Ravel said he wanted the melody at the beginning of Ondine to almost blend in with the shimmering effect in the right hand. He didn’t want it to stand out, and I think khatia does that perfectly. Bravo!
No matter how brilliant Miss Buniatishvili's performances of piano concertos by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and the likes are, it is only the French "Impressionist" composers who are able to give her a canvas as free and wide as a landscape and an endless palette of colours, which she magically transforms into a totally new musical painting, born in front of our eyes and living inside our ears and minds..
Please record these selections in a proper studio setting to preserve and magnify Khatia’s virtuosity. Remarkable marriage of performance artist and musical composition.
It is so great to get to hear anyone perform with such a high level of musicianship! This piece is so technically demanding yet she seems as though she has been playing it her whole life! Her playing is passionate, purposeful and direct. She really seems to know where to take us in this piece of music and it is really great to be along for the ride! Sheer magic! And she is so beautiful! It's like Ava Gardner and a young Elizabeth Taylor had a child who plays piano! What a great post!
C'est une Khatia qui se dépasse dans cette oeuvre. Ses moyens techniques, son immense sensibilité, tant d'intelligence et de cœur au ventre et d'âme partout ailleurs font qu'elle crée constamment des interprétations absolument uniques pour lesquelles je n'arrive pas à exprimer combien je les trouve belles. J'y renonce donc tout simplement puis j'écoute, je regarde. Je me demande bien ce que sa marraine d'adoption, Martha Argerich, en pense; elle est celle-là même par qui j'ai découvert l'oeuvre il y a trente ans. Madame Buniatishvili sera à Montréal ce 15 d'avril (2019). Il n'y a pas Gaspard au programme mais la sublimement poignante sonate D.960 de Schubert oui. Mon Dieu, que va-t-elle en faire! Nous avons nos billets depuis plus d'un mois et c'est à peine si nous avons pu trouver des places dans un coin de balcon. Au plaisir de vous entendre gente dame. :)
This is the best Ondine I have ever heard. Katia creates the visual image through sound to express the lightness and ethereal quality of the water nymph in this movement.
Srita Khatia... Ud es una extraordinaria artista...!!! Además de ser una mujer hermosisima es usted una gran pianista... Congratulations, Thanks a lot for this performance... From México city...
Khatia! I love your play of the Ondine. It fits right in love with your incredible technique. I doubt whether any other pianist can play it so beautifully unless they have your great technique.
Écho était condamnée par Héra et Pan mais Zeus ne se lassait pas de l’entendre. On se lasse encore moins d’écouter la source intarissable et débordante de talents incarnée par Khatia, Ondine d’outre Rhin !
Née Géorgienne avec la nationalité française n'est pas exactement "d'outre Rhin". Écho ne pouvait être que répétitive. Heureusement Kathia est plus libre que cela.
Wow, I've never heard Scarbo's climaxes played like that! I think that's the sort of thing you can only do if your technique is so refined, that pieces like this are no longer a challenge for you.
Beautiful lady with beautiful God given talent. Thank you Khatia for the joy you give to all of us who appreciate your amazing skill and ability. You bring the music to life.
Calm down lads and I do think this kind of 'messy' effect is what the pianist tried to achieve, for Gaspard de la nuit actually represents for ghosts haunting in the darkest of nights, just consider Walpurgis Night for instance. In such cases, the colours of night, the milky white, grey should be all mixed up, but you can still sense the horrid from these ambiguous shades. For the strength and speed I daresay Khatia did a rather good job here.
@@flagelumdei8138 www.gregandersonpiano.com/ravel-gaspard-de-la-nuit Since it's FRENCH to me (sry for the puns) I dug out this English translation version of the poem. You were absolutely right about Ravel not portraiting a rather Gothic scene. Thx for pulling my un-stopping wild imaginations back a bit XD
It needs to be weird and messy to challenge us to open our minds further....and difficult to play to top it all...from Ravel's own intentions to best (legacies from ) the then most difficult Russian work Islamey with much folk material that Khatia 's Georgian background could be more open to than us, ...Then the whole debate in fantasy of what art (as science of the poet) is...an unlicensed discussion, supposedly with the devil acting almost like Casper(Gaspard) the friendly ghost...appearing and disappearing ...handing down a copy of the poem... All I can do is try to be open... to this French Artistic Intellectual messing with our minds with extreme technical piano difficulties that Khatia is able to deliver with ram rod straight posture of such dexterity and beguiling flexibility .... It is an experience of ultimate extremes much like Faust... of European grappling with fascinating unknowns...that are best left appreciated in the paradox of ' more fully as half knowns'.....' clarity in the dark'...
Khathia Buniathisvili is head greatest interpreter of the last generation of pianists. few hands amalgamate today a technical virtuosity and such an amazing expression. Khatia has printed on her natural trait with an excellent technical balance, in the case of Kathia Buniathsvili, we are looking at a soloist who has arrived to stay, with an innovative style that marks the difference of the predecessors
I’m not sure how many of the posters (should I state posers?) here play live music. The recording was not the best because of how live the hall was for this piece with their mic setup. More importantly, there were rude audience members making noises in the hall. Shit like that tends to distract even the best performers. Take this performance for what it is: a gorgeous woman playing an impossible piece. Her interpretation is just that. You can’t deny her ability just because you don’t like her choices.
Je ne pense pas qu'il existe au monde une meilleure pianiste que Khatia : elle a ce génie phénoménal de saisir toutes les affinités des compositeurs qu'elle interprète. Elle est plus qu'extraordinaire !
There are million videos in youtube of pianist playing without the sheet this piece. Seems to me it's the first time you see a video of someone playing the piano. The only way to understand your commentary.
HimmelbauerIT if you're solely relying on muscle memory, than sorry to break it to you but it's a dangerous thing and a bad habit that you should get rid of
I think it was Ricardo Vines who told Ravel that if you would play Le Gibet in the slow tempo he intended, the public would be bored to death. Khatia has the courage to play it real slow, and it is mesmesising, beautifully played! The same for Ondine, wonderfull interpretation. Scarbo is played to fast and sloppy for my taste.
THIS RAVEL´S GASPARD IS JUST SHIMMERING, AND GLITTERING, WITH SUNLIGHT ON MOVING WATERS IN ALL IT´S SENSES, AN EXHILARATING AND EXHUBERANT DAZZLE OF DANCING SPIRITS SHOWERING THE LISTENER IN A WATERY WORLD OF EMOTIONS.
The ads in the middle of the piece are a musical blasphemy. Put it all at the beginning, I don't care but do respect the music and the musicians please !
I thought Michelangeli unbeatable but...WOW., PS, Please don't think me a cheap self publicist but if you like this you may enjoy a piece of mine called "Street hawker" on my channel
Ik vind altijd dat als je stukken van dit niveau kan spelen dat je dan ook zelf mag bepalen hoe je het wilt laten klinken. Zeker bij Ravel mag je echt wel een beetje zelf kiezen wanneer je het pedaal en dergelijke gebruikt.
Why is everyone saying her performance is so wonderful? I found her performance messy, rushed, and vulgar at times. This was especially the case with Scarbo.
@@ronwalker4849 Partially I have to agree with Joe Bloe. This is certainly not the best performance of Gaspard, mainly because of Scarbo. It's overdo with the loss of readability of some fragments. I just listened to the performance of Valentina Lisitsa: incomparably better performance. But still Argerich is best-ever :)
@@doctorale6347 Heard the Argerich recently on the local classical station. It made me curious why the DJ chose Argerich, given that other versions exist, including Richter which I first heard decades ago. The Argerich strikes me as superior to Khatia, which is hard to admit, since I am a huge Khatia fan.
I guess most people just don’t know that much about music and find it beautiful and decided to spread some positivity with a comment. I’m sure most people that said it aren’t professional piano players, just people passing by a video. So don’t mind it much…
can you play it? i mean, it's already a feat to even attempt a piece of such a high degree of difficulty. it's nearly impossible to play gaspard ideally, just as the ravel intended it to be played. khatia might have slipped up here and there, but in general, the piece was played quite well by her, in my opinion)
paylab It isn’t impossible whatsoever, numerous pianists have gotten much closer to the original than this performance. She may have had a bad performance and she is still a remarkable pianist but were it not for the fact that it *is* impossible to make Ravel sound bad, she would have made a mess of it.
Ravel said he wanted the melody at the beginning of Ondine to almost blend in with the shimmering effect in the right hand. He didn’t want it to stand out, and I think khatia does that perfectly. Bravo!
No matter how brilliant Miss Buniatishvili's performances of piano concertos by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and the likes are, it is only the French "Impressionist" composers who are able to give her a canvas as free and wide as a landscape and an endless palette of colours, which she magically transforms into a totally new musical painting, born in front of our eyes and living inside our ears and minds..
HUH!!!!?????
smooth to read
@@jakebob6332 I'm willing to explain what you fail to understand. But we have to agree to remain polite...
So well put. She’s marvelous.
I was just thinking this as I came across this comment.
The right hand in the beginning sounds like the shimmering of a moonbeam, incredible! Gives the piece a different character
it almost doesn't even sound like a piano
Sounds like someone is trying to tune a badly tuned piano!!!!
This is just because of the bad audio quality 😆
The right hand ***IS*** the shimmering of a moonbeam.
Maurice Ravel:Gaspard de la nuit
1. Ondine 00:00
2. Le Gibet (Az akasztófa) 06:30
3. Scarbo 14:23
Khatia Buniatishvili-zongora
The opening RH is particularly hard to play quietly and evenly. To make it shimmer like that is impressive.
Please record these selections in a proper studio setting to preserve and magnify Khatia’s virtuosity. Remarkable marriage of performance artist and musical composition.
It is so great to get to hear anyone perform with such a high level of musicianship! This piece is so technically demanding yet she seems as though she has been playing it her whole life! Her playing is passionate, purposeful and direct. She really seems to know where to take us in this piece of music and it is really great to be along for the ride! Sheer magic! And she is so beautiful! It's like Ava Gardner and a young Elizabeth Taylor had a child who plays piano! What a great post!
Speachless!!!💯👏👏👏😍
C'est une Khatia qui se dépasse dans cette oeuvre. Ses moyens techniques, son immense sensibilité, tant d'intelligence et de cœur au ventre et d'âme partout ailleurs font qu'elle crée constamment des interprétations absolument uniques pour lesquelles je n'arrive pas à exprimer combien je les trouve belles. J'y renonce donc tout simplement puis j'écoute, je regarde. Je me demande bien ce que sa marraine d'adoption, Martha Argerich, en pense; elle est celle-là même par qui j'ai découvert l'oeuvre il y a trente ans.
Madame Buniatishvili sera à Montréal ce 15 d'avril (2019). Il n'y a pas Gaspard au programme mais la sublimement poignante sonate D.960 de Schubert oui. Mon Dieu, que va-t-elle en faire! Nous avons nos billets depuis plus d'un mois et c'est à peine si nous avons pu trouver des places dans un coin de balcon.
Au plaisir de vous entendre gente dame. :)
Eccezionale !!!! Come la sua madrina : Martha Argherich
Magic interpretation! Thank you forever, Khatia!
The most colorful piano work.
This is the best Ondine I have ever heard. Katia creates the visual image through sound to express the lightness and ethereal quality of the water nymph in this movement.
Astonishing performance,, she's out of this world, shame about the poor recording set-up
these echo sounds！wow！！
Amazing performance.
Katy:...please record this. Your interpretation is marvelous!
really wonderful
Awesome piano music and awesome pianist ❤
Thank you Khatia, You're a queen
Srita Khatia... Ud es una extraordinaria artista...!!! Además de ser una mujer hermosisima es usted una gran pianista... Congratulations, Thanks a lot for this performance... From México city...
Gorgeous Khatia!
Khatia! I love your play of the Ondine. It fits right in love with your incredible technique. I doubt whether any other pianist can play it so beautifully unless they have your great technique.
She is a great great player but i can't forget Samson François game
Écho était condamnée par Héra et Pan mais Zeus ne se lassait pas de l’entendre. On se lasse encore moins d’écouter la source intarissable et débordante de talents incarnée par Khatia, Ondine d’outre Rhin !
Née Géorgienne avec la nationalité française n'est pas exactement "d'outre Rhin". Écho ne pouvait être que répétitive. Heureusement Kathia est plus libre que cela.
Merveilleux
Sublime
Pity it's not a better recording, because she is fabulous!
Bella interpretazione Khatia 👏
Wow, I've never heard Scarbo's climaxes played like that! I think that's the sort of thing you can only do if your technique is so refined, that pieces like this are no longer a challenge for you.
awful and rushed
check the performance of Ivo Pogorelich 😉
@@Mitesseagreed way too rushed for my liking.
@@hatzenflatzen8332 bing chilling
@@Mitesse maybe she should’ve bing chillinged a little bit
Merci KATHIA ❤️❤️❤️
arte completo, musica que hechiza y pianista bellisima ...
Khatia, tort court, I love you!!!🌹
@ Cantus 5 Please make a PLAYLISTS on your channel. Separated it's for all better to find some beautiful classic pieces.
Shows promise🎹
Beautiful lady with beautiful God given talent. Thank you Khatia for the joy you give to all of us who appreciate your amazing skill and ability. You bring the music to life.
My first time hearing this piece. I like the subtle use of the raised 9th which became popular and used by Alex North, Blues & Jazz musicians.
the best
Calm down lads and I do think this kind of 'messy' effect is what the pianist tried to achieve, for Gaspard de la nuit actually represents for ghosts haunting in the darkest of nights, just consider Walpurgis Night for instance. In such cases, the colours of night, the milky white, grey should be all mixed up, but you can still sense the horrid from these ambiguous shades. For the strength and speed I daresay Khatia did a rather good job here.
She has spoiled the image I had on this.
I suggest you read the Bertrand Poems. No ghost, no colors ...
@@flagelumdei8138 www.gregandersonpiano.com/ravel-gaspard-de-la-nuit Since it's FRENCH to me (sry for the puns) I dug out this English translation version of the poem. You were absolutely right about Ravel not portraiting a rather Gothic scene. Thx for pulling my un-stopping wild imaginations back a bit XD
@@rosytwilight8894 the intention of Ravel with this work was to do mock the Romanticism (saying by him)
@@flagelumdei8138 1
It needs to be weird and messy to challenge us to open our minds further....and difficult to play to top it all...from Ravel's own intentions to best (legacies from ) the then most difficult Russian work Islamey with much folk material that Khatia 's Georgian background could be more open to than us, ...Then the whole debate in fantasy of what art (as science of the poet) is...an unlicensed discussion, supposedly with the devil acting almost like Casper(Gaspard) the friendly ghost...appearing and disappearing ...handing down a copy of the poem... All I can do is try to be open... to this French Artistic Intellectual messing with our minds with extreme technical piano difficulties that Khatia is able to deliver with ram rod straight posture of such dexterity and beguiling flexibility .... It is an experience of ultimate extremes much like Faust... of European grappling with fascinating unknowns...that are best left appreciated in the paradox of ' more fully as half knowns'.....' clarity in the dark'...
that was very beautiful. you have a poet in you. as a Georgian myself I am very proud of Khatia and thankful to people such as yourself.
thanks for your generous remarks
No it does NOT have to be messy and banging and harsh.
You're a poet sir. Bravo.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
She doesn need tô read The score....universal hear ❤❤❤❤
Yeahhh!
Khathia Buniathisvili is head greatest interpreter of the last generation of pianists. few hands amalgamate today a technical virtuosity and such an amazing expression. Khatia has printed on her natural trait with an excellent technical balance, in the case of Kathia Buniathsvili, we are looking at a soloist who has arrived to stay, with an innovative style that marks the difference of the predecessors
I agree, shes extraordinary, the fluidity here is exceptional, her Clair de Lune is the best I've heard also
@@bensolomon1495 Same. Khatia is truly one of a kind.
kHATIA tus manos son como palomas deslizándose sobre el teclado.Eres extraordinaria.
Is it just me or is the audio quality for Ondine bad?
I’m not sure how many of the posters (should I state posers?) here play live music. The recording was not the best because of how live the hall was for this piece with their mic setup. More importantly, there were rude audience members making noises in the hall. Shit like that tends to distract even the best performers. Take this performance for what it is: a gorgeous woman playing an impossible piece. Her interpretation is just that. You can’t deny her ability just because you don’t like her choices.
I understand your point but in my opinion she is doing a good job. I like the way she performs.
Qué mala calidad del audio :( qué lástima!!
I guess as no one did it, I will have to compose the orchestra to play with...
See ya
Constant did it :p
ja my darling the music von my sweetheart is fantastic
What with the audience coughing at the beginning of Scarbo!
wish i could play ondine once in my lifetime
Je ne pense pas qu'il existe au monde une meilleure pianiste que Khatia : elle a ce génie phénoménal de saisir toutes les affinités des compositeurs qu'elle interprète. Elle est plus qu'extraordinaire !
The 2 Climaxes of Scarbo was a bit messy but it’s good
They were rushed and pretty awful. She does that alot in her performances
@@djmotise but why though?
I actually think of it as a scary effect. I didn’t hear messy, I heard scary, dark, tense, etc.
@@ralphiesal but remember, it’s the climax. When you’re doing climaxes, shouldn’t it be more suprising and emphasized instead of rushed through?
unbelievable - how to play that without a sheet???
There are million videos in youtube of pianist playing without the sheet this piece. Seems to me it's the first time you see a video of someone playing the piano. The only way to understand your commentary.
@@flagelumdei8138 Go to teach at conservatory. Don't teach on the web, presumptous! Don't disturbe, failed teacher! Human rubbish! Shitty man!
@@bruh-kj1yo FlagelumDei is a troll: for example, in his comment, hair are the protagonist of the video. A very asshole.
@@HimmelbauerIT It's easy for you. Congratulation.
HimmelbauerIT if you're solely relying on muscle memory, than sorry to break it to you but it's a dangerous thing and a bad habit that you should get rid of
She' s a wonderful woman and a wonderful pianist. I' don't know if she 's the greatest...anyway it's not important this
Khatia is the world's number one pianist. She has a heart of gold along with being beautiful. I love listening to her play.
this woman is insanely talented.
No. That's not talent. That's hard work and patience. Calling this a talent is ridiculous and offensive
@@dwacheopusI think she played with her eyes closed
@@dwacheopushow about both. A non talented hard working person. could play this all their life and still be mediocre.
I think it was Ricardo Vines who told Ravel that if you would play Le Gibet in the slow tempo he intended, the public would be bored to death. Khatia has the courage to play it real slow, and it is mesmesising, beautifully played! The same for Ondine, wonderfull interpretation.
Scarbo is played to fast and sloppy for my taste.
Ca alors!
J'adore regarder des artistes jouer ça, mais là...
At first i thought its double the speed
Tasty
Unfortunately I got distracted throughout most of the piece but very beautiful none the less
THIS RAVEL´S GASPARD IS JUST SHIMMERING, AND GLITTERING, WITH SUNLIGHT ON MOVING WATERS IN ALL IT´S SENSES, AN EXHILARATING AND EXHUBERANT DAZZLE OF DANCING SPIRITS SHOWERING THE LISTENER IN A WATERY WORLD OF EMOTIONS.
Prise de son médiocre, dommage.
is the piano out of tune?
The ads in the middle of the piece are a musical blasphemy. Put it all at the beginning, I don't care but do respect the music and the musicians please !
I thought Michelangeli unbeatable but...WOW., PS, Please don't think me a cheap self publicist but if you like this you may enjoy a piece of mine called "Street hawker" on my channel
La prise de son est si mauvaise qu'il est difficile de juger de l'interprétation. Mais le début me semble trop brouillé comme le son.
Razend knap. Toch lijkt ze iets te veel pedaal te geven. Het is Ravel, geen Rachmaninov.
Een reactie in het Nederlands??
@@arnekuijper2018 ook niet he haha
Ik vind altijd dat als je stukken van dit niveau kan spelen dat je dan ook zelf mag bepalen hoe je het wilt laten klinken. Zeker bij Ravel mag je echt wel een beetje zelf kiezen wanneer je het pedaal en dergelijke gebruikt.
Great performance - terrible camera!
This piece is very difficult to play. 14 years old Ashley Derouin plays it in a very different play.
most play this in a different way. this is one of the worst versions I've heard, and I usually like her work
I like when the start of the piece when her elbows are really close together😏
nice to see she is a bit better dressed than in other concerts.
Beautiful solo darling. You are a amazing sweetheart.
All that girl ever does is rush rush rush
audio pessimo
Déesse
Great pianist but I've heard better performances of this piece right here on TH-cam.
Plss
Masaya Kamei’s performance is far better.
th-cam.com/video/7W7-7xVZn0w/w-d-xo.html
Lortie >>>>
Why is everyone saying her performance is so wonderful? I found her performance messy, rushed, and vulgar at times. This was especially the case with Scarbo.
JOE BLOE, COULD JEALOUSY EXPLAIN YOUR NEGATIVITY ON THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF GASPARD WE HAVE EVER HEARD?
@@ronwalker4849 Partially I have to agree with Joe Bloe. This is certainly not the best performance of Gaspard, mainly because of Scarbo. It's overdo with the loss of readability of some fragments. I just listened to the performance of Valentina Lisitsa: incomparably better performance. But still Argerich is best-ever :)
Doctor Ale Argerich/Pogorelich definitely better than this
@@doctorale6347 Heard the Argerich recently on the local classical station. It made me curious why the DJ chose Argerich, given that other versions exist, including Richter which I first heard decades ago. The Argerich strikes me as superior to Khatia, which is hard to admit, since I am a huge Khatia fan.
I guess most people just don’t know that much about music and find it beautiful and decided to spread some positivity with a comment. I’m sure most people that said it aren’t professional piano players, just people passing by a video. So don’t mind it much…
Wow. Listening to Scarbo to the end. She is terribly inaccurate and out of control in the climax.
Terrible performance. Also in Ondine she did score mistake or its an echo.
Give constructive feedback not hate
@Obtuse Recluse correct
my darling the dress looks fantastic on you
too messy, dry and sometimes badly placed dynamics, specially scarbo.
can you play it?
i mean, it's already a feat to even attempt a piece of such a high degree of difficulty.
it's nearly impossible to play gaspard ideally, just as the ravel intended it to be played.
khatia might have slipped up here and there, but in general, the piece was played quite well by her, in my opinion)
paylab It isn’t impossible whatsoever, numerous pianists have gotten much closer to the original than this performance. She may have had a bad performance and she is still a remarkable pianist but were it not for the fact that it *is* impossible to make Ravel sound bad, she would have made a mess of it.
The notes are too much and played too fast come at me bruh
Terrible.
shut up
@@daniels7052 th-cam.com/video/_goMQolXcbs/w-d-xo.html
@@slurmforfree1754 fuck off
@@daniels7052 Language, kiddo.
She pays more attention to her hair than the music.
Thanks for being irrelevant
@Luna Thalmensy you're welcome. I can be deep but you won't understand it. Your channel is irrelevant with none
subscribers.
diegu01 r/im14andthisisdeep
@@thebagelman2852 xD
So imagine how soft her hair would be
Just another pianist BASHING their way through Scarbo, COMPLETELY ignoring the pp and ppp dynamics. Shame on her.
This horrible piece reminds me of why I hate hard core classical music. Terrible, just hard on the ears and mind.