Top 5 Favorite Ravel Works

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vandermolen

#60
June 04, 2015, 01:01:57 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2015, 05:58:30 PM
Has Bolero become The Spice Girls of classical music? It's cool to not like it, but somehow it sells millions of records and sells out concert halls.

I like the Spice Girls too.  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

#61
June 05, 2015, 01:45:05 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 01:01:57 PM
I like the Spice Girls too.  8)

And we learn this here, on a Ravel thread??!!  0:)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

(poco) Sforzando

#62
June 05, 2015, 03:11:00 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 05, 2015, 01:45:05 AM
And we learn this here, on a Ravel thread??!!  0:)

Doubtless he is referring to Ravel's spicier heroines: Conception, Scheherazade, the cats in L'Enfant (but not the Princess, or for that matter Chloe).
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

jochanaan

#63
June 05, 2015, 07:24:26 AM
Bolero, like many masterpieces, looks both backward and forward.  Yes, it is a variation set in which the only parameter changed is the orchestration; but I also see it as a proto-minimalist composition in which the long, slow crescendo builds tremendous excitement.  I wonder if Glass, Reich et al acknowledge its influence. 8)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

vandermolen

#64
June 05, 2015, 08:09:21 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 05, 2015, 01:45:05 AM
And we learn this here, on a Ravel thread??!!  0:)

hehe - but I am a lateral thinker Karl 8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#65
June 05, 2015, 08:09:55 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 05, 2015, 03:11:00 AM
Doubtless he is referring to Ravel's spicier heroines: Conception, Scheherazade, the cats in L'Enfant (but not the Princess, or for that matter Chloe).

You got this absolutely right!  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

jochanaan

#66
June 05, 2015, 08:16:43 AM
Well, by all accounts, Ida Rubinstein, who commissioned the Bolero as a ballet, was pretty spicy. :o ;D
Imagination + discipline = creativity

Mirror Image

#67
June 23, 2015, 04:45:19 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 01:01:57 PM
I like the Spice Girls too.  8)

I think Posh Spice and Scary Spice are hot. Just sayin'. :D

Moonfish

#68
June 23, 2015, 05:11:27 PM
Wait! I like Bolero too...!!   0:)
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TheGSMoeller

#69
June 26, 2015, 07:13:37 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 23, 2015, 04:45:19 PM
I think Posh Spice and Scary Spice are hot. Just sayin'. :D

What? No love for Baby Spice? I mean how hot was it to have an adult pretend to be a lollipop sucking child?


Quote from: Moonfish on June 23, 2015, 05:11:27 PM
Wait! I like Bolero too...!!   0:)

It's settled then, Bolero is a masterpiece!

Christo

#70
June 30, 2015, 03:39:09 AM Last Edit: March 06, 2016, 12:12:48 PM by Christo
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 26, 2015, 07:13:37 AMIt's settled then, Bolero is a masterpiece!

Exacly ten opinions by now to support the verdict. Boléro must be a masterpiece.  8)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Karl Henning

#71
June 30, 2015, 03:54:48 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 26, 2015, 07:13:37 AM
What? No love for Baby Spice? I mean how hot was it to have an adult pretend to be a lollipop sucking child?

You ask Pee-Wee Herman.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

#73
February 22, 2016, 10:23:12 AM
My list has changed since the last one, so...

(In no particular order)

Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Piano Concerto for the left-hand
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Shéhérazade
Violin Sonata

Who knows what my list will look like tomorrow.


Madiel

#74
February 22, 2016, 12:14:31 PM
My order of Sheherazade is on its way, and I now have my eye on a particular version of the Poemes (which I'd not heard before) after streaming.
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Mirror Image

#75
February 22, 2016, 12:20:50 PM Last Edit: February 22, 2016, 12:27:08 PM by Mirror Image
Quote from: orfeo on February 22, 2016, 12:14:31 PM
My order of Sheherazade is on its way, and I now have my eye on a particular version of the Poemes (which I'd not heard before) after streaming.

Shéhérazade is, and pardon me for saying this, absolutely orgasmic. It's sumptuous, exotic, and completely engulfing in its seduction. Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé is a darker hued work but no less attractive for it. It's beguiling!

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#76
February 22, 2016, 09:56:28 PM
Frontispice
Daphnis et Chloe
Le Tombeau de Couperin (either version)
Shéhérazade
Ma mère l'Oye

ritter

#77
February 22, 2016, 11:48:55 PM
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on February 22, 2016, 09:56:28 PM
Frontispice
Daphnis et Chloe
Le Tombeau de Couperin (either version)
Shéhérazade
Ma mère l'Oye
Great list, CoAG! Nice to see Frontispice appear here...a wonderful, enigmatic composition. Have you heard the Boulez orchestration? AFAIK, Boulez's only published arrangement of another composer's work. IIRC. there's actually two versions, this one for reduced forces and another for full orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/v/dYdOjdP5-oI

THREAD DUTY:

My list (now) would be:

- Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- Ma mère l'Oye
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (both versions)
- Concerto for the left hand
- La Valse

Chronochromie

#78
February 23, 2016, 11:29:05 AM
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Daphnis et Chloé
Piano Concerto in G
Gaspard de la nuit
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#79
February 23, 2016, 11:52:47 AM
Quote from: ritter on February 22, 2016, 11:48:55 PM
Great list, CoAG! Nice to see Frontispice appear here...a wonderful, enigmatic composition. Have you heard the Boulez orchestration? AFAIK, Boulez's only published arrangement of another composer's work. IIRC. there's actually two versions, this one for reduced forces and another for full orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/v/dYdOjdP5-oI

THREAD DUTY:

My list (now) would be:

- Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- Ma mère l'Oye
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (both versions)
- Concerto for the left hand
- La Valse


I know that arrange mn conducted by Pintscher on that video, but I didn't know there was another one! I'm very familiar with the original version which I think is Ravel's most alluring work of them all.
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