maatthieu15 (September 4, 2008 at 5:49 am)

i also listened this piece by others pianists. For Jeux d'eau, Robert Schmitz did the best interpretation.

ibclappin (August 27, 2008 at 4:00 am)

maybe i'm an idiot; but after listening to this piece performed by 6 different great pianists, very many times each, and enjoying it every single time, to me this performance does not ruin any phrases and delivers them with masterful technique and a, should i say, 'expected' deliverance, as if from a dream about the perfect performance of this historical piece.

acadusle (July 30, 2008 at 3:20 pm)

wow... you really know how to use the dictionary. Sad thing though is that you are not saying anything. "beautifully evocative and insane blend of disparate " is incoherent. What an internet n00b.

bisbigliandosciolto (July 15, 2008 at 5:10 pm)

I agree he's a bit of a w..ker. 'This performance owns...' is just psychobabble. However, there ARE dark & disturbing undercurrents in this piece that look directly forward to Ondine (1.39 onwards, marked in the score as 'chant')and it detracts from Ravel's genius to insist the whole piece is purely visual.

Pavlvs34 (June 23, 2008 at 2:53 pm)

THANKYOU!Well said.

ownage1810 (June 22, 2008 at 10:50 am)

i think he's one of those psuedo-intellectuals that roam youtube. you know, like smithsherman or shineshocker. really annoying though mildly amusing at how they attempt to inflate weak ideas with verbosity. sometimes, what they say sounds so much like they're grasping at an air intelligence, i laugh my ass off.

Pavlvs34 (June 20, 2008 at 10:03 pm)

What on earth are you on about "macabre", "eerie", "spirit energies"??? Ravel wrote this piece because he was inspired by a painting that ont of the Apaches painted of a waterfall - he wasn't inspired by a graveyard!!! This piece is a miniature about water in a fountain, hence why he called it "Jeux d'eau" (literally, playing water) as opposed to "Once upon a time, there was a graveyard..."

anaklasis (June 9, 2008 at 9:59 pm)

Oh God...why don't listen music instead of give those freakin' awards?

STYLusPHANTasticus (May 30, 2008 at 2:59 pm)

I AWARD THIS 5 GRYPHONS....This performance owns a beautifully evocative and insane blend of disparate spirit-energies...which lend it an evocative power that is utterly and profoundly eerie and macabre...but still personal...in a queer way.

STYLusPHANTasticus (May 30, 2008 at 2:56 pm)

Dear Pav,,,You're lost in conservatory school thinking.Music has nothing to do with a score.That's just technical idolatry.