Ricardo Castro - Valse Mélancolique, Op.36/2

[@LukeFaulkner]

I constantly find beautiful pieces I've not previously encountered through your work. Thank you!

[@mariagpeestrada6451]

Ricardo Castro is considered one of the most important mexican composers of the late romantic period. Thank you so much.Greetings from Durango, Mexico Castro's birthplace.Durango city's theatre is named after him.

[@alexandertischenko8778]

Your channel is like fresh air. Such beautiful unknown pieces. Thank you!

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[@noongoldstein3240]

Gently, touchingly ... beautifully

[@MyPianoRarities]

Di una generazione più giovane di Ponce, a sentire questa sublime melodia è assai probabile che ne influenzò la scrittura pianistica come Intermezzo n. 1, Melodia de amor e altro. Favoloso post!

[@MS-sz7se]

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[@ninafahey3315]

Ditto!

[@MS-sz7se]

@bioboi01 It is a metaphor.

[@PianoScoreVids]

a gem is something valuable, and so we compare this music to something valuable

[@fernandaagibert1111]

Valse Mélancolique é uma bela melancolia!!! Grata

[@michaelclements5793]

Ah this is one of the ones I mentioned in my comment on one of your other valse mélancolique videos! I think this one well embodies the 'mélancolique' label, and I think you performed it wonderfully. It's like a rondo with the major middle themes always returning to the sad main theme, like you're stuck in a funk or a depressed rut and keep trying to break free, but keep falling back into that depression. Thanks for giving it a look!

[@PianoScoreVids]

Wow that was a nice comparison! I am a big fan of interesting structures in compositions, and that depressing viewpoint fits nicely to the melancolique/meditative aspect.

[@paintandashes7351]

@@PianoScoreVids Thank you - once again - for introducing me to another splendid composer, and for your sensitive performance. I feel I must write something more in defence of Melancholy. I wrote before that Melancholy was viewed differently in the Romantic period. That was perhaps a simplistic assertion - there were plenty of physicians out to label the differences in human behaviour, and to devise 'cures'. We have the Enlightenment to thank for such scientistic approaches to mental health: approaches which, sadly, persist today in the form of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But artists in the Romantic period. drawing perhaps from the humanism of the neo-platonist Marsilio Ficino, were able to have a deeper appreciation of sadness. A couple of examples: first John Keats, from his Ode to Melancholy (the whole poem is an erotic paean to Melancholy): "Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran [sovereign] shrine" (John Keats, ‘Ode on Melancholy’) And another from Victor Hugo: "Le désespoir a des degrés remontants. De l’accablement on monte à l’abattement, de l’abattement à l’affliction, de l’affliction à la mélancolie. La mélancolie est un crépuscule. La souffrance s’y fond dans une sombre joie. La mélancolie, c’est le bonheur d’être triste." (Victor Hugo, 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer') A translation into English might go like this: "Despair has ascending degrees. From prostration one rises to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is twilight. Suffering melts into it a dark joy. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad." (Victor Hugo, 'Les Toilers of the Sea') The form of this piece (for me) is very much an expression of the happiness of being sad. It is as if the composer is reflecting on the transience of beauty, one moment being lifted by the beauty itself, then reconnecting with the sadness of loss. "Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes."

[@cyw225]

Very Beautiful performance! Full melancholy mood! Sounds like Chopin or Tchaikovsky ！

[@tonimikael]

So beautiful piece and you played it sooo beautifully! Thank you so much sharing your playing with us. 🤗❤️

[@robbymarcoen2266]

Beautiful!!! I did many discoveries of composers I never heard of before thanks to your channel !!! Thank you!!!

[@hiromilevy9482]

Melancholique beauty… sort of reminds me of Nazareth and some of Gootschalk ThanQ as always xoxoxo

[@ArgoBeats]

Beautiful

[@grubmountain]

Very beautiful piece! Thanks for playing.

[@syroyid]

Very beautiful final trills. I love it

[@bjornholderbeke3110]

This is like Rebikov's Valse melancolique spiced up with some Chopin flavour :-).

[@nintendianajones64]

You have excellent ears

[@lindawetherby837]

Lovely! Thank you for bringing this composer to my attention.

[@jennyb.4194]

Wunderschön 💐💕🌷

[@mrsnegy6001]

Beautifully executed. Merci.

[@JTSJTS]

BRAVOOOOOOOOO

[@dleov4645]

Very nice piece with a lovely major section. Love the way you play the triplets at 2:19

[@katt_matt]

Congratulations! 8 thousand subscribers!

[@PianoScoreVids]

Thanks!

[@FelipeJunqueiraMusicista]

I heard this last saturday in your live. Hope to see you again soon, it was an incredible experience!

[@PianoScoreVids]

hope you will joint next time :)

[@FelipeJunqueiraMusicista]

@@PianoScoreVids so se both hope that KZbin notificates me! Hahaha. I am a simple man, if I see Gamma1734 i click on it.

[@fredericchopin7538]

Delightful!

[@wolfgangberndt3481]

Very beautiful waltz! 😃

[@PianoScoreVids]

Yes, it is indeed:)

[@loupdubois5147]

C'est MAGNIFIQUE on n'entend pas assez ces tous bons compositeurs ...

[@yooniecho6394]

How lovely!! Thanks Julian!!

[@annacoribioanna]

lovely

[@Chulamani]

Thank you. Great interpretation

[@daniloberaldo570]

Best music channel of KZbin!

[@aldorizo1693]

reminds me a lot Chopin mazurka op 63 no 3 ♥️

[@TheGuilhermepiano]

Beautiful!

[@MyPianoChannel1]

You play sooo beautifully! I subscribed :)

[@user-pp5kr8fr3t]

Beautiful and lyrical composition. Can I have the science please? Many thanks.

[@JCMH]

You are playing Hispanic American composers again! By the way, gorgeous as usual.

[@pianist-momoko]

Beautiful😍

[@cinziavidali411]

Molto bello e triste

[@peterirons9773]

Interesting

[@elenarot3836]

Странно, я слышу всё на пол тона выше, чем написано в нотах...?! 🤔

[@neo9560]

I looked and the mazurka melacolica by Castro didn’t have a op number

[@PianoScoreVids]

i'm afraid i don't know which piece are you talking about

[@neo9560]

@@PianoScoreVids my bad it was on your live stream when you were taking request I requested the Mazurka by Castro and you could not find it becuse you needed the op number so instead you found this valse

[@PianoScoreVids]

@@neo9560 ah i vaguely remember. so the piece you are talking about, is it on imslp?

[@neo9560]

@@PianoScoreVids no I don’t think so

[@PianoScoreVids]

Maybe i'll find it on pianophilia

[@adonisadmirer2752]

Really feeling like the da capo should start right away, within the last measure before the repeat. Anybody else?

[@pietrolandri6081]

İt's half way a "valse" and a "nocturne" and is extremely "European" in taste (at least I didn't detect any Latin American atmosphere or nuance but American people can better judge.....)

[@PianoScoreVids]

i detect a little bit, the 10tuplet and the harmonies in the major section sound south american. also the seventh note in the e major chord which is exposed with a ritardando. it sounds very south american to my ear. the rest not so much indeed.

[@pietrolandri6081]

@@PianoScoreVids yep obviously a more educated year like yours (you being a player you can have access to more subtle level of understanding) can better judge ..... 🙌

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

@@PianoScoreVids i can hear the south american accent in the major section. The minor key music is redolent of some of Tchaikovsky's piano music perhaps ( not the trill though!)

[@baronmeduse]

Yes the 'nocturne' element is pretty strong.

[@adonisadmirer2752]

@@PianoScoreVids Yes the harmony there was kind of evocative of a Spanish feeling. To be honest, the major part reminds me of the major section in Tarrega's Capricho arabe

[@marcella2697]

Bello ma tristissimo!

[@sordini66]

Beautiful