To everyone saying he was much better composing than playing; you are very wrong. How could it be sloppy? That was just how he composed it! He is one of the greatest French composers of all time, yet you call him sloppy? I just don't get it.
@MultiFlicflac How is this even fake? I'm sure that SOMEONE is playing this. I don't know who, but it's not fake. So know your words and don't just call everything you can't play "fake".
If this is the composer playing, it would reinforce the story that he had expressed some measure of contempt at the level of popularity thiw piece had achieved. Like a pop singer having to repeat his number one hit over and over, ad naseum, Faure began to regret this piece. The tempo is ridiculous - like a runaway freight train - no grace, no expression
Attn: This is not the composer playing it. This is most probably Wendy Hiscocks´ arrangement based on testimonies from peple who actually heard Fauré's interpretation (you can get it from Edition Peters). The pianist, I don't remember the name (some time ago I found the record, when I was chasing the sheet music), but the recording is relatively recent, from the 70s or 80s if I remember. Anyway, this is the best piano version I've ever heard.
"Infant" was also the title given to the royal princes and princesses from Spain and Portugal..
"Pavane" has nothing to do with death nor has morbid connotations.. it is simply an ancient style of dance from the medieval city of Padova, Padua, in Italy, Padovana, Pavane.. it is an andante danced in pairs.
@bob11712 You don't know what you're talking about in so many ways!
1) This is the composer playing it, so he would know what a good tempo would be.
2) Faure did not write his Pavane in memory of his daughter dying.
3) You're thinking of Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte. However, anybody who thinks that work is about dead infants is completely wrong. In Romance languages the word for princess is usually something related to "infant." People who think that's about a child are wrong.
@tiborserly - Both Faure & Ravel were better composers than they ever were pianists. However, Faure's playing here emphasizes the wonderful grace in this work, without ever suggesting a drop of the treacle that bad players try to impose on it. Of course Ravel's PAVANE was never intended as funeral music. The work evokes the bygone era of the Spainish court where Velasquez famously painted a portrait of a very young spanish princess.
@tiborserly Sorry to interfere, but can you explain something to me..?I don't understand how Faure himself played this piece. Given the fact that he died in 1924,the quality of this performance is actually very good..
I don't think that anyone can say this the wrong tempo or a poor inturpretation if it's played by the composer. What could be better than hearing it played just as he intended it.
He plays it at the right tempo, thus indeed it has clarity and a beautiful singing nature. Faure was an amazing composer, and yes the piano trio is amazing too, i know as i played it many times.
Whether I'm bored, depressed or tired, listening to music is something I always enjoy. As I listen to this, I realize how wonderful and beautiful life is despite all my problems, how brilliant the world is, has been and will be. I know there's a reason for everything, and I know that there is a God.
In my copy of the music the editor states that Faure played it quite quickly and unromantically and that he considered it a frivolous playing with an old form.
Is this really Fauré playing? It's a rather unsentimental approach to a beautiful piece. Is there any way to know how old he was when he played this? He was quite deaf in his later years and his last works--in many ways like Beethoven's--are very tough going--a whirl of sonorities with lack of tonal centers. Do not misunderstand--I love his later works, especially the Piano Trio.
Mini stereo plug, right into the headphone output on the computer, the other end, red/white rca, into a CD recorder. I have this cable; Monster made it. Set the record level pretty high.
I agree with michaeljh216, the secret of such grace might be hidden under the mustache. But no kidding, Fauré is the epitome of French music, and yet we barely celebrate him in our country...shameful. Instead of making statues for killers, we should make more for dreamers...cheesy but true.
Is this Faure's own arrangement? I have questions about the authenticity of this rendition, the source of the piano roll and the arrangement itself... Anyone have verified information about this recording's history?
Wow, such passionate comments! I can assure you that composers create music, and sometimes there is a song (with lyrics) behind a composition that never actually prints the lyrics with the music. Sometimes a composer uses a poem to inspire program or absolute music (you buffs will know what I mean). It is interesting that you feel such a need to categorize music into "songs", "songs without words", "pieces" or otherwise. Music either SINGS or DANCES - it is that simple. For any instrument.
Can anyone clearly hear how he is beginning the trill at 1:06? I can't tell if he's starting on the principal note or on the note above (which is also the last note of the previous measure).
@MusicDirector25 I'm quite certain I heard it start on the principal, but it was EXTREMELY quick. I can see where the issue would be, I'd swear the note was held for about 1/4 of a second or less
@MusicDirector25 Interesting comment. Sounds like its the principle note which is the end of the phrase, The auxiliary note is the beginning of the next phrase. A more harmonically correct rendition might include a lower note at the end of the trill, but Faure says much by what he omits. The whole performance is wonderfully idiosyncratic, especially in the timing.
Merci pour ce document (d'excellente qualité sonore) hautement captivant. Un vrai guide pour le phrasé, l'intonation, l'élan, la construction sensible de ce qui ne peut qu'aboutir au chavirement des sens.
For many years, I owned and played a player piano. As described below, the medium was capable of picking up many nuances of timing of the piano player who was recording. Joplin recorded, Gershwin recorded, and this is not science fiction. When replayed today, there is no static of an old recording.
In the playback, you can add emphasis (increase the volume) by pedaling harder for a note or a measure.
So many composers died before the technical development provided the possibility to record music. One has so rarely the opportunitiy to listen to the composer himself - how he wanted it to sound. Altough I'm sure that many composers would like some of the cover versions... They'd be quite astonished...
@schokolade975 I am not a composer but still... as 31 year old blues guitarist i find this very tuchy and beautiful song. Nothing beats the real thing... not studio's... yes im talking the real thing... "unplugged" like these days used to day before recordings hehe. I do hope you guys got some humor but still this song is a beauty.
would a knowledgeable person please clarify how this record was made?
pardon my technical ignorance, but it sounds neither like an old record of those days nor like a player piano playing a roll mechanically.. I'm confused
@AcerbusEquinomin According to wikipedia (not the most trustworthy source, i know), "The rolls of the "Romance sans paroles" No. 3, Barcarolle No. 1, Prelude No. 3, Pavane, Nocturne No. 3, Sicilienne, Thème et variations and Valses-caprices Nos. 1, 3 and 4 survive, and several rolls have been re-recorded on disc." so you're right.
@assa123assa123 The playback medium is simply a roll of paper with holes in it to indicate when notes are sounded, much like the pins on the cylinder in a wind-up music box. I'm not totally familiar with the mechanics of it, but the more sophisticated "Reproducing Player Piano" is capable of reproducing the dynamics of the playing as well. If I understand the title correctly, it was Gabriel Fauré himself who performed on a special recording piano to produce the master copy of the roll.
intéressant de constater que l'interprétation de Fauré de sa propre pavane est plus rapide que toutes les autres interprétations. En fait il s'agit là du vrai tempo de cette pavane, il suffit de la danser pour s'en rendre compte (quoique un peu lente cependant), et pour conclure que Fauré connaissait bien la danse ancienne à laquelle il se réfère. Les autres versions sont beaucoup trop lentes, indansables. A méditer pour l'interprétation des suites de compositeurs français du début 20ème...
C'est charmant, cette moustache sonore où semble baigner une huître française. Trop peu de pédale. Précision exagérée. Clarté excessive dans le jeu de la main centrale. Mais une merveilleuse sensualité digne de Rinaldo Blais. Merci.
I like Fauré's music.. When I hear the pavane first time, I was amazed. His sounds connect with fragment of atmosphere. Great sounds always melt with nature.
Fascinating, utterly fascinating! The tempo is a bit surprising, but I find myself often surprised by the tempos composers choose in their recordings of their own works. I dearly love Faure and feel honor bound to respect his taste in this matter. There is a remarkable sense here of a composer who acknowledges baroque and classical influences, and still looks ahead to the 20th century. The result is simply lovely! One of my favorite songs of all time!
Très émouvant d'entendre une pièce aussi magnifique interprétée par son compositeur, l'unique Gabriel Fauré. Quand on pense que c'est un enregistrement original fait il y a sans doute près de 100 ans !
@Prancer1231 That's true but it could also have been an inconsistency between the original speed of the roll and the speed at which it was recorded here. It does seem a little brisk to me. The rubato is interesting though, you won't here many modern pianist taking that many liberties with the rhythm and the breaking up of the chords. It's a shame how sterile modern performances have become.
this is one of those songs, where if I close my eyes, i can see myself playing it, not on the piano, but on a low octave with my bassoon or bass clarinet, or i can picture myself, among strings and a few brass, playing this, and hearing it come together, truly amazing, Faure and Isham, by far my fav! (if u dnt no Isham, a)shame on you! b)u probably do without knowing, he composed Army Strong, look it up, close your eyes, and listen)
@UAwell Hi, all I did was download the video. Then used the program FLV to AVI MPEG WMV 3GP MP4 iPod Converter. You can make it to wave, ogg or other format too. It sounds good. :)
c'est incroyable, ce morceau et cette interprétation ont quelque chose de ... divin. En l'écoutant, on est "plus vraiment sur terre" et on perd complètement la notion du temps. C'est spatio-temporel; on est dans un lieu qu'on pense être la/le seule à pouvoir accéder durant ce trop court laps de temps, quatre mélancoliques petites minutes de paradis où on n'a plus peur de la solitude... Vive la musique.
k12tn~ Fauré c'est la Pavane de sur fantastique imagé du avenue conversationé die liebe freude. Moi binchois du leconde con agricolae feme d'talle soma conde.
Many gobaheelahs für dis rekordion sur le gramaphone.
@DeliciousManager Pianos sing. Any piece music is a song because all instruments sing. I certainly hear a voice. Why don't you stop bickering about nonsense and we really discuss the music, like perhaps the importance of Faure's music and how it affected impressionists in the generation after him, and even more modern composers like Messiaen for instance... Faure's music was very new and fresh, and this was inspiring to many forthcoming composers. Who cares if this is a song or not...
@codeman2008 sorry for being annoying, but... its not a song. instruments don't sing. sorry, but it seems silly...
and you can go way beyond Messiaen. The whole harmony of the French Romantic school (pretty much started by Faure) was one of the biggest influences on Jazz (though I'm talking closer to Ravel than Faure, but his ideas of harmony were developed from Faure's), and therefore on modern popular music, as well as his influence on most tonal 'classical' music today. Sorry :/
The piano sings to my ears. Maybe we just interpret the word slightly differently, but to me, all instruments sing.
On the second, absolutely true! Poulenc was an enormous influence as well in this respect. What's really amazing, is that with every generation and so forth, the greatest composers, though using elements from previous genius composers, always created something new and fresh, none of them were copy cats. Then jazz came, musical expression at it's simplest. Amazing!
I'm not sure if you play the piano... Pianists are taught this thing called "touch", which refers to the way your fingers strike the keys. How we depress the keys affect the tone of the piano. Hitting it at uniform speed produces a harsher, brilliant tone.
To produce a warmer tone, we have to hit it at an accelerating speed. This production of the warm tone is what we pianists refer to as "making the piano sing"
@Romansteel13 Now that depends on what you mean by 'lyrics'. Any piece has lyrics... they may not necessarily be in a spoken language, but they are still lyrics. Why do you think composers named pieces 'Songs without words'? Or maybe Grieg's 'LYRIC pieces'... why did he call them that?
Why do you list those four particular composers? Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart? If you're saying that I compared pop music to classical music, you are mistaken, I made NO such a comparison.
Don't waste your time with this uneducated, unsophisticated, and uncouth buffoon. It's apparent, he has no training or knowledge in the art of classical composition. He called Grieg's Lyriske stykker's, SONGS. ROFL.
I have wasted enough time trying to educate the illiterate. I guess it's a doomed race. We are better than these fools.
This is definitely Faure playing. The authoritative and well-researched biography of Faure by Jean-Michel Nectoux says this: "Faure made piano rolls for various companies between 1905 and 1913. These perforated paper rolls obviously cannot give such a reliable indication of a performing style as records do" Nectoux also says that quality and reproduction of the performance depends upon the quality of the player-piano on which the piano roll is played.
@DeliciousManager Do you just sit at your computer all day waiting for someone to post a comment you disagree with? What you said was very mean spirited and uncalled for. What do you gain from taking personal shots at someone? For all you know, they could be the most talented pianist on the planet. Of course knowing how to read music would help one learn this piece but perhaps this person is blind. Music isn't some kind of "club" for the elite. I agree with codeman2008, please deflate your head.
@DeliciousManager I can't find this sheet music. Anywhere. At all. Ever. There are HUNDREDS.....and hundreds of arrangements of this piece, but NONE that I can find, again, anywhere, are this. I've checked IMSLP, several stores, etc.
He sort of looks like Thompson from Tintin but with no hat
TheComedydude1 1 day ago
hello!!!!!!!its a piano roll!!!!!get over it!!!
yes it can be Faure playing!!!but it cannot be reproducted precisely!!!
vasilikos12 4 days ago
But then how come it says Artist: Darius Milhaud, Richard Strauss????
lecavalier101 1 week ago
To everyone saying he was much better composing than playing; you are very wrong. How could it be sloppy? That was just how he composed it! He is one of the greatest French composers of all time, yet you call him sloppy? I just don't get it.
lecavalier101 2 weeks ago
Sublime, j'adore la douceur qui émane de ce morceau.
manuefige 4 weeks ago
How can we be sure that Faure is playing this?
arrdda 1 month ago
I finally learned to play this song! Totally impressed the girl in my class.
ApplesAreSweet 1 month ago
Tout simplement magnifique !
juliiedu27 1 month ago
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VignoniAlto 1 month ago
FAKE
MultiFlicflac 1 month ago
@MultiFlicflac How is this even fake? I'm sure that SOMEONE is playing this. I don't know who, but it's not fake. So know your words and don't just call everything you can't play "fake".
iJamwich 1 month ago
Sloppy playing. Then again, perhaps he was a better composer than performer.
Sounds like a teacher's piano recital, sad to say, for I have enormous respect for Fauré.
PacRimJim 1 month ago
If this is the composer playing, it would reinforce the story that he had expressed some measure of contempt at the level of popularity thiw piece had achieved. Like a pop singer having to repeat his number one hit over and over, ad naseum, Faure began to regret this piece. The tempo is ridiculous - like a runaway freight train - no grace, no expression
AMAC48 2 months ago 2
20 cons!
Boossology 2 months ago
Attn: This is not the composer playing it. This is most probably Wendy Hiscocks´ arrangement based on testimonies from peple who actually heard Fauré's interpretation (you can get it from Edition Peters). The pianist, I don't remember the name (some time ago I found the record, when I was chasing the sheet music), but the recording is relatively recent, from the 70s or 80s if I remember. Anyway, this is the best piano version I've ever heard.
sumavilo 3 months ago
"Infant" was also the title given to the royal princes and princesses from Spain and Portugal..
"Pavane" has nothing to do with death nor has morbid connotations.. it is simply an ancient style of dance from the medieval city of Padova, Padua, in Italy, Padovana, Pavane.. it is an andante danced in pairs.
manoelcaraballo1 3 months ago 4
mr.nobody music!
SarahLeanneWarbyUK 4 months ago
Great version, but it doesn't really fit what the song is about, his daughter dieing.
bob11712 4 months ago
@bob11712 You don't know what you're talking about in so many ways!
1) This is the composer playing it, so he would know what a good tempo would be.
2) Faure did not write his Pavane in memory of his daughter dying.
3) You're thinking of Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte. However, anybody who thinks that work is about dead infants is completely wrong. In Romance languages the word for princess is usually something related to "infant." People who think that's about a child are wrong.
tiborserly 4 months ago 19
@tiborserly - Both Faure & Ravel were better composers than they ever were pianists. However, Faure's playing here emphasizes the wonderful grace in this work, without ever suggesting a drop of the treacle that bad players try to impose on it. Of course Ravel's PAVANE was never intended as funeral music. The work evokes the bygone era of the Spainish court where Velasquez famously painted a portrait of a very young spanish princess.
legatofancier 3 weeks ago
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justine0039 2 weeks ago
@tiborserly Sorry to interfere, but can you explain something to me..?I don't understand how Faure himself played this piece. Given the fact that he died in 1924,the quality of this performance is actually very good..
caskett7lu 2 weeks ago
wonderful, maravilloso!!!!! pretoshco!!!!
MAGXIFY 4 months ago in playlist Música para estudiar
I don't think that anyone can say this the wrong tempo or a poor inturpretation if it's played by the composer. What could be better than hearing it played just as he intended it.
indigoba 4 months ago
This piece is very gentle and polite. It like he is nurturing us with music without being overbearing.
EdgarBoffin 5 months ago
wonderful!
spiXell 5 months ago
how does one go about getting a mustache like this?
RockefellerSyndrome 5 months ago 2
He plays it at the right tempo, thus indeed it has clarity and a beautiful singing nature. Faure was an amazing composer, and yes the piano trio is amazing too, i know as i played it many times.
lukoszevieze 5 months ago 3
@lukoszevieze oye creo k te vi la otra vez en la soriana!!! :O :D
MAGXIFY 4 months ago in playlist Música para estudiar
Chéhérazade ?
TordLaNouille 6 months ago
Whether I'm bored, depressed or tired, listening to music is something I always enjoy. As I listen to this, I realize how wonderful and beautiful life is despite all my problems, how brilliant the world is, has been and will be. I know there's a reason for everything, and I know that there is a God.
EpicOtsoman 6 months ago
My teacher gave me this one to study! It is sublime!
jen1989z 6 months ago
Thank you for the song It's beautiful (sorry If my English it's bad I speak spanish)
Kuronekkodanny 6 months ago
@Kuronekkodanny your english is amazing, it's better than quite a few people I know who are english :)
4evaJaredLeto 6 months ago
@4evaJaredLeto thank you XD
Kuronekkodanny 6 months ago
In my copy of the music the editor states that Faure played it quite quickly and unromantically and that he considered it a frivolous playing with an old form.
maryfletcher4 6 months ago
I don't beleve that this is Faure's intepretation.
xiangchen2405 7 months ago
Is this really Fauré playing? It's a rather unsentimental approach to a beautiful piece. Is there any way to know how old he was when he played this? He was quite deaf in his later years and his last works--in many ways like Beethoven's--are very tough going--a whirl of sonorities with lack of tonal centers. Do not misunderstand--I love his later works, especially the Piano Trio.
maxreger100 7 months ago
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Alievable 7 months ago
毎日聴いています！
素晴らしい。
Comme73soi 7 months ago
Quality tune
bioastronautics 7 months ago
wow sounds as if Fauré himself was playing it
jositaJea 8 months ago
Mini stereo plug, right into the headphone output on the computer, the other end, red/white rca, into a CD recorder. I have this cable; Monster made it. Set the record level pretty high.
BarneySvensen 8 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
only for the money and the fame.
HoyEstoyPinoy 9 months ago
Is there any chance to get this recording on CD? I mean only with piano?Any ideas?
I could only find the orchestra-versions for it, but I like it that plain pianoversion best I guess...
Zwiebackmaedchen 9 months ago
@Zwiebackmaedchen you can use a youtube 2 mp3 converter and then burn the mp3 on to a cd :)
TheOriginalBZ 9 months ago
I agree with michaeljh216, the secret of such grace might be hidden under the mustache. But no kidding, Fauré is the epitome of French music, and yet we barely celebrate him in our country...shameful. Instead of making statues for killers, we should make more for dreamers...cheesy but true.
grandisdavid 9 months ago 4
Is this Faure's own arrangement? I have questions about the authenticity of this rendition, the source of the piano roll and the arrangement itself... Anyone have verified information about this recording's history?
jojobruin 10 months ago
@jojobruin This is an ad lib performance of the piece on the piano roll, rather than a written transcription of the orchestral score
galaraga133 9 months ago
This man was a organ master, like his teacher, Saint Saens. Who knew his piano performance was this sublime?
jojobruin 10 months ago
Wow. I find it's funny how people can fight over anything, even when such beauty is the subject...
beatle96 10 months ago
Does anyone know if and where i can buy this recording ?
TiefseeAdler 10 months ago
mm, i wonder what social dance i could do with this song..any suggestions?
deionc 10 months ago
@deionc A Pavane?
sliderman7 10 months ago
Wow, such passionate comments! I can assure you that composers create music, and sometimes there is a song (with lyrics) behind a composition that never actually prints the lyrics with the music. Sometimes a composer uses a poem to inspire program or absolute music (you buffs will know what I mean). It is interesting that you feel such a need to categorize music into "songs", "songs without words", "pieces" or otherwise. Music either SINGS or DANCES - it is that simple. For any instrument.
notekidds 10 months ago
@70pollicina
^_^
cri64italia 11 months ago
Can anyone clearly hear how he is beginning the trill at 1:06? I can't tell if he's starting on the principal note or on the note above (which is also the last note of the previous measure).
MusicDirector25 11 months ago
@MusicDirector25 I'm quite certain I heard it start on the principal, but it was EXTREMELY quick. I can see where the issue would be, I'd swear the note was held for about 1/4 of a second or less
drewflav 10 months ago
@MusicDirector25 Interesting comment. Sounds like its the principle note which is the end of the phrase, The auxiliary note is the beginning of the next phrase. A more harmonically correct rendition might include a lower note at the end of the trill, but Faure says much by what he omits. The whole performance is wonderfully idiosyncratic, especially in the timing.
legionofdischord 10 months ago
Bravo!
lagleize79 11 months ago
Awesome! TY for posting.
paulostroff99 11 months ago
I am working on Faure sonata,violin-piano,for a moment, and I keep always the same enthousiasme to this music!!
82224561 11 months ago
no words can really describe the beauty of this song
adrian14643 1 year ago 30
eccooo
scribd.com/doc/35675360/pavane-faure
frackktozz 1 year ago
what a beautiful song!
20itemsorless 1 year ago
Merci pour ce document (d'excellente qualité sonore) hautement captivant. Un vrai guide pour le phrasé, l'intonation, l'élan, la construction sensible de ce qui ne peut qu'aboutir au chavirement des sens.
pictorelle 1 year ago
For many years, I owned and played a player piano. As described below, the medium was capable of picking up many nuances of timing of the piano player who was recording. Joplin recorded, Gershwin recorded, and this is not science fiction. When replayed today, there is no static of an old recording.
In the playback, you can add emphasis (increase the volume) by pedaling harder for a note or a measure.
YosefBaskin 1 year ago
i love this.... where can i get sheet music? :)
thebirdistheword15 1 year ago
@thebirdistheword15 From ISLP site.
diaamd 1 year ago
@thebirdistheword15 try sheet music plus dot com
20itemsorless 1 year ago
@thebirdistheword15 On the Web, Search Petrucci Music Library.
Search by Composer, then by Pavene, then by arrangement. The orchestral arrangement is listed first; scroll down till
you reach the Piano arrangement by Mukerji and print it out. It's free.
vexx34ify 8 months ago
What a marvellous document! I love Faure, how wonderful to hear him play his own work. This is going to my favorites. Thanks!
unpodimusica1 1 year ago
So many composers died before the technical development provided the possibility to record music. One has so rarely the opportunitiy to listen to the composer himself - how he wanted it to sound. Altough I'm sure that many composers would like some of the cover versions... They'd be quite astonished...
schokolade975 1 year ago
@schokolade975 I am not a composer but still... as 31 year old blues guitarist i find this very tuchy and beautiful song. Nothing beats the real thing... not studio's... yes im talking the real thing... "unplugged" like these days used to day before recordings hehe. I do hope you guys got some humor but still this song is a beauty.
Coldron 1 year ago
this is great
Prancer1231 1 year ago
Дуже дякую! Здивований без меж. Перший раз чую про цього композитора. Класно!
studioklen 1 year ago
thanks -
Baruchyoseph8 1 year ago
16 people missed the Like button?
DigiMusiPokegirl 1 year ago
I wonder if they nicknamed him "Gabby?" And has anyone else noted the Dies Irae motif sneaked in there? :)
Glinkaism1 1 year ago
Ahh. Thank you so much for uploading this beautiful piece. Reminds me of a peacock wandering around elegantly. I'm looking forward playing it. :)
diaamd 1 year ago
His awesome mustache must have told him the secrets on how to make such awesome music
michaeljh216 1 year ago 137
@michaeljh216 It also told him what soup he had for lunch, hours after he ate it.
71259mark 10 months ago 4
@michaeljh216
hahahaha....master of the mustache.
marvellous songs. i love his requiem.
pedalero 8 months ago 4
would a knowledgeable person please clarify how this record was made?
pardon my technical ignorance, but it sounds neither like an old record of those days nor like a player piano playing a roll mechanically.. I'm confused
assa123assa123 1 year ago 3
@assa123assa123 My guess is that, if this is indeed a piano roll, then it was recorded and remastered to acheive the clarity heard here.
Other than that, I'm not sure.
AcerbusEquinomin 1 year ago
@AcerbusEquinomin According to wikipedia (not the most trustworthy source, i know), "The rolls of the "Romance sans paroles" No. 3, Barcarolle No. 1, Prelude No. 3, Pavane, Nocturne No. 3, Sicilienne, Thème et variations and Valses-caprices Nos. 1, 3 and 4 survive, and several rolls have been re-recorded on disc." so you're right.
DigiMusiPokegirl 1 year ago
@DigiMusiPokegirl Thank you for researching! I'm happy I could help. ^_^
AcerbusEquinomin 1 year ago
@assa123assa123 Gabrielle Fuare lived till the mid 1920's, the tape recorder was invented in 1866,
Julietteisme 1 year ago
@Julietteisme What???? TAPE recorder in 1866?
So why did they use wax rolls in 1910s and 1920s?
assa123assa123 1 year ago
@assa123assa123 film and audio are different
Julietteisme 1 year ago
@assa123assa123 The playback medium is simply a roll of paper with holes in it to indicate when notes are sounded, much like the pins on the cylinder in a wind-up music box. I'm not totally familiar with the mechanics of it, but the more sophisticated "Reproducing Player Piano" is capable of reproducing the dynamics of the playing as well. If I understand the title correctly, it was Gabriel Fauré himself who performed on a special recording piano to produce the master copy of the roll.
orthicon9 1 year ago
@orthicon9 to me that sounds like sience fiction, to be more polite and not say bullshit.
assa123assa123 1 year ago
intéressant de constater que l'interprétation de Fauré de sa propre pavane est plus rapide que toutes les autres interprétations. En fait il s'agit là du vrai tempo de cette pavane, il suffit de la danser pour s'en rendre compte (quoique un peu lente cependant), et pour conclure que Fauré connaissait bien la danse ancienne à laquelle il se réfère. Les autres versions sont beaucoup trop lentes, indansables. A méditer pour l'interprétation des suites de compositeurs français du début 20ème...
MYRHAH 1 year ago 4
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MYRHAH 1 year ago
What a privilege to hear Faure play Faure. Many thanks for posting this wonderful piece of music.
llcamus249 1 year ago 2
C'est charmant, cette moustache sonore où semble baigner une huître française. Trop peu de pédale. Précision exagérée. Clarté excessive dans le jeu de la main centrale. Mais une merveilleuse sensualité digne de Rinaldo Blais. Merci.
RAREpicture 1 year ago
フォーレらしい良い曲です。
hitler7261 1 year ago
It's so great to find out who wrote this piece, I never knew the composer of this melody... just came across it.
alex2east 1 year ago
genious
RemovdSande11 1 year ago
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Classic Music ... a long time
kcaiooiak 1 year ago
Classic Music ... a long time ago
kcaiooiak 1 year ago
amazing this song was sampled by S club 7, Young Maestro and Xzibit
steharrislufc 1 year ago
Nice.
groove2227721 1 year ago
enlightenment after rain... so peaceful
d3f4c3d 1 year ago
I like Fauré's music.. When I hear the pavane first time, I was amazed. His sounds connect with fragment of atmosphere. Great sounds always melt with nature.
Akkkico 1 year ago
I like the reverb here! It gives its beauty a slightly haunting quality. :)
pearsewl 1 year ago
Fascinating, utterly fascinating! The tempo is a bit surprising, but I find myself often surprised by the tempos composers choose in their recordings of their own works. I dearly love Faure and feel honor bound to respect his taste in this matter. There is a remarkable sense here of a composer who acknowledges baroque and classical influences, and still looks ahead to the 20th century. The result is simply lovely! One of my favorite songs of all time!
legatofancier 1 year ago
Has Gabriel Fauré recorded any other of his piano pieces?
neobiki 1 year ago
Beautiful. Thank you.
wingedtraveller 1 year ago
it reminds me of the theme from papillon
bhav213 1 year ago
Très émouvant d'entendre une pièce aussi magnifique interprétée par son compositeur, l'unique Gabriel Fauré. Quand on pense que c'est un enregistrement original fait il y a sans doute près de 100 ans !
Ludovic98 1 year ago
Tempo a bit too fast - sorry Gabriel.
oracle2world 1 year ago
@oracle2world lol he wrote it, he can play it any tempo he likes
I like it a lot better like this, personally
Prancer1231 1 year ago 2
@Prancer1231 That's true but it could also have been an inconsistency between the original speed of the roll and the speed at which it was recorded here. It does seem a little brisk to me. The rubato is interesting though, you won't here many modern pianist taking that many liberties with the rhythm and the breaking up of the chords. It's a shame how sterile modern performances have become.
craigalake 1 year ago
It is a very good transcription for piano and a very good interpretation.
Thank you, I will try it also.
mimi5578 1 year ago
I have always loved this piece of music, almost makes me week.
neopreneca 1 year ago
this is one of those songs, where if I close my eyes, i can see myself playing it, not on the piano, but on a low octave with my bassoon or bass clarinet, or i can picture myself, among strings and a few brass, playing this, and hearing it come together, truly amazing, Faure and Isham, by far my fav! (if u dnt no Isham, a)shame on you! b)u probably do without knowing, he composed Army Strong, look it up, close your eyes, and listen)
lolorox26 1 year ago
if only I had sheet music to this <3 such a beautiful sound.
agreatguy6 1 year ago
@agreatguy6 The IMSLP website has a free transcription of this song for solo piano. Hope that helps!
erdavis7 1 year ago
@agreatguy6
i have it, would you like it? i play it on the piano.
laureleyex5 1 year ago
@laureleyex5 the exact transcription he's playing? sure!
agreatguy6 1 year ago
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Martinneke100 1 year ago
Such a wonderful piece. Beautifully played
Impressions42 1 year ago
its the bbc world cup 98 theme
antiscreen 1 year ago
what film is this in?! i can't find it anywhere!
cericooper 1 year ago
Mr.Nobody
Mejra1986 1 year ago
@cericooper
Mr.Nobody
Mejra1986 1 year ago
Mr.Nobody
Mejra1986 1 year ago
@cericooper I think it sounds a bit like "Beowulf". Jazz musicians like Brian Auger or Bill Evans rerecorded it too.
JohnCClinton 1 year ago
I downloaded this and converted to 320kps mp3. Now I can hear this any time. :D
peacemaker083 1 year ago
@peacemaker083
upconvert? If you convert 96 to 320 quality will be low, like a 96. Sorry for my bad english :)
UAwell 1 year ago
@UAwell Hi, all I did was download the video. Then used the program FLV to AVI MPEG WMV 3GP MP4 iPod Converter. You can make it to wave, ogg or other format too. It sounds good. :)
peacemaker083 1 year ago
Please tell me if this is actually him playing?
peacemaker083 1 year ago
@peacemaker083 he is
Duduutjen 1 year ago
@Duduutjen Well it's very beautiful and I wish I could other recordings by him on the player piano if there are any.
peacemaker083 1 year ago
this song is so gorgeous
12321gigi 1 year ago
best ^^!!!!
ERESUNNOOB 1 year ago
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!
celer1ty2 1 year ago 2
didn't christina aguilera use this in the beginning of her "fighter" song?
kpokrasova 1 year ago
Check out X.Zibit's "Papparazzi" if you wanna hear this tune on a rap beat.
To be honest, I find both frickin' awesome. (oh yeah, and don't denigrate rap, please).
DuncanHennessy 1 year ago
The wonderful recall of Classicism...
MarcheseCadmio88 1 year ago
I sing this song in the chorus and it's beautifall, I think one of the best.
SuperPauGasol 1 year ago
@SuperPauGasol small correction : its not called a song :)
gregbboy619 1 year ago
This is perhaps one of the greatest piano performances in all of history (in my opinion at least!). Thank you for sharing this marvelous experience.
britcrit09 1 year ago
What a treasure it is to hear a piano roll made by Faure himself of the Pavane.
I cannot stop weeping as I hear how the maestro himself interpreted his own notes and gave this gift to all of us.
Truly amazing.
Plowhandle 1 year ago
To Junior, Salute!
GodsInfantry 1 year ago 2
Sounds like the beautiful melody of a small music box that a young woman in love opens and mentally drifts off into paradise :-)
michaeljh216 1 year ago
c'est incroyable, ce morceau et cette interprétation ont quelque chose de ... divin. En l'écoutant, on est "plus vraiment sur terre" et on perd complètement la notion du temps. C'est spatio-temporel; on est dans un lieu qu'on pense être la/le seule à pouvoir accéder durant ce trop court laps de temps, quatre mélancoliques petites minutes de paradis où on n'a plus peur de la solitude... Vive la musique.
mapianong 1 year ago 15
k12tn~ Fauré c'est la Pavane de sur fantastique imagé du avenue conversationé die liebe freude. Moi binchois du leconde con agricolae feme d'talle soma conde.
Many gobaheelahs für dis rekordion sur le gramaphone.
k12tn 1 year ago
i love this song
rammgarr 1 year ago
i love this song
rammgarr 1 year ago
@rammgarr It's not a 'song'! Hear a voice? Any words? No? Then it's not a 'song', is it?
DeliciousManager 1 year ago
@DeliciousManager Pianos sing. Any piece music is a song because all instruments sing. I certainly hear a voice. Why don't you stop bickering about nonsense and we really discuss the music, like perhaps the importance of Faure's music and how it affected impressionists in the generation after him, and even more modern composers like Messiaen for instance... Faure's music was very new and fresh, and this was inspiring to many forthcoming composers. Who cares if this is a song or not...
codeman2008 1 year ago 53
@codeman2008 sorry for being annoying, but... its not a song. instruments don't sing. sorry, but it seems silly...
and you can go way beyond Messiaen. The whole harmony of the French Romantic school (pretty much started by Faure) was one of the biggest influences on Jazz (though I'm talking closer to Ravel than Faure, but his ideas of harmony were developed from Faure's), and therefore on modern popular music, as well as his influence on most tonal 'classical' music today. Sorry :/
I care :P
Orlymusicboy 1 year ago
@Orlymusicboy
The piano sings to my ears. Maybe we just interpret the word slightly differently, but to me, all instruments sing.
On the second, absolutely true! Poulenc was an enormous influence as well in this respect. What's really amazing, is that with every generation and so forth, the greatest composers, though using elements from previous genius composers, always created something new and fresh, none of them were copy cats. Then jazz came, musical expression at it's simplest. Amazing!
codeman2008 1 year ago
@Orlymusicboy
I'm not sure if you play the piano... Pianists are taught this thing called "touch", which refers to the way your fingers strike the keys. How we depress the keys affect the tone of the piano. Hitting it at uniform speed produces a harsher, brilliant tone.
To produce a warmer tone, we have to hit it at an accelerating speed. This production of the warm tone is what we pianists refer to as "making the piano sing"
Sorry to have to get so techincal...
3frente 1 year ago 2
@codeman2008
Idiot, this is a contemporary period piece. SONGS have LYRICS, this is LYRICLESS. You are a MORON!
Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart would be rolling in their graves for such stupidity you have befell upon them.
It's Fauré, not FAURE. You illiterate buffoon, learn your alt keys.
People comparing modern pop music to classical music should be shot on sight.
Romansteel13 11 months ago
@Romansteel13 Now that depends on what you mean by 'lyrics'. Any piece has lyrics... they may not necessarily be in a spoken language, but they are still lyrics. Why do you think composers named pieces 'Songs without words'? Or maybe Grieg's 'LYRIC pieces'... why did he call them that?
Why do you list those four particular composers? Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart? If you're saying that I compared pop music to classical music, you are mistaken, I made NO such a comparison.
codeman2008 11 months ago
@codeman2008
"'Songs without words'? Or maybe Grieg's 'LYRIC pieces'... why did he call them that?"
Grieg's lyric pieces were not romantic composition, they were first and foremost incidental music.
Please learn your genres of music before commenting with such ignorance.
Incidental Music have LYRICS, they are not considered CLASSICAL Romantic COMPOSITION.
" If you're saying that I compared pop music to classical music, you are mistaken, I made NO such a comparison."
You did, actually.
morrowindfan75 11 months ago
@morrowindfan75
Don't waste your time with this uneducated, unsophisticated, and uncouth buffoon. It's apparent, he has no training or knowledge in the art of classical composition. He called Grieg's Lyriske stykker's, SONGS. ROFL.
I have wasted enough time trying to educate the illiterate. I guess it's a doomed race. We are better than these fools.
Romansteel13 11 months ago
This is definitely Faure playing. The authoritative and well-researched biography of Faure by Jean-Michel Nectoux says this: "Faure made piano rolls for various companies between 1905 and 1913. These perforated paper rolls obviously cannot give such a reliable indication of a performing style as records do" Nectoux also says that quality and reproduction of the performance depends upon the quality of the player-piano on which the piano roll is played.
julietta1976 1 year ago 2
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Aagh this piece is time consuming to learn by ear! :( Belle Epoque indeed, Belle Epoque indeed...
thedevilssaints 1 year ago
Aagh this piece is time consuming to learn by ear! :( Belle Epoque indeed, Belle Epoque indeed...
thedevilssaints 1 year ago
@thedevilssaints Then learn to read music!
DeliciousManager 1 year ago
@DeliciousManager Do you just sit at your computer all day waiting for someone to post a comment you disagree with? What you said was very mean spirited and uncalled for. What do you gain from taking personal shots at someone? For all you know, they could be the most talented pianist on the planet. Of course knowing how to read music would help one learn this piece but perhaps this person is blind. Music isn't some kind of "club" for the elite. I agree with codeman2008, please deflate your head.
pearsewl 1 year ago
@DeliciousManager I can't find this sheet music. Anywhere. At all. Ever. There are HUNDREDS.....and hundreds of arrangements of this piece, but NONE that I can find, again, anywhere, are this. I've checked IMSLP, several stores, etc.
thedevilssaints 4 months ago
@thedevilssaints
Hi, I have a piano transcription that is the piano reduction that Faure himself prepared. You can message me if you're interested
J3nnPK 4 months ago
@J3nnPK
I would like the original score (transcription) of the Pavane if you have it!
franciskoerber 2 weeks ago
@franciskoerber Alright, all i need is your email address. You can just message it to me :)
J3nnPK 2 weeks ago
Aagh this piece is time consuming to learn by ear! :(
thedevilssaints 1 year ago
Szép!
SZTANCSEK 1 year ago
This cannot be anywhere near an accurate representation of Faure's playing.
lipsbach 1 year ago
@lipsbach Why on earth not? You an expert all of a sudden?
DeliciousManager 1 year ago
I think this piece would sound good using almost any instrument played well.
pericles20 1 year ago
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i dont like the piano version... strings ftw! :D
xcxTwilightxcx 1 year ago
A work of genious! This piece is so soulful.
britcrit09 1 year ago 4
@britcrit09 *genius
DeliciousManager 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this emotive piece.
britcrit09 1 year ago 3