Ravel's Scarbo on the organ? A musical experiment.

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 43

  • @organboi
    @organboi 2 года назад +15

    Ravel would be utterly shocked in awe. Bravo. Obviously a real pianist first. No one would ever dare to take this on unless a virtuoso pianist. But the organ playing is even more astounding. Unbelievable. And memorized. With creative amazing registrations. And on an organ he doesn't play regularly.. this is beyond mind blowing. Taking the signature left hand 16th note passages with the pedal. I have no words. Stunning achievement. The only reason I came across this video is because I was thinking of maybe transcribing Scarbo myself, but now I see there is no need. It's been done tremendously well already.

  • @Fanchen
    @Fanchen 2 года назад +4

    I love all the color changes, and my jaw dropped from that footwork holy cow.

  • @June_Hee
    @June_Hee 6 лет назад +12

    The footwork is absolutely superb!

  • @Zdrange03
    @Zdrange03 6 лет назад +11

    Speechless! I didn't know scarbo had so much orchestrability into it!

    • @preludio423
      @preludio423 4 года назад +1

      Ravel actually wanted to make an orchestral transcription of Scarbo, but he never did it. I’m sad now

    • @leonlinton634
      @leonlinton634 4 года назад +1

      @@preludio423 I don't think that's true.
      Ravel always said that Gaspard de la Nuit was written to show colours and "orchestration" in the piano without the need of an actual orchestra. Anyways, Marius Constant transcribed the piece for orchestra rather well.

  • @jamesatherton4410
    @jamesatherton4410 2 года назад +1

    Absolutely astonishing!!! Organ and performer just breathtaking. And your look to the camera at the end 😂 Bravo!!!

  • @amamaia01
    @amamaia01 8 месяцев назад +1

    Its impresionant how you orchestrated this master piece with your organ!!!! Im very impressend. Congratulations from Spain.

  • @Balakirev_
    @Balakirev_ 4 года назад +3

    My god.. Greatest thing I ever saw.

  • @richardharrold9736
    @richardharrold9736 7 лет назад +3

    Utterly electrifying, on what must be one of the most stupendously exciting organs in the world.

  • @Suoyung
    @Suoyung 7 лет назад +16

    Wow! Amazing!
    I think Le Gibet would be the most amazing from this suite on organ. But I didn't find it, only ondine.

    • @ryankennedy3109
      @ryankennedy3109  7 лет назад +6

      Thanks Suoyung! Actually, I recorded Le Gibet in the same session, but the playing wasn't as good and there was no time for a retake, so had to scrap it. I always perform it as part of the set though, you're right in that it's the most successful transcription of the set!

    • @Suoyung
      @Suoyung 7 лет назад +3

      Ryan Kennedy oh, could you then send me with pm the recording of le gibet, if you don't want to upload ut on youtube? I am really curious and excited about how it would sound on organ!

  • @franklinshouse8719
    @franklinshouse8719 Год назад

    Wonderful playing!! Superb!

  • @johnlofthouse6159
    @johnlofthouse6159 6 лет назад +3

    Bravo Ryan! Truly superb!

  • @cirosca2
    @cirosca2 6 лет назад +1

    Un "mostro" di bravura! Dimostra una padronanza incredibile dello strumento e lo padroneggia con l'esperienza di un "musicista" con 50 anni di esperienza. A mio avviso nessuno forse potrebbe far di meglio con questo strumento. Complimenti al "maestro-musicista", ai genitori e al nonno che ha saputo e voluto indirizzarlo e avviarlo per fargli completare quella che è stata la sua aspirazione e passione.

  • @Arjunai
    @Arjunai 6 лет назад +3

    It's like a marvel and revelation ...

  • @sobakakustovsky3909
    @sobakakustovsky3909 4 года назад +1

    How cool is that!

  • @Qu0thTheRaven
    @Qu0thTheRaven 10 месяцев назад

    very interesting and other worldly

  • @anthonygermana3692
    @anthonygermana3692 7 лет назад +4

    Amazing !

    • @cirosca2
      @cirosca2 6 лет назад

      Un "mostro" di bravura! Dimostra una padronanza incredibile dello strumento e lo padroneggia con l'esperienza di un "musicista" con 50 anni di esperienza. A mio avviso nessuno forse potrebbe far di meglio con questo strumento. Complimenti al "maestro-musicista", ai genitori e al nonno che ha saputo e voluto indirizzarlo e avviarlo per fargli completare quella che è stata la sua aspirazione e passione.

  • @LittleCatBead
    @LittleCatBead 4 года назад +2

    HELL YES!

  • @h.denisovan8900
    @h.denisovan8900 11 месяцев назад +1

    When "M." de la Nuit "inspired" Aloysius Bertrand, perhaps he had thought of an organ to set them to music..... At least, for these two pieces.
    Would it be possible to do the same with a piece with Le Gibet's tempo ?

  • @scottguo1222
    @scottguo1222 4 года назад +1

    It’s freaky good omg

  • @Turanga1i1a
    @Turanga1i1a 4 года назад +4

    It's hard enough to play this on piano! Four keyboard tiers and pedals?! How even?!

  • @ericfraiture8597
    @ericfraiture8597 7 лет назад

    Fascinating !

  • @deviantconnor5262
    @deviantconnor5262 3 года назад +3

    RUclips recommended me this lmao, great video tho

  • @Highinsight7
    @Highinsight7 4 года назад +2

    I play this on the piano... I'm also a very serious oragnist as well... I THINK... if I didn't know the score sooo well... I'd PROBABLY think this was pretty cool... my bias is getting in the way of my actual judgement... but... ... I thin LISZT would LOVE IT!

    • @ryankennedy3109
      @ryankennedy3109  4 года назад +3

      Absolutely, this is the danger of transcribing a very well known piece. It's also why I'm uneasy about Marius Constant's transcription for orchestra. It's brilliant, but sounds too "different," or something like that. Music is very personal.

    • @Highinsight7
      @Highinsight7 4 года назад +1

      @@ryankennedy3109 Don't get me wrong... I LOVE your stuff!!!!

    • @organboi
      @organboi 2 года назад +1

      Oh come on. I too know this piece well and have been working on it lately. And this transcription is a complete success on all levels. What were you expecting? What would be your idea of Scarbo on organ? He seems to have nailed everything Ravel wrote. Maybe not certain pp dynamics, but that's his choice at the moment. He even said it is an experiment. No comment on the absolutely astonishing pedal work?

    • @organboi
      @organboi 2 года назад +1

      @@ryankennedy3109 Yours is much better than the Constant orchestration. No comparison. Orchestras can't play keyboard passages, but an organ can.

  • @danielmkubacki
    @danielmkubacki 7 лет назад +1

    WOW!

  • @andrepapillon
    @andrepapillon 7 лет назад +2

    Stunning !!! Your own transcription ?

  • @willlaw8397
    @willlaw8397 7 месяцев назад

    Incredible- not sure about playing it in a church though! Bit too dark and mischievous for that 😂😂

  • @organboi
    @organboi 2 года назад

    Is the pedal passage at measure 80 for show only? It's fantastic, but what is the musical reasoning behind this doubling? If there is one. It certainly increases the volume and fullness.

  • @BenjaminOrthodox
    @BenjaminOrthodox 3 года назад +2

    Interesting ahah

  • @OrbiliusMagister
    @OrbiliusMagister 5 лет назад

    Those shoes, the crazy footwork and the outlandish transcription remind me of Cameron Carpenter. Am I mistaken?

    • @richardharrold9736
      @richardharrold9736 11 месяцев назад

      He's vastly more musical than Carpenter. This lad deploys tremendous virtuosity in the service of the music, for CC the display of virtuosity is the end in and of itself, and hell mend the musicality or how good it sounds tonally.

  • @tommimuller8602
    @tommimuller8602 4 года назад

    The music of a demon inside a church... Ironic, but superb performance!!

    • @lczq6737
      @lczq6737 3 года назад

      Well now that you mention it. I don’t know why i like the idea

    • @organboi
      @organboi 2 года назад +2

      Scarbo is not a demon. It's a gremlin. A little creature that flits about quietly in the night. Nowhere does the poem denote him as an evil being. Nor does he hurt anyone. Ravel would never have written such exalted music about a "demon."

    • @alphonsebich7727
      @alphonsebich7727 Год назад

      @organboi Yes, but the story want that A.Bertrand simply published the poem collection that Gaspard forgot after a discussion.
      Then Gaspard turns out to be the devil so technically... the poem is written by a demon hahaa, isn't it even worse than a poem that mention one ?