an austrian pianoteacher told me one time ravel and debussy is always soft to play. Bullshit!!!! It is as dramatic as any other composers music.... So why not an excessive sound where useful.... I love this interpretation. Is the best I heard (I also studied this piece with the best french teacher of the 80ties eliane richepin).
Gilels sounds too strident here. I think it has to do with the microphone placement. There are several moments of beauty which indicates the problem lies more with the recording engineering than the playing.
It is truly an astounding range of sonorities on display here! Growing up on Gieseking in the French Impressionists, it took me some time to accept Gilels as an interpreter of this music, but now his versions of this piece and the Pavane are my absolute favorites
amazing jazz
1vilfred 1 month ago
Thanks for the video
HELP Fingering for 4:52 ? Right arpeggios m. 82 (down) 543214321 ? 321432121?
enriquem90 6 months ago
@enriquem90 321432121 is better so your hands wiil not collide that easy.cheers
abmsghost1 4 months ago
Excelente versión
rambeiro 7 months ago
an austrian pianoteacher told me one time ravel and debussy is always soft to play. Bullshit!!!! It is as dramatic as any other composers music.... So why not an excessive sound where useful.... I love this interpretation. Is the best I heard (I also studied this piece with the best french teacher of the 80ties eliane richepin).
uhartchristian 2 years ago 8
@uhartchristian
Gilels is an allround musicien
Jan.
janvkimm 1 year ago
Gilels sounds too strident here. I think it has to do with the microphone placement. There are several moments of beauty which indicates the problem lies more with the recording engineering than the playing.
demosj 2 years ago
It is truly an astounding range of sonorities on display here! Growing up on Gieseking in the French Impressionists, it took me some time to accept Gilels as an interpreter of this music, but now his versions of this piece and the Pavane are my absolute favorites
punkpoetry 2 years ago 4
Listen to Pascal Roge. Nobody play it like him...
rva25 2 years ago
@rva25
He is wonderfol too
Jan
janvkimm 1 year ago
this is soo good, I love this pease
somedudeplayingpiano 3 years ago 3
Argerich is more my taste, but his is just supberb, wonderful! 5 stars to this blessed human(?) being!
pedroprokofiev 3 years ago 7
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Agree with smith (if I read it right:-)).
mltube 4 years ago
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Moiseiwitch,Schmitz,& Cziffra bury this at Youtube.But Ravel's Oiseaux buries them...BUT Richter's Miroirs buries them all into oblivion
smithsherman 4 years ago
i prefer it to Richters. perlemuter would too
chad410 4 years ago 4
looks like we have the same taste when it comes to Ravel. I prefer this one by Gilels to any Richter or Argerich here on youtube.
thepacers 3 years ago 5
@thepacers
Mr. Gilels don't need "lessons"
example :
The moment i heard Etudes symphoniques de Schumann played by Cortot i thought "i can't imagine anyone could understand this music like him"
That lasted for 40 years ( ! )
And suddenly heard Mr. Gilels with it !
And i was stunned. The first one who did...!
It is of course my personal opinion.
With regards,
Jan.
janvkimm 1 year ago
I agree with rusz. It has something very special to it.Like it better than Richter's
suzettegm 4 years ago 4
like this performance. maybe not the best of this piece, but this still makes sense than some other pianists' performance.
rusz 4 years ago
Good God 4444,We're not inspecting freshly mopped latrine floors in the barracks here.
I love Gilels,but this performance doesn't have much to it.Just Richter at a slower speed without his great tone.
smithsherman 4 years ago
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OMG smithsherman,
You just praised Richter. Watch out for the sulfur on your way down (LOL)!
Gerry
gerryrains 3 years ago
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Dear Gerry,You're a riot today.By the way...Richter is in numerous of my playlists.
I take it one performance at a time and the unkown here let me hear many "Richters" that are not the other ones at youtube. Smith
smithsherman 3 years ago
wow its so clean and perfect!!!!!!
4444matthew4444 4 years ago