This is like throwing a half-lit match into a box full of fireworks. You just never know what's going to happen the next second and you're absolutely thrilled to witness it. Listening to this it feels like it's unfolding in a concert hall and I'm sitting there... wondering how is it possible that although the sound of the ocean has transcended the shell I'm pressing against my ear and yet it has not swept me away.
The best- simply the best perhaps Samson François the greatest pianist I have ever heard and I have heard those claimed to BT the best including Horowitz
I think one needs to take the following into account. When people from the time described Ravel as "competent at the keyboard but not gifted" one needs to understand that by "gifted" they mean Debussy, Liszt, Godowsky, Rachmaninoff and the likes
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Cadenza at 14:03
This is like throwing a half-lit match into a box full of fireworks. You just never know what's going to happen the next second and you're absolutely thrilled to witness it. Listening to this it feels like it's unfolding in a concert hall and I'm sitting there... wondering how is it possible that although the sound of the ocean has transcended the shell I'm pressing against my ear and yet it has not swept me away.
Excellent analogy
Dad often mentioned Samson Francois but I never heard him until finding this. Thanks for posting.
Such a beautiful work by Ravel. Enjoy
Omg, this cadenza ! Thank you for sharing
Samson François is just joy to hear playing Ravel and Debussy, rest in peace maestro.
not forgetting his Chopin
The best- simply the best perhaps Samson François the greatest pianist I have ever heard and I have heard those claimed to BT the best including Horowitz
This is the one.
The cadenza is truly monumental.
3 hands for the price of one
what an abstract piece! I love it
Pretty abstract comment too
A favourite piece by a favourite artist!
🙏🙏🙏
C'est la performance définitive.
Oh my.
There’s so many obscure notes and obscure textures… one of Ravels masterworks
Ravel was said to be not such a good pianist. I wonder if he was able to play this piece himself?
I believe he played it with both hands
@@josephalvarez5315 just like me... hah
@@josephalvarez5315 It was Cortot who performed his own two-hand version. Ravel did not approve, to say the least!
Ravel himself only could play it using both hands.
I think one needs to take the following into account. When people from the time described Ravel as "competent at the keyboard but not gifted" one needs to understand that by "gifted" they mean Debussy, Liszt, Godowsky, Rachmaninoff and the likes
Sometimes, I dare think Ravel exceeds Bach.
How would this sound on a cembalo accompanied by recorders and viola de gambas?
@@riverstun Arrange it!