Gabriel Fauré - Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, Mateusz Kurcab & Zebrowski Music School Orchestra

Info: gr.afit.pl
La Folle Journée de Varsovie 2013, Szalone Dni Muzyki w Warszawie, The Grand Theatre in Warsaw, Poland, September 28
Symphony Orchestra of The Marcin Józef Żebrowski Music School in Częstochowa, Poland
Mateusz Kurcab - piano
Zygmunt Nitkiewicz - conductor
#ZebrowskiMusicSchool #fauré

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[@ouriel]

For those wondering the encore is a nocturne by Francis Poulenc. A contemporary of Faure

[@brkahn]

Contemporary... To a limited extent. But thank you very much for the information, I didn't know it. And I checked, its composition is indeed contemporary (1916) and its style is quite in the spirit of Fauré.

[@John_Fugazzi]

There are hardly any recordings of this beautiful early work by Faure. I'm glad it's available on KZbin.

[@muruganv5164]

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[@joselopes2293]

This amazing work reveals a sensitivity and harmony that make us consider that music is a divine good when composed by fabulous authors of Fauré’s class. The pianist is magnificent due to his virtuosity, sensibility, cadence and technique. The orchestra and its direction are superb. Thanks for this magnificent interpretation and recording.The “encore” is of unparalleled grace and beauty.

[@gilbertbrothier8446]

J adore Fauré et c'est une belle interprétation.

[@walterwitt2900]

très beau..un de mes morceaux préférés.

[@Phiphifounet]

Quel est ce merveilleux morceau qu'il joue seul en fin de concert ? Merci de m'éclairer.

[@ralfludwig4744]

Mateusz Kurcab... I am impressed. What a talent! And how he is conveying this great piece. Guess we have to well remember his name.

[@Rx-mn5fv]

Clean, clear, limpid touch. Very enjoyable to view. Thank you for the video.

[@mateuszkurcab949]

Thank you for your comment:)

[@scottbaxter3413]

fine sound, quiet audience. worth a listen in spite of intonation issues.

[@harryandruschak2843]

Alas, Faure is rarely played here in southern California, either in concert or on the two local classical music radio stations. I am grateful that I can find him on You Tube.

[@vladislovkyzinski3430]

MN Public Radio played it two days ago.

[@zenchan332]

AMAZING MIRACLE

[@PbustamanteA]

Lovely. My favorite music are from france, specially impresionist music. Now with this interpretation, i'll look for polish musicians, because I also love polish composers. Congratulations from Chile!!!

[@kris3137]

Super Mateo, jest pięknie!

[@pablomaster1571]

Wspaniałe wykonanie. Gratulacje dla Matysa ;)

[@JavoAyala]

Bravo! Mateusz.... Gratulacje dla Matysa

[@johnmueter378]

Bravo, Mateusz. Lovely playing.

[@mateuszkurcab949]

Thank you!

[@joaomartel3636]

Mateusz Kurcab Hello from Portugal ! I love this Ballade ! By the way, can you please let me know the name of the "encore" ? Thank you ! João Martell

[@runnowhere]

Ah, I've finally found the title of the piece. This is "Eight Nocturnes" FP 56 No. 7 in E-flat Major composed by Francis Poulenc.

[@victrolalacasa992]

Mateusz Kurcab you need to upload some of your performances or ask someone who can upload it for you. You can request some recording companies or school where you performed to lend or send you copies of your performances - glad to see and watch you perform - more videos please and Congratulations 🍾

[@giancitton2604]

@@runnowhere Thank you ! Very nice !

"Mezzotenor" está certo. A Peça-Bis é o "Noturno n° 7 in Eb maior", de Francis Poulenc..

[@fatmadridibenaissa3513]

it's a pleasure.

[@maruchy59]

beautifully played !! thank you !!

[@gerardbegni2806]

When reading the score, Liszt told that this work (in its piano solo version) was 'too difficult' , which is digitally a nonsense for the greatest virtuoso of his time. Considering the advanced language of his last works (still to come), it does not mean anything significant in this domain also. This opinion by Liszt is still for me a complete mystery. Nevertheless, don't let us be perturbated by this opinion, and let us taste one of the most beautiful scores of Fauré's first period.

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@thomasbarnich2004 Dear Thomas, I think that we have a misunderstandiing. What is recorded here is actually the Ballad op. 19, in its original piano/orchetra version, and we both azgree on the fect that Liszt told these Strange words about this ballad. The Fantasy op. 115 for piano andorchestra is for sure a much more advanced score of the old Fauré, but it is not recorded here.

[@vladislovkyzinski3430]

Yah! I heard that comment, too. Liszt tried to play it backwards to try to make it easier to play.

[@jonathanwalkerpiano]

Liszt's comment makes sense. Fauré reported specifically that Liszt was attempting to sight read the Ballade, and broke off, saying "I appear to have run out of fingers!" (the score was the original piano-solo version of 1877). He then requested the alarmed Fauré to play the rest of the piece; Fauré had not expected to play before Liszt, but he acquitted himself well. The piece was well within Liszt's technical grasp, of course, but the writing is sometimes very dense, especially in the second, Allegro moderato, section, with its combination of virtuoso figuration, counterpoint and melodic lines in the middle of the texture. This kind of writing cannot be sight-read at anywhere near the indicated tempo, since the fingering has to be worked out laboriously, and the counterpoint takes time for the pianist to assimilate intellectually. Liszt, like any good sight reader, would have managed the opening Andante cantabile section, but he must have come unstuck in the Allegro Moderato. Liszt was, in effect, saying that Fauré had written a work that was certainly virtuosic, but whose complexity prevented even Liszt from giving a good account of it by sight reading from the score. It was, reportedly, on Liszt's recommendation that Fauré wrote a second version of the piece as a concerto. Both versions have their own artistic merits, and the survival of the solo-piano version in the repertoire (Yuja Wang's recording brought it to a wider audience in recent years) means that the concerto version cannot be said to supersede the original.

[@superpelobello]

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[@alenikoehler7529]

hey folks! got the same impression of this lovely sheet, but can anyone say which piece he played at the end`?

[@omarverduzco6804]

+Ale Nikoehler Yeah, I'd like to know too.

[@runnowhere]

Are there anyone who know the title of the encore piece?

[@runnowhere]

Ah, I've finally found the title of the piece. This is "Eight Nocturnes" FP 56 No. 7 in E-flat Major composed by Francis Poulenc.

[@Mezzotenor]

It's a well-shaped, ernestly Chopin-esque performance by the soloist, with only a couple spots where I'd be a tad less marked in the left hand (ditto the Poulenc encore, 7th Nocturne). Good conductor, but he needs to clean house in the cellos/basses.

[@perilosity]

Awfully young looking bunch--a music school?

[@Mezzotenor]

Yes, the description indicates, "Symphony Orchestra of The Marcin Józef Żebrowski Music School in Częstochowa, Poland."

[@rogerknox9147]

It's a music school orchestra, not a professional one. Incidentally I heard Seiji Ozawa's wife play this work when he was just at the point of becoming conductor of the Toronto Symphony in 1965. Lovely piano-orchestra work, though early Fauré it shows some characteristic harmonic touches. Good piece for Valentine's Day (today)!.

[@glee8255]

Love the breath from Piano. but Cello is crazy bad...

[@shay4178]

He played it beautifully! I just wish that lady's head wasn't in the way so I could see his hands.

[@yvesgerard1308]

incredible ! pas un français ici pour commenter un musicien français ... La honte !

[@hamtataroro]

si si je suis là !!

[@calebhu6383]

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