Darius Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil (1920)

[@Cmaj7]

00:01 Movement I - Sorocaba 01:32 Movement II - Botafogo 03:21 Movement III - Leme 05:30 Movement IV - Copacabana 07:53 Movement V - Ipanema 09:33 Movement VI - Gavea 10:56 Movement VII - Corcovado 12:55 Movement VIII - Tijuca 14:59 Movement IX - Sumare 16:36 Movement X - Paineras 17:46 Movement XI - Laranjeiras 19:01 Movement XII - Paysandu

[@hb3393]

Criminally underrated composer. On the surface his music might seem light hearted and whimsical, but he achieves some pretty forward thinking musical idea

[@joshscores3360]

Yes. Some of the pieces are bitonal, actually.

[@toothlesstoe]

@@joshscores3360 All of them are bitonal, iirc

[@dfreeman120]

100%

[@Necarion1]

Such a great example of polytonality! He moves seemlessly between keys, but does it in only one hand, and then you get those super satisfying cadences when everything comes back home.

[@EllieMcEla]

I love this entire collection - it seemingly becomes much more profound as time passes by, as very much of current pop music builds on the habanera rhythm, which is almost present in each movement. I truly hope this collection will be studied in the future on level with analysis of Bach's pieces.

[@franceskinskij]

its not an habanera. Its a saudade, also its much too fast to be an habanera

[@walkercatenaccio]

Some of these pieces are certainly habanera-like, though of course they are declaredly faux-Carioca rather than faux-Havana-esque. They are creative and sweet, but to put them on a par with Bach....

[@towardthesea_]

@@walkercatenaccio You know people are allowed to have different opinions than you, right? Not everyone thinks Bach is god.

[@tomfurgas2844]

It is fascinating that Milhaud's polytonality soon sounds perfectly natural. One becomes used to it and finds it's logical and quite beautiful. At first I am sure he shocked a lot of listeners, but he has gone on to become a much beloved composer. This suite is simply wonderful. Each piece is named after a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Milhaud visited Brazil with his ears, and his spirit, open and joyfully drinking in the sounds and the spirit of the people.

[@Zalemones1]

A neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires is in Argentina :)

[@tomfurgas2844]

My bad. :)

[@lesmizzle]

"One becomes used to it and finds it's logical and quite beautiful." Not me. I find it forced and stale.

[@autodidact2499]

@@tomfurgas2844 ... then edit your posting! (Or haven't you learned how to do that yet?)

[@robertomarchi4394]

Che peccato! Buenos Aires è la capitale della Patagonia Peruana ... la capitale del Brasile è attualmente a Miami, in Florida, vicino a Jundiaí !!!

[@lucarossi3536]

Non le ho mai sentite suonate così bene. Meravigliose!

[@ginafazio318]

I've always loved these pieces both playing and listening.

[@Atma505]

Just imagining playing an ostinato like at 3:21 with one hand is making me sweat. Very beautiful pieces, all carefully calculated and intonated, both by the composer and the performer.

[@calatria2949]

The upper voice of the bottom stave would be played with the RH so it's not that hard.

[@kurtkaufman]

The accompanying figure is divided between the hands, but, speaking as one who has played it, it's still awkward in spots. To get it smooth and effortless sounding is a challenge (for me, anyway).

[@garyfogel]

Brilliant composer and performance. Theses pieces are little gems! Love Milhaud's orchestrations as well. Brilliantly polytonal but also very singable.

[@skripnigor]

Pure joy! Thanks for uploading!

[@g-whiz6338]

pure joy? pure fucked up.

[@skripnigor]

G-whiz I am a dilettante classical music lover. I would appreciate if you explain why this performance sucks.

[@g-whiz6338]

lol

[@jpsc1009]

Love this suite! Milhaud expressed very deep feelings in extended tonality, otherwise it would be impossible. Nice fountain to musicians drink from! Greetings from Brasil.

[@diegosatori5718]

0:44 awesome mini samba

[@eduardomanrique400]

Those 4 seconds of regular harmony sound so funny in context

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

the harmony of this time was very rich, and some techniques are still just taught as curiosum at the university. Wish i have time to make video about these chords. I guess modern brazilian piano music got very influenced by this, how ironic

[@tiberiusgracchus4222]

There is such playfulness and humor in this music! Brilliant!

[@gersala]

Truly amazing! Thanks for sharing!

[@abyss_composer]

1:32 I think I repeated this for hundreds of time until now, I love this so much

[@adigozelov-enjoyer]

Lovely harmony! First time hearing Milhaud.

[@luckyman1071]

Whenever I need a 'lift' I return to 'Corcovado' @~10:46. Thanks for this wonderful post!

[@celiafarant8822]

Such a great piece!!

[@nanba25]

It's a discovery to me, thank you so much for sharing

[@grocheo1]

Wonderful channel, thank you so much

[@bimbobalderas8176]

Thanks for this Music !!!

[@WanderleyReis-j5y]

BRAVO!!!!!! VIVA NOSSO BRASIL!!!!!!!

[@lokmanmerican6889]

Wow, glad I stumbled on this video! 5 minutes and I like it already.

[@Brasil2013]

Beautiful interpretation! It would be great if Mr. Barbosa would re-record this album in a studio. There is a lot of echo in this recording. Regardless, I'm trying to learn this collection and it really helps to hear it interpreted so well.

[@nandoflorestan]

You're gonna need Chico Xavier for that. The famous pianist died in 1993.

[@TheJaoz3]

@@nandoflorestan "you're gonna need chico chavier" essa frase matou a pau KKKKKK

[@brianzayman2228]

It's not just polytonality, but it's use as an emotional tool to achieve different musical ends

[@ARTalive01]

I don't take very much out of the melodic ideas here, but i love the rhythmic ideas especially with the Ipanema movement and the Laranjeiras movement. Purely amazing.

[@tomfurgas2844]

I think the melodies are just as beautiful as the rhythms. I'd suggest you give the suite another listen...I think you'll grow to love the melodies, and the astringent harmonies too.

[@nicholas72611]

Soracabo and Copacabana are some of my favourite Milhaud melodies

[@KaiqueMatos]

The melody It's a thing that only Brazillians can understand

[@KaiqueMatos]

When I'm listening this song I can remember many popular and folk brazillian music like choro , samba , maxixe , frevo

[@alecsslz]

KMatosdeOliveira Sim! Isso é um Ernesto Nazareth politonal

[@justinscaife530]

I feel like a sipping a lot smooth drink outside a cafe when I listen to movement 7.

[@sebthi7890]

wonderful music, i love it. I met a Brazilian musicians who stated that Brazilian hate Milhaud. He accuses him as thief of the compostions of Ernesto Nazareth Tangos Brasileiros. Milhaud was more than inspiered by his, who played in the cinema Odeon. Milhaud should also buy the scores of these Tangos in a music store. He didn't mentioned his sorce.

[@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo]

The thin line between legitimate use of world music ideas and appropriation of genres. Yet classical artists always borrowed, if not stole, ideas from one another.

[@walkercatenaccio]

That particular Brazilian musician may have overstated the case. Nazareth's works are lovely, but they work within a traditional single tonality, like those of Scott Joplin, with whom he has often been compared. Milhaud is coming out of the late/last strain of Romanticism, say, from Richard Strauss on, which takes folk and foreign music and gussies it up with polytonality. Underneath, of course, all the Europeans are trying to escape from the limited rhythmic and expressive palette of Classical "common practice". All good.

[@stilichobias]

@@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo When rappers steal music from white musicians, it's sampling. When whites or Jews "sample" music from non-whites, it's theft or cultural appropriation.

[@woolof9744]

there is no robbery in art, everyone copies everyone else, which turns theirs statement pointless

[@amonke865]

The voicing in Movement 2 is excellent

[@TempodiPiano]

I would like to go to Corcovado.

[@justinscaife530]

Same here

[@juancarlosriverarivera4238]

Que hermoso, simplemente

[@fredphipps9452]

Beautiful

[@ishtar2848]

Very well played 👍👍👍

[@TempodiPiano]

Merci do mi sol si.

[@zenodemarco8645]

XD

[@johnlindstrom9994]

One can hear where Brubeck got his "weird chords."

[@written12]

John Lindstrom I think Burt Bacharach studied with Milhaud, speaking of composers who used “weird chords” and in popular songs.

[@margaretminiere7318]

@@written12 Brubeck adored Milhaud and named one of his sons 'Darius'.

[@johnlindstrom9994]

@@margaretminiere7318 Yes. Darius also became a pianist. Wonder where he is now?

[@margaretminiere7318]

@@johnlindstrom9994 I believe he lives in England now having lived for many years in South Africa and then of course having done much global touring with his musician brothers. His website is interesting, not too cluttered (!) and it can be found at dariusbrubeck.com On the front page one can see him talking about his music whilst on a trip to Russia. Happy New Year !

[@constantreader8760]

Brubeck studied with Milhaud briefly and named one of his sons Darius. Now and then I hear a little DM melancholy in an upbeat Brubeck performance. I don't think the good feelings were mutual, however. In DM's memoir "My Beautiful Life" he only mentions that one of Dave Brubeck's brothers -- also a musician -- was an employee of his for a while. Dave Brubeck is conspicuously absent from the memoir

[@penteadovinicius]

this is magic

[@vogelalsprophet]

Sensationell!

[@wumisuzume]

Intense

[@chrisgiffen1400]

Sounds like somebody walking down a beach in no hurry, discovering odd bits of flotsam and jetsam.

[@chrisgiffen1400]

There are most amazing discoveries on the beach, and some ordinary things too. Thus, as you walk you stop and start again, and linger as you stroll, always ready for something new. An old crab shell! Life on this planet is wonderful. Skip along for awhile, in enjoyment!

[@Mimi12350]

Thought the same thing !

[@sssnacksss]

wow!!!!

[@Mimi12350]

L’avant-gardiste de la polytonalité de Darius Milhaud 🤍🤍

[@TheLILYMON01]

The first beats remind me of the Murder, She Wrote theme

[@edisonwai]

1:32-1:47, 2:09-2:24, 5:30-5:45, 6:25-6:40

[@johnlindstrom9994]

A little bit jauntier, but reminiscent of Federico Mompou. They were contemporaries. (Mompou: 1893-1987)

[@RivièreChalumeauCauchemarLOL]

really nice colors♥🤩 lol

[@centrostudicarrara6264]

One hand in a tone, the other half-tone (or one entire tone) upper or lower. Milhaud has trasposed it all with Musescore3, I think. Good job, it sounds very nice!

[@Rhythmmical]

Was this recorded at an outdoor venue? I hear birds chirping at times.

[@tainokreb5200]

wtf this is so good

[@jeffreyadams648]

A genius. Gets to the bottom of “things”.

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

Daily dose of Bitonality

[@conan2717]

I think the performance could sound more clear

[@fourtreemouths]

what the heck does Mouv! mean? ( the "!" is actually, like a little "t" over a dot?) it's in many places throughout these works, and usually follows "Cedez" I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything.

[@sohaib7526]

Val Brown it’s an equivalent to saying “a tempo” I believe. Or a return to the prevailing pulse. I may be wrong but that’s how I’ve always played those.

[@sohaib7526]

Val Brown céder means slowing down or pull back a bit (as far as tempo goes)

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

Perfectly right !

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

Idem !

[@alcyonecrucis]

Retournez au mouvement précédent = Tempo primo

[@성이름-v4m4w]

6:45 브라질의 추억 중 코파카바나

[@lernoe3767]

hidden revolution.

[@나민지-w1w]

6:45

[@davidjeffress8471]

Milhaud's style is so reminiscent of Satie that it's not funny. There must have been a lot of Satie sitting his bookshelf.

[@justinscaife530]

Yea I would too

[@simianto9957]

They knew each other and were friends for a while, Satie greatly adored Darius.

[@VanVlearMusic]

10:07 made me laugh

[@EliMrSynovy]

Omg Brazil mentioned

[@rimmausmanova5674]

9:36 tea of two

[@jadonarmon]

Laranjeiras reminds me of Golliwog's Cakewalk

[@walkercatenaccio]

I agree.

[@notsure002]

I detect allusions to Percy Grainger in Leme.

[@nandoflorestan]

Wow. You must be the most wrong person in the entire Internet.

[@helenamarie4337]

@@nandoflorestan lol

[@adigozelov-enjoyer]

Were any of his substantial works published before 1920...?

[@netizencapet]

One can hear the influence of Albéniz all over this. Listen to Navarra.

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

1:22

[@hortleberrycircusbround9678]

You should get the William Bolcom recording on Nonsuch it is way better than this rendition

[@bmxman4115]

Who else is looking at this for music theory?

[@walkercatenaccio]

I am, trying to incorporate more Modernist Classical ideas into my jazz piano playing.

[@kgh8634]

미요 브라질의 추억 중 코파카바나

[@kgh8634]

6:47

[@wandahelenagorecka-fichten9258]

Wydaje mi się że w tych utworach Milhaud oprócz temperamentu południowo-amerykańskiego przebija impresjonizm francuski co daje pewną miękkość

[@cesar_8336]

0:44 Dos mais de 20 minutos de "música" só se aproveitam estes 3 segundos. O resto soa completamente errado.

[@WarriorStatue]

Esse manja!!!!onze!!

[@v.6297]

é a intenção.

[@itslategoodnight]

Defina 'errado'.

[@Brasil2013]

Essa é a nossa musica! Ja prestou atenção no famoso "Desafinado" de Tom Jobim? Isso é uma das razoes que faz a nossa musica tão singular, comparada com os outros paises. Não existe musica como a nossa, e tenho muito orgulho em dizer isso!

[@robertomarchi4394]

@@teacoffee42 Assim que escreveres em português, vamos te entender.

[@kelin861127]

Absolutely love it, better than fxxking Bach~~

[@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo]

It reflects far better the chaos of the 20th Century than, also and particularly, Mozart.

[@Qazwdx111]

medicore

[@ShutUpZewenThisIsNotBased]

ok sandor

[@mateuslaet4140]

I can assure you that Brasil does not sound like this

[@Brasil2013]

The first time I heard this collection the only word that came to my mind was "Brasil." This is our music and Darius Milhaud did a wonderful job in capturing the essence of Brazilian music!

[@nandoflorestan]

Brazil sounds exactly like this -- when you miss it.

[@JoaoPaulo-vv5vr]

I can argue that through a foreigner point of view, its quite honest and it beautifully sounds like the Brazil of those times.

[@LedoPiano]

Maybe not the entire country, but Rio for sure haha

[@RicardoMartinez-jy5lo]

Great performances of Brazilian music for guitar: Agustín Pereyra Lucena.

[@knee980]

11:27

[@뭉-f8i]

5:30

[@tikitak9132]

6:45

[@tikitak9132]

프랑스6인조 미요 중 코파카바나, 복조성 사용

[@뉴뉴-g1j]

6:45

[@administrator2597]

6:48

[@hh08.10]

6:45

[@ariciarose6917]

6:47