Musician's or Publisher's Notes Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand is a
piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. The piece is famous for its incredible difficulty, partly due to the fact that
Ravel intended the third movement, Scarbo to be more difficult
than Balakirev's Islamey. This movement features a
small fiend - half goblin, half ghost - making pirouettes, disappearing and
scaring a person in his home. Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against
the panels of the bed, casting a growing shadow under the moonlight, creates a
nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed. Ishay Shaer
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Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit - Scarbo Play
Recorded on 06/08/2011, uploaded on 06/08/2011
Musician's or Publisher's Notes
Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. The piece is famous for its incredible difficulty, partly due to the fact that Ravel intended the third movement, Scarbo to be more difficult than Balakirev's Islamey. This movement features a small fiend - half goblin, half ghost - making pirouettes, disappearing and scaring a person in his home. Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against the panels of the bed, casting a growing shadow under the moonlight, creates a nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed. Ishay Shaer
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Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs
Blues, from Sonata for violin and piano
Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure
Noctuelles from Miroirs
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Une barque sur l'ocean, from Mirours
Pièce en Forme de Habanera
Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques
Gaspard de la Nuit - Ondine
Performances by same musician(s)
Etude Op. 25, No. 5 in e minor
Etude Op. 25, No. 6 in g-sharp minor
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2
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