Ravel, Ondine

[pianist1976]

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[furtwaengler]

Is it a significant event that somebody has uploaded a live performance of Ondine? How about a shimmering, ravishing, gorgeous live account of Ondine? Well, I think it's significant. I think it's fantastic. Also, I think it's quite amazing that I must emerge from the darkness to post a first response.

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[prongated]

This is a very, very good performance of a really difficult piece! From the sound of it, you have a really good control of the instrument that is the piano.

My complaint is, I'm not so sure I'm getting the kind of impression I want - and what I think it should be. It just seems ever so slightly too hurried and impatient, the way it flows betraying very much the elusive, misty, fantastical, ghastly, and yes, shimmering nature of the song that is Ondine.

What we certainly do have here though is a ravishing performance indeed. It is most certainly an interesting performance, in every good sense of the phrase! Bravo!

[johnlewisgrant]

I don't know the piece that well.  But it is hideously difficult in the right hand, and you manage it very convincingly.

JG

[becky8898]

Nice,  very impressive.  beautiful control. I only have an artistic question.  Towards the end of the piece when the right hand plays those beautiful individual notes, I thought they could have been a little louder and maybe you could let them hang more. Then with the entrance of those arpegio runs with both hands,  maybe make more out of them.  Its just artistic interpertation.  More how I see it.  Its more a question really? I am looking to discover my own artistic view of things. Recently  I have to question everything.  Again just wonderful.  You said you did this back in the 90's. Have you done it since? Has it changed? Do you see it differently now?

Thanks for letting us here this gem.

Cheers, Becky

[furtwaengler]

I am looking to discover my own artistic view of things?

I see nothing wrong with that! It's one of the beauties of listening to music.

[scottmcc]

somehow I missed this recording when it was first uploaded, and I must simply say "bravo!"  this is my favorite of the Gaspard de la Nuit set by far, and you've presented it very well.  Clearly you deserve the degree that you earned by presenting this piece (doctorate of piano performance?).  I'd be very interested to hear more of your recordings.

[birba]

Very beautiful playing.  Once you get used to the feeble sound of the mike, you hear everything.  Wonderful control, sparse use of the pedal, sparkling touch.  I liked it very much.  You play it on the slow side, which is nice.  I think you do too much hesitating before each new phrase or musical element.  especially in the beginning.  It should almost be metronomic.  But nonetheless, that was superb playing!

[pianist1976]

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