Lucas Debargue plays Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit 

0:17 - Ondine 6:17 - Le Gibet 12:45 - Scarbo

I find it fascinating how camera men/editors for classical piano concerts have this special talent to focus on the pianists faces in the most chalenging moments of a piece when one actually would love to see the hands.

the fact that this man used to be a casual cashier at a random supermarket just warmed me

I've never heard Ondine played so "smoothly" before, there's something almost "glassine" about that performance; and it was most gorgeous. Indeed, it seems to me that this whole performance is simply superlative. I've heard these pieces many times over by a great many pianists, and it must be said that this one seems to me the most persuasive. Congratulations to Mr. Debargue.

I had Gaspard de la Nuit on repeat in my car when my father had a stroke and three days later passed away. The song and his death will forever be linked in my mind but in a beautiful way. I love this interpretation, and I love the emotion Lucas plays it with.

Never heard the entire Gaspard de La Nuit of such a whole. Always wanted to. Never imagined it would be played with such scandalous magicianship and that we would be alive to hear this! A truly creative, incessantly shocking and tasteful pianist, this is one hell of a musician. Don’t ever miss a chance to witness this unbridled talent!

Definitive performance of this work. Unparalleled understanding of melody, texture, and narrative. Just astounding.

One of the best Scarbos I've ever heard. Bravo

I do not think i am ready to be this attached to this piece its beautiful the more i hear it...

I can only imagine the ecstasy felt when you create such a beautiful and ethereal sound... just hearing it causes my heart to ride on the waves of emotion, it's almost hard to breathe it's so exciting. This performance is absolutely golden.

3:50 my favourite part

He was only awarded the 4th Prize in the Tchaikovsky but he's now miles ahead of all the competitors in terms of his achievements.

That Scarbo is absurdly good

That was absurdly good

I follow Debargue since the Tchaikovsky Competition (when I saw him for the first time). His interpretations, mainly in french works, are remarkably out of common. His playing, with passion in every note, fantastic coordination, and absolutely control about each atmosphere in a single piece. I'm a brazilian cellist, but I like so much listening pieces from other instruments, to see the pure music, not only the technique features of my instrument. Nowadays, Debargue is on my top 10 of "young" musicians. Bravo!

Im REALLY likeing the second movement.. (Le Giblet)very Ravel..can really grow on you!

broo that scarbo is soo good! he did it soo well!

one of the most ambitious, expressive, and well-realised scarbos.

This is fantastic playing...absolutely ravishing!

Amazing! Such tones! Such finesses!

Some very impressive moments and interpretations! bravo

The best interpretation I've ever seen. I love Gaspard de la Nuit so much, and this version is incredible. I can't imagine how difficult it is to understand these pieces and to interprate them with so emotions... Lucas is an amazing pianist.

Fantasic! Fantabulous! I'm so happy to enjoy this excellent performance!

interprétation remarquable; quelle sensibilité ! Mr Debargue est un vrai artiste ; et Ravel, que peut-on dire.....que des "choses"magnifiques.

I love the way it was filmed up close to show his fingers and also whole body shots. He puts his entire being into it. It was a captivating performance. It brought things to mind. Personal thoughts. I’m feeling it in my own body. So satisfying.

Absolutely stunning. The amount of dedication it takes to play a piece like this can't be overstated. This man lives to achieve excellence. Bravo.

Beautiful!!

The third "part" (song?) melted my brain. I didn't know the human brain could reach this level of coordination and emotional interpretation...

Ravel has such a specific sound, a lot of his compositions have some similar techniques and sounds which I love. He is one of my most favourite composers

I always think of this piece as the embodiment of the wonders of our universes, big and small.

Amazing performance, my favorite of this piece.

So sensitive and expressive. So much emphasis of the melody and downplaying of the technique. Thank you Lucas!

Maravilloso!!!! Te felicito!!!

The overtone harmony at the end of Ondine is perfect.

truly beautifuly played

Excellent performance!

Never heard a better interpretation. Absolutely stunning performance

i bathe in your subtle sounds! I salute your sensitivity to the genius of Ravel! You are a truly a master! Merci mil foi maestro!

This is the best rendition! I’m speechless

Ah Mr Debargue, comme vous ètes exceptionnel ! Comme vous magnifiez,comme vous sublimez,comme vous rendez justice a la musique de Ravel !

Very nice. I like to see piano players like that. Excellent work.

puting a commercial in le gibet is like throwing up in the middle of a 3* chef menu and then go on eating... the playing is beautiful

Video of privilege! Truly unique! Congrats 🎉👏

I really enjoyed your performance your performance and your expressions are exactly fits to the piece I have seen many pianists performing with showoff techniques but you actually maintained your expressions to control the dynamics too... 👏👏👏👏

¡Maravilloso , impactante !!!!!

Amazing performence

Sir..at 81 years of age ....You perform it better than anyone I've ever heard in all my years. It defies competition ! Merci mil fois!

THE best interpretation I have ever heard!! Even better than Pogorelich!!!

Simply one of, say, five greatest pianists alive

Wonderful

Great! Technically and concering interpretation.

Excellent rendition.

World-class

This is an exceptionally wonderful performance and my introduction to this young man. Will definitely be looking for more work by him. I do want to point out that whoever the piano technician is deserves some praise as I do believe this is the best tuned and regulated piano I've heard

Wonderful performance of this demanding work.

Merveilleuse interprétation d’un chef-d’œuvre qui , pour moi, le temps passant, s’impose comme le chef-d’œuvre des chef-d’œuvre. Ravel c’est l’éternel esprit d’enfance.

Monsieur...us perform this composition better than any I know! You are a grande maitre!

Brilliant!

Bravissimo!

Why haven't of heard of this chap before - Fantastic Performance

Maravilhoso

Astonishing!!!!!

Bravo!

Very remarkable

Astonishing!

je suis choqué, comment peut on jouer aussi bien?!

Felicitaciones! Al extraordinario pianista Lucas Debargue por su magnífica interpretación de esta maravillosa y compleja obra maestra de Maurice Ravel. El pianista ejecuta a Gaspar de la Noche con una excelente y depurada técnica. Bendiciones! Desde México.

Why does the Chat Noir come to mind? And the absinth minded. Absinth.... Excellent divine Lucas. And thank you. Well done. moi

the rubatos!!! freaking awesome interpretation '

Mind. Blown.

My favorite Gaspard de la Nuit

I think that Le Gibet is slightly underrated. You have to balance the emotion (and on a simpler lever, the rhythm) of the music which goes from quietly mournful to a climax of heart wrenching emotion with the consistency of and unwavering, unfeeling nature of the bell. Superbly executed for the entire suite!!

I'm so glad debargue has found a career. He was absolutely the most interesting player in the Tchaikovsky that year by far.

¡Hermosa!

These are based on some fantastic poems: Ondine . . . . . . . . Je croyais entendre Une vague harmonie enchanter mon sommeil, Et près de moi s'épandre un murmure pareil Aux chants entrecoupés d'une voix triste et tendre.      Ch. Brugnot. - Les deux Génies . . . . . . . . I thought I heard A faint harmony that enchants my sleep. And close to me radiates an identical murmur Of songs interrupted by a sad and tender voice.      Ch. Brugnot - The Two Spirits » Écoute ! - Écoute ! - C'est moi, c'est Ondine qui frôle de ces gouttes d'eau les losanges sonores de ta fenêtre illuminée par les mornes rayons de la lune; et voici, en robe de moire, la dame châtelaine qui contemple à son balcon la belle nuit étoilée et le beau lac endormi. "Listen! - Listen! - It is I, it is Ondine who brushes drops of water on the resonant panes of your windows lit by the gloomy rays of the moon; and here in gown of watered silk, the mistress of the chateau gazes from her balcony on the beautiful starry night and the beautiful sleeping lake. » Chaque flot est un ondin qui nage dans le courant, chaque courant est un sentier qui serpente vers mon palais, et mon palais est bâti fluide, au fond du lac, dans le triangle du feu, de la terre et de l'air. "Each wave is a water sprite who swims in the stream, each stream is a footpath that winds towards my palace, and my palace is a fluid structure, at the bottom of the lake, in a triangle of fire, of earth and of air. » Écoute ! - Écoute ! - Mon père bat l'eau coassante d'une branche d'aulne verte, et mes sœurs caressent de leurs bras d'écume les fraîches îles d'herbes, de nénuphars et de glaîeuls, ou se moquent du saule caduc et barbu qui pêche à la ligne. » "Listen! - Listen! - My father whips the croaking water with a branch of a green alder tree, and my sisters caress with their arms of foam the cool islands of herbs, of water lilies, and of corn flowers, or laugh at the decrepit and bearded willow who fishes at the line." Sa chanson murmurée, elle me supplia de recevoir son anneau à mon doigt, pour être l'époux d'une Ondine, et de visiter avec elle son palais, pour être le roi des lacs. Her song murmured, she beseeched me to accept her ring on my finger, to be the husband of an Ondine, and to visit her in her palace and be king of the lakes. Et comme je lui répondais que j'aimais une mortelle, boudeuse et dépitée, elle pleura quelques larmes, poussa un éclat de rire, et s'évanouit en giboulées qui ruisselèrent blanches le long de mes vitraux bleus. And as I was replying to her that I loved a mortal, sullen and spiteful, she wept some tears, uttered a burst of laughter, and vanished in a shower that streamed white down the length of my blue stained glass windows. Le Gibet Que vois-je remuer autour de ce Gibet? - Faust. What do I see stirring around that gibbet? - Faust. Ah! ce que j'entends, serait-ce la bise nocturne qui glapit, ou le pendu qui pousse un soupir sur la fourche patibulaire? Ah! that which I hear, was it the north wind that screeches in the night, or the hanged one who utters a sigh on the fork of the gibbet? Serait-ce quelque grillon qui chante tapi dans la mousse et le lierre stérile dont par pitié se chausse le bois? Was it some cricket who sings lurking in the moss and the sterile ivy, which out of pity covers the floor of the forest? Serait-ce quelque mouche en chasse sonnant du cor autour de ces oreilles sourdes à la fanfare des hallali? Was it some fly in chase sounding the horn around those ears deaf to the fanfare of the halloos? Serait-ce quelque escarbot qui cueille en son vol inégal un cheveu sanglant à son crâne chauve? Was it some scarab beetle who gathers in his uneven flight a bloody hair from his bald skull? Ou bien serait-ce quelque araignée qui brode une demi-aune de mousseline pour cravate à ce col étranglé? Or then, was it some spider who embroiders a half-measure of muslin for a tie on this strangled neck? C'est la cloche qui tinte aux murs d'une ville sous l'horizon, et la carcasse d'un pendu que rougit le soleil couchant. It is the bell that tolls from the walls of a city, under the horizon, and the corpse of the hanged one that is reddened by the setting sun. Scarbo Il regarda sous le lit, dans la cheminée, dans le bahut; - personne. Il ne put comprendre par où il s'était introduit, par où il s'était évadé.      Hoffmann. - Contes nocturnes He looked under the bed, in the chimney, in the cupboard; - nobody. He could not understand how he got in, or how he escaped.      Hoffmann. - Nocturnal Tales Oh! que de fois je l'ai entendu et vu, Scarbo, lorsqu'à minuit la lune brille dans le ciel comme un écu d'argent sur une bannière d'azur semée d'abeilles d'or! Oh! how often have I heard and seen him, Scarbo, when at midnight the moon glitters in the sky like a silver shield on an azure banner strewn with golden bees. Que de fois j'ai entendu bourdonner son rire dans l'ombre de mon alcôve, et grincer son ongle sur la soie des courtines de mon lit! How often have I heard his laughter buzz in the shadow of my alcove, and his fingernail grate on the silk of the curtains of my bed! Que de fois je l'ai vu descendre du plancher, pirouetter sur un pied et rouler par la chambre comme le fuseau tombé de la quenouille d'une sorcière! How often have I seen him alight on the floor, pirouette on one foot and roll through the room like the spindle fallen from the wand of a sorceress! Le croyais-je alors évanoui? le nain grandissait entre la lune et moi comme le clocher d'une cathédrale gothique, un grelot d'or en branle à son bonnet pointu! Did I think him vanished then? the dwarf appeared to stretch between the moon and myself like the steeple of a gothic cathedral, a golden bell wobbling on his pointed cap! Mais bientôt son corps bleuissait, diaphane comme la cire d'une bougie, son visage blêmissait comme la cire d'un lumignon, - et soudain il s'éteignait. But soon his body developed a bluish tint, translucent like the wax of a candle, his face blanched like melting wax - and suddenly his light went out.

Excellent. Yeahhhhhhh. and... Wowwwwww. the gods are pleased. Thank you Lucas. You'll be working on this piece for years to come. Can you see it? So,,,,,,,,, make it yours. M.R. moi

Wow! Fantastique!!! I like the different approach to the motives in Scarbo as well as the "fresh" phrasing (like in the passage with all the seconds)

Bravissimo

Not only is the ability to play amazingly there, but to me it’s equally impressive to be able to play a piece that’s this long and this intricate without any sheet music at all. I simply wouldn’t be able to remember it all!

The most amazing thing is to play without any mistakes.

Obviously, someone has reached out with their soul... to the genius of Maurice Ravel. You've dared to walk the streets at night. The truth is self-evident. You have the IN - Sight... now. Congratulations.

Wow......just Wow

와 음색이며 표현력이며..진짜 잘친다ㅋㅋㅋ

the point is not to know whether you prefer Debargue or Pogorelich; it is to know whether what you hear is taking you and moving you, or not. When you listen to this, you cannot listen to Pogorelich's interpretation at the same time, therefore that comparison is pointless, isn't it ?

Muy bueno!!!!

5:53 so satisfying to watch his hands dance on the keyboard

J'ai les avant bras qui saignent de compassion!

Как же приятно слушать и видеть как рождается и звучит музыка🎶 🎵 🤗

His playing reminds me of a young Pogorelich. Wonderful artist.

This composition is actually "L'Ousieu Trieste" ....which is so fabulous!

Wow.. I always liked Lucas since I saw him at the Tchaikovsky... but in this piece I love Jorge Luis Prats and M.A Hamelin..... Debargue is also damn good!!

Fascinating watch. Debargue's Scarlatti is already a modern classic. This recording is a very good one (considering the incredible difficulty of this opus); most interesting to see hands on the glissandi within Ondine (most of which can be accomplished with a single finger, with pedal) - I did not realise this before. But there are no tricks for Scarbo!

I get finger cramps just looking at the score!

Dang... that voicing and technique

He becomes the music! It goes way past his astonishing playing of the notes ....but he pulls us into his interpretation!!

16:14 truly amazing

20:05 oh my god!! That climax!?

3:29 How does he get those third things to be so clean??! I've been struggling to do this forever now when I play!

Sounds other worldy

16:05 I wondered if his mouth vibrates faster or his hands lol