Beaux Arts Trio plays Ravel Trio, I

[grahma1]

Sorry to be immature, but 6:09: If Animal from The Muppets played violin!

[georgiannanyman]

There is no doubt that these men are relating to each other and the composer's work,on a very high- actually, stratospheric level-that most people either don't (by personal choice or limited response ) perceive.This is not a crime and if all of us resonated to the same thing can you imagine the scene! Everyone has something unique and no one has everything. My favorite folk saying is soothing to recall here "A man can't jump higher than his own head!" Culture by definition takes much time.

[samisyosam]

@georgiannanyman It's called practicing and rehearsing. All good musicians do it. It's not as spontaneous as people think. When observers mark it up to pure emotional inspiration, it cheapens the efforts that these people put into crafting this performance.

[MrAkihiros]

Am i wrong to say that the introduction and allegro is so much better than this trio? I was expecting more.

[malikrox]

@MrAkihiros Well, I would certainly wholeheartedly disagree with you.

[lumimoni]

Molti grazie per la musica

[jbguadaplayer]

What is a sense of style when playing Ravel? To make the most of every detail or let the music float in its own dreamy way? Compare Beaux Arts with Rubinstein, Heifetz, Piatigorsky!

[EarthmanCatholic]

These jewish maestros are fantastic.

[volk410]

Rest in peace, Maestro Greenhouse. Your work is immortal.

[gwirgalon]

Pressler is one of the greatest pianists for me--he has more nuances between mf e ppp than most people have between ffff e ppp. Such an utter and beautiful musician. And Bernie, missed on this earth for too long, and passionate Izzy..This awake aware playing that takes risks of coming from the heart is too often absent now from many people's playing I hear..et zut!

[pianotaffy]

WOW. this is so, so good...

[werq34ac]

Pressler scares the crap out of me, but this trio is just absolutely fantastic.

[TsarApe]

6:42 oops!

[chimoio100]

that people of my home planeta can produce such consumate beauty ...constantly...makes me proud to be an earthling........ the earthlings united will never be defeated!

[maelstrom191]

This is one of the very few pieces of music that gives me chills anymore... I was fortunate enough to witness another trio perform it and was shaking, almost weeping for half the performance. However, in my opinion this is the best recorded performance of the piece. Just beautiful...

[anotherjosh88]

This video inspired me to open up a hair salon called The Beaux Arts Beauty Salon.

[traceyanimefreak]

@Bochum96 do u go to a music skool?... i go to a school where the main focus is on achedemics... si ppl only do music cuz it looks good on their reports and stuff... it kinda pisses me off....

i'm 14 too ^^

[traceyanimefreak]

it's so damn hard to find sumone 2 talk 2 me about my taste in classical music... everone else likes justin beiber and extremely gay fags like him, or fake korean chicks like snsd... it would be absolutely amazing if anyone my age could like classical. damn i feel like splurging.... i get more and more jealous everyday at all these amazing skills on youtube. i wanna learn violin and cello, and play damn graceful like all these ppl and play like massively violent like caprice 24 by pagnini.

[Bochum96]

@traceyanimefreak

I'm 14 and I love classical music, too. And I totally agree with you, when you say, that modern music is shit :D

[chimoio100]

ravel taught r.v.w the blues.......

[Caramellatta]

Ravel's soul was a woman.

[louis621]

Im watching my piano professor perform this in pasadena on sat... should be amazing...

[EarlyLAPunk]

Piano intro is to die for!

[Physdelicdreaming]

I want to play this piece one day, not just at home. I love it. I first fell in love Ravel's trio when I watched the movie 'Un coeur en hiver'. I was taken by its beauty, and I've always, ALWAYS loved Ravel. This is truly a masterpiece. I'm not sure how to describe it, but listening to this, everything goes still and quiet. Even my grandmother paused for a moment to listen.

[medievalMoon2]

Ravel's piano trio is magical and it's a great pity that the great unwashed prefer Susan Boyle and that gaga creature then a sublime masterpiece

[mossimo654]

@medievalMoon2

It's true, but that's always been the case. Only a small segment of the (normally educated) population ever listenined to "art music."

Don't lose sleep over it! Just enjoy the beauty of Ravel for what it is.

Thank god for public arts funding

[auerstadt06]

@medievalMoon2 The great unwashed have their place too. Do you think an intellectual snob is going to pick up your trash every week?

[gwirgalon]

@auerstadt06 who said her comment had anything to do with intellectual snobbery?? back off! Ravel's piece is one of the most beautiful and most don't ever hear it because of the prejudices you wave about here, though I presume you though you were doing the opposite.. think about it, if you really are on the side of clairty and care for others, for giving respect to all due.

[auerstadt06]

@gwirgalon Is "The great unwashed" a term of respect?

[gwirgalon]

@auerstadt06 No, of course not, ... but what you do with the coment can be...there's the more interesting challenge, no? How much time do we have on this earth? What do you want to do with yours? Hurt or be kind, open doors or self righteously slam them on people's fingers..? That's the real question..answering what you see as snobbishness -- and might just be other things with more snobbishness will not help, anything...

[vyvyanos]

@medievalMoon2

*than

[Ihadtosettleforthis]

@medievalMoon2 "The great unwashed"? Elitist snobbery much?

[dalecampbl7]

i have always had great respect for this piano trio and all of Ravel's works...but this work is quintessential ravel, with Ravel's brand of sentimentalism

[giihrailemiranda]

perfecto!!!bravoooo!!!

[username14657]

Food for the hungry soul!

[chipheo24]

Oeuvre magnifique!

[andrecaroi]

Recuerdo que estuvo aquí en mi ciudad el Cuarteto Pasquíer, el Cuarteto para el fin del Mundo, y realizó un homenaje al compositor francés y a su obra maestra "El cuarteto para el fin del Tiempo" OLIVIER MESSIAEN; no obstante, la entrada fue El trío de RAVEL y me enamoré de está obra...

[tec066]

Arte do mais alto nível.

Obrigado pelo video.

[Batman6564]

Shutup ladies and just watch the video

[hardlybreath]

Para que luego, solo se conozca el bolero de Ravel ..

[preslavka7]

magic..

[wickedismycrack714]

maybe it is. music is the one thing i give myself license to be snobbish about, and if it's snobbish to criticize rap and heavy metal, then i fully intend to continue being a snob.

[jazztime100]

wow.... and people wonder why the classical scene isnt as big as it once was

[titusbeertsen]

@wickedismycrack714 There is some very intelligent metal (Listen to Meshuggah or Tool for instance), and the same goes for rapmusic. I love classical too but please don't think it's the only 'right' music, that's just ignorant.

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen I gave Meshuggah a listen...were you joking when you referred to their music as intelligent metal? It's great that you love "classical" music (a term we use nowadays to refer to everything from chant to the avant-garde), but don't fall into the trap of thinking there aren't in fact things that are "right" and "proper". "Art" can only be that which calls for an extreme sophistication in the creative aspect of the artist's person.

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen Now it would be wrong as well to refer to Music as being relegated solely to that which is artistically relevant. Simpler music for the simple act of entertaining the masses has always had a very important place and will continue to have its place, music for festivals, sacred services (simple ones), celebrations, orgies. The important difference comes about only in the consideration of that music which will "improve" the listener's very essence, or soul...

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen Now when I refer to the Soul, I don't mean that sentimental humanist rubbish we call "soul" nowadays, even that music had its place at a time, although that expression of human suffering is understood less in today's world of relative comfort for all. Getting back to my point...only Art can in fact improve the soul, the combination of sophistication of Form, Style, and Content, which incline the mind towards considering "Form" itself, "Harmony", and the "Material and Immaterial."

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen Now you can hardly claim that Meshuggah, Tool, or any Rap "Musician" fulfills any of these requirements or has any sense of this purpose in their "music". In that sense, there is a "right" kind of music, and there is also a "wrong" kind of music (although that wouldn't necessarily be rock, metal, or rap themselves as genres, just instances within those genres).

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen There is a great fallacy existant nowadays that has accompanied the prevalent anti-intellectualism of American culture and the Americanization of global cultures. That fallacy is that people with standards are considered to be ignorant because of the fact that "equality" has become idolized to the point that we are only willing to admit equality to the point that it completely destroys the ideas of the "good and bad", the "right and wrong", and the "true and false".

[kurzyrsDomain]

@titusbeertsen Now Titus...is it still possible to say that in consideration of all the problems associated with the very concept of Music, its creation, and performance, that people who have standards about "right" and "proper" music are in fact speaking from a position of ignorance?

[jazztime100]

by the way i was referring to wickedismycrack714's comment there

[Grisostomo06]

I've heard this piece at least a hundred times and I never tire of hearing it. This is the first time I've seen it actually performed however. Too bad the video cuts off the fade out at the end of the piece.

[associazionekorekane]

grandissimo Ravel numero uno!!!

[jazztime100]

ravel is the shit

[wickedismycrack714]

i saw these guys live, and they were FABULOUS. it was funny, though- my friend next to me was sleeping, and we were actually onstage, so the pianist and violinist were facing us, and they were shooting him dirty looks the whole time:D

[vivianargueta]

how on earth do you fall asleep in something like this, you gotta change your friends buddy, or at least dont take them to this kind of events

[wickedismycrack714]

Hang on to your pants for a second....geez. It was at the IU summer piano academy, and we'd been going to mandatory 2-hour concerts late every night, after already spending hours in master classes, lessons, etc, and everyone was completely wiped out. Most people, myself included, fell asleep during several of the concerts.

[vivianargueta]

jajajajjajajajajaja - ok, now it makes muchh more sense. I thought it was the classic case of dragging friends to events you really want to partake of but they are not that interested in... they tend to culminate in some sort of falling asleep as you related, hence my assumption

[wickedismycrack714]

Yes, that does tend to happen when we classical musicians try to expose our "normal" friends to GOOD music, rather than the crap that they listen to:D

[debussyman88]

i agree.... i know how that is personally..those three and four movement sonatas....

[allandy4u]

we should anjoy Biggie or Tupac just as much as Ravel and Bach.

[parsistamon]

While I do like biggie and tupac, they musically come close to Ravel or Bach. I admire them more for their poetry and lyricism than their music.

[beefMERCIFUL]

rocking the fuck out

[robotkarel]

how I love this melody of the beginning!

[Gidselgrisen]

100 thumbs up!

[crawy88]

SO BEAUTIFUEL ...

[sumfunny]

i love this trio and feel fortunate to say that my teacher is Bernard's nephew. So I get a little of Bernard teaching in their with my lessons.

[lespaulzep]

Truly wonderful playing.

They will be missed as a unit.

Just a little (more) legato on the piano and would truly melt into the whole piece.

[cellomaster225]

this is amazing... i wish i didnt miss their farewell concert

[phljung]

I love you Pressler

[Parralyzed]

@phljung why, thank you :-)

[flowblend]

pretty

intense

playing

thanks

maurice

[lucamadeus]

immense Beaux Arts, best performance of this trio

[purtykitty24]

So awesome. I'm so proud I got to hear pros play this in a master class. This is played so well here

[zstadt]

I'm most likely seeing them tomorrow!!! Can't wait!

[Leoyyg]

this is fantastic, its such a pity pressler is retiring

[werq34ac]

fantastic musicians like these guys should never retire...

[jezHB333]

Agreed!!!

[BigBeatDM55]

This is one of the most beautifully haunting piano trios ever written.

[tttashhh]

mature beauty shining through!

[solveaproblem]

I'm interested to hear how others interpret the staccati in the beginning - Pressler seems to pedal through them, I personally don't. What do some of you tend to do?

[tawtsai]

I personally would add some pedal, yet play with staccati in my hands... I think its too dry without pedal, and also harder to get the floating feelings at the beggining.

[flowblend]

floating

is

good

[zigeunerviolin]

It's very worth it to hear the recording of Heifetz, Rubinstein, and Piatigorsky playing this. It can be downloaded from karadar.

[upka619]

Isidor Cohen (violinist) was my chamber music teacher... what a great artist!!! RIP

[dido93]

Una lezione di interpretazione e musicalità...

[debbyplayer]

So passionate and tender, so furious and peaceful...

Great interpreters!

[commandercool069]

absolutely beautiful

[lix198705]

太棒了！

[mountainharry]

For years I am a Ravel listener and I think

the beaux arts trio is playing this trio in a way that would please Ravel very much think.

Great music and great trio.

Harry van den Berg

[cello4ever]

Greenhouse blends in with the whole trio so perfectly!

[dugraves]

Chamber music playing at its most superb.

[AQ645]

Thank you for this video. There is so little that documents this incredible trio at this point in their playing. More!