Ravel - Miroirs No. 4, "Alborada del Gracioso" Sheet Music + Audio

[KingDollaDolla]

No dislikes with 100 likes!!

[ChibiSilent16]

I love this! I've never seen a YouTube video that lets you read along with the music playing in order to understand how it should be played! Awesome idea, and kudos to you for it! :D

[cc1903]

Do You think you can email me the pdf?

[MrPianist12345]

Where'd you get the sheet ?

[Xandertrax]

@MrPianist12345 From the Petrucci Music Library, or IMSLP, give it a google. It's a website that hosts public domain sheet music(which varies by country, in the U.S. it's anything written before 1923). Tons of music there to peruse, give it a peek.

[phyllisleung1]

What grade is this piece?

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

@phyllisleung1 Probably post-diploma

[phyllisleung1]

@AttemptingToBeBusy So want to play this piece but I'm only on grade 5...:(

[Artysist]

amazeing! 5:18

[MusicForever020898]

I love it! =))) But the glissando part seems so hard. :( I wonder what techniques did they use to do that.

[4864pedaru]

素晴らしい。

[JJCale33]

Sounds a lot like Hakon Austbø's wonderful interpretation

[Doily131]

It's like reading Chinese.  Piano players are fucking nuts.

[Ilovelisztoy]

let me imitate him.. like his interpretation..

[Zinlol]

Are those glissandos really possible with two fingers?

[JoEbYX]

@Zinlol Yes they are. You just hold the interval nice and stiff with your fingers and drag!

[MaestroTJS]

@JoEbYX Ouch!

Those passages and the ones where he has the player repeat a single note extremely quickly (which seems to show up fairly often in Ravel...) seem to me the most daunting.

[npelletier89]

@MaestroTJS Oh god they are! It's the part at 1:21 where they're the toughest (the b minor part of that)... keeping that part subtle without sounding like a mess is just insane...the double glissandi are extremely easy to pull off compared to that damn passage!! I've probably worked out 3 or 4 'valid' fingerings, but none of them are 100% comfortable..

The other repeated parts are a little easier because you have more space... the 1:15 - 1:25 repeated notes get invaded left right and center!

[exelpaperclip123]

1:03 to 1:20 and 5:10 to 5:40 just amazing!

[JazZebra]

love 4:35

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

A great interpretation, thanks for uploading! Thibaudet makes interesting (but excellent nonetheless) use of the sostenuto pedal that not many other performers seem to be able to do... :)