Most Terrifying Music - Ravel "Scarbo" 

Which one is more difficult?? 😱 Scarbo or Islamey?????? 😆

For those who don’t know, Ravel wrote this piece after a poem “Scarbo”. The poem describes a hideous goblin which disappears and reappears at will. In the poem, the writer describes how the goblin will laugh, scratch on the walls, and even grate his nails on the silk of his bed. This piece is often considered one of the most technically difficult pieces ever written. Gotta love Ravel

Idk what’s more scary: - the piece - traum’s repertoire

0:47 admit it, the first time we heard that theme just fade away we were all like "nooooo" then we listened to the piece more and now we're like "yeaaaah"

HOW CAN SOMEONE HAVE SUCH A LARGE AND VIRTUOSTIC REPERTOIRE

Honestly, Traum could post the duet arrangement of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz with himself playing both parts at once and I’d be like “makes sense.”

I mean I understand that Traum is a human and they are just wearing a black sweater or something to that effect, but imagining their hands as disembodied is a lot more fun.

One day we will see Traum play all the Hungarian rhaspodys in 19 days and all of us will gain a worst heart attack that when he did the Paganini Etudes Altho.. Very Impressive performance

Scarbo (The poem this piece was based on) I have heard him again and again and seen him too! Scarbo the gremlin. He comes in the dead of the night, when the moon glitters in the sky like a silver shield on an azure banner strewn with golden bees. I have heard his laugh boom from the shadow, and his fingernails grate on the silk of my bed curtains! I have seen him drop from the ceiling pirouette on one foot and roll across the floor Like the spindle of a spinning wheel when a dark witch weaves! And I think he had vanished? No. At such times the gremlin would rise between me and the moon As high and narrow as a gothic steeple - a golden bell swaying like his pointed cap! But then, his body would change, became as blue and translucent as the wax of a taper, his face as pale as candle grease - and suddenly he would be extinguished.

8:04 oof, nearly!

He played this like a nocturne. This is insane I'm scared for what he'll play for the 100k or 1M. You should take more rest

Me : Seing Traum playing Scarbo My brain : Error

Wow, You're so amazing, one of the hardest pieces in the piano repertorie like a normal video

"Many things in Scarbo are very uncomfortable and hard to play but if you ask me, the real difficulty here is putting in all those pages of tremendous difficulties and still making music out of it." -Ivo Pogorelich

SCARBO??? ok i love your channel so much. One of the most difficult pieces- un-be-lieveable

8:04 oooooo that left hand save, lucky XDD

The Alexander Malofeev's interpretation of this piece is simply incredible and brilliant, I've not seen anyone reflect that fury and anxiety so deeply like him

Are you hosting a piano concert anytime soon? This is definitely concert pianist level.

Please play Jeux d’eau by Ravel! It’s a really nice piece!

I just discovered this channel and I am so clueless on how you don't have millions of subscribers THE MOST UNDERRATED PERSON EVER

You have lots of audio clipping in your recordings and you have adverts set mid roll on this video, just some friendly advice. Great playing!

Nice picture. That's some more really crazy stuff and you handle it smoothly!

Really well done! Once again keep up the great work. Love the videos, I wish the channel has the support it deserves.

OMG OMG OMG!Thank you so much!I requested some Ravel in your Scriabin Sonata video and i am so happy that u posted this.Very well interpreted and nicely done :).I'll wait for more Ravel,Rach,Scriabin and Bach.Once again stunning erformance :).

I think Traum should start a fundraiser like Twoset once did for his first world tour. It ll be magnificent to listen to this man live. His repertoire is incredible even for a worldclass soloist like Daniil Trifonov, Evgeny Kissin and other geniuses. This art must be spread everywhere.

Traum, you absolute mad lad! This channel is such a hidden gem!

I was waiting for this on your channel❣️ so good

Amazing!❤ I love the visuals and an absolutely fantastic performance again!

I've always found this piece more exciting than scary, apparently some people think otherwise

I really love both technique anc enthusiasm on this piece!!! Very good work!!!

Wow just so brilliant! I loved the extreme dynamics in this one :) and technically so good as usual!

That's brilliant! Your playing gave me chills 😲

Amazing, Traum. Your abilities seem to have no limit. I hope you play the other 2 poems from Gaspart de la Nuit someday, Ondine and Le Gibet.

Best performance of this piece I've seen so far! Excellent work 👍

Just casually drops one of the hardest piano pieces of all time, no biggie.

That's just astounding and is giving me chills! I could cry right now, but I know what you could upload to make everyone cry: "le gibet". The story of the second movement in "Gaspard de la nuit" is just great and gives the piece an really intense atmosphere. It manages to make me sad every time I even think about it. Keep on making awesome uploads! 😊

first time i met this piece in Rousseau channel.... i loved it from the first note.... i am not expert but this is one of the hardest i have ever seen.... and you played it perfectly.... you are truly virtuoso .... i have no more words :D

wow fantastic😢 you are the best bro

You deserve much more recognition.

Wow. The 4th most difficult piano piece that I know and like. I only know how to play the 1st minute of this piece. Amazing job Traum! :)

He’s playing the piano like it’s a part of his body, he knows it so well like he came out of the womb with one.

What a challenging piece, but not for you! Outstanding performance!

Crazy that you've already tripled your subscribers since I subscribed. In no time you'll be up there with Rousseau and Kassia. Keep it up!

You deserve 1 Million subscribers man

Great!!!!

you did it! one of the most hardest pieces ever written! Great!

I'm seriously shocked! Just how? Bravo!!

Hi Traum, it's amazing how fast you produce these videos, and you're very virtuosic. Can I request a personal favourite? Czerny's arrangement of the Kreutzer sonata please

Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏

8:05 Nice sauvetage

Your production value continues to rise as you continue to pump out these amazing performances! Thank you! You are amazing to watch!

Thanks💕💕💕

Amazing!

Amazing, just amazing 🤩

You terrify me more, Traum

Incredible playing! This is one of my favourite songs by this composer.

I swear, you’re not human wtfff!! How can you play all these pieces?!?! This is AMAZING!!

Wow amazing 👍

Best piano channel on RU-vid!

Ravel's music is hard for me to understand...but you're amazing and your performance is incredible like always👌

It sounds gorgeous!

Thanks!

I have been watching for a month now. It is crazy to actually know that Traum plays all of these. Most of the videos I click on, aren’t actual people playing the music. I have been playing piano for 10 years (I’m a soft more in high school) so I really understand how hard this actually is! Something that is also crazy is that he learns a 9:00 minute song in 1 day and posts it the next day. I have mad respect for you man!

First, I like , then watch, cuz I know it's gonna be "amazing"

I really like your fast-sections interpretation. It is very fast but clear; especially, from swiftly move across the keyboard from 2.53 to the end of first climax in 4.48, it is really awesome. However, the middle section sounds not dark and sinister enough to me. And the fast trilling at 6.06 to 6.16 sounds too bright. Lastly, the built-up to the last climax is as awesome as its peak. I love it. I’d be great to hear you play Ondine and Le Gibet to complete the set.

Wow, you are awesome, scarbo just as if it was any easy piece

I am really amazed by what you do... Of course your technique is incredible but your sound is also extremely rich... you have a lot to say in your music. I thought I did not like Ravel but I am changing my mind :) I was wondering if you you ever thought about playing Schumann Toccata. I think that there is so much in this piece and I am sure that you would be able to do it justice.

i cannt decide what is more beautifull, the music or your hands

I love Traum Music.

Hello Traum, Could you please play some of Alkan's pieces? I would absolutely love to hear your take on Le Preux. Thanks!

Milestones are gonna be so hard for this channel. Are you gonna play the entire clavicembalisticum for 100,000?

First time seing the technical difficult of this piece. Now I truly understand why its one of the hardest piano pieces.

wow It's so good👍

You are insane dude!!!!

This is surely one of the hardest pieces composed! And my favourite piece by Ravel too! But I must ask, who is your favourite composer Traum? Anyway excellent job!

No comments.. Amazing!

Happy Halloween This is the best piece for Halloween

Awesome performance. Ravel does capture evil in this piece but for me, as an amateur pianist, the most terrifying thing about this music is looking at the score.

Yesss finally 😍😍

I'd love to hear Ondine from you Traum ! If you have a little bit of time this would be nice :)

Une barque sur l'ocean next!!! Another hard piece by ravel

OMG YOU DID THIS ONE!

업데이트 속도가 절로 다시 엄청나지신 트라움님~ 0상 시작 전 두손을 잡은 모습에 후후 긴장감이 듭니다. 엄청난 연주와 기막힌 편집에 놀라고 또 놀라갑니다! 좋은 연주 감사해요 :) ps.. 손 아프신건 많이 괜찮아 지셨나요?

Initially I have thought that Scarbo was only intended as "the most difficult piano piece to ever exist" and that the musical values of the piece would have been non-existent. I was wrong completely as I rehear the piece, and everything about Scarbo is beautiful and mesmerizing. This makes me convinced that the piece is probably extremely difficult in a sense that not only is the technical requirement being overboard, but the musical structure and interpretation - which probably makes the piece difficult itself.

Woah, outstanding! Just full of adrenaline, excitement & fire! Got to say I was very rudely jolted halfway through by a very intrusive advert- I'd far rather support you by buying a CD or something (I'm guessing all Ravel including La Valse would be you at your best)

Excellent playing! But “Vers La flamme” is def the scariest piece of music ever! Lol

OH SH** you're AMAZING.

I found Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique sounds a little bit "darker" and some of the Bartoks masterpieces too! But anyway, You are a brilliant pianist and such a good musician! Thanks for sharing, I have never heard this before 🙂

Hey Traum I have a question. Do you learn and memorize these pieces or sight read them? Secondly, will you play Alkan's etudes? Liszt said that was the only composer who's music he was unconfident to sight read.

Perfect tempo and fingerings! Keeps the anticipation/tension high while making the near-impossible figurations actually doable at that speed! I think Ravel would be pleased by the fact that this artist could do what he couldn't! with regard to latter question: can't compare apples to oranges - a lot depends on the temperament and physiognomy of the performer...

ARE YOU kidding ME TRAUM THIS IS AMAZINGGGGG😣😣😣😣😣

really liked the piece but the end gave me pain

WTF!? you´re not from this planet, its amaizing the amount of repertoire you have!, and of superb quality!

3:44 to 4:01 gets me every time it’s too excellent

liszt : *nervous sweating*

Very nice! :D Can you maybe try „Die Forelle“ once? ;D

The most perfect performance of scarbo

TRAUM your goblin was jumping Tim Burton style! 🔥 Percussion, theater, drama, yes please! The cat is out of the bag, now you have to play Ondine. lol ✨✨✨🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

Is it just me, or does Scarbo sound like an atonal piece turned beautiful

I know in the original poem of Gaspard de la nuit, Scarbo is supposed to be about a malevolent little goblin. But I can't stop myself from imagining Jason Vorhees just pursuing a terrified girl through the woods. So vivid