10 Responses

1. goobleglob

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   omg omg omg!! OMG! THANK YOU!! OMFG! i got chills before i even played it. OMG!

2. goobleglob

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   oh…. and he plays it AMAZINGLY. i’d read he wasn’t so good a pianist, but wow. i’d love to hear him playing scarbo or something!

3. luganskymichelangeli

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   i feel this piece come more to life through this interpretation. maybe this is what he really intended how it should be played.

4. mltube

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   Excellent performance, but if it’s really Ravel playing, then it must be a piano roll.

5. awatkins69

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   Wow, this is beautiful. Where did you happen to find this album? It’s really nice. I’d like to hear the rest. Sounds like water.

6. jaedeal

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   certainly is Ravel . . . & tempo was never as paramount as color and fell to him . . . He never played or conducted the same piece the same way twice - He wasn’t a perfect pianist in the trade of musician, but as a composer he delivers his own masterpieces incomparably on the piano.

   He may have also played it faster on piano than conducting because of the transients of the piano versus an orchestra/ensemble and/or he had small hands . . . .

   I would love to hear Ravel play a Fender Rhodes !!

7. michieldpiano

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   For me this is all crap.
   The fact he can write such masterfull pieces who are pianistic extremely interesting prooves he’s a real pianist.
   Also the way he could express himself with the piano (is for me the most important thing in playing piano, robots never may be called pianists for me)

8. StrivetobeDust

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   Ravel was reputed to have just about hte biggest hands of any known composer for piano. According to legend, his pinky and ring finger were the same length.

9. MercenariesWorld

   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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   Ravel was only 5 feet 4 inches - he barely made the army as an ambulance driver because he was underweight !

10. jaedeal

    November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

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    Well I think he’s a great pianist personally - for whatever reason he isn’t listed in the history books as a great pianist - I agree, it’s about the expression