More animals than any carnival ever before
mainThe French violinist Renaud Capucon has put together the starriest ever Carnaval des Animaux from soloists on four continents.
Watch.
“Le Carnaval des animaux” pour les soignants du monde entier.
Des 4 coins du monde, ils donnent un concert virtuel de soutien pour ceux qui sont en première ligne. Le violoniste @RCapucon a réuni des grands noms de la musique pour Brut. pic.twitter.com/BNjRTTVwb2— Brut FR (@brutofficiel) April 4, 2020
More than 35 musicians including Yo Yo Ma, James Ehnes, Nicholas Angelich, Andreas Ottensamer, Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Bertrand Chamayou, Lucas Debargue, Elsa Dreisig, Thierry Escaich, Sol Gabetta, Julia Hagen, David Kadouch, Alexandre Kantorow, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, David Moreau, Edgar Moreau, Jérémie Moreau, Raphaëlle Moreau, Beatrice Muthelet, Alois Posch…
Could we please stop with this. Little screens divided even further like postage stamps. Bad sound, home playing. People wearing whatever. And over it all this fake haze of “isn’t this great, aren’t we woke and timely playing on the app and being ‘together apart’. Please don’t help to pretend this is good or healthy, the concert hall is where this stuff makes sense, not assembled like disembodied zombie parts into a performance that none of the actual musicians can even hear as its happening. All done for free while the economic and future outlook gets worse for these and other players by the day. If you are on the channels to receive this stuff from musicians and orchestras then you already know how bad the situation is for them. Given that I don’t want to listen to it and play along.
Hey there misery guts. How about going back to bed and then getting out again but on the right side?
We’re all going to hell in a handcart so why not have some fun on the way?
Sure it’s going to be less than perfect but do you think it better to sit and practise on your own for ever with no real prospect of anyone hearing the results? That’s why performers do these things. The clue is in their title. Geddit?
“That’s why they do these things”? No, “they“ do these things, and for free, because they need content to make sure they aren’t forgotten. Unfortunately this is likely to have exactly that effect.
Actually I’ve just rather belatedly bothered to read the introduction to the clip. A rough précis is that they’re doing it to show their support for carers everywhere. You’re coming out of this looking more and more curmudgeonly Arthur. At least they’re doing something constructive in these ghastly times.
Makes no difference. They’re doing it to generate content to promote themselves. Only believable possibility. ‘Carers’ (a rather too general term) and the like not only won’t see it, but have no idea who they are – and need other support than badly played, zombie-assembled classical music, anyway.
Arthur probably dispenses helpful advice to his friends like “I don’t know why you’re doing chemo, you’re probably going to die anyway.”
Agree one hundred percent. Me me me me me me me me me me me me me …… it’s one percent of professional musicians doing this. Go figure. Get a real life outside social media!
And where might that be for the next few months then?
LOL. Because if they do this one thing, it means they never do anything else.
Very nice i enjoyed the music. I like the nice dogs.
I always wanted a dog buy my wife does not like them she throws me a biscuit instead
But where were the animals?
Not a swan in sight … not even with 5 cellists, including Gautier and Yo Yo no less!!
Look at the link provided by pianofreak below here. Apparently the above video is just a teaser/preview of performances that will become available soon.
No celebrities in sight, but still a beautiful bevy of swans, made up of 24 young cellists:
https://youtu.be/hE1enPDh3nM
So sad.
The 1600s invented table music, where musicians gathered around a table to play.
The 1700s invented chamber music, where musicians gathered in a salon to play.
2020 invented Zoom music, where musicians crawl out of bed, throw on sweat pants, click on their metronome earpods tick-tick-tick-tick in strict rhythm, and depending on the quality of their mics, scratch out a few notes for a few minutes, and call it music.
Exactly.
Etude Brut, eh?
Looks like it’s wrong link and not correct information.
The real link is here: https://www.medici.tv/en/partners/rendez-vous-paris/?preview=364c96&fbclid=IwAR1ocRKxq-waJx5DWHWm5UxcIZ2BBnocsgrEVz_J4sI_ySxrj9OqUmDxtBU
Music is a language. If we don’t speak, we become numb. Without a stage, we cannot communicate our feelings through music. Aren’t we fortunate, then, to have the technology to share our language with others? I think this is absolutely beautiful.
Quite a technical feat with super fast and accurate playing. I enjoyed it!
I enjoyed it immensely. Fresh young players, each very good on his and her instrument, each so enthusiastic and having great fun in the ensemble. Too short. I wanted more.
Another distinguished group was that of Saint-Saens and his friends at the first performance, also “private”, in rather different circumstances. He didn’t intend even to publish it. I remember another distinguished version with Jeanne Behrend and her husband the ill-fated Alexander Kelberine as the pianists and Stokowski leading his royal Philadelphians. Now who would their cellist have been?
This work has some of the best musical parodies before Alec Templeton and Gerard Hoffnung or PDQ Bach. Let’s hear more of “the Unbegunsymophony..