Ravel - Vladimir Ashkenazy - Daphnis et Chloe -Daybreak(1/3)

[diamondintherough11]

this is the most beautiful way a heart can be ripped out of a chest

[poet930]

So beautiful, it brings tears to my eyes even after all these years of hearing it.

[hamishjim]

I clicked on this with hardly any knowledge of classical music, and not knowing what to expect. From the first second I decided it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard

[notekidds]

Didn't he have a car accident in which he suffered a brain trauma and die years later during brain surgery?

[MageScribe]

Why did Ravel have to die? Well, everywhere he went he carried his own French cigars and wine. He called them his "civilization". While I do not presume to sit in judgment of him, from what I know of the gentleman the best part of him--his musical talent--lives on in his compositions. The rest of him is tinged with regrets as is the case with many composers.

[nofactzone]

Danny Elfman's Mars Attacks theme music sounds SUSPICIOUSLY like HUGE SWATHES of this utterly fantastic work ... Ahhhh! nothing new under the sun and all that, or so it is said. And yet the Ravels and Debussy's of this world ... now THEY really do seem to have known all about creating. This ballet delivers the most wild and beautiful sounds ...

[mancmuso1]

Too beautiful....

[therapsids]

It is hard for me to believe this came from the same guy who wrote Bolero.

[cbuhlayza]

This is just gorgeous!! I could listen to this all day. I love the color that the woodwinds bring-- esp. the piccolo flourish at around 1:30

[clankrat]

it does sound japanese!

[menzel290563]

Daphnis et Chloe !!!!!!!!! one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.

[OpenforSexerotica]

Nice interpretation.

[TheMilagros59]

wonder music

terrific DIRECTOR....

very good orchestra

[Glinkaism1]

Daybreak was adapted by Charles Strouse for the Broadway musical "Golden Boy." The adapted song was called "Night Song," and sung by Sammy Davis Jr.

[luzmosi]

It is not a miracle..it is a new fact, scientifically proven,that God possessed Ravel in 1909 and made his eyes go white..he was verklempt , but managed to strike ink precisely and happened to have Diaghilev premiere this sublimity at the Theatre du Chatelet..uh lala .

[khbgkh]

@luzmosi isn't that the definition of miracle?

[starrover1111]

I can't explain it - I love almost every Ravel piece I hear. So much of it makes me cry.

[Hyogaxs]

1:52 chord

[coolsnak3]

yes

[freshhh1994]

Ravel sucks cock! This impressionist shit is completely unlistenable.

(just kidding)

[Nimenicamine01]

Ay xD! y no piensas ponerlo en un solo video?? estoy harto de tener que levantarme de la mesa para cambiar a las otras partes, ahora el Youtube ya permite mas largos, no lo sabias?

Buenas noches

[Yoostoobz]

PONYO?!

[USABG58]

At the risk of repeating comments, why is the entire orchestra Asian? and where is the choir?

[Monkopalooza]

@USABG58 why does time move in one direction? what is the unified theory we have all been looking for?

[USABG58]

@Monkopalooza The unified theory we're looking for is all Asian orchestras...oh...yes!...of course! I get it! Yes, that makes sense! Ha...-wow!-...

[Theowne]

@USABG58 - This is the NHK orchestra. They are from Japan. In this video they were visiting Europe.

[BallymanyMuse]

@Monkopalooza, time does indeed move in one direction but it's a concentrically expanding disapora......... the unified theory is the observers point in the concentric expanding diaspora.......... (Sorry couldn't help meself)

[Monkopalooza]

@BallymanyMuse haha love it!

[webkahmik]

@BallymanyMuse

NICE, "expanding diaspora" as in vortically accelerated spiral...(?)

CHEERS.

[prinznevsky]

...like a hot tub for your ears. And soul...

[defda94]

magic music..!! incredible..!! I miss ravel a lot..!!

[hotplate85]

What a magnificent harmonic sense Ravel had. Each chord and key change fools the listener in a happy way. Film composers mimic this in 1930s films up to today.

[zimnomel]

Magical. Ravel was a true master of orchestration.

[Pat0p]

i think that the producers of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya used this piece

[freakystylntime]

Theyre all asian.

[Pat0p]

@freakystylntime yes...(sigh)....yes they are.

[freakystylntime]

@freakystylntime Don't assume that because I pointed that out, I don't appreciate the music. Trust me, I do. Maurice Ravel is one of my favourite composers. And this is one of my favourite pieces ever written.

[100Wilbur999]

YEH MAURICE!

[EwolDJ]

@jchopra - I'm on exactly the same page as you with this (but leave out the hip-hop). I am a musician of sorts, if you count someone who plays percussion well by ear. But my background is in popular music styles. Sometimes I curse pop music because it took me fifty-five years to discover this mesmerising masterpiece. It seems to take everyone to a different place. It takes me all over Europe and the Mediterranean, an incredible journey through space and time to the cradle of civilization. Amen.

[nevertheless123]

Why did Ravel have to die?

[violaXplayer]

@nevertheless123 he is not dead, just press play........

[geneosis]

@violaXplayer art (real one) has this kind of power...

[violaXplayer]

@geneosis Isn't amazing that even though we all don't know eachother we can all come together just because one person wrote one bad ass masterpiece.

[beautyandnobeast]

this piece is the best example of how music can create images and can remind u of things... i see heaven opening at the start and every thing disorientated but coming together in splendor ,,, then it gets dark,, and when the precusion comes in at the end so do i , haha... oh ye and im not religous but i can still see what the music to me seems to say

[122Skibum]

Just sight read this today, its amazing...

[MrCoolManTim]

This, and the opening to the Firebird send shudders up my spine.

So beautiful..

[Baruchyoseph8]

This is beyond the beyond music - it elevates one to another level .....

[MaestroCanedo]

Always I listen this music, since my teens, when my musical studies begins. In stereo or quadriphonic too, in several moments. But live, with NY Philarmonic and Mehta conducting, it was one of the most incredible audio experiencies in my life; my musician fellows and I, all with tears in eyes. The orchestration effect can't be translationed; is immense and surrounding you as a "physical" touch.

[consuelo1962]

This piece makes me wish I was a BIRD and be able to fly...! it is most certainly a WOW piece. As a former dancer this is Paradise!!!!!!

thank you for uploading it.

[vladcaia]

so much emotion! marvelous!

[donnervogel5051]

da freue ich mich ☺

Was habe ich dieses Stück gesucht -- wo die Musik zum Ballett wird --- man Alles förmlich sieht ... den Fluß im Frühling , den Vogel -- aber Alles andere auch am Wegesrand .....ein ganzes Leben tief in den Berg ....und immer wieder ins/zum Licht ...

Vielen Dank fürs Einstellen ☺ Bin glücklich !!!!!!!

[LuizCambridge]

Wonderful ! Fabulous ! Maravilhoso !

[brianleeeelnairb]

ravel is a genius

[PastaPuttanesca]

Ahhh... What a nightmare to play...

[comfibold]

Sheer perfection...

[mancmuso1]

Musical elysium!!

[TheExeter]

I listened to this song for the 1st time parked close to the Horseshoe falls in Niagara, and it was during daybreak on a cool sunny day and the seagulls danced in the mist to the sounds of this masterpiece I have never heard until then. This song truly spoke to me that morning and I have been listening to Ravel ever since.

[MrGoaly35]

This i gorgeous!

[pictureslover]

i hate to hear people to cough during music, i think it's a non respect for musicians and for composer !! it seems someone are leprous or what ! i hate that !!

[JFman00]

@shadowrun45 It's in the full ballet. Which this is not.

[MetroDuroc]

An incredible composition. The joy of life even with mortality lurking in the background. Inspiring and deeply consoling at the same time.

[aristopus]

@MetroDuroc good post. I always felt the same thing. Ravel and Debussy set a mood for humanity to live by. Laid back, serene, in awe of nature—sort of like the afternoon of a faun.

[shadowrun45]

where's the choir?

[ondineshimmers]

@shadowrun45 . yay, not present!

[alciefrederic]

@shadowrun45 This is the orchestral suite 2, which does not require the choir.

[RosalendFujeta54]

nabin mega aufgewirbelt und ungezogen heute wer mag mit mir schreibn und so

[MrAkihiros]

There is a version of Karajan with the Bpo but it was taken out of the net. The audio quality of that one surpasses this in my opinion.

[okcmon101]

oh this is the good stuff...i have been moved to tears so many times by this piece...if you relax in the dark and close your eyes while listening to it, you will be transported to a very peaceful place...it's absolutely the best when the choir accompanies the orchestra

[iceflame5]

A masterpiece. How can a person even begin to orchestrate something so profound? It couldn't have come from the mind. The dissonances, subtleties, melodies, pictures. It's all too perfect.

He must have taken this from God himself. What an incredible composer.

[wagnerian1979]

Wow a magnificent performance, played by a top-rate orchestra and conductor.

[MarcoMeerman]

This is like music to my ears :-), thanks

[Rheesoman]

aswome aucustics the hall has.

[zeppelinn]

Yes, master Yoda. :-)

[fingerjazz]

That is probably the most beautiful music I've ever heard.

[TINSTAAFL1]

If you listen carefully you can hear that this has been copied a million times in movie scores...

[MrAkihiros]

No doubt Ravel is a brilliant orchestrator but late in his life he was being criticized for being shallow / non-innovator. 'Daphne' was not a success in its premiere no doubt overshadowed by the young Stravinsky. In his last years Ravel commented in all humility that hopefully not all his music is for naught. That makes him a great composer in my book.

[dag4227]

How stringent the boundaries of genius that Ravel was criticized for being non-innovative. only in music.

[4prioi]

.. You can hear the nature... Impressionist dream magus indeed

[comfibold]

Sublime...

[TeeteringBulb]

I wanna be the bird at 1:33.

[arcturian627]

3:23 And we become birds and fly off the cliff...

[woodlawn4623]

Charles munch boston symphony version with voices is the best in my view also.

[trhoma6432]

Anyone who says this lacks imagination, can't imagine anything greater than his own dick!

[chiomob]

What an inspired ear Ravel had...the colors, both harmonic and orchestral, are truly tremendous.

[Dzzzzzzz]

@chiomob: You didn't mention the orchestration! Ravel is one of the greatest orchestrators.

[PierceHardwood]

Great performance. Perfect attention to dynamics. Some very minor pitch issues in one or two places, negligible.

[khbgkh]

@PierceHardwood unimportant, honestly. hear the pitch errors, hear the perfect executions of dynamics, and if they do not translate to the human experience for you, you've missed the point. Nobody here cares about how good your ear is, or how well you can criticize a brilliant orchestra.

[english6invasion]

My favorite is the Boston Symphony's version - it's simply divine! The work doesn't necessarily need the choir but it does give an added dramatic effect which is certainly not a bad thing.

[profoundlysecret1]

This lacks imagination.

[Kedislol]

Are you being ironic? ^^

[adamlovestrombone]

you lack imagination. ANYTHING

[Jampang6]

:53 the sun comes over the green hilled horizon, the birds are singing, the grass tilts towards the sun. It's just beautiful. Even without words telling it, the music justs paints the picture

[Jampang6]

Flowers rise from their sleep.

[faminepulse1]

So beautiful :)

[posiedon092]

Throughout symphonic history there have been great orchestrators such as Beethoven, Berlioz, R. Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, ect. Then Ravel came along and showed everyone how to do it right. Thanks for posting. Ravel is the orchestral colorist second to none.

[Alexknobsob]

I agree, but it took a Debussy to break the ice.

[PierceHardwood]

That's educated ignorance.

[MrMuzikmann]

Rimsky (imho) is overrrated as an orchestrator, Berlioz was genius in what he could hear was possible,R.Strauss created many very special moments for the orchestra (esp. Salome/Elektra) but agree with you totally that Ravel made the orchestra sound like no other, wave after wave of sublime colour.This whole ballet is his most extraordinary achievement in that field.

[NonInflatable]

Nobody could orchestrate like Ravel.

See what he could do with a simple tune, as in Bolero.

Daybreak is superb.

[TheTruth006]

I don't think this needs a choir.

[DarkRaimundo]

A heart touching performance...

[jchopra]

I am not amusician unlike a few users on this board but I am a music lover. My tastes centre on rock, modern pop, world, jazz, music of fim, hip hop...pretty much anything. I first heard this piece when attending the 2008 proms. I was right at the front & absolutely blown away by the sense of scale, depth and orchestral involvement. Mesmerising piece of work!

[nevertheless123]

@jchopra very well said !!

[Monkopalooza]

@jchopra wait for the jaw-droppling orgasmic cerebral experience you shall receive when u start delving into some counterpoint and harmony! Yeeeeaaaaa

[KevSmithGuitar]

I would love to be where you where mate.This is is passion ,love,loss it has massive depth,romance its majestic.

Check out my youtube favourites Im sure you can add to them

[StevenStructure]

What? no choir here?

fuck it

[Rkmajora]

The woodwinds seem to naturally fill in for the choir at 3:00

[RaymentPaul]

Beautiful ...

[AxisPowerz]

I want to be able to write like this!! It so perfect and beautiful. It makes me well up.

[MichiruMari]

you just did listen to it.

[QChannelHD]

But minutes before.

[Asiis]

You're already dead

[squishym]

I can't even believe how majestic and sublime this piece is. Absolutely, mind-bogglingly profound! I'm usually biased towards preferring a composer's piano music (since I am a pianist myself), but it's obviously clear that Ravel knew how to take advantage of all the sonic possibilities of an orchestra just as well as with his fabulous piano pieces. Pass the good stuff ;)

[hahaxitsxtaylor3]

triangle youth philharmonic in nc is playing this too :O) the flutes are the center of the universe, sorry everyone else.

[mrsexypants98]

we are playing this in our youth symphony. we are so baliing!!!!

[citizencriss]

Ravel was a genius, but if there was anyone who can really bring his music to life it's Vladimir Ashkenazy. He is a true master of his art.

[Orpehus458]

Truly Ravel at his best.

[54spiritedwill54]

Wonderful! Beautiful!

[claronebasse]

I recently purchased Pierre Boulez's 1995 recording on DG with the BPO of the full ballet. Even though I'm not a big Boulez fan, I have to say that it was, in a word, stunning. Ravel was really showing off his orchestration skills with this one.

[pinkrae146]

Dang I can't wait to be married and use this song as a soundtrack...

[NonInflatable]

Bliss.....the things Ravel could do with an orchestra!

[54spiritedwill54]

simply gorgeous....wow

[pgnorgan]

Lovely recording, but I much prefer the version with the chorus singing with the orchestra. The Cleveland Orchestra version is wonderful. Nonetheless, it always brings me to extasy, because I am a pagan, and understand the mythology involved. May the God and Goddess bless all of you.

[Blikjandabol]

Thus if you don't know what a faune is, on the first hand you ignore Mallarme's poem on which Debussy's piece is based, on the other hand you don't follow the piece in depth. Of course i just suppose... Perhaps the difference between un and une is just a spelling mistake of the bad moment... or an endorsement of the absolute music.

[BigHrdB]

If Ravel wasn't GUIDED BY GOD HIM/HER/ITSELF and ALL THAT'S BEAUTIFUL AND EXQUISITE AND HAPPY in ALL of existence when he wrote this, then I'll EAT MY SHOES!!! Sitting here in my basement at 9:49 p.m, and I'm SINCERELY wishing that I could magically take all the HEAVENLY ENERGY that this piece embodies and EXPLODE it ALLLL OVER THE WORLD, and have JUST ONE HOUR OF TOTAL PEACE, with NO HATE, MURDERS, INJURIES OR DEATH/UHAPPINESS OF ANY KIND FOR JUST ONE HOUR!!!

[steinway33]

BigHrdB Completely agree. How about for much, much longer than one hour! There's so much beauty in this piece that I want to cry every time I hear it. See my other text comments

below.

[steinway33]

Another great Ravel piece is Rapsodie Espagnole. It's not quite as majestic as Daphnis but it is gorgeous. It's a sound painting of Spain with all it's rich coloration. I especially love the first movement, Prelude a la Nuit. Very moody and mysterious. Unfortunately there are only piano transcriptions of that movement on YouTube. I would buy the Charles Munch or Fritz Reiner recordings. Enjoy!

[steinway33]

I first heard Daphnis et Chloe when I was about 18. It changed my life. I never imagined that music could be so beautiful. I decided that the greatest thing in the world would be to be able to compose music like that.

[ngumusic]

I am 18 and I have just heard this and now i want to compose something as beautiful as this. lol

[steinway33]

To ngmusic

There's music in everything. Especially Nature. Ravel and Debussy music reflects Nature. That's why there music is

so beautiful. After WW1 that connection was gone. I don't

know of any music so moving composed since then.

[ngumusic]

Steinway33

I agree, i love Ravel's Jeux D'eau and Mirroirs and the way he creates his sounds of water in his music. But I believe Pat Metheny's music is as moving. Check him out! Search for "are you going with me" by Pat Metheny see what you think.

[steinway33]

My favorite performance of Daphnis et Chloe is by Charles Dutroit and the Montreal Symphony. He also is a great interpreter of Debussy. Are you studying composition?

[ngumusic]

Ill have a look for that. Im actually studying physics but im thinking about changing my course to study composition as music is what i love.

[steinway33]

ngumusic

If music speaks to your heart as Daphnis certainly does and always has to mine, follow your heart. We need music that we've been deprived of since before WW1, music that has soul, that reflects Nature in all her beauty as Daphnis does.

[pddwatch81]

'Future Days' by Can

Not classical but a 70's 'krautrock' band ..... and a jolly fine album it is too - as enjoyable as sitting in a quiet pine forest listening to nature... but in a krautrock kind of way!

... now it's your turn :)

[pddwatch81]

Here is one of Can's songs I found on youtube - it is not from the album Future Days but still you get the general idea ....

watch?v=FXy9bRGmU0A

BTW I recommend the Ashton ballet with the Royal Ballet - it comes round every few years - catch it when Alina Cojocaru is dancing!

watch?v=OFWZfOQshKk

watch?v=kIkmWC8sWaI

[pan2010t]

i hope your dream comes true.

[H3RM3S78]

This was the first form of virtual reality: musical information that creates a stage around the listener. This piece is one of those that create the most vivid pictures in my mind. It overtakes my emotions completely when played.

[iicaie]

I watched this for the 27th time today.

Still can't get enough.

[Euskopatxi]

Fantastic, my favourite composition

[steinway33]

Listen to Debussy's L'apres Midi d'une Faune. It's not as long

but it's shimmering beauty is unlike anything I've ever heard.

I think there's an excerpt on YouTube.

[Blikjandabol]

d'un faune.

[steinway33]

is that a response to my comment?

[Blikjandabol]

yes steinway33. if you don't know that it's masculine, you don't know the essence of this program piece of Debussy. Don't you think that you would miss something, if you didn't know that in this Ravel's piece, we have to do with a daybreak and particularly with a boucolic daybreak in Lesvos? You wouldn't hear neither the birds singing nor the sun rising. You would hear only music and not Longus' tale in music; c'est-a-dire ce qu'on appelle "Musique a programme".

[Blikjandabol]

yes steinway33. if you don't know that it's masculine, you don't know the essence of this program piece of Debussy. Don't you think that you would miss something, if you didn't know that in this Ravel's piece, we have to do with a daybreak and particularly with a boucolic daybreak in Lesvos? You wouldn't hear neither the birds singing nor the sun rising. You would hear only music and not Longus' tale in music; c'est-a-dire ce qu'on appelle "Musique a programme".

[Blikjandabol]

Thus if you don't know what a faune is, on the first hand you ignore Mallarme's poem on which Debussy's piece is based, on the other hand you don't follow the piece in depth. Of course i just suppose... Perhaps the difference between un and une is just a spelling mistake of the bad moment... or an endorsement of the absolute music.

[PierceHardwood]

Chill.

[rpquin]

Wonderful! Beautiful!

[CallerOfTheBirds]

wow, amazing.

They better have music like this in heaven!

[frannyshow123]

simply gorgeous....wow

[johnmannno]

It looks like the concert hall for the Vienna Phil. At least from what I can see, and from what I can remember of it...

[maratom34]

A beautiful concert hall. What is the name of orchestra?

[frannyshow123]

wat orchestra is this?

[mutualism]

Such an amazing piece, and played wonderfully.

[wyrdwych]

Io Pan!!!!!

[wolifgang]

amazing!

if there was no music in this world, our world will be the dullest thing

i can't imagine life without music