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As a 71 yo who has been playing only 6 years, I want to let you know how much I am enjoying your brilliant theory analyses!! I learn so much and in such an interesting way. Well done!!
Bravo! This is a great starting point for any amateur classical pianist looking to play this beautiful piece. Henrik does a great job on discussing the form and harmony, and he has some very helpful tips for technique and fingering. Although is 20 minutes, it moves along at a steady pace, and Henrik plays everything while he explains, so it's very engaging, and I felt that it was very worthwhile to watch the entire video. Henrik has some great insights on the emotional character of the piece and its history, and the sheet music overlay is very helpful also. Thanks for a great tutorial on this piece, Henrik!
Love this piece, it's always nice to get deeper into analysing. Btw I noticed that Ravel and Debussy often write things on the sheet that cannot really be translated, it actually makes me glad to be french to understand things like "en élargissant" ; "d'une sonorité large" or in Debussy's Children corner "doux et un peu gauche"
I found this just wanting to hear the Pavane. It is totally fascinating, and I don’t have a piano anymore. Who is this gentleman and marvelous musician? I absolutely loved his insights and manner of explanation. Great teacher.
I learned some basic music theory a while back, so I can follow your analyses for the most part. I’ve been getting more and more into classical and your videos, among others, have really been opening my mind (really my ears) to form and the more intricate details of this music. Details the average listener would never consider. I really think these kinds of videos have a lot of potential to get people into classical music. it’d be great if some organization funded them, I’d say a city’s orchestra/music department or something but from the little bit I know most of them struggle to begin with. Maybe if a population of classical enthusiasts could be educated and developed then the funding party/ies could see some returns and invest even more but who knows. So in this case it would fall on us, the viewers. I can’t at the moment but I promise that when I can I’ll definitely contribute to y’all’s channels. Awesome video btw, I’ve only watched this and the gymnopedies 1 analyses but I have a lot more to watch. When you look at Ravel again please analyze Forlane from le tombeau de couperin, it’s absolutely beautiful and has a nightmarish twist near the end that just kills me!
Incredible video, thank you so much! One of my favourite pieces of music ever, it's so haunting and I always find myself coming back to it. You're a really wonderful teacher, and your love for the music really shines through. Have a great day :))
I am a former classical vocalist, world level expert on some instruments, and currently studying to become a composer. Your videos are such a great help to me...I learn about structure of music, technique of play, and artistic presentation. Thank you so much for these videos. I did not attend music school...and you see, I learn from you.
I realized when editing that it's called jazz harmony but not when I was recording... :p Yeah, he was early with it. He also wrote a "Blues" as the 2nd movement of his violin sonata, right in the middle of the styles.
Thank you for this! Wonderfully played and explained. I think your clear explanations of the chord movements and functions make it easier for a wider variety of players to relate to the tutorial. Great job
I really dont know anything about playing music but your analysis videos about the music i like is really interesting to me.^^ (also the parts where you state similarities with him, Debussy and Satie here were just so correct in my opinion. I love these three composers so much ^_^)
Dear Henrik, you indicate the redistribution of the dotted notes in the third appearance of the theme. i.e. played in a left hand chord. I also do that. I am not an accomplished pianist and find this composition technically challenging. In this section I resort to crossing my left hand to play the A, then right hand to play the F sharp and G . Two bars later I adopt the same method i.e. C with the left hand, A and G with R.H. This is probably wrong for reasons I am not musical enough to understand and I think it must disturb the melodic line. Thanks for all your tuition. Tony, U.K.
Thanks Lucas! I played Oiseaux tristes in my academy audition program back in the days but I haven't touched it since for some reason. It's a really cool, wierd piece...
Thank you so much! Ravel is my favorite composer. I’ve only heard this piece in its orchestral arrangement, so it was fantastic to listen to the solo piano arrangement finally! I loved your interpretation! Would you be willing to analyze.”Jeux D’eau” or one of the Movements from the ”Ma Mére l’Oye” Suite? I’d also love it if you did Debussy’s ”The Hills of Anacapri” or ”The Girl With Flaxen Hair.” ☺️
Thanks Hailey! Yes, I didn't even mention the orchestra version that Ravel did later, it's like two different filters on the same music. You are extremely lucky, one of the Debussy pieces will come on Friday!
Good evening sir. I am Atmadeep. I have a suggestion. Can you please do an analysis of all the pieces in Gaspard de la Nuit? I know it is very hard, but nothing is hard for you.
I've never heard this piece by Ravel. But it is a nice piece. The slow dance feel and countervoices reminds me of the Baroque Sarabande. Sarabande from Bach's French Suite in C minor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yTKdtfk5j4Q.html Sarabande from Bach's French Suite in D minor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nts2mU6uYoA.html I know that some later composers such as Chopin were greatly influenced by Bach and the Baroque Period in general. I wonder if Ravel is also one of those who was greatly influenced by the Baroque Period.
Yes, I suppose the Sarabande is somewhat similar to the Pavane. Ravel was definately inspired by the old masters and style, especially in Le Tombeau de Couperin - only movements in Baroque forms and dances (Prelude, Menuet, Fugue, Toccata, Riguadon)
Thank you, Henrik, for such a brilliant analysis and interpretation. I love to learn from your videos. By the way, is it me, or this piece sounds like jazz?
Hello! I love this piece, and as a beginner-intermediate-ish level I thought this piece would be a nice challenge for me to learn. However, I found it very hard to express the pianos and pianissimos throughout this piece - I sometimes rely on left pedal for doing that, but I really struggle voicing the "tres lointain" part. Suggestions?
Hi! It's actually a quite challenging piece, but mostly for when the theme returns for the 2nd and 3rd time. The "tres lointain" part has the challenge of voicing within the right hand as you correctly identify, and I can only say that I feel a strong imbalance in the hand when playing - very much in contact with the key and "fleshy" on the melody line and as lightly as possible on the chord notes. This type of technique comes with many years of practicing and getting more and more comfortable with different textures like this. It's very similar in Schubert's impromptu in G flat major too. It's not too hard to find the notes, but forming them is harder...
@@SonataSecrets Thanks! My teacher told me to play the melody part with my fingertips and the middle voice with "flat" fingers, but I guess that's still a challenge. Love this piece so much, but maybe it's a better idea for me to learn something else in the meantime. Thanks for the answer!
it might be my imagination, but is your piano a steinsgraeber and sohnes? I have one, and it looks exactly like mine haha. By the way, this a piece I have always loved ever since I started playing the piano. Music has really enriched my life, and its weird to think that I only discovered the piano less than three years. I will come back to this video in the future, thanks as always Henrik
@@SonataSecrets I came back to this video dear Henrik. I have a summer recital soon where I will play a selection of some of my favorite pieces. I'll be playing Debusy's reverie, Grieg's Arietta & Notturno and Chopin's Valse minute and Valse no.3. But I just couldn't help but to maybe attempt learning this piece! What other dreamy pieces for the piano do you like Henrik?
I know the video was uploaded 3 years ago, but does anyone know why there are crosses through the lowest notes of the right hand in the “reprenez le movement” part?
I came here because I was befudled by the doubling of the same note in two hands. I noticed you crossed out those notes. What is the story behind those notes?
Yes, so the reason it can sometimes be the same note in both hands is if both hands follow a line that uses that note, and in order to show that that note is part of both lines, it can be written like that. However in practice it makes no sense to play the same note with two hands sowe may choose which one feels most comfortable or natural. That's what my crossings mean, that I chose the other hand :)
Well, thanks for this! So it's not that tough on piano? Lol..i just played through the Jack Marshall arrangement of it for solo guitar. That was about the most disturbingly difficult thing that I've ever done while sitting on my butt! Lol i can't imagine trying to get it up to ten without flaw...
dude, what a shame to explain smth about this piece with no legato in melody. including intonation, delayed notes and all what makes it being so beautiful. you play it like showing to a child in 3rd year of a music school
