Especially in the pieces which actually have to do with water. "Ondine" (The water nymph), "Jeux d'eau" (Water games) and "Une barque sur l'Ocean" (A boat on the Ocean). Ravel was such a genius.
Truly. One of the only composers who grasps the world around him in its entirity - and seemingly other worlds unknown to us if you listen to his entire repertoire.
@Zarathustra no. It is a kind of evolution of Liszt. But Liszt (Jeux d'eau, St Francois marchand sur les flots) and Debussy (Réfléts dans l'eau, poisson d'or, Jardin sur la pluie) had great pieces that have to do with water too.
I mean Ravel's piano writing, especially in this era is pretty overtly Lisztian (he was actually not a very good pianist himself. I know he worked with his friend and virtuoso Ricardo Viñes on Miriors to make sure it was actually pianist and playable, I suspect the same is likely true for the Gaspard Suite as Viñes performed it's debut) Liszt became almost a proto-impressionist later in his life so the influence so those similarities are more than a coincidence. Though I believe Debussy was a Chopin fan boy, he and Ravel definitely influenced each other, with some of Debussy's famous more abstract late works being somewhat like what Ravel wrote on Miriors (though still definitely Debussy)
many years ago I heard a jazz pianist incorporate it into a solo...I asked him afterwards and he told me he was classically trained and knew how to play Ondine!
no matter how many times I listen to this, it still spellbinds me from start to finish. the "ocean" piece in Miroirs is a very close second to this, but I think it may be his highwater mark for piano piece.
Until today, oddly, I have never heard of this piece of beautiful music!! Why? Goodness knows - I'm over 60yrs old!!! But, it is absolutely beautiful, and beautifully played. But what gets me wondering (a few points), how does the composer think of such beauty? How does the pianist play such a wondrous piece of music so gorgeously and with such feeling? And, how did Ravel write his ideas down in the first place? All impossible tasks beautifully executed. Beautiful (under-used word).
Oh, I forgot to say how I came across this piece of music. My brother has been asked if he could play it for an event and he told me about it this morning. Hopefully the event date gives him chance for just a little bit of practice!!!
When the music stops, that is the moment when the Ondine (kind of mermaid without tail) ask him to marry her but he refuses and the Ondine starts to laugh and cry until she disappeared. That is a beautiful moment in Bertrand's book
Real listeners cares about prizes and awards. Look at all those award-wining composers who like to brag about their "achievements" on social media. Yet the listeners still stick to all-time classics.
3:53 as an avid jazz fans my ears perked up here. Sure enough, this is almost exactly the Coltrane changes just with minor chords as the tonics instead of major chords. The chord progression of this short section of Ondine is Bm - D7 - GM - Bb7 - Ebm (techically D#m but I hate that) - Gb7/F#7 The beginning of giant steps is Bmaj7 - D7 - Gmaj7 - Bb7 - Ebmaj7 Was Coltrane inspired by Ravel?
the syncretism went both ways. there are jazz-inspired melodies, harmonies, and rhythms in both of ravel's concerti, sonata for violin and cello, sonata for violin. likewise, the parisian influence on jazz appears both directly via bill evans, larry coryell, etc. and indirectly through gershwin, copland, etc. french impressionists, borrowing from russian nationalists, incorporated whole tone scales to an unprecedented degree, hence the cyclical progression that you hear in ravel (the right hand melody traces out a descending scale). there are similar passages with cyclical harmony a la coltrane changes in other impressionist works like ravel's la valse, debussy's l'isle joyeuse and they go back to earlier russian works by rimsky-korsakov, borodin, and mussorgsky, and glinka. coltrane may have come up with giant steps independently but there's no doubt that jazz and french impressionist harmony largely overlap
I'm sure of it! Most composers are inspired by others. Bernard Herrmann was inspired by Sibelius among others. Hell, EVERYONE was inspired in some way by the master G.O.A.T, Johann Sebastian BACH :)
Not to be dramatic, but I've always felt that everything that can be achieved with the piano- harmonically, melodically, artistically, technically- is contained in the glorious "Ondine".
it can't exactly be said as one of the hardest pieces. Since Ondine is "hard" like how La Campanella is "Hard". All of it's difficulty comes from just arpeggios and polyrhythm. If you're good at those then the song will be pretty easy for you. A better candidate is probably Scarbo like someone else said.
@@DeadlyBlaze while I would totally agree the technical difficulty could not match Scarbo in any sort, ondine deserves the credit to be recognized as early college repertoire due to how difficult it is to get a great recording. The notes in time are quite difficult to play but making the piece sound watery is down to so much experimentation and ingenuity by the performer that their own success is a reflection of true understanding of how the piano works
@@DeadlyBlaze Arpeggios are actually the easiest part, the main difficulty is the first two or so pages, which is extremely dense and difficult to execute.
@@SCRIABINIST The beginning is pretty easy for me, you just have to practice alot and consistently. Now that I'm done the piece I actually changed my opinion, now the hardest part at least for me is the part past the 2 minute mark, it's insanely hard to control and get a good melody out of.
Superlative Julian! You are surely telling the story as Ravel and you understood it even though here it is written in tones rather than words. Simply magnificently played!
To me the hardest part is 3:32 descending chords. It is so irregular and very quirky hand positions. I can never get it fast. Ondine is so monstrous that no part of it is manageable, except the one note part at the near end.
@@Ar1osssa obviously if you arent a professional pianist, you won't be able to play it as well as someone who is, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't play it at all. Some people just learn pieces for the fun of it.
@@Ar1osssa oh okay, yeah, nice work. From your first comment, I thought you were implying that you should be a professional before even attempting it. Just a misunderstanding, though. Sorry about that :)
@@ggrant4569 And like my teacher said it to me: "You should play as fast as you can hear and analyse what you play. If you can do that you will have success".
I've often heard how Ravel was not a very good player, but I recently did a research paper on him, and when he was displaying his talent to the creator of Daphnis et Chloe, Mikhail Fokine, he played this song for him. After reading that, it is hard to believe that Ravel was truly that sub-par as a pianist.
The piano notes cascade and shimmer like droplets falling from a fountain, while the trills and flourishes evoke the bubbling of a stream. The music is also punctuated by sudden, dramatic bursts of sound, like the crashing of a wave against a rocky shore.
Thanks for posting - Thibaudet is remarkable! One reason I enjoy this interpretation is because the "tres lent" section towards the end, just one pitch at a time, actually still has a tiny bit of momentum. Some pianists linger excessively in this passage, as if they need a coffee break. That's understandable, given the technical demands of the piece, but I don't believe Ravel intended this handful of bars to become glacially slow. (Same at the end of "Mother Goose," both kb & orch versions.)
@@samkubala2571 No. To be fair, I never really tried to-perhaps I should at some point. Probably the most difficult piece I can play right now is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
@@user-74652 The entire Pictures at an Exhibition? That's amazing tho. I have started 3 years ago piano, and I'm able to perform Beethoven's Pathetique sonata..., wondering if I will be able to play this piece soon...
I'm in no ways an expert on either piano or classical music. Listening to this immidiately made me think of dripping water and that whoever played this was an architect of a piano player.
Tell you what I do. I play the repeated chords with my fingers, not my wrist. First chord with just a normal finger movement, but keep your fingers at the bottom of the key. To play the repeated chord, push your fingers against the key bed and they should bounce up off the keys and restrike them. When you get the hang of it, make the playing of the two chords as one movement. You have to keep everything as close to the keys as you can, otherwise an accent occurs.
Relaxing the hand,keep hand close to the keys..use the middle (soft) pedal..Realize too, this is a very difficult piece..my Sons are both learning it..and both said the same thing about the aching hand!! There is a good tutorial on You Tube by Josh Wright on this piece..check it out!
There are certain sections where the piano almost sounds like someone playing the harp with the way all the notes come together and everything blends really makes me think of strumming a harp.
It’s sad, the Ondine got rejected and sank back into the water with despair. Those feelings sure do show through, though it is genderless. Maybe that’s why he rejected her/him, but he did fall in love with someone else.
Maurice Ravel was one of classical composers that I gravitated towards after studying classical music in college. I wonder if John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" was inspired by the section beginning @ 3:54?
Yeah it sounds very similar, I think its not a coincidence. Unfortunately I cannot prove it abd I dont know if someone already linked it musicologically speaking.
@@Maxbomb95 I read that Coltrane really liked Ravel as a composer, so one can wonder? In any event, composers are always inspired by others (I know I am).
@@PepperWilliams_songcoversyes! It is one of the first examples of the “Coltrane Change”. Look at the chords! 5-1, key change 5-1, key change 5-1. Same exact harmonic language, different context. Scriabin does similar stuff as well if you’re interested…
:) not that difficult "if you know how"... (and that might be the problem, to me, it took almost 30 years of playing to get into this piece. Most of the people give up during this time...)
Judorange1980 If you practice your scales and arpeggios regularly, these arpeggios will be quite easy compared to the beginning chords, the opening part not only needs to have the emotional effect but also evenness with the "tremolos'
Beautiful. I wish to learn this piece someday. But I guess for now I have to stick with Noctuelles :( (I actually really like Noctuelles and it's fun to play, but Ravel's water pieces are so much nicer, like this, Jeux d'Eau, and Une Barque Sur L'Ocean)
Une nuit d’été, selon le récit, par un beau clair de lune, tandis qu’il se promenait, l’astre, aperçu à travers les branches des arbres de la forêt, sembla tout-à-coup se rapprocher et se glisser comme une lueur éblouissante et pénétrante. Peu à peu, le croissant lunaire, se rapprochant toujours, parut une sorte de lit arqué, lumineux, flottant dans l’espace, et qui venait, venait vers la terre. Une femme d’une merveilleuse beauté était au repos, dormant sur ce lit céleste, la tête gracieusement inclinée, encadrée de l’un des bras, arrondi. Et la lune, ainsi transformée, sans grossir dans son rapprochement, descendait vers Les arbres écartaient doucement leurs branches pour lui livrer passage, et les oiseaux, réveillés, mais ne s’effrayant pas, saluèrent de leurs mélodieuses chansons, la belle endormi.
@tjtheplay the main point is the left hand is audible, yes in order to do that the right hand must be light ... but the melody is clearly audible in this case..... so no its not "too" loud...
So the time has come, the time when free RUclips became unusable to listen to classical music... 2 minutes ads between each piece, at a volume like 4-5 times the volume in the videos i listen to... what's wrong with yt?
@@ShutUpZewenThisIsNotBased ofc i am not against ads, I understand your consideration, but the fact is that today the service is becoming almost unusable. I used to listen to YT playlists while doing other things, but I can’t use the service anymore because between each piece starts a 2 minute ad, at a volume 2- 3 times louder than the soft classical music “standard” volume. Beyond that, I’m a creator myself, and I’m NOT earning more money even if ads frequency is tripled. I guess something is gonna happen in the near future!
@@ShutUpZewenThisIsNotBased i will probably, since there’s no other “ethical” way to fight today YT aggressive ads.. ad block punish above all artists, creators, and therefore it is not a viable solution for me!
Cleisthenes ofAthens Nope, it's C# major, aka Db Major - not a real good situation either way, but I think C# Major just avoids more accidentals (A natural instead of B double flat)
Evan Caplinger Actually, extreme sharp keys have more double accidentals - you have double sharps for the leading tones of the dominant, mediant, and submediant.
le gibet would be a great orchestral tone poem.Its milieu is the still desert.ecoute is the left hands beginning of melody.the beginning of Ondine is the water droplets on the window pane .the climax I think is the sprites plea repeated .The mortal's statement that he loves a mortal happens at tres lent .I have read the poem many times but I may be missing a very important part in th music that is in the text .the polytonal cmajAND E FLAT arpeggios IS HER CRAZED LAUGHING MADDENED RESPONSE.
Thanks for the upload . But this version is so much heavier and even a little plodding I find, compared to the weightlessn ethereal quality of Argerich's
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Especially in the pieces which actually have to do with water. "Ondine" (The water nymph), "Jeux d'eau" (Water games) and "Une barque sur l'Ocean" (A boat on the Ocean). Ravel was such a genius.
Truly. One of the only composers who grasps the world around him in its entirity - and seemingly other worlds unknown to us if you listen to his entire repertoire.
Kiavasch Farid true
@Zarathustra no. It is a kind of evolution of Liszt.
But Liszt (Jeux d'eau, St Francois marchand sur les flots) and Debussy (Réfléts dans l'eau, poisson d'or, Jardin sur la pluie) had great pieces that have to do with water too.
but it's really difficult to play
I mean Ravel's piano writing, especially in this era is pretty overtly Lisztian (he was actually not a very good pianist himself. I know he worked with his friend and virtuoso Ricardo Viñes on Miriors to make sure it was actually pianist and playable, I suspect the same is likely true for the Gaspard Suite as Viñes performed it's debut)
Liszt became almost a proto-impressionist later in his life so the influence so those similarities are more than a coincidence.
Though I believe Debussy was a Chopin fan boy, he and Ravel definitely influenced each other, with some of Debussy's famous more abstract late works being somewhat like what Ravel wrote on Miriors (though still definitely Debussy)
One of the most beautiful pieces ever to be written on piano.
The most beautiful, alongside maybe Ballade No 2 by Liszt
THEE most Beautiful!!
Is this piece about some water nymph trying to drown a person
@@mischacarlberg6631 unsospiro
@@Batman-hb9dh doesnt come close to ballade no. 2 honestly. But still beautiful
The cascading arpeggio section at 3:53 is just magical.
I like that
100% agree, especially the buildup to it
It's Coltrane's Giant Steps in a minor key
definitely my favorite part of the entire piece
many years ago I heard a jazz pianist incorporate it into a solo...I asked him afterwards and he told me he was classically trained and knew how to play Ondine!
4:42 hurts its so beautiful...
I agree, one of the best passages in piano
Even though the tempo of this piece is “Lent” which means ‘slow’, It’s unbelievable that it’s this fast.
What an absolute masterpiece. I don't understand how such beauty is possible. Makes me proud to be human for once.
Yes, what you said.
Yes🙏🏽
僕は人間ではないし、神様達のもの。人間のものにするな。クズが移るわ。
I love Ravel's fluidity! makes you think its water in musical form
The sheet music never ceases to amaze me.
1:14 Left hand + pedal masterfully played
How did he create that effect?
no matter how many times I listen to this, it still spellbinds me from start to finish.
the "ocean" piece in Miroirs is a very close second to this, but I think it may be his highwater mark for piano piece.
it's a magical piece, written from the hands of a Genius
Until today, oddly, I have never heard of this piece of beautiful music!! Why? Goodness knows - I'm over 60yrs old!!! But, it is absolutely beautiful, and beautifully played.
But what gets me wondering (a few points), how does the composer think of such beauty? How does the pianist play such a wondrous piece of music so gorgeously and with such feeling? And, how did Ravel write his ideas down in the first place? All impossible tasks beautifully executed. Beautiful (under-used word).
Oh, I forgot to say how I came across this piece of music. My brother has been asked if he could play it for an event and he told me about it this morning. Hopefully the event date gives him chance for just a little bit of practice!!!
So I'm curious.... how did your brothers recital go??
This piece is beyond sublime.. it's beauty coming from another world... how did Ravel manage to write this?
This has to be the or at least among the most beautiful pieces possible.
When the music stops, that is the moment when the Ondine (kind of mermaid without tail) ask him to marry her but he refuses and the Ondine starts to laugh and cry until she disappeared.
That is a beautiful moment in Bertrand's book
why does she laugh?
+Luka Puka the madness
When your disappointment and your sadness are so great that they frighten even you, and you hide behind laughter.
@@labemolmineur God that hit hard. How true.
What’s the name of the book??
And yet Ravel won no Prix de Rome.
Madness.
Real listeners cares about prizes and awards. Look at all those award-wining composers who like to brag about their "achievements" on social media. Yet the listeners still stick to all-time classics.
3:53 as an avid jazz fans my ears perked up here. Sure enough, this is almost exactly the Coltrane changes just with minor chords as the tonics instead of major chords.
The chord progression of this short section of Ondine is Bm - D7 - GM - Bb7 - Ebm (techically D#m but I hate that) - Gb7/F#7
The beginning of giant steps is Bmaj7 - D7 - Gmaj7 - Bb7 - Ebmaj7
Was Coltrane inspired by Ravel?
the syncretism went both ways. there are jazz-inspired melodies, harmonies, and rhythms in both of ravel's concerti, sonata for violin and cello, sonata for violin. likewise, the parisian influence on jazz appears both directly via bill evans, larry coryell, etc. and indirectly through gershwin, copland, etc. french impressionists, borrowing from russian nationalists, incorporated whole tone scales to an unprecedented degree, hence the cyclical progression that you hear in ravel (the right hand melody traces out a descending scale). there are similar passages with cyclical harmony a la coltrane changes in other impressionist works like ravel's la valse, debussy's l'isle joyeuse and they go back to earlier russian works by rimsky-korsakov, borodin, and mussorgsky, and glinka. coltrane may have come up with giant steps independently but there's no doubt that jazz and french impressionist harmony largely overlap
Probably
#m
I'm sure of it! Most composers are inspired by others. Bernard Herrmann was inspired by Sibelius among others. Hell, EVERYONE was inspired in some way by the master G.O.A.T, Johann Sebastian BACH :)
@@CalebRen thank you
even just barely knowing how sheet music works the sheet music is beautiful and kinda funny to think about that iconography producing this music
Right?? Sometimes music REALLY looks how it sounds haha
Not to be dramatic, but I've always felt that everything that can be achieved with the piano- harmonically, melodically, artistically, technically- is contained in the glorious "Ondine".
Agreed
Slightly incorrect, but oh well
@@TheModicaLiszt It just is so cosmic for me
@@TheModicaLiszt how can you be incorrect in something entirely subjective lmao
@@Alejandro-Valdes it's not subjective. not "everything that can be achieved with the piano" is within ondine.
Weird how noone mentions this is one of the hardest pieces ever written for piano.
not "ondine", but "scarbo", the third movement of the suite known as "gaspard de la nuit"
it can't exactly be said as one of the hardest pieces. Since Ondine is "hard" like how La Campanella is "Hard". All of it's difficulty comes from just arpeggios and polyrhythm. If you're good at those then the song will be pretty easy for you. A better candidate is probably Scarbo like someone else said.
@@DeadlyBlaze while I would totally agree the technical difficulty could not match Scarbo in any sort, ondine deserves the credit to be recognized as early college repertoire due to how difficult it is to get a great recording. The notes in time are quite difficult to play but making the piece sound watery is down to so much experimentation and ingenuity by the performer that their own success is a reflection of true understanding of how the piano works
@@DeadlyBlaze Arpeggios are actually the easiest part, the main difficulty is the first two or so pages, which is extremely dense and difficult to execute.
@@SCRIABINIST The beginning is pretty easy for me, you just have to practice alot and consistently. Now that I'm done the piece I actually changed my opinion, now the hardest part at least for me is the part past the 2 minute mark, it's insanely hard to control and get a good melody out of.
Breath taking. One of If not the greatest pieces of music ever written. Astonishing technicality and finesse
Speechless.
That buildup from 3:40 to 3:54 is perfect.
one of the best version i have heard!!!! perfect tempo bravo maestro
Superlative Julian! You are surely telling the story as Ravel and you understood it even though here it is written in tones rather than words. Simply magnificently played!
It's like that feeling of the gentle caress of a soft rain put into auditory form.
To me the hardest part is 3:32 descending chords. It is so irregular and very quirky hand positions. I can never get it fast. Ondine is so monstrous that no part of it is manageable, except the one note part at the near end.
If you isn't professional pianist, you can not play this good. So you should learn piano better to play that
@@Ar1osssa obviously if you arent a professional pianist, you won't be able to play it as well as someone who is, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't play it at all. Some people just learn pieces for the fun of it.
@@ggrant4569 Of course you can learn it. I'm not professional pianist but I'm learning and I try to learn this piece. 1st page is ready.
@@Ar1osssa oh okay, yeah, nice work. From your first comment, I thought you were implying that you should be a professional before even attempting it. Just a misunderstanding, though. Sorry about that :)
@@ggrant4569 And like my teacher said it to me: "You should play as fast as you can hear and analyse what you play. If you can do that you will have success".
In these days I discovered Ravel, and now I know he was a genius. Wonderful.
I've often heard how Ravel was not a very good player, but I recently did a research paper on him, and when he was displaying his talent to the creator of Daphnis et Chloe, Mikhail Fokine, he played this song for him. After reading that, it is hard to believe that Ravel was truly that sub-par as a pianist.
The piano notes cascade and shimmer like droplets falling from a fountain, while the trills and flourishes evoke the bubbling of a stream. The music is also punctuated by sudden, dramatic bursts of sound, like the crashing of a wave against a rocky shore.
Magical, surreal, extraordinary!
that ending is just sublime. Incredible piece.
Ravel was a madman for composing this. Couldnt believe my ears when I first heard it
Tbf, it’s just tons of Arpeggios tbh
@@samueltaylor9935no
Stunning performance!
3:53 Are there giant steps changes?
My grandma plays this all the time, I apsolutely love it
Enchanting and piercingly gorgeous piece! Makes a great pairing with Liszt’s “Les jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este” ⛲️
Funny how you say that, I am playing both for ltcl.
@@lanaritchie Might it be too similar? I think Liszt had well outgrown the Romantic era by 1877!
I melted at 3:54, aghh! So great.
there are many ways to write water but for a feverish dream about a water nymph, this is the best tempo
Thanks for posting - Thibaudet is remarkable! One reason I enjoy this interpretation is because the "tres lent" section towards the end, just one pitch at a time, actually still has a tiny bit of momentum. Some pianists linger excessively in this passage, as if they need a coffee break. That's understandable, given the technical demands of the piece, but I don't believe Ravel intended this handful of bars to become glacially slow. (Same at the end of "Mother Goose," both kb & orch versions.)
the poem ravel based it on is about a water nymph in a beautiful underground kingdom
isnt he brilliant, like whoaha
Such a beautiful piece, and yet I will never be able to play it.
You commented this 9 years ago, are you able to do the piece now?
@@samkubala2571 No. To be fair, I never really tried to-perhaps I should at some point. Probably the most difficult piece I can play right now is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
@@user-74652 wow im so surprised you responded after all these years!
@@user-74652 also that is still very impressive
@@user-74652 The entire Pictures at an Exhibition? That's amazing tho. I have started 3 years ago piano, and I'm able to perform Beethoven's Pathetique sonata..., wondering if I will be able to play this piece soon...
1:14 Oh my goodness.
This along Scriabin's 5th sonata are the pinnacle of modern music at the piano
This gave me chills
absolute masterpiece
He plays it very beautifully
gorgeous performance-my fave for the build is Argerich's performance--it may be water but that build is pure fire
I'm in no ways an expert on either piano or classical music. Listening to this immidiately made me think of dripping water and that whoever played this was an architect of a piano player.
Musical impressionism at its absolute best....Amazing
So beautiful!
This is otherworldly and epic!! Btw, has anyone counted all the notes in this?
This might be musical perfection as someone else said
listen Handel, for this is true water music
Handel is Water Closet music
@@thomasleguenne8817 😂😂😂💀
@tomatosoupmusic1 so true I think so too, it is like water with the sun reflecting in it like diamonds.
4:41 to 5:10 is my favorite piano passage ever
3:21-4:05 is my fav part of this piece 😄
This kind of reminds me of Un Sospiro by Liszt.
Ravel never married,hIs loneliness and sadness is apparent in this piece..even though he insisted "Music is my only Mistress"..
It's not apparent at all. Don't make superficial narratives.
@@Eorzat Hey Onizuka. I think this pleb has such an impression of the piece because of the slightly sad mood of the piece in some parts.
He was a musical genius. Gerald Finzi was happily married and wrote the most beautiful and touching music.
Its suspected that he was gay
@@neutral_puma845 I was about to comment this too lol.
That's what I like in his music! :)
I love this.
How could such a piece as unique as this be written, be penned? How did it happen? 😊
I can't even play the first measure of this piece without having an aching right hand. WHAT IS THE TECHNIQUE?!
Tell you what I do. I play the repeated chords with my fingers, not my wrist. First chord with just a normal finger movement, but keep your fingers at the bottom of the key. To play the repeated chord, push your fingers against the key bed and they should bounce up off the keys and restrike them. When you get the hang of it, make the playing of the two chords as one movement. You have to keep everything as close to the keys as you can, otherwise an accent occurs.
Relaxing the hand,keep hand close to the keys..use the middle (soft) pedal..Realize too, this is a very difficult piece..my Sons are both learning it..and both said the same thing about the aching hand!! There is a good tutorial on You Tube by Josh Wright on this piece..check it out!
Like a little charming fairy dancing on the lake
Superbe version!!
There are certain sections where the piano almost sounds like someone playing the harp with the way all the notes come together and everything blends really makes me think of strumming a harp.
my college piano professor said Gaspard was the most difficult piece he’s ever learned 🏅🎶✨
Very beautiful 🌹🌹
amazing!
.
this is one of the most incredible pieces ever written
Amazing
At 3:53, it's so beautiful.. The " La dièse " at 3:58, end of the mesure, sound like a dream...
Nearly jumped out of my couch in 5:50, its so beautiful...
It’s sad, the Ondine got rejected and sank back into the water with despair. Those feelings sure do show through, though it is genderless. Maybe that’s why he rejected her/him, but he did fall in love with someone else.
She would kill him...
You know she's basically a demon trying to kill people?
Maurice Ravel was one of classical composers that I gravitated towards after studying classical music in college. I wonder if John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" was inspired by the section beginning @ 3:54?
Yeah it sounds very similar, I think its not a coincidence. Unfortunately I cannot prove it abd I dont know if someone already linked it musicologically speaking.
@@Maxbomb95 I read that Coltrane really liked Ravel as a composer, so one can wonder? In any event, composers are always inspired by others (I know I am).
@@PepperWilliams_songcoversyes! It is one of the first examples of the “Coltrane Change”. Look at the chords! 5-1, key change 5-1, key change 5-1. Same exact harmonic language, different context. Scriabin does similar stuff as well if you’re interested…
What the hell ?!? How is that possible! 5:50
:) not that difficult "if you know how"... (and that might be the problem, to me, it took almost 30 years of playing to get into this piece. Most of the people give up during this time...)
the funny thing is that that part is actually one of the easier sections of this piece lol
So how is it that this can be played easily? trying to learn :)
Judorange1980 If you practice your scales and arpeggios regularly, these arpeggios will be quite easy compared to the beginning chords, the opening part not only needs to have the emotional effect but also evenness with the "tremolos'
@ on my 12th year and attempting this piece
Giant Steps 3:53
Beautiful. I wish to learn this piece someday. But I guess for now I have to stick with Noctuelles :( (I actually really like Noctuelles and it's fun to play, but Ravel's water pieces are so much nicer, like this, Jeux d'Eau, and Une Barque Sur L'Ocean)
My favorite
Une nuit d’été, selon le récit, par un beau clair de lune, tandis qu’il se promenait, l’astre, aperçu à travers les branches des arbres de la forêt, sembla tout-à-coup se rapprocher et se glisser comme une lueur éblouissante et pénétrante. Peu à peu, le croissant lunaire, se rapprochant toujours, parut une sorte de lit arqué, lumineux, flottant dans l’espace, et qui venait, venait vers la terre. Une femme d’une merveilleuse beauté était au repos, dormant sur ce lit céleste, la tête gracieusement inclinée, encadrée de l’un des bras, arrondi. Et la lune, ainsi transformée, sans grossir dans son rapprochement, descendait vers Les arbres écartaient doucement leurs branches pour lui livrer passage, et les oiseaux, réveillés, mais ne s’effrayant pas, saluèrent de leurs mélodieuses chansons, la belle endormi.
I’m proud to know you he existence of this i feel so intelligent
My favorite Gaspard. Performed with the same crystal clarity of his French forefathers, Samson Francois and Robert Casadesus.
@tjtheplay the main point is the left hand is audible, yes in order to do that the right hand must be light ... but the melody is clearly audible in this case..... so no its not "too" loud...
讚。謝謝您。
Am I the only one who nearly loses it at 1:41?
"Gaspard de la Nuit. Affectinatley known as "Gas"
3:53 Giant Steps but it's in minor
So the time has come, the time when free RUclips became unusable to listen to classical music... 2 minutes ads between each piece, at a volume like 4-5 times the volume in the videos i listen to... what's wrong with yt?
May I remind you that those ads are the reason why you're listening to this recording for free?
@@ShutUpZewenThisIsNotBased ofc i am not against ads, I understand your consideration, but the fact is that today the service is becoming almost unusable. I used to listen to YT playlists while doing other things, but I can’t use the service anymore because between each piece starts a 2 minute ad, at a volume 2- 3 times louder than the soft classical music “standard” volume. Beyond that, I’m a creator myself, and I’m NOT earning more money even if ads frequency is tripled. I guess something is gonna happen in the near future!
@@bruno.virgilio Then pay for youtube premium. These are commercial recordings.
@@ShutUpZewenThisIsNotBased i will probably, since there’s no other “ethical” way to fight today YT aggressive ads.. ad block punish above all artists, creators, and therefore it is not a viable solution for me!
@@bruno.virgilio good
Maravilloso
The ONEDIN Line.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 YUH THIS SHI FIRE
Wowwwwww........
Is no one else wondering why, in the name of all that is holy, are there 7 sharps!?
Because Ravel.
Otherwise it would have loads of flats - and sharps are way cooler
Cleisthenes ofAthens
Nope, it's C# major, aka Db Major - not a real good situation either way, but I think C# Major just avoids more accidentals (A natural instead of B double flat)
Yeah of course, I didn't read the key signature properly.
Evan Caplinger Actually, extreme sharp keys have more double accidentals - you have double sharps for the leading tones of the dominant, mediant, and submediant.
le gibet would be a great orchestral tone poem.Its milieu is the still desert.ecoute is the left hands beginning of melody.the beginning of Ondine is the water droplets on the window pane .the climax I think is the sprites plea repeated .The mortal's statement that he loves a mortal happens at tres lent .I have read the poem many times but I may be missing a very important part in th music that is in the text .the polytonal cmajAND E FLAT arpeggios IS HER CRAZED LAUGHING MADDENED RESPONSE.
This song to is an auditory version of what life you'll be like soon after death. Amazing
how does one compose like this?
Close your eyes and let yourself fluctuate away. . .
Aren’t they playing 0:25 and that incorrectly cause you’re meant to alternate differently? lol
3:50 Giant Steps
Thanks for the upload . But this version is so much heavier and even a little plodding I find, compared to the weightlessn ethereal quality of Argerich's
We all love Martha. But it wouldn't be too far off the mark to say that she hardly ever met a 'lent' tempo marking she didn't choose to ignore! 😆😆😆
4:26 - 4:40
How did he play those chords so beautifully? They dont feel real
When I hear the first three notes at 05:28 I always think of the Game of Thrones theme lol