how is this not performed at least once a year by a major symphony orchestra? the composer in me likes this for its unabashed juxtaposition of impressionist harmonic movement with hot late-renaissance counterpoint, but the cynic in me knows that the classical concert-going public would absolutely eat this up. seriously it has EVERYTHING a classical audience wants. this should be such a hit!
The RCM symphony orchestra will be performing this in October under the baton of sir Andrew Davis and chorus master Mark Biggins. If you live near London, I'd check us out. :)
"it has EVERYTHING a classical audience wants" You must be joking or completely out of touch. This is one of the most difficult to listen to pieces I have ever heard. Most lay people just want the blue Danube part 2.
@@itznoxy7193 le public aime plutôt peu découvrir mais aller davantage vers ce à quoi il est déjà habitué, ce qui est déjà étiqueté chef-d'oeuvre ect....
She completed this work at age 22, and died a few months later. The level of sorrow, depth and craftmanship that she put into this score is astonishing for a girl that age. I'd say it's almost frightening.
I agree with you, but your numbers are wrong. Just check the description of the video or wikipedia. She died at 24/25 and this work is likely to have been finished at 23/24. Cheers m8
I believe most of the reason that she isn't more popular is because of how few masterpieces she created. Compared to composers like Beethoven she is a more of a "one hit wonder," despite producing more than one masterpiece. There isn't as much to analyze from her music compared to other composers because her tragically short life. Compare this to composers like RVW who are overlooked despite living long lives with around 20 true masterpieces.
@@DreamlessSleepwalker she really had such a promising career though- in my composition studio, my teacher told us that she was known to musicians of the time as one of the next great composers- but she never got there due to how early her death was :( such beautiful and moving music!
@@TylerMazone She was haunted by illness her entire life, she didn't have too promising of a career ahead for her because she barely had a future at all.
I was Blessed to be part of a live recording performance of this moving piece. Our conductor made sure we all knew the back story of Lili, she started composing this at age 17 and was heartbroken over the loss of her father. It was announced at the event that for some legal reason we weren’t supposed to be performing & recording it, but we did it anyway. It was tough to get through it, absolutely gut-wrenching. To sing soprano and stand in the midst of the choir & orchestra is an experience I’ll never forget….my father was a conductor & came to hear us, he was weeping the entire time. At 6:40 when it’s just the men’s voices….just beautiful🙏🏻😢
Thank you for that insight into this recording and her story. It makes it even so much more powerful. What an incredible score. So rich and absolutely deep. What a life she lived in such a short time.
Many composer exhaust their entire lives searching for that indescribable and ever elusive absolute expression of what words utterly fail to deliver. Lili nails it. Consider her world, in France, all eviscerated by a hideous modern war with all of its horrors.
She would have been such a towering figure amongst musicians. My heart breaks for her. There is so much character in her work. So much originality so much love and all that at such young age. Rest in peace.
@@genericmemeit’s almost inevitable to discuss it… the fact that she was SO ahead of the game at a ridiculously young age, winning the Prix de Rome at 19. Her works are genuinely up there with the brilliant greats of Ravel and Debussy, so the fact that her life was cut so short is such a tragedy to how much unbelievable music she could have given us.
She WILL be a towering figure. In fact, she is. It's just that a lot of people don 't know about her yet. On a different level, Ustvolskaya is really underappreciated too.
@franzchubert3808 Mahler needed someone to share his story, and some time after his death he got it in thanks to one Leonard Bernstein. My hope is that Lily can have her own message delivered by a conductor of the 21st century.
Lili Boulanger was 7 when she has lost her dad. His dad was also a composer and he won the Prix de Rome at the age of 20. Lili grew up, she became a composer and, like him following his steps, she won the Prix de Rome at the same age. On the sheet of this beautiful piece we can read "À mon cher Papa" (to my beloved dad). All of this is so powerful.
@@ENDED796 it's not a secret that we live and die alone. Every step is our own step, always, but you can't unsee the influence that our parents (and our family) have on us. We walk by ourselves, but there is indeniably someone that show us how to do it and where to go (actively or passively, second one for Lily because her father was dead), if this was not true we would have to believe that 4 members, father mother and two daughters, were musicians by pure chance. Thanks god lily had a wonderful family who had a wonderful job that inspired her, and it's not surprising that a talented daughter wanted to go through the same path of a beloved father who left her when she was young. It's indeed very very common that sons who loose their parents when they are young tend to idealize them. The love of her mom and especially of her sister helped to do the rest.
@@jackkupfer4449 im not even going to reply to you. nor read your nonsense as you already stated you are a biased sexistic men like all who doesnt know its place in the kitchen.
I'm one of the soloists for this glorious work in a couple of weeks. What an absolute honour. Such a creative outpouring - who knows what else she might have written, and how she might have influenced 20th century music.
From the depths of the abyss (Psalm 130) From the depths of the abyss I cry, Yahweh Adonai. Hear my prayer! May your ears be attentive To the sounds of my prayer. If you were to take our sins into account Who could withstand them, Yahweh? Forgiveness is in Yahweh And so he is revered. My soul places its hope in Yahweh, I hope, I count on your word More than the night watchmen Long for the morning. Israel places its hope in Yahweh, For in Yahweh is mercy, And the fullness of redemption It is he who will deliver Israel From all her iniquities. In Yahweh is mercy. Ah! Yahweh Adonai.
We have the ability to elevate what works we do have by Lili Boulanger to the status of someone like Mozart and push for her to enter into our Western Canon (though broken it is) - who knows what she could have written - but she was an incredible composer in her time and should be recognized as such instead of subjugated to constant "I wonder how great she could have been." She is a great composer, as she was.
Today, I declare that Lili Boulanger is the Ultimate Sacred Muse of All the Starving Composers. I pay my homage to Lili, because she is the ethereal princess who enlight my decadent soul. Greetings, from a starving chilean musician!!!
Wow, I recently performed this piece and it is such an elevating experience both for the musicians and the audience. Amazing to see you upload the score here! Thank you!
Mysterious yes it is a sensation i feel and also the sensation that human being stand alone even if he prays, but the divinity is far from him....yes, mysterious and not involved with the pains oh human beings...at the end the sensation is of nothing.... It Is a very deep piece of music.... High level of inspiration...Is this due also to the circumstances of the terrible first World War ?
Lili Boulanger was such a strong musical personality with an outstanding personal voice. It's such a regret that she died that early because I firmly believe that, If she had lived longer, her music would have had a great impact on 20th century classical music. She produced masterpieces, like this one here, and I feel like, as short as her life was, this is her definite "opus summum".
Unfortunately, Lili would have suffered the same fate other non-male, non-white composers faced: Erasure. Although, in Lili's case, she may have surmounted that with "an abundance of genius".
Daniel Lennon starting from 13:00 that build up with efficient orchestration to set the tone and mood is absolutely astonishing. Let alone a well seasoned composer, she was 24 (internal screaming).
Lili Boulanger's work never ceases to amaze me. What a joy it was to know this spectacular piece! Without any doubt, this is the result of pure and rare talent.
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers
Incredible work. Just amazing. It is composition like this that push me to find more impossibilities in music than what is presented today. Everything Miss Lili Boulanger wrote was otherworldly and I thought I had heard it all with compositions from Ravel and Messiaen. Lili Boulanger was an inspiration and quite honestly, an achievement for the human race.
This is a miracle - a great composer not only able to speak for her own suffering, but also to the suffering history of all humankind, and of what was to come.
The honor that I feel for being divined the opportunity to learn about her & Nadia makes me feel truly blessed!!! & Doggedly determined to be the best musician that I can be 🙏🙏🙏
Thankfully we have some traces of her work and wonder what might have been when hear the power of this piece written at such a tender age. So assured and masterful.
Of course it's tragic that she died so young, unfulfilled promise etc., but I don't understand qualifications like "for a girl that age." By age 22, she had surely mastered technique, and in many ways we feel more deeply when we are young, before we have time to become jaded.
Age 22 is not a typical age for mastery and maturity. Being a girl is irrelevant, but it is highly impressive to create such monstrous works at said age.
Not sure how many composers have "mastered technique" by age 22. Debussy at 22 had just won the prix de rome but have not become an active composer (his earliest works that we know and love today, such as the Arabesque, will not come until 5-8 years later); Stravinsky at 22 had only just begun studying music with R-Korsakov; Messiaen at 22 had barely written anything and was regarded only as a good organist. These are Lili's contemporaries. The contrast is shocking.
There is no question, Her's was a voice from heaven. She managed to synthesize and harmonize major and minor tonalities while still maintaining a sense of melodicism. I have often wondered what music in heaven would sound like, well, here it is. Super Beautiful!
I always love these score-inclusive pieces on the YT. Thank you. But this time, I was transfixed by the sheer -- appropriateness of the sentiment expressed in the music and the words. Bravo, Lili! Your music still lives, and honors the Word you so tenderly embraced here.
This reminds me of Penderecki’s “Seven Gates of Jerusalem”. I’m surprised to discover this style was actually decades older. Such a beautiful piece this is.
I cannot believe this incredible music came from a 22 year old girl in 1917. This incredible, awe inspiring piece of music was conceived well before its time..modern by mid-late 20th century standards, i e. by a mature composer.
Debussy and Ravel where no doubt geniuses in terms of their contributions to harmony and orchestration - Boulanger is on a whole different plane here, truly a unique and different sound.
In the "modern world" that we live in, I am amazed that we still found 8,857 people that viewed this link. Less than nine thousand out of 7 billion !! That, I hope, answers your question. Vast Majority of people wouldn't be able to focus for more than three minutes on anything anymore anyway, God forbid listening and contemplating things, that go beyond our shameful existence on this lonely planet (that we are about to destroy completely anyway). As far as for the the "selected few" that still go to see Classical music performances, vast majority are in their Golden Age, and in order to to keep tickets sold and the concert halls filled, one needs to conduct "staple repertoire" : Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky etc. The "known" music. Nothing wrong with The Greatest Ones anyway, and their timeless music. Young generation (the one that worships "The American Idol" or "Dancing With The Stars") would never waste their time listening to anything of quality anyway, so to me - we are the last generation left that still appreciates Greatness. God Bless Lili Boulanger, and countless of other "less famous Greats" for their contribution to the humanity's inheritance. Perhaps in millions of years some advanced civilization will visit this part of the Universe, long after we're gone. They may sort through some items that were left, buried deep in the ground, wondering what went wrong with inhabitants of this planet... I hope you understand my point :-)
@@KrystofDreamJourney Not sure how old you are, but I'm 16. I am amazed by the grandeur of this piece. It astonished me as soon as I heard it. Soon after that I felt it rather than heard it. This was absolutely phenomenal. I hate our language's inability to express words properly. No words match this piece. My point being, if you're older than me, just know that there are still toung people who genuinely appreciate music. (Real music). So I wouldn't worry about us going extinct😁
@@KrystofDreamJourney I don't agree with you. Many young people are into classical music. I mean, that's the only reason classical music didn't dissapear. I'm 16 years old myself and I love to search for unkown classical music, many of my friends only like popmusic but not everyone is the same. Classical music won't die, because it's too diffrent from the other styles and many young people are into this believe me.
@@lucienr7931 Bless your heart ! I'm happy that here are still "gems" like yourself, that appreciate art in a broader sense of the word. I grew up in the mid - 1980s, long before you were born. When I was your age, I listened to the ENTIRE albums. Because vinyl records lasted anywhere from 40 minutes to about 1hour, I carefully chose music that ended up on my shelf. I was seeking timeless, valuable music that would inspire me as a professional pianist/keyboardist/organist. That was just right before the internet took over the music industry, marking the end of an era. I particularly loved "crossover albums", where there are no boundaries between different musical styles. On my shelf were soundtracks from the blockbuster films : entire available albums by Williams, Goldsmith, Steiner, Horner, Rozsa etc. On the other shelf were all best "classical" performances ranging from Bach all the way up to Penderecki, Lutoslawski, Stockhausen... The "crossover albums" shelf had Gino Vannelli "A Pauper In Paradise" (my all-time favorite album), UK "Danger Money", and their first album "UK", Genesis "And Then There Were Three...", Yes "Going For The One", Claus Ogerman&Michael Brecker "City Scapes", entire selection by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Keith Jarret, Alan Holdsworth etc. The pop albums ? Well... Definitely Beatles, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, Bee Gees, MJ, EW&F, Foreigner, Chcago, Journey etc. That was the time before some corporate guys decided to "make the band" and release crap for the society to digest...
@@KrystofDreamJourney Wow that's great! I'm a violinist myself and when I was 8 I started to play the violin. I had only 3 cd's back in that time: Strauss, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. I deeply fell in love with these composers, especially Tchaikovsky. Since that moment I've been studying the music of Brahms, Schumann, Bach etc. and I also had some interest in the Beatles, Queen and James Brown. But for me classical music was the most beautiful music in existence and in the past 3 years I've been going trough all the classical music I could find on the internet. The app spotify is the place where I keep all my music and till this day I've been collecting more than 350 diffrent composers and I've made circa 50 playlists of my favorite music. (I'm a great fan of Lutoslawski and Gorecki too by the way! Polish music of the late 20th century is amazing, I won the biggest music competition in the Netherlands with "Subito" by Lutoslawski. Since that moment I've been in love with his music) But anyway, It feels good to hear that there are still big music lovers who really care about art in music. We can find eachother just here on youtube!
Je suis tout à fait d'accord. Cette œuvre est d'une force et d'une authenticité inouïes. A côté de cela, Debussy, pourtant mon idole de toujours, apparaît comme un amateur doué mais pédant et peu sympathique, peu authentique, un peu tricheur. Florent Schmitt trouvait Pelléas ennuyeux et disait malicieusement à Claude à la fin du 2ième Acte lors de la Première à Bruxelles : "Ah, il y a 3 Actes ... Claude, tu restes ?" et à la fin du 1er Acte : "Claude, la musique, elle commence quand?" La vache ! Mais il avait raison, c'est la barbe, ces voix monotones, ces "cheveux blancs, ici, près des tempes". Pour moi, Lili dépasse son maître Fauré à qui elle doit beaucoup, elle dépasse aussi son ami Debussy. Mais, surtout, elle m'apparaît comme l'égale de l'immense Wagner. Son authenticité sans faille est pour moi son plus grand atout.
love 11 ; i absolutely wanted to trow myself of a cliff ( in a good way ). I also absolutely loved 16 /17; like she takes you trough some sort of lucid dream. I love the continuous pulse in the contrabases (17) ( sometimes reinforced by organ pedal ) ! it adds a sense of uncertainty which is nerve-wrecking , throughout the lush and dreamy like textures. It's almost like having a Déjà vu aura which comes before an epileptic seizure. for me this orchestration invokes a similar feeling. I cannot quite grasp it.
over18start100 i agree. Incredible section. Reminds me of gustuv holsts 'neptune' and also some of the 'choral hyme from rig veda' combined together. Very beautiful
Lili Boulanger: 130.Zsoltár "A szakadék aljától" Ann Murray-mezzoszoprán Neil MacKenzie-tenor Birminghami Szimfonikus Kórus BBC Filharmonikus Zenekar Vezényel:Yan Pascal Tortelier
Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque, Iahvé Adonaï. Ecoute ma prière! Que tes oreilles soient attentives Aux accents de ma prière! Si tu prends garde aux péchés, Qui donc pourra tenir, Iahvé? La clémence est en Iahvé Afin qu'on le révère. From the depths of the abyss I cry, Yahweh Adonai. Hear my prayer! May your ears be attentive To the sounds of my prayer. If you were to take our sins into account Who could withstand them, Yahweh? Forgiveness is in Yahweh And so he is revered. Mon âme espère en Iahvé, J'espère, je compte sur sa parole Plus que les guetteurs de la nuit N'aspirent au matin. Israël espère en Iahvé, Car en Iahvé est la miséricorde. Et l'abondance de la délivrance. C'est lui qui délivrera Israel, De toutes ses iniquités En Iahvé est la clémence. Ah! Iahvé Adonaï. My soul places its hope in Yahweh, I hope, I count on your word More than the night watchmen Long for the morning. Israel places its hope in Yahweh, For in Yahweh is mercy, And the fullness of redemption It is he who will deliver Israel From all her iniquities. In Yahweh is mercy. Ah! Yahweh Adonai.
Look up Nadia Boulanger's bio. She was a world famous composer and taught composition to many students who became famous. I think this was her daughter, Lili.
Like Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, she was a mature genius at a tender young age. However, she died even younger than them and didn’t leave much of an output. What a pity!
how is this not performed at least once a year by a major symphony orchestra? the composer in me likes this for its unabashed juxtaposition of impressionist harmonic movement with hot late-renaissance counterpoint, but the cynic in me knows that the classical concert-going public would absolutely eat this up. seriously it has EVERYTHING a classical audience wants. this should be such a hit!
The RCM symphony orchestra will be performing this in October under the baton of sir Andrew Davis and chorus master Mark Biggins.
If you live near London, I'd check us out. :)
Choir+Orchestra is not cheap.
"it has EVERYTHING a classical audience wants" You must be joking or completely out of touch. This is one of the most difficult to listen to pieces I have ever heard. Most lay people just want the blue Danube part 2.
@@itznoxy7193 you haven't heard much then....
@@itznoxy7193 le public aime plutôt peu découvrir mais aller davantage vers ce à quoi il est déjà habitué, ce qui est déjà étiqueté chef-d'oeuvre ect....
She completed this work at age 22, and died a few months later. The level of sorrow, depth and craftmanship that she put into this score is astonishing for a girl that age. I'd say it's almost frightening.
I agree with you, but your numbers are wrong. Just check the description of the video or wikipedia. She died at 24/25 and this work is likely to have been finished at 23/24. Cheers m8
@@cxmxg from Wikipedia "...The work, completed when Boulanger was aged only twenty-two,...."
Beautifully stated, and completely true. She was 24 years old when she died
I adore this work a lot, but wasn't Lili 24 when she passed during the Great War?
If you're 22, you're not a girl. Just like a 22 year old man isn't a boy.
Criminally underrated
Seriously how have I not heard this before now? Surely a composer of this level of ability and talent should be world renowned.
I believe most of the reason that she isn't more popular is because of how few masterpieces she created. Compared to composers like Beethoven she is a more of a "one hit wonder," despite producing more than one masterpiece. There isn't as much to analyze from her music compared to other composers because her tragically short life. Compare this to composers like RVW who are overlooked despite living long lives with around 20 true masterpieces.
@@DreamlessSleepwalker Also because there are so little female composers. Like how many can you count. I could only remember Clara Schumann
@@hoiskipoiski5425 That makes her stand out, not the contrary.
@@DreamlessSleepwalker she really had such a promising career though- in my composition studio, my teacher told us that she was known to musicians of the time as one of the next great composers- but she never got there due to how early her death was :( such beautiful and moving music!
@@TylerMazone She was haunted by illness her entire life, she didn't have too promising of a career ahead for her because she barely had a future at all.
I was Blessed to be part of a live recording performance of this moving piece. Our conductor made sure we all knew the back story of Lili, she started composing this at age 17 and was heartbroken over the loss of her father. It was announced at the event that for some legal reason we weren’t supposed to be performing & recording it, but we did it anyway. It was tough to get through it, absolutely gut-wrenching. To sing soprano and stand in the midst of the choir & orchestra is an experience I’ll never forget….my father was a conductor & came to hear us, he was weeping the entire time. At 6:40 when it’s just the men’s voices….just beautiful🙏🏻😢
mens voices are pathetic. its the soprano's who set the bar.
Thank you for that insight into this recording and her story. It makes it even so much more powerful. What an incredible score. So rich and absolutely deep. What a life she lived in such a short time.
Je n'ai jamais entendu l'abîme parler, dialoguer avec (nous) autant d'application. Quel immense talent!
Many composer exhaust their entire lives searching for that indescribable and ever elusive absolute expression of what words utterly fail to deliver. Lili nails it. Consider her world, in France, all eviscerated by a hideous modern war with all of its horrors.
She would have been such a towering figure amongst musicians. My heart breaks for her. There is so much character in her work. So much originality so much love and all that at such young age. Rest in peace.
Why do so many comments on her work (across dozens of videos) zoom in so specifically on the fact she died young?
@@genericmemeit’s almost inevitable to discuss it… the fact that she was SO ahead of the game at a ridiculously young age, winning the Prix de Rome at 19. Her works are genuinely up there with the brilliant greats of Ravel and Debussy, so the fact that her life was cut so short is such a tragedy to how much unbelievable music she could have given us.
She WILL be a towering figure. In fact, she is. It's just that a lot of people don 't know about her yet.
On a different level, Ustvolskaya is really underappreciated too.
@franzchubert3808 Mahler needed someone to share his story, and some time after his death he got it in thanks to one Leonard Bernstein. My hope is that Lily can have her own message delivered by a conductor of the 21st century.
i don't know if she would have wanted to be such a towering figure as you put it, i think she was too genuine.
Lili Boulanger was 7 when she has lost her dad. His dad was also a composer and he won the Prix de Rome at the age of 20.
Lili grew up, she became a composer and, like him following his steps, she won the Prix de Rome at the same age.
On the sheet of this beautiful piece we can read "À mon cher Papa" (to my beloved dad).
All of this is so powerful.
she followed her own footsteps. she is far better as expected since she is a woman.
@@ENDED796 it's not a secret that we live and die alone. Every step is our own step, always, but you can't unsee the influence that our parents (and our family) have on us. We walk by ourselves, but there is indeniably someone that show us how to do it and where to go (actively or passively, second one for Lily because her father was dead), if this was not true we would have to believe that 4 members, father mother and two daughters, were musicians by pure chance.
Thanks god lily had a wonderful family who had a wonderful job that inspired her, and it's not surprising that a talented daughter wanted to go through the same path of a beloved father who left her when she was young. It's indeed very very common that sons who loose their parents when they are young tend to idealize them.
The love of her mom and especially of her sister helped to do the rest.
@@jackkupfer4449 im not even going to reply to you. nor read your nonsense as you already stated you are a biased sexistic men like all who doesnt know its place in the kitchen.
I'm one of the soloists for this glorious work in a couple of weeks. What an absolute honour. Such a creative outpouring - who knows what else she might have written, and how she might have influenced 20th century music.
Thank you for providing such beauty to this piece.
She was an alternative to the dodecaphonism and will remain and grow up in musical history.
I like your username@@CosmicPropaganda
From the depths of the abyss (Psalm 130)
From the depths of the abyss I cry,
Yahweh Adonai.
Hear my prayer!
May your ears be attentive
To the sounds of my prayer.
If you were to take our sins into account
Who could withstand them, Yahweh?
Forgiveness is in Yahweh
And so he is revered.
My soul places its hope in Yahweh,
I hope, I count on your word
More than the night watchmen
Long for the morning.
Israel places its hope in Yahweh,
For in Yahweh is mercy,
And the fullness of redemption
It is he who will deliver Israel
From all her iniquities.
In Yahweh is mercy.
Ah! Yahweh Adonai.
We have the ability to elevate what works we do have by Lili Boulanger to the status of someone like Mozart and push for her to enter into our Western Canon (though broken it is) - who knows what she could have written - but she was an incredible composer in her time and should be recognized as such instead of subjugated to constant "I wonder how great she could have been." She is a great composer, as she was.
This is a rather banal and unoriginal work, boring
@@timmycorbitt5870 come up with something better then. Show us how you would do it any better
@@timmycorbitt5870 lmao no it's not
@@timmycorbitt5870 Have you truly been listening? Or are you simply trolling to get a reaction, as I think is likely.
@@evansercombe That’s all trolls do!
Today, I declare that Lili Boulanger is the Ultimate Sacred Muse of All the Starving Composers.
I pay my homage to Lili, because she is the ethereal princess who enlight my decadent soul.
Greetings, from a starving chilean musician!!!
This piece is really remarkable. It moves forward with a sense of inevitibility; as if any other way would be wrong.
I am smitten, just smitten with her work.
And I with her, too. What a miracle she was!
Wow, I recently performed this piece and it is such an elevating experience both for the musicians and the audience. Amazing to see you upload the score here! Thank you!
I want too :(
This piece has so much emotion in it. I can't begin to describe to you how amazing this composition is. 10:03 is like chill bumps down my spine.
This slaps harder than my mom after catching me sneaking out 😔 amazing
I'm hearing this for the first time and I'm tearing up on how beautiful and mysterious this piece is. Reminds me a bit of Scriabin but more melodic.
Mysterious yes it is a sensation i feel and also the sensation that human being stand alone even if he prays, but the divinity is far from him....yes, mysterious and not involved with the pains oh human beings...at the end the sensation is of nothing.... It Is a very deep piece of music.... High level of inspiration...Is this due also to the circumstances of the terrible first World War ?
Unbelievable! Scary! What an amazing piece!!!
Lili Boulanger was such a strong musical personality with an outstanding personal voice. It's such a regret that she died that early because I firmly believe that, If she had lived longer, her music would have had a great impact on 20th century classical music. She produced masterpieces, like this one here, and I feel like, as short as her life was, this is her definite "opus summum".
Unfortunately, Lili would have suffered the same fate other non-male, non-white composers faced: Erasure. Although, in Lili's case, she may have surmounted that with "an abundance of genius".
Arguably her masterpiece. Also one of the best Christian-inspired musical works ever.
Move over fellas!
The part at 13:56 is absolutely epic! And the chord at 20:00 is wonderful.
Thanks for uploading all this Boulanger!
Daniel Lennon starting from 13:00 that build up with efficient orchestration to set the tone and mood is absolutely astonishing. Let alone a well seasoned composer, she was 24 (internal screaming).
I just got to 10:00 ish and you're saying there's something even better? I'm literally crying still, I won't be able to take it
@@danielcobbey3453 This is my favourite part as well!
More Boulanger! I definitely love your channel @Cmaj7, thanks a lot!
Un gran bel lavoro!!!! Boulanger meriterebbe più spazio nei programmi della maggiori Sale da concerto!!!!
Extremely beautiful
Lili Boulanger music is Universe. Love!
Lili Boulanger's work never ceases to amaze me. What a joy it was to know this spectacular piece! Without any doubt, this is the result of pure and rare talent.
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers
Quel chef-d'œuvre!
Puissance, douleur, désespoir profond mais malgré tout, volonté de trouver une issue, abandon à la vie, à Dieu...
This work is absolutely magnificent…
Amazing genius.. A superior human being.. I can't believe her age, so young, so mature. What a career she could had.
Incredible work. Just amazing.
It is composition like this that push me to find more impossibilities in music than what is presented today. Everything Miss Lili Boulanger wrote was otherworldly and I thought I had heard it all with compositions from Ravel and Messiaen. Lili Boulanger was an inspiration and quite honestly, an achievement for the human race.
Une oeuvre très puissante .
This is a miracle - a great composer not only able to speak for her own suffering, but also to the suffering history of all humankind, and of what was to come.
The honor that I feel for being divined the opportunity to learn about her & Nadia makes me feel truly blessed!!! & Doggedly determined to be the best musician that I can be 🙏🙏🙏
exquisitely haunting. i would die for her
Thankfully we have some traces of her work and wonder what might have been when hear the power of this piece written at such a tender age. So assured and masterful.
This is amazing.
Of course it's tragic that she died so young, unfulfilled promise etc., but I don't understand qualifications like "for a girl that age." By age 22, she had surely mastered technique, and in many ways we feel more deeply when we are young, before we have time to become jaded.
It’s mastering the technique to such a degree at such a young age that’s impressive.
Age 22 is not a typical age for mastery and maturity. Being a girl is irrelevant, but it is highly impressive to create such monstrous works at said age.
Not sure how many composers have "mastered technique" by age 22. Debussy at 22 had just won the prix de rome but have not become an active composer (his earliest works that we know and love today, such as the Arabesque, will not come until 5-8 years later); Stravinsky at 22 had only just begun studying music with R-Korsakov; Messiaen at 22 had barely written anything and was regarded only as a good organist. These are Lili's contemporaries. The contrast is shocking.
It’s a crime to music and to humanity that she isn’t as mainstream as some other composers.
Una scoperta. Veramente fantastica.
Simply exceptional!
Imagine what she could have done had she lived past 24. This is amazing.
Haunting. I'm going to be coming back to this a lot.
Definitely like this for the same reason I enjoy Faure
Thanks for uploading this wonderful work by a composer whose work was until today unknown to me.
Simply beautiful..
There is no question, Her's was a voice from heaven. She managed to synthesize and harmonize major and minor tonalities while still maintaining a sense of melodicism. I have often wondered what music in heaven would sound like, well, here it is. Super Beautiful!
THANK YOU!
alegre de estar vivo y escuchar magnífica pieza
I always love these score-inclusive pieces on the YT. Thank you. But this time, I was transfixed by the sheer -- appropriateness of the sentiment expressed in the music and the words. Bravo, Lili! Your music still lives, and honors the Word you so tenderly embraced here.
This reminds me of Penderecki’s “Seven Gates of Jerusalem”. I’m surprised to discover this style was actually decades older. Such a beautiful piece this is.
I went to a Prom in 1999 with this piece and at least more or less the same forces- terrific (almost terrifying...)
I cannot believe this incredible music came from a 22 year old girl in 1917. This incredible, awe inspiring piece of music was conceived well before its time..modern by mid-late 20th century standards, i e. by a mature composer.
Just heard about Lili Boulanger today. She's an amazing composer.
This is such an emotional piece. Brilliant.
Outstanding music! What a shame she died so young, had she lived past the age of 24 she'd be world renowned.
Debussy and Ravel where no doubt geniuses in terms of their contributions to harmony and orchestration - Boulanger is on a whole different plane here, truly a unique and different sound.
The only real question is *why* is this composer not more well known? It's already 100 years since she died. Time enough, I think.
In the "modern world" that we live in, I am amazed that we still found 8,857 people that viewed this link. Less than nine thousand out of 7 billion !! That, I hope, answers your question. Vast Majority of people wouldn't be able to focus for more than three minutes on anything anymore anyway, God forbid listening and contemplating things, that go beyond our shameful existence on this lonely planet (that we are about to destroy completely anyway). As far as for the the "selected few" that still go to see Classical music performances, vast majority are in their Golden Age, and in order to to keep tickets sold and the concert halls filled, one needs to conduct "staple repertoire" : Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky etc. The "known" music. Nothing wrong with The Greatest Ones anyway, and their timeless music. Young generation (the one that worships "The American Idol" or "Dancing With The Stars") would never waste their time listening to anything of quality anyway, so to me - we are the last generation left that still appreciates Greatness. God Bless Lili Boulanger, and countless of other "less famous Greats" for their contribution to the humanity's inheritance. Perhaps in millions of years some advanced civilization will visit this part of the Universe, long after we're gone. They may sort through some items that were left, buried deep in the ground, wondering what went wrong with inhabitants of this planet... I hope you understand my point :-)
@@KrystofDreamJourney Not sure how old you are, but I'm 16. I am amazed by the grandeur of this piece. It astonished me as soon as I heard it. Soon after that I felt it rather than heard it. This was absolutely phenomenal. I hate our language's inability to express words properly. No words match this piece. My point being, if you're older than me, just know that there are still toung people who genuinely appreciate music. (Real music). So I wouldn't worry about us going extinct😁
@@KrystofDreamJourney I don't agree with you. Many young people are into classical music. I mean, that's the only reason classical music didn't dissapear. I'm 16 years old myself and I love to search for unkown classical music, many of my friends only like popmusic but not everyone is the same. Classical music won't die, because it's too diffrent from the other styles and many young people are into this believe me.
@@lucienr7931 Bless your heart ! I'm happy that here are still "gems" like yourself, that appreciate art in a broader sense of the word. I grew up in the mid - 1980s, long before you were born. When I was your age, I listened to the ENTIRE albums. Because vinyl records lasted anywhere from 40 minutes to about 1hour, I carefully chose music that ended up on my shelf. I was seeking timeless, valuable music that would inspire me as a professional pianist/keyboardist/organist. That was just right before the internet took over the music industry, marking the end of an era. I particularly loved "crossover albums", where there are no boundaries between different musical styles. On my shelf were soundtracks from the blockbuster films : entire available albums by Williams, Goldsmith, Steiner, Horner, Rozsa etc. On the other shelf were all best "classical" performances ranging from Bach all the way up to Penderecki, Lutoslawski, Stockhausen... The "crossover albums" shelf had Gino Vannelli "A Pauper In Paradise" (my all-time favorite album), UK "Danger Money", and their first album "UK", Genesis "And Then There Were Three...", Yes "Going For The One", Claus Ogerman&Michael Brecker "City Scapes", entire selection by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Keith Jarret, Alan Holdsworth etc. The pop albums ? Well... Definitely Beatles, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, Bee Gees, MJ, EW&F, Foreigner, Chcago, Journey etc. That was the time before some corporate guys decided to "make the band" and release crap for the society to digest...
@@KrystofDreamJourney Wow that's great! I'm a violinist myself and when I was 8 I started to play the violin. I had only 3 cd's back in that time: Strauss, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. I deeply fell in love with these composers, especially Tchaikovsky. Since that moment I've been studying the music of Brahms, Schumann, Bach etc. and I also had some interest in the Beatles, Queen and James Brown. But for me classical music was the most beautiful music in existence and in the past 3 years I've been going trough all the classical music I could find on the internet. The app spotify is the place where I keep all my music and till this day I've been collecting more than 350 diffrent composers and I've made circa 50 playlists of my favorite music. (I'm a great fan of Lutoslawski and Gorecki too by the way! Polish music of the late 20th century is amazing, I won the biggest music competition in the Netherlands with "Subito" by Lutoslawski. Since that moment I've been in love with his music) But anyway, It feels good to hear that there are still big music lovers who really care about art in music. We can find eachother just here on youtube!
Very impressive. Thanks for posting.
le passage à partir de 15:16 est absolument magnifique
Je suis tout à fait d'accord. Cette œuvre est d'une force et d'une authenticité inouïes. A côté de cela, Debussy, pourtant mon idole de toujours, apparaît comme un amateur doué mais pédant et peu sympathique, peu authentique, un peu tricheur. Florent Schmitt trouvait Pelléas ennuyeux et disait malicieusement à Claude à la fin du 2ième Acte lors de la Première à Bruxelles : "Ah, il y a 3 Actes ... Claude, tu restes ?" et à la fin du 1er Acte : "Claude, la musique, elle commence quand?" La vache ! Mais il avait raison, c'est la barbe, ces voix monotones, ces "cheveux blancs, ici, près des tempes". Pour moi, Lili dépasse son maître Fauré à qui elle doit beaucoup, elle dépasse aussi son ami Debussy. Mais, surtout, elle m'apparaît comme l'égale de l'immense Wagner. Son authenticité sans faille est pour moi son plus grand atout.
Tan sols escoltant la introducció l´impressió es indescriptible. Es la LILI. Es ella, ella i ella!!!
Fa plorar.....!.....!.....! Jordi Cervelló.
This is reaaaaallllyyyy good
10:02 onwards. Huge. Especially in context with what just came before.
Merci beaucoup for this.
love 11 ; i absolutely wanted to trow myself of a cliff ( in a good way ).
I also absolutely loved 16 /17; like she takes you trough some sort of lucid dream. I love the continuous pulse in the contrabases (17) ( sometimes reinforced by organ pedal ) ! it adds a sense of uncertainty which is nerve-wrecking , throughout the lush and dreamy like textures. It's almost like having a Déjà vu aura which comes before an epileptic seizure. for me this orchestration invokes a similar feeling. I cannot quite grasp it.
Who the fuck can write a masterpiece like that at 21 years old ???
This woman, like many impressionist musicians in the 19th century, had a strong influence on my musical work! May she be blessed 💖
incredible beautiful part from 15:15. until 17:28. i cant stop listening it again and again.
over18start100 i agree. Incredible section. Reminds me of gustuv holsts 'neptune' and also some of the 'choral hyme from rig veda' combined together. Very beautiful
This is the best thing I have ever heard in my life
don't be overdramatic...
She was drawn by an archaïc faith
Magique.
Masterpiece.
Amazing.
10:06 my heart cries
00:00. Lent
01:08. 1
01:50. 2. Animé
02:30. 3
03:14. 4
04:30. 5
05:32. 6
06:20. 7
07:28. 8
08:20. 9
09:03. 10
10:00. 11
11:12. 12
12:10. 13
13:00. 14
13:20. 15
13:40. 16
15:15. 17
17:20. 18
18:20. 19
19:05. 20
20:05. 21
21:20. 22
21:40. 23
22:20. 24
22:50. 25
Dieu que c'est beau 20:00
20:00 : so magical
Expressive
I love Lili.
outstanding
How tortured and magestic piece
Lili Boulanger: 130.Zsoltár "A szakadék aljától"
Ann Murray-mezzoszoprán
Neil MacKenzie-tenor
Birminghami Szimfonikus Kórus
BBC Filharmonikus Zenekar
Vezényel:Yan Pascal Tortelier
Köszönöm az értékelést
Köszönöm az értékelést
Köszönöm az értékelést
Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque, Iahvé Adonaï. Ecoute ma prière! Que tes oreilles soient attentives Aux accents de ma prière!
Si tu prends garde aux péchés, Qui donc pourra tenir, Iahvé? La clémence est en Iahvé Afin qu'on le révère.
From the depths of the abyss I cry, Yahweh Adonai. Hear my prayer!
May your ears be attentive To the sounds of my prayer.
If you were to take our sins into account Who could withstand them, Yahweh? Forgiveness is in Yahweh And so he is revered.
Mon âme espère en Iahvé, J'espère, je compte sur sa parole Plus que les guetteurs de la nuit N'aspirent au matin.
Israël espère en Iahvé, Car en Iahvé est la miséricorde. Et l'abondance de la délivrance.
C'est lui qui délivrera Israel, De toutes ses iniquités En Iahvé est la clémence. Ah! Iahvé Adonaï.
My soul places its hope in Yahweh, I hope, I count on your word More than the night watchmen Long for the morning.
Israel places its hope in Yahweh, For in Yahweh is mercy, And the fullness of redemption
It is he who will deliver Israel From all her iniquities. In Yahweh is mercy. Ah! Yahweh Adonai.
Es totalmente hermoso
This and a lot of Boulanger's other works deserve to be a lot more mainstream than they are now
Psalm 130 such longing at such a tender ago...
This is pretty wild stuff
Wow...
I sense some La Mer!
Outsanding music .
Where can I get the score? A masterpiece by an amazing composer. Massive and perfect orchestration.
IMSLP would be your best bet.
I meant, where can I buy it? Couldn't find it on Ebay or Amazon and many music stores.
@@bryanreyescomposer you can get it on the site called Performer's Edition.
@@GJYYNGII THANKS A LOT!
Look up Nadia Boulanger's bio. She was a world famous composer and taught composition to many students who became famous. I think this was her daughter, Lili.
I'm corrected, Lili is her sister!
She didn't consider herself a composer (at least not a very good one) but was a great music teacher.
The way I hear it, any major desire to compose died in Nadia as her sister Lili died....as Nadia felt she could not compete with this!
Marty Nickison. This si actually false. Nadia continued to compose after her sisters death.
@@19Edurne not just a great music teacher. But one of the best to ever live, at least in my opinion
Wow. How can I put words to this?
une composition qui cherche la réalité du terreur
Like Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, she was a mature genius at a tender young age. However, she died even younger than them and didn’t leave much of an output. What a pity!
Imagine someone using this in a film.
No talk, activate killer instict, and just imagine. HORROFIC!!!
Correction, sorry.
She's Nadia Boulanger' s sister!
sounds like a movie score
very beautiful ,strong, involving...many bright and not obvious modulations....good performance of Tortelier....soloist should be better as voice...
@Cmaj7: Could you be a love and share the whole score with us? Really appreciate.
www.dropbox.com/sh/5981ihfy91anfo2/AAD73FVwvmEYY715aSnjtKD9a?dl=0
@@Cmaj7 Much thanks
what is instrument under bassoon?
Sarrusophone, whose parts would be played on contrabassoon nowadays.
Sarrusophon, a double-reed Instrument but made of metal
psalm
wowwwwwwwwwww