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Kyoko Yonemoto - Ravel violin sonata 2nd mov

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2006

Kyoko Yonemoto plays violin sonata 2nd mov by Maurice Ravel.

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  • Ravel was certainly influenced by jazz, but he, along with a number of other early 20th century European composers, never could truly capture it. They wrote jazz harmonies and ideas into pieces with a more traditional western structure. So don't look at this piece and criticize it for not being jazz or blues - it's truly a western composition, with a few new world harmonies thrown in. Of course this piece isn't authentic jazz, but it's still a great piece of music. Let's just agree on that?

  • i'll use the simplest word that comes to my mind to describe both ravel's composition and this duo's performance: MASTERPIECE

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  • @McSplat You say that. I say only a fool would say, in any piece, that an instrument is more important than the other just because it carries the melody. Specially in Ravel. They are not equals, never said that. One is accompanying, the other is singing. One is a piano, the other is a violin. But both instruments play the piece. One cannot play without the other. It's a violin and piano sonata.

  • that was beautiful  :)

  • @alexrfk50 Of course you must admit the piano is playing. But that is entirely different to saying that they are equal in their presence and dominance. Only a fool would say, in this piece, that the piano and violin are equals.

  • Hey jazz aficionados, anyone think John Klenner heard this piece before writing the melody to Just Friends? Very similar opening melodic motifs, wouldn't you say?

  • 0:04 uncouth rude bastard who has no conception of tact, art, or consideration.

  • 18 people are fuck-asses.

  • Fantastic!

  • Simplest way to put it: what happens when you combine Jazz/blues techniques with French Harmonies? AWESOMENESS!!!!!

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