probably ravel's most headbanging melody

rambunctious, barnstorming, boisterous...whatever you'd like to call it
recording by Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin, and Philippe Muller, cello: • Maurice Ravel - Sonata...

[@TimothyReeves]

I never would have guessed this was Ravel

[@trejey]

Is that a joke?

[@LISZT-]

It is pretty obvious, when you listen to him a bit 😊

[@TimothyReeves]

@@LISZT- I listen to a lot of orchestral music and some solo piano, but very little chamber music.

[@LISZT-]

​​@@TimothyReevesthats nice,👍 Ravel have also this mote "heavymetal" style, thats in this video

[@ObscureGaruda]

Idk man, this is the typical “Ravel” sound.

[@NickOleksiakMusic]

Ravel went from Bolero to this. Dude had some RANGE

[@markwilliams3174]

One musical theorist suggested that Ravel's obsession with repeated motifs late in his career was symptomatic of his early dementia: Picks Disease

[@rotum1324]

I don’t know who you pock up on so I don’t know if it was meant as a joke. But since Ravel chose the repetiveness as an experiment, showed great dislike for the fame of his Bolero and made fun of it, i think it had in the case of the Bolero nothing to do with his sickness.

[@landlubber541]

@@markwilliams3174 Which is complete bullshit since he wrote both piano concertos after Bolero...

[@markwilliams3174]

@@landlubber541 Published dates are not reliable for the date of composing

[@landlubber541]

@@markwilliams3174 Except that we know for sure from his sketches and letters that Ravel wrote both concertos from 1929 to 1931. Bolero was premiered in 1928...

[@Ace-dv5ce]

Feels a little bartoky I like it

[@FelineFlame-dj1xl]

Correct! I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that it was inspired by Bartok Amazing to see how legends influence each other! :)

[@damienm.9677]

So bluesy. This kinda melody fits the cello’s low-mid register so well

[@visortheinvisioner196]

Among Classical Composers, I believe Ravel is the most "bluesy," as he was vastly influenced by the jazz of his time, and you can hear it within his many works! Another piece in a similar vein is his "Prelude in A Minor," if you'd appreciate something more in this style from the composer.

[@PianoHypnoshroom]

​@@visortheinvisioner196I guess it depends how you define classical composer, since Gershwin is literally the jazz classical guy. Shostakovich also had lots of jazz influence. For his time though, Ravel incorporated the most jazz in his pieces.

[@visortheinvisioner196]

@@PianoHypnoshroom That's a good point --- while writing this comment, I completely glossed over Gershwin and Shostakovich for some reason. Overall, I completely agree!

[@ofilosofoouumfumante5655]

​@@PianoHypnoshroomKapustin though

[@wait_whatt]

Nice fragment! For anyone who enjoys such music I recommend Prokofiev's string quartets (especially the 1st, which is my favorite one)

[@hahhey1372]

This is also within the likes of Bartok. My favorite string quartet from Prokofiev is his second quartet.

[@alejandrotaverareyes]

Prokofiev has quartets!!!!!????? I've been exploring Prokofiev for a bit as I've over my romatic era and classical era phase and I get to enjoy even more than you!

[@samdajellybeenie14]

I love a good chromatically descending accompaniment. Very Ravel.

[@samdajellybeenie14]

This is my second time through this video. When it got to the chromatic descending stuff I had the exact same thought and when I went to comment it I saw my first comment. Nice lol.

[@BBB-hi4hc]

underated Ravel piece

[@DallasCrane]

Excellent find. I need to listen to the whole thing now!

[@thechickenskeptic]

That's metal as hell

[@haomingli6175]

This sounds very Chinese, not just being pentatonic, but the melodic contour as well.

[@itzmetee3459]

I see what you mean but it sounds more black American to me

[@SerpongeDash]

Yeah parts of it reminded me of sakamoto (who dabbled in Chinese sounding music multiple times)

[@hunterreyne4310]

@@SerpongeDash was going to say this, it's reminiscent of a few sections of his Last Emperor score! (and, of course, Sakamoto was primarily influenced by the French Impressionists, so it all feeds into itself

[@bungus2012]

I guess you could say he came a little...unravelled

[@thegoodgeneral]

This whole piece is a masterwork. Everything Ravel did was a masterwork.

[@DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

doesn’t sound like Ravel, sounds like me

[@olived9560]

oo thank you so much for sharing + analysing!!

[@ZachOnett]

this is a sweet piece!

[@betamax6080]

sounds like something Stravinsky would've written

[@sashawright1734]

it also sounds like bartók kind of

[@Lamadesbois]

The palette of the musicians (and maybe also the technical engineers), is outstanding. That articulation in Kantorow's pianos and the spun phrasing of Philippe Muller! Thank you for sharing. De la musique intense et vivante !

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

Ravel is so underrated. Great video!

[@DaveDexterMusic]

this has to be instant top 3 in my list of "extremely rated people that I have seen insisted are underrated". it's ravel, he's rated as _fuck_

[@gmcollazo1118]

Indeed I was head banging! Thanks for sharing

[@kierancarter5639]

I remember learning this for a few concerts some years ago and I couldn’t wait to start this movement… yet after reading this section through that excitement immediately vanished and turned into frustration 😂 It’s the cello equivalent of patting your head and rubbing your tummy!

[@Joseph-nh6in]

Patting your head and rubbing your belly?

[@kierancarter5639]

⁠@@Joseph-nh6in as in in terms of technique, it’s a coordination nightmare! Going from pizz to arco and back in less than a second requires serious practice 😅

[@nachfullbarertrank5230]

those violin sweeps lol Seriously though a couple weeks ago i heard these violin arpeggio patterns live in a solo performance and it's funny how similar they are to (one style of) sweep picking (with the repeated note at the top and bottom) and how you can transfer them to guitar. Justifying what you do using what people have done for hundreds of years is always fun, at least when you're extremely insecure

[@jhonwask]

I love his sonatas and trios.

[@ziegunerweiser]

there used to be a video of angela hewitt playing le tombeau de couperin it was one of the heaviest things ive ever heard or seen her piano sounded magnificent it was so intense i was absolutely devastated when they took it down

[@roelweerheijm6635]

The sonata for violin and cello is one of the greatest pieces Ravel ever composed!

[@specialperson335]

for me it's a part from his piano concerto for the left hand

[@skylarlimex]

i'd probably do that one day

[@JohnBrown-pq9tj]

Kids keep jamming it in the rock and roll black hole

[@fruitsnackbandit4987]

this is salmon run type beat for sure. Bro must've had The First Child of Algin, The Hidden Blade of Yakiharas in the studio with him while he composed this

[@theyapsta]

I wouldn't have called it "headbanging"... not in a metal sense anyway. It spoke more of scary country music to me... Like litterally country music from a scary country..😂

[@BlackHermit]

Strong MeTaL \m/ Ravel.

[@MePeterNicholls]

Did he have Anton Weber over to help?! Wow never heard this before

[@davidalejc]

I think that the second movement is more headbanging

[@skylarlimex]

fair enough

[@jocobuswitte7637]

Holy fuck

[@coreylapinas1000]

Frontispiece

[@Chrisdvc26]

Try the climax at the end of Scarbo

[@crow-dont-know]

Ravel was the goat

[@smike9884]

This is even more head-bangier: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZvMhIaNqsd8q7cm39s

[@JenksAnro]

Sounds like John Powell lol

[@hoilst265]

Shame the dude didn't have access to a BC Rich with EMG 81/85s.

[@benhodde5688]

Sounds like bartok

[@kieraasahi8240]

omg it sounds so chinese lol

[@prepcoin_nl4362]

No way this trumps Alborada del gracioso in the headbanging department

[@Scorpionthepianist]

Dvorak much 😂

[@obiwanda]

Witcher III music

[@gregory9764]

Beginning from section sixteen, I have waited deperately for the cue of the Counterpoint. It did not arrive and I feel dry and coarse, akin to a desiccated bath sponge.

[@angelicart.6]

I’m in love 0:12 💜😭

[@tomieboy9376]

Is head-banging in the room with us now

[@a_seak]

sounds like china

[@LinceFilmes]

Isn’t that Metallica?

[@githanjalialgama1601]

Very Avant Garde, but hardly “ head banging “!

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

For someone who is accostumed to listening to the 4th movement of Chopin's Sonata No. 1 Op. 4, this is pathetically unapealing for headbanging

[@bengeurden1272]

Well, not such a good example if you compare it to Shostakovich' String quartet 8, second movement. Or like some of the symphony no.10 stuff. Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky are candidates as well. Probably Russian classical music is just very ideal for metal-like head banging 😁

[@skylarlimex]

but for ravel it's quite a stretch which is why it's so interesting to hear

[@Dylonely42]

No, the best is Bolero.

[@ravelness]

Wrong, you die with Daphins et Chloe.

[@aidandavis7657]

Wow I fell asleep

[@bennieboi99]

girl what

[@aidandavis7657]

@@bennieboi99 Allow me to repeat my comment. "Wow, I fell asleep." Better?

[@bennieboi99]

@@aidandavis7657 guess you don't have ears then