Maurice Ravel - Histoires naturelles (1906)

[@Kobzar3374]

Fine, like everything by Ravel. Thank you for sharing!

[@Hailey_Paige_1937]

I’m a huge Ravel fan, and I’m surprised I’ve never heard of this until now. The first movement is definitely similar to his Left-Hand Piano Concerto. The second movement makes me think of “La Valleé des Cloches” from his Miroirs Suite. The fifth movement is my favorite, I think, along with the second. How cool! I always love discovering new-to-me Ravel works. ❤️❤️❤️

[@reev9759]

The next time you see something you're unfamiliar with by Ravel, don't be surprised! There's probably dozens of pieces he wrote that you've never heard.

[@Hailey_Paige_1937]

@@reev9759 I’ve been taking time to go through his entire oeuvre. Slowly, but surely, I’m getting there.

[@Cmaj7]

00:01 I - Le Paon 04:41 II - Le Grillon 07:48 III - Le Cygne 10:59 IV - Le Martin-Pêcheur 13:25 V - La Pintade

[@reev9759]

Chapters with time stamps are already included in this upload.

[@Cmaj7]

@@reev9759 timestamps in the description used to not work on mobile, but yeah this comment doesn't need to be pinned anymore

[@oboist3]

Great - I have always loved Bacquier's singing and this is a marvellous work to showcase his talent.

[@matteogenerani5097]

The incredible french-overture style that we find also in his left hand concerto

[@reev9759]

French overture style in a six movement vocal piece about animals? Define what you mean by "French overture," because it doesn't apply here.

[@matteogenerani5097]

Grandeur Dotted rhythms Homophonic

[@reev9759]

@@matteogenerani5097 an overture is not a genre of music. An overture is a catch-all amalgam of several pieces of music. A vocal piece with piano accompaniment is not an overture.

[@matteogenerani5097]

@@reev9759 you are right that is not an overture, but the opening is clearly in the french-overture style.

[@reev9759]

@@matteogenerani5097 you can call it grandeur, dotted rhythms, and homophonic -- but it's not French Overture.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This soothes my soul

[@annacuj1170]

Le Paon - Peacock Le Grillon - Cricket Le Cygne - Swan Le Martin-Pecheur - Kingfisher La Pintade - Guinea Fowl

[@DIDIERFARNIR]

Musique sublime.... Bacquier immense....J'adore vraiment Crespin également dans cette œuvre.....

[@kniazigor2276]

Ravel, Bacquier et Baldwin: la perfection est, quelques fois, de ce bas monde !

[@davidrehak3539]

Maurice Ravel:Histoires naturelles (Természetes történetek) 1.Le Paon (A páva) 00:00 2.Le grillon (A krikett) 04:41 3.Le cygne (A hattyú) 07:48 4.Le Martin-Pêcheur (A királyhalász) 10:59 5. La Pintade (Gyöngytyúk) 13:25 Gabriel Bacquier-bariton Dalton Baldwin-zongora

[@claude1918]

Le Paon's rhytms and harmonies in the beginning are actually very similar to those of his Concerto for Left Hand.

[@thomasgrubb4126]

It is interesting how Bacquier attributes so much sensitivity to the narcissistic peacock who is clearly untroubled and unmoved by the absence of his "fiancee" who may not exist at all. We must not feel sorry for this bird!

[@NFGolf]

This is AMAZING

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

Not only one of the highlights of the whole canon of classical music, but also one in Ravel's oeuvre.

[@reev9759]

If you rephrase by flipping the order, it would be more impactful and logical.

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

@@reev9759 English is not my native language.

[@reev9759]

@@erwinwoodedge4885 that's why my structural advice is helpful.

[@lukasmiller486]

As always, I find the slight rasp to Bacquier’s voice a little off putting but once you get past that, you realize what a truly outstanding performer he was because of the way he infuses such a strong sense of inflection, character and expression to each phrase. His Athanael in Thais and Nilikantha in Lakme are phenomenal in their dramatic power and emotional intensity.

[@martinblas8162]

He glides on the pond, like a white sleigh, from cloud to cloud. For his hunger is only for the fleecy clouds that he sees forming, moving and being lost in the water. It is one of them that he desires. He aims at it with his beak, and suddenly immerses his snow-clad neck. Then, just as a woman’s arm emerges from a sleeve, he pulls it back. He has caught nothing. He looks: The startled clouds have disappeared. He remains disillusioned for only a moment, for the clouds return before very long, and, over there, where the ripples on the water are dying away, one cloud is already forming. Softly, on his light feather cushion, the swan paddles and approaches. … He exhausts himself fishing for empty reflections, and perhaps he will die, a victim to that illusion, before catching a single piece of cloud. But what am I talking about? Every time he dives, he burrows in the nourishing mud with his beak and comes back with a worm. He’s fattening up like a goose.

[@thegrassguy2871]

This is the swan?

[@sugardaddy4714]

This is freaking intense!

[@ChristopherJamesEdward]

Based on the writings of Jules Renard, Ravel approached Renard to put this music to his Natural Histoires.

[@jhlee3187]

❤❤❤

[@川口健太郎-m5e]

13:25 20世紀の作曲家メシアンの歌曲みたい メシアンが生まれる２年前の作品 ストラヴィンスキーのオペラ「うぐいす」のアリア風 ラヴェルはリヒャルト・シュトラウスを尊敬していた リヒャルト・シュトラウスのオペラ「ELECTRA」を手本にしている ラヴェルの弟みたいなストラビンスキーは「春の祭典」を作る際にオペラ「ELECTRA」を手本にした

[@reetrol]

3:52 This chord..

[@sugardaddy4714]

Jazz?

[@MrDaiohAzu]

@@sugardaddy4714 hell yeah, jazzy as fuck. Ravel went to the USA and fell in love with the newborn jazz culture over there, so I wouldn't be surprised if he got some inspiration directly from his american trip.

[@matthewnewton2753]

@@MrDaiohAzu Ravel was in America in 1928; this piece was published in 1906

[@MrDaiohAzu]

@@matthewnewton2753 you're correct. so his "jazz revelation" probably wasn't in this piece yet, since he wasn't yet in the US. Although "jazz inspiration" predates even the creation of jazz itself in the post-romantic and impressionist era, especially in France. If you listn to even earlier Debussy works, you'll notice some jazzy stuff as well, even though it didn't even existed at that time yet. Blue notes, scales.... In that regard, post romantism and impressionism were ahead of their time, almost a bit premonitory in their own way ahaha. Jazz before jazz. So with that logic, i'm not surprised that Ravel did "jazz" even before it existed. I guess that when he later discovered it in the US, it must have been a love at first sight ! (or at first hearing rather)

[@na-kun2136]

@@MrDaiohAzu I think it's wrong call any complex and hard created harmony jazz just because jazz harmony is complicated. But Ravel wanted to listen jazz(he even had dog with name "J A Z Z"). Anyway jazz inspirated pieces was only he's 2 concertos and 2 violin sonata(2 part "blues"). So complexity isn't Jazz but Jazz is complex music(I like jazz a lot)

[@川口健太郎-m5e]

20世紀の現代音楽は「トリスタンとイゾルデ」と「ELECTRA」を手本にして発展させた 当時のフランス音楽の作曲家たちはドイツの最新の作品を研究していた

[@川口健太郎-m5e]

13:25 ラヴェルの後輩メシアンの歌曲風 メシアンはこの歌曲集を参考にしたのかな メシアンは鳥の鳴き声の曲が多い

[@rivers1005]

Why aren't the notes of the vocal part connected with beams?

[@the_number_e]

Rivers100 It used to be the norm to break the beam with each syllable. It’s harder to read and slurs generally give the same information so vocal music is beamed normally now.

[@Quevivamarioteran]

Please, I need help and support. In the second piece, "Le Grillon", at 5:40, second and 3rd bar, the last but one 16th note in the r.h. of piano part should be a B flat instead of B natural as written. I think, if my ear is still good, that pianist actually plays B flat. Although in every edition is written B natural, my strong opinion is that Ravel intented B flat; more, there's a C flat immediately before and it wouldn't make no sense, at least in this contest, to write C flat and B natural in a row like that. More again, in second bar the voice has got B flat clearly. Help me please, if someone have got some different versions or other. Thanks

[@aaronfsmall]

Quevivamarioteran it is a typo-supposed to be Bb

[@virtuousvibes2852]

The pianist plays a B-natural. The c-sharp you mentioned is actually a c-natural in the key of D-flat, so the score is correct and the singer and piano are playing it as written.

[@Quevivamarioteran]

@@virtuousvibes2852 never mentioned a c sharp. The c is flat as clearly written, that is why I think that the following b should b flat again although not specificated, or they would be the same note (c flat\b natural)

[@virtuousvibes2852]

@@Quevivamarioteran my apologies, yes you are correct. The score does have a c flat and a b natural at the same time. Why I am not sure; it could have been a typo. but as a side note I notice that Ravel seems to use this enharmonic device in harp glissandos. Why I don't know but I assume it's for a certain effect

[@NFGolf]

Not complaining but why is this on this channel?

[@oscarmike1131]

Nathan Fankhanel you mean because of the singing?

[@NFGolf]

Mike K nah I was making a joke about the math video that was posted a couple weeks ago

[@Cmaj7]

I don't know. I thought it was a math channel too.

[@thomasgrubb4126]

Who is the excellent pianist and why is he/she not listed?

[@the_number_e]

He is listed...

[@nickbaritone]

Hi Mr. Grubb. It is Nick from your Singing in French Class at Peabody.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

Not music for youtube.