Alkan - Morte (Part 1)

[gjyyngii]

I heard Totentanz in the first part.

[looney1023]

So is the B-flat pinging in this piece an homage to Ravel's Le Gibet, or vice versa?

[HandyTheXxxX]

@looney1023 Check the dates, You'll find this was quite a long time before Gaspard de la Nuit. I adore both pieces so much!

[makerofjam]

Everyone used Dies Irae. It has to be one of the most famous musical evocations of death ever written, if not one of the most famous tunes ever written. Berlioz, Liszt and Wendy Carlos' arrangment are some of the better-known examples, but Shostakovich, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Haydn, Gounod, and particularly Rachmaninoff, also used it.

[OverFjell]

I love Smith's descriptions of the pieces, they're so evocative.

[TFreckle]

Yay for Dies Irae

[polyopulis]

the melody at the beginning is from the Dies Irae of the fifth movement of Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz. Liszt did a transcription of the piece for piano.

watch?v=yEtMEK13Cto, 3:40.

[TimbreQrt]

@polyopulis Actually, the melody for this piece, the fifth movement of Symphonie Fantastique, and Liszt's Totentanz all came from the 13th century Latin hymn "Dies Irae".

[kastlesucksTDOTS]

Where the hell is AdaOsi? He has the only video recording of the trois morceaux!

[mdeonx16]

Is it okay to say that this reminds me of Scriabin?

[Lukecash12]

@mdeonx16 Maybe early Scriabin, but only vaguely similar. Methinks Scriabin was just fresh in your mind when you listened to this, my friend.

[OrangeSodaKing]

3:49 Is anybody reminded of Ravel's Le Gebit? ;)

[trist105]

@OrangeSodaKing I don't know about Le Gebit but I'm definitely reminded of Le Gibet! ; )

[OrangeSodaKing]

@trist105 Hahahaha, thanks for the correction. :)

[OrangeSodaKing]

What happened to AdiOsi's channel?

[aabaker22]

Is anyone else reminded of Symphonie Fantastique in the beginning phrase?

[peaceric]

yeah, that's the Dies Irae melody. it's used in a lot of pieces

[123eldest]

@aabaker22 Yeh definitely.

[HandyTheXxxX]

1:14 is phenominal! And 1:44 is just a beautiful musical phrase

[Cessebabe]

Oh my god, they used this in The Shining =D

[ultracoolhomies]

@Cessebabe They do?? What part of this?

[Cessebabe]

@ultracoolhomies The beginning is the theme to The Shining

[hanspellegrims]

I didn't know Alkan did something with the Dies Irae theme!

[OverFjell]

The lower register of Hamelin's piano is just gorgeous

[KeithWhalen11]

The Totentanz reference would be the Dies Irae theme. I always loved the part at 2:02 onwards. Alkan was just phenomenal, period!

[uigrad]

I really love this piece, and Hamelin does an excellent job giving it color.

[sanctusignis]

2:58-3:36 is very reminiscent of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in B minor from Op. 32.

[hellomate639]

Same timing and structure... lol...

I play that Rachmaninov piece and I love it.

[scriabinwasmydad]

good upload!

[FabioThePianist]

It remembers me Liszt, totentanz and b minor sonata

[orchestra92]

I thought the exact same things

[OrangeSodaKing]

Jack Gibbons said that this piece is also had an influence Ravel's "Le Gibet."

[kastlesucksTDOTS]

Yes, the chordal passages a very similar...

[2010Piano]

@FabioThePianist this theme it is "dies irae"

[Pianista061292]

@FabioThePianist Why the Sonata in B Minor.... don't tell me it also presents the same theme??! OMG :D



[MRSklavier]

@FabioThePianist remids you to liszt because they used the same theme, it's a medieval song, of death, or smething like that my professor explained lol

[F14Lolcat]

@MRSklavier Dies Irae

[Uttarayan]

@FabioThePianist

really

[4candles]

What a piece! The beginning is really funereal. One of Alkan's most atmospheric works.