Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (1908) (Szuyu Su, piano) [w/ score]

One of Maurice Ravel’s most famous and virtuosic masterpieces, “Gaspard de la nuit” (Treasurer of the Night), and its subtitle “Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand” (Three Poems for Piano By Aloysius Bertrand), takes from Aloysius Bertrand’s collection of poems of the same name. The three poems Ravel chose from this collection depict dark and foreboding imagery, such as the evil seduction of a water spirit, the grotesque world surrounding a hanging corpse, and the terror induced by a menacing gremlin. With exceedingly complex use of rhythm and intricate phrases, ingenious harmonies and colors, and profound structure, Gaspard de la nuit has been famously called one of the most difficult pieces in the entire piano repertoire. In particular, the third movement “Scarbo” is a ferocious technical achievement. Ravel quotes about this piece, “I wanted to make a caricature of romanticism. Perhaps it got the better of me.”
My personal favorite recording of this piece that I’ve heard, this recording was brilliantly performed by Taiwanese pianist Szuyu Su at her Spring 2021 Graduation Recital with the Curtis Institute of Music, which premiered on 4/23/2021. (Original full recital video: • Graduation Recital: Sz... )
COMPOSER: Maurice Ravel
PIANO: Szuyu Su
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Introduction
0:07 - I. Ondine
6:34 - II. Le Gibet
13:13 - III. Scarbo
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[@dan27music]

Ondine - Gorgeous, Scarbo - brilliant, perhaps representing the devil transforming from one thing to another, different disguises, pulling heart-strings, and then instilling fear, skipping about, creeping about, then vanishing into nothing, exalting in his own brilliance, Le Gibet - wonderful dense chords floating like gossamer over an eery ostinato, reminds me of some Debussy Preludes,

[@MeatBunFul]

Pretty sure Ravel made this piece as a way to torture pianists