RARE Orchestral Version of Gaspard de la nuit : Ondine

[@lisztomaniac2593]

I listened to this with headphones in my bed, alone in my room, in the night. The experience was surreal. at 6:23, my heart was beating twice as faster, and I almost felt scared. And people say classical music is boring.

[@Ljmc_]

Is not classical music, is impressionistic...

[@lisztomaniac2593]

@@Ljmc_ uhm, yes? it’s from the Impressionistic era of classical music.

[@Iumine]

@@Ljmc_ there is classical music and within that there is the classical era (1730s-1820s). I think you think he's talking about the classical era but he's just talking about classical music. Impressionism is a style within the modernist era which is within classical music as a whole

[@akadetrorjk]

@@Ljmc_ confidently incorrect

[@stynway59]

I never would have thought this could be orchestrated. No, it doesnt quite capture the glistening shimmer of the piano but it has most of the color that Ravel would have used had he thought this work belonged in the orchestra

[@Magnet12]

6:23 the universe almost revealed its secrets to me

[@hjiuhfhrehui]

hahahah xD. that comment made my day xD . i totally agree with you lol.

[@mikebel74]

I felt the same way. A religious experience, listening to that.

[@orlandooracle7008]

Same!!!!!! 💜

[@marcorval]

Reminds me of Scriabin...

[@robbmartson3802]

Bravo Monsieur Constant! Absolument incroyable! Belle! Hallucinante! Repose en paix.

[@sussygussy1138]

Listening and looking at this image makes me feel locked in a strange dream

[@2400dimension]

My God this is amazing to a degree that is mind blowingly spectacular beyond words.

[@bpe-music]

I would love to see the score of that orchestration. :-)

[@powertube5671]

me too

[@davisatdavis1]

Me three

[@robertoa.m.3984]

Get it from Christoph Eschenbach or the Orchestra librarian

[@Racolver]

I was hoping for John Williams to be a conductor for this piece. Epic music always swells along so well in his life

[@elizabethpappin8773]

The picture depicted compliments the movement so well. A woman of the water beckoning a man to come to the water with her; it is almost as inviting as the music makes it seem! I much prefer the piano, but the orchestrated rendition rekindles what was already a light flame, if that makes sense. Thank you very much for the orchestral version ^.^

[@adrypiano]

Elizabeth Pappin you’re welcome, glad you enjoyed both the music and the painting!

[@Jordi_Ventura]

That sounds genial. Simply wonderful music!!! 👍

[@ericallerat1342]

Tears are coming

[@Nice-sz4ee]

oop me too

[@johnbitoy1938]

This is sooo good!

[@KarloFeder]

absolutly fantastic!

[@Racolver]

This would’ve been part of a soundtrack from an Award-Winning Fantasy Adventure film so it’ll be ten-times greater than any modern films were at. Man, I wish this’ll happen like this before

[@VOLKHVORONOVICH]

I was working on a story with three main characters, and while once listening to this piece, I realized the music described each individual, perfectly!

[@Racolver]

@@VOLKHVORONOVICH I’ll suggest that any theme/setting would be setting on an epic fantasy-mythical adventure with similar companionships and loving couples that would fit in the mood of the story (if that’s alright with you, bud.)

[@zizou11111]

John William Waterhouse: "A Naiad - Hylas with a Nymph";) "The Naiad has just risen, nude, from the stream, and peers between the willow stems at a sleeping youth, who lies half covered with a leopard skin on the bank. Two green water-lily leaves confine the water-nymph's red tresses. Harmony of pink and green, relieved by blue light on the water. Large oblong picture." (From catalogue notes written by Henry Blackburn when the painting was exhibited at the New Gallery in 1893).

[@Jmachineful]

Magia

[@robertoa.m.3984]

Absolutely fantastic! A masterpiece! (He who criticizes should try to do it better.)

[@benjaminteaguemusic4235]

***** One day, when I master orchestration, you'll hear the Miroirs done. My ultimate dream!

[@alger3041]

Ben Teague, I wish you the best of luck in orchestrating the remaining movements of Miroirs. Only please remember that what you turn out has to match stylistically the two movements that Ravel did orchestrate.

[@benjaminteaguemusic4235]

Naturally, I'll study lots of his own orchestrations before even attempting my own. He is the master in my eyes!

[@alger3041]

Once again, I wish you the best of luck with this project. I agree that it should be done. I hope that you succeed. Many others have failed at attempting to orchestrate a work of Ravel in his own manner (i.e., a version of his Trio I heard many years ago). The transcriptions I've head thus far of Noctuelles and La Vallee des Cloches are furtive at best, hardly compatible with what Ravel would have done. There is a version of Oiseaux Tristes which is actually acceptable, but there is room for improvement even here. Again, see how wonderful Constant's treatment of Gaspard de le Nuit is, so that only points out, it can be done!

[@alger3041]

EvanFingerstyle. it takes many, many years to become innately familiar with a composer's inner individualities so that one can attempt a transcription like this. It is more than a matter of what instruments he uses.

[@genevarain]

Please let me know... I've been wanting to hear Oiseaux tristes orchestrated for years and have been looking in desperation for an existing version here but have not found one yet!

[@fabptitpom]

Why not? Her voice is supposed to attract men, and a sound as soft as a clarinet fits perfectly, in my opinion :)

[@Slothorama]

Agree. I would have gone heavier on the percussion myself...

[@zizou11111]

Post Cogitum. Honestly - marvellous version.

[@jtdumee]

Yes!!!! :)

[@antonellomanco]

Stupenda.

[@gabril7297]

Italianoooooooooooo

[@rochefort82]

bien orchestré mais l'oeuvre perd en noirceur, donc en beauté et en magie... l'original reste à mon sens l'un des plus beaux morceaux jamais écrit.

[@adriandurand4531]

Bien vu et bien dit !

[@robertoa.m.3984]

C’est comme compare un livre avece un film. Les moyens son totalement different.

[@sardanaphalus]

Which orchestra..?

[@rickyh812]

very interesting.. but the orchestral version made ondine sounds a bit bulky....and i can barely feel the water from here comparing to the piano version.

[@geneosis]

Nice but It could be better in my opinion. More colors and contrasts in orchestration for a shimmering effect, however i think it is not quite dare.

[@sardanaphalus]

Simon Binovsky Perhaps use arpeggios (arpeggi?) within the woodwind from the very start..?

[@keniisaka]

And the orchestra faithfully reproduce the printer's error in the original... the fluttering shimmer should be G# A G# G# A G# G# A throughout.

[@CorradoLoffredi]

Ondine does not sing, in the beginning. "Elle frole", not sings. ;-) I find, instead, the clarinet is perfect, more than flute. The flute could continue the melody, after the first page.

[@jannis11]

Noice

[@ferociousgumby]

So who wrote this?

[@ZAWARUD00]

Je préfère quand même l'original de Ravel pour piano seul...

[@Mehdi-qp1tz]

de même, mais les deux ont leur charme

[@robertoa.m.3984]

C’est un autre monde! Pas comparable.....

[@jishkabob213]

5:25

[@Le_Trouvere]

Who orchestrated this?

[@robertoa.m.3984]

Le_Trouvere ...Marius Constant

[@AB-sp3wd]

C'est moi ou l'ondine peinte ressemble à Mauresmo?

[@Maddolis]

I know that Alborada del Gracioso has been orchestrated.

[@robertoa.m.3984]

By Ravel himself

[@MathieuPrevot]

It appears too slow, and at many places, instead of staccati we need a flow ie., something more horizontal; it's really too bad since at the piano the goal is to reach some sort of continuity that other instruments allow (eg., strings), but here in this version the natural instruments are cutting the flow and make it more pianistic, percussive.

[@44seann]

musiques trop fragile pour etre orchestrée malheureusement!!! elle perd en intimité , en agogique et les effets en sont outranciers

[@ffortney]

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