Dogs According to Piano Music

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Жыл бұрын

Dogs have played an important role in piano music for centuries. The keyboard may lack the timbral flexibility of a violin, say, but composers have devised many ingenious and hilarious ways of evoking the sounds, movements and characters of canines. So, why not join composer Frederick Viner as he explores some of the very best examples.
Many thanks to all the superb performers who kindly lent their recordings. Their full performances can be viewed here:
Hayato Sumino: Chopin, Op. 64 no. 1 "Valse du petit chien" - • Minute Waltz (Chopin O...
Nikolay Khozyainov: Chopin, "Gallop Marquis" - • Gallop "Marquis" in A ...
Kit Armstrong: Alkan, "Le festin d'Esope" - • Alkan : Le festin d'Es...
Dina Pysarenko: Satie, "Trois Véritables préludes flasques" - • Erik Satie «Trois Véri...
Analysis videos: • Playlist
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@thegreenpianist7683 Жыл бұрын

I'll never get enough of Satie's insane titles and markings.

@RaptorT1V Жыл бұрын

I am currently preparing material for a lecture-concert on Impressionists and Impressionism in music (and not only) at the end of April And I can tell you that, Yes, Eric Satie is such an interesting fellow. Of all the composers, he is the funniest to read about.

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

@@RaptorT1V Nothing funny about my life

@dzordzszs Жыл бұрын

@@eriksatieofficiel Untrue; I laugh at your life very often

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

@@dzordzszs :(

@RaptorT1V Жыл бұрын

@@dzordzszs AHHAHAHAHA

@johnchessant3012 Жыл бұрын

I love the image of the dog chasing its tail for the Minute Waltz! I'll always think of that now when I hear it :D

@Jamric-gr8gr Жыл бұрын

OMG I LOVE ALKAN

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@jadseif8102 Жыл бұрын

The dog alone at home breaks my heart 😢

@rosiefay7283 8 ай бұрын

2:00 Thanks for including this extract! It's even funnier if you hear it and the previous variation straight through. First we have hunting horns. Then the hounds join the hunt.

@LauraTenora Жыл бұрын

I find Schubert's depiction of barking dogs in his song 'Im Dorfe' (In the Village: no. 17 of the cycle "Winterreise") very lifelike and accurate, considering the time period it was written in. Interesting topic, cool video, great examples. Thanks.

@asterius4271 Жыл бұрын

sumino's turns are something else

@EmdrGreg Жыл бұрын

Jacques Ibert's Le Petit Ane Blanc is one of my absolute favorites. Also Daquin's Le Coucou.

@maxgregorycompositions6216 Жыл бұрын

The dog jumping in and out of the river within Elgar's Enigma Variations.

@samfsmith Жыл бұрын

George Gershwin's "Promenade" (Walking the Dog).

@klop4228 Жыл бұрын

Not a piano piece, but one of the Enigma Variations is also imitative of his pal's dog

@jadetz7 Жыл бұрын

I love when composers are imitating animals in their music. Its a little "joke" for listeners.

@christophfaulkner7295 Жыл бұрын

Copland’s Cat and Mouse - Fab depiction.

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

This was originally going to be 'Animals according to..' and the Copland was in the list! A really under-appreciated, witty work

@patrickkwon3351 Жыл бұрын

WHAT THE DOG DOING

@Henri.d.Olivoir Жыл бұрын

Last year I remember having a dream in which I had composed a work for a small ensemble (like 12 instruments) in which the cellos played something that was supposed to imitate dog barks. I have no idea why, but that was it, I still remember how it sounds somewhat, I will perhaps write it in reality in day

@LisztAddict Жыл бұрын

Holy hell you mentioned Alkan

@best.video.on.this.platform Жыл бұрын

George Crumb's Mundus Canis (A Dog's World) is certainly one of my favourites:D its a musical portrayal of the five dogs he owned over the years, written for guitar and percussion:) i wont give any spoilers because its so good:)

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

I was not an excentric, I wrote serious music, Monsieur!

@Snookbone Жыл бұрын

eccentric

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

eXXentriK

@Sam-gx2ti Жыл бұрын

Do you have a handkerchief I could borrow? i heard you have many

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

@@Sam-gx2ti Sorry I keep them all for crying over my lost love Suzanne Valadon.

@jadseif8102 Жыл бұрын

Vous êtes un génie, monsieur !

@dashiedev3281 Жыл бұрын

The piece Op 64 No 1 Valse Du Petit Chien is the piece that eventually lead me into loving classical music❤ I have heard it since childhood at the Japanese Cooking with the Dog youtube channel and the tune somehow stick with me until i grew up and loved Chopin.

@jonaswolfmusic1775 Жыл бұрын

Favourite Music with animals: for me clearly Renaissance composer Clément Jannequin, "La chasse" has some dogs barking

@lylecohen1638 Жыл бұрын

Germaine Tailleferre also has a very cute piano piece describing dogs, Chiens.

@mvmarchiori Жыл бұрын

Great! My favourite animal in music(for the moment) it's Liszt depiction of Saint Francis and the birds.

@mspir1252 Жыл бұрын

I believe one of the enigma variations is based off a dog from the town that Elgar lived in, who would fall into the river and get washed down

@Loogia Жыл бұрын

I never knew I needed this until now

@unsiliquaria Жыл бұрын

I always thought about transcribing the barks in my alley, kind of like a Messiaen of dogs.

@RobertMonroeMusic Жыл бұрын

great collection. Fascinating knowing about dogs connection to all this.

@johnchessant3012 Жыл бұрын

if only Saint-Saëns had included a dog in his carnival...

@manofdream69 Жыл бұрын

Btw, are you related to Mark Viner? I love his recordings of the Alkan preludes :)... Anyways, love your content, keep it up!!

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

I am not, but I'm honoured to share the name of such a fine musician. Thanks very much for the kind words, Krassimir!

@mtv565 Жыл бұрын

@3:36 - Other "dog" pieces you missed: 1) Elgar's Enigma Variation XI (Allegro di molto) GRS, 2) Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat major, K. 450 "Canine concerto".

@reinoanttonen2812 Жыл бұрын

The 17th lied in Schubert's Winterreise, "Im Dorfe" also has barking dogs in the piano.

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji Жыл бұрын

Cats according to composers and critics: Sorabji.

@gastonruizoyarce4818 Жыл бұрын

I like a lot the lions roar in the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns :)

@j.thomas1420 Жыл бұрын

Ah yeah, these piano chromatics octaves are a real lion roar for the ears ! Saint-Saens totally nailed it.

@matthewpalmer7226 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic work Freddy. Funny, informative, and inrcredibly interesting :)

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Matt! How about a catch up soon? :)

@margarethansen7480 Жыл бұрын

Nice vídeo! I like all animals described for Saint Saens in his “Carnival…”, even though in that piece the dogs haven’t place kkkk

@Whaijorhujishkomunyk Жыл бұрын

Great to see Alkan xd

@LisztAddict Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@LisztAddict Жыл бұрын

Also 1:08 this piece is so garbage xd

@nncortes Жыл бұрын

Enigma Variations, Variation 11 “G.R.S.”

@bifeldman Жыл бұрын

The barking dog in Haydn’s C Maj Fantasy, The Farmer’s Wife Has Lost Her Cat.

@mtv565 Жыл бұрын

(Before the video loads) Enigma variation no.7??

@fb7876 Жыл бұрын

Never heard about the galoppe...

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

What did you make of it?

@fb7876 Жыл бұрын

@@FrederickViner ?

@thekeyoflifepiano Жыл бұрын

What about Scarlatti's Sonata K9?

@ralphellenburgjr9742 Жыл бұрын

LOL

@TrollMeister_ Жыл бұрын

The most doggy music I have seen/heard is the Canine Concert from the Director’s Cut version of Amadeus. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7ege8J3sZ-Xqnk.html

@HaydnMiles Жыл бұрын

Poissons d'or debussy

@FrederickViner Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous piece

@classicallpvault8251 Жыл бұрын

Erik Satie, 'one of the world's great eccentrics'? Really? The guy was a third rate composer of frivolous elevator music who drank himself to death. More like a tragic figure - whose legacy also spawned several generations of equally worthless imitators like Phillip Glass and Simeon ten Holt. And his alcoholism isn't an excuse for any of that - Max Reger was a raging drunk as well and managed to kill himself with the bottle 15 years quicker but he was in fact a great composer.

@surr3al756 Жыл бұрын

What does his eccentricity have to do with his skill as a composer, or his alcoholism? He was simply pointing out that Satie had many eccentric behaviors and did many eccentric things, for example, composing Vexations, a piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, and having an unusual diet and daily routine. The projection you're doing here is massive, and completely unwarranted.

@eriksatieofficiel Жыл бұрын

Sir this is a Wendy's