good observation, Ravel openly embraced that he would sometimes use musical devices from other's compositions:
“If you have nothing new to say, then you can do no better, whilst awaiting the ultimate silence, than to repeat again what has already been well said. If you do have something to say, that something can never be more clearly stated than by your unwitting infidelity to the model.”
Personally I think this piece is more evocative of emotion than anything anybody wrote including Debussy
everytime somebody caughs the whole time through a concert i think to myself "shut the fuck up attentionwhores, why the fuck don't you stay at fucking home when you are suffering pneumonia???" this masterpiece is so unique and strong, greatfully played, but i really can not enjoy this record more than one time. :(
The Richter touch. The Richter legato line. The Richter tone. The Richter musical essence. Only wish he liked himself more because we sure liked his playing. John-Hans Melcher
And who are those fuckers coughing away in the background like they are on a fucking bus? They are in the presence of Richter, and think they can just hack up greenies without making any attempt to suppress the noise. If I'd been there I'd have fucking garroted and napalmed each fucking one of them after the other. The luckiest one of course would be the first, who wouldn't see the full horror and agony of the death that awaited him. Fuck I hate people sometimes.
It gives me shivers... Only Richter can play like that. It's so dark. We can feel the sun and the sand, and the corpse that hangs. Oh my God... That's so unreal.
If you liked this piece, then listen to Sposalizio, and Oiseaux Tristes. You won't be disappointed.
@wilou62 ; Very good indeed. I'm wondering now, if it equals Pogorelich's. I heard/saw it live in Montreal by Pogorelich, and I still don't have words to describe the experience! It was so unreal, and so vivid at the same time. I could see the crows trying to get a leftover out of the eyes... and the corpse starting to turn on itself when one of the birds took off or perched itself again. I guess the choice is difficult.
Coughing again and again ! The lower the tempo is, the more you have coughing, proof that they're doing it because they feel bored. It really turns me mad, I feel like they're coughing in my ears...damn !!
@WAMEDJO Yes it's driving me mental, I can't listen to this because of the morons coughing! Shame, as it's ruining a nice performance of this piece :P Interesting what you say about the tempo, I think that's probably true.
I felt desperate thinking of all the treasures soiled, until I learned that it exists technological ways to make the coughings disappear. So, I assume this thousands of live recordings will have to be "cleaned" someday... There's hope finally (yet it still has to be done in most cases) !!
@WAMEDJO Maybe its just the slower the tempo is, the more you can HEAR the coughing - it seems all soviet live recordings include an audience of people coughing out their lungs.
there is an awesome fearsome fantastic Ondine bit at the gymnopedist "channel", but that Ondine bit follows after another piece. The video is "Richter plays Debussy" ("gymnopedist")
He played Le Gibet, but he never played Ondine and Scarbo. He explains the reason in the book "Notebooks and Conversations". Scarbo was played earlier by Gavrilov and Richter liked it so much that he decided to never play Scarbo. I guess, the same thing was with Ondine.
Funny. I watched a bit from an old Soviet recording with a bit of the Ondine. A beautiful interpretation by the way. The man I mean the pianist was Richter
Maybe I was wrong. But I'm almost sure about Scarbo, Richter really told it. But anyway, he didn't play these pieces too much, it will be great if I will find that recoring of Ondine.
The sound quality is amasingly high as a live recording in 1954. Thanks for the nice upload!
notaire2 1 month ago
Lovely version of this very difficult piece--slightly spoiled, I must say, by having been recorded in what sounds like a Soviet tuberculosis ward.
naizret 2 months ago
@marcelmombeekpiano Yeah, tooooooooo slow. There's a big difference between expression and dirge.
gabe25591 4 months ago
@gabe25591 uhhhhhh....isn't it supposed to be dirge-like? it is supposed to be a picture of a dead man morbidly hanging...
sulimantekalli 2 months ago
@sulimantekalli Yeah, it is, but I feel like this version is just a little bit TOO slow...
gabe25591 2 months ago
I only knew about this piece because of the '83 Vampire flick, "The Hunger."
rainer1980 5 months ago
...Was he playing to a TB ward? That's alot of coughing! Well at least they kept their babies at home! Yeezzz!
REOGURU 6 months ago
in english "the gibbet"
74stigma 9 months ago
I love how everyone in the audience sounds afraid whenever they need to cough :)
Nosdormu 1 year ago
this goes very well when played with rainymood..
aJazzcat 1 year ago
what concert is this? where did you find the record?
abucunezzer101 1 year ago
@abucunezzer101
All the information available is in the description.
dewvey 1 year ago
does anyone else hear a little of debussy's hommage a rameau in there?
looney1023 1 year ago
good observation, Ravel openly embraced that he would sometimes use musical devices from other's compositions:
“If you have nothing new to say, then you can do no better, whilst awaiting the ultimate silence, than to repeat again what has already been well said. If you do have something to say, that something can never be more clearly stated than by your unwitting infidelity to the model.”
Personally I think this piece is more evocative of emotion than anything anybody wrote including Debussy
kowalityjesus 1 year ago
everytime somebody caughs the whole time through a concert i think to myself "shut the fuck up attentionwhores, why the fuck don't you stay at fucking home when you are suffering pneumonia???" this masterpiece is so unique and strong, greatfully played, but i really can not enjoy this record more than one time. :(
Sarael72 1 year ago
The Richter touch. The Richter legato line. The Richter tone. The Richter musical essence. Only wish he liked himself more because we sure liked his playing. John-Hans Melcher
johnnyzing 1 year ago
looks a little like john malkovich
paulplaystheguitar 1 year ago
ilkinond, what a retard ! he think he has 4 balls, but 2 of them doesn't belong to him.
dealermando 2 years ago
And who are those fuckers coughing away in the background like they are on a fucking bus? They are in the presence of Richter, and think they can just hack up greenies without making any attempt to suppress the noise. If I'd been there I'd have fucking garroted and napalmed each fucking one of them after the other. The luckiest one of course would be the first, who wouldn't see the full horror and agony of the death that awaited him. Fuck I hate people sometimes.
ilkinond 2 years ago 3
@ilkinond Maybe in Moscow in 1954 peoples' lungs weren't all they might have been......
MrConorLinehan 1 year ago
Interesting Claire de Lune quotation at 4:20.
demosj 2 years ago 4
@demosj I never noticed that. That is the same motif isn't it? :)
mimibyrd 2 years ago
Richter said that Ravel is one of the greatest composers. Richter is in my opinion one of his best performers.
73pili 2 years ago
"It is a bell tinting at the walls of a city under the horizon and the carcass of a hanged man reddened by the setting sun".
BOSOX9004 2 years ago 2
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you dumb pieces of cunt..... just suck it . 8lllllllllllllD
dealermando 2 years ago
Go away you stupid little boy. Go try and find ur little cock.
ilkinond 2 years ago
Richter conveys the sense of darkness and inevitability perfectly.
yourforte 3 years ago 6
This is really the best "Gibet" I've heard...
It gives me shivers... Only Richter can play like that. It's so dark. We can feel the sun and the sand, and the corpse that hangs. Oh my God... That's so unreal.
If you liked this piece, then listen to Sposalizio, and Oiseaux Tristes. You won't be disappointed.
:)
W.
wilou62 3 years ago 25
@wilou62 ; Very good indeed. I'm wondering now, if it equals Pogorelich's. I heard/saw it live in Montreal by Pogorelich, and I still don't have words to describe the experience! It was so unreal, and so vivid at the same time. I could see the crows trying to get a leftover out of the eyes... and the corpse starting to turn on itself when one of the birds took off or perched itself again. I guess the choice is difficult.
Pilou2004 1 year ago
Coughing again and again ! The lower the tempo is, the more you have coughing, proof that they're doing it because they feel bored. It really turns me mad, I feel like they're coughing in my ears...damn !!
WAMEDJO 3 years ago 20
@WAMEDJO they should have strangle them...
cobolsaurus 1 year ago
@WAMEDJO Yes it's driving me mental, I can't listen to this because of the morons coughing! Shame, as it's ruining a nice performance of this piece :P Interesting what you say about the tempo, I think that's probably true.
pondwatcher 1 year ago
@pondwatcher
I felt desperate thinking of all the treasures soiled, until I learned that it exists technological ways to make the coughings disappear. So, I assume this thousands of live recordings will have to be "cleaned" someday... There's hope finally (yet it still has to be done in most cases) !!
WAMEDJO 1 year ago
@WAMEDJO Maybe its just the slower the tempo is, the more you can HEAR the coughing - it seems all soviet live recordings include an audience of people coughing out their lungs.
88alan8800 1 month ago
@88alan8800
I romantically thought that these kind of concerts were an oasis apart from the oppression, but it seems I was wrong. Snobs are everywhere !
WAMEDJO 1 month ago
Hmm, this recording seems to be a whole step lower than Michelangeli's recording here on youtube...
georgecziffra 3 years ago
I'd have to disagree. I find this one far more pensive.
PhiloNaphta 3 years ago
I think he meant the actual pitch of the piece...:)
Darklord12356 3 years ago 5
Understood.
PhiloNaphta 3 years ago
it's less than 50 cents lower but definitely lower than 10 cents - the mood is darker for sure
MercenariesWorld 3 years ago
there is an awesome fearsome fantastic Ondine bit at the gymnopedist "channel", but that Ondine bit follows after another piece. The video is "Richter plays Debussy" ("gymnopedist")
francorussie 3 years ago
Hmmm don't recognize Richter his playing here...
michieldpiano 4 years ago
BULLSHIT. This playing is not Richter. It's in modern lush stereo...yet you claim it's from "Moscow, 1954." You are a liar.
nextren 4 years ago
stylistically speaking, this seems to be pure richter - from whatever year !
derwundenlabsal 3 years ago
I didn t think he played these :0xx
chad410 4 years ago
He played Le Gibet, but he never played Ondine and Scarbo. He explains the reason in the book "Notebooks and Conversations". Scarbo was played earlier by Gavrilov and Richter liked it so much that he decided to never play Scarbo. I guess, the same thing was with Ondine.
dewvey 4 years ago
Funny. I watched a bit from an old Soviet recording with a bit of the Ondine. A beautiful interpretation by the way. The man I mean the pianist was Richter
francorussie 3 years ago
Maybe I was wrong. But I'm almost sure about Scarbo, Richter really told it. But anyway, he didn't play these pieces too much, it will be great if I will find that recoring of Ondine.
dewvey 3 years ago