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[scasparz]

Recently I read on some Greek newspaper an interview with James Taylor of the James Taylor quartet fame. Am pretty fond of his British flavoured acid jazz that includes a number of well known works e.g. the theme of 'Starsky and Hatch', the 'Wait a minute' as well as many-many others.

A small surprise for me, in the last question Taylor was asked if there has been something musically fascinating he listened to lately, a kind of a proposal for the readers he has to make, to which he responded: "lately not, but I was always charmed from Ravel’s 'Gaspard de la nuit' performed by Martha Argerich".

Was privileged to listen this magnificent piece originally many years ago performed by a Romanian pianist whose name unfortunately I fail to recall, sorry must be the age thing, on a fantastic night that remained a kind of a milestone in my humble life.

Ravel composed this extremely demanding masterpiece in three movements (Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo) after a poem by Aloycius Bertrand. Argerich is an acclaimed pianist of Argentinean origin, you may enjoy her performing 'Ondine' here. Alternatively you may enjoy Ivo Pogorelitch -another gifted Croatian this time- on all three movements of Gaspard de la nuit there.

I adore this piece and wanted to share it with you.




cheers mates