ARMAMARI (August 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm)

sarebbe meglio se i russi lasciassero perdere Ravel (vedi brutte interpretazioni di Richter, Ashkenazy, Nehaus...).Gavrilov qui li batte tutti: rivoltante!

pawdaw (July 7, 2008 at 1:49 pm)

But you can't leave the notes out- they all have to be there!

scottturner1994 (June 28, 2008 at 1:39 am)

What makes this interpretation above all others is that it ISN'T perfect. This piece was written as a tone poem - a tone poem written to emulate droplets of water hitting against a window pane by a water sprite. Water does not sprinkle in a set, metronomical rhythmic pattern, it is a fluid, and this creates perfect images of the liquid dancing about.

murksov (June 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm)

agree, lovesGenet. Lisitsa, for example plays this much better, but does'nt understand it at all. ABM is brilliant, maybe the most perfect interpretation of Ondine. I also love Martha Argerichs version. Less "nuancé" but with a very natural flow, a little bit like a Schubert song, which is not wrong for Ondine, I think.

cattleman6420012000 (June 8, 2008 at 11:04 am)

When I heard him recently in a live concert October'07 playing a Rachmaninov Concerto he was fantastic. The audience gave him a standing ovation.

pawdaw (June 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm)

Good god- where have all the notes gone? All the repeated notes in the figurations seem to be beyond him......

lovesGenet (June 3, 2008 at 9:17 am)

Oh dear there r things u wouldnt expect from his caliber. but he has the right idea!!!!wht r u people talking about. He is the first pianist who plays pp and ppp and the melody is really saying something. The amaj sec startingat 4:00 has never been SO RIGHT . when the g maj arpeggio came in i felt like I had been told the secret .this is not big bombast music.I thoughtFrancois,Pogorel the best.THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY FOR ONDINE!

Pianobyme (May 29, 2008 at 6:20 am)

oh... my...gosh... Im sorry, I cannot even finish this...Ravel made his music VERY detailed and explicit for a reason, because thats how he wanted it to be played. This is not indeterminacy John Cage where the pianist gets to mess with the composers stuff here!!!

davidofpiano423 (May 22, 2008 at 11:12 pm)

you know what irks me the most about this? the fact that gavrilov used to be pretty awesome for the most part. he's just gotten lazy. it also pisses me off because I wanted to do this piece for my senior recital and wasn't permitted cause my teacher said I didn't have as much command of it as I should, despite getting the notes right. I saw her point and think she was justified in her opinion, but god damnit, I played it better than this! And here's this guy getting paid to perform so badly.

mishima1974 (May 21, 2008 at 5:37 pm)

How do you know that?Are you Mischa Berezovsky? He plays better than Gavrilov.