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commmons: schola vol.4

Ryuichi Sakamoto Selections:

Ravel

¥8,500 (excluding tax)
[CD album]
Released on December 23, 2009

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Product Summary

Complete music collection “commmons: schola” series fully supervised by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Volume 4 is by Ravel.
Maurice Ravel is a modern French composer who symbolizes the beginning of the 20th century.
12 carefully selected sound sources by Ryuichi Sakamoto, including ``Bolero'' conducted by Ravel himself, and unraveling the elaborate and mechanical musicality of the artist, who is considered alongside Debussy, who lived at the same time, but took a completely different path. A book consisting of discussions, explanations, and a chronology.

recorded music

  1. "The Play of Water" Martha Argerich [Recorded in 1960]
  2. "String Quartet in F major - 1st movement Allegro moderato"
    Alban Berg Quartet [Recorded in 1984]
  3. "Sonatine - 2nd movement Minuet"
    Vlad Perlemutaire [Recorded in 1955]
  4. "Natural History - No. 1 Peacock"
    Gabriel Bakier, Dalton Goldwyn [Recorded in 1981]
  5. “Gaspard of the Night ~No. 1 Water Spirit”
    Martha Argerich [Recorded in 1974]
  6. "Minuet in the Name of Haydn"
    Vlad Perlemutaire
  7. "Ma Mère Roi ~Fairy Garden"
    Ernest Boer conductor Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra [Recorded in 1972]
  8. "Daphnis and Chloe - Sunrise from Part 3"
    New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez
    Camerata Singers, Abraham Kaplan [recorded in 1975]
  9. "Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé - No. 2: Vain Wishes"
    Felicity Lott, Dalton Baldwin
    Orchester de Paris Chamber Ensemble conducted by Michel Plasson
  10. "Sonata for violin and cello - 1st movement Allegro"
    Mari Fujiwara Jean-Jacques Kantorow [Recorded in 1985]
  11. "Piano Concerto in G major - 3rd movement Presto"
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
    Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Ettore Gratsis [Recorded in 1957]
  12. "Bolero"
    Orchestra Lamoureux conducted by Maurice Ravel [recorded in 1930]

commmons: schola vol.4

Ryuichi Sakamoto Selections:

Ravel

¥ 8,500 (excluding tax) [CD album] Released 12/23/2009

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Special lecture

commmons: schola focuses on Ravel, a French musician famous as the composer of ``Bolero.''
Emeritus Professor Ryuichi Sakamoto passionately and carefully explains the appeal of Ravel's works, which developed in a completely different way even though they lived in the same era as Debussy, who was featured in the previous section.

Part 1
[22 minutes 24 seconds]
2010/01/21

1. Introduction

・Previous commmons: schola
・What is Impressionist music?
・Ravel's early life
・Relationship between Debussy and Satie

2.Song commentary (1) ~Early and middle songs~

・"Water play"
・“String Quartet in F major ~ 1st movement
Allegro moderato” (with improvisation by the professor)
・"Sonatine - 2nd movement Minuet" (with improvised performance by the professor)

Part 2
[18 minutes 07 seconds]
2010/02/11

1.Song commentary (2) ~Songs from the second half of his life~

Three songs explored from the relationship between Debussy and Satie
・"Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé - No. 2: Vain Wishes"
・"Sonata for violin and cello - 1st movement Allegro"
・"Bolero"

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