Ravel : Gaspard de la Nuit (Beatrice Rana)

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Comments from the score (RayBird) :
Published in 1909 Gaspard de la Nuit is
considered to be the most beautiful, masterly and challenging of all Ravel’s œuvre for piano.
The poet Aloysius Bertrand(1807- 1841), alchemist of irony and speech, whose only
collection, Gaspard de la Nuit had just been reedited in 1908 by the Mercure de
France, seduced Ravel, who immediately and dramatically changed his pianistic style: from the infantile Mother Goose
(1908) to the fantastic, from
extreme simplicity to extreme virtuosity, and to
transpose as if for a wager the spell of prose poetry into the wizardry of the keyboard.
Ravel confided that he wished to compose a work of transcendental virtuosity even more difficult than Balakirev’s Islamey.
The poems themselves are expressed with
strong creative imagination, and explore fantasies of medieval Europe - each
prefaced by a short literary
quotation.
The name "Gaspard" is derived from “Kaspur” or indeed “Casper”, the
biblical treasurer of the three wise men.
Of the work, Ravel himself
said: "Gaspard has been a devil in coming, but that is only logical since it was he who is the author of the poems.
My ambition is to say with notes what a poet expresses with words.”
This performance was recorded live during the 2013 edition of the Van Cliburn piano competition. Beatrice Rana gives us a dark and profound listening experience. An interpretation that I consider to be very musical in first place
0:00 I. Ondine
6:36 II. Le gibet
12:53 III. Scarbo

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@Schubertd960 2 ай бұрын

This is quite possibly the greatest Ondine recording I have come across. What a gifted pianist.

@kotopec4978 2 жыл бұрын

This is ultimate performance of Gaspar, no doubt So much character, chaotic behaviour and extreme sound control, just MAaaaaaaaaaaAaaa

@MarcelHuguenin 3 жыл бұрын

Beatrice Rana is Beatrice Rana and is an exceptional pianist and artist. What a great performance! Thank you Beatrice, I really hope to be able to hear you live one day!

@prokastinatore 3 жыл бұрын

Beatrice Rana is the legal heritage of Aturo Benedetti Michelangeli! Ivo Pogorelich once set a "new standard" in his generation and played breathtaking in the 1980th. Martha Argerich, maybe the most lyrical version wich is available . And now, 2021 this genius female Italian musician, who played like she 'd be the composer himself. Not selfish, straight and not sentimental but moreover clear, tough, straight and brilliant. Wow! I explored her existence 4 days ago. She comes maybe from another planet. Not from this globe. I heard her Goldberg-Variations, her Bach d-minor- concerto. The Bach partita in b+ maj. Chopin sonata Nr.2. All Chopin Scherzi. Schumann-piano concerto. His "etudes symphonique". Mozart. The best Prokoviev-piano concerto c-maj. Nr. 3- performance after Vladimir Krainjev. Mozart. Clementi. I don't find words for what she's in my mind! She's the biggest game changer in our new century. So matured. So wise. So breathtaking. Always knowing exactly the scores. No matter what she's playing. "Trois movements de Petruchka" or whatever. I cannot remember just one "modern" pianist doing exactly always the opposite of what als the young and famous pianists may ever perform. Beatrice Rana set a new idea of "tempo". What means now "presto", what "adagio"? "Time" is something what may be "endless"....I can recommend also listening to her "Miroirs" of Maurice Ravel. Does anybody know if she played also "Le Tombeau de Couperin"? Thank you to the Lord (...or whoever is giving guidance to mankind) for giving me Beatrice Rana! Never mind that a artist like her might be possible in our crazy times we living in nowadays. Thank you so much for uploading this performance! BTW: does anybody know where that score comes from? ( I learned the "Gaspard" long time ago with the score of Edition Durand).

@lucas__machado 3 жыл бұрын

Hi ! Thank you for your message, the score is from the Ray Alston edition that I found on Imslp :)

@ericsabourin7661 3 жыл бұрын

She does justice to Gaspard de la nuit, but listen to Lucas DEBARGUE ...in this work... He sets the current standard just like Eric Lu, Kate Liu, George Li, Mao Fujita set now the standard of performance to achieve amongst the new generation of fabulous artists unjustly silenced by being qualified non-essential in this pandemic hysteria...Hélas.

@PlanetOfTheApes999 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she's probably the best pianist of the 21st century. She's even better than Arcadi Volodos.

@thepianocornertpc Жыл бұрын

@@ericsabourin7661 None of the pianists you mentioned are up to her level.She's truly exeptionale. There is no such a thing as "standard". What's that supposed to mean anyway.

@thepianocornertpc Жыл бұрын

@@PlanetOfTheApes999 Why? For what reasons exactly is she better than Volodos? Please be specific.

@pazzicuriosi6660 2 жыл бұрын

Assolutamente inarrivabile per controllo, potenza e musicalità! Grazie mille! Tommaso

@christianvennemann9008 Жыл бұрын

3:48 Her sustaining of that low B during the climax of Ondine is out-of-this-world fantastic! I wish more pianists would create that effect. It sounds like a nuclear bomb being detonated deep underwater! 💜🙌🏾

@bachopinbee5991 2 жыл бұрын

6:20-6:30 you could hear her toying with the damper pedal....that's fascinating to hear

@antoniocoppola7644 2 жыл бұрын

Sotto le sue dita è come se ascoltassi questo diabolico pezzo per la prima volta.

@AlfieTheProducer Ай бұрын

Goosebumps (and I ain’t talkin’ Travis Scott)

@bosu37 2 жыл бұрын

16:25 That decrescendo was superhuman. Also love the way she handles the climax of Ondine, keeping the accent on the lower note of the octave gives it a clarity and musicality that seems rarely heard.

@christianvennemann9008 Жыл бұрын

Her sustaining of that low B during the climax of Ondine was out-of-this-world fantastic! I wish more pianists would create that effect. It adds even more to the dark, ethereal, fantastical aspects of Ondine and gives off the impression of treading into darker, more murky waters. 💜🙌🏾 My only regret is that I've just now discovered this monumental performance

@daniele8716 3 ай бұрын

@@christianvennemann9008it really is a shame for the jurors of the Van Cliburn competition to put her in second place. She was clearly superior to the winner in all aspects, even technically (if by technique one also means control of sonorities and not just 'speed & power'). Has a woman ever won the Cliburn, by the way?

@WinrichNaujoks 3 жыл бұрын

So she was only 20 when she played this? Unbelievable. There can't be many challenges left after this.

@GICM 2 жыл бұрын

depends on what else she decides to play

@wllm4785 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice interpretation.

@jere3558 3 жыл бұрын

I really do wonder, how did these composers came up with this?

@PlanetOfTheApes999 3 жыл бұрын

The best recording of this piece by far.

@lucas__machado 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite as well!! A beautiful Tone! I also really enjoy Eric Heidsick's recording of this piece if you want to take a listen 😉

@daniele8716 3 ай бұрын

@@lucas__machadoWell, there are various miracolous live recordings by ABM that I doubt will ever be surpassed. The live radio rec for BBC in particular is astonishing, and so is the live in Arezzo a few years later. But this is a very nice Gaspard too, especially Scarbo (but also Ondine). Richter recorded Le Gibet only and it has a deep and tragic tone, hardly matched by other pianists. Cortot too had immense imagination (but not enough fingers...) in this piece. Rana could not rival the tonal refinement and beautiful cantabile of a Michelangeli nor the philosophical, almost alchemical approach of a Richter. But she still was so young when she recorded this! And she's been constantly growing after that in terms of musicality. She definitely is one of the more gifted young artists around, perhaps the best of her whole generation.

@lucas__machado 3 ай бұрын

@daniele8716 I back you here. ABM was wonderful in this piece (and in everything he played actually). I remember one of his live recordings in Tokyo in which he played this wonderfully !

@CorradoLoffredi 9 ай бұрын

Astonishing!!! What edition is she playing? Not Durand, obviously.

@aram285 3 жыл бұрын

who engraved this? why did they engrave it like this? its awful

@lucas__machado 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe are you referring to the Mics glitches we hear at some point especially in Le Gibet? I noticed it too and found it surprising, it's a Harmonia Mundi disc

@aram285 3 жыл бұрын

@@lucas__machado im talking about the score itself, theres all sorts of errors, for instance the stacatto markings in le gibet are off-centre, some noteheads are diamonds, theres this werid notation at 5:25, a lot of things that would be beamed across staves aren't, also a lot of other mistakes. Its nothing on your end, its just this sheet music itself very bad. I love rana's recording though, good choice.

@lucas__machado 3 жыл бұрын

@@aram285 Oh yes, I chose this score because it wasn't too dense and quite aerated but you're right some notations are bizarre

@dimitriskreatsoulas 3 жыл бұрын

@@lucas__machado can you tell me where to find the edition I liked some suggestions on the fingering :)

@marcustang8784 3 жыл бұрын

@@dimitriskreatsoulas imslp