Somehow it doesn't sound "impressionist" when not on the piano. Not that Ravel needed to or should have been. Tis beautiful though. I get the feeling that the song wouldn't have been as good without the title.
Il etait très fort ce Ravel décidement ! Paix à son âme , un génie comme on en fait plus . Malheureusement !
Could you imagine that in the past this kind of music was part of the dominant culture in Europe ? Look now what we have , bullshit coming from USA : Lady Gaga and Justin bieber . So sad , the american capitalism , culture of money is killing our culture , the real culture . Long live European culture.
@Frenchkisssss "Look now what we have , bullshit coming from USA : Lady Gaga and Justin bieber ."
Listen to some good American music; don't just pick the worst examples of modern pop and then trash their whole culture. European contemporary music is equally terrible - for example, rave crap made for German nightclubs.
To Sergixtepec1: I too had a daughter pass away too young before her 18th birthday. And yes, this soulful tune makes me think of her. I couldn't help but notice that perhaps we share the same first name. Coincidence, if so. Nevertheless, when I hear this tune, I will include a remembrance in my thoughts for your dear daughter, as well as, my own.
I love Ravel's music, specially this one, when my little daughter, 5 years old died in 1986, the orchestra of young musician here in Guatemala, played that. Beautiful, very sad too, but unfolgetable. Beautiful music, for relax and think about our past time.
This is the only piece of music that's ever made a few tears fall from my face. This is beautiful. This is the music I want to spend the next 60 years of my life listening to.
Have loved this I first heard my mother play it as the flipside to Bolero, I was six and am now 49, it still moves me to tears, not for the theme, but for the way it touches my heart,if Ravel were alive today he would be on a Cafe Del Mar CD - Just beautiful.
Pavane is a very ceremonial dance that was mainly a slow parade to let viewers admire the dancers clothes. Ravel imagined this one performed for an dead unnamed infanta (Spanish oldest daughter of a king) in a mourning way, probably with everybody wearing black, or white if it was a the king's family that danced. Pure fiction, of course as such an event never happened.
Thank you for telling me a little history behind the song. There are parts to this song that sound beautifully morbid and other parts that don't and I just have always loved this song.
@rickbmtl PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here, but I heard it was written for a NYC heiress that he was friends w/who passed away. I do agree (believe) what you stated as the actual history/truth, BUT I know I read that it was composed for a woman who died that was a 'Princess,' in the 'old world' fashion. She was said to be quite the lady! Again, I'm okay w/being incorrect. Please let me know if there's any truth to this, if aware, AND thank you for sharing the bits I didn't know!
Actually, when I attended a performance of this, the program mentioned ravel saying "that title has nothing to do with the composition. I simply like the sounds of those words and I put them there, c'est tout"
It seems that Ravel just gave it that name because he felt the music "evocation of a pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court.
@JwahAmore31 maybe you're right, but he once stated it was about the old Spanish days (hence the term Infante instead of Princess) and the way royalty was portrayed there
There is an anecdote about Gershwin visiting the European masters to have music conversations and him (Gershwin) taking notes for him to improvise into his American music. When he arrived in Paris, the masters told him that they had been waiting for him to share his music with the Europeans. The Europeans were so deeply in love with Rhapsody in Blue that they wanted to learn from the Maestro Gershwin. . . . .
@FreeVonHelton the chord progressions. All the Dominant 7-9 (for example 0:58). Ravel was inspired by American Music aswell as by George Gershwin - Rave who also knew that Gershwin really admired him once said: Why do you want to be a second Ravel when you can be a first Gershwin. That's why it sounds so jazzy...
@raulcat19 I've heard the opposite that Gershwin was inspired by Ravel. The piano composition was made in 1899 before modern jazz, but it is true that Ravel was influenced by jazz music.
I asked because my understanding of music theory is weak, and it would be nice to learn more.
Huh...Influenced by the american music in 1899??? I suppose that Mozart himself was very influenced by Pawnees flutes too...Jazz was inspired by European music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not the opposite. Ravel was influenced by Jazz as a popular art after the 20's.
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Dios... gracias por habernos dejado escuchar composiciones tan hermosas como esta.... llore toda la pieza... un conjunto de emociones entre felicidad y paz.... es indescriptible... Gracias por recordarme que aun puedo sentir!!!
For what it is worth, you might like to hear another version of this song, as modified by Eumir Deodato (circa 1973). I love both versions. Simply beautiful! Search for "Deodato Pavane" here on YouTube.
One of my favorites. Woke up to this playing on my iPod this morning with the South American sun shining on my face and the cool patagonian breeze sweeping in from the open window.
@markbevilacqua The emotion is the hardest part of this song. Fortunately few people understand the loss that inspired this song. I always play this piece best when I'm at my saddest. This song almost always makes me cried when played well...
@Someone4313 What pretentious bullshit. Considering Ravel wrote this as part of his study at the Paris Conservatoire and himself considered it to "lack daring" I doubt that it was inspired by any tragic real-life event. I don't want to taint such a beautiful work of art with an angry rant, but filling works like this with meaningless self-glorification only ruin the immortal beauty of the piece. Oh yeah. And it makes me feel happy by the way, not pensive or moody.
@ceborn1 Music is going to be understood by many people many different ways. I find the piece to be comforting actually. I don't think it's fair of you to say that how one person views/plays a song is pretentious or self-glorified. Regardless of the the inspiration for a song, how it makes someone feel is oft times out of the control of the composer. If Ravel wasn't trying to invoke such a strong emotion of sadness, would he have called it what he did?
The first minute of this song is probably my favourite composition ever, classical or otherwise. Simple, very familiar sounding, yet completely transcending in feeling.
was listening to an abc podcast about wittgenstein and heard his one armed brother commissioned ravel to make a left handed piece for piano for him. thought i would look ravel up and this is what i came to first. an amazing first impression.
This is one of my favor romantic pieces of music,together with Meditation from Thais of Massenet and The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana of Pietro Mascagni.I do remember,when I was a Medical Student at the Havana Medical School more than forty years ago,an old professor saying:"If I am in an isolated island,and I have to keep only one medicine,it will be an aspirin...and if I have to keep only three pices of music...these will be it...If I have to keep only one....I'll be dead...
in that same light if you like this song and haven't heard 'Gabriel Faure': Pavane, definatly give it a listen. another iconic french composer and an iconic Pavane.
I'm not sure everyone here would appreciate it, but I recommend checking out 'Aruarian Dance' by Nujabes. It was indirectly inspired by this piece and could be very interesting to hear for its listeners.
A slow version, especially hard for the horn player to manage the air needed without running out! That's why it's an especially good rendition...besides the fact that Ravel's music is beautiful. The Pavane is a renaissance dance and is typically performed a little bit faster, which was Ravel's preference. Sad because it's for a princess dead before her time.
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@Sturrfry hmm interesting. I'm not too familiar with vivaldi's works to say for sure, but perhaps there might be some sort of resemblance. Who knows, Ravel could have been inspired by Vivaldi for all I know xD
@LonePianist3 Possibly, i would show you the album but it won't let me post links. Its called "Most relaxing classical music in the world/universe" something like that. Btw your music is really good :)
@Sturrfry I shall see what I can find on that album. and thank you! I don't get a lot of feedback on my music so any comments are greatly appreciated :)
@LonePianist3 The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe is the name of the album. The song is called Violin concerto in F minor or something close to that. And your welcome :) i still have to buy a video camera to make vidoes, your way ahead of me xD
I had a guest conductor who told us about this piece since we were playing; Faure's Pavane. The whole sound and feeling of a pavane is amazing, It's like a slow pool of clear water, rotating in a a clockwise to counter clockwise motion as the song progresses.
OBOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3 I played that part when I was at band camp... Yes, band camp ;)
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75 AÑOS DE FALLECIDO(1937) EN 2012 DICE JORGE ALBERTO BARON DESDE BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, SURAMERICA
jorgealbertobaron1 5 days ago
Heck yes French horns
LittleHorngoddess 6 days ago
One of my favorite pieces with French horn solos.
cateyemarble 1 week ago
"Harold: Do you pray?
Maude: Pray? No. I communicate.
Harold: With God?
Maude: With LIFE" (From "Harold and Maude")
This is my communication with LIFE... Ravel's Pavane...
Arpeggio555 1 week ago
Beautiful painting, a great supplement to the music that suggests a similar image.
marty051892 1 week ago
Playing this is the coolest thing ever.
merlin207 1 week ago
Somehow it doesn't sound "impressionist" when not on the piano. Not that Ravel needed to or should have been. Tis beautiful though. I get the feeling that the song wouldn't have been as good without the title.
TheFormerCry 1 week ago
Il etait très fort ce Ravel décidement ! Paix à son âme , un génie comme on en fait plus . Malheureusement !
Could you imagine that in the past this kind of music was part of the dominant culture in Europe ? Look now what we have , bullshit coming from USA : Lady Gaga and Justin bieber . So sad , the american capitalism , culture of money is killing our culture , the real culture . Long live European culture.
Frenchkisssss 2 weeks ago 4
@Frenchkisssss "Look now what we have , bullshit coming from USA : Lady Gaga and Justin bieber ."
Listen to some good American music; don't just pick the worst examples of modern pop and then trash their whole culture. European contemporary music is equally terrible - for example, rave crap made for German nightclubs.
cadmus98 1 week ago 2
magique
hasdrubaal69 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
To Sergixtepec1: I too had a daughter pass away too young before her 18th birthday. And yes, this soulful tune makes me think of her. I couldn't help but notice that perhaps we share the same first name. Coincidence, if so. Nevertheless, when I hear this tune, I will include a remembrance in my thoughts for your dear daughter, as well as, my own.
srojo1000 3 weeks ago
I love Ravel's music, specially this one, when my little daughter, 5 years old died in 1986, the orchestra of young musician here in Guatemala, played that. Beautiful, very sad too, but unfolgetable. Beautiful music, for relax and think about our past time.
sergixtepec1 3 weeks ago
This is the only piece of music that's ever made a few tears fall from my face. This is beautiful. This is the music I want to spend the next 60 years of my life listening to.
goodgollymizmolly 4 weeks ago
A beautiful, but tragic, conversation that holds hope in its last note.
RuizHeather 1 month ago 2
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RuizHeather 1 month ago
this is my favorite composition ever
eetherealflux 1 month ago 3
Somehow I find that this song is best listened to while very slowly spinning in a circle.
minous813 1 month ago 3
well actually the mangas called pavane for a dead girl
segachu17 1 month ago
hey theres a manga named after this song
segachu17 1 month ago
Beautiful channel! I especially like the way you have chosen to visualize those masterpieces of classical music! Great work!
sarsafaty 1 month ago in playlist More videos from poloshia
Have loved this I first heard my mother play it as the flipside to Bolero, I was six and am now 49, it still moves me to tears, not for the theme, but for the way it touches my heart,if Ravel were alive today he would be on a Cafe Del Mar CD - Just beautiful.
Neil - Aylesbury UK
TheNeilbram 1 month ago 3
Love the detail in Kensett's work.
NovaScotiaChick 1 month ago
pavane for dead babby
actuatorfulcrum 1 month ago
@actuatorfulcrum It's "Pavane for a Dead Princess". Infante DOES mean infant in French, but not in this sense.
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OriginalBasaliskos 1 month ago
@foxontherails Isn't the title supposed to be "Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant"? Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 month ago
@OriginalBasaliskos No it's Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) :)
ZekeZekeYuuzz 3 weeks ago
@ZekeZekeYuuzz No, the original text is written as I wrote it, at least for the duet version. Maybe the title got changed for the orchestration?
OriginalBasaliskos 3 weeks ago
I listen to the music envisioning myself as a ghostly image on a foot bridge awaiting the arrival...
The arrival of the one who will walk with me through purgatory....
Onward to an existence of peace....
dpx58 1 month ago
magnifique repose en paix christine pascal
MrWavelab 1 month ago
When I hear this song, I’m always feelings so sad! It’s one of the most beautiful sad song and it’s a great interpretation! Thank you!
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I feel confused.
"Darkness hurts and brings pain,
darkness is ugly,
but how can such beast, such darkness create so much ...?
I fear calling it beauty,
because i know it shouldn't be beautifull,
but i will call it anyway,
for if enjoying such beauty is wrong
i am a beast and a sinner.
blakan3 1 month ago
...SERENA BELLEZA...
angelvgiobbi 1 month ago
"I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, not a dead pavane for a princess..."
~Ravel
arielpiano 2 months ago 32
Why did this song have to have the title Pavane For a Dead Princess?? I would love this song to be played at my weddng...it take my breath away =(
ladyEulaelie 2 months ago
Pavane is a very ceremonial dance that was mainly a slow parade to let viewers admire the dancers clothes. Ravel imagined this one performed for an dead unnamed infanta (Spanish oldest daughter of a king) in a mourning way, probably with everybody wearing black, or white if it was a the king's family that danced. Pure fiction, of course as such an event never happened.
rickbmtl 2 months ago
@rickbmtl
Thank you for telling me a little history behind the song. There are parts to this song that sound beautifully morbid and other parts that don't and I just have always loved this song.
ladyEulaelie 2 months ago
@rickbmtl PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here, but I heard it was written for a NYC heiress that he was friends w/who passed away. I do agree (believe) what you stated as the actual history/truth, BUT I know I read that it was composed for a woman who died that was a 'Princess,' in the 'old world' fashion. She was said to be quite the lady! Again, I'm okay w/being incorrect. Please let me know if there's any truth to this, if aware, AND thank you for sharing the bits I didn't know!
Cheers!
JwahAmore31 2 months ago
@JwahAmore31
Actually, when I attended a performance of this, the program mentioned ravel saying "that title has nothing to do with the composition. I simply like the sounds of those words and I put them there, c'est tout"
It seems that Ravel just gave it that name because he felt the music "evocation of a pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court.
I guess you could call is impressionistic. . .
Forgefire5 1 month ago in playlist Beautiful
@JwahAmore31 maybe you're right, but he once stated it was about the old Spanish days (hence the term Infante instead of Princess) and the way royalty was portrayed there
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@ladyEulaelie Let everyone know what you love.
amazingwave 1 month ago
@ladyEulaelie
Maybe she was a mean princess.
Forgefire5 1 month ago in playlist Beautiful
@Forgefire5
=))
ladyEulaelie 1 month ago
what orchestra is this?
markbevilacqua 2 months ago
Thanks for posting. So therapeutic.....
dpx58 2 months ago
There is an anecdote about Gershwin visiting the European masters to have music conversations and him (Gershwin) taking notes for him to improvise into his American music. When he arrived in Paris, the masters told him that they had been waiting for him to share his music with the Europeans. The Europeans were so deeply in love with Rhapsody in Blue that they wanted to learn from the Maestro Gershwin. . . . .
kkesoj 2 months ago
SO Jazzy I love it!
raulcat19 2 months ago
@raulcat19 Out of curiosity, could you explain what is jazzy about it?
FreeVonHelton 2 months ago
@FreeVonHelton the chord progressions. All the Dominant 7-9 (for example 0:58). Ravel was inspired by American Music aswell as by George Gershwin - Rave who also knew that Gershwin really admired him once said: Why do you want to be a second Ravel when you can be a first Gershwin. That's why it sounds so jazzy...
raulcat19 2 months ago
@raulcat19 I've heard the opposite that Gershwin was inspired by Ravel. The piano composition was made in 1899 before modern jazz, but it is true that Ravel was influenced by jazz music.
I asked because my understanding of music theory is weak, and it would be nice to learn more.
Thank you.
FreeVonHelton 2 months ago
@raulcat19
Huh...Influenced by the american music in 1899??? I suppose that Mozart himself was very influenced by Pawnees flutes too...Jazz was inspired by European music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not the opposite. Ravel was influenced by Jazz as a popular art after the 20's.
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1CARNES 3 months ago in playlist 1CARNES's favorites
If there was a heaven this song would be playing in it 24/7; every time would be the first.
RedBalls101 3 months ago
@RedBalls101 There is a heaven.
May the Lord bless you and guide you to this heaven.
P.S-this piece is definetly great! Sounds so beautfiul and angelic!
derek44344 2 months ago in playlist derek44344's favorites 2
First heard this back in the 70s and fell in love with it. A very beautiful piece
smoothnsweetie 3 months ago
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Do you know which version is it ?
Joedeletang 3 months ago
always amazing.... no matter how many 'billions' of times i replay this until my win-xp crashes. :D
springloadedchicken 3 months ago
Beautiful
SocialConnect1 3 months ago in playlist More videos from poloshia
somethings very right about this song. but why is everyone all naked.
darkpotato 3 months ago
Love it!
Supermabelina 3 months ago
perfection
webcate 3 months ago
This is a very beautiful song...
ElfTheDarkAngel 3 months ago
FRENCH HORNS FTW
coco2898 3 months ago 53
BREATHE IN THE LOVE!
lotuskissed 3 months ago in playlist More videos from poloshia
Dios... gracias por habernos dejado escuchar composiciones tan hermosas como esta.... llore toda la pieza... un conjunto de emociones entre felicidad y paz.... es indescriptible... Gracias por recordarme que aun puedo sentir!!!
Jupiter3713 3 months ago
I cried when I listened to it for the first time as a child from a cassette tape.
mezzetinoc 3 months ago
It's one of the most beautiful sad song!
Merveilleux!!!
Geunoir 3 months ago 2
Music which came from deepest level of All That Is...
This main theme... so gentle and translucent...
And orchestration...
There are feelings far more above any kind of verbal description. Just give in to this music... and FEEEEEEEELLLL....
beatrixme 3 months ago
.....magnifique.......
Inesb64 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Maurice Ravel
LEFT HANDED PEOPLE ARE GENIUS
slakchen4ever 4 months ago
For what it is worth, you might like to hear another version of this song, as modified by Eumir Deodato (circa 1973). I love both versions. Simply beautiful! Search for "Deodato Pavane" here on YouTube.
greatseapenguin 4 months ago
What version is this? Who conducted?
mooselessness 4 months ago
Instead of Pavane for a Dead Princess... it should be renamed to The Princess' walk to heaven.
crazyasianbtang 4 months ago
@crazyasianbtang The princess arrives in heaven...with the music of " Daphnis et Cloe".
Eyyoh77 3 months ago
this is much better than bolero!!!!
mrcoyote972 4 months ago
will i be exaggerating if i said that "ravel" is greatest classical composer ever ?!
ebbotube 4 months ago 3
One of my favorites. Woke up to this playing on my iPod this morning with the South American sun shining on my face and the cool patagonian breeze sweeping in from the open window.
Svendevarennes 4 months ago 57
@Svendevarennes ay Argentina!? De cualquier manera, imagen lindo.
WaywardWinds 4 months ago
@Svendevarennes oh shut up
RubenRedd 4 months ago
@RubenRedd I love you too!
Svendevarennes 4 months ago
@Svendevarennes lol I'm just teasin
RubenRedd 4 months ago
@Svendevarennes Also do listen to 'Bach - Sleepers wake' .. Very Very beautiful :)
mohitl1985 2 months ago
@Svendevarennes Beautiful feeling,beautiful moment....
Sarastro1756 2 months ago in playlist Maurice Ravel
@Svendevarennes marry me
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@Svendevarennes you are gay
TPainWhatitDo 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Maurice Ravel
@Svendevarennes Wow, that sounds beautiful.
amazingwave 1 month ago
@Svendevarennes Well, no wonder. Ravel was an impressionist artist - they usually composed music to fit these beautiful paintings during his time.
foxontherails 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
27 people here doesn't understand what classical music is
pameluhv 4 months ago
@pameluhv- true enough. But "don't understand' would have possibly worked better here.If you wanted to make a strong point, that is. ; )
wuduaelfin 4 months ago
truly inspirational and amazing
uselessprodegy 4 months ago
07.09.2011
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cheney582 4 months ago
One of my fav pieces of music
BANDITHIROKUA 4 months ago
can someone please tell me the difficulty of this piece on piano?
coldplayasian 4 months ago
@coldplayasian it's not easy. definitely not his hardest, but it's got quite a bit of feeling. it took me a while to get down.
markbevilacqua 4 months ago
@markbevilacqua thank you for the help. By the way would you recommend any of his other pieces? I'm new to Ravel
coldplayasian 4 months ago
@coldplayasian ma mère l'oye ;)
Inverna119 4 months ago
@markbevilacqua The emotion is the hardest part of this song. Fortunately few people understand the loss that inspired this song. I always play this piece best when I'm at my saddest. This song almost always makes me cried when played well...
Someone4313 4 months ago
@Someone4313 What pretentious bullshit. Considering Ravel wrote this as part of his study at the Paris Conservatoire and himself considered it to "lack daring" I doubt that it was inspired by any tragic real-life event. I don't want to taint such a beautiful work of art with an angry rant, but filling works like this with meaningless self-glorification only ruin the immortal beauty of the piece. Oh yeah. And it makes me feel happy by the way, not pensive or moody.
ceborn1 4 months ago
@ceborn1 Music is going to be understood by many people many different ways. I find the piece to be comforting actually. I don't think it's fair of you to say that how one person views/plays a song is pretentious or self-glorified. Regardless of the the inspiration for a song, how it makes someone feel is oft times out of the control of the composer. If Ravel wasn't trying to invoke such a strong emotion of sadness, would he have called it what he did?
Someone4313 4 months ago
Just a hauntingly beautiful piece of music.
davecollinsmusic 4 months ago
情景がすぐに、目に浮かぶ素晴らしさ！
ynclub88 4 months ago
this is the best homework music ever. plug in some headphones, and crank it up. time flies by. beautiful.
ikkas333 4 months ago
Chandler Burr recommended this. Very nice.
KeithHarperSF 5 months ago
This speaks to me on a deeper level. I'm so thankful for Ravel, the voice of my heart.
Savedpianolover 5 months ago
A very beautiful and thought provoking piece of music.
ajudeit1 5 months ago
Sounds like the aftermath of heartbreak
PassionForHisWord 5 months ago
@PassionForHisWord
So true...
kdawgtehdude 5 months ago
The first minute of this song is probably my favourite composition ever, classical or otherwise. Simple, very familiar sounding, yet completely transcending in feeling.
meawwchan 5 months ago
was listening to an abc podcast about wittgenstein and heard his one armed brother commissioned ravel to make a left handed piece for piano for him. thought i would look ravel up and this is what i came to first. an amazing first impression.
todayilose 5 months ago
This is the best version i've ever heard. i love Ravel and his Pavane.
goshbeergosh 5 months ago
So beautiful :)
diablos2525 5 months ago
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diablos2525 5 months ago
Ooh! I got the chills.
fugazi0311 5 months ago in playlist Maurice Ravel
I love, love ,love this piece. It's so haunting. My mind reverts to this piece sometimes and when it does, I can't get it out of my head. !!!!
GoldChanel1 5 months ago
This is one of my favor romantic pieces of music,together with Meditation from Thais of Massenet and The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana of Pietro Mascagni.I do remember,when I was a Medical Student at the Havana Medical School more than forty years ago,an old professor saying:"If I am in an isolated island,and I have to keep only one medicine,it will be an aspirin...and if I have to keep only three pices of music...these will be it...If I have to keep only one....I'll be dead...
MrFerminleon 5 months ago
Absolutely stunning and breathtaking at this slow speed. :) Especially the end, 6:17 to 6:22.
Roxyzeneger 5 months ago
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Roxyzeneger 5 months ago
Esta pieza me parece símplemente bellísima
pavelu15 5 months ago
in that same light if you like this song and haven't heard 'Gabriel Faure': Pavane, definatly give it a listen. another iconic french composer and an iconic Pavane.
AdCaptandum 5 months ago
I'm not sure everyone here would appreciate it, but I recommend checking out 'Aruarian Dance' by Nujabes. It was indirectly inspired by this piece and could be very interesting to hear for its listeners.
IrishDutchman 6 months ago 5
Roll on sunday afternoon.
COWZ14 6 months ago
someone wanna tell me why Katy fkn Perry is in the sidebar?
MrPaddymulcahy 6 months ago 5
simply beautiful...
merci...
♥♥♥♥
IToMoTI 6 months ago
A slow version, especially hard for the horn player to manage the air needed without running out! That's why it's an especially good rendition...besides the fact that Ravel's music is beautiful. The Pavane is a renaissance dance and is typically performed a little bit faster, which was Ravel's preference. Sad because it's for a princess dead before her time.
AMAC48 6 months ago
Such evocative version! Adore this picture choice too..
sandramay88 6 months ago
This piece is breathtaking! Sounds like a waltz sort of... I love the deep dark serenity this song portrays! Wow.
julayywashere 6 months ago
@julayywashere thats wat pavane means lol. waltz or dance.
Not18Im13 3 months ago
i can feel this music is telling me a story.
curubito 6 months ago
Beautiful music
michaellaxe1984 6 months ago
It's as if the music is breathing portraying movement, taking shape, and just lightly making me groggy ;3 hehe love this piece though (;
lolitalovegurl4 6 months ago
Preciosaaa!!!!!
Supermabelina 6 months ago
horner?
tobto1 6 months ago
I was never crazy about this piece, but this has to be the best recording I've ever heard of it.
Twonez 6 months ago
This is my favorite piece.. Maurice Ravel is the best...
lynnyclarinete 6 months ago
I'm a horn player, and Jesus Christ this is so much better than Bolero.
AshMoney95 6 months ago
the way that arpeggio is played by the harp at 5:53 is not in the original score, but it needs to be, its more magical
JazZebra 6 months ago
i cant decide if i like the ochestral verision or the original (piano) version more...
JazZebra 6 months ago
22 people were drunk while rating this video
fabrice2mars 6 months ago
i just want to get naked in the woods and listen to this and just chill. just chill for once
SelfRevolution37 6 months ago 111
@SelfRevolution37 Don't get any centipedes caught in your ass
Mercenist 4 months ago
@SelfRevolution37 Go for it!!
memmotronic1 4 months ago in playlist Mellow Tunes
@SelfRevolution37 and then right then you see a dead princess, but it's all good, she could be a zombie for all you care for you are chilling...
exiong25 4 months ago
@SelfRevolution37 I am listening to this naked except im in my mothers basement and surrounded by old cheetos bags
thebigrussian 3 months ago in playlist thebigrussian's favorites
I love this song. 89.7 blessed me with this eargasm.
BirthOfSmiles 7 months ago
This evening on America July 1st in 2011 to only long for Brit Princess DI The UK - Forever Highest Honor To Be Alive Forever, for me in same year to be born, Glad To Happy Birthday Long Life Live Forever! You Higher British Commonwealth & All Her Islands & Belongs in World all happy & peace under Lord & Her, United Kingdom, The Queen of II E. in way of peace of stable nation security safety for The Queen from her, Princess DI.
cnchf817B 7 months ago
musique sublime
MrWavelab 7 months ago
Love this!
alesana5564 7 months ago
This is so beautiful :)
MsThisNameIsTaken 7 months ago
Isn't this Winter by Vivaldi? O.o
Sturrfry 7 months ago
@Sturrfry Nope, Vivaldi was a baroque composer thus his music would incorporate harpsichords and other "decoration". This is an impressionist piece.
LonePianist3 7 months ago
@LonePianist3 I don't know what the song is called, but there is definetely a song identical to this by vivaldi. I have it on my Ipod.
Sturrfry 7 months ago
@Sturrfry hmm interesting. I'm not too familiar with vivaldi's works to say for sure, but perhaps there might be some sort of resemblance. Who knows, Ravel could have been inspired by Vivaldi for all I know xD
LonePianist3 7 months ago
@LonePianist3 Possibly, i would show you the album but it won't let me post links. Its called "Most relaxing classical music in the world/universe" something like that. Btw your music is really good :)
Sturrfry 7 months ago
@Sturrfry I shall see what I can find on that album. and thank you! I don't get a lot of feedback on my music so any comments are greatly appreciated :)
LonePianist3 7 months ago
@LonePianist3 The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe is the name of the album. The song is called Violin concerto in F minor or something close to that. And your welcome :) i still have to buy a video camera to make vidoes, your way ahead of me xD
Sturrfry 7 months ago
@Sturrfry no!!
Ravel and Vivaldi are 2 very different composers with very different music. Vivaldi is baroque, this is impressionism.
God bless you very much,
Derek
derek44344 7 months ago 2
@derek44344 :) !!
bmurraygroove 7 months ago
@Sturrfry lmao oh man
MCalixte89 7 months ago
@MCalixte89 um...
Sturrfry 7 months ago
Could you please share what master recording this version is from? Thanks!
kerrylyn 7 months ago
this is just simply amazing.. gives me chills everytime i hit replay..
jon5039 7 months ago
Hermoso...
Tama300 7 months ago
juz mialem zlapac depresyjny nastroj, ale ten utwor pomogl mi przemyslec kilka spraw i koniec koncow rachunek okazal sie dodatni.
afusake 7 months ago
@afusake ja tez o maly wlos nie wpadlam w chandre, ale piekna muzyka pomogla. Trzeba sie tylko dobrze wsluchac i zapomniec...
ASQ84 7 months ago
beautiful piece of music.. haunting. It was used to awesome effect in a documentary on John F. Kennedy " JFK... In His Own Words"
irish89055 7 months ago
I had a guest conductor who told us about this piece since we were playing; Faure's Pavane. The whole sound and feeling of a pavane is amazing, It's like a slow pool of clear water, rotating in a a clockwise to counter clockwise motion as the song progresses.
MrMatmccabe 7 months ago
nice orchestration
dedbusted 7 months ago
All of the sudden I have " more than a woman" stuck in my head..
javilack 8 months ago
By far the greatest version of the piece I've ever heard. I've got to find out who this Hornist is!! (Hornist? Horn player? Hornguy? Horndude?)
Habeetwenty 8 months ago 97
@Habeetwenty Hornet for a man and Horny for a woman.
vewsong 7 months ago
@Habeetwenty And yes, I am.
vewsong 7 months ago
@Habeetwenty I don't know who he/she is, but given how flamboyant the vibrato is, he/she is French. Or some kind of European.
AshMoney95 7 months ago
@Habeetwenty Horny dude maybe :D
keket178 6 months ago 2
@Habeetwenty Horner?
samjohannes 6 months ago
@Habeetwenty Hornicator. :)
hannybubbles 6 months ago 3
@Habeetwenty -"Hornist" is good. Maybe he practices "Horniculture".
bluesborn 5 months ago 2
@Habeetwenty - It's "French Horn player" - ;- )
goldie0800 5 months ago