Honegger: Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (Ilana Vered)

Arthur Honegger: "Concertino for Piano and Orchestra" (1924) with pianist Ilana Vered and the

Swiss Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert

for more info about Ilana Vered (and bunch of music videos), visit her website at:
http://www.ilanavered.com/

Arthur Honegger died before his prophecy of music and civil disintegration occured. During the cremation at Père Lachaise in 1955, Cocteau said these words:

Arthur, you managed to gain the respect of a disrespectful era. You combined the science of an architect of the Middle Ages with the simplicity of a humble cathedral stonemason. Your cinders are burning and will never cool down, even if our earth has stopped living. For music is not of this world, and its reign has no end.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Honegger
• Concertino
• Piano
• Ilana-Vered
• Les-Six
• classical
• Swiss

[thays35244]

Please post more of this wonderful performer's music!! She is great.

[TheGreatPerformers]

In the info box at upper right, I added a link to her website--she has several nice music videos there available for viewing, including a "Rhapsody In Blue" featuring the same conductor and film director as this Honegger piece.

[uranrising]

I'm surprised nobody before has commented on what a refreshingly different approach to presenting classical music this is.

It looks marvellous. The nearest I've come to seeing anything like it was John Grierson showing music performances on This Wonderful World (UK ITV c. 1961) where you never saw the performers' faces, and all was in darkness.

If anyone remembers or has more info, I'd be interested.

[august8pm]

What a tremendous, unexpected, and delightful surprise! A wonderful performance presented in an engagingly witty and exceptionally inventive way. These days people would be too concerned with Credibility - that destroyer of creativity - to dare try anything similar. It should go without saying that Cocteau - Honegger's muse at the time - would approve wholeheartedly.

[changeofaddress1]

good cheekbones lips etc lets see its ass though

[Furrer25]

@SidewalkFrequencies

HAHAHAHAHAH

[nicholson112358]

Oh my god...the piccolo! HA!

[LousyPianist]

WOOOOW. Unbelieveable!

[frankie010811]

Vered is so accomplished. i don't understand why she is not that well known. She is brilliant.

[ChibiRaikou]

cool-ass video

[catchoupiote]

@ViewerNotes:  I can't see why it's horrific.

[SidewalkFrequencies]

Honegger gang bang.

[bagdad4]

youre so right this is so awkward to watch

[ViewerNotes]

the video in itself is horrific, but the non-stop awesome music of Arthur Honegger redeems it.