time than you'd think to fulfill their promise.
Actually, I think that this music (and all music) existed for thousands, even millions of years before Ravel existed. It existed in "the universal mind"; and Ravel was the one to discover it. Stravinsky (who said that all music was created by God, and was only "discovered" by humans) would call it "the mind of God".
My M gave me some of this music when I was in high school, because the high school orchestra teacher had more conventional tastes. Nothing as beautiful as this. But I'm glad you like the show!
The contrast between the crescendo of Spring against the somewhat dark and sinister aspects of this song is what brings me back time and time again, Im not even a big classical fan.Yet I find There is a truth to life woven in this song, the dance between life and death and their relationship to one another. Life's Ups and downs, Tragically beautiful, yet joyfully unexpected!
Me too, Cooper!@. When Ravel uses the full-orchestra, it is the voice of God speaking. I have the Daphnis et Chloe disease and I will never be cured of it. It is crazy that the older I get, the more Daphnis et Chloe gets inside of me and rattles my soul!
Best interpretation of this. The opening was repurposed as "Night Song" for the musical GOLDEN BOY. & if you listen heard enough you can hear "On A Clear Day."
Correct. It takes time to used to it. It's form is entirely different from other classical music. It's called a Tone Poem. This is a poem in three parts that are played without interruption, and I'm certain that if you experienced this live, you'd love it. This music has also been turned into a ballet. The story: Two young lovers are separated when Pirates come and take them and sell them into slavery. Part two includes that sequence. In part three, they are freed, but it's many years later and they don't recognize each other until a good witch informs them that they have reunited. The third movement is lovely and glorious. You see? The more you know, the better you appreciate it. But if people want to remain ignorant, they miss out.
...Or from the sort of classical music snob who has taken a particular performance of the work as a Platonic ideal, and considers all other interpretations to be inferior _dreck._
I thumbed it down because I didn't like the performance of Ravel's masterpiece. At the opening of the piece I find the melodies of the woodwinds to be excessively convoluted instead of each having a properly prounounced melody. For example Paavo Jarvi's interpretation of the piece with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is in my opinion far better executed and well-sounding.
After this piece of magic I'm sure even the greatest composers assiduously avoided even having to contemplate trying to evoke a sunrise, cos they knew they'd really struggle to come off anything other than second best compared to this, Ravel conceived and realised *the* definitive musical sunrise. Perhaps the closest is Schoenberg with his glorious 'Seht die Sonne' (Hymn to the Sun) that closes the enormous Gurrelieder (a work that has nearly as much magic in it as Daphnis, it opens with a sunset and closes with a sunrise, a beautiful reminder to the listener that despite all the twists and turns of it's central tragic love story, all pales into insignificance in the face of time and nature).
@@gamer46653 He was certainly very lacking as a human being, albeit talented. I remember once when he was performing in Australia. He said to the press that Australian women were all "2 Bit Whores". When he was in his private jet getting ready to depart, word came that the ground crew would not fuel his jet until he publicly apologized. Good on them! LOL He did and they did.
listening to this makes me think 2 things: 1) oh my _god_ impressionist music is beautiful 2) if one more person listens to mozart and calls classical music boring _oh my godddd_
Try to listen to some other works of Mozart.For me it is a treasure of unspeakable beauty. Maybe you like the pianoconcertos. Obviously music is a matter of taste, but often it is also a matter of experience. Maybe you have not heard much music of him and it might be that you change your opinion. Well, greetings :) ps: We all like this beatiful ravel suite, and thats a good thing :D
Sorry, I've been a little stingy with information this time. ^^
It's the Boston Symphony Orchestra. :)
When was this performed and recorded?
Absolutely the best performance. I heard an intv with Ozawa on MPR. He said it was recorded in compatible Quad.
Isnt a bis orchestra
Could you tell me on what yesr this was performed?
20 points off
I've heard this piece I don't know how many times. And every time tears come to my eyes. The first 5 minutes of this piece is probably the most beautiful music of all times. Remembering my childhood, actually my entire life, my late parents, my late wife. All those beautiful moments of the past that will never ever happen again. At least nobody can take my memories. Still, it hurts so much.
I'm so sorry about your grief. So many things, especially certain pieces of music can trigger the deep emotions. I understand; I too, have lost my parents and husband. Some pieces help, some trigger deep weeping. Stay well. All the best for 2024.
@@musicalme27 Thank you so much for your words! They do help indeed. Yes, some pieces do trigger very deep emotions. It's good to know that some people out there share the same emotions.
I also wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024!
@@v10cylinder Thank you so much
My granddaughter played this with a symphony in Vancouver, BC. Was the first time I heard this and became an instant Ravel fanatic. However, this arrangement with full chorus ....well.......it's exquisite. Simply divine. BTW....my granddaughter plays the viola. She also is divine and quite exquisite.
To think this came out of a human's mind.
Finn: Daphnis et Chloe has become a passion for me that is completely out of bounds.
Your comment is right on! This piece is as sacred as any work of art created by man.
Beauty, your name is Daphnis et Chloe.
Stravinsky would've said that this music came out of the mind of God. Because Stravinsky believed that all music was created by God, and "discovered" by humans; similar to mathematics.
@@jamesherried9269 Daphnis and Chloe and the Firebird are the pinnacle of composition and orchestration
It didnt :D Obvious alien 😄
Wow, this is an old comment. Thank you for your wonderful replies.
I’ve been listening to classical music my entire life! This ranks in the top five of my all time favorites. Close your eyes and fly away!
Please list your other favorites.
Please! :)
Marriage de amour by Paul de Senneville. Often attributed to Chopin but it is not. It is in fact here on TH-cam as spring waltz by Chopin.
Every time it reaches that high point, tears are forced out of me.
Then it slowly falls down like a leaf, and that deep, introspective melody follows to knot the heart with melancholy...
This is as vibrant and subtle as the kind of natural scene I chose to put with the music here, overwhelming.
that swiftly floating chromaticism in the base at the beginning is what does it for me
Wow Mark. First time I heard this piece, it was the background to a David Attenborough docu', " Kingdom of the Ice Bear. I was so enchanted by it. I searched and searched, it took me a few years to find it. Such rapture!! I particularly like that crescendo, with the ascending vocal accompaniment. It is reminiscent of a scene in Black Narcissus, and I completely agree with your summation, of how i makes you tear up, a very emotive piece🤔😂😊💜💖
@@Wyndorel
Nicely expressed.😊💖
I soooo love this piece
And get to see it June 2
Honolulu symphony Orchestra...
Thrilled
Breathtaking! My very favourite Ravel piece, it still gives me goosebumps a decade later!
I have recently developed a great appreciation for the orchestral works of Ravel and have now fallen in love with the beautiful masterpiece that is Daphnis et Chloé. Here is the second suite conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Oh, but his stuff is SO HARD TO PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The crescendo starting at 4:03 is one of the best things to ever be written in music.
Totally agree!!!!
It's chilling
Not gonna argue!
That crescendo.Isn't it wonderful and heavenly, sublime??!!
Omg yes
It is the sound of the endless sea.....and there is little in this world more beautiful than this music...it speaks to the soul, as anything of value does, dear ones......
This calms my soul and reminds me of what humankind, at its finest, can produce.
For all the imperfections among humans, chief of which is the incredible cruelty we install on one anther and animals, we can produce such uplifting beauty.
You can say "mankind". I don't mind :)
So does Satie.
Я чувствую себя в раю, когда слушаю эту музыку. Она божественна! Как жаль, что сейчас такую музыку мало кто слушает. Надеюсь, что такая ситуация все же не навсегда.
It is incredible how Ravel and Debussy could make a very real and evident change in music along their lifetimes and in what original manner.
And you have probably not listened the four symphonies of Albéric MAGNARD, and particularly the third movement from his third symphonie "bucolique"...
@@MrVonLeipzig Who???
this piece is one of many that proves the absolute genius of Ravel
beautiful and great music
Bravo , Seiji Ozawa
I just heard the Cleveland Orchestra play this at Severance Hall. I think the huge pinnacle of the opening "Daybreak" part (around 4:30) may have been the most simply and stunningly beautiful thing I have yet heard. It made me shiver and cry..
This is why I love music. Very emotional rendition. Love it so much.
Learning that clarinet part was the bane of my existence. It also brought the level of my playing up about 1,000,000%.
My professor had all of us students learn it in one week. Not up to speed, of course, but all of it nonetheless.
Perhaps.
The liquidity, flow, and exquisite sound of this magnificent piece still and evermore will transport me.
Thank you for posting this inspired piece and done with such grace and detail by Ozawa and those he leads
I love the way you described it
Well put. Thanks.
Literally brings tears to my eyes, this is in my mind the idea of love and beauty. Someone who I’m in love with makes me feel the way this song is
But only for a more or less short while. Time not only heals most wounds but also flattens all emotions... ;)
it is played beautifully, the sound is gorgeous like it never touches the ground. i love it.
I love how Ozawa added the wordless chorus to this performance. Normally this Suite is performed with orchestra alone.
There are many recordings, both before and after Ozawa's, that feature the wordless chorus. It's part of the original score (though Ravel *may* have declared it "optional").
@@peterfitton4529 Based on this recording, it is *not* optional anymore
@@brownie3454I think it's compulsory on the complete Daphnis & Chloe but optional on this, ie. Orchestral Suite no. 2, which is to all intents and purposes part 3 of the complete Daphnis & Chloe.
There's footage on TH-cam of Simon Rattle conducting the suite without the wordless chorus parts, for example.
Glorious! It's almost a shame that he's most famous for "Bolero."
yeah, I don't like Bolero. Sounds boring, same thing all over again.
It's not a shame at all. I personally agree that DeC is a much superior and more epic piece, but Boléro is great as well and I can see why it would be more popuar among the general public.
@@Methylglyoxal
Bolero was indeed popular at the time. It just goes to show how versatile Revel was, all that pounding passion, then something like this, that touches you deeply, and profoundly. Truly haunting. It took me some years to find this piece of music, having only heard it as a background to a documentary before then.😊😂💖🌄
Just heard this yesterday as
Hawaii symphony orchestra season finale
So blessed
The bolero was written by Ravel for his students, it was just supposed to be an orchestral excercice, nothing more than an excercise for his students....that's why all the instruments are coming one by one in the song. it was just a pedagogic piece.
but it was such an extraordinay song that it became a real classical...classic. that''s the story of Ravel's Bolero.
Really great recording. Can hear instruments quite clearly. "On a clear day you can see forever" was the re-purposed song for a musical.
Sublime orchestra and terrific chorus!
The opening Lever du jour is so breathtaking it moves me to tears. I can't understand why some are so deaf to Classical music they don't understand the incredible power it has on human emotion.
Completely agree, it conveys such beauty and intimacy.
It’s not that difficult to understand. People have different sensitivity. Some will be stirred by the sound of singing birds, others will feel strongly at seeing a sunset, a painting or a photograph. The sense of smell can bring back memories and emotions from childhood. Touching a sculpture or a tree is the height of emotion for others. We are all different and enjoy different things. This is what *should* make us richer as a civilisation. People who are not touched by the same things as you are not deaf or in some way inferior. They are different and could maybe teach you about something you “don’t understand”.
@@fyvewytches Actually, I believe it's because many people are not even aware of what's happening in classical music, so they're not being sensitive to it; which is why it has little or no effect on them.
I sang this recently with the RPO, and I must say as challenging as it was to learn, it was of the most rewarding experiences I've had musically. It was definitely the most difficult piece of music I've sung, but the grandeur of the sound that we produced made all of my troubles melt away, and it was too beautiful to ignore. I'm just so glad it came out the way it did, and how positively our rendition was received.
Just sang this piece with an orchestra. The chorus section at the end is hilariously difficult...6-8 parts chromatic harmonies in a super-fast 5/4, not to mention needing to be heard alongside an orchestra going full blast.
Dan D Agreed! It was really hard to learn that, but we pulled it off.
This only gets more beautiful every time I hear it! I first heard it 9 years ago!!!!
Im not really a diehard classical music checker, but this shit comes till the bottom of my heart! Never heard a beatiful sensitive piece of music like this before.... seriously amazing!
This is only a suite of a marvellous ballet which lasts more than one hour. The most beautiful sections are included in this suite. The version by Ozawa is gorgeous.
What a fabulous way to start my day today....
This is so incredibly beautiful. I cry every time.
It sounds like... beauty and light.. and sunrises.. and
gah I love it so much. ;)
The Daphnis et Chloe is the absolute apotheosis of orchestral music: when God visited Maurice Ravel one day and allowed him to capture the glories of heaven itself in music. I get the feeling that instruments of the orchestra were never better featured and for the instrumentalists to play it under a great conductor must be a heavenly experience.
Beautiful, gorgeous, spiritual.... lovely photo... THANK YOU!
This is by far the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...I imagine this as the voice of God!
As a clarinettist and flautist (principally clarinet), Daphnis sounds like absolute hell to play; Incredible piece but the tempos mixed with the chromatics which aren't quite chromatic make for one hell of a challenge both musically and technically.
It's certainly very tough for the entire orchestra, but it's such a pleasure to be a part of, it's worth all the hard work learning it.
b Lm I'm working on it for audition right now. The first Clarinet is so fucking difficult.
You can wedge the left hand Db/F# lever with folded paper/rubber to help with the 12th notes at 155 if you are preparing that bit - all of the clarinet parts are nasty, the Eb solos especially. Best of luck for your audition.
As a clarinetist, this IS the most technically difficult piece I ever performed. And one of the most rewarding.
That's why it sounds so good...
This music mines the depths of emotions within while staggering the mind in wondering how one person could imagine a composition like this and create it it , like an aural painting which while invisible, stimulates each listener to create their own vision from it's fluidity and swirling currents of notes, delving deeper into the psyche - can hear the strains of 40's film noir soundtracks being born...
It’s where breathtaking movies are born
Thank you Mr. Ravel for the great composition!
and great Ozawa's interpretation! Each tones are acting very well
Merci beaucoup, Msr. Ravel. Reste en pais en Shemayim.
For anyone who is confused, this is technically the 2nd Suite, but as an excerpt from the whole ballet (which features the chorus).
Confusingly it's "part 3" of the full length ballet, lol.
I am not confused. Why do you think we are confused?
Could be labeled as "Act II, Part 3"
Needed to hear this today - always breathtaking
Great soothing pacifying music and magnificent image! Thanks dear Gunter for sharing.
My favorite version of Daphne et Chloe Suite 2 is by Isao Tomita. The emotion of the score is really brought out and it truly moves you.
Yes. Tomita what a musical life streaming
Art Pepper - Straight life brought me here.
This is Art Pepper (very famous jazz saxophonist of the 50's-70's) favorite piece of "classical" music, he describes it as one of the greatest piece ever written.
I do recommend his book to everyone, it gives a great insight into the crazy life that many jazz musicians lived during the 60's in the west coast (drugs, jail....) and is extremely powerful and touching.
...woah. This is just... amazing. I have no words.
This piece reminds me of spring , sooo beautiful, words are not enough
Ravel is genius....
Can't believe some people prefer it without the chorus
+Mats Lindborg I'm amazed by that, too. The voices make the music more evocative. The best version I've found for Danse Generale is by the Seattle Symphony Chorale; a touch more rhythmic (which I prefer) than other readings, and with an enthusiastic and very powerful chorus that can induce goosebumps.
I want this in my favorites so I can listen again and again.
I downloaded it with VLC media player.
It is said the first half of this beautiful piece will open your Chakras.
+C Daily You are right :D, the energy just bursts out
Hugo Fernandes lol
Inspirujące ...Piękne... Dziękuję*)
+Danuta Gorska Ja, ein superbes Werk, und eine wunderbare Interpretation dazu!
Bardzo dziękuję...Serdeczne Pozdrowienia...*))
I never tire of it.
4:34 = possibly the single most epic moment in musical history
homeystary1 Beware the singularization of epic moments in musical history! Invariably such moments gain significance in direct proportion to their precursors and denouements. The way this music breathes requires inhalations and exhalations. Both are in abundance, breathing life into this piece. Planned, gradual crescendos are living things, and they usually require more time than you'd think to fulfill their promise.
@@BrucknerMotet this is the single most epic comment in TH-cam history
I love it. I first listened to it in Gracie Gold's (figure skater) long programme. This piece is absolutely amazing
this is GLORIOUS
Enchanting beauty...Heavenly💙💙💙💕💖💖💖Wonderful chorus!!!🎶🎶🎵🎼🎶🎶🎵🎼🎶💗💗💗💗
It is with this song that my spirit flies high....so far...!!!
it wll always amaze me that something as incredible as this once existed more or less only in the mind of Ravel... think about that?
Actually, I think that this music (and all music) existed for thousands, even millions of years before Ravel existed. It existed in "the universal mind"; and Ravel was the one to discover it. Stravinsky (who said that all music was created by God, and was only "discovered" by humans) would call it "the mind of God".
Anyone here after watching Mozart in the Jungle? It really opened my world to the incredible plethora of classical music.
+gagzy1989 I learned about this piece after watching the "symphony in the Park " in season 2 episode 10
+ Stephen Kaminanda
me, too. More basses in the beginning in mitd, but the whole piece is just amazing!
You may wish to hear Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun"
Being in love with classical music has made me to be completely in love with Mozart in the jungle. So.. i understand you very well!
My M gave me some of this music when I was in high school, because the high school orchestra teacher had more conventional tastes. Nothing as beautiful as this. But I'm glad you like the show!
@CurzonRoad Speechless. Just beautiful. Heartfelt thanks.
The most riveting interpretation I've ever heard.
The contrast between the crescendo of Spring against the somewhat dark and sinister aspects of this song is what brings me back time and time again, Im not even a big classical fan.Yet I find There is a truth to life woven in this song, the dance between life and death and their relationship to one another. Life's Ups and downs, Tragically beautiful, yet joyfully unexpected!
Wow. There is a God. When I listen to this I can feel totally inspired.
Me too, Cooper!@. When Ravel uses the full-orchestra, it is the voice of God speaking.
I have the Daphnis et Chloe disease and I will never be cured of it.
It is crazy that the older I get, the more Daphnis et Chloe gets inside of me and rattles my soul!
beautiful music composition beautiful sounds
Love This. 💙
Merveilleux ! Vous avez remarqué la justesse des choeurs ? Incroyable !
beautiful music,beautiful interpretation. W Ravel
Mágica de todos los tiempos. Desde La Atlántida al Universo
Best interpretation of this. The opening was repurposed as "Night Song" for the musical GOLDEN BOY. & if you listen heard enough you can hear "On A Clear Day."
thanks. I agree with you, can't find a better recording..
Any thumbs down on this music or its performance comes from a pathetic individual indeed: a man who never went beyond chopsticks.
Agreed
Correct. It takes time to used to it. It's form is entirely different from other classical music. It's called a Tone Poem. This is a poem in three parts that are played without interruption, and I'm certain that if you experienced this live, you'd love it.
This music has also been turned into a ballet.
The story: Two young lovers are separated when Pirates come and take them and sell them into slavery. Part two includes that sequence.
In part three, they are freed, but it's many years later and they don't recognize each other until a good witch informs them that they have reunited. The third movement is lovely and glorious.
You see? The more you know, the better you appreciate it. But if people want to remain ignorant, they miss out.
...Or from the sort of classical music snob who has taken a particular performance of the work as a Platonic ideal, and considers all other interpretations to be inferior _dreck._
My thumbs down are for the comments of ignorance that people post, not for the music.
I thumbed it down because I didn't like the performance of Ravel's masterpiece. At the opening of the piece I find the melodies of the woodwinds to be excessively convoluted instead of each having a properly prounounced melody. For example Paavo Jarvi's interpretation of the piece with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is in my opinion far better executed and well-sounding.
I had a marching band show based on music like this. It was called Cote d'Azur and it was one of our best show.
I so love this. Thanks!
ok so this is what it sounds like entering heaven
Certainly. That was delivered by a brilliant person. :)
10:05 is really a tender, romantic phrase of Daphnis et Chloé.
Oh yes!
Simply breath taking !! Wonderful performance........
Best composition ever
Heard this on the radio and fell in love with it
Yes, I don't hear another fantastic performance like this
This is definitely one of my favorite pieces of music ever!
After this piece of magic I'm sure even the greatest composers assiduously avoided even having to contemplate trying to evoke a sunrise, cos they knew they'd really struggle to come off anything other than second best compared to this, Ravel conceived and realised *the* definitive musical sunrise.
Perhaps the closest is Schoenberg with his glorious 'Seht die Sonne' (Hymn to the Sun) that closes the enormous Gurrelieder (a work that has nearly as much magic in it as Daphnis, it opens with a sunset and closes with a sunrise, a beautiful reminder to the listener that despite all the twists and turns of it's central tragic love story, all pales into insignificance in the face of time and nature).
I don't think so.
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One of FRANK SINATRAS favorite pieces.
Is that true? Can you name your source? I'm not being a smart-ass, I just find that utterly fascinating.
Sinatra's an asshole
@@alecfoster6653 It was an interview with Johnny Carson where he says he enjoys this listening to this and Debussy the Sunken cathedral.
@@Jabs69 Thanks!
@@gamer46653 He was certainly very lacking as a human being, albeit talented. I remember once when he was performing in Australia. He said to the press that Australian women were all "2 Bit Whores". When he was in his private jet getting ready to depart, word came that the ground crew would not fuel his jet until he publicly apologized. Good on them! LOL He did and they did.
Just heard BSO preform this piece in SF -great performance. I assume after so many years under Munch that Ravel is in their DNA now.
listening to this makes me think 2 things:
1) oh my _god_ impressionist music is beautiful
2) if one more person listens to mozart and calls classical music boring _oh my godddd_
Well, they are so different, that comparing them is just.... wrong :D
+Adan Ibarra agreed!!
Try to listen to some other works of Mozart.For me it is a treasure of unspeakable beauty. Maybe you like the pianoconcertos. Obviously music is a matter of taste, but often it is also a matter of experience. Maybe you have not heard much music of him and it might be that you change your opinion.
Well, greetings :)
ps: We all like this beatiful ravel suite, and thats a good thing :D
Mozart was Ravel's own favorite composer.
Classical music is boring
Quel grand compositeur fut Ravel!
Tout à fait
A la bonne heure...
So beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes.
The intensity towards the end...Excellent.
Amazing sound with good creative sound card and akg headphones
I prefer this suite with the chorus.
Ravel himself was incensed when (too often) he was asked if the chorus could be dispensed with.
I do too!!
I didn't expect this to be classical music for some reason XD, awesome, Now I have more music to download to my phone.
If you haven’t seen The Lost City of Z, this piece is used beautifully in it. Also a beautiful film
I particularly remember this recording from years ago my favourite, and the Conductor.
Best composition ever..
It has been many years since I last heard this beautiful music. Many thanks for posting:)
I have been looking for this thank-you so much!!!!
Diaghilev: How beautiful can you make it?
Ravel: Yes.
Great performance of this sumptuous music
I'm so glad I discovered this piece
My God 0:00-1:15 or so! And the recapitulation of the initial climax, now w choir, @ 4:34! Gorgeous!