Favorite Piece from Ravel’s Miroirs - POLL

[calculaepp]

I personally like Noctuelles and Cloches a lot but many people don’t. Barque is probably the favorite for a lot of people. My teacher wants me to learn one of these too!

[lelle]

My vote is for Noctulles as well. It has such a unique atmosphere. That middle section has, for me, such a poignant feeling of a hot, moist summer night, somehow timeless with those pulsating bell-like sounds.

[roncesvalles]

I love them all, so this was hard.  Barque is something I intermittently practice, and it's so fun (to try to) play.  I'm really hoping to be ready for this set in a year or two.  The sound world of Noctuelles is fascinating to me--a combination of the four against three and the harmony always makes it sound a little like Scriabin, but more controlled and narrative.   I picked Oiseaux Tristes for mostly personal reasons.   I got interested in "classical" music through the avant-garde first of all, and when I started I had no personal conception of melody, only catchy semi-atmospheric motifs.  When I first heard this piece it felt like what I was striving for in my fledgling compositions, with the recurring birdsong and harmony and drama, so I was stunned that something like this existed.  I think it points in another direction in music, when music is generally conceived melodically or harmonically--paving the way for composers like Sciarrino to really focus on interesting figures/figurations that act both harmonically and melodically and whose recurrence structures a work.

[lelle]

They're all a lot of fun to play and work on. Some of them are pretty damn difficult too.