Ravel - Bolero (Daniel Barenboim)

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2011

Ravel - Bolero (Daniel Barenboim)

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  • how mesmerising!

  • maravilloso!!!

    

  • @osiriscorleone Not "crazier" than Pachelbel Canon.

  • Fantástica apresentação!!

  • This might well be the craziest piece of music ever in the history of music and crazy.

  • @Gheorgyi Well, I have to say I agree with you! I guess my source was, in fact, a bit tendentious... ;)

  • @Gheorgyi There is on YT a video in 2 sections of the Bolero (same orchestra, same conductor, same Waldbühne in Berlin) that has super-imposed legends describing the succession and the combination of the wind instruments. Confront their contrapposition with the obsessivly rhythmic pounding of the drums, of the plucking of the strings (until they start the bowing, in section 2). THAT is the "virtuosity" of the piece, and it's totally satisfying.

  • @superrprixa He was just being modest ... ;-)

  • @cafity The "virtuosity" lies in the rotation of the instruments and in the way they are chosen to play together. I guess it can be called "orchestration"? An orchestra of this standing could surely play it without a conductor, all those musicians are past masters at their instruments, or they wouldn't be there... I'm not surprised a percussion teacher tells around Ravel's Bolero pivots on the drum...

  • @Gheorgyi (sorry for my grammar) Well, I certainly don't know the source of this affirmation, but it has been told to me by a teacher at my school (a percussion teacher, actually), I'm not a very good mind-reader... :) And honestly I don't find it unfeasible, the piece has no virtuosity nor time changes... It's just a highly-rhythmic dance, I think the orchestra could play it without a conductor. Don't you think that way?

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