Argerich plays Gaspard de la Nuit - Scarbo

Martha argerich playing Scarbo from Gaspard de la Nuit suite composed by Maurice Ravel, in my opinion it is the best performance of Scarbo.

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[fctchk]

If you'd like to be woken up after this and stop M. Ravel spinning in his grave, listen to Samson François' version. No theatrics, no artsyfartsyness, no exaggerated - now watch me scream now watch me whisper - dynamics, no drowned in pedal rallentandi and accelerandi. Instead: straight to the point and to the gut.

It's about the music señora Argerich, not about you.

[Scarbogn]

@fctchk Everybody is entitled their own opinion, and by listening to Samson François's Scarbo after reading your comment I'd say i'ts quite the opposite, but again, that's my mere opinion...

[laqin007]

the best!

[ander2365]

I really like it, martha really knows how to show darkness. i'd like to see a version mixed this and valentina lisitsa :P

[Mattkzenmusic]

@fctchk Wow. Do you play? How could you even imagine that one is better than another? If one does not express themselves, it is a dead piece of music. No matter how brilliant, if it is not alive it betrays the music. This is alive, and soulful. I will check the other out, but I am sure I will only see it as different and not better or worse.

[mmoynan]

@fctchk It's funny, because I too just listened to Francois' version, and I found HIS to be the very way you described Argerich's. Everyone really does have different tastes, huh!

[donaldcallen]

@niru54321 The best amateurs play at a very high level. At the 2007 Boston Piano Amateurs competition, Rupert Egerton-Smith, who received the second-place prize, gave a performance of Gaspard to rival anything I've ever heard from all but the best professionals (Argerich, Ashkenazy, Michelangeli). Your question displays an ignorance of this. Next time the Cliburn Amateur is held, listen to some of the performances on the web; you'll be amazed.

[niru54321]

@donaldcallen how can you be an amateur when you say you can play one of the hardest pieces in the piano repertoire? lol

[SoulinMusicinSoul]

I love it!!

[donaldcallen]

This incredible woman combines a rare musical imagination with seemingly limitless reserves of control, power, and speed. I'm a pretty good amateur pianist, I've played this piece and I just listen to this and shake my head in disbelief. I don't like all of Argerich's playing, but at her best, it's piano-playing at the most rarified level (I'm talking about the space occupied by Rachmaninoff, Hofmann, Lhevinne, and Horowitz).

[LittleArgerich]

i prefer the live recording...