Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit, No. 1, "Ondine" Sheet Music + Audio

[drakenve]

Siempre hay algun idiota envidioso que en todos los videos de musica hermosa, dice "no me gusta".... porque que hay gente tan marica en este planeta!!... por lo menos hay algun voto negativo!!... que le dan de comer a esa gente?... estupidina?

Maximo Maurice!!... fuiste lo maximo de aqui a Neptuno, por esta composicion tan increiblemente oceánica!... te respeto y te admiro hasta el fin del tiempo!

[bendzsy91]

This is the world hardest piano piece!

[JuyoNi]

@bendzsy91 Ondine is not the hardest... technically and artistically difficult indeed, but its no harder than jeux d'eau. I think the hardest piece goes to Liszt's Totentantz or maybe a the Etude Tableaux by Rachmaninoff, I think Alborada del Gracioso can be considered more difficult than this piece. Just my humble opinion :)



[abmsghost1]

@JuyoNi Ondine is not the hardest?I would like to hear you play it.:)

[JuyoNi]

@abmsghost1 You know I have never put any of my recitals up and I just played it, I might just do that :) I love it very much. But it is not the most difficult piece there is, trust me, there are several pieces that are by contemporary composers... they beat the difficulty on ondine and jeux d'eau anytime. Mostly only because they don't make any sense, but still, music is music :)

[abmsghost1]

@JuyoNi Well ,just put it on then.:) Only the first page is enough.:)And ..why should I "trust"you?

[darkthunderz13]

@abmsghost1 Ondine is not the hardest piano piece in the world. The third movement from this suite, Scarbo, is far harder than this one, so check it out if you want to see something stunningly difficult. Also, check out Balakirev's Islamey. Scarbo and Islamey are genereally considered to be the hardest piano pieces, and there are many others far more challenging than Ondine

[abmsghost1]

@darkthunderz13 Thanks for your reply.I am a professional pianist,teaching and working with Japanese pianists for the past 15 years.Many of them appeared,some of them with succes,in major international competitions.Anyway thank you for your concerns.Btw...check the Godowsky-Chopin etudes and his Strauss Paraphrases.Have fun.

[XavierMacX]

@darkthunderz13 Islamey is not as hard as this. While close.... not as difficult. Ondine requires a lot... but you're correct in saying Scarbo is harder. Although, technically, they're both from the same piece. So let's just agree that La Gaspard de la Nuit is in the top ten hardest solo piano pieces (because it is!). :) (Also included would be Stravisnky's Three Movements from Petrouchka, the Hammerklavier Sonata, Art of the Fugue, etc.)

[tjtheplay]

In the beginning, the right hand is too loud

[jewgienij131]

agree

[maddorox]

@tjtheplay the main point is the left hand is audible, yes in order to do that the right hand must be light ... but the melody is clearly audible in this case..... so no its not "too" loud...

[tjtheplay]

@maddorox I actually changed my mind a little. The more you listen to this, the softer the right hand sounds.

[iceflame5]

murderous. How does one go about composing something like this? I feel like I'd forget one measure as soon as I started writing the next. And then to notate....ugh. Masterpiece

[lowryder169]

agreed with below comment - he needs to manage the piano better and voice the melody more in the beginning. All you can here is the right hand. it's brutal

[ToutexM]

Well done, but this piano sux horrible in high notes. It should be water, not hail.

[ondineshimmers]

Thanks for the upload .  But this version is so much heavier and even a little plodding I find, compared to the weightlessn ethereal quality of Argerich's

[colinthepianist]

Great video. You picked a good recording, too. Thanks for the upload.

[Alexjr1543]

Such a beautiful piece, and yet I will never be able to play it.

[MauComposer10]

Maravilloso

[musicnerd30]

I melted at 3:54, aghh! So great.

[MILFMaster3000]

@musicnerd30 This is no place for a snowman.

[alexcyp10]

so difficult

[tomatosoupmusic1]

I love Ravel's fluidity! makes you think its water in musical form

[ekrenek]

My favorite Gaspard. Performed with the same crystal clarity of his French forefathers, Samson Francois and Robert Casadesus.

[alciefrederic]

3:50 is done so well it's amazing

[herreo87]

Amazing

[Marianne1443]

Superbe version!!