Ravel, Piano concerto in G - mov. I (L. Bernstein)

[fabiohme]

Meu herói!!!

[StevenOBrienComposer]

5:32 Mind blowing.

[Strawbelissimo]

WOW!

[BenEvz94]

how could anyone possibly dislike this video?

[kplrovios]

who unlike this!!!!

[arrangeur55]

Komponieren, Dirigieren, Spielen.......was gibt es noch mehr?

[schle07]

nodame!!!!! =))

[marcelita9402]

@schle07 hahaha xD

[Valk72]

@schle07

Ah ah ah i had the same thought XD

[whneo97]

When was this recorded?

[kembooo000]

THUMBS UP IF NODAME BROUGHT YOU HERE

[PhilipOMeara]

Bernstein. Fucking genius.

[gorfully]

Phila orch - Not a chance. Check out the principal bassoon.

[Albertoferro68]

Wow! Che agilità!

[dasteufelhund]

The best.

[jijiart]

弾き振り！！！！



[moragapiano]

No offense

[jimmymoomoojimmy]

11 mans who dislikes have a ear

[ExeterBassoon]

Orchestra isn't the best but Bernstein's performance is amazing!! (as one would expect from a master)

[YoJoe456]

@ExeterBassoon Really? I thought the orchestra was pretty good... At least that trumpet player was. He plays that beginning lick the cleanest out of any recording here on youtube!

[ExeterBassoon]

@YoJoe456 Well yes i will admit the trumpet playing is very good! I'm just biased towards my Ormandy/Entremont recording i guess! :)

[YoJoe456]

@ExeterBassoon Haha, fair enough. Which orchestra is that with?

[ExeterBassoon]

@YoJoe456 Philadelphia Orchestra. Ormandy is always with them, he was their conductor for 40 some years or so. One of the big hit conductor/orchestra duos in the 60's and 70's along with bernstein

[PTR131]

Ravel sucks cock! This Expressionist shit is completely unlistenable.

[maternalheart66]

@PTR131 It's Impressionism you fool. That comment was uncalled for.

[ppgppgppgppg]

@PTR131 Criticizing is not a crime. But first learn your vocabulary.

[enthu15]

bravo

[Pavlvs34]

There are elements of this performance that are slightly unexpected—relatively extreme tempo changes (that are not Ravel's), and a quite a few wrong notes.

HOWEVER, you can NOT say that you don't get anything out of it—so what if the tempi are exaggerated and there's the odd slip. Bernstein gives us, in my opinion, a valuable and valid interpretation that is exciting, moving, expressive. He certainly brings out Ravel's love of Jazz music.

Excellent.

[milosbar]

@Pavlvs34 Sure!! It´d be pretty boring if all orchestras attempted to sound EXACTLY alike as the score says, there wouldn´t be any interpretation

[6347285]

It sounds very good to hear Ravel interpreted this way.

[Schuhann]

OMG! BRAVO!

[EmperorOfWei]

I thought the orchestra is getting f***ed up near the end. Just saying.

You can hear clearly Lenny keeping the tempo and trying to pull the orchestra together WITH HIM, but their slow plodding prevail around 8:26, at which point i guess Lenny just went and finished the movement with his emotion alone.

Also, that solo trumpeter sucks

[nickelit]

It seems to me that if the orchestra can't keep pace with the soloist/conductor, both get f***ed. Lenny gives this piece a wonderful raw energy that many performances lack, and is the main reason why I like this recording a lot. But his playing is anything but precise (he certainly doesn't care nearly as much about not missing a note, or not hitting the wrong note, than that sucking trumpeter does). Just saying.

[MrAkihiros]

@EmperorOfWei I agree, the ending seems like an entirely different tempo from the other recordings I've heard. But I think Lenny made it work bereft of any 'dragging' this piece seems to invite.

[Lymphaticnessicity]

@EmperorOfWei

100% agree. Especially about that trumpet player. Guy's crappy sound was getting on my nerves

[darken192]

is it just me? i feel the piano kind of sounds angry ( for some parts) instead of cute rabbit jumping and dancing around. He's too old to perform this piece lol

[fieryphoenixchick]

the piano is bald!!! :O

[mcnardo]

No one makes the opening 0:41 to 0:50 more explosive than bernstein.

[JLGosselin12345]

incredible video. Respect Lenny!

[ukks63]

THE JAZZ!

[muslit]

I saw Bernstein do this with the Vienna Phil. in Paris in the early 70's, with Schumann's 4th symphony. A fabulous concert.

[gnimez]

@muslit a symphony won't have a soloist. this is a concerto, and bernstein conducts from the piano

[muslit]

@gnimez

ok, with schuman's 4th symphony on the same program. better?

[yukikoforevernoise]

Ravel the first acid jazz artist XD

[froggyhare46]

holy cow, conducting and playing piano at once!

[moyxx030]

Yea I always get a kick out of that when I see conductors doing that. One thing we will never see Lang Lang do, lolll.

[gnimez]

@moyxx030 very true. :D

[MrAkihiros]

@moyxx030 You sound like you don't like lang Lang very much. I watched him with the NYPO performing Rachmaninoff and it was unreal. Sure he's young and lacks the Occidental pinache but you can't have it all,

[MrAkihiros]

@moyxx030 green venom!

[jumponthebandwagon]

@froggyhare46

As was done for dozens of years preceding the Romantic era in music...

[2009xellos]

Both Ravel and Bernstein admired Mozart without reservation.

[y1g1tcn]

applause at the end??

[Medsas]

why would you applaud? this is only part 1... theres 3 parts, it's not over

[y1g1tcn]

o yes you are right. i totally forget..

[ccppgg1]

mmm yeah.

[ohlordbabyjesus]

Bernstein, you ole' show-offy queen.

[Nimenicamine01]

siempre ha sido un genio americano (una excepciòn sin duda), America no tuve demasiados musicos....

[hermitking100]

The music sounds like Paris.

[tornado2000000000000]

@hermitking100 You´re right

[pianoenthusiast11]

wow bernstein is a fab pianist!!

its not often a famous conductor takes the keyboard like this and it is wonderful to watch!

[davisbone]

I just love the sound of French basoon.why don't they use them any more?

[Alitha84]

genio...

[LevMysh68]

Who better to conduct/play this piece than Bernstein, whose understanding of jazz more than qualifies him to interpret Ravel's attempt at jazz? I love this work. It turned me onto 20th century music, and I love the flashes of Gershwin and "Rhapsody in Blue!"

[antiPNOS]

Ravel has a way to combine jazz harmonies with classical elements. Listen to the seventh part in Valses Nobles et sentientales... you can not clearly hear where nr 7 starts cause they're normally played as one piece, but anyway, it's one of his goosebumps pieces. AWESOME!

[serloisse737]

Bernstein was both soloist and conductor.

[ryoushinchan]

does anyone know when was this performance and with which conductor and orchestra?

[culturehorse]

70's; ny phil ..

[LogicSmash]

Modern as if it were something from the techno/house 90's.

[LogicSmash]

5:33 melody looks very modern.

[padrenatas]

¡Diosssss!!!¡Qué buen gusto! Lo amé.

[JJKjaer]

Fantastic piano concerto, fantastic performance!

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

Fabulous!!!!!!!

[Finners1551]

Oh my god, the horn solo is so good, 5:42 and they don't even show him. One of the hardest solos out there and this guy does it justice

[Snufkin999]

It's really good to hear these insights that's hard to notice without the knowledge of the instrument! Thanks! It did sound very smooth and beautiful, but what makes this part so difficult?

[nstevensofrochester]

The tessitura for the solo is very high, reaching C above the staff. To put that in perspective, most orchestral Horn parts never stray above the G or A below that C. The fact that the solo is meant to be played softly and sensitively adds an element of difficulty, as Horns typically only play that high in loud passages like the infernal dance from The Firebird and certain points in Mahler symphonies.

[AmateurBassoonist]

Sounds like the Bassoon solo - goes up to an E, and I've only had to play D in extremely high, weirdly written parts :P

[gmhots]

@Finners1551 Totally in agreement. Am a horn player myself and that's no joke.

[haimcito]

amazing and wonderful , well he knows his piano part by heart, it should be. but all the orchestral score? incredible. lovely.

[thepianomaniac]

It amazes me that someone can do both--conduct AND perform on the piano--at the same time, it's really phenomenal!

[pobz100]

Not actually difficult at all. There is much controversy about the purpose of the conductor as most orchestras, well decent ones anyway, can play perfectly well without one!

[bene951]

well, of course the orchestra could play fine without him. the difference a conductor makes, however, in an orchestra of this quality is making a good performance into an inspired one! There is a reason why some conductors are famous: the best make the orchestras they conduct sound better and play more inspired! Similarly, the conductor's sense of proportion, balance, color, timing, and emotion (this list could go on forever) has a significant effect on the "quality" of the performance.

[nmitchell076]

@bene951

Not to mention that the Conductor also is in a position to hear the entire orchestral sound, not just to an individual instruments sound or at most how an individual instrument's sound fits in with the overall sound (as a instrumentalist within the orchestra is limited to)

[camileludwig]

Wonderful!

[redolentlook]

PERFECT!!

[highlandsh]

Trumpet solo at :50 is considered by some the most demanding, though short, in concerti for other instruments. High, staccato with leaps.

2:30 very soulful piano, like looking out the window on a beautiful day.

[4evaFanFuruba]

The conductor plays while conducting!Amazing!

[armailh]

Orchestre national of France

[fricoepolente]

Che talento straordinario!! Pazzesco come dirige e suona insieme.... :)

[miliona1re]

ci sono sempre i coglioni che applaudono dopo il primo tempo,anche qui hahaha

[miliona1re]

great conductor and great pianist,Berstein the great!

[tyrelroo]

That's a really live hall... it makes the orchestra sound kind of sloppy.

GORGEOUS basson français at 2:50!!!

[1224luca]

素晴らしい！！！

[coelhofsp]

you're quite right, and i have never hera 1:10 played so slow.

[xzzap]

When you're a conductor, you can do these things!

[Srach]

I LOVE that the first trumpet player nails that excerpt while looking at Bernstein!

[Meliere]

HAHAHA!!! I know. He had that deadpan look, as if to say, "that's right. I'm good."

[jannokas85]

It's so psychedelic the way the colors appear at 5:22 ... lol ...

[bulSAdeCV]

wow i love how Mr. Leonard Bernstein plays and also is the director!!!! =D. Leonard Bernstein 4 ever!!!!

[Gonec]

THANKS!

[3tristan]

Thank you very much!

I love it to see and too hear Bernstein as conductor and a pianist in this beautiful Ravelconcert.