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Ravel : Gaspard de la Nuit (Beatrice Rana)

Comments from the score (RayBird) : Published in 1909 Gaspard de la Nuit is considered to be the most beautiful, masterly and challenging of all Ravel’s œuvre for piano. The poet Aloysius Bertrand(1807— 1841), alchemist of irony and speech, whose only collection, Gaspard de la Nuit had just been reedited in 1908 by the Mercure de France, seduced Ravel, who immediately and dramatically changed his pianistic style: from the infantile Mother Goose (1908) to the fantastic, from extreme simplicity to extreme virtuosity, and to transpose as if for a wager the spell of prose poetry into the wizardry of the keyboard. Ravel confided that he wished to compose a work of transcendental virtuosity even more difficult than Balakirev’s Islamey. The poems themselves are expressed with strong creative imagination, and explore fantasies of medieval Europe — each prefaced by a short literary quotation. The name "Gaspard" is derived from “Kaspur” or indeed “Casper”, the biblical treasurer of the three wise men. Of the work, Ravel himself said: "Gaspard has been a devil in coming, but that is only logical since it was he who is the author of the poems. My ambition is to say with notes what a poet expresses with words.” This performance was recorded live during the 2013 edition of the Van Cliburn piano competition. Beatrice Rana gives us a dark and profound listening experience. An interpretation that I consider to be very musical in first place 0:00 I. Ondine 6:36 II. Le gibet 12:53 III. Scarbo