This is a terrifying monumental performance. He’s a force of nature in this piece. Everyone else seems tame compared to this.

He owns this piece - no one will ever do it better - the sounds he produces are magical.

I heard Pogorelich play Gaspard de la Nuit at the Sydney Opera House in the early 1980s. That night, he revealed an Aladdin's Cave of such musical wonders to the audience, that no one left the Concert Hall as they had first arrived. Following the death of his wife, a certain "distortion" set in to see his playing change, that he suffered even further through the criticisms of detractors who as always, knew no better. The two performances that I attended may well be the greatest experiences of my musical life. Take him or leave him, one thing you can never do, is forget him. He is, as was the dancer Rudolf Nureyev, an artist of the highest order, who sprays his work with his blood.

Perhaps the true highlight in Pogorelich´s career. His 1983 Gaspard de la Nuit is one of the best performances ever.

My piano professor asked me to search about this pianist who had “perfect hand position”, and I can confirm she was right about saying that, I’m amazed at how incredible his hands are wow

This is Pogorelich at his best. His most illuminating and glittering. And the technique is staggering.

Martha Argerich said: He's a Genius. I agree.

Pogorelich, simply the best one playing Gaspard de la Nuit.

I saw him do this live in 1985 in Los Angeles and I'm still not over it. I don't think anyone has ever played it better.

Let us be honest Ravel never pretended that he could play this composition himself to the degree of perfection that is needed.

Probably among the best rendition of this incredible piece…

This live performance is staggering in its beauty and technical accomplishment. For me, Pogorelich was the greatest pianist of the last part of the 20th Century; no other could match the sheer beauty of his tone and tonal palette of colors, coupled to the most vivid and fantastic imagination of practically any musician who ever lived; many of his performances have never been equaled, happily available on KZfaq for all to see and hear. He is the Callas, Furtwangler, and du Pre of the piano; I adore him.

This gaspard is the best on my opinion ...all absurd difficulties solved and a clear touch...amazing 👏

Sans doute une de mes oeuvres préférée de Ravel! quelle performance! quelle interprétation époustouflante!

the best recording of Gaspard. There will be never a better scarbo.

Awesome, very rich, delightful for a complex piano master piece that was not even created for "human anatomy".

Fascinantno majstorstvo s mnogo sadrzaja.

Звук стеклянный, потрясающее исполнение. Величайший пианист второй половины 20 века после Горовица и Циффры, гений чистоты и изысканности. Хорошо, что он немного записал, все, что он сделал на звукозаписи, это шедевры.

i think most people don't realize what is going on here ... if they did this would be minimally 240 Million viewers. Oh well .. ...

3:44-4:36 i can't count how many times i heard this part and i don't get tired of it. The chords and then the arpeggios in the end is just beautiful. This is probably my favorite moment in classical music. And Pogorelichs version, is the best in my opinion.

Ivo Pogorelich é um pianista que nos transporta para outros mundos através da música!

Unglaublich nachempfunden, grossartig im Ausdruck! Nass die Ondine, erschütternd Le Gibet, kafkaesk das Scarbo.

Yes, his playing has become strange nowadays... but for me, this is undoubtedly the BEST "Scarbo" I have ever heard! His pacing and dynamics are impeccable, his very careful attention to detail, within a well thought-out and constructed overall arch is spectacular, magnificent really! And this is as well the right mood for "Scarbo!" Iconic! (Btw, thank you for uploading this: it is priceless!)

Genijalna izvedba i veličanstven umjetnik!😀😀

His hands are so firm and precise

We are truly spoiled with the quality of today’s recording equipment

Das macht ihm niemand nach, genial!

He is one of my favorites and his interpretation is breathtaking! I am so use to hearing this played faster that I am hearing new things LOL, and that is another gift, so much involved with this piece! Love too, Martha Agerich and her versions!

Wow, wow, wow. I have ascended!. This is a monumental work and the performance is sheer genius - how Pogorelich executes such clear melodies lines amongst an armagedon of arpeggiated melodies, paints silky smooth textures between seismic rhythmic interludes is breathtaking.

Fantastic!! For the first time I understand that the third movement can match the first.

Divine playing - no interpretation is only close to this one!

No doubt this is Pogorelich at his best. You will rarely find a better rendition (Tharaud?) of the Ondine, a piece I love so much. Pogo has a fantastic piano sound, poetic and powerful at the same time. And though sometimes quirky, have always thought that when he is good, he is extremely good. Love his Ravel. As his Scarlatti, as well. 🙄😔❤️💎👌

Although he is not the pianist he used to be, Pogorelich's Gaspard de la Nuit counts among the best Ravel there is. His godmother Martha Argerich plays also a very good one, and her Ravel Piano Concert is a masterwork. 🎶🎵🆗👍💙

He subbed for Martha Argerich at Cadaques in 1983 and played this. Magnificent.

I love Progerilich's phrasing in this piece.

Thanks for this wonderful performance of this magical music!

Scarbo should be both a bit playful but also quite threatening. Mr. Pogorelich spectacularly succeeds in conveying these essential aspects of the piece (really, it must be confessed, better than any other rendition I've yet heard).

He plays "Le Gibet" much more forcefully than I've ever heard it played before, and this has the effect of increasing the positive dread we feel when we listen to it. So I suspect even so exacting an artist as Maurice Ravel would have approved.

это просто гениально и феерично

a very excellent demonstration of his unique finger skill

Besides being a brilliant pianist himself he had some very good coaching from his wife Alice Kezeradze.

I guess this is one of thosee pieces where you get in such an extasy that you litererary would have expected the pianist stop playing and start breaking the piano with some hammer or so

Ravel is a god in music writing

Ugh so fucking stunning

There was some kind of peak in January 1983. No doubt this epic will not repeat.

Extasiada, embrujada por sus manos y emocionada por su sensibilidad! Impresionante!

The best ...magic

Scarey difficult,especially the Scarbo!

Woooow.

Večeras ga je svirao u Zagrebu na koncertu.

Exellent performance!🤍

Genius

진짜너무아름답다

Ma, someone hid an entire orchestra in my piano.

That "Scarbo" is insane! Apart from the inhuman technical command, however, very interesting interpretation rhythmically and melodically. I understand some people prefer a lighter touch; I like it too, up to a point. But for me "Scarbo" must be first and most of all sinister and even savage. Pogorelich delivers like few others (Argerich and Michelangeli are not among them).

サントリーホールで聴きました 髪型から推測すると、たぶんこの動画と同じ時期です 出だしの静謐さにおいて、ミケランジェリを凌ぐと感じました

Ok, only one should remember how funny Scarbo is, it's not all a bout force. Scarbo is terrifying, but also smiling.

Amazing!

Maurice Ravel wrote three piano solos on themes from “Gaspard de la nuit”, which is considered one of the most difficult pieces of the entire piano repertoire.

15:07 I think I can hear someone else also playing this piece somewhere in the video

Poetry in keys

Gaspard de la nuit-ta miniatura muzyczna jest jakby stworzona dla Ivo Pogorelica bo muzyka Ravela wymaga takiej biegłości i brawury wykonawczej.Dziękuję

This wonderful performance was until recently on KZfaq as three separate items - with much better audio - this welcome version has very poor, distorted sound. Can the others be found or can the sound quality be improved??

Chills

6:17 Bach Art of The Fugue? :)

On écrit : "Gaspard de la nuit" ( Gaspard, avec un d).

Gaspard de la nuit Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand

Wonderful video. Date, please?

noice

Roger Waters: Please, add where? and when? Thank you!

Yes.I am proud that he was born in Belgrade...strange .isn't it?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f6eCa8Wh26jSdp8.html In questo video parliamo di questo gioiellino di Ravel ispirato all’omonimo Gaspard de la Nuit di Aloysius Bertrand. Vedremo come Bertrand ha rubato questa raccolta di poemi al Diavolo in persona👹, di come la critica lo abbia sempre snobbato e come Ravel con questo capolavoro abbia contribuito alla sua rivalutazione alla faccia dei critici d’arte ❤️

Pogorelic had a rather short prime, during which his playing was unique and unequaled. I believe he was already deteriorating before the death of his wife. I heard him in the early 90s and the spark was replaced by eccentricity

putz zerou a performance

Scarbo sounds like it is ff throughout the piece. Is it the recording or him?

故 倉橋由美子の随筆から試聴

It is from Japan?

Oh god where are the dynamics in Scarbo. He’s just hammering everything out.

Why is he playing the introduction incorrectly? Weird rhythms, and wrong notes?

Maybe its the poor audio but to me, he is almost no better than, just "playing the notes"

He plays Ravel as you'd play Liszt... I prefer from far the rendition of Martha Argerich who has much better understood the spirit and finesse of Ravel

He lacks the delicacy for French music of this period.

Gaspard needs more sophistication. His tempo is so fast and dynamics is loud. For me Yuja Wang plays Gaspard more with light and shade.

is there a recent recording of him playing this piece? i found it: MfQX4s7Pb_U