Ravel - Rhapsodie Espagnole - DePaul Symphony Orchestra

[@dalestroker6809]

Light a jasmine incense. Close your eyes. Envision yourself on a balcony, during a full moon, under the arabesque porticoes of the Alhambra Palace, orange and pomegranate blossoms wafting gently in the breeze, as you dream of a distant love across the sea. This, is the Rhapsody.

[@tardisruthwood2772]

Beautiful insight!

[@benjibean8431]

Interesting interpretation of the music's story!

[@docbailey3265]

@@tardisruthwood2772 Now if I only had a Diet Coke, all would be perfect.

[@windstorm1000]

Yes!

[@Cubanuel]

Nothing is more beautiful in orchestral music than this period of impressionism in France. It is a window into a different century.

[@TheApocalipsis55]

no

[@Imp0sterVG]

For a university orchestra this is incredible work, professional sounding. Wind playing especially was really impressive

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Ravel is a great Alchemist of the sound, The wonderfulness of this masterpiece is off the charts, and the comfort of this performance that spectacular performers play is amazing by an order of magnitude more awesome From Tokyo of Japan

[@0707dayday]

0:00 I. Prelude a la nuit 5:23 II. Malaguena 7:40 III. Habanera 10:50 IV. Feria

[@pythagore4350]

Merci, c'est très précieux!

[@albertomartin5395]

Que me perdone el genial Ravel, pero salvo algún ruidito de castañuelas, esta obra de española tiene poco y nada.

[@OlenArt_music]

Thank you!

[@dannyserge9982]

@@albertomartin5395 ¿Ni siquiera el último movimiento?

[@cellofingers]

The intense expressions of the musicians even at such a relatively young age shows how serious they are about this piece. For a university/college orchestra to play so well. so seasoned... most rare.

[@n2skcmo]

Jova Sonfinica de Galacia Ravel's Bolero

[@mikebest5630]

WHO COULD POSSIBLY BE FOOL ENOUGH TO DISLIKE THIS MASTERPIECE..PERHAPS ONE WITH NO SOUL OR TASTE IN QUALITY. .HOW SAD IT LIVES IN A WORLD OF WONDEROUS BEAUTY AND SOUND AND HAS NO WAY TO UNDERSTAND FEEL OR DELIGHT IN ALL THERE IS..

[@benjibean8431]

This is the first time I listened to a Ravel Symphony. It was amazing! I think this is one of the best orchestrations I've heard before. Great job to the musicians as well!

[@moracabanas]

6:46 English Horn solo with background chords is one of the most emotional feeling I have in my entire music career. And also Ravel's timbre management being able to travel up from English Horn --> Clarinet --> Flute --> Piccolo without the listener can even notice is just unforgettable.

[@siweifeng2845]

What at first isn’t it an oboe?

[@moracabanas]

@@siweifeng2845 It is a lower pitch one, called English Horn. if you look closely at the pipe, it is longer and angled. It kind of makes a darker, deeper sound than Oboe.

[@siweifeng2845]

@@moracabanas Thank you!

[@windstorm1000]

The man knew how to orchestrate

[@martinezalpuente]

Congratulations from Spain!!! Great interpretation!!!

[@JoeInNorcal]

WOW! Incredible performance! This work is extremely difficult to perform by any group. This is a college orchestra - this is not typical of most college music programs. Thanks for posting this performance.

[@maxabeles]

the beginning of this gives me goosebumps. A+

[@theresaheidel9878]

Magnificent..great tonal color..bravo!

[@tonymccarthy6713]

The french impressionists composers were very special. Their music was so different to others of their era. Ravel crossed over to jazz with much of his music in his later period, especially his Piano concerto in G.

[@iyfdavaointernationalyouth6037]

Rapsodie antero iyf.com.ph.

[@ForBeatrice2012]

You are so talented an orchestra. I love your truly great and unique rendering of this beautiful Rapsodie Espagnol.

[@cellofingers]

I am still clapping.....Bravo!

[@gmsoyls]

beautiful shadings and colors through the 4 mvts; great sense of dramatic suspense and development; mature sound from the soloists, especially the english hornist. who says one needs to live in or be a descendant from latin america to feel ravels music? bravissimo. ¡Qué magnífico!

[@gapont2]

Extraordinary music and interpretation. Such a wonderful texture of sounds. Very intense.

[@chaoshead77]

Bravo!! Thanks for sharing this!

[@hbarendregt]

Masterpiece by Ravel. Very well performed. Also very well video-recorded with a zoom in of the right instruments as they were playing.

[@SKYKORD.-]

Magnifique!! Vraiment tres beau, felicitations aux jeunes musiciens!

[@SKYKORD.-]

Et au Chef d'orchestre

[@SokratisVotskos]

Simply amazing staf!You can almost see the pallete of everything in Ravel music..

[@Jaburu]

Ravel is so rich, he cures my hangover

[@lbeetlejuiceklein3101]

Ravel was an answer to a crossward everytime a musician or band is mentioned i check it out

[@olliemartinelli4034]

the build up at 16:24 up until the drum roll that ends in a massive wave of a chord in a new key hits so hard my god

[@ForYou-ub6uc]

You are musician?

[@olliemartinelli4034]

@@ForYou-ub6uc yes …?

[@jankovskialeksandar]

Good Lord: this is a university orchestra. Most impressive.

[@PietroLelli]

the power of young people!

[@DysprosiumJudas]

phenomenal. the basses should be especially proud

[@asgabeler]

Wonderful version, thank you for posting this, The weather is so very hot but I was taken outside of myself listening to this, Thank you I am grateful.

[@pasqualinalelli306]

Bellissimo !!!

[@sergiogerardovicogimena6605]

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[@windstorm1000]

Si!

[@Soytu19]

Ravel's music is pure fantasy

[@josefranciscolopezsanchez6500]

Magnifica interpretación y mas de una orquesta tan joven.

[@jakubstruzynski8124]

Music starts at 0:33

[@terezamariasantosmonfort8835]

FANTASTICA ................!!!!!!

[@sergedds]

J'aime la rondeur et l'amplitude de cette interprétation.

[@mrpankau]

Ravel. They don't call him the master of orchestration for nothing....

[@swordsheldhigh7934]

+Max Pankau I have to put Mahler on top.

[@themike97_58]

+SwordsHeldHigh Mahler is pretty freaking amazing! Symphony number 2 is my favorite!

[@swordsheldhigh7934]

Noone come close to mahlers orchestration skills. Look at the poor attempts to finish his 10th symphony.

[@robertm2000]

Max Pankau - Amen! Mahler was a symphonist, but Ravel was a storyteller. Ravel is, hands down, my favorite among contemporary composers, with the possible exception of Charles Ives, who I think also had an excellent observational skill!

[@missionlinguistiquefrancop6356]

@@swordsheldhigh7934 Mahler on top of Ravel ? No way ;-) Mahler's orchestra is boring, Ravel's is enchanting.

[@StudSupreme]

That's a beautiful description.

[@cellofingers]

Thanks. That's nice to hear.

[@hinkemiki]

is that Josh Jones playing bass drum?, fantastic performance

[@misterpirzy]

certo che per essere una "orchestra universitaria" mi pare che esegua questa pagina con una sensibilità straordinaria ...

[@krafuna]

17:38 the most beautifull sound, 2 minutes more, this is why we do it, music is the shit!!! music is the T-Rex of art

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

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[@docbailey3265]

Well done! Bravo! Am I correct at noticing an occasional faculty member in the orchestra?

[@bearsdenoboe]

For a university orchestra, this is excellent - if, as just commented, a bit lacking in sultriness and fire. For one thing, they are superbly trained: the conductor deserves a credit. Who, please? For another (often rare in UK and EU student orchestras), principals have been taught how to lead, and others to follow. There are some good players here.

[@tiesthijsthejs]

I learned to discover and love 19th century French surrealism, via contemporary soundtrack monster Joe Hisaishi (Ghibli films). But still I wonder how one ought to appreciate or even can be able to understand how to enjoy this piece by Ravel when one hasn't got a magical portal in one's imagination or characters and journeys.

[@harveyg9898]

You are totally right, Joe Hisaishi is one of my favourites of all time, he managed to evoke an enchanting, nostalgic magic in each of the ghibli films. Ravel (my favourite classical composer) is more hypnotic, in a way less human in the feelings he was trying to convey, and his orchestration is amazing. I love Debussy too, but Ravel has something of the alien and darkness of nature that is very profound. Rachmaninov is the master of passion to me, and has more in common with Joe Hisaishi than Ravel in my opinion. Also Shostakovich has some chilling and sadistic parts of his symphonies, and Faure has a very strange ethereal effect of using the fourth on a major 7th chord to create a slightly unnerving effect (check his Libera me and elegie for cello to see what I mean). But Ravel is astounding, how he managed to come up with all this dramatic music with such experimental harmony and orchestration. I recommend you listen to Michelangeli's recording of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, the Miroirs, and La Valse for orchestra for a good taste of Ravel :P

[@tiesthijsthejs]

Thanks for the reply Harvey. Cheers.

[@harveyg9898]

S'alright ;) (beer clink)

[@tiesthijsthejs]

Hehe. Thanks especially for the analysis, the comparisons, basically, the new input for me to discover by. Shostakovich and Libera will be new entrance points for me. For which I'm grateful. Can't really offer you an equivalent, mainly cause you seem to exceed my knowledge. So, all I give back, is appreciation. But, hell, that - and our entire interaction so far- is perhaps already unique among the spectacular mess that is called early-21th century communication. Well, perhaps I could give some beer pointers. Hehe.

[@frenchieseverine4514]

I know almost nothing about surrealism but i enjoy Ravel a lot..this music is a delight to my mind and imagination..I don't think that you need to be a genius to appreciate classical music and enter in a magical portal..You just need to close your eyes and let your mind dream with the symphony..

[@albeharal]

Who is the conductor. Great job!!!

[@olgacaraveruiz4508]

Me sabe a toro y a fiesta💃👏

[@poppycock618]

totally agree, Impressionism era art (not just in France) is the most beautiful but sometimes too melancholic...

[@dalestroker4735]

Superb!

[@fernandooettinger1769]

wonderfully misterious almost wicked piece o:

[@TheTympanist]

admirable, l'on mesure le degré d'enseignement qu'il y a aux states lorsqu'on entend ceci

[@lukapisacic7707]

Feria reminds me of the character of Debussy’s Iberia and the ‘waves’ of La Mehr

[@DePaulSOM]

The conductor is Cliff Colnot.

[@luisfrodrimaz]

Director/Conductor : Cliff Colnot

[@MusicalPlayground717]

Is this a youth symphony? Except the conductor, there's not one person on that stage who looks a day over 30.

[@kuridanho]

Fallout4のクラシックラジオで何百回も聴いたからほぼ記憶してしまった

[@cellofingers]

Ravel paints with sound as a painter uses colors.

[@whatadamnusername]

This is a college orchestra.

[@josephwilson5450]

WOW! Ravel; This is not an easy piece DePaul SO; Hold my beer . . .

[@MagnumCalibre75]

It's written "Rhapsodie"

[@MagnumCalibre75]

yes it is, I am French

[@garydavdderby7657]

is this a ballet too?

[@noahjezyk]

5:56 the second movement is performed way to slow in my opinion. malagueña is supposed to have energy, like a fandango. this sounds more like a waltz!

[@cellofingers]

A little heavy on the base in parts but over all a great job!

[@АлександрДанилов-к3ю]

Что за дубовый дирижер?

[@mrpankau]

+Александр Данилов Cliff Colnot

[@jordifuentesandres226]

QUE HACE QUE LA MUSICA SUENE NACIONALISTA,en esta caso a ESPAÑOLa con la rapsodia española.Ritmo.castañuelas,pandereta.Una danza húngara es tan húngara como el Gulasch y la 4 sinfonía de chaikovsky ,es Rusa por una canción folclórica rusa"El pequeño abdeul" siendo la base de dicha sinfonía.Eston no se puede aplicar de esta forma para los EEUU ya que los compositores de Usa pueden proceder de distintos países.MAS adelante Jaz.

[@iyfdavaointernationalyouth6037]

I am the only

[@local_therapist8637]

love how he never even went to spain before writing this

[@pasqualinalelli306]

😮😯

[@josephwilson5450]

He only lived a 11 miles from the Spanish border. His mother grew up in Madrid. He had alot of culture influence around him.

[@local_therapist8637]

@@josephwilson5450 i actually did not know that, thank you

[@ricardonemo]

He traveled to Sevilla but after.

[@victor-tx3ip]

좋네요

[@Mezzotenor]

The first three movements are a bit too slow, the middle of the 4th more so, though the transition back to the original tempo worked. I find the conductor's hand gestures rather vague and repetitive, not much characterization or inflection of the musical lines. Overall the performance seems sanitized; this should be a sultry, sweaty, sugestive rhapsody, but here it feels tidied up for a church concert.

[@Mezzotenor]

I like Abbado's, among others.

17:33 fuck yea

[@duyguk8557]

Hasan Ali Toptaş

[@aklyaouine4114]

Jacques IONEAU

[@petmig]

university orchestra

[@handledav]

z

[@555paint]

the ad sucks---really puts a bad taste in the mouth and dont want to proceed

[@herbrichster]

Une drôle de pièce. Qui a vu l’Espagne dans cette musique ennuyeuse et répétitive?

[@dannyserge9982]

Il fallait bien lui trouver un nom..

[@MusicalPlayground717]

Aha. Lol.

[@kevinmatthewsmusic]

Terrible an offence to ravel and the conductor is tobe held account for that