Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (Full)

Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (Full)
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Hope you enjoy this performance of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit by M.I.

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[Rousseau]

Ravel. Gaspard de la nuit. One of the giants of the piano repertoire, being written only in 1908, it's crazy to think there are still approximately 50 people alive today that were born before this amazing work of art existed.

“Listen! Do you know what you hear? Handfuls of rain that I've thrown against your window, thrown by me, Ondine, spirit of the water.” The first of three piano compositions based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand, Ondine tells the dream-like story of a nymph singing to lure an outsider into her underwater kingdom. Both seductive and lethal, Ondine represents the allure of that whose beauty and promise belies a darker nature, much like the siren singing the lonely sailor to his watery grave. Ravel has captured this in glittering, enchanting piano arpeggios, which (much like Ondine herself) are so difficult that, when this piece was composed, it extended the classical piano technique.

“What is this uneasy sound in the dusk? Is it the gasp of the winter wind, or did the hanged man on the gallows give out a sigh?” Le Gibet. The middle composition in Ravel’s Bertrand poems triptych, it slices the opus in two, conjuring an image of a lone body hanging on the gallows. Meanwhile, a bell tolls from inside the walls of a far-off city, creating the deathly atmosphere that surrounds the observer. What is exceptional about this composition is that Ravel repeats the Bb octave ostinato throughout the whole piece, imitating the tolling of the bell that so sombrely characterizes the scene.

“Now blue and transparent as candlewax, his face as pale as the molten drippings and into the dark he's gone…” The final composition in Ravel’s settings of Bertrand’s poems, Scarbo recalls the nightmarish mischief of the eponymous goblin. The sly fiend makes pirouettes, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. Accordingly, the piano part requires acrobatic athleticism, marking the high point in technical difficulty in the entire set. Ravel wrote that this composition "has been the very devil to write, which is only reasonable since He is the author of the poems.”

Hope you enjoy this finally-released full performance of Gaspard de la nuit, performed by the amazing M.I. Only 9 days left until Christmas, I hope you're all having a great holiday season ♥

[CroissantCoverage-umxj]

Rousseau is known for his beginner-friendly piano tutorials, such as this one.

[silenceisamask]

This piece is literally insanely difficult. I have so much respect for you for learning this and playing with such mastery

[smewo]

i am pissed... so few views on such great video... thats really painful to see that this amazing and extremely hard piece being performed for youtube auduience and major part of this auduience cant appreciate this piece. BIG thanks to rousseau channel for uploading this. thank you. :)

[Jath]

This video dramatically changed the rest of my life. Thanks to you, and thanks to Ravel.

[allmusic]

Le Gibet is so overlooked but it’s a piece of sheer beauty. Listen through it a few times and close your eyes and just think about it. It’s beautiful tension is what brings you its revealing message.

[amys]

He really just gonna flex on us like that huh

[achoo]

how did ravel even come up with this wtf

[thecorknicehero]

The double note scales in major seconds starting on 19:36 are just notoriously challenging to execute, just don’t judge this because it’s absolutely way harder than it looks. Double note scaling is common in thirds, forths and fifths but in seconds, the seconds double note scales require rapid changes in finger positioning which can feel so odd that it’s so much easier to become tense and loose clarity. Many people say that double note scaling in major seconds can even scare off the most accomplished pianists in the world. But that’s not the only trick, maintaining the ppp dynamic simultaneously as well as combining the fast arpeggios in triplets can make it even more diabolically complicated to manage proper hand independence which is considered a pinnacle of piano technical focus and expression, as much as Liszt would intend.

[sagekrysiak]

WOW—fantastic piece, but I was caught a little bit off guard because I listen to your performance of Liebesleid so often (usually when going to sleep) which contains the intro to this piece right at the credits of the video, and I'm so used to it that I was confused 😂

[Carlosmltr]

Le Gibet sounds like the piano Voice was electronically edited to a more "bell-like" sound

[isaackim]

Makes Rachmaninoff and Moonlight 3 look like a joke

[PiercingSight]

I've never heard the first to parts of this.

It's now one of my favorite piano pieces of all time, right behind Clair De Lune.

[venahtmusic]

It's crazy how that Bb repetition plays throughout the entirity of Le gibet. I read it's supposed to represent a funeral bell which is brilliant.

[MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Wow, this stunning and really well done. I've heard grade 9 piano, but this must be grade 100.

[geneosis]

I just wanted to say, thank you. You are a very talented pianist.

[coregamegd]

You know your in for some shit when the notes turn red.

Absolutely incredible, just mind blowing that this piece is physically possible and you dropped it like nothing. Keeo up the insane work.

[buddhawithgroupies]

Excellent work and very clever with the lights. I’ve not seen anything quite like this. Also, this is a beautiful piece by Ravel. Bravo!

[thoughte]

I don't understand why Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 has almost 10 times more views than this video, even tough this is such an amazing piece too, not as popular I guess?

[TheCorkNiceHero]

14:42 the repeated notes here using both hands are claimed to be one of the most difficult techniques to ever master according to a website in Google. Balancing between emotional depth and the technique itself can make it more difficult to play.