How is this music so BEAUTIFUL?! (Fauré: Pavane)

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Gabriel Fauré's Pavane is one of those pieces that just speaks directly to your heart with an air of nobility intact. The composition is a masterclass in coherent melodic structure and the use of coloring notes in harmony.
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3:12 Analysis: Main part
10:31 Mini middle section
15:01 Main return
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▶ Performance video: • Fauré Pavane Op. 50 - ...
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Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50 (1887)
📄 Score: Nels Drue Daily, imslp.org
🎵 Fauré's piano roll recording (recreation): • Gabriel Fauré plays hi...
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@neilanthonyhaywardlewis8978 Ай бұрын

After 42 years of not playing piano, I am learning this piece, beautiful piece 😊

@vocalchords3609 Жыл бұрын

Outrageously joyous and wonderful to sit alongside as you open the architecture to us. Thank you for your generosity in sharing the music with us as you do.

@CeciliaLee320 11 күн бұрын

First piano music I would like to play! I got it in my head for over a week. Amazingly beautiful. Surprisingly I can do it with both hands!?! As a beginner, this music has magic! I have watched your other video, your performance has magic too !!

@dcwang321 Жыл бұрын

Your expertise along with your true love for these beautiful pieces are greatly appreciated

@zecalimazeca Жыл бұрын

It would be great if you could write the chords in all your analysis so we could understand better the harmony of all songs. That would be so helpful. You some times do this but only in some parts of the pieces. Hope this is not to ask too much from you and the great job you do in making all these videos and sharing you knowledge to all of us around the world. No words to thank you enough.

@simongross3122 Жыл бұрын

I love this. To me it seems like there's a lot of tension but at the same time very peaceful. Beautiful. Thank you.

@davidwhite2949 Жыл бұрын

I very much enjoyed this I’m fascinated by the approach, because as a performer you’re taking liberties with the composition I think, adding octaves, choosing a shorter over a longer version, etc. But it was interesting to listen to you do this: several useful tips relevant to composing

@hippophile Жыл бұрын

Fauré's greatest hits for me include his Élégie for Cello and orchestra...

@cayrab1 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful, you are so talented!

@zecalimazeca Жыл бұрын

Love your lessons. Thank you from Brazil

@DressedForDrowning Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thanks for the insight. This is the 1st video that I have seen from you.

@themukhtalef Жыл бұрын

You are the best

@jonathansprout22 Жыл бұрын

A brilliant analysis of both the performance and the composition of this riveting piece of music. Adding octaves near the end tastefully heightens the melody. Explaining the 5ths and 3rds jumps in the melody is something I would never have considered. You’ve given structure and logic to this remarkably creative piece of music.

@izolius5157 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Another analysis from you that inspires me to learn smth new on piano!

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! :)

@michaelacord228 Жыл бұрын

Love your analysis of this beautiful pavane. I also like your shortened version of the piece--it suits the solo piano. I think Faure is often overlooked as a great composer. His Requiem is a favorite of mine.

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I have one more Faure piece coming up soon :)

@vulkanosaure Жыл бұрын

I love his requiem too ! To me Fauré is among the french impressionist trio that i respect above all (with debussy and ravel)

@dwdei8815 Ай бұрын

Hello Mr Secrets, I was actively looking online for analysis of this exact piece (Fauré Pavane) and this was great. I have so many questions about it. The biggie is - and I've found other forums online asking the same - "Why is Fauré's Pavane so damnably hard to memorise"? The answers are few and aren't all that instructive. My memory's not brilliant, but I do have a Chopin Ballade and two Scherzos (Berceuse, couple of waltzes etc.) packed away in there, along with Ravel, Beethoven (etc., again) and a whole evening of jazz standards. Yet the Fauré Pavane has a uniquely slippery property to it that resists memorisation (for me). The version I'm using is a bit more complicated than yours - it picks out a voice in the upper tenor notes which makes an extremely beautiful counterpoint - but that's also common in, say, Chopin. For what sounds like such an innocent tune (it's like Greensleeves but in French), its harmonic complexity is very dense - shifts from major to minor, chromaticism. Is it that the superficial simplicity lulls me in to a kind of torpor of the concentration?

@madcube1581 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for another beautiful analysis. Do you plan to make videos of the full performance on your grand piano? How about replaying some of the old songs you've already played on your new equipment? It sounds really good :3

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

Yeah, there will hopefully be performance videos going forward! It's a good idea to revisit the "old" repertoire again...

@4080475 Жыл бұрын

Very nice piano arrangement Henrik and I quite like your added notes to make it richer in the 2nd half. I suspect there is a typo on the score at measure 34, the first note in the bass should clearly be a C# not an E(#), just like in measure 9. I am enjoying your videos so much I have subscribed on patreon : thanks!

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

Thanks, great to have you as a patron! :) Yes of course it should be C# there, they have it as a correction printed about the arrangement imslp, I have noted it in my physical copy which I play from, but I forgot to mark it in the video!

@vulkanosaure Жыл бұрын

I always found Faure (and Ravel) to have a kind of antique sound, their harmonies evoke some middle age landscape to my mind, although the writing conventions they use are from a more modern era, so i never understood how they pull that off. Maybe 2 good examples of that are this E minor on the 2nd variations of the first section, and the the E major in the middle section. Thanks for underlying that, this is really interesting. (By the way I'm french, and you made me laugh with that "french flavoured cadence" ^^ i totally see how it fits with this stereotype of romantism. I think you got a lot of them in Carmen's most popular theme !)

@michaelcarlin3845 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! I love it! On a somewhat related note, have you done anything with the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, 2nd movement, as a piano solo arrangement? It would be great!

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

I haven't played the Ravel piano concerto but it's a great work! It's solo in the beginning all right, not sure about the other sections...

@kofiLjunggren Жыл бұрын

Sounds quite modern!

@manu3933 Жыл бұрын

If you like this music you must listen: "Oriental" Enrique Granados (spanish clasical music)

@bbyng7316 Жыл бұрын

Such similarities! The piece even sounds as if it's by Granados!

@patriciaedwards3909 10 ай бұрын

Just beautiful! Do you offer an easier version of Faure's Pavane or a tutorial/analysis for the second portion?

@SonataSecrets 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Well, I plan on doing an easy arrangement of this in a new volume early next year, so stay tuned!

@axelsantiago4073 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such great content. Would love to see a video analyzing the beautiful Ciacona in F minor from Johann Pachelbel.

@bbyng7316 Жыл бұрын

The major/minor interplay suggests reflective hope. It is in fact v Spanish. Your analysis is great. Thank you. The bare harmonies don't need padding though in order to appreciate the Moorish mood, which is probably fairly Spartan?

@howardberger5922 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful, as always! May I ask what make and model is your piano?

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a Yamaha C3, ca 50 years old.

@chakkowchau2922 Жыл бұрын

Piano rendition is ear-pleasing though I admire the orchestral & choral version most.

@user-di8ib1ut4z Жыл бұрын

Can you analyze Alban Berg’s sonata?

@IdoRomano 9 ай бұрын

Have you tried edition peters version?

@erggish Жыл бұрын

doesn't the ending of the initial phrase melody remind you the piece "Song from a Secret Garden"?

@jeremycordova5419 Жыл бұрын

I wish you would have played it altogether at the end like you usually do, i was really looking forward to it 😓

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

I actually play it in a separate video this time! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJrQYZerq9ergJY (but I don't do it for all pieces, it depends if it's repertoire that I'm comfortable enough with to do a proper performance recording of it)

@jeremycordova5419 Жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets well so far all of your videos that i've watched, i love how you play the pieces 😀. Thank you for your analysis and beautiful playing.