Orchestral Version of Gaspard de la nuit - Ravel orchestrated version by Marius Constant Conducted by Christoph Eschenbach Painting : Fuseli, Le Cauchemar
This orchestral rendition is a bit different from my expectations, but it really does justice to the great Ravel’s original piano piece. Thank you for sharing.
I have "a special fascination" for 7:00 - 7:30 : long accelerando with various simultaneous speeds, then collapse of the whole drum section and orchestra
Interesting to hear Constant doing unto Ravel as Ravel did unto so many others. Especially Constant, don't have to listen too closely to hear a ghost or two of his most famous work, the Twilight Zone theme. Muchismas gracias to da max, brah!
Also, everyone who has gotten a chance to listen to this, and those who will listen: Take some time to read the poem associated with this piece, and understand WHO Scarbo is. He is a demonic dwarf that appears in hallucination. Ravel truly does know how to evoke the sinister and "nose-thumbing" nature of Scarbo.
Oh! how often have I heard and seen him, Scarbo, when at midnight the moon glitters in the sky like a silver shield on an azure banner strewn with golden bees. How often have I heard his laughter buzz in the shadow of my alcove, and his fingernail grate on the silk of the curtains of my bed! How often have I seen him alight on the floor, pirouette on a foot and roll through the room like the spindle fallen from the wand of a sorceress! Do I think him vanished then? the dwarf grows between the moon and me like the belfry of a gothic cathedral, a golden bell shakes on his pointed cap! But soon his body becomes blue, translucent like the wax of a candle, his face pales like the wax of a candle end - and suddenly he is extinguished.
@@VOLKHVORONOVICH merci à vous de publier cette traduction. Voici ce qu'écrivit Aloysius Bertrand Scarbo "Mon Dieu, accordez-moi, à l’heure de ma mort, les prières d’un prêtre, un linceul de toile, une bière de sapin et un lieu sec. Les patenôtres de M. le Maréchal. - « Que tu meures absous ou damné, - marmottait Scarbo cette nuit à mon oreille, - tu auras pour linceul une toile d’araignée, et j’ensevelirai l’araignée avec toi ! » - « Oh ! que du moins j’aie pour linceul, lui répondais-je, les yeux rouges d’avoir tant pleuré, - une feuille du tremble dans laquelle me bercera l’haleine du lac. » - « Non ! - ricanait le nain railleur, - tu serais la pâture de l’escarbot qui chasse, le soir, aux moucherons aveuglés par le soleil couchant ! » - « Aimes-tu donc mieux, - lui répliquai-je, larmoyant toujours, - aimes-tu donc mieux que je sois sucé d’une tarentule à trompe d’éléphant ? » - « Eh bien, - ajouta-t-il, - console-toi, tu auras pour linceul les bandelettes tachetées d’or d’une peau de serpent, dont je t’emmailloterai comme une momie. Et de la crypte ténébreuse de Saint-Bénigne, où je te coucherai debout contre la muraille, tu entendras à loisir les petits enfants pleurer dans les limbes. » Aloysius Bertrand, Scarbo" Gaspard de la nuit, 1842
I don't like this very much. Maybe it sounds too messy? I feel like ravel it's more structured, except for orchestral une barque sur l ocean . But maybe it's just a different orchestration style
Ravel disavowed his orchestration of Une Barque sur l'océan. True, it sometimes can sound messy (in Boulez's rendition for example). But Jean Martinon's version is very structured and sounds great.
Gaspard de la Nuit is such a distinctly pianistic work that it's very difficult for an orchestration to do it justice. In my opinion, Scarbo is really the only movement of this version where the original mood is accurately captured. Ondine and Le Gibet suffer from their inability to be orchestrated, though Constant clearly did a great job, regardless
Unbelievable! Now I know what Ravel meant when called Scarbo "an orchestral transcription for the piano." I must have this CD!
This is fantastic! Scarbo has always given me the chills! More so than ever after hearing the orchestration by M. Constant. LOVE IT!!!!
Gosh that part at 1:28 is absolutely astounding, an extreme source of inspiration
agreed !!!
Sounds a bit like scheherezade
This orchestral rendition is a bit different from my expectations, but it really does justice to the great Ravel’s original piano piece. Thank you for sharing.
I have "a special fascination" for 7:00 - 7:30 : long accelerando with various simultaneous speeds, then collapse of the whole drum section and orchestra
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME!
FANTASTICA E GRANDIOSA !!! MERAVIGLIOSA ORCHESTRAZIONE !!! BELLISSIMA!!! RENDE...SCARBO ANCORA PIU' TERRIFICANTE...DA INCUBO !!!! COMPLIMENTI!!!!
Finalmente un italiano che ascolta Scarbo😃
sublime ! merci
Love the bells at 9:02. And the rest of the piece of course. Fantastic version!
I really like this orchestration. Reminds me a bit of the music in old cartoons.
Interesting to hear Constant doing unto Ravel as Ravel did unto so many others. Especially Constant, don't have to listen too closely to hear a ghost or two of his most famous work, the Twilight Zone theme. Muchismas gracias to da max, brah!
Also, everyone who has gotten a chance to listen to this, and those who will listen: Take some time to read the poem associated with this piece, and understand WHO Scarbo is. He is a demonic dwarf that appears in hallucination. Ravel truly does know how to evoke the sinister and "nose-thumbing" nature of Scarbo.
Oh! how often have I heard and seen him, Scarbo, when at midnight the moon glitters in the sky like a silver shield on an azure banner strewn with golden bees.
How often have I heard his laughter buzz in the shadow of my alcove, and his fingernail grate on the silk of the curtains of my bed!
How often have I seen him alight on the floor, pirouette on a foot and roll through the room like the spindle fallen from the wand of a sorceress!
Do I think him vanished then? the dwarf grows between the moon and me like the belfry of a gothic cathedral, a golden bell shakes on his pointed cap!
But soon his body becomes blue, translucent like the wax of a candle, his face pales like the wax of a candle end - and suddenly he is extinguished.
@@VOLKHVORONOVICH merci à vous de publier cette traduction. Voici ce qu'écrivit Aloysius Bertrand
Scarbo
"Mon Dieu, accordez-moi, à l’heure de ma mort, les prières d’un prêtre, un linceul de toile, une bière de sapin et un lieu sec.
Les patenôtres de M. le Maréchal.
- « Que tu meures absous ou damné, - marmottait Scarbo cette nuit à mon oreille, - tu auras pour linceul une toile d’araignée, et j’ensevelirai l’araignée avec toi ! »
- « Oh ! que du moins j’aie pour linceul, lui répondais-je, les yeux rouges d’avoir tant pleuré, - une feuille du tremble dans laquelle me bercera l’haleine du lac. »
- « Non ! - ricanait le nain railleur, - tu serais la pâture de l’escarbot qui chasse, le soir, aux moucherons aveuglés par le soleil couchant ! »
- « Aimes-tu donc mieux, - lui répliquai-je, larmoyant toujours, - aimes-tu donc mieux que je sois sucé d’une tarentule à trompe d’éléphant ? »
- « Eh bien, - ajouta-t-il, - console-toi, tu auras pour linceul les bandelettes tachetées d’or d’une peau de serpent, dont je t’emmailloterai comme une momie.
Et de la crypte ténébreuse de Saint-Bénigne, où je te coucherai debout contre la muraille, tu entendras à loisir les petits enfants pleurer dans les limbes. »
Aloysius Bertrand, Scarbo" Gaspard de la nuit, 1842
The orchestral ondine is so cool come on:D the climax was incredible
Great orchestration. Gaspard is not easy for the pianist or the orchestrator!
It's a wind machine. It's a long loop of canvas draped over a drum, which is turned with a hand crank to create a scraping noise.
Holy shit!! Amazing!
Is that a wind machine at 3.04? Classic Ravel instrument haha!
Very convincing
it feels like if the performance was telling a story, like a soundtrack for an old movie, i see a lot of potential
top orchestration
That is cool.
What the hell is the instrument at 4:04 that sounds like screeching tires?
Wind machine
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
Anyone knows another orchestral version? This is georgeous, but i dont like ondine by constant
Don't like the orchestral Ondine, but this is interesting! Thanks!
¿El compositor de la dimensión desconocida (Twilight Zone)?
Cachis... me la han pisado.
4:40 4:55
Why the tempo change after the bassoon intro? Most pianists do the same. But it's wrong. Ravel would be scratching his head.
This is very well-orchestrated but i still feel the texture at 3:39 is wrong and i feel that flute at 6:19 should have been fluttered
I don't like this very much. Maybe it sounds too messy? I feel like ravel it's more structured, except for orchestral une barque sur l ocean . But maybe it's just a different orchestration style
It's like a blur. Even La Valse wich is like a whirpool of sounds, seems more clear to me
Ravel disavowed his orchestration of Une Barque sur l'océan. True, it sometimes can sound messy (in Boulez's rendition for example). But Jean Martinon's version is very structured and sounds great.
Gaspard de la Nuit is such a distinctly pianistic work that it's very difficult for an orchestration to do it justice. In my opinion, Scarbo is really the only movement of this version where the original mood is accurately captured. Ondine and Le Gibet suffer from their inability to be orchestrated, though Constant clearly did a great job, regardless