Igor Stravinsky: Ragtime para 11 Instrumentos

[Morahman7vnNo2]

The most abstracted Ragtime I've ever heard.

[shoang1923]

stravinsky is definitely one of my favorite composers. its amazing how diverse his tastes in music were- some of it is just so contemporary for his time.

[CSkank]

I see where Hans Zimmer got his inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.

[skidro666]

i'm sorry but this doesn't sound like ragtime

[Trioptio]

@skidro666 It is because it isn't a real american ragtime, it is a composition based on the rythmic material of ragtime. Ragtime was so interesting for european composers due to it's freshness. For the french composing circle, it was important to search for new elements to scape form the german romantic big-orchestra 4-hours-opera tradition... and... it is a sincopated melody over a marchlike accompaniment... so... it is rag time... Stravinsky's way.

[zouzounito]

If I could be someone else on this planet I wish I was Stravinsky :D

[dalecampbl5]

@zouzounito really? you really wouldn't want to be Beethoven?

[zouzounito]

@dalecampbl5 you know Strvinsky is cosidered thet 20th century Beethoven so YES :D I also leave beethoven for you if you want him :P

[dalecampbl5]

@zouzounito thx, but I'd be paganini, cuz he gets all the ladies with his violin

[jakedagreat777]

i enjoyed this

[Varese52]

Stravinsky NEVER abandoned his Russianness. Even here we hear the very same ostinati which had obsessed him back in Le Sacre and which followed him all through his neoclassic period. One can even discern aspect of his Russian musical sensibility in a few of his 12 tone compositions of the 60s. So, despite the overlay of American Jazz, this piece is Stravinskian from beginning to end.

[lordlisle]

Another pearl Stravinsky such incredible compositional skills.....

[jonesowski]

what a genius mr. Stravinsky truly was!

[ehwhat0]

this thing is nuts. wonderful, cukoo nuts! great recording!

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Yes, this Stravinski ragtime is wonderfully insane, clever, best compared with the Picasso painting Les Trois Musiciens which appears in this video.

Do you hear echos of Kurt Weil?

The same decadance.

[MrFireboxxx]

Stravinsky was a genious :)

[fagottist]

what are the instruments?

[MUSICOSO58]

Ragtime is scored for a small chamber orchestra of 11 instruments: flute, clarinet, two horns, trombone, bass drum, snare drum, side drum, cymbals, cimbalom, two violins, viola, and double bass.

[TrumpetMan202]

Isn't it one horn and one cornet instead of two horns?

[youtubitches]

love it