Radio KAOM: Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte" Seiji Ozawa and the BSO

 GLORIOUSLY LUSH BEAUTY!!!

Maurice Ravel 

"Pavane pour une infante défunte"

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by

Seiji Ozawa

This music opens with a Gorgeous French Horn solo. 

I've always thought this was music for a funeral but upon further thought I think I was wrong. A Pavane  is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). Perhaps similar to a bridal procession. In fact, I think this music might be a wonderful choice for a wedding procession. The dance may have had its origins in Northern Italy around the area where Call Me By Your Name was filmed. Because it is a dance, I think we get the meaning of the title wrong - "Pavane pour une infante défunte" or "Pavane for a dead princess". I now don't think it is music for a funeral but rather music that evokes the memory of princesses of far away times - perhaps like the princesses we might see in old paintings. So this music seems to me to be more reminiscing of the past than sorrow for the dead. Regardless of its title or its meaning, this is a masterpiece of gloriously luscious beauty.

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AOM TV: Analysis of Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé" by Gerard Schwarz

This is a great way to learn more about today's music

I highly recommend you listen to this then listen to today's music

Analysis of Maurice Ravel's 

"Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2"

by Gerard Schwarz

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/qfqbomqKZqY

Radio KAOM: Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2"

 WARNING!!!

MULTIPLE EARGASMS AHEAD!

I highly recommend watching 

Gerard Schwarz's analysis first

In today's AOM TV above

To help give you a greater appreciation of this piece

This video is Suite 1 and Suite 2 of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe

if you have time, I encourage you to listen to it all

But I especially want us to listen to Suite 2

To do that click the progress bar to 42:14

And begin listening from there

One of the things I like about this performance

Is that that have added the choir

Most performances you find do not

The choir really adds to the orchestration

This is one of the most beautiful 

pieces of music ever written in my  opinion

LUSH - EMOTIONAL - ORGASMIC

It also has within it the greatest flute solo in all of music

Maurice Ravel

"Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2"

The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Great Broadcasting Choir

conducted by 

David Robertson

Suite 2 starts around 42:14

So skip on over thar and start listenin'

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/R8RjYT5CLe8

MUSIC: Ravel's "A Boat on the Ocean"

REMINISCING

More music from the film

Call Me by Your Name

This music perfectly captures 

the feeling of dreamy memories

Miroirs (French for "Mirrors") is a five-movement suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs contains five movements, each dedicated to a fellow member of the French avant-garde artist group Les Apaches. Les Apaches (or Société des Apaches) was a group of musicians, writers and artists which formed around 1900 in Paris, France. Members of the group included:

Édouard Bénédictus, painter, composer and scientist

Claude Debussy, composer and pianist

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, writer and music critic

Maurice Delage, composer

Manuel de Falla, composer

Léon-Paul Fargue, poet

Lucien Garban, publisher and transcriber

Pierre Haour

Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, conductor

Tristan Klingsor, poet, painter, art theorist

Maurice Ravel, composer

Gomez de Riquet (an imaginary member)

Florent Schmitt, composer

Paul Sordes, painter

Igor Stravinsky, composer

Georges Mouveau , decorator

Ricardo Viñes, pianist

Movement III:

"Une barque sur l'océan" (in English "A Boat on the Ocean") was written for the French painter and set designer Paul Sordes. This piece recounts a boat as it sails upon the waves of the ocean. Arpeggiated sections and sweeping melodies imitate the flow of ocean currents. It is the longest piece of the set, and the second-most technically difficult.

"Une barque sur l’océan from Miroirs"

composed by 

Maurice Ravel 

performed by

Andre Laplante

from the film

Call Me by Your Name

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/xTnzuYzp8L0

BALLET: Maurice Béjart's "Bolero" (Music by Maurice Ravel)

SENSUALLY DELIGHTFUL!!!

This is a great dance performance

Beautifully captured on video

I love the precision of this group

I sometimes get quite angry at

Directors of cinematography

Because they fail to focus on the main performance

Instead they focus on the NOSE or the HAND

Of performers while they are performing great moves

Which we cannot see because the cameras

Are not focused on the overall performance

This seems especially true with group performances
Like an ensemble dance number
Or a marching band performance

Grrrrr

Just a pet peeave of mine

Well

The camera guys did a great job with this one

I've seen and posted other performances of Bejart's Bolero

But the camera work in this one really lets us see

What the audience got to see

~*~

Great Music, Great Choreography, Great Dancing

and

SEXY HOT GUYS!

:  )

YES! 

I will admit it

I'll say it!

I started watching ballet

For the half-naked hot guys running around in their underwear

:  )

BUT, but, but

Now that I've seen many performances

I appreciate the other aspects of ballet

So now I enjoy the artistry and the hotistry

:  )

This starts out with one dancer on a round red table

As the music builds and builds

More and more shirtless hot dancers

Begin dancing around the table

I love their movements

This is quite an aerobic workout!

I'd be so tired trying to dance this one

Hell

I'd pass out halfway through it

:  )

~*~

"Bolero" 

choreography by

Maurice Béjart

music by

Maurice Ravel

dancer

Nicolas le Riche

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/RU6n_-8jpfM

MUSIC: Ravel's "Boléro" conducted by Valery Gergiev

GLORIOUS

A Great Performance

Maurice Ravel

"Boléro"

Valery Gergiev conducting

The London Symphony Orchestra

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/ODeNHRtVNO4