A musical and compelling analysis presented with a sense of humour. Inspiring.

Thank for thoses wonderful lectures. I'm just an "amateur", i have no technical knowledge in matter of music, but i LOVE Debussy and Ravel, and i learn a lot listening Bruce's lectures. It's a real pleasure. (Sorry for my poor english, i'm french)

Thanks, CMS and Bruce Adolphe!!! This is a luxury :)

Thank you so much for this! As a Ravel fanatic and musician/teacher, these lectures are pure gold. You have a very natural way of explaining the genius and brilliance of Ravel, and in a manner that basically anybody who is interested in this music can at least appreciate on some level. As a teacher, I can positively confirm that it is a gift to be able to use humor and explain the intended subject matter in order to make it fun, inspiring, and interesting for people, and you have succeeded on a very high level. Kudos and congratulations, and my sincerest appreciation and thanks. I would love to see you do some Sibelius someday if you ever had the opportunity! Cheers. ~Frank

Bruce Adolphe, a wonderful composer, lectures, with lots of musical examples, about Ravel's String Quartet in F major, giving great insights into Ravel and his compositional language.

Chapeau Mr. Adolphe, what a wonderful lecture on this wonderful piece, beautifully supported by the Esher Quartet! One little correction at 12.00 min. where Beethoven is mentioned to have written a composition in which he uses the Locrian mode, Mr. Adolphe means the Lydian mode (15th string quartet, 3rd mov. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an der Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart.).

I love this speaker!

Love this Bruce, memories of a delightful evening in Loveland CO years ago. Brilliantly elucidated. I was thinking about the sort of nonfunctional repetition of bar 9 etc that it is a bit reminiscent of the ‘Pastoral’ 1st mvt (same key!)

wow this is great. love the breakdown of the piece.

Thanks, very inspiring... it's pure gold when knowledge meets passion for music

Escher has one of the loveliest sounds of any quartet out there.

I wish he talked about the second movement that’s my favorite part

Wonderful talk. Given the crack about 40s films, I can't wait till you reveal the secrets of Rosza.

AMAZING LECTURE!!! Brilliant!!

Many wonderful insights and explanations into the world of harmony and its intoxicating power in music with the focus on what Ravel conceived of in his mind- a fresh world of sound that comes to life through Bruce Adolphe's perceptive and lucid and often humorous talk. Bravo to him and to the wonderful Escher Quartet for their sensitive and probing interpretation!

Wonderful!

Now I have explanations for the sumptuous beauties which , that is, the explanations, I never needed. What a difference between music and its analysis.

1:01:44 is wonderful and 1:02:03 to the end is sublime ... Awesome.

André Gédalge has this great book on counterpoint and fugue. I didn't realize he knew Ravel!

Wonderful! i hope you give a lecture on the chamber music by Schumann!

I like the speaker! So funny! Xxx

That's a really interesting-looking viola Pierre Lapointe is playing.

11:56 he talks about the 3rd movement of Beethoven's String Quartet no. 15, called "...in the Lydian mode" (not locrian)

10:51 Can someone explain the Ravel chord to me? How to build it? - 'cause Gawd-damn it sounds good!

42:38

what's the name of the school he mentions around 19:16 ?

The first violinist is so handsome and plays beautiful....it is so hard to concentrate in the lecture hahaha