i love that pedal tone. it seems so ethereal and outside of the piece its almost like an atmosphere instead of a note. i love it. beautiful piece by ravel.
J'ai l'impression que la pianiste a écouté le gibet joué par Ravel et que nous pouvons avoir sur You Tube car c'est une des rares interprètes qui n'aseptise pas l'émotion lugubre et dramatique de cette pièce que Ravel rend dans sont interprétation....
'Whimsyshire' is the name of an easter egg level in the game Diablo III. In contrast to the demon-infested world of the game itself, Whimsyshire is a bright place full of unicorns, rainbows and happiness. Except for the background music, which is this song in reverse.
this piece is supposed to go along with a poem by Aloysius Bertrand about a hanged man in the sunset with bells tolling in the background...It really creates vivid imagery!
I like it, I don’t love it. Le gibet is my favorite piece out of the suite. And there’s this feeling of impending doom that’s supposed to befall you, I don’t get that here. So far, Richter’s interpretation is my favorite. Valentina is a obviously world class and this comment is by no means diminishing her abilities as a very accomplished and well rounded pianist.
I think Lisitsa gives some life to Ravel's ostinato, but not in the sense of liveliness or being "full of life." Rather her interpretation, as I see it, opens up Ravel's meditation on impending death to include a simple and honest reflection on a life and the strength and vitality of each passing moment of that life. Oddly enough, my takeaway is "feeling refreshed." Reminds me of a Radiohead tune, but I can't remember which one.
@ktm64 this is a great comment. I have had the sheet music for 30 years. parts of it I can play but the giant chord progressions, OMG, how difficult.. I work on this, get frustrated, work on it, get frustrated, ... Your comment was really well stated.
@grampinator The secret is to not to try to play the chords until you know what they are, even if it takes you a full minute to read each one. If you play them correctly, even at one minute intervals, in the end you will remember them correctly and begin to speed up. Otherwise you just remember the same ham-fisted attempt to tackle the whole progression all in one go at sight and at speed like the natural intuitive genius nobody is.
I'm here because Ravel. It's really cool that Blizzard would use this in an easter egg. I've only played SC2 though, so I'm ignorant to basically anything Diablo has to offer (save Day9's release footage).
Do you mean she's playing it differently from the original composition? because, technically, there's no such thing as a wrong note if its intentional.
It's some kind of transcription or something?? Oh simply a sloppy look to the text while memorizing? In any case, those details destroys completely a masterpiece and a good performance like this :(
The chords of this piece are monstrous. As always, she masters them.
I love the background lighting in this video. Well done.
i love that pedal tone. it seems so ethereal and outside of the piece its almost like an atmosphere instead of a note. i love it. beautiful piece by ravel.
When you think you've heard every possible thing which can be done on a piano along comes a video like this showing that there is even more.
It's so amazing, moody and temperamentally
Thumbs up for Valentina !!
Great interpretation.
I also like the lighting effects...like a Scriabin type thing almost...
What a wonderful interpretation. You've really captured what Ravel meant with this piece, in my opinion.
WOW! I wish I could play like that! Amazing command of this incredibly difficult piece!
Valentina, thank you for doing what you do: music.
J'ai l'impression que la pianiste a écouté le gibet joué par Ravel et que nous pouvons avoir sur You Tube car c'est une des rares interprètes qui n'aseptise pas l'émotion lugubre et dramatique de cette pièce que Ravel rend dans sont interprétation....
like it so much
I have it playing one time before sleeping every day
Whoa, I feel like I'm dreaming when watching this. I discover myself in realms not yet discovered. Very surreal.
'Whimsyshire' is the name of an easter egg level in the game Diablo III. In contrast to the demon-infested world of the game itself, Whimsyshire is a bright place full of unicorns, rainbows and happiness. Except for the background music, which is this song in reverse.
Magnific!!!!!!
Bravo!!!!!!
this piece is supposed to go along with a poem by Aloysius Bertrand about a hanged man in the sunset with bells tolling in the background...It really creates vivid imagery!
puts me in a trance
So beautifully played!
I like it, I don’t love it. Le gibet is my favorite piece out of the suite. And there’s this feeling of impending doom that’s supposed to befall you, I don’t get that here. So far, Richter’s interpretation is my favorite. Valentina is a obviously world class and this comment is by no means diminishing her abilities as a very accomplished and well rounded pianist.
Yeah she plays it a little too fast in my opinion
Where do you find the impending doom? In Bertrand’s poem, the man is already dead.
Breathtaking
This is spectaculaire!
Marvelous!
favourite composition
Wonderful!
Easily the finest Gaspard on YT!
I think Lisitsa gives some life to Ravel's ostinato, but not in the sense of liveliness or being "full of life." Rather her interpretation, as I see it, opens up Ravel's meditation on impending death to include a simple and honest reflection on a life and the strength and vitality of each passing moment of that life. Oddly enough, my takeaway is "feeling refreshed." Reminds me of a Radiohead tune, but I can't remember which one.
Beautifully played
WOW!!!!
Very surreal and cool.
At 2:43 and 3:04 It totally reminds me "La vallée des cloches" from Ravel's "Miroirs".
awesome
@ktm64 this is a great comment. I have had the sheet music for 30 years. parts of it I can play but the giant chord progressions, OMG, how difficult.. I work on this, get frustrated, work on it, get frustrated, ...
Your comment was really well stated.
@grampinator The secret is to not to try to play the chords until you know what they are, even if it takes you a full minute to read each one. If you play them correctly, even at one minute intervals, in the end you will remember them correctly and begin to speed up. Otherwise you just remember the same ham-fisted attempt to tackle the whole progression all in one go at sight and at speed like the natural intuitive genius nobody is.
I'm here because Ravel.
It's really cool that Blizzard would use this in an easter egg. I've only played SC2 though, so I'm ignorant to basically anything Diablo has to offer (save Day9's release footage).
I'm here from a diablo 3 whimsydale video.
Someone pointed it out with a link to this that the whimsydale is this tune played backwards
Who is this beautiful goddess playing Ravel so magnificantly?
@12Hadise12 lol! from 0.00 to 5.17, mabye? What a nonsense question!
Do you mean she's playing it differently from the original composition? because, technically, there's no such thing as a wrong note if its intentional.
not morbid enough!
Not bad, but a liitle fast and heavy-handed. It's missing a lot of the subltety of, say, Argerich's version, or Pogorelish's (which is truly awesome).
Came because diablo
wrong note = different from the original composition
Why so many wrong notes?
It's some kind of transcription or something?? Oh simply a sloppy look to the text while memorizing? In any case, those details destroys completely a masterpiece and a good performance like this :(
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귀신이 계속 시플렛을 연주해주는것 같앙
What wrong notes?
Holy shit this is actually the same song as whimsyshire!
Much too fast, so one loses some of the sense of dread the piece is supposed to evoke. Alice Sara Ott's slower version is better.
She learned too many wrong notes and needs to take tis embarrassing recording out of circulation ASAP.
worst interpretation ever!
Wtf is wrong with you, can you play the piece better?