Ravel: Boléro // London Symphony Orchestra

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

That poor guy on the snare drum is gonna be playing this while he’s asleep

[@twinicebear775]

One time the snare drum player was out in my orchestra so the conductor was like "ok someone just do it" so the assistant concert master is like "oh yeah i can hit a drum that's easy" *not looking so easy after he had to do it for the whole rehearsal*

[@trongdung1306]

Conductor:"From the top"

[@fryderyckchopin484]

Why are you stealing my photos?

[@keithkunikida1222]

I don’t think he would sleep cuz if the rhythm is off or the dynamic is wrong then the piece would be ruined

[@grandmajsworld7836]

😂 this commentary tho - this piece is fantastic

[@jamesissmexy4024]

This is one of my favourite pieces from Ravel, but I always feel sorry for the drummer. (Just imagine playing drum the same way for over 16 minutes, that gotta hurt)

[@Passingman_]

Da Dadadada Dadadada Da Da Dadadada Dadadadadadadadada ×???

[@voltablitz]

Xd

[@ГеоргийМаслик]

But he also listens to the music

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@Passingman_ 169 times, according to Wikipedia at least

[@PMundi]

Thank you for the added parts telling what part of the orchestra was playing, great video!

[@PianoCzarX]

+SmaugtheStupendous Thank you!

[@G6JPG]

and from me

[@Dylonely_9274]

I love how all the instruments shine through and of course, the wonderful ending.

[@Ernestooooooooooo]

the drummer: I was born for this, it's my time to shine.

[@Dylonely_9274]

Haha exactly.

[@arnavanand8037]

Ravel: *full orchestra* (15:10) Stravinsky: *laughs in huge microscopic scores*

[@kirklurkpu4470]

Holy shit yes. Stravinsky does that with his popular mixtap- I mean pieces for orchestra that he made. Not only do they all play at once, there are even different voices and pattern that they follow. Unless the conductor has a good ear, you can cover up your mistakes in these segments lol

[@Lagrimoso]

tchaikovskys 1812 overture is also quite loud in the finale, so yea

[@keithkunikida1222]

You two didn’t know the existent of volume yet

[@Stephenp503]

@@keithkunikida1222 how can music get louder than 1812 overture?

[@quasimotolover911]

​@@Stephenp503boy oh boy you definitely haven't heard about danger music (danger music is a form of avant garde music and abstract art by fluxus, most well known danger music composers are Richard Carter Higgins and band Hanatrash which isn't really music but a concept, the concept being that the music may or will harm either the performer or the audience, and the music can be as loud that it can deafen the average person, and …there's a work (danger music #9, thankfully not performed yet) which has the score saying "volunteer to have your spinal cord removed" and there was a work which had a very realistic mannequin of a person, being topped with whipped cream, chocolate and optionally cherries I think and invited the audience to lick it, the ones I've watched were (I do not remember the numbers so I'll just illustrate them) Grab an acoustic guitar, lay it down on a table and break the strings, just scream, roll up your sleeves, take of your shirt/suit and clean your chest using water and a scrub thingy, chant in a preist chant voice very controversial topics (one of which being "women are baby making machines") well it's not classical music (wait is avant garde classical music?) but still louder that 1812)

[@G6JPG]

I read/heard somewhere that this was at least partially inspired (if that's the right word!) by the incessant noise from a sawmill near his lodgings. For a lot of people, it also brings back memories of (the shortened version! used by) Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, British Olympic (and subsequently professional) ice dancers. (Plenty of copies of their interpretation here on KZbin. Got maximum marks, though I personally prefer some of their other routines [the yellow and the white-and-blue ones].)

[@石田匠永-i7d]

一回だけでもお正月のコンサートに行き，ボレロの演奏を聞きに行きたいと言う力が沸きました。

[@me_is_hobo]

You're the bassoonist: 😌 You're the percussionist: 😳

[@Dylonely_9274]

😂

[@quasimotolover911]

you're: the timpanist, cymbalist, gong-ist? and the bass drummer: 😌😮‍💨

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@quasimotolover911 The timpani actually come in around the middle. But for the other three, you're right. "I guess we just sit here until the last couple of seconds.."

[@marcoponzio8982]

The oboe d'amore Is lovely! (Who's italian will know why)

[@quasimotolover911]

Io sono Italiano fra

[@clustertoo]

I liked when Gergiev conducted this with a toothpick.

[@victorvega8061]

*_ELEPHANT NOISES INTENSIFIES_*

[@SoggySandwich80]

When?

[@123cityperson]

@@SoggySandwich80 the very very coda section

[@tonyv8925]

Well done..very mesmerizing watching the color tabs...one of my favorite pieces...

[@lourdesperez4976]

I LOVE THE CELESTA INSTRUMENT AND SOUNDS

[@TaylorRochell-te9xs]

My favourite section is the one with the flutes, piccolo, trumpets, saxes and 1st violins

[@brunodilawrence7772]

Great job!!! This music it's very different and interesting, but really is difficult to understand. One suggestion: Ravel - La Valse

[@PianoCzarX]

Thank you! :) What do you mean by difficult to understand though?

[@brunodilawrence7772]

+PianoCzarX é muito repetitiva e, assim como "La Valse", você precisa prestar atenção e ouvir várias vezes.

[@PianoCzarX]

Bruno Dilawrence Tudo bem, eu vou gravar La Valse depois, assim que minhas provas terminarem. Obrigado :)

[@brunodilawrence7772]

+PianoCzarX Eu ficaria imensamente agradecido se você fizesse La Valse na versão orquestrada, é uma das minhas peças favoritas.

[@TheChrisEMartin]

For me, this will always remind me of Torvill and Dean and their gold medal/ perfect score dance on ice at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics 1984...

[@SaxandRelax]

Legend says that at the beginning of the first page it starts at piano and it says cresc. With a line until the end, when it goes to FFF

[@sanjai_s]

It strongly remains me of first movement of Shostakovich Symphony No.7 "Leningrad", where the first motif transition happens, it starts with a simple theme, and gets stronger, louder and more evil, and then bam, the famous Stalin march occurs with nausent dissonance and loudness

[@kuragehime602]

Ravel 😍

[@Mr-Prasguerman]

RAVEL }:'C

[@Mr-Prasguerman]

RAVEL C}':

[@da96103]

Ravel must have hated the bassoonists.

[@_rstcm]

Au contraire my friend 1:55

[@keithkunikida1222]

At least the bassoon can still play the rhythm in the back

[@me_is_hobo]

Did a bassoon sleep with his wife?

[@alexanderkardasis3392]

There's no hate of any woodwinds in raven's music or he would not be called the greatest orchestrator of the 19th and 20th century

[@StarWarrior7567]

@@_rstcm au contraire again, that range is the worst as a bassoonist lol

[@Dylonely_9274]

9:25 Bassoonists : I take it personally.

[@chatoyantpiano9031]

the slowest crecendo to exist

[@sztheunknown883]

The little drummer boy

[@misha_pie2995]

15:05 my ears is R.I.P

[@keithkunikida1222]

Well another disgrace to classical music appreciation

[@unoriginal422]

In 9:24, isn't Tenor Saxophone in the Woodwinds?

[@scriabinismydog2439]

If I'm not wrong it's in the Brass section

[@unoriginal422]

The Saxophone, is WOODWINDS AND BRASS

[@ze_rubenator]

@@scriabinismydog2439 Saxophones are woodwinds. They are single reed instruments, quite similar to clarinets (and often played by the clarinet players when they appear in orchestral works). Seems the creator of this video isn't quite so savvy when it comes to orchestra instruments, as there are many transposition mistakes as well.

[@scriabinismydog2439]

@@ze_rubenator thanks for the information

[@looney1023]

6:54 -- Best repetition :D The piccs and celeste should be an octave higher but amazing video otherwise!

[@semhak]

It's crazy how Ravel managed to create this sound that reminds us of bells or an organ, before we could analyze sound in such in a way that it would be 'easy'.

[@keithkunikida1222]

I can’t even hear the celesta

[@SuperBrictson]

​@@keithkunikida1222with a good pair of headphones you can hear something quite similar like the glockenspiel

[@Mr-Prasguerman]

6:51

[@elemusic19]

Everybody gangsta til the 2 2/3' nazard and 1 3/5' tierce come in. 6:54

[@turkyalamri4501]

Might come on disney sur

[@homesynthesis]

the most shocking part is that the snare is able to play that softly at the beginning HAHAHA

[@OriginalMusics]

I like it from 13:26

[@mikekent9488]

My girlfriend was conceived to Bolero by Ravel. Reportedly it keeps good time ;-)

[@authenticbaguette6673]

thanks for the information ......

[@JeCCCCCC]

Hey can i have the midi file

[@HR_Racc]

How did this piece get a lot of interest? It just repeats! How music has fallen

[@headmastercat1137]

Hey this piece still slap, tho I would prefer listen to une barque sur l'ocean

[@GreenBoy9000]

Maurice Ravel, the guy who wrote it, basicly called it orchestral tissue without music.

[@-werksmith2078]

I first discovered this piece in a Conan Movie.....

[@lenzschwarze]

poor basson :(

[@brodymclaughlin]

The poor Bassoons 🥺

[@federicozukanovic3358]

5:10 WTF???

[@PianoCzarX]

Is there something wrong?

[@federicozukanovic3358]

PianoCzarX No, it's just that sound in the "background"

[@branthebrave]

It's just someone coughing from the concert.

[@victorvega8061]

It kinda sounds like the trumpeter sneezed XD

[@leevinolla8818]

Control c, control v, lmaooooo😂

[@isaacyang2417]

GREAT JOB MATE

[@pattibreton6393]

Flippy: Am I hearing gunshots the whole beat?

[@SaxandRelax]

Do you count saxes as separate from woodwinds? Because in that one part it says all woodwinds (except bassoon) and tenor sax

[@ClassicalMusicMan]

I just noticed the drum is not well coronated along with the midi. Just to let you know

[@elijahvaldivia3729]

I thought saxophones aren't a orchestra instrument?

[@kingdmtv1515]

They aren't, but it's very rare to actually see one in an orchestra.

[@elijahvaldivia3729]

@@kingdmtv1515 Yeah because when orchestras were made or whatever saxophones weren't made then

[@kingdmtv1515]

That's weird, then how did Ravel actually get his hands on a couple of saxophones when writing this piece? It's just weird.

[@elijahvaldivia3729]

@@kingdmtv1515 I really don't know I just got it from my band teacher and how did you know that?

[@kingdmtv1515]

Because you need to have the instrument(s) you need to write a song/piece, and Ravel obviously had those instruments.

[@theend7339]

dont really get why people dismiss shostakovichs seventh symphony for being a "bolero clone"

[@ikschrijflangenamen]

The End If that is a bolero clone then I want more bolero clones.

[@kirklurkpu4470]

Wth Greg, that's so irrelevant. Not that I hate video games, but we're discussing about music here, not games.

[@alfonsozapatamogollon8040]

i practiced it xd

[@spitfire7772]

I feel sorry for the basoon ;C

[@bubblemania624]

What do the colors represent?

[@wassimsaiden6278]

instruments

[@bubblemania624]

I mean what color corresponds with each instrument?

[@keithkunikida1222]

Well are you even paying attention?!

[@alexg-cl6ef]

aesthetic

[@LilanDeSilva]

Elephant noises? More like horn sounds.

[@magnumproteus5519]

Hahahaha, bravo synthesia.

[@whitearrowgo255]

It’s literally the same beat every time

[@GUILLOM]

And that's why it's so great!

[@whitearrowgo255]

GUILLOM dang son u get around lol

[@SuperBrictson]

CINEMASINS: Ravel is a dick to bassoons

[@amoryblaine2123]

This is the only piece by Ravel that I hate

[@keithkunikida1222]

HOW, THIS IS AN AMAZING PIECE, YOU DISGRACE AND UNGRATEFUL SHIT

[@amoryblaine2123]

@@keithkunikida1222 in my eyes it has way less musical complexity compared to "La valse" or "Gaspard de la nuit" or any of his other big works. He himself disliked this the most. It's boring, of little emotion and dynamic, uncomplicated and unsophisticated. Just an easy piece for an easy listener that can't really comprehend the greatness of the bigger pieces cause he doesn't want to cause its less easy

[@SaxandRelax]

I like it 😢

[@SaxandRelax]

@@keithkunikida1222 holy shit calm yourself

[@Enricoooo]

​@@amoryblaine2123well, i like this piece and ravels other works too! Actually he is my favorite composer, this piece has something catchy and hipnotizing about it, i think thats why people like it. Also i dont think this piece is only for the ones that cant understand the complexity of his other works.

[@sabrinaschantz]

to me, its sorta boring, due to the same theme played over and over.

[@arnogerbil]

that is the point. this piece was meant to dictate Revel's descent into insanity.

[@sabrinaschantz]

Arno Gerber Oh okay, that makes sense now.

[@Erinnmnn]

It's an orchestration exercise, so Ravel could hear how different instruments and combinations react to the same melody.

[@tasogarerubica]

That aspect becomes more apparent when you watch an orchestra perform it. It initially starts with a singular woodwind being accompanied by the drum and as the piece goes on a different instrument takes it's stead. I'd suggest the one when Valery Gergiev conducted with a toothpick. You can feel the subtle intensity within the tip of that toothpick. That toothpick is just so majestic and elusive.

[@GreenBoy9000]

I mean, Ravel himself hated this one.

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

There’s nothing to this piece, it’s very boring

[@MiNameisJager]

Wel; it is meant to be that way. It is meant to make you feel Ravel's insanity

[@colinmurphy2214]

RayTheStingrayXD That’s a stupid argument. Ravel himself considered it among his least important works.

[@Erinnmnn]

It's an orchestration exercise, so Ravel could hear how each instrument and combination reacts to the same melody.

[@GreenBoy9000]

Ravel hated this piece.

[@keithkunikida1222]

BAG OF SHITE, HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO RAVEL’S BOLERO

[@trinoluna7858]

Esta obra esta sobrestimada, es aburrida, repetitiva y muy larga, prefiero el danzón no. 8 de Marquez!!!

[@GUILLOM]

De lo más estúpido que he leído en mucho tiempo.

[@solarean]

@@GUILLOM cierto pero siendo sinceros, por qué es esto más famoso que La Valse?

[@GUILLOM]

@@solarean porque vivimos en una sociedad

[@lifewithjefferson2711]

@@GUILLOM It is just an opinion so don’t argue

[@GUILLOM]

@@lifewithjefferson2711 did I